Lane Hardin 78 rpm / LPs / CDs

#	year of release	title	label # / notes
10 inch 78 rpm
1	1935	Lane Hardin - California Desert Blues (L. Hardin) (91450-1)   @ youtube - Hard Time Blues (L. Hardin) (91449-1) rec. July 28, 1935 in Chicago, Ill.; Lane Hardin, voc, g	Bluebird B6242
2	194?/195?	HARDEN LANE - Cartey Blues (Lane) # - The Blues (Don Tempo) [not an instrumental track!] # rec. late 1940s/early 1950s; Lane Hardin, voc, g; unknown, sb	Pacific P-100 # Blues Images Vol. 9 (2011)
		- 13 Highway # *   @ youtube - Bluebird Blues * rec. c. 1952 prob. in Los Angeles Arkansas; "Leroy Simpson" [name invented by the record company], voc, g; Lane Hardin, g	Modern unissued # Kent KST-9004 (1969) * Ace CD 2310 (200?)
		- Keep Em Down #   @ youtube - I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You *   @ youtube rec. c. 1952 prob. in Los Angeles Atlanta; "Arkansas Johnny Todd" [name invented by the record company; actually Lane Hardin], voc, g	Modern unissued # Kent KST-9004 (1969) * Ace CDCHD 813 (2001)
LP / CD compilations
3	1969	Up And Down The Mississippi (1926-1940) Richard (Rabbit) Brown - Mystery Of The Dunbar's Child - I'm Not Jealous Roots Buddy Boy Hawkins - Jailhouse Fire Blues - Shaggy Dog Blues Bo Weavil Jackson (Sam Butler) - You Can't Keep No Brown Mae Glover & John Byrd - Pig Meat Papa Jim Thompkins - Bedside Blues Bertha Lee & Charley Patton - Mind Reader Blues Robert Lee McCoy - Friar's Point Blues Mississippi Bracey - You Scolded Me And Drove Me From Your Door - I'll Overcome Someday Will Weldon - Hitch Me To Your Buggy Little Buddy Doyle - Grief Will Kill Me - Bad In Mind Blues Lane Hardin - California Desert Blues [Bluebird B6242] Henry Townsend - Henry's Worry Blues	Roots RL-319 (Austria) Roots discography
4	1969	from front cover of Kent KST-9004 (1st release) "The names on the album were invented [by Frank Scott and Bruce Bromberg] because Joe Bihari would not issue an album with "unknown artist" listed on it." "Joe Bihari was so certain that [Leroy] Simpson were John Lee Hooker, that Hooker's name appears on the front cover [...]. The reissue team prevailed in at least giving a fictional name to the artist in the track listing on the back cover." (from Jim O'Neal's notes to Ace CD 2310) Blues From The Deep South Anthology of the Blues   Vol. 4 Kent KST-9004 / United Superior US-7781 / Musidisc 30 AB 5604 track sequence: Pinetop Slim – John Henry – Applejack Boogie – Fast Life Dixie Blues Boys – Monte Carlo – My Baby Left Town Leroy Simpson – 13 Highway [Modern; previously unissued] # Big Bill Dotson – Sitting Down Thinking – Dark Old World Arkansas Johnny Todd – Keep Em Down [Modern; previously unissued] * Johnny Harris – Miss Darlene Pinetop Slim – Poor Boy – I'm Gonna Carry On P-Vine PCD-3038 track sequence: Pinetop Slim - John Henry - Applejack Boogie - Fast Life - Poor Boy - I'm Gonna Carry On Dixie Blues Boys - Monte Carlo - My Baby Left Town Leroy Simpson - 13 Highway # Big Bill Dotson - Sittin Down Thinkin - Dark Old World Arkansas Johnny Todd - Keep Em Down * Johnny Harris - Miss Darlene Woodrow Adams - Wine Head Woman - Baby, You Just Don't Know Elmore James - Hawaiian Boogie - Please Find My Baby # rec. c. 1952 prob. in Los Angeles Arkansas; "Leroy Simpson" [name invented by the record company], voc, g; Lane Hardin, g * rec. c. 1952 prob. in Los Angeles Atlanta; "Arkansas Johnny Todd" [name invented by the record company; actually Lane Hardin], voc, g Kent KST-9004 inner gatefold	notes by Frank Scott Kent KST-9004 = United Superior US-7781 notes by Frank Scott = Musidisc 30 AB 5604 (Fr) (=) P-Vine PCD-3038 (Jp 1994) "Anthology of the Blues Vol. 3"
5	197?	Hard Time Blues - St. Louis 1933-1945 Lane Hardin - Hard Time Blues (1935) [Bluebird B6242] Aaron “Pinetop” Sparks - Workhouse Blues (1935) Mary Harris - Happy New Year Blues (1935) Roosevelt Sykes - Drunken Gambler (1937) Henry Townsend - Don’t Love That Woman (1934) Charly Jordan - Tight Time Blues (1934) Walter Davis - Just Thinking (1940) Blind Teddy Darby - Pitty Pat Blues (1933) Peetie Wheatstraw - Third Streets Going Down (1937) Alice Moore - Blue Black and Evil Blues (1935) Charlie McFadden - Times Are So Tight (1933) Leroy Henderson - Good Scuffler Blues (1935) Milton Sparks - Grinder Blues (1935) Lane Hardin - California Desert Blues (1935) [Bluebird B6242]	notes by Michael Stewart and Don Kent Mamlish S-3806 Mamlish discography
6	1987	Mississippi Blues 1927-1937 Mose Andrews - Ten Pound Hammer - Young Heifer Blues Lane Hardin - Hard Time Blues [Bluebird B6242] - California Desert Blues [Bluebird B6242] Robert Johnson - Me And The Devil Blues (DAL-398-1) - Milkcow's Calf Blues (DAL-403-2) Louie Lasky - How You Want Your Rollin' Done - Teasin' Brown Blues - Caroline Uncle Bud Walker - Look Here Mama Blues - Stand Up Suitcase Blues Big Joe Williams - Little Leg Woman - My Grey Pony Sam Collins - The Jail House Blues - Dark Cloudy Blues - Pork Chop Blues - Lonesome Road Blues (I'm Going Down That Lonesome Road) - Signifying Blues - My Road Is Rough And Rocky (Toenail Flang Dang)	HK 4001 (Austria)
7	1990?	The Greatest in Country Blues   (1927-1956) LP 1 - High Water Everywhere - Charlie Patton - See That My Grave Is Kepy Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Cotton Field Blues Part 2 - Garfield Akers - James Alley Blues - Richard "Rabbit" Brown - Had A Good Father And Mother - Washington Phillips - Travelin' Blues - Blind Willie McTell - Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson - Minglewood Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers - Nappy Head Blues - Bobby Grant - Third Street Woman Blues - Blind Willie Reynolds - My Black Momma Part I - Son House - Bull-Doze Blues - Henry Thomas - Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground - Blind Willie Johnson - Trouble Hearted Blues - Ishman Bracey - Honey In The Rock - Blind Mamie Forehand - Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt - Man Trouble Blues - Jaybird Coleman - How Long - Frank Stokes - Future Blues - Willie Brown - Voice Throwin' Blues - Walter "Buddy Boy" Hawkins LP 2 - Devil Got The Woman - Skip James - When That Great Ship Went Down - William And Versey Smith - The Jail House Blues - Sam Collins - Touch Me Light Momma - George "Bullet" Williams - Mothers Love - Blind Joe Taggart - Skin Man Blues - "Hi" Henry Brown - Lost Lover Blues - Lottie Kimbrough - Levee Camp Moan Blues - Texas Alexander - K.C. Moan - Memphis Jug Band - Paddlin' Madeline Blues - Gitfiddle Jim - Preachin' Blues - Robert Johnson - Billy Lyons And Stack O'Lee - Furry Lewis - Fryin' Pan Skillet Blues - Bessie Tucker - Dallas Rag - Dallas String Band - Crazy Cryin' Blues - Memphis Minnie - Woke Up This Morning - Roosevelt Graves - That's No Way To Get Along - Robert Wilkins - McAbee Railroad Piece - Palmer McAbee - The Gone Dead Train - King Soloman Hill - Hastings St. - Blind Blake And Charlie Spand LP 3 - Shorty George - Smith Casey - Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down - Bozie Sturdivant - I Be's Troubled - Muddy Waters - How You Want It Done? - Big Bill Broonzy - She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day - The Georgia Cotton Pickers - Sic 'Em Dogs On - Bukka White - California Desert Blues - Lane Hardin - Lonesome Day Blues - Jesse James - Moanin' The Blues - Allen Shaw - Midnight Hour Blues - Leroy Carr - Jack O'Diamonds - Pete Harris - Dust My Broom - Elmore James - Rowdy Blues - Kid Bailey - Rollin' And Tumblin' - Baby Face Leroy - Penitentiary Blues (Pt. 1 & 2) - Smokey Hogg - Baby How Long - Dan Pickett - Mighty Long Time - Sonny Boy Williamson - River Blues (Pt. 2) - Lowell Fulson - Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins compiled by Johnny Parth	3 LP set 20 page booklet notes by Paul Oliver RST Blues Documents BD-1 (Austria) 3 CD set = Story Of Blues/Da Music (1992) 3 CD set = 1201 Music (1999)
8	1991	Backwoods Blues (1926-1935) The Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order of Sam Butler, Bobby Grant, King Solomon Hill, Lane Hardin Sam Butler (Bo Weavil Jackson) - Pistol Blues - Some Scream High Yellow - You Can't Keep No Brown - When The Saints Come Marching Home - I'm On My Way To The Kingdom Land - Why Do You Moan? - Devil And My Brown Blues - Poor Boy Blues - Jefferson County Blues - Jefferson County Blues (alt. tk.) - You Can't Keep No Brown - Christians Fight On, Your Time Ain't Long - Heaven Is My View Bobby Grant - Nappy Head Blues - Lonesome Atlanta Blues King Solomon Hill - Whoopee Blues (tk. 1) - Whoopee Blues (tk. 2) - Down On My Bended Knee (tk. 1) - Down On My Bended Knee (tk. 2) - The Gone Dead Train - Tell Me Baby Lane Hardin - Hard Time Blues [Bluebird B6242] - California Desert Blues [Bluebird B6242]	notes by Paul Oliver Document DOCD-5036
9	1998	Hard Times Come Again No More   Vol. 1 Rural Songs of Hard Times and Hardships Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s The Bentley Boys - Down On Penny's Farm Blind Alfred Reed - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live Lane Hardin - Hard Time Blues [Bluebird B6242] Ernest Stoneman - All I Got's Gone Slim Smith - Bread Line Blues Alec Johnson - Miss Meal Cramp Blues Kelly Harrell - My Name Is John Johanna Dave McCarn - Serves 'em Fine J.D. Short - It's Hard Time Uncle Dave Macon - All In Down And Out Rutherford & Foster - Richmond Blues Elder Curry & His Congregation - Hard Times Cofer Brothers - Beorgia Hobo1 Blind Lemon Jefferson - One Dime Blues Fiddlin' John Carson - Dixie Boll Weevil Chubby Parker - See The Black Clouds A'Breakin' Over Yonder Scrapper Blackwell - Down And Out Blues Edward L. Crain - Starving To Death On A Government Claim Barbecue Bob - We Sure Got Hard Times Samantha Bumgarner - Georgia Blues Mississippi John Hurt - Blue Harvest Blues Dixon Brothers - Weaver's Life Graham Brothers - Hard Times Come Again No More	Yazoo CD 2036
10	2001	The Traveling Record Man Historic Down South Recording Trips Of Joe Bihari & Ike Turner - Blue Serenade - Baby Face Turner - My Sweet Woman - Driftin' Slim - No Ridin' Blues - Charlie Booker - Numbered Days (previously unreleased) - Big Charlie Bradix - Riding In The Moonlight - Howlin' Wolf - I'm Gonna Find Your Trick - Smokey Hogg - Baby Please Don't Go - Pinetop Slim - Cairo Blues - Lil' Son Jackson - Good Morning Little Angel - Joe Hill Louis - Tiny's Down Home - Tiny Webb - Tomorrow I May Be Gone - Jesse Thomas - Please Send My Baby Back Home aka Step Back Baby - Sunny Blair - If I Lose You Woman - Alexander Moore - My Little Machine - Driftin' Slim - My Baby's Gone - Elmore James - Rock House - Calvin Frazier - She Broke Up My Life (She Got Me Walking) - Joe Hill Louis - Keep Away From Me Baby - Joe Hill Louis - Lonesome Bedroom Blues - Willie Nix - Talking Boogie - Lil' Son Jackson - Long Tall Woman - Elmore James - I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You - "Arkansas Johnny Todd" [Modern; previously unissued] - Ramblin' On My Mind - Boyd Gilmore	Ace CDCHD 813 www.acerecords.co.uk
10a	2003	Poor Man's Heaven When The Sun Goes Down Vol. 6 'The Secret History of Rock & Roll' series - Eddie Cantor's Tips On The Stock Market - Eddie Cantor - A Tale Of The Ticker - Frank Crumit - Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? - Leo Reisman - Remember My Forgotten Man - George Hall Gold Diggers - It Must Be Swell To Be Laying Out Dead - Alex Bartha - Raisin' The Rent - Roy Bargy - Sittin' On A Rubbish Can - Julia Gerity - Ten Cents A Dance - High Hatters Simple Simon - Poor Man's Heaven - Bud Billings - The Rich Man And The Poor Man - Bobby Miller - Hallelujah, I'm A Bum - Harry McClintock - All In, Down And Out Blues - Uncle Dave Macon - Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Them All - Fiddlin' John Carson - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? - Blind Alfred Reed - The Farmer Relief Song - Vernon Dalhart - Dusty Old Dust (So Long It's Been Good To Know Yuh) - Woody Guthrie - 35 Depression - Daddy Stovepipe - California Desert Blues - Lane Hardin [Bluebird B6242] - It's Hard Time - Joe Stone - President Roosevelt Is Everybody's Friend - Reverend J.M. Gates - C.W.A. Blues - Joe Pullum [Bluebird B5534] - Jimmy Shut His Store Doors - Cedar Creek Sheik - Welfare Store Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson [II] - Poor But Ambitious - Wilmoth Houdini	RCA/BMG 82876-50958-2
11	2005	The Modern Down Home Blues Sessions Vol. 4 Southern Country Blues Guitarists 1948-1952 Alexander Moore with Smokey Hogg - Neglected Woman - Carolina - Lillie Mae Boogie - If I Lose You Woman Jesse Thomas - Meet Me Tonight Along The Avenue - Gonna Write You A Letter Pine Top Slim and His Guitar - Applejack Boogie - I'm Gonna Carry On - John Henry - Baby Please Don't Go Leroy Simpson with Lane Hardin - 13 Highway [Kent KST 9004] - Bluebird Blues [Modern; previously unissued] Lane Hardin aka Arkansas Johnny Todd - Keep Em Down [Kent KST 9004] - I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You [Ace CDCHD 813] Big Bill Dotson - Dark Old World - Thinking Life Over aka Sittin' Down Thinkin' Pine Top Slim and His Guitar - Fast Life - Mean Old Frisco - Poor Boy - Applejack Boogie Little Son Jackson - Milford Blues - Talkin' Boogie Jesse Thomas - Night Time Anytime aka Tomorrow I May Be Gone - Texas Blues Big Charley Bradix - Numbered Days - Wee Wee Hours - Dollar Diggin' Woman Boogie - Like You Wanna	notes by Jim O'Neal Ace CDCHD 1057
12	2011	Classic Blues Artwork from the 1920s Volume 9 2012 Calendar with free CD CD and Calendar contents: - Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here, Version 1 - Tampa Red and Georgia Tom - Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here, Version 2 - Tampa Red and His Hokum Jug Band with Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxson (voc) - Big Chief Blues - Furry Lewis - Jinx Blues - Ora Brown - Jesus Is A Dying Bed Maker - Charley Patton - Rope Stretchin' Blues - Parts I & II - Blind Blake - Fence Breakin' Yellin' Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Fogyism - Ida Cox - Come On In (Ain't Nobody Here) - The Harum Scarums - Evil Woman Spell - Charley Spand - Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues - Teddy Darby - Papa Don't Tear Your Pants - Papa Charlie Jackson - In That Pearly White City Above - Blind Joel Taggart Supplementary CD tracks: - Precious Lord - Blind Joel Taggart - Little Black Train - Blind Joel Taggart - Hard Time Blues - Lane Hardin [Bluebird B6242] - California Desert Blues - Lane Hardin [Bluebird B6242] - Cartey Blues - Lane Hardin [Pacific P-100] - Mr. Postman Blues - Jenny Pope - Rent Man Blues - Jenny Pope	Blues Images Vol. 9 (2011) Blues Images
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. 350
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver 2006, p. 192, 487
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, p. 411
- Tony Russell: Searching The Desert For The Blues - Locating Lane Hardin.- Blues & Rhythm No. 261 (August 2011), pp. 21-25
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

¹⁾ following the research results of Tony Russell (Blues & Rhythm No. 261 (August 2011), pp. 21-25)

source of left column picture: Blues & Rhythm No. 261 (August 2011), p. 24 ("Photos courtesy of Joel Slotnikoff")

thanks to Tony Russell for additional info