source: back cover of Rounder 2018, photographer: Virginia Curtiss

Sam Chatmon b. January 10, 1899 [1897?] in Bolton, Mississippi d. February 2, 1983 in Hollandale, Mississippi discography

This discography is a non-commercial labor-of-love and is in no way associated with any business firm. All I know about the resp. artist's / label's musical output is shown on this page. To purchase out-of-print records I recommend an ebay, gemm or google search. And - sorry for that - I have not the time to answer any e-mails asking me about further information, let alone duplicating out-of-print recordings I happen to own. Stefan Wirz   www.wirz.de Sam Chatmon LPs / CDs # year of release title label # / notes 1 1960 I Have To Paint My Face F 1005 (1960) track list: Sam Chatman - I Have To Paint My Face [lyrics] - You Shall Be Free (Nigger Be A Nigger) * - I Stand And Wonder Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - Forty-Four Blues # Jasper Love - Desert Blues Sam Chatmon - Lay My Burden Down (Glory Hallelujah) * Kathryn Pitman and group - Save A Seat For Me Wade Walton & R. C. Smith - Barbershop Rhythm R.C. Smith - Going Back To Texas Jasper Love & Columbus Jones - The Slop R. C. Smith - Lost Love Blues - Lonely Widow Wade Walton - Rooster Blues Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - Butch's Blues rec. 1960 by Chris A. Strachwitz with assistance from Mr. and Mrs. Paul Oliver F 1005 (1980) track list: Sam Chatman - I Have To Paint My Face [lyrics] K. C. Douglas - Big Road Blues # Sam Chatman - I Stand And Wonder Big Joe Williams - Texas Blues # Bukka White - Drifting Blues # Wade Walton & R. C. Smith - Barbershop Rhythm R. C. Smith - Going Back To Texas K. C. Douglas & Sidney Maiden - Blues And Trouble # R. C. Smith - Lonely Widow Wade Walton - Rooster Blues Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - Butch's Blues * omitted from 1969 and 1980 remastered LP versions; not included in CD 432 # on remastered LP version only notes by Mack McCormick Arhoolie F 1005 (1960) notes by Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie F 1005 (1980) subtitled "A Random Collection of Mississippi Blues" partly reissued on Arhoolie CD 432 (1995) "Mississippi Blues 1960" Arhoolie discography 2 1960 Blues 'n Trouble Big Joe Williams - Married Woman Blues Lil' Son Jackson - Johnny Mae Lowell Fulson - Good Woman Blues Mance Lipscomb - Back Water Blues Jasper Love - Jove's Honeydripper Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - One Thin Dime Sam Chatman - God Don't Like Ugly "Whistling" Alex Moore - Wake Up Old Lady Black Ace - Hitchhiking Woman Robert Curtis Smith - Stella Ruth Mercy Dee - I Been A Fool Sidney Maiden - Chicago Blues # Fat Boy Hayes [aka 'Jelly Belly'] - Goin' Back South # # on 1980 remastered LP version on CD 432 only: Sam Chatmon - Hollandale Blues rec. July 25, 1960 by Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie F 1006 partly reissued on Arhoolie CD 432 (1995) "Mississippi Blues 1960" Arhoolie discography 3 1971 New Deal Blues Joe McCoy - Meat Cutter Blues One Arm Slim - Howling Man Blues Black Ace - Whiskey And Woman Lee Green - Memphis Fives Bo Carter - Don’t Do It No More Peanut the Kidnapper - Suicide Blues Chatman Brothers - If You Don’t Want Me Please Don't Dog Me 'Round Walter Davis - Sweet Sixteen Memphis Minnie - Keep It To Yourself Big Bill - Dreamy Eyed Baby Bumble Bee Slim - You Can’t Take It Baby Pinetop - Tell Her About Me Sonny Scott - Firewood Man Scrapper Blackwell - Alley Sally Blues Mamlish S-3801 Mamlish discography 4 1972 The New Mississippi Sheiks - When I Come Home, Who's Going Out My Back Door? - What Is It Tastes Like Gravy - Outskirts Of Town - You Say You Didn't Want Me - Stop And Listen - Railroad Blues - Wintertime Blues - I Got A Letter From My Woman - Gonna Stare You In The Face Someday - I'll Be Glad When You're Dead rec. February 1972 in Chicago; Sam Chatmon, g, voc; Walter Vinson, voc, National steel g; Carl Martin, fiddle, mand, voc; Ted Bogan, b notes by Frank Proschan and Bruce Kaplan Rounder 2004 Rounder discography 5 1972 Mississippi & Beale Street Sheiks 1927 - 1932 Sittin' On Top Of The World The Mississippi Sheiks - I'll Be Gone, Long Gone - Please Baby - Don't Wake It Up - Go Away Woman - New Shake That Thing - Isn't A Pain To Me - The New Sittin' On Top Of The World - The New Stop And Listen Blues The Beale Street Sheiks - Last Go Round - Jazzin' The Blues - Mr. Crump Don't Like It - Blues In "D" - You Shall - It's A Good Thing - Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon - Sweet To Mama Biograph BLP 12041 Biograph discography 6 197? Sam Chatmon: The Mississippi Sheik - Go Back Old Devil - B & O Blues - Love Come Falling Down - Make Me A Pallet On The Floor - Vacation Blues - Last Chance Shaking In The Bed With Me - Blues In E - Streching Them Things - Brownskin Woman Blues - Fool About My Loving - Turnup Greens - Cold Blooded Murder Blues - Sam's Rag - Cross Cut Saw Blues - Kansas City Blues notes by Stephen Calt Blue Goose BG 2006 Blue Goose discography 7 1974 San Diego Blues Jam - Somebody's Been Knockin' - Tom Courtney & Henry Ford Thompson - Watergate Blues - Bob Jefferey & Sam Chatmon - Jack of Diamonds - Thomas Shaw - She's My Baby - Sam Chatmon - Toe Shakin' - Bob Jefferey # - Handsome Stranger - Bob Jefferey # - Early One Morning - Tom Courtney & Louis Major - Take Me Back - Bonnie Jefferson - Handy Brandy - Louis Major - Hey Mr. Nixon - Thomas Shaw - Dust My Blues - Tom Courtney and Henry Ford Thompson # - Sweet Old San Diego - Sam Chatmon # - Got The Blues So Bad - Bonnie Jefferson - 73 Hop - Bob Jefferey - Shotgun Blues - Louis Major - Ashtray Taxi - Bob Jefferey & Sam Chatmon - Crow Rooster Crow - Bonnie Jefferson # - Just Goes To Show You (The World Is Mad) - Tom Courtney & Henry Ford Thompson - Shake 'Em All Down - Sam Chatmon & Bob Jefferey # # on CD only notes by Lou Curtiss Advent 2804 Advent discography original notes by Lou Curtiss (=) Testament TCD 5029 (1995) Testament discography 7a 1974 San Diego Folk Festival '74 The La Jolla Civic County Dance Orchestra - Girl With The Blue Dress On / Jenny'd Gone To Litton - Coleraine Sam Hinton - Eagle's Whistle - Haste To The Wedding - Fisher's Hornpipe - Swanee River Johnnie Walker - Albert And The 'eadsmen - The Ghost Of Anne Boleyn Frankie Armstrong - I'm Gonna Be An Engineer Kenny Hall - Roll On, Little Doggies, Roll On - Brazilian Tune Sam Chatmon - Blues To See My Baby # Martin Henry - The Wreck Of The Royal Palm - Hello Hawaii Utah Phillips - Hobo's Last Ride - Kid's Liberation Song - Touch Me rec. April 24-29, 1974 at the 1974 San Diego Folk Music Festival, San Diego State University; # Sam Chatmon, voc, g; prod. by Ken Kramer cover art by Vince Molinare notes by Lou Curtiss KPBS 101   (Public Broadcasting San Diego) 8 1974 The Mississippi Sheiks: Stop And Listen - Sitting On Top Of The World - Jail Bird Love Song - Yodeling Fiddling Blues - Your Good Man Caught The Train And Gone - Unhappy Blues - Honey Babe Let The Deal Go Down - She Ain'N Go good - Ramrod Blues - Stop And Listen Blues no. 2 - The World Is Going Wrong - Shake Hands And Tell Me Goodbye - I've Got Blood In My Eyes For You Mamlish S-3804 Mamlish discography 9 1975 R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders - Laughing Rag - Sweet Lorraine Jo Ann Kelly - Pigmeat Blues - Jo's Mistreated Blues Alan Seidler - Oozing Zyst Blues - What Is The Use Of Calling Me San? Sam Chatmon - Turnip Greens - Go Back Old Devil Graham Hine - No Particular Place To Go - Crazy With The Blues John Miller - Honey - First Degree Blues - Pork's Chops Steve Calt & Dave Mann - Clam Jam - Lady Brett's Lover Yank Rachell - Shotgun Blues - Skinny Woman Blues Dave Jasen - Raymond's Rag - Make Believe Rag Roger Hubbard - Crow Jane - Brighton Belle Blues Blue Goose BG 101 Blue Goose discography 10 1976 The Devil's Music from the BBC T.V. series Mississippi and Memphis Blues Sam Chatmon - Stop And Listen # Big Joe Williams - Highway 49 Houston Stackhouse - Cool Drink Of Water Sam Chatmon - Sam's Rag # Big Joe Williams - Watergate Blues Sam Chatmon - Who Gonna Love You Tonight # Booker White - Aberdeen Mississippi Mose Vinson - When You Got Rid Of My Mule Sonny Blake - One Room Country Shack - Bring It On Home To Me Joe Wilkins - Mr. Downchild Houston Stackhouse - Mean Red Spider Mose Vinson - Bugle Call Blues Laura Dukes - Crawdad Chicago Blues The Aces - Take A Little Walk With Me Billy Boy Arnold - Somebody Help Me Fenton Robinson - Somebody Loan Me A Dime Good Rockin' Charles - Don't Start Me To Talkin' Fenton Robinson - You Don't Know What Love Is Joe Carter - It Hurts Me Too Billy Boy Arnold - She Fooled Me The Aces - Blue Shadows Good Rockin' Charles - Shake Your Boogie Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues Edith Wilson - Yankee Doodle Blues Little Brother Montgomery - I Ain't Got No Special Rider Now # rec. January 20, 1976 in Hollandale, Ms; Sam Chatmon, voc, g DLP notes by Giles Oakley Red Lightnin' RL0033 = Indigo IGOTCD 2537 (2003; 3 CDs) more info review (pdf) Red Lightnin' discography 11 1977 Mississippi Delta & South Tennessee Blues Sam Chatmon - Open Your Book # Eddie Cusic [name misspelled "Eddie Quesie"] & James Thomas, g - Once I Had A Car Asie Payton - Catfish Blues Wallace Johnson - Pine Top's Boogie James Thomas - Bottle Up And Go Eugene Powell - Poor Boy Blues Walter Cooper - Peach Tree Blues Cary Tate - Early One Morning Charley Sangster - Bull Cow Blues Van Hunt - Mister Crump Joe Cooper - Boogie Children Eugene Powell - M & O Blues # rec. August 6, 1976 at Sam Chatmon's home in Hollandale notes by Gianni Marcucci and Enzo Castella Albatros VPA 8387 Albatros discography 12 1977 Sam Chatmon: Hollandale Blues - St. Louis Blues - That's All Right - Stoop Down Girl [incomplete version] - Baby Please Come Back To Me - I'm Fool About Her Loving - Prowling Ground Hog - Old Devil - Used To Be - Blues When It Rains - Good Eating Meat - Let's Get Drunk Again rec. August 6, 1976 at Sam Chatmon's home in Hollandale Albatros VPA 8408 Albatros discography re-released 2006 on CD and 180g LP Dynamic DYNA 32 (It) "Blues When It Rains" 13 197? I Got The Blues This Morning Charley Sangster - Dreamed Eyes Woman - Kokomo Blues Lum Guffin - Louise - Baby Please Don't Go John Williams - Mr. Freddy Blues Charley Taylor - The Blues So Bad Eugene Powell - Greenville Boogie - I Got The Blues And I Can't Be Satisfied James Thomas - Mama Don't Allow - Bumble Bee Blues Lonzo Burkes - Louisiana Blues Eugene Powell - Big Fat Mama William Diamond - Stop Your Crying Sam Chatmon - Falling Out # Eddie Cusic [name misspelled "Eddie Quesie"] - You Better Stop Arguing Over Me Wallace Johnson - After Hours Van Hunt - Mississippi River Blues Clay Pittman - I Got The Blues This Morning Asie Payton - Blind Man # rec. August 6, 1976 at Sam Chatmon's home in Hollandale by Giambattista Marcucci; Sam Chatmon, voc, g, sp Albatros VPA 8461 Albatros discography 14 1979 Sam Chatmon's Advice - St. Louis Blues - Hollandale Blues - Open That Book - Screwdriver - Fishing Blues - Ashtray Taxi - Vicksburg Blues - 'P' Stands For 'Push' - Let The Good Times Roll - I've Got Good Whiskey - Dough Roller Blues - Sugar Blues - Good Eating Meat - God Don't Like Ugly - That's Alright - Pussy Cat - I Hate That Train notes by Sam Chatmon Rounder 2018 Rounder discography 15 1980 Sam Chatmon & His Barbecue Boys - Stoop Down Baby - I Get The Blues When It Rains - What's The Name Of That Thing - Mean Ol' Frisco - Prisoner Of Love - Sam's Rag - I Hate That Train - I've Got To Paint My Face - Corrina Corrina - Pensil Lead Blues - Preacher Went A-Hunting - Stop And Listen rec. 1979 in San Diego, CA; Sam Chatmon, g & lead voc; Colin Linden, g; Jim MacLean, hca, perc Flying Fish FF-202 16 1980 Living Country Blues USA The Introduction Guitar Frank Lonesome Road Blues Memphis Piano Red The Train Is Coming Flora Molton & The Truth Band - What's The Matter Now - The Titanic Lottie Murell - Trouble Late Last Night Sam Chatmon - Sittin' On Top Of The World James "Son" Thomas - Rock Me Mama Hammie Nixon - Corinna, Corinna Cora Fluker & Ola Mae Bell - Talkin' 'Bout Jesus Walter Brown - So Hard To See Archie Edwards - Bear Cat Mama Blues Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins - Reno Factory Lonnie Pitchford - My Babe Sam "Stretch" Fields - Bluebird Blues Joe Savage - Mean Ol' Frisco Arzo Youngblood - I Can't Be Successful CeDell "Big G" Davis - I Don't Know Why Othar Turner & the Rising Star Five & Drum Band - Tango Twist Guitar Slim - Come On In My Kitchen - Lula's Back In Town Boyd Rivers - You Got To Move Boogie Bill Webb - Big Road Blues recorded 1980 by Axel Küstner and Siegfried Christmann L+R 42.030 some tracks reissued on CD Evidence ECD 26105-2 (1999) Living Country Blues - An Anthology 2 CD set = L+R LRCD 711921 (2008) L + R discography 17 1980 Living Country Blues USA Vol. 2 Blues On Highway 61 James "Son" Thomas - Standing At The Crossroads Sam Chatmon - Stop And Listen Blues James "Son" Thomas - Bull Cow Blues - 61 Highway Blues Walter Brown - Keep On Walkin' Joe Cooper - She Put Me Out On The Road Sam Chatmon - Sam's Blues - Black Night James "Son" Thomas - Mean Ol' Frisco Sam Chatmon - My Daddy Was A Jockey Eddie Cusie - Gonna Cut You Loose Sam Chatmon - Vicksburg Blues recorded 1980 by Axel Küstner and Siegfried Christmann L+R 42.032 some tracks reissued on CD Evidence ECD 26105-2 (1999) Living Country Blues - An Anthology = L+R LRCD 713024 (2008) L + R discography 17a 1980 Delta Blues Festival '79 Napoleon Strickland Fife and Drum Band (Jesse Mae Hemphill, Abe Young) - Shimmy Shawhaha Boyd Rivers - Grow Sick And Die (de.youtube.com) Clyde Maxwell - Alberta Big Joe Williams - Tell Me Mama Harmonica Medley: Napoleon Strickland with Hammie Nixon - Fox Chase - Let's Boogie - Rock Me Mama - Mule To Ride Sam Chatmon & Eugene Powell - How Long Johnny Shines - Have You Ever Loved A Woman Sam Myers - Everything's Gonna Be Alright Sylvia Embry - Goin' To New York Betty Fikes & Johnny Shines Band - Rock Me Baby Lefty Dizz - You Might Have Made Your Move Too Soon rec. September 8, 1979 in Freedom Village (outside Greenville), Mississippi, by Worth Long in cooperation with Mississippi Action for Community Education (MACE) soundtrack of film "Mississippi Delta Blues" 60 min, colour, mono, 1980; filmed live at the 2nd Mississippi Delta Blues Festival at Freedom Village, hosted by Willie Dixon (Kay Jazz KJ 081) Delta Blues DBF 79 18 1985 The Mississippi Sheiks Volume 1 1930 - Driving That Thing - Alberta Blues - Winter Time Blues - The Sheik Waltz - The Jazz Fiddler - Stop And Listen Blues - Lonely One In This Town - We Are Both Feeling Good Right Now - Grinding Old Fool - Jake Leg Blues - West Jackson Blues - Baby Keeps Stealin' Lovin' On Me - River Bottom Blues - Loose Like That - Sitting On Top Of The World no. 2 - Times Done Got Hard - Still I'm Traveling On - Church Bell Blues Matchbox MSE 1005 Bluesmaster series Matchbox discography 18a 1986 The Roots Of Robert Johnson Skip James - Devil Got My Woman Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues Leroy Carr - When The Sun Goes Down Son House - Preachin' The Blues - part 1 Lonnie Johnson - Life Saver Blues Henry Thomas - Red River Blues Charley Patton - Revenue Man Blues Son House - My Black Mama - part 1 Skip James - 22-20 Blues Hambone Willie Newbern - Roll And Tumble Blues The Mississippi Sheiks - Sitting On Top Of The World Scrapper Blackwell - Kokomo Blues Casey Bill Weldon - Go Ahead, Buddy Johnnie Temple - Lead Pencil Blues Yazoo L 1073 Yazoo discography 19 1987 The Mississippi Sheiks Volume 2 1930 to 1934 - Sheiks Special - Dear Little Girl - Please Don't Wake It Up - She's A Bad Girl - Tell Me What The Cats Fight About - Kind Treatment - Lazy Lazy River - Too Long - Bed Spring Poker - When You're Sick With The Blues - She's Crazy About Her Lovin' - Tell Me To Do Right - Kitty Cat Blues - Show Me What You Got - Hitting The Numbers - It's Done Got Wet - Ahe's Got Something Crazy - You'll Work Down To Me Someday Matchbox MSE 1012 Bluesmaster series Matchbox discography 20 1988 Giants Of Country Blues Guitar (1967 - 1981) Jessie Mae Hemphill # - Eagle Bird # - Shame, Shame # Son House - Baby Please Don't Dog Me 'Round Sam Chatmon - Stoop Down Baby - Baby Please Come Back To Me - Stop And Listen Eugene Powell - 44 Blues - Suitcase Full Of Troubles - Texas - Santa Fe Furry Lewis - Going To Brownsville Jack Owens - Hard Times - Cherry Ball - Give Me Your Money - Devil Blues Mager Johnson / Carey 'Ditty' Mason - Traveling Man Blues Mott Willis - Traveling Man Blues - Someday Blues - Bad Night Blues # rec. 1991 (on CD only) Wolf 120.911 = Wolf CD 120.911 "Giants Of Country Blues Guitar Vol. 1 (1967 - 1991)" 21 1989 Mississippi String Bands (1928 - 1936) Alec Johnson Walter Jacobs & The Carter Brothers Mississippi Blacksnakes Charlie McCoy & The Mississippi Hot Footers Chatman Brothers (Lonnie and Sam Chatmon) - If You Don't Want Me Please Don't Dog Me 'Round - Wake Me Just Before Day - Old Gey Mule, You Ain't What You Used To Be - What's The Name Of That Thing? - Stir It Now - Jumping Out Blues - Radio Blues - Please Don't Give My Love Away RST Blues Documents BD-2043 22 1990 The Mississippi Sheiks: 1930 - 1935 - Cracking Them Things - Back To Mississippi - Things About Comin' My Way - Shooting High Dice - He Calls That Religion - Baby, Please Make A Change - Somebody's Got To Help Me - Lonesome Grave Took My Baby - Pop Skull Blues - Sweet Maggie - It's Backfiring Now - Lean To One Woman - I Can't Go Wrong - Dead Wagon Blues - She's Going To Her Lonesome Grave - Fingering With Your Fingers Document DLP 595 23 1991 The Mississippi Sheiks: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Vol. 1 (1930) - Driving That Thing - Alberta Blues - Winter Time Blues - The Sheik Waltz - The Jazz Fiddler (take B) - Sitting On Top Of The World - Stop And Listen Blues - Lonely One In This Town - We Are Both Feeling Good Right Now - Cracking Them Things - Grinding Old Fool - Jake Leg - Blues / Back To Mississippi - West Jackson Blues - Jail Bird Love Song - Yodeling Fiddling Blues - Baby Keeps Stealin' Lovin' On Me - River Bottom Blues - Bootleggers' Blues - Loose Like That Document DOCD-5083 24 1991 The Mississippi Sheiks: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Vol. 2 (1930-1931) - Sitting On Top Of The World No. 2 - Your Good Man Caught The Train And Gone - Times Done Got Hard - Unhappy Blues - Still I'm Traveling On - Honey Babe Let The Deal Go Down - She Ain't No Good - Ramrod Blues - Stop And Listen Blues No. 2 - Church Bell Blues - Please Don't Wake It Up - Please Baby - Things About Comin' My Way - The World Is Going Wrong - She's A Bad Girl - Tell Me What The Cats Fight About - Kind Treatment - Livin' In A Strain - Lazy Lazy River - Too Long Document DOCD-5084 25 1991 The Mississippi Sheiks: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Vol. 3 (1931-1934) - Shake Hands And Tell Me Goodbye - Bed Spring Poker - When You're Sick With The Blues - I've Got Blood In My Eyes For You - Shooting High Dice - Isn't A Pain To Me - She's Crazy About Her Lovin' - Tell Me To Do Right - The New Stop And Listen Blues - Go 'Way Woman - New Shake That Thing - The New Sittin' On Top Of The World - He Calls That Religion - Don't Wake It Up - Please Baby - I'll Be Gone, Long Gone - Kitty Cat Blues - Show Me What You Got - Hitting The Numbers - It's Done Got Wet - Pencil Won't Write No More - I Am The Devil - Baby, Please Make A Change Document DOCD-5085 26 1991 Mississippi Sheiks & Chatman Brothers: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Vol. 4 (1934-1935) Mississippi Sheiks: - She's Got Something Crazy - You'll Work Down To Me Someday - Somebody's Got To Help Me - Good Morning Blues - Blues On My Mind - Lonesome Grave Took My Baby - Pop Skull Blues - Sweet Maggie - Sales Tax - It's Backfiring Now - Lean To One Woman - I Can't Go Wrong - Dead Wagon Blues - She's Going To Her Lonesome Grave - Fingering With Your Fingers Chatman Brothers (Lonnie and Sam Chatmon): - If You Don't Want Me Please Don't Dog Me 'Round - Wake Me Just Before Day - Old Grey Mule, You Ain't What You Used To Be - What's The Name Of That Thing? - Stir It Now - Jumping Out Blues - Radio Blues - Please Don't Give My Love Away Document DOCD-5086 26a 1992 The Ultimate Blues Collection Volume 2 CD 1: Willie Mabon - I Don't Know - Rainy Night In Georgia Carey Bell - She's Nineteen Years Old Fernest Arcenaux - The Things I Used To Do Archie Edwards - Boogie Woogie Mama # Big Jay McNeely - Pretty Girls - Country Boy Detroit Gary Wiggins - That What You Doin' To Me Luther Allison - The Dock Of The Bay - Let's Try It Again CD 2: John Lee Hooker - Introduction - Goin' To California - Black Night Is Falling - Crawlin' Kingsnake John Cephas - Richmond Blues # - St. James Infirmary # Louisiana Red - Louisiana Boogie - When My Mama Was Livin' - Got Sad News - Stop Doggin' Me Around Sam Chatmon - I Gets The Blues # - St. Louis Blues # CD 3: Champion Jack Dupree - Wine, Wine, Wine - You Can Make It Memphis Piano Red - Mother-In-Law Blues # - Barrelhouse Blues # Erwin Helfer and The Chicago Allstars - Sneaky Pete - 4 O'clock Blues Tommy Tucker - Blues Had A Baby - Hard Luck Blues - Five Long Years # - Drifting Blues # # previously unreleased 3 CD set Chrisly CM 11002 ("Chrisly Blues Box") Ornament discography 26b 1992 The Ultimate Blues Collection Volume 3 CD 1: Karen Carroll - Little Red Rooster - Woke Up This Morning - Big Boss Man - Sweet Home Chicago Maisha Grant - Help Me Through The Day - Mellow Down Easy - Mama Talk To Your Daughter - Please Love Me The Cat - Tin Roof Rules Katie Webster - When Something Is Wrong With My Baby - Misty Blue CD 2: Thomas Shaw - I'm Broke And I Haven't Got A Dime # - Sail Along Little Girl # Joanna Connor - Guitar Woman # - The Sky Is Crying # VGO / Ed Morris - Talking Hard Luck Blues # James 'Son' Thomas - Bull Cow Blues # Luther Allison - Fight - Freedom Thomas Shaw - Smokey Mountain # - Mini Blues # Sam Chatmon - Sittin' On Top Of The World # CD 3: Willie Mabon - Klickety Klock - Lover Girl - Dorsey's Boogie - The Seventh Son The Cat - I Love My Baby - Came Home This Morning - Rockin' The Subway 'Big Moose' Walker - Don't Cry Baby Little Willie Littlefield - Adam Come And Get Your Bone - Prisoner For Tonight Tommy Tucker - Trouble In Mind # # previously unreleased 3 CD set Chrisly CM 11003 ("Chrisly Blues Box") Ornament discography 26b 199? Giants Of Country Blues Vol. 3 Jack Owens - Leavin’ Blues Eugene Powell - Blues In Texas Son Thomas - Walking Cane LV Conerly - Hard Headed Woman Roosevelt Holts - Big Road Blues Arzo Youngblood - I Don’t Want No Woman Sam Chatmon - Talkin’ Bout My Girl Wade Walton - Catfish Blues Isaac Youngblood - Big Road Blues Wade Walton - Catfish Blues Isaac Youngblood - Big Road Blues Mott Willis - Long Tall Woman Robert Shaw - Ma Grinder Pt 2 - Mobile & KC Blues - The Cows - Rock Island Lavada Durst - Boogie Woogie Alex Moore - Henry 6 Mike Memphis Piano Red - Mama Likes Good Whiskey - After Hours Mose Vinson - Blues Jumped A Rabbit - Four O’Clock Blues Wolf 120.921 not identical with Wolf CD 120.918 with same title !!! 27 1992 The Mississippi Sheiks: Stop And Listen - Stop And Listen Blues - Lonely One In This Town - The World Is Going Wrong - She Ain't No Good - Sitting On Top Of The World - Too Long - That's It - Bootleggers' Blues - Somebody's Got To Help You - Jail Bird Love Song - Shooting High Dice - Tell Me To Do It Right - Sales Tax - Livin' In A strain (unissued) - Sweet Maggie - She's Crazy About Her Lovin' - Please Baby - I've Got Blood In My Eyes For You - Kind Treatment - He Calls That Religion Yazoo CD 2006 28 1994 Memphis Blues Caravan, Vol. 1 Sam Chatmon - Forgive Me Too Blues # Big Sam Clark - I Fell in Love With This Woman Sonny Boy Nelson - Pony Blues Earl Bell - Travelin' Blues Sleepy John Estes / Hammie Nixon - President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long - Yellow Yam Blues Bukka White - Bed Springs Blues Furry Lewis - Mary Tell-Blues/Mother Story Harmonica Frank - Goin' Away Happy Houston Stackhouse - Crying Won't Help You Joe Willie Wilkins & His King Biscuit Boys - Me And The Devil Blues # rec. January 28, 1975 at Steve LaVere's home in Memphis, TN; Sam Chatmon, voc, g; Greg "Fingers" Taylor, hca; Mimosa LaVere [Steve LaVere's then two-your-old daughter], sp Memphis Archives CD 7008 29 1995 I Have To Paint My Face - I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie 1005] [lyrics] - Big Road Blues - K.C. Douglas - I Stand And Wonder - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie 1005] - Texas Blues - Big Joe Williams - Night Shirt Blues - K.C. Douglas [previously unreleased] - Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas/Bruce Bratton [previously unreleased] - Hollandale Blues - Sam Chatmon [previously unreleased] - Slop, The - Jasper Love/Columbus Jones - Stella Ruth - R.C. Smith - God Don't Like Ugly - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie 1006] - Rooster Blues - Wade Walton - Barbershop Rhythm - Wade Walton/R.C. Smith - Going Back To Texas - R.C. Smith - Blues And Trouble - K.C. Douglas/Sidney Maiden - Lonely Widower - R.C. Smith - Lost Love Blues - R.C. Smith - Married Woman Blues - Big Joe Williams - Love's Honeydripper - Jasper Love - Desert Blues - Jasper Love - One Thin Dime - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas - Butch's Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas - Forty Four Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas - Chicago Blues - Sidney Maiden/K.C. Douglas Arhoolie CD 432 30 1998 Livin In The House of Blues Defiance - Fattening Frogs for Snakes - Sonny Boy Williamson - We Got to Stop This Killin' - Big Jack Johnson - Backlash Blues - Nina Simone - Black, Brown and White - Big Bill Broonzy - I Have to Paint My Face - Sam Chatmon - Bourgeois Blues - Leadbelly - It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace) - Willie Dixon - Uncle Sam Says - Josh White - No Education - Lightnin' Hopkins - White Mule Of Sin - John Byrd - Bluestime In America - Michael Hill's Blues Mob - Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday - District Attorney Blues - Bukka White - Vietcong Blues - Junior Wells - Prisoner's Talking Blues - Robert Pete Williams House Of Blues 31 1999 Sam Chatmon: 1970-1974 - Hollandale Blues # - God Don't Like Ugly * - Prowlin' Groundhog * - Ashtray Taxi * - I Got The Whiskey * - I Can't Use You No More * - Chatmon Family Rag (instr) * - Cold Blooded Murder * - St. Louis Blues * - That's Alright * - She's My Baby * - Old Screwdriver * - Go Back Old Devil # - Good Eatin' Meat # - P Stands For Push # - Frankie Jean # - Crawling King Snake # - All Night Long # - Trouble In Mind # - Shake 'Em All Down § - Sittin' on Top Of The World // - My Little Woman // [] # rec. December 30, 1972 in San Diego, CA by Lou Curtiss; Sam Chatmon, voc, g * rec. April 13, 1973 in San Diego, CA by Lou Curtiss; Sam Chatmon, voc, g § rec. September 28, 1974 in San Diego, CA by Lou Curtiss; Sam Chatmon, voc, g // rec. July 1970 in Sweets Mill, Auberry, CA; Sam Chatmon, voc, g; Kenny Hall, mandolin; Ed Littleton, dobro; Joe Gwaltney, g; Sue Draheim, fiddle; Will Scarlet, harmonica, [] jug front cover photograph by Virginia Curtiss Flyright FLYCD 63 32 1999 Living Country Blues: An Anthology Sam Chatmon - Sittin' On Top Of The World - Stop And Listen Blues - My Daddy Was A Jockey - Vicksburg Blues Evidence ECD 26105-2 [Disc 1] 33 1999 The Mississippi Sheiks: Show Me What You Got - Don't Wake It Up - Please Don't Give My Love Away - Sheik Waltz - Livin' In A Strain - It's Done Got Wet - Alberta Blues - Fingering With Your Fingers - Blood In My Eyes for You - Church Bell Blues - She's A Bad Girl - Sitting On Top Of The World - Sales Tax - Unhappy Blues - She's Got Something Crazy - Jazz Fiddler - Stop And Listen Blues - Lean To One Women - She Ain't No Good - Jake Leg Blues - Stir It Now - She's Crazy About Her Lovin' - We Are Both Feeling Good - Show Me What You Got Catfish CD 123 34 1999 Colin Linden: Sad & Beautiful World The Best of 1975-1999 Sam Chatmon & his Barbeque Boys - Mean Old Frisco colinlinden.com [sound clip] 35 2002 The Mississippi Sheiks: The Essential - Driving That Thing - Jazz Fiddler - Sitting on Top Of The World - I've Got Blood In My Eyes For You - I'll Be Gone, Long Gone - Stop And Listen Blues - New Shake That Thing - It's Done Got Wet - Sweet Maggie - Baby Keeps Stealin' Lovin' On Me - Bootleggers Blues - Sales Tax - Lazy Lazy River - If You Don't Want Me Please Don't Dog Me 'Round - What's The Name Of That Thing - Jail Bird Love Song - Sheik Waltz - Grinding Old Fool - Still I'm Traveling On - Stop And Listen No. 2 - Please Baby - Jumping Out Blues - Please Don't Give My Love Away - Tell Me What The Cats Fight About - Don't Wake It Up - Livin' In A Strain - Lonely One In This Town - Too Long - Jake Leg Blues - World Is Going Wrong - She Ain't No Good - She's Crazy Abut Her Lovin' - Somebody's Got To Help You - Shooting High Dice - Stir It Now - Kind Treatment 2 CD set Classic Blues 36 200? Violin, Sing The Blues For Me African-American Fiddlers, 1926 - 1947 - Violin Blues - Johnson Boys - K.C. Railroad Blues - Andrew & Jim Baxter - Beaver Slide Rag - Peg Leg Howell - Alma Waltz - Mississippi Mud Steppers - Window Pane Blues - Tommie Bradley - Travelin' Railroad Man Blues - Alabama Sheiks - Pig Meat Blues - Whistler & His Jug Band - Right Now Blues - Frank Stokes - East Jackson Blues - Bo Chatmon - Memphis Blues - Mobile Strugglers - Vine Street Drag - Tennessee Chocolate Drops - Broken Bed Blues - Kansas City Blues Strummers - Lonesome Blues - Eddie Anthony/Henry "Rubberlegs" Williams - Memphis Shakedown - Memphis Jug Band - Adam and Eve - Tommie Bradley - Tell Me Man Blues - Henry "Son" Sims - Blue Coat Blues - Tom Nelson - Salty Dog - Booker Orchestra - Baby, Please Don't Go - Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers - Stop and Listen Blues No. 2 - Mississippi Sheiks - Stealin' Blues - Cow Cow Davenport - The Moore Girl - Andrew & Jim Baxter - Highway 61 Blues - Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band - Ted's Stomp - Louie Bluie 37 2005 Blues With A Message - I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatman - John Henry - John Jackson - Walked Down So Many Turn Rows - Mercy Dee - Tom Moore's Farm - Mance Lipscomb - Tom Moore Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins - River Blues - Lowell Fulson - Levee Camp Blues - Fred McDowell - The 1919 Influenza Blues - Essie Jenkins - Why I Like Roosevelt - Willie Eason - Little Soldier Boy - Doctor Ross - Prisoner's Talking Blues - Robert Pete Williams - I Got To Climb A High Mountain - Johnie Lewis - Depression Blues - Herman E. Johnson - Stockyard Blues - Johnny Young/Big Walter Horton - What Will I Tell The Children - Juke Boy Bonner - It's Enough - Juke Boy Bonner - Things Gonna Get Better - Bee Houston - Back Home Blues - Big Joe Williams notes by Paul Oliver Arhoolie CD 510 38 2006 Sam Chatmon: Blues When It Rains - St. Louis Blues - That's All Right - Stoop Down Girl [incomplete version] - Baby Please Come Back To Me - I'm Fool About Her Loving - Prowling Ground Hog - Go Back Old Devil - Used To Be - Blues When It Rains - Good Eat Meat Boy - Let's Get Drunk Again rec. August 6, 1976 at Sam Chatmon's home in Hollandale re-release of 1977 Albatros VPA 8408 "Hollandale Blues" Dynamic DYNA 32 (It) Dynamic 180g DYNLP 32 "Blues When It Rains" 39 6/2009 Sam Chatmon: Field Recordings from Hollandale, Mississippi   (1976-1982) Blues At Home   Volume 2 - Open Your Book, Your Daddy Got To Read With You [Albatros VPA 8387] - St. Louis Blues [Albatros VPA 8408] - That's All Right [Albatros VPA 8408] - Stoop Down Baby, Let Your Daddy See (complete version) [previously unissued] - Baby Please Come Back To Me [Albatros VPA 8408] - Brownskin Woman (Big Road Blues) tk 2 [previously unissued] - Prowling Ground Hog [Albatros VPA 8408] - Sam Chatmon discusses Prowling Ground Hog [previously unissued] - Go Back Old Devil [Albatros VPA 8408] - Sam Chatmon discusses Go Back Old Devil [previously unissued] - Black Nights [Albatros VPA 8408 as "Used To Be"] - Sam Chatmon discusses Black Nights [previously unissued] - I'm Crazy About Her Loving [Albatros VPA 8408 as "I'm A Fool ..."] - Last Time Shaking In The Bed With Me [previously unissued] - I Get The Blues When It Rains [Albatros VPA 8408] - Good Eating Meat [Albatros VPA 8408] - Sam Chatmon discusses Good Eating Meat [previously unissued] - Let's Get Drunk Again [Albatros VPA 8408] - Sam Chatmon mentions musicians and producers [previously unissued] - P Stands For Push [Albatros VPA 8408 as "Falling Out"] - Sam Chatmon discusses his reluctance to fly [previously unissued] rec. August 6, 1976 at Sam Chatmon's home in Hollandale; Sam Chatmon, voc, g, sp; rec., ed. & prod. by Giambattista Marcucci; digital remastered from original tapes; includes 32 page booklet with 15 photos Mbirafon CD 102 (It) www.mbirafon.com     Additional information appreciated !!!   Sources / Further reading: - own record collection - Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver 2006, p. 91 - Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 201, pp. 88-89 - http://sunsite.kth.se/feastlib/mrf/yinyue/pw/CHATMAB.HTM - http://sunsite.kth.se/feastlib/mrf/yinyue/pw/MISSHE.HTM - http://www.ne.jp/asahi/ko-1/crossroads/label/document/document5.htm - http://www.ne.jp/asahi/ko-1/crossroads/blues/m/sheiks.htm - Leadbitter & Slaven: Blues Records 1943-1970 Vol. 1 (London: Record Information Services, 1987), p. 255 left column photo from front cover of Rounder 2018; photographer: Virginia Curtis thanks to Milosch Fürst Jr. for additional info   Mississippi Delta Blues Festival 1980 program

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