S C O T T   D U N B A R ; from Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who; photographer: Bill Ferris
source: Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who
photographer: Bill Ferris

Scott
Dunbar

b. July 1, 1904 on Deer Park Plantation,
west of Woodville and south of Natchez, Mississippi
d. October 1, 1994 in Centreville, Mississippi

discography
S C O T T   D U N B A R at his home in Old River Lake, Mississippi; from Lawrence Cohn: Nothing But The Blues.- p. 291; photographer: Bill Ferris; click to enlarge !
Scott Dunbar at his home in Old River Lake, Ms
source: Cohn 1993, p. 192; photographer: Bill Ferris

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.

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Scott Dunbar LPs / CDs
#year
of release
titlelabel # / notes
11956Music From The South Vol. 5
Song, Play And Dance


Horace Sprott
- Fox Chase
Harry Rutledge & Horace Sprott
- Buck Dance
Horace Sprott
- Take Rocks And Gravel To Make A Solid Road
Mrs. Philip Ramsey
- Me And My Short Box
Horace Sprott
- Saturday Night Hoe-Down
- I Feel Good Now, Baby
Children's Group with Berenice & Eunice Ford, Bessie Lee Daniels
- Blind Child
- Head-Shoulder Baby
- I Asked My Mother For Fifty Cents
Philip Ramsey, Rosemary Daniels & Berenice Ford
- Talk About Jesus

Mississippi String Band (Tom Johnson and John Copeland)
- Blues
- Hootchie Kootchie
- It's Tight Like That
- See See Mama

Scott Dunbar
- Memphis Mail *
Scott Dunbar and Joe Tucker
- Buck Dance By Joe Turner #
Scott Dunbar
- Forty Four #
Scott Dunbar with Celeste Dunbar, voc & Rosie Dunbar, dancing
- Easy Rider #

* rec. Old River Lake, Ms., June 24, 1954
# rec. Pond, Ms., June 25, 1954
Field recordings taken under a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation by Frederic Ramsey, jr.


Folkways FP 654
= Folkways FA 2654

download notes
at Smithsonian Global Sound

21960Music From The South Vol. 10
Been Here And Gone


Louis Bonner
- Old Country Hunt Horn
- The Hunt
- Hunt Horn
Horace Sprott
- My Little Annie, So Sweet
- The Frisco
Gandy Dancers
- Let's Move It!
Freddie L. Small
- Tiger Rag
Eureka Brass Band
- When The Saints Go Marching In
Dora Bliggen
- Blackberries
Eureka Brass Band
- Bourbon Street Parade
Dora Bliggen
- Blackberries

Dennis Atkins
- Hymn
Elder Ella Hall, Effie Fits, Jenie Jackson, Brother William ...
- When The Saints Go Marching In
Mozelle Moore
- When The Saints Go Marching In
- I'm Going To Pack Up My Things And Back Down That Sunny Road I'm Goin'

Scott Dunbar with Celeste & Rosie Dunbar, voc
- Goin' Back To Vicksburg (Vicksburg And Natchez Blues) #
Mozelle Moore, Philip Ramsey, Jr., Philip Ramsey, Sr., Horace Sprott
- Good Times (Skiffle and Dance Improvisation)
Dennis Atkins
- Hymn
Dora Bliggen
- O Lord Have Mercy
Eureka Brass Band
- Just A Closer Walk With Thee
- Panama

# rec. Pond, Ms., June 25, 1954; with Rosie Dunbar, voc
Field recordings taken under a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation by Frederic Ramsey, jr.


Folkways FA 2659

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at Smithsonian Global Sound

Frederic Ramsey Jr.: Been Here And Gone
"In text and pictures, this report move across the Southern landscape and brings the reader close to the men and women who have created work songs, spirituals, blues, and jazz."
Frederic Ramsey Jr.: Been here And Gone.- 1960
1st edition (1960)
London Cassell (UK) and
New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers University Press
Frederic Ramsey Jr.: Been here And Gone.- 1969
2nd printing (1969)
New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers University Press
Frederic Ramsey Jr.: Been here And Gone.- 2000
(2000)
University Of Georgia Press
31968Blues From The Delta
Field Recordings 1968

Son Thomas
- Cairo Blues
Lee Kizart
- Bottle Up And Go

Scott Dunbar
- Big Fat Momma *
Lovey Williams
- Rooting Ground Hog
Son Thomas
- Rock Me Momma

Lovey Williams
- Train I Ride

Scott Dunbar
- It's So Cold Up North *
Lee Kizart
- Don't Want No Woman Telling Me What To Do

Scott Dunbar
- Jay Bird *

* rec. Lake Mary, Ms., 1968

click to enlarge !
William Ferris Jr.: Blues From The Delta.- Studio Vista, London 1970 (series ed. by Paul Oliver)

notes by Bill Ferris
click to enlarge !

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Matchbox SDM 226

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= Autogram ALLP 243

41970Scott Dunbar: From Lake Mary

- Who Been Foolin' You
- Little Liza Jane
- Memphis Mail
- Vicksburg Blues
- Forty-Four Blues

- That's Alright Mama
- Easy Rider
- Richard Daley Blues
- Sweet Mama Rollin' Stone
- Blue Yodel
- Goodnight Irene

rec. by Parker Dinkins

unissued tracks from those sessions (source: Leadbitter & Slaven):

Lake Mary, Ms., Febr. 27, 1970

- You Are My Sunshine
- Wabash Cannonball
- When The Saints Go Marching In
- Done Laid Down (Do Remember Me)
- Filipena
- Home Sweet Home
- Just Because
- Never Been So Blue
- Goodnight Irene
- Goodbye My Lady Cindy
- My Old Shoe
- Sally Good’n
- Buffalo Gal
- Nobody’s Darlin’ But Mine
- Memphis Mail
- Vicksburg Blues
- Say That’s Alright With You
- Filipena
- Baby Please Don’t Go
- That’s Alright Mama
- Have Mercy On My Soul
- Tennessee Waltz
- Careless Love
- Blue Heaven
- Lay That Pistol Down (Pistol Packin’ Mama)
- Untitled Instrumental

Lake Mary, Ms., April 19, 1970

- Wabash Cannonball
- Who’s Been Foolin You
- Sally Good’n
- You Are My Sunshine
- Want To See My Darlin’
- Little Liza Jane
- Hand
- Jaybird
- Baby Please Don’t Go
- Lay That Pistol Down
- Just Because
- Filipena
- Have Mercy On My Soul
- Done Laid Around

Lake Mary, Ms., Aug. 6, 1970

- You Don’t Know My Mind
- Want To See My Darlin’
- 44 Blues
- Richard Daley Blues
- Hymn
- Who Been Foolin’ You
- Beautiful Brown Eyes
- Memphis Mail

notes by
Karl Michael Wolfe



Ahura Mazda AMS SDS 1


= Fat Possum CD 80338
(2000)

www.fatpossum.com

52001Not The Same Old Blues Crap II
The Fat Possum Compilation

Scott Dunbar
- Easy Rider
R.L. Burnside
- Goin' Down South
- Walkin' Blues
Jr. Kimbrough
- I Feel Good Again
- Meet Me In The City
Robert Belfour
- Black Mattie
Asie Payton
- Goin' Back To The Bridge
- Please Tell Me You Love Me
Paul Jones
- Goin' Back Home
- I'm Gonna Leave
T-Model Ford
- Sail On
King Ernest
- House Where Nobody Lives
Super Chikan
- El Camino

Fat Possum E80342-2


Additional information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Lawrence Cohn: Nothing But The Blues.- New York, London, Paris (Abbeville Press) 1993, p. 291
- Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- p. 163
- Mike Leadbitter & Neil Slaven: Blues Records 1943 to 1970 - A selective discography, Vol. one, A to K.- p. 367-369
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

source of left column picture: Back cover of Ahura Mazda AMS SDS 1

 

from notes to Folkways FA 2659; photographer: Frederic Ramsey Jr.
"Old River Lake, Mississippi" (Lake Mary)
source: notes to Folkways FA 2659; photographer: Frederic Ramsey Jr., 1954

Bill Steber page (Scott Dunbar 1994)

Scott Dunbar @ Oracle King gallery

Fat Possum newsletter 20030821

Stefan Wirz


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