J O E   D E A N c. 1940; source: Blues Unlimited 127, p. 4
Joe Dean c. 1940
source: Blues Unlimited 127, p. 4
("courtesy Joe Dean")
J O E   D E A N   St. Louis, September 1977; source: Blues Unlimited 144, p. 35; photographer: Mike Rowe
Joe Dean, St. Louis, September 1977
source: Blues Unlimited 144, p. 35
(photographer: Mike Rowe)


Joe Dean
Joseph Hensky Dean
b. April 25, 1908 in St. Louis, Missouri
d. June 24, 1981 in St. Louis, Missouri

discography
J O E   D E A N on the cover of Blues Unlimited 127
Joe Dean on the cover of Blues Unlimited 127
("courtesy Joe Dean")

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

Joe Dean 78 rpm / LPs / CDs
#year
of release
titlelabel # / notes

10 inch 78 rpm
   

- I'm So Glad I'm Twenty-One Years Old Today (C-6033- )

c. July 18, 1930 in Chicago, IL; Joe Dean, voc, p
Vocalion unissued
11930Joe Dean (From Bowling Green)

- Mexico Bound Blues (C-6034- ) #
- I'm So Glad I'm Twenty-One Years Old Today (C-5991- ) *   @ youtube

# c. July 18, 1930 in Chicago, IL; Joe Dean, voc, p

* c. August 7, 1930 in Chicago, IL; Joe Dean, voc, p



Vocalion 1544

LP / CD compilations
21972Barrelhouse Blues 1927-1936

Bob Call
- Thirty-One Blues
Barelhouse Welsh
- Dying Pickpocket Blues

Joe Dean
- I'm So Glad I'm Twenty-One Years Old Today
George Noble
- Seminole Blues
Lonnie Johnson
- Sam, You're Just A Rat
Louise Johnson
- On The Wall
Montana Taylor
- Indiana Avenue Stomp

Little Brother Montgomery
- Vicksburg Blues No. 2
Charley Taylor
- Heavy Suitcase Blues
Cow Cow Davenport
- State Street Jive
Jabo Williams
- Polack Blues
Jesse James
- Ramrod
Raymond Barrow
- Walking Blues
Will Ezell
- Barrelhouse Woman Take 2
notes by Stephen Calt,
Jerome Epstein, Nick Perls
click to enlarge!

click to enlarge!
Yazoo 1028

= Yazoo CD 1028 YAZ

Yazoo discography

31977Vocalion 1928-1930
'shake your wicked knees' (The Piano Blues Vol. 3)

Cow Cow Davenport
- Back In The Alley
Bert M. Mays
- Michigan River Blues

Joe Dean
- I'm So Glad I'm Twenty-One Years Old Today
Lee Green
- Memphis Fives
Jim Clarke
- Fat Fanny Stomp
Cow Cow Davenport
- Cow Cow Blues
Romeo Nelson
- Gettin' Dirty Just Shakin' That Thing
Dan Stewart
- New Orleans Blues

Lil Johnson
- House Rent Scuffle
Montana Taylor
- Detroit Rocks
Tampa Red
- Black Hearted Blues
Pinetop Smith
- Jump Steady Blues

Joe Dean
- Mexico Bound Blues
Romeo Nelson
- Head Rag Hop
Cow Cow Davenport
- Texas Shout
Montana Taylor & The Jazoo Boys
- Whoop And Holler Stomp
foreword by Francis Smith
notes by Bob Hall
and Richard Noblett

Magpie PY 4403

= Magpie PYCD 03

Magpie discography

41989Piano Blues   (1927-1930)

Sammy Brown
- The Jockey Blues
Bert M. Mays
- Midnight Rambler's Blues
- Oh-Oh Blues
- Troublesome Mind Blues
- Mama's Man Blues
- Michigan River Blues
- You Can't Come In
Ruby Paul
- Red Letter Blues
- Last Farewell Blues
Southern Blues Singers
- Lighthouse Blues

Dan Stewart
- New Orleans Blues
Jim Clarke
- Fat Fanny Stomp
Rudy Foster
- Black Gal Makes Thunder
- Corn Trimmer Blues

Joe Dean
- Mexico Bound Blues
- I'm So Glad I'm Twenty-one Years Old Today
Kingfish Bill Tomlin
- Dupree Blues
- Army Blues
- Hot Box
- Mean And Unkind Blues





HK HK 4010 (Austria)
51990Vocalion 1928-1930
The Piano Blues series

- Back In The Alley - Cow Cow Davenport
- Michigan River Blues - Bert M. Mays

- I'm So Glad I'm 21 Years Old Today - Joe Dean
- Memphis Fives - Lee Green
- Fat Fanny Stomp - Jim Clarke
- Cow Cow Blues - Cow Cow Davenport
- Gettin' Dirty Just Shakin' That Thing - Romeo Nelson
- New Orleans Blues - Dan Stewart
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie - Pine Top Smith
- You Can't Come In - Bert M. Mays
- Indiana Avenue Stomp - Montana Taylor
- Slum Gullion Stomp - Cow Cow Davenport
- Pine Top Blues - Pine Top Smith
- Detroit Rocks - Montana Taylor
- Black Hearted Blues - Tampa Red
- Jump Steady Blues - Pine Top Smith

- Mexico Bound Blues - Joe Dean
- Head Rag Hop - Romeo Nelson
- Texas Shout - Cow Cow Davenport
- Whoop And Holler Stomp - Montana Taylor & The Jazoo Boys


Magpie PY 4403




Magpie PYCD 03

61993Piano Blues Vol. 1   1927 - 1936

Bert M. Mays
- Midnight Rambler's Blues
- Oh-oh Blues
- Troublesome Mind Blues
- Mama's Man Blues
- Michigan River Blues
- You Can't Come In
Blind Clyde Church
- Number Nine Blues
- Pneumatic Blues
Dan Stewart
New Orleans Blues
Jim Clarke
- Fat Fanny Stomp
Judson Brown
- You Don't Know My Mind Blues

Joe Dean
- Mexico Bound Blues
- I'm So Glad I'm Twenty-one Years Old Today
James Bat Robinson
- You Left Me Alone
- Bat's Own Blues
- Humming Blues
Pigmeat Terry
- Moaning The Blues
- Black Sheep Blues
Jesse James
- Sweet Patuni
- Southern Casey Jones
- Lonesome Day Blues
- Highway 61
Bat The Hummingbird Robinson
- Bat's Blues
- Four O'clock


notes by Howard Rye

Document DOCD 5192
71998Shake Your Wicked Knees - Rent Parties And Good Times
Classic Piano Rags, Blues & Stomps 1928-43

- Head Rag Hop - Romeo Nelson
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie - Pine Top Smith
- Pine Top's Blues - Pine Top Smith
- Back In The Alley - Cow Cow Davenport

- I'm So Glad I'm 21 Years Old Today - Joe Dean
- Pitchin' Boogie - Will Ezell
- Honky Tonk Train Blues - Meade Lux Lewis
- Dearborn Street Breakdown - Charles Avery
- Fat Fanny Stomp - Jim Clarke
- Cow Cow Blues - Cow Cow Davenport
- Hip Shakin' Strut - Hokum Boys & Jane Lucas
- House Rent Scuffle - Lil Johnson
- Gettin' Dirty Just Shakin' That Thing - Romeo Nelson
- Jump Steady Blues - Pine Top Smith
- Detroit Rocks - Montana Taylor
- Whoop And Holler Stomp - Montana Taylor
- I'm Sober Now - Pine Top Smith
- Indiana Avenue Stomp - Montana Taylor
- Stomp 'em Down To The Bricks - Henry Brown
- Hokum Stomp - Hokum Boys & Jane Lucas
- Jimmy's Rocks - Jimmy Yancey
- Mooch Piddle - Cow Cow Davenport
- Tight Whoopee - Mozelle Alderson


notes by Bob Hall

Yazoo CD 2035
81999Down in Black Bottom - Lowdown Barrelhouse Piano
Classic Piano Rags, Blues & Stomps from the 1920s & 1930s

- Ain't Gonna Be Your Dog No More - Turner Parrish
- You Gonna Miss Me Blues - Freddie Nicolson
- Freddie's Got The Blues - Freddie Nicholson
- New Orleans Blues - Dan Stewart
- The Right String, But The Wrong Yo Yo - Speckled Red
- 31 Blues - Bob Call
- You Can't Come In - Bert Mays
- Michigan River Blues - Bert Mays
- Humming Blues - Bat The Humming Bird
- Black Hearted Blues - Tampa Red

- Mexico Bound Blues - Joe Dean
- Louisiana Blues - Little Brother Montgomery
- Frisco Hi-Ball Blues - Little Brother Montgomery
- Down In Tennessee - Lonnie Clark
- West Side Blues - Willie Harris
- Broke Down Engine Blues - Lonnie Clark
- Mean Blues - Sylvester Palmer
- Whoopee Mama Blues - John Oscar
- Chimes Blues - Cow Cow Davenport
- Graveyard Blues - Turner Parrish
- The Jockey Blues - Sammy Brown
- Shook It This Morning Blues - Joe Evans
- Down In Black Bottom - Joe Evans



Yazoo CD 2043
92001Piano Blues - The Essential

disc 1:
- Head Rag Hop - Romeo Nelson
- Trenches - Turner Parrish
- Ain't It A Shame - Leroy Carr
- Big Mama - Walter Roland
- 44 Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
- Flying Crow Blues - Black Ivory King
- I Don't Know - Cripple Clarence Lofton
- Rocks In My Pillow - Bumble Bee Slim (Amos Easton)
- Oh You Devil You - Oliver Brown
- Fat Fanny Stomp - Jim Clarke
- Playing The Dozen - Will Ezell
- Lonesome Day Blues - Jesse James
- Black Gal Makes Thunder - Rudy Foster
- All Night Long - Louise Johnson
- Whoopie - Eddie Miller
- Pine Tops Boogie - Pine Top Smith
- If You Haven't Any Hay Get On Down The Road - Skip James
- The Dirty Dozen - Speckled Red


disc 2:
- I'm So Glad I'm 21 Years Old Today - Joe Dean
- Honky Tonk Train Blues - Meade 'Lux' Lewis
- Think You Need A Shot - Walter Davis
- Cow Cow Blues - Cow Cow (Charles) Davenport
- Keep A-knocking An You Can't Get In - James 'Boodle It' Wiggins
- No. 29 - Wesley Wallace
- 31 Blues - Bob Call
- Vicksburg Blues - Little Brother Montgomery
- Black Gal What Makes Your Head So Hard - Joe Pullum
- Joe Louis Strut - Memphis Minnie
- Dearborn Street Breakdown - Charles Avery
- Lonesome Man Blues - Sylvester Palmer
- East Chicago Blues - Sparks Brothers
- Pratt City Blues - 'Jabo' Williams
- Shack Bully Stomp - 'Jabo' Williams
- Soon This Morning - Charlie Spand
- 5 O'Clock Blues - Jimmy Yancey
- Detroit Rocks - Montana Taylor


compiled by Paul Swinton
double CD
notes by Gary Atkinson
click to enlarge !
Document CBL-200004


Additional information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943, 4th ed. 1997, p. 211
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, p. 308
- Bob Hall: "Joe Dean from Bowling Green".- in Komara, Edward (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Blues, Volume 1 (A-J), p. 260
- Mike Rowe: Joe Dean from Bowling Green.- Blues Unlimited 127 (November/December 1977), pp. 4-9
- Mike Rowe: Joe Dean [obituary].- Blues Unlimited 144 (Spring 1983), pp. 35-36
- ‘‘Joe Dean’’ [obituary].- Living Blues 53 (Summer/Autumn 1982), p 48
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

source of left column picture: Vocalion 1544

 

Stefan Wirz


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