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Long Cleve Reed, Little Harvey Hull & Sunny Wilson
in a Black Patti advertisement published May 21, 1927
source: http://stephan-koenig-the-beatles.skynetblogs.be/archive/2010/03/05/
supposedly lifted from 78 Quarterly
A photo of these artists underlying the drawing on the left
is known to exist, but not yet published !!!

 

Long "Cleve" Reed
& Little Harvey Hull

Long "Cleve" Reed
date and location of birth unknown
date and location of death unknown

Little Harvey Hull a/k/a Papa Harvey Hull
b. August 5, 1887 (1989?) in the Zilpha Township, Attala County, Mississippi
date and location of death unknown

discography


Black Patti advertisement
published May 21, 1927
source: Oliver 1984, p. 76

#year
of release
title / label / notes

10 inch 78 rpm
11927 

Black Patti 8001
Long "Cleve" Reed & Little Harvey Hull (The Down Home Boys)
- Hey! Lawdy Mama—The France Blues (12690- ) #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Two Little Tommies Blues (12691- ) *   @ Spotify

Gennett 6106
Sunny Boy & His Pals
- France Blues # [Black Patti 8001]
- Don't You Leave Me Here * [Black Patti 8002]

rec. c. April 3, 1927 in Chicago, IL; Harvey Hull, voc; Long 'Cleve' Reed, voc, g; Sunny Wilson, g

 
Black Patti 8001


(=) Gennett 6106

# = Champion 15264
* = Champion 15283

21927 

Black Patti 8002
Long "Cleve" Reed & Little Harvey Hull (The Down Home Boys)
- Gang Of Brown Skin Women (12689- ) #   @ Spotify
- Don't You Leave Me Here (12692) *   @ youtube   @ Spotify

Gennett 6122
Daddy Moon Hayes and His Boys
- Two Little Tommie [sic] Blues [Black Patti 8001]
- Gang Of Brown Skin Women # [Black Patti 8002]

rec. c. April 3, 1927 in Chicago, Ill.; Harvey Hull, voc; Long 'Cleve' Reed, # hummin, * sp, g; Sunny Wilson, g

 
Black Patti 8002


(=) Gennett 6122

* = Champion 15283

31927

Long Cleve Reed and Little Harvey Hull-Down Home Boys

- Mama You Don't Know How   @ Spotify
- Original Stack O'Lee Blues #   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. c. May 1927 in Chicago, Ill.; Harvey Hull, voc; Long 'Cleve' Reed, # voc, g; unknown, g

only one known copy in the possession of Joe Bussard - more info


Black Patti 8030

41927 

Blind Richard Yates
- I'm Gonna Moan My Blues Away (GEX-577-A) *

Original Louisiana Entertainers
- France Blues # [Black Patti 8001, Gennett 6106]

* rec. c. April 9, 1927 in New York City; Blind Richard Yates, voc, kazoo; Louis Hooper, p


Champion 15264

51927 

Daddy Moon Hayes and His Boys
- Two Little Tommies Blues [Black Patti 8001, Gennett 6122]
Sunny Boy & His Pals
- Don't You Leave Me Here [Black Patti 8002, Gennett 6122]


Champion 15283


LP / CD compilations
61962Really! The Country Blues 1927-1933@ youtube (full album)

Tommy Johnson
- Maggie Campbell Blues
William Moore
- Old Country Rock
Son House
- My Black Mama, Parts 1 and 2

Sunny Boy and His Pals
- France Blues
Skip James
- Devil Got My Woman
Ishman Bracey
- Woman Woman Blues

Sam Collins
- The Jail House Blues
George 'Bullet' Williams
- Touch Me Light Mama
Henry Sims
- Tell Me Man Blues
Buster Johnson
- Undertaker Blues
Henry Thomas
- Don't Ease Me In
Garfield Akers
- Cottonfield Blues, Parts 1 and 2

Rory Block: "Stefan [Grossman] gave me a record called 'Really The Country Blues' and that was the beginning of my love affair with the music".

insert brochure notes by Gayle Dean Wardlow

Origin Jazz Library OJL 2 (US 1962, 1st ed.)

notes by Bill Givens and Pete Whelan
 
= Origin Jazz Library OJL 2

notes by Bill Givens and Pete Whelan
   
= Origin Jazz Library OJL 2

notes by Bill Givens and Pete Whelan

= Origin Jazz Library OJL 2

notes by Bill Givens and Pete Whelan on three stapled A4 copy sheets

= Origin Jazz Library OJL 2

= Soundmark 48172 (2011, download only)

OJL Records discography

71965Country Blues Encores 1927-1935

Ishman Bracey
- Saturday Blues
Blind Joe Reynolds
- Outside Woman Blues
Tommy Johnson
- Cool Drink Of Water Blues
Henry Sims
- Farrell Blues
Rube Lacey
- Mississippi Jailhouse Groan
Jaybird Coleman
- Man Trouble Blues
John Byrd
- Old Timbrook Blues
Skip James
- I'm So Glad

Red Hot Old Man Mose
- Molly Man
Garfield Akers
- Jumpin And Shoutin Blues
Charlie Jordan
- Keep It Clean
Bill Wilber
- My Babe, My Babe
The Mississippi Moaner
- It's Cold In China Blues
Big Bill and Thomps
- House Rent Stomp

Sunny Boy and His Pals
- Don't You Leave Me Here
Bill Moore
- One Way Gal

notes by Gayle Dean Wardlow

Origin Jazz Library OJL 8

OJL Records discography

81967Mississippi Blues 1927 - 1941

Harvey Hull - Gang Of Brownskin Women
Henry Sims - Be True, Be True Blues
William Harris - I'm Leavin' Town
Skip James - Special Rider Blues
Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues
Charley Patton - Hang It On The Wall
Geechie Wiley - Eagles On A Half

Mattie Delaney - Tallahatchie River Blues
John Byrd - Billy Goat Blues
Charley Patton - Mean Black Moan
Charley Patton - Pea Vine Blues
Bobby Grant - Nappy Head Blues
Son House - Delta Blues
Robert Johnson - Dead Shrimp Blues


cover art: Michael Gruener, Nick Perls

notes by Bradley Sweet [= Stephen Calt]   390 East 8th St

Belzona L-1001 (US 1967)

there were specimen with "Belzona" covers and "Yazoo" labels sold!
Belzona' covers and 'Yazoo' labels; click to enlarge!

notes by Bradley Sweet [= Stephen Calt]   390 East 8th St

= Yazoo L-1001 (US 1968)

notes by Bradley Sweet [= Stephen Calt]   54 King St

= Yazoo L-1001 (US 196?)

notes by Bradley Sweet [= Stephen Calt]   245 Waverly Place

= Yazoo L-1001 (US 196?)

notes by Bradley Sweet [= Stephen Calt]   37 E. Clinton St, Newton, NJ

= Yazoo 1001HLP (US 2011) [180g reissue LP]

Yazoo Records discography

91968Mississippi Moaners 1927-1942

Mississippi John Hurt - Big Leg Blues
Washington White - The New 'Frisco Train
Mattie Delaney - Down The Big Road Blues
Rube Lacey - Ham Hound Crave
Skip James - Cherry Ball Blues
Uncle Bud Walker - Stand Up Suitcase Blues
Charley Patton - Devil Sent The Rain Blues

Son House - Special Rider Blues
Bobby Grant - Lonesome Atlanta Blues
Mae Glover - Gas Man Blues

Papa Harvey Hull - Two Little Tommies Blues
Joe Calicot [sic] - Traveling Mama Blues [Brunswick 7166]
The Mississippi Moaner - Mississippi Moan
Blind Willie Reynolds - Married Man Blues


notes by Brad Sweet (= Stephen Calt)   "Yazoo Records, 390 East 8th Street, New York, N.Y. 10009"

Yazoo L 1009 (US 1968)     original press, cover font and small / large Yazoo logo in red; black labels

notes by Steve Calt   "Yazoo Records, 54 King Street – New York, N.Y. 10014"

Yazoo L 1009 (US 1971 ff.)     cover font and large Yazoo logo in orange; black and red labels

notes by Steve Calt   "Yazoo Records, 54 King Street – New York, N.Y. 10014"

= Yazoo L 1009 (US 19??)     cover font and small Yazoo logo in blue; black labels

notes by Steve Calt     "Yazoo Records, 245 Waverly Place, New York, N.Y. 10014"

= Yazoo L 1009 (US 19??)     cover font and small Yazoo logo in orange; peacock labels, catalog # on labels printed to the left

notes by Steve Calt   "Yazoo Records, P.O Box 810, Newton, New Jersey 07860"

= Yazoo/Shanachie L 1009 (US early 1990s)     cover font and small Yazoo logo in blue; peacock labels, catalog # on labels printed to the right

notes by Steve Calt

= Yazoo L 1009 (US 1991)

notes by Stephen Calt

= Yazoo CD 1009 (US 1991)

Yazoo Records discography
Mississippi John Hurt discography
Bukka White discography
Mattie Delaney discography
Rube Lacey discography
Skip James discography
Charley Patton discography
Son House discography
Mississippi Joe Callicott discography
Blind Willie Reynolds discography

101972Bukka White sings Sic 'em Dogs on Me   1927 to 1939

Elizabeth Johnson
- Be My Kid Blues (1928)
- Sobbin' Woman Blues (1928)
Mae Glover
- I Ain't Givin' Nobody None (1929)
Washington (Barrelhouse) White
- Po' Boy (1939)
- Sic 'Em Dogs On Me (1939)
Ishman Bracey
- Suitcase Full Of Blues (1930)
Rosie Mae Moore
- Ha Ha Blues (1928)
De Ford Bailey
- John Henry Blues (1928)
D.H. Bilbro
- Chester Blues (1931)

Louie Lasky
- How You Want Your Rollin' Done (1935)
- Teasin' Brown Blues (1935)
Willie Baker
- Weak Minded Blues (1929)
- Rag Baby (1929)

Long "Cleve" Reed & The Downhome Boys
- Mama You Don't Know How (1927)
- Original Stack O'Lee Blues (1927)
Mississipi John Hurt
- Stack O'Lee Blues (1928)
Furry Lewis
- John Henry Blues-Part 1 (1929)
Charley Patton
- Heart Like Railroad Steel (1929)


notes by Bernard Klatzko

Herwin H 201

Herwin Records discography

111972Deep South Country Blues

William Harris
- Bull Frog Blues
William Moore
- Old Country Rock
Son House
- My Black Mama part I
- My Black Mama part II

Sunny Boy & His Pals (Papa Harvey Hull & Long Cleve Reed)
- The France Blues
Kid Bailey
- Mississippi Bottom Blues
- Rowdy Blues

Willie Brown
- Future Blues
- M & O Blues
George "Bullet" Williams
- Touch Me Light Mama
Henry Sims
- Tell Me Man Blues
Buster Johnson
- Undertaker Blues
Garfield Akers
- Cottonfield Blues part 1
- Cottonfield Blues part 2


 
Flyright LP 102 (UK 1972)

Flyright Records discography

121972Goin' Away Walking

Philips track list:
- Gravel Camp Blues - Lewis Black (Dallas - 10/12/27)
- Starvation Farm Blues - Bob Campbell (1934)
- Chocolate To The Bone - Barbecue Bob (Atlanta - 13/4/28)
- Court Street Blues - Stovepipe No. 1 and David Crockett (Atlanta 1927)
- When You Get To Thinking - "Texas" Alexander and Lonnie Johnson (Chicago - 1929)
- Tallahassee Blues- Tallahassee Tight (1934)
- Skin Game Blues - Peg Leg Howell (Atlanta 1927)

- Elm Street Blues - Texas Bill Day, Billiken Johnson (Dallas 1929)
- Bad Boy - Barefoot Bill (Atlanta 1930)
- When The Levee Breaks - Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie (1929)
- When You Are Gone - Blind Boy Fuller (Chicago 1940)
- Strange Place Blues - Bukka White (Chicago 1940)
- Lonesome Blues - Henry Williams and Eddie Anthony (Atlanta 1928)
- Walking Blues - Otis Harris (Dallas 1928)

Flyright track list:
Lewis Black
- Gravel Camp Blues (Memphis 1927)
Bob Campbell
- Starvation Farm Blues (New York 1934)
Stovepipe No. 1 & David Crockett
- Court Street Blues (St. Louis 1927)
"Texas" Alexander & Lonnie Johnson
- When You Get To Thinking (San Antonio 1929)
Tallahassee Tight
- Tallahassee Women (New York 1934)
Peg Leg Howell
- Skin Game Blues (Atlanta 1927)
Texas Bill Day & Billiken Johnson
- Elm Street Blues (Dallas 1929)

Otis Harris
- Walking Blues (Dallas 1928)
Barefoot Bill
- Bad Boy (Atlanta 1930)
Henry Williams & Eddie Anthony
- Lonesome Blues (Atlanta 1928)
Charlie Campbell
- Goin' Away Blues (Birmingham Ala 1937)
Garfield Akers
- Jumpin' and Shoutin' Blues (Memphis 1930)

Sunny Boy & His Pals
- Don't You Leave Me Here (Chicago 1927)
Bill Moore
- One Way Gal (Chicago 1928)

notes by Paul Oliver

Philips BBL 7369 (1960) "Blues Fell This Morning"


(=) Flyright LP 103 (UK 1972) "Goin' Away Walking"

Flyright Records discography

131973?Mississippi Bottom Blues

Papa Freddie Spruell
- Muddy Water Blue
Mister Freddie Spruell
- Low Down Mississippi Bottom Man
- Don't Cry Baby
- Mr. Freddie's Kokomo Blues

Long Cleve Reed & Papa Harvey Hull
- Original Stack O'Lee Blues
Paper Harvey Hull & Long Cleve Reed
- Mama You Don't Know How
Tommy Bradley
- Please Don't Act That Way

Otto Virgial
- Bad Notion Blues
- Little Girl In Rome
Charlie Patton
- Jersey Bull Blues
- Love My Stuff
Mr. Freddie Spruell
- Your Good Man Is Gone
- Way Back Down Home
- 4A Highway

notes by Mike Stewart & Don Kent [OCRed & posted at weeniecampbell by Alan Balfour]

Mamlish S-3802 (US 1973?)

Mamlish Records discography

141982Papa Harvey Hull & Long Cleve Reed, Richard (Rabbit) Brown: Complete Recordings
Country Blues - The First Generation

Papa Harvey Hull & Long Cleve Reed
- Gang Of Brown Skin Women
- France Blues
- Two Little Tommies Blues
- Don't You Leave Me Here
- Mama You Don't Know How
- Original Stack O'Lee Blues

Richard (Rabbit) Brown
- James Alley Blues
- Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice
- I'm Not Jealous
- Mystery Of The Dunbar's Child
- Sinking Of The Titanic


notes by Paul Oliver

Matchbox MSE-201 (UK 1982)

Matchbox Records discography
Richard 'Rabbit' Brown discography

151991The Songster Tradition

Papa Harvey Hull & 'Long Cleve' Reed
- Gang Of Brown Skin Women
- Hey! Lawdy Mama - The France Blues
- Two Little Tommies Blues
- Don't You Leave Me Here
- Mama You Don't Know How
- Original Stack O'Lee Blue
Big Boy Cleveland
- Quill Blues
- Goin' To Leave You Blues
William & Versey Smith
- I Believe I'll Go Back Home
- When That Great Ship Went Down
- Everybody Help The Boys Come Home
- Sinner You'll Need King Jesus
Luke Jordan
- Church Bells Blues ("unissued")
- Church Bells Blues
- Pick Poor Robin Clean ("unissued")
- Pick Poor Robin Clean
- Cocaine Blues
- Travelin' Coon
- My Gal's Done Quit Me
- Won't You Be Kind
Eli Framer
- Framer's Blues
- God Didn't Make Me No Monkey Man
Louie Lasky
- How You Want Your Rollin' Done
- Teasin' Brown Blues
- Caroline


notes by Chris Smith

Document DOCD 5045

15a1996Before The Blues
The Early American Black Music Scene

- Bamalong Blues - Andrew And Jim Baxter
- Run Mollie Run - Henry Thomas
- Lonesome Road Blues - Sam Collins
- Jackson Stomp - Missippi Mud Steppers
- On Jordan's Stormy Banks We Stand - Seventh Day Adventist Choir
- Mississippi Jail House Groan - Rube Lacy
- Forked Deer - Taylor's Kentucky Boys
- Bye Bye Baby Blues - Little Hat Jones
- Pretty Polly - B.F. Shelton
- Soft Steel Piston - Weaver & Beasley
- Two White Horses In A Line - Evans & McClain
- Jamestown Exhibition - Bayless Rose
- Dupree Blues - Willie Walker

- France Blues - Papa Harvey Hull
- Dying Mother And Her Child - Rev. Gates & Congregation
- John Hardy - Buell Kazee
- Wayward Girl Blues - Lottie Kimbrough
- Newport Blues - Cincinnati Jug Band
- Tom Sherman's Barroom - Dick Devall
- Stack O'Lee Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
- Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues - Teddy Darby
- I'll Go With Her Blues - Robert Wilkins
- Christian Soldier - Denson Quartet



Yazoo CD 2015 (US 1996)

15b2003Down In The Basement
Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove of Vintage 78s   1926-1937

- The Lost Child - Stripling Brothers
- How You Want It Done? - Big Bill
- The (New) Call Of The Freaks - Luis Russell & His Orchestra
- The School House Fire - Dixon Brothers
- Greenback Dollar - Weems String Band
- You Got To Go Down - Blind Gary
- The Old Ark's A'Moving - A.A. Gray And Seven-Foot Dilly
- Runnin' Wild - James Cole's Washboard Four
- Keep It Clean - Charley Jordan
- Get The "L" On Down The Road - Bill Johnson's Louisiana Jug Band
- I Got A Bulldog - Sweet Brothers & Ernest Stoneman
- Old Hen Cackle - Colman & Harper
- Song From A Cotton Field - Bessie Brown
- Atlanta Bound - Gene Autry
- Easy Rider Blues - Soileau And Robin
- Hot Lips - Bill Brown And His Brownies
- Uncle Dave's Beloved Solo - Uncle Dave Macon
- Hastings Street - Blind Blake And Charlie Spand
- Ain't That Trouble In Mind - Fields Ward & The Grayson County Railsplitters
- Give The World A Smile - The Corley Family

- Original Stack O'Lee Blues - Long Cleve Reed And Little Harvey Hull (Down Home Boys)
- Hot Town - Fess Williams And His Royal Flush Orchestra
- Paddlin' Blues - Gitfiddle Jim
- Plow Boy Hop - Grinnell Giggers


compiled by Marshall Wyatt


Old Hat RCD-1004

www.oldhatrecords.com

162005Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice
Blues, Ballads, Rags and Gospel in the Songster Tradition

disc 1:
Richard 'Rabbit' Brown
- James Alley
- Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice
- I'm Not Jealous
- Mystery Of The Dunbar's Child
- Sinking Of The Titanic

Papa Harvey Hull
- Gang Of Brown Skin Women
- Hey! Lawdy Mama (The France Blues)
- Two Little Tommies Blues
- Don't You Leave Me Here
Big Boy Cleveland
- Quill Blues
- Goin' To Leave You Blues
- I Believe I'll Go Back Home
- Original Stack O' Lee Blues
William Smith
- I Believe I'll Go Back Home
- When That Great Ship Went Down
- Everybody Help The Boys Come Home
- Sinner, You'll Need King Jesus
Luke Jordan
- Church Bells Blues (tk 1)
- Church Bells Blues (tk 2)
- Pick Poor Robin Clean (tk 1)
- Pick Poor Robin Clean (tk 2)
- Cocaine Blues
- Traveling Coon
- My Gal's Done Quit Me
- Won't You Be Kind?


disc 2:
Luke Jordan
- If I Call You Mama
- Tom Brown Sits In His Prison Cell
Mississippi John Hurt
- Frankie
- Nobody's Dirty Business
- Ain't No Tellin'
- Louis Collins
- Avalon Blues
- Big Leg Blues
- Stack O' Lee Blues
- Candy Man Blues
- Got The Blues Can't Be Satisfied
- Blessed Be The Name
- Praying On The Old Camp Ground
- Blue Harvest Blues
- Spike Driver Blues
Hambone Willie Newbern
- She Could Toodle-Oo
- Nobody Knows (What The Good Deacon Does)
- Shelby County Workhouse
- Way Down In Arkansas
- Hambone Willie's Dreamy Eyed Woman's Blues
- Roll And Tumble Blues
Eli Framer
- Framer's Blues
- God Didn't Make No Monkey Man
Louie Lasky
- How You Want Your Rollin' Done
- Teasin' Brown Blues
- Caroline


disc 3:
Cedar Creek Sheik
- Ford V-8
- Watch The Fords Go By
- Mary Had A Little Lamb
- She's Totin' Something Good
- What A Pity
- I Believe Somebody's Ridin' My Mule
- Don't Use That Stuff
- Buy It From The Poultry Man
- Don't Credit My Stuff
- Jimmy Shut His Store Doors
Robert Hill
- I Had A Gal For The Last Fifteen Years
- Tell Me What's Wrong With You
- You Gonna Look Like A Monkey When You Get Old
- G Blues
- Just Smilin'
- Pal, How I Miss You Tonight
- Lumber-Yard Blues
- I'm Going To Write And Tell My Mother
- It Is So Good
- Hill's Hot Sauce
Virgil Childers
- Dago Blues
- Red River Blues
- Who's That Knockin' At My Door
- Somebody Stole My Jane
- Travelin' Man
- Preacher And The Bear


notes by Chris Smith

Document DOCD-5678

172006The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

disc 1
Freeny's Barn Dance Band: Croquet Habits
Son House: Mississippi County Farm Blues
Georgia Pot Lickers: Up Jumped The Rabbit
Memphis Minnie & Joe McCoy: I'm Going Back Home
Wilmer Watts & The Lonely Eagles: Fightin' In The War With Spain
John Byrd: Old Timbrook Blues
Ernest Phipps And His Holiness Singers: A Little Talk With Jesus
Tommy Johnson: Slidin' Delta
The Three Striped Gears: Alabama Blues
Jack Gowdlock: Rollin Dough Blues
Kentucky Ramblers: Ginseng Blues
Ollis Martin: Police And High Sheriff Come Ridin' Down
Roy Harvey & Jess Johnston And The West Virginia Ramblers: John Hardy Blues

Long "Cleeve" Reed & Little Harvey Hull - The Down Home Boys: Original Stack O' Lee Blues
Amedie Ardoin & Dennis McGee: Two Step De La Prairie Soileau
Andrew & Jim Baxter: Operator Blues
J.D. Harris: The Grey Eagle
Memphis Jug Band: Jim Strainer Blues
Grayson County Railsplitters: Ain't That Trouble In Mind (unissued)
Dock Boggs: Old Rub Alcohol Blues
Jaybird Coleman: Mistreatin' Mama
Henry Whitter: It's A Rough Road To Georgia (unissued)
Rev. B.L. Wightman with Lottie Kimbrough & Congregation: Live The Life

disc 2
Yank Rachel with Sleepy John Estes & Jab Jones: Sweet Mama
Crowder Brothers: We All Love Mother (unissued)
Son House: Clarksdale Moan
Ashley & Foster: Bull Dog Sal (unissued)
Jesse "Babyface" Thomas: Down In Texas Blues
Georgia Pot Lickers: Chicken Don't Roost Too High
William Harris: I'm Leavin' Town (But I Sho' Don't Wanna Go)
Asa Martin & Roy Hobbs: Wild Cat Rag
King Solomon Hill: Whoopee Blues (Alternate Take)
Chubby Parker: Davey Crockett
Geeshie Wiley: Skinny Leg Blues
Sweet Brothers: I'm Gonna Marry That Pretty Little Girl
Blind Roosevelt Graves & Varoy Graves: I Shall Not Be Moved
Smith & Irvine: Lonesome Road Blues
Luke Jordon: If I Call You Mama [Victor 23400]
Grayson & Whitter: My Mind Is To Marry (unissued)
Osey Helton: Green River
Lottie Kimbrough: Don't Speak To Me
Wade Ward: Married Man's Blues (unissued)
Ken Maynard: Sweet Betsey From Pike (unissued)
Jaybird Coleman: Boll Weevil
Bill Shepherd with Hayes Shepherd & Ed Webb: Bound Steel Blues
Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1: Bells Of Love

double CD

Yazoo YAZ CD 2202

street date: April 4th, 2006

more info:
http://www.venerablemusic.com/myspacejpg/rcrub.pdf

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Stefan Grossman's
Guitar Workshop

www.amazon.com

182010Classic Blues Artwork from the 1920s Volume 8
2011 Calendar with free CD

January to December artwork:
- Sissy Man Blues - Kokomo Arnold
- Pea Vine Blues - Charley Patton
- Billy Lyons And Stack O'Lee - Furry Lewis
- Rabbit Foot Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Labor Blues - Tom Dickson
- Dentist Chair Blues - Parts 1 & 2 - Hattie McDaniel and Charlie Jackson
- Cherry Ball Blues - Skip James

- Hey! Lawdy Mama - The France Blues - Papa Harvey Hull and Long Cleve Reed (The Down Home Boys)
- I'll Be Gone, Long Gone - Mississippi Sheiks
- Black Cat Hoot Owl Blues - Ma Rainey
- Ko Ko Mo Blues - Parts 1 & 2 - Jabo Williams
- Will The Coffin Be Your Santa Claus? - Reverend J. M. Gates


bonus tracks (artwork doesn't exist for these songs):
- Tom Rushen Blues - Charley Patton
- Cannon Ball Blues (alt tk, previously unissued) - Furry Lewis
- Dry Land Blues - Furry Lewis
- Lonesome Home Blues (test, previously unissued) - Tommy Johnson
- Save Your Money - Let These Women Go - Rabbits Foot Williams
- Mistreatin' Mama - Rabbits Foot Williams



Blues Images no 8

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, pp. 410-411, 1069
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 110
- Paul Oliver: Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records. - Cambridge (Cambridge Univ. Press) 1984
- Roger Misiewicz, T. Malcolm Rockwell & Helge Thygesen: Champion Sales Figures
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Alan Balfour, David J. Costa and Devon Flaherty for additional info

cover of Blues Link 4
Bob Eagle: A Fresh Look at the Down Home Boys
source: Blues~Link 4 (1974), pp. 28-29

The article above is 'published' here for private research only. While of historical interest, it may contain factual errors only revealed by later research.
Be advised that more recent reference works should be consulted regarding factual points such as spelling of names, dates of birth, dates of recordings.

 

 

 

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