'Guitar Frank' Hovington LPs / CDs

#	year of release	title	label # / notes
1	1976	Frank Hovington: Lonesome Road Blues - Mean Old Frisco - Gone With The Wind - Lonesome Road Blues - 90 Going North - Got No Lovin' Baby Now - C.C. Blues - Sing Sing Blues - Who's Been Foolin' You - I'm Talking 'Bout You - John Henry - Where Could I Go But To The Lord - Blood Red River rec. July 1975 by Bruce Bastin and Dick Spottswood Bruce Bastin's Flyright FLYLP 522 gatefold notes (march 1976)	Flyright FLYLP 522 (UK) = Rounder 2017 (US 1979) Flyright FLYCD 66 Flyright discography
2	1977	Songs Of Migration And Immigration Folk music in America Vol. 6 - Steamboat Whistle Blues - Roy Acuff - Marching To Utah - Rose Thompson - Railroad Bill - Frank Hovington # - The Moore Girl - A. and J. Baxter - Jim Crow Blues - Cow Cow Davenport - Rambling Lover - Dick Reinhart - Down In The Bottom - Gabriel Brown - Dear Okie - Doye O'Dell - Zrobil Góral Krzyz Na Czole - Zespól Gírali Giewont - Barney McCoy - Uncle Alec Dunford and Fields Ward - Emigrantsvisa - Otto Magnusson - Hay Nazanem Yarer - Reuben J. Baboyan - Dzieci w Krateczki - Wladyslaw Polak - Poor But Ambitious - The Bamboo Orchestra, featuring Wilmoth Houdini - O Gero Amerikanos - D. Perdicopoulos - Pesni o Dovbushe - Artistic Village Troup ed. by Richard K. Spottswood	Library of Congress LBC 6 more info # Flyright FLYCD 66
3	1978	Songs Of Childhood Folk Music in America Vol. 13 - I Am Just What I Am - Homer Brierhopper - Jimmy Jenkins - George and Ethel McCoy - The Coon And The Bear - George and Ethel McCoy - Rocky Bye Baby - George and Ethel McCoy - Dr. Ginger Blue - Arthur Tanner & His Corn Shuckers - The Old Grey Goose - Carolina Tar Heels - Sardines, Pork And Beans - Jennie Johnson and group - Tra-Le-La-La - Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers - Papier d'Épingles - Edius Nacquin - The Dirty Dozen - Speckled Red - Circus Parade - Mustard and Gravy - Don't The Moon Look Pretty - Curtis Harton and Group - Les Haricots Sont Pas Salés - unknown singers - Three Men Went A-Hunting - Byrd Moore and His Hot Shots - Two Papago Songs - Juanita Xavier - Rip Van Winkle Blues - Uncle Bud Landress - Poor Little Bennie - Bela Lam and His Greene County Singers - At the First Fall Of Snow - Molly O'Day and the Cumberland Mountain Folks - The Two Little Orphans - Ernest Stoneman and the Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers - Old Blue - Frank Hovington ed. by Richard K. Spottswood and Rick Ulman	Library of Congress LBC 13 more info Flyright FLYCD 66
4	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 rec. 1980 by Siegfried Christmann and Axel Küstner	DLP notes by Axel Küstner L + R 42030 some tracks reissued on CD Evidence ECD 26105-2 (1999) Living Country Blues - An Anthology 2 CD set = L+R LRCD 711921 (2008) www.zweitausendeins.de L + R Records discography
5	1982	Living Country Blues USA Vol. 8 Lonesome Home Blues Guitar Slim - Jazz Boogie Guitar Frank - Fly Right Baby Guitar Slim - Lookout Blues - I'm Feelin' Lonesome Guitar Frank - Chimney Hill Breakdown - Railroad Bill Guitar Frank - Jelly Roll Baker - Freight Train Guitar Slim - Lonesome Home Blues Guitar Frank - Diggin' My Potatoes Guitar Slim - Bad Luck Blues - Got To Find Me A Woman Guitar Frank rec. October 11, 1980 in Frederica, Del. Guitar Slim rec. October 13, 1980 in Greensboro, N.C. by Siegfried Christmann and Axel Küstner	notes by Axel Küstner L + R 42.038 some tracks reissued on CD Evidence ECD 26105-2 (1999) Living Country Blues - An Anthology = L+R LRCD 712423 (2008) www.zweitausendeins.de L + R Records discography
6	1982	Living Country Blues USA Vol. 11 Country Gospel Roots Boyd Rivers - You Gonna Take Sick And Die - When The World Seems Cold - Jesus On The Mainline - I'm Wrapped Up - O Lord I Wanna Be Your Child - Precious Lord Guitar Frank - Go Down Moses Cora Fluker - The World, She's Winding Up - Yonder Comes Jesus Walter Brown - Mother Bowed Guitar Slim - What A Friend We Have In Jesus Othar Turner - Whe I Lay My Burden Down Flora Molton - When The War Is Over rec. 1980 by Siegfried Christmann and Axel Küstner	L + R 42.041 = L+R LRCD 712126 (2008) www.zweitausendeins.de L + R Records discography
7	1982	Living Country Blues USA Vol. 12 East Coast Blues Bowling Green John Cephas - Reno Factory Guitar Slim - Lula's Back In Town Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins - Louise Archie Edwards - Three Times Seven Guitar Frank - 90 Goin' North Archie Edwards - Everybody's Blues Guitar Frank - Trouble In Mind Archie Edwards - East Virginia John Henry - Sittin' On Top Of The World Guitar Slim - Won't You Spread Some Flowers On My Grave Guitar Frank - Mama Don't Allow - Key To The Highway rec. 1980 by Siegfried Christmann and Axel Küstner	L + R 42042 = L+R LRCD 712027 (2008) www.zweitausendeins.de L + R Records discography
8	1995	Deep Blue 25 Years of Blues on Rounder Record disc 1 - Mr. Bell's Shuffle - Robert Nighthawk and His Flames of Rhythm - Jealous Hearted Woman - J.B. Hutto - Left Me With A Broken Heart - Jimmy Rogers with Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters - Mean Old Frisco - Frank Hovington - Blues with a Feeling - Booker T. Laury - Lonesome Whistle - Robert Jr. Lockwood & Johnny Shines - Ain't Treating Me Right - Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson - I Feel So Good - Tracy Nelson - Peace And Happiness - Ted Hawkins - Up Above My Head - The Holmes Brothers Sometimes I Slip - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Full Court Press - Magic Dick & Jay Geils - Since You Been Gone - Rory Block - 501 Boogie - Professor Longhair - Give Me Flowers While I'm Livin' - Champion Jack Dupree disc 2 - Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen - Charles Brown - Texas Flood - Roomful Of Blues - Green Light - Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters - Help The Poor - Larry Davis with the Memphis Horns - Gimme A Break - Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom - My Jug And I - The Persuasions - Red Beans - Marcia Ball - You're My Brand - The Smokin' Joe Kubek Band featuring Bnois King - Full Time Lover - Ann Peebles - I Wanna Do It To You baby - Smokey Wilson - You Got What It Takes - Michelle Willson with Sugar Ray Norcia - Tomorrow - Jimmy McCracklin & Irma Thomas - Beale St. Boogaloo - Preston Shannon - What A Way To Go - Johnny Nocturne Band - Love Is The Bottom Line - Lowell Fulson	2 CD set Rounder CDROUNAN20 www.rounder.com
9	1995	The Real Music Box Rounder Records 25th Anniversary disc 5: - Mr. Bell's Shuffle - Robert Nighthawk - Jealous Hearted Woman - J.B. Hutto - Left Me With A Broken Heart - Jimmy Rogers/Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters - Mean Old Frisco - Frank Hovington - Blues With A Feeling - Booker T. Laury - Lonesome Whistle - Johnny Shines/Robert Lockwood Jr. - Ain't Treating Me Right - Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson - I Feel So Good - Tracy Nelson - Peace And Happiness - Ted Hawkins - Up Above My Head - The Holmes Brothers - Sometimes I Slip - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Full Court Press - Bluestime - Since You Been Gone - Rory Block - 501 Boogie - Professor Longhair - Give Me The Flowers While I'm Livin' - Champion Jack Dupree	9 CD set Rounder CDROUNAN25
10	1997	Country Blues Guitar - Done Left Here - Mississippi Fred McDowell - Walkin' Blues - Rory Block - Honeymoon Blues - John Hammond & The Nighthawks - Blues For Tampa Red - Paul Rishell - Broke Down Engine - Paul Geremia - Going To The River - Johnny Shines - Mean Old Frisco - Frank Hovington - Long Tall Mama - David Bromberg - John Henry - Kristina Olsen - Reno Factory - "Bowling Green" John Cephas - Mississippi Blues - Roy Book Binder - One-Dime Blues - Etta Baker	Easydisc CD 7051
11	1999	Living Country Blues: An Anthology disc 1:   Mississippi Moan - Catfish Blues - James Thomas - Bye Bye Blues - Arzo Youngblood - Gonna Cut You Loose - Eddie Cusic - You Gonna Take Sick And Die - Boyd Rivers - Maggie Campbell Blues - Bill Webb - Sittin' on Top Of The World - Sam Chatmon - Move Daniel - Cora Fluker - My Babe - Othar Turner - Boogie Chillen - Lonnie Pitchford - Bull Cow Blues - James Thomas - Stop And Listen Blues - Sam Chatmon - Swing, Swing - Arzo Youngblood - Jazz Boogie Woogie - Stonewall Mays - Jesus On The Mainline - Boyd Rivers - Shake Your Money Makeer - Lonnie Pitchford - Rock Me Mama - James Thomas / Cleveland Jones - Big Road Blues - Bill Webb - My Daddy Was A Jockey - Sam Chatmon - That's The Boogie - Napoleon Strickland - Vicksburg Blues - Sam Chatmon - Mississippi Moan - Walter Brown - When I Lay Down My Burden - Othar Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band disc 2:   Lonesome Road Blues (East Coast) - Lonesome Road Blues - Guitar Frank - Baby Please Give Me A Break - Archie Edwards - Road Is Rough And Rocky - Archie Edwards - Come On In My Kitchen - Guitar Slim - Bye And Bye, I'm Going To See The King - Flora Molton & The Truth Band - Chimney Hill Breakdown - Guitar Frank - Railroad Bill - Guitar Frank - Chicken Can't Roost Too High For Me - John Cephas - Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad - John Cephas, / Phil Wiggins - Do Lord Remember Me - Archie Edwards - Jelly Roll Baker - Guitar Frank - I'm Feelin' Lonesome - Guitar Slim - My Old Schoolmates - Archie Edwards - Lonesome Home Blues - Guitar Slim - T For Texas - Archie Edwards - Diggin' My Potatoes - Guitar Frank disc 3:   You Got To Move (Tennessee, Arkansas & More) - Vacation In Heaven - Flora Molton & The Truth Band - Granny, Will Your Dog Bite? - Othar Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band - I Laid And I Wondered - James Thomas / Cleveland Jones - I Can't Stand It - Flora Molton & The Truth Band - Mr. Freddie Blues - Memphis Piano Red - Corine, Corrina - Hammie Nixon - Rollin' And Tumblin' - Lottie Murrell - She's Tailor Made - Charlie Sangster - Hounds - Sam Shields - You Got To Move - Boyd Rivers - Let Me Play With Your Poodle - CeDell Davis - Viola Lee Blues - Hammie NIxon - Joe's Prison Camp Holler - Joe Savage - When The Saints Go Marchin' In - Othar Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band - Spoonful - Lottie Murrell, - You Got To Do The Boogie Woogie - CeDell Davis - Trouble Late Last Night - Lottie Murrell - Dry Bones In The Valley - Cora Fluker - I Got a Gal 'Cross The Bottom - Lottie Murrell - Soon One Mornin' - Hammie Nixon - Levee Camp Holler - Walter Brown - Precious Lord - Boyd Rivers	3 CD set Evidence ECD 26105-2 with 48 page booklet by Brett Bonner and Axel Küstner photos by Axel Küstner Guitar Frank profile by Brett Bonner
12	2000	Frank Hovington: Gone With The Wind - Gone With The Wind * - Lonesome Road Blues * - Digging My Potatoes / Who's Been Fooling You + - 90 Going North * - Nobody's Darling But Mine + - Got No Lovin' Baby Now * - John Henry * - Mean Old Frisco * - Railroad Bill # - Trouble In Mind + - Where Could I Go But To The Lord * - This Heart Of Mine + - Blood Red River * - Sing Sing Blues * - I'm Talking 'Bout You * - C.C. Blues * - You Rascal You + - Old Blue # - Who's Been Foolin' You * * from Flyright FLYLP 522 # from Library of Congress LBC 6 and LBC 13 + previously unissued brochure contains Bruce Bastin's march 1976 notes	2000 notes by Dick Spottswood 2000 notes by Bruce Bastin Flyright FLYCD 66 www.interstate-music.co.uk review by John Miller

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Bruce Bastin: Red River Blues - The Blues Tradition in the Southeast.- Chicago (University of Illinois Press) 1986, p. 311-312
- Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- p. 250
- "Frank Hovington".- Living Blues 53 (1982), p. 48
- "Frank Hovington: Lonesome Road Blues".- Sing Out! 28 (1980), no. 6, p.22-23
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

source of left column photo: cover of Flyright FLYCD 66; photographer: Bengt Olsson

"The nearest small town to the Hovington home (and its postal address) was Felton
but Frank always spoke of his family as living in the Frederica community"
(from Bruce Bastin's 2000 notes to Flyright FLYCD 66).

Frank Hovington, voc, g; -1 guitar solo		Frederica, Del. (at Frank Hovington's home near Felton), July 5, 1975
	- Gone With The Wind	Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66
	- Lonesome Road Blues	Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66
	- Digging My Potatoes / Who's Been Fooling You	Flyright CD 66
	- 90 Going North -1	Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66
	- Nobody's Darling But Mine	Flyright CD 66
	- Got No Lovin' Baby Now	Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66
	- John Henry	Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66
	- Mean Old Frisco	Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66, Rounder ROUNAN20, Rounder ROUNAN25, Easydisc 7051
	- Railroad Bill	LoC LBC 6,   Flyright CD 66
	- Trouble In Mind	Flyright CD 66
	- Where Could I Go But To The Lord	Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66
	- This Heart Of Mine	Flyright CD 66
Frank Hovington, voc, g; -1 banjo solo, -2 voc, banjo		Frederica, Del. (at Frank Hovington's home near Felton), July 6 1975
	- Blood Red River	Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66
	- Sing Sing Blues	Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66
	- I'm Talking 'Bout You	Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66
	- C.C. Blues -1	Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66
	- You Rascal You -2	Flyright CD 66
	- Old Blue	LoC LBC 13, Flyright CD 66
	- Who's Been Foolin' You	Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66
Frank Hovington, voc, g; -1 guitar solo		Frederica, Del. (on the front porch of his mother's home), October 11, 1980
	- Lonesome Road Blues	L+R 42.030, Evidence 26105-2, L+R LRCD 711921
	- Fly Right Baby	L+R 42.038,L+R LRCD 712423
	- Chimney Hill Breakdown -1	L+R 42.038, Evidence 26105-2, L+R LRCD 712423
	- Railroad Bill	L+R 42.038, Evidence 26105-2, L+R LRCD 712423
	- Jelly Roll Baker	L+R 42.038, Evidence 26105-2, L+R LRCD 712423
	- Freight Train	L+R 42.038,L+R LRCD 712423
	- Diggin' My Potatoes	L+R 42.038, Evidence 26105-2, L+R LRCD 712423
	- Go Down Moses	L+R 42.041,L+R LRCD 712126
	- 90 Goin' North -1	L+R 42.042,L+R LRCD 712027
	- Trouble In Mind	L+R 42.042,L+R LRCD 712027
	- Mama Don't Allow	L+R 42.042,L+R LRCD 712027
	- Key To The Highway	L+R 42.042,L+R LRCD 712027