Dr. Harry Oster recordings: LPs / CDs
| # | year
of
release | title | label # / notes |
|---|
| 1 | 1957 | A Sampler Of Louisiana Folksongs
Abe Davis
- Take My Hand, Precious Lord
Mrs Samanthia Holmes
- To My Seat Set Down
Robert Gilmore
- Wasn't That An Awful Day In Natchez
Godar Chalvin
- Settin' Side Dat Road Wid A Ball An' Chain In My Leg
- Anons Au Bal Colinda
Wallace "Cheese" Reed, Cyprien Landrino, Alton Landrino, Mrs Rodney Frugé
- Allons Danser, Colinda
Lafayette Jarreau
- Oh Cam, Anons Couper Eine ’Tite Polka
Caesar Vincent
- Mes Amis à La Table Ronde
- Travailler C’est Trop Dur
- Mon Aimable Catin
Mrs Alma Bartholomew
- Trois Jolis Dragons
- C’est La Sainte Marguerite
- La Chanson De Mariage
Terry Clement, Laurent Clement, Grant Paul Clement
- La Chanson Du Mardi Gras
Mrs Joseph Gutekunst
- Devinez Ce Qu’il A Dans Ces Beaux Bois
John P. Brashears
- There Was A Flower In A Garden
David Lewis
- Dandoo
- Didn’t He Ramble?
John P. Brashears
- The House Carpenter
Mrs Catherine Brookshire Blanchet
- Weevily Wheat
- Choose Your Love As We Go Round | 
Louisiana Folklore Society
LFS A-1 |
| 2 | 1959 | Louisiana Folksong Jambalaya
sung by Harry Oster
- Trois Joilis Dragons
- C'est La Sainte Marguerite
- Chanson De Mariage
- Jamais Je T'oublierai
- Boll Weevil
- Sugar In The Gourd
- Tone Your Bell
- Our Little School
- Race Of The Natchez And The Lee
- Carrying Sacks
- John Henry
- Fomme-La Dit Mo Malheure
- J'ai Passe Devant Ta Porte
- Allons Danser Colinda
- Danse De Mardi Gras
- Pretty Fair Maid/maiden
- Cambric Shirt
- Four In The Middle | 
Louisiana Folklore Society
LFS A-2 |
| 3 | 1959 | Robert Pete Williams, Guitar Welch, Hogman Maxey: Angola Prisoners' Blues
Robert Pete Williams
- Levee Camp Blues §
- Prisoner's Talking Blues #
- Motherless Children Have A Hard Time §
- Some Got Six Months #
- I'm Lonesome Blues #
Hogman Maxey
- Stagolee #
- Black Night Fallin' #
Guitar Welch
- Electric Chair Blues #
- I'm Gonna Leave You Mama #
§ on Arhoolie CD 394
# on Arhoolie CD 419
rec. 1959 in Angola State Penitentiary, Louisiana by Harry Oster | 
Louisiana Folklore Society
LFS A-3
= Collector JGN 1003
(UK 1961)
= Arhoolie R 2011 (1970)
Angola Prisoner's Blues
Arhoolie CD 419
www.arhoolie.com
www.louisianafolklife.org  Robert Pete Williams
discography
|
| 4 | 1959 | Folksongs Of The Louisiana Acadians
- Grand Texas - Chuck Guillory
- Colinda - Wallace "Cheese" Read
- Tu Peux Cogner - Mrs. Odeus Guillory
- La Patate Chaude - Mrs. Rodney Fruge
- Je Charche Tout Partout - Wallace "Cheese" Read
- T'es Petite, Mais T'es Mignonne - Wallace "Cheese" Read
- La Danse De La Limonade - Mrs. Rodney Fruge
- La Betaille Dans Le 'Tit Arbre - Isom J Fontenot
- Grand Mamou - Savy Augustine
- La Danse De Mardi Gras - Bee Deshotels
- Mes Souliers Sont Rouges - Bee Deshotels
- Contredanse Francaise - Isom J. Fontenot
- Y Avait Boitine Boiteuse - Bee Deshotels
- Aux Natchitoches - Bee Deshotels
- Contredanse De Mamou - Shelby Vidrine
- Saute Crapeau - Isom J. Fontenot
- Cadet Roussel - Isom J. Fontenot
- L'Arbre Est Dans Ces Feuilles - Bee Deshotels
- J'ai Traverse La Mer Et Les Montagnes - Isom J. Fontenot
| rec. by Harry Oster in Mamou
and Eunice, La., between
1956 and 1959
Louisiana Folklore Society
LFS A-4
= Arhoolie 5009
= Arhoolie CD 359
(along with most selections
from ARH LP 5015)
|
| 5 | 1959 | Prison Worksongs
Rodney Mason, Rev. Rogers & Roosevelt Charles
- Berta
Guitar Welch, Hogman Maxey & Andy Mosley
- Take This Hammer
Rev. Rogers, Rodney Mason & Smith
- Stewball
Odea Mathews
- Five Long Years for One Man
Guitar Welch, Hogman Maxey & Andy Mosley
- Alberta Let Your Bangs Grow Long
James Russel & Gang
- I Had Five Long Years
Johnny Butler & Gang
- Early In The Mornin'
Roosevelt Charles, Davis & Rodney Mason
- All Teamed Up in Angola's Mule Lot
Willy Rafus & Gang
- I Got a Hurtin' In My Right Side
Rodney Mason, Willy Rafus & Davis
- Let Your Hammer Ring
Willy Rafus, Andy Mosley & Johnny Butler
- Cleaning This Highway
Guitar Welch, Hogman Maxey & Robert Pete Williams
- John Henry
Odea Mathews
- Something Within Me
Murray Macon
- Jesus Cares
on CD only:
Emanuel Dunn
- Working On The Levee (Part 1)
- Working On The Levee (Part 2)
Big Louisiana
- Take This Hammer
Creola Scott/Ceola Scott
- Pickin' Cotton All Day Long
Emanuel Dunn
- My Mule "Grey" | rec. 1959
Angola State Penitentiary
Louisiana
by Harry Oster
notes by Harry Oster
& Chris Strachwitz
Louisiana Folklore Society
LFS A-5
= Collector JGN 1006
(UK 196?)
= Arhoolie R 2012
Arhoolie CD 448
www.arhoolie.com
www.louisianafolklife.org Robert Pete Williams
discography |
| 6 | 1959 | Angola Prison Spirituals
Andy Mosely & Robert Pete Williams
- I'm On My Way
Robert Pete Williams
- Church On Fire With The Word Of God
Robert "Guitar" Welch
- What Shall I Do
Angola Quartet
- Brother Norah
Tom Dutson & Robert Pete Williams
- Little School Song
Robert Pete Williams
- Dyin' Soul
Roosevelt Charles
- Let My People Go
Robert Pete Williams
- So Much Is Happenin' In The News
Tom Dutson & Robert Pete Williams
- Dig My Grave With A Silver Spade
Andy Mosely & "Hogman" Maxey
- Brother Mosely Crossed The Water
Angola Quartet No. 2
- I'm Stranded On The Banks Of Jordan
Robert Pete Williams
- I'm Goin' Back With Him When He Comes
Rev. Benjamin E. Osborne
- The Old Ship Of Zion
on CD only:
Robert Pete Williams
- When I Lay My Burden Down
Angola Quartet
- See How They Done My Lord
- Be With Me Jesus
Angola Vocal Group
- Rise And Fly
Andy Mosely & "Hogman" Maxey
- I Know I Got Religion
- Jesus
Angola Choir
- I Take Jesus (Do Lord, Remember Me)
- Each Day (Life's Evening Sun)r
- Steal Away | rec. 1959
Angola State Penitentiary
Louisiana
by Harry Oster
notes by Harry Oster
& Chris Strachwitz
Louisiana Folklore Society
LFS A-6
= 77 LA 12/13 (UK) 
= Arhoolie CD 9036 (2003)
www.arhoolie.com
www.louisianafolklife.org Robert Pete Williams
discography |
| 7 | 1959 | Snooks Eaglin:
New Orleans Street Singer
- Careless Love
- Come Back, Baby #
- High Society
- Let Me Go Home Whisky
- Trouble In Mind #
- St. James Infirmary
- I Got My Questionaire #
- The Drifter Blues #
- Rock Island Line
- Every Day I Have The Blues #
. Sophisticated Blues
- See See Rider
- One Scotch, One Bourbon
- A Thousand Miles From Home #
- I'm Looking For A Woman #
- Look Down That Lonesome Road
# re-released 1994 on Storyville STCD 8023
"New Orleans Street Singer" | rec. 1958 by Harry Oster
ed. Kenneth S. Goldstein
Folkways FA 2476
= Le Chant Du Monde
FWX 52476
= Storyville SLP 119 (1964)
= Storyville 670119
"Blues From New
Orleans Vol. 1"
custom CD from
www.folkways.si.edu
Snooks Eaglin discography |
|
"(...) Louisiana Folklore Society, which I started together with two other people (...). My first albums were publications of the Folklore Society. That gave it some sort of dignity and official sponsorship. It did not include any money on the societies part, I did cover all expenses on my own. In late 1959, I switched from Louisiana Folklore Society to issuing records on my own label, Folk-Lyric." (Harry Oster in 1995 interview by Ranko Vujosevic)
Louisiana Folklore Society LFS A-1 - LFS A-6 --> Folk-Lyric FL 107 ff.
|
| 8 | 1960 | Snooks Eaglin / Lucius Bridges / Brother Randolph:
New Orleans Washboard Blues
Folk-Lyric FL 107 (I) / Arhoolie 2014 tracks:
- Possum Up A Simmon Tree
- That's All Right
- Veal Chop And Pork Chop
- I Ain't Gonna Study War No More
- Model T And The Train
- Jack O'Diamonds
- Death Valley Blues
- This Train
- Bottle Up And Go
- Mardi Gras Mambo
- Rock Me Mama
- John Henry
- Locomotive Train
- I Had A Little Woman
- Don't Leave Me Mama
Folk-Lyric FL 107 (II) tracks:
- Possum Up A Simmon Tree
- That's All Right
- Veal Chop And Pork Chop
- Down By The Riverside
- Model T And The Train
- Jack O'Diamonds
- Death Valley Blues
- Rock Me Mama
- John Henry
- Locomotive Train
- I Had A Little Woman
- Rock Me Mama
rec. 1958 by Harry Oster | 
Folk-Lyric FL 107 (I)
Folk-Lyric FL 107 (II)
"Possum Up A Simmon Tree"
= Arhoolie 2014 (1971)
= Storyville SLP 179
"New Orleans Blues"
re-released 1991 on
Arhoolie CD 348
"Country Boy Down
In New Orleans" Storyville discography Snooks Eaglin discography |
| 9 | 196? | Rev. Pearly Brown:
Georgia Street Singer
- God Don't Never Change
- Just A Closer Walk With Thee
- You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion
- Savior, Don't You Pass Me By
- Motherless Children
- Oh What A Morning
- I Must See Jesus
- Nobody's Fault But Mine
- I Know It Was The Blood
- By And By (I'm Gonna See The King)
- Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning
- If I Never See You Anymore
- Ninety-Nine And A Half Won't Do
- It's A Mean Old World
- The Great Speckled Bird
CD bonus tracks (not recorded by Harry Oster):
- Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning
- You Gotta Move
- I'm On My Way To The Canaan Land
- Good By
- What A Morning | rec. 1961 by Harry Oster
and Richard Allen
Folk-Lyric FL 108
= Arhoolie 2017 (1976) 
= Arhoolie CD 9025
"You're Gonna Need
That Pure Religion"
www.arhoolie.com
Rev. Pearly Brown bio |
| 10 | 19?? | Robert Pete Williams:
Those Prison Blues
Folk Lyric FL 109 = 77 LA 12/17
- I'll Be Glad When I'm From Behind Iron Walls
- Louise #
- Blue In Me §
- Come Here Baby, Tell Me What Is Wrong With You #
- I Got The Blues So Bad §
- Boogy Woman (+ Hogman Maxey, 12-str. g)
- Pardon Renied Again #
- Army Blues (+ Hogman Maxey, 12-str. g)
- Blues In The Dark
- Make Me A Pallet On The Floor
- Angola Special #
Arhoolie R 2015
- Pardon Denied Again #
- This Wild Old Life #
- Texas Blues #
- Up And Down Blues #
- I'm Blue As A Man Can Be #
- Louise #
- Blue In Me §
- I Got The Blues So Bad §
- Come Here Baby, Tell Me What Is Wrong With You #
green = track on both LPs
# on Arhoolie CD 394
§ on Arhoolie CD 395
rec. 1959 & 1960, Angola State Penitentiary, Louisiana, by Harry Oster; Robert Pete Williams, voc, 6- or 12-str. g | notes by Harry Oster
Folk-Lyric FL 109
= 77 LA 12/17 (UK 1963)
Arhoolie R 2015 (1971)
Arhoolie CD 394
Arhoolie CD 395
www.arhoolie.com Robert Pete Williams
discography |
| 11 | 196? | Billie & DeDe Pierce
New Orleans Jazz
- Eh La Bas
- Gulf Coast Blues
- Some Of These Days
- You Can Depend On Me
- The Peanut Vendor
- Jelly Roll
- Mama Don't Allow
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
- Going Back To Florida
- Panama
- St. James Infirmary
- John Henry
CD bonus tracks:
- Get A Working Man
- Panama Rag
- In The Racket | rec. 1959 by Harry Oster
Folk-Lyric FL 110
= Arhoolie 2016 (1971)
"New Orleans Music"
= Storyville SLP 
= Arhoolie CD 488
"Gulf Coast Blues"
www.arhoolie.com |
| 12 | 196? | Country Negro Jam Session
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- 44 Blues
- Who Broke The Lock
- It's The Sign Of The Judgement
- Jelly Roll
- Brown Skin Woman
Robert Pete Williams
- Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
Clarence Edwards
- Smokes Like Lightning
- You Don't Love Me
Ben Douglas
- Foxhunt
Sally Dotson
- Your Dice Won't Pass
Rebecca Smith etc.
- I've Got Religion
Smokey Baby
- Going Downtown Boogie
Leon Strickland
- I Won't Be Your Low Down Dog No More
on CD only #:
Butch Cage & Willie B Thomas
- The Piano Blues
Smoky Babe
- Cotton Field Blues
Otis Webster
- The Farm Blues
- The Boss Man Blues
Butch Cage & Willie B Thomas
- Whoa Mule!
Otis Webster
- Boll Weevil Blues
Clarence Edwards/Cornelius Edwards/Butch Cage
- Thousand Miles From Nowhere
Butch Cage & Willie B. Thomas
- Dead And Gone
- Called For You Yesterday
- Me & My Chauffeur
- Baby Please Don't Go
# announced for issue in February 1962 as Folk-Lyric album titled "Boll Weevil and Bossman Blues", but that LP never materialized | rec. by Harry Oster 
Folk-Lyric FL 111
= Arhoolie R 2018
= Trio PA-6028 (Jp 1974) 
Arhoolie CD 372
www.arhoolie.com Butch Cage & Willie
Thomas discography |
| 13 | 196? | John Burgess: The Art Of The Bagpipe
|
Folk-Lyric FL 112 |
| 13a | 1960 | Finnegan's Wake and other Irish Folksongs sung by Dominic Behan
| 
Folk-Lyric FL 113 |
| 14 | 196? | Peggy Seeger sings and plays
American Folksongs For Banjo
- John Riley II
- Jesus Borned In Bethlea
- Morman Crossing
- Willie Moore
- London Bridge (Is A-Falling Down)
- Hiram Hubbert
- Young Emily
- Walkin' And A-Talkin'
- Wife Wrapt In Wether's Skin
- Handsome Molly
- Two Sisters
- Weevily Wheat
- Turnip Greens
- Fair Rosamund
- Opera Reel / Devil's Dream
- Betsy's Reel / Portsmouth Hornpipe
- Henry Cooper
- Red Haired Boy | 
= Folk-Lyric FL 114 |
| 15 | 196? | Betsy Miller and EwanMacColl:
A Garland Of Scots Folksong
- The Bonnie Banks O' Airdrie
- The Auld Man's Mare's Dead
- The Braes O' Balquither
- The Crooked Bawbee
- Lovely Nancy
- Galla Water
- Will Ye Go To Flanders?
- The Spinning Wheel
- Robbie And Grannie
- A Wee Drappie O'T
- Lord Randal
- To Daunton Me
- The Duke Of Athol
Betsy Miller is Ewan MacColl's mother | 
= Folk-Lyric FL 116 |
| 16 | 196? | Primitive Piano
Speckled Red
- Dad's Piece
- Early In The Morning
- Oh Red
Doug Suggs
- Doug's Jump
- Sweet Patootie
James "Bat the Hummingbird" Robinson
- Bat's Blues
- Four O'Clock
Billie Pierce
- Keep A Knockin'
- See See Rider
- Florida Blues
Billie & DeDe Pierce
- Bye And Bye [take 1]
- Bye And Bye [take 2]
Doug Suggs
- Smoke Like Lightning
- Slow And Low
- Interview
| originally issued in 1957
on Erwin Helfer's Tone label
Tone 80P
= Folk-Lyric FL 117
= Collector JGN 1001
(UK 196?) [Alistair Banfield:
"ABC1" on the cover,
because printers weren't
informed what the catalogue
number was at the time of the
printing of the sleeve]
= The Sirens CD SR 5005
www.thesirensrecords.com |
| 17 | 1960 | Smoky Babe And His Friends:
Hot Blues
track list of 77-LA-12-12
- Rabbit Blues
- Too Many Women
- Two Wings
- Mississippi River So Deep & Wide
- I'm Broke And I'm Hungry
- My Baby She Told Me
- Black Ghost
- Ain't Got No Rabbit Dog
- Bad Whiskey
- Black Gal
- My Baby Put Me Down
- Going Back Home
track list of Arhoolie R 2019
- Too Many Women
- Two Wings
- I'm Broke And I'm Hungry
- Mississippi River
- My Baby She Told Me
- Rabbit Blues
- Black Ghost
- Ain't Got No Rabbit Dog
- Bad Whiskey
- My Baby Put Me Down
- Going Back Home
rec. Scotlandville, La. in 1960 by Harry Oster; Smoky Babe, voc, g with Sally and William Dotson, Henry Thomas [= Lazy Lester], and Clyde Causey
Smoky Babe discography
Herman E. Johnson discography | notes by Harry Oster
Folk-Lyric FL 118notes by Harry Oster
= 77 LA 12-12 (UK 1962)
77 Records discography notes by Harry Oster
= Arhoolie R 2019 (US 197?)
"Hot Blues"
Arhoolie Records discography 
(=) Arhoolie CD 440
www.arhoolie.com |
| 18 | 196? | Peggy Seeger:
Popular Ballads
|
Folk-Lyric FL 120 |
| 19 | 1960 | A.L. Lloyd: Selections from the Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
- The Devil And The Ploughman
- The False Bride
- A Sailors Life
- Rounding the Horn
- Salisbury Plain
- One Night As I Lay On My Bed
- George Collins
- Gaol Song
- The Whale Catchers
- The Trees They Do Grow High
- Ye Mariners All
- Six Dukes Went A Fishing
- The Grey Cock
- The Sailor From Dover
- Lovely Joan
- Gentleman Soldier
| 
Folk-Lyric 121= Collector JGB 5001 more info |
| 20 | 1961 | Jim Smoak & The Louisiana Honeydrippers:
Bayou Bluegrass
rec. by Harry Oster |
Folk-Lyric FL 122= Arhoolie (1972)
(=) Arhoolie CD 9032 (2002) |
| 20a | 1960? | Cajun Folk Music
Southern Journey 15
rec. 1956-1959 by Harry Oster; Austin Pitre, Milton Molitor & Lurlin Lejeune | 
Prestige / International
INT 25015(=) Arhoolie CD 359 |
| 20b | 1961 | Louisiana Bluegrass with The Louisiana Honeydrippers
rec. by Harry Oster | 
Prestige / International
INT 13035 |
| 21 | 1962 | Snuffy Jenkins (& Homer Sherrill)
Carolina Bluegrass
|
Folk-Lyric FL 123
= Arhoolie 5011
(cover photograph
wrong way round !)
reissued on CD 9027
"Pioneer Of The
Bluegrass Banjo"
www.arhoolie.com
|
| 22 | 196? | Sylvia Mars:
Blues Walk Right In
- Walk Right In
- Trouble Trouble Trouble
- Let That Liar Pass
- Lowdown Death
- Back Water Blues
- Noah Noah
- No Hidin' Place Down There
- Before This Time Another Year
- He's Got Me Goin'
- I Have A Friend
- We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder
- Dark Was The Night
- Things About Comin' My Way
with Mitch Greenhill & Gordie Edwards, hca & g | 
Folk-Lyric FL 124 |
| 23 | 1961 | Robert Pete Williams: Free Again
- Free Again
- Almost Dead Blues
- Rolling Stone
- Two Wings
- A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
- Thumbing A Ride
- I've Grown So Ugly
- Death Blues
- Hobo Worried Blues
- Hay Cutting Song
| rec. by Harry Oster 
Bluesville 1026
= Prestige 7808
= OBCCD-553-2
fantasyjazz.com
= Fantasy F24716 (1973)
(along with BVLP 1046
Snooks Eaglin)
"Rural Blues"
= Ace CD CHD 705
acerecords.co.uk
Bluesville discography Robert Pete Williams
discography |
| 24 | 1960 | Snooks Eaglin:
Message From New Orleans
- Mamma, Don't You Tear My Clothes
- Walking Blues
- Mean Old World
- Give Me The Old Box-Car
- Every Day Blues
- I Had My Fun
- Blue Shadows Blues
- She's A Black Rat
- Who's Been Foolin' You?
- I Must See Jesus
- Fly Right Baby
- That's All Right
- Bottle Up And Go
- Who Can Your Good Man Be
- Don't You Lie To Me
- Malaguena
rec. in New Orleans by Harry Oster | notes by Tony Standish
Heritage HLP 1002 (UK)
 
  Snooks Eaglin
discography  Heritage discography
|
| 25 | 196? | Snooks Eaglin's New Orleans Blues
- Don't You Tear My Clothes
- That's All Right
- I Must See Jesus
- Bottle Up & Go
- Who Can Your Good Man Be
- Walkin' Blues | 7 inch 45 rpm EP
Heritage H-301 (UK)Snooks Eaglin discography Heritage discography |
| 26 | 1962 | Blind Snooks Eaglin:
That's All Right
- Don't You Tear My Clothes
- Mailman Passed
- I'm A Country Boy
- I Got A Woman
- Alberta
- Brown Skinned Woman
- Don't You Lie To Me
- That's All Right
- Goin' Down Slow
- Bottle Up And Go
- The Walkin' Blues
- One More Drink
- Fly Right, Baby
rec. 1961 by Harry Oster | 
Bluesville 1046
= XTRA 5051 (UK 1968)
= P-Vine PCD-1046 (Jp)
= OBCCD-568-2
fantasyjazz.com
= Fantasy F24716 (1973)
(along with BVLP 1026
Robert Pete Williams)
"Rural Blues"
= Ace CD CHD 705
acerecords.co.uk
Bluesville discography Snooks Eaglin discography |
| 27 | 1962 | Ewan MacColl: Merry Muses of Caledonia
Robert Burns songs
prod. by Kenneth S. Goldstein & Harry Oster; edited & annotated by Kenneth S. Goldstein
"edition strictly limited to 500 copies" | Dionysus D1
distributed by Folk-Lyric
|
| 28 | 1963 | The Blues of Smoky Babe: Hottest Brand Goin'
- Now Your Man Done Gone
- Hottest Brand Goin'
- Something Wrong With My Machine
- Insect Blues
- Long Way From Home
- I'm Goin' Back To Mississippi
- Melvanie Blues
- Locomotive Blues
- Ocean Blues
- Boogy Woogy Rag
- Coon Hunt
- Cold, Cold Snow
rec. 1961 by Dr. Harry Oster; Smoky Babe (real name: Robert Brown) with Clyde Causey, hca; Henry Thomas [= Lazy Lester], hca on some tracks
Dr. Harry Oster discography | notes by Harry Oster
Bluesville BV 1063
Bluesville discography
= Ace CH 261 (1988)
= OBC CD 595
Smoky Babe discography |
| 29 | 1963 | Jesse Fuller
Greatest Of The Negro Minstrels
- Crazy About A Woman
- C.C. Rider
- Ninety Nine Years
- Stranger's Blues
- I Want A Little Girl
- Old Cincinnati Blues
- Long A I Can Feel The Spirit
- Black And Blue
- Brownskin Woman
- I Got My Eyes On You
- Preacher Lowdown
- Bill Bailey
- San Francisco Bay Blues
rec. San Francisco, Nov. 1962; prod. by Harry Oster | 
Folk-Lyric FL 126some tracks reissued
on Arhoolie CD 360 Jesse Fuller discography |
| 30 | 196? | The Country Blues
Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, Butch Cage
- Mean Old Frisco
Smoky Babe
- Boogy
Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, Butch Cage
- Miss Sadie May
Smoky Babe
- I Went Down 61 Highway
Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, Butch Cage
- Stagalee
Smoky Babe & Sally Dotson
- Black Ghost
Lemon Nash & Henry Thomas
- New Orleans Blues
Smoky Babe
- Regular Blues
Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, Butch Cage
- I Can't Quit You Baby
Hilary Blunt
- A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, Butch Cage
- This Is My Life
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- Bugle Call Blues
Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, Butch Cage
- Goin' Back To New Orleans
Smoky Babe
- Talkin' Baby
rec. at informal sessions in the homes of Butch Cage & Mabel Lee Williams near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, by Dr. Harry Oster | notes by Harry Oster
Storyville SLP 129
"Storyville Blues Anthology
Vol. 10"
= Teichiku ULS-1825-R
(Jp 1975)
Butch Cage & Willie
Thomas discography |
| 31 | 196? | Country Spirituals
Snooks Eaglin
- Down By The Riverside
Butch Cage, Willie Thomas & crowd
- Whe I See The Blood
Della Williams
- Motherless Children
New Orleans Street Gospel Singers
- I Will Be Your God
Otis Webster
- In My Saviours Care
Charles Henderson, Butch Cage, Willie Thomas & crowd
- Jesus On The Main Line
Rev. Pearly Brown
- If I Never See You Anymore
Andy Mosely, George Williams & Hogman Maxey
- I Know I Got Religion
Otis Webster
- This Little Light Of Mine
Angola Quartet
- Be With Me Jesus
Robert Pete Williams
- I'm Glad My Mother Teached Me How To Pray
Rev. Pearly Brown
- Nobody's Fault But Mine
Butch Cage, Willie Thomas & crowd
- If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again | rec. by Harry Oster
notes by Harry Oster
Storyville SLP 135
Butch Cage & Willie
Thomas discography |
| 32 | 196? | Southern Prison Blues
Hogman Maxey
- Duckin' And Dodgin'
John Henry Jackson & A.C. Craig
- My Baby Got To Go
Otis Webster
- Penitentiary Blues
Guitar Welch
- Lonesome Blues
Jesse Butcher & Guitar Welch
- They'll Miss Me When I'm Gone
Hogman Maxey
- Rock Me Mama
Guitar Welch
- Boll Weevil Blues
Hogman Maxey
- Hard Headed Woman
Otis Webster
- Standing At The Greyhound Bus Station
John Henry Jackson & A.C. Craig
- Tell Me Pretty Baby
Otis Webster
- Ball And Chain For Me
Guitar Welch
- Bad Luck Blues
The Cool Cats
- Goin' Home To My Old Used To Be | rec. Louisiana State
Penitentiary, Angola
by Harry Oster
Tradition 2006
= Guimbarda 30111027 (Sp 1079) 
= Storyville SLP 125
= Storyville 616002
"Louisiana Prison Blues"
|
| 33 | 1964 | Snooks Eaglin:
Blues From New Orleans Vol. 2
- Mailman Passed And He Didn't Leave No News
- I Must See Jesus #
- She's One Black Rat #
- Give Me The Good Old Boxcar *
- Don't You Lie To Me #
- Well I Had My Fun #
- Browns Skin Woman #
- Mama Don't You Tear My Clothes #
- Who's Been Foolin' You #
- When Shadows Fall #
- One More Drink #
- I Got A Woman #
- Mama Talk To Your Daughter
Snooks Eaglin, voc, g
* Snooks Eaglin, voc, g; Lucius Bridges, wb
Lucius Bridges, voc, wb; Snooks Eaglin, g
# re-released 1994 on Storyville STCD 8023
"New Orleans Street Singer" | rec. by Harry Oster
notes by Harry Oster
Storyville SLP 140
Snooks Eaglin discography |
| 34 | 1964 | Snooks Eaglin:
Portraits In Blues Vol. 1
- Country Boy
- Fly Right Back Baby #
- Well I Had My Fun
- Bottle It Up And Go
- Mama Don't You Tear My Clothes
- I Don't Know #
- Mean Old World #
- Alberta #
- That's Allright #
- Malaguena #
- When They Ring Them Golden Bells #
- Went Out Walkin'
- Remember Me #
# re-released 1994 on Storyville STCD 8023
"New Orleans Street Singer" | rec. by Harry Oster
notes by Paul Oliver
Storyville SLP 146
= Amiga 856 282
(GDR 1971)
Blues Collection #12 
= Teichiku ULS-1811-R
(Jp 1975) "Snooks Eaglin"
Snooks Eaglin discography |
| 35 | 1964 | Roosevelt Charles:
Blues, Prayer, Work & Trouble Songs
- Mean Trouble Blues
- Mule Blues
- Uncle Bud
- Meeting At The Old Camp Ground
- The Boll Weevil And The Bale Weevil
- Pick 'Em Up Higher
- I'm a Gamblin' Man
- Jonah And The Whale
- Greenback Dollar Blues
- Wasn't I Lucky?
- Cane Choppin'
- That Old Ship Of Zion
- Jesus Is-A Listening
- It's Gettin' Late
- Freight Train Blues
- Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burnin' | rec. 1960 by Harry Oster 
Vanguard VRS 9136
= VRS 9136 (UK 1978)
"Mean Trouble Blues" |
| 36 | 197? | Folksongs Of The Louisiana Acadians Vol. 2
- Lance Meg Waltz
- French Jig - Wallace "Cheese" Read
- The Waltz Of The Wayside
- Rabbit Stomp
- Ma Cher Belle
- Empty Bottle Stomp - Wallace "Cheese" Read
- La Belle De La Louisianne
- Ton Avait
- Ton Aura Plus
- Cher Mom
- Molitor Waltz - Milton Molitor
- Lost Lover Breakdown - Austin Pitre
- Le Blues De Elton - Milton Molitor
- Contredanse - Austin Pitre
- Chere Joues Roses | rec. by Harry Oster in Mamou
and Eunice, La., between
1956 and 1959
Arhoolie 5015
|
| 37 | 1972 | Herman E. Johnson:
Louisiana Country Blues
- I Just Keeps On Wanting You
- You Don't Know My Mind
- Motherless Children
- Depression Blues
- She's A-Looking For Me
- She Had Been Drinking
- I'm Growing Older
- Po' Boy
- Leavin' Blues
- Piano Blues
- Where The Mansion's Prepared For Me | 
Arhoolie 1060
(=) Arhoolie CD 440
www.arhoolie.com |
| 38 | 1979 | Butch Cage:
Raise A Ruckus Tonight
Butch Cage with Willie Thomas
- Mean Old Frisco
Robert 'Pete' Williams
- Black Cat Bone
Clarence Edwards
- Awful Blue
Butch Cage with Willie Thomas
- If I Had My Way
Charles Henderson
- She Was A Woman Didn't Mean No Man No Good
Clarence Edwards
- Come On Baby, Don't You Want To Go
Butch Cage with Willie Thomas
- Tomorrow Gonna Be My Trying Day
- Raise A Ruckus Tonight
Butch Cage with Willie Thomas
- Let Your Light Shine On Me
Charles Henderson
- Rock Island Blues
Clarence Edwards
- I Got A Coal Black Mare
Charles Henderson
- Corrine, Corrina
Butch Cage with Willie Thomas
- I Shall Not Be Moved
Robert 'Pete' Williams
- Hoodoo Blues
Clarence Edwards
- Can't Stand To Be Your Dog
Butch Cage with Willie Thomas
- I Take The Blues When It Rains
field recordings made in Louisiana in 1960 and 1961 by Harry Oster | 
Flyright LP 545Butch Cage & Willie
Thomas discography Flyright discography |
| 39 | 1980 | John And Old Marster
Negro Folk Tales
Jim Daniels #
- The Champion Swimmer
Emmanuel Dunn
- John And The Owl
Emmanuel Dunn
- John And The Stones
Son House
- Two At The Gate
# rec. by Vincent Kohler, all others rec. by Harry Oster
accompanying booklet text taken from: Harry Oster: "Negro Humor: John and Old Marster." Journal of the Folklore Institute 5 (1968), pp. 42-57
 | 
Flyright FLY EP 01Flyright discography |
| 40 | 199? | New Orleans Jazz
Billie & DeDe Pierce
- Mama Don't Allow
- Going Back To Florida
- Eh La Bas
- Gulf Coast Blues | 
Arhoolie CD 346www.arhoolie.com |
| 41 | 1991 | Snooks Eaglin:
Country Boy Down In New Orleans
- Country Boy Down In New Orleans
- Mama Don't You Tear My Clothes
- I've Had My Fun
- Bottle Up And Go
- Give Me The Good Old Boxcar
- Walking Blues
- Possum Up A Simmon Tree
- That's All Right
- Veal Chop And Pork Chop
- Down By The Riverside
- Model T And The Train
- Jack O'Diamonds
- Death Valley Blues
- Rock Me Mama
- John Henry
- Locomotive Train
- I Had A Little Woman
- Rock Me Mama
- Mailman Passed
- Going Back To New Orleans
- Mardi Gras Mambo
- Bottle Up & Go
- This Train
includes all of ARH 2014 plus previously unissued solo and group recordings | rec. 1958 by Harry Oster
Snooks Eaglin, voc,
6- & 12-string g, wb,
tom-toms
Lucius Bridges, wb, voc
Percy Randolph, harm,
voc, washb
Arhoolie CD 348
www.arhoolie.com Snooks Eaglin discography |
| 42 | 199? | Folksongs Of The Louisiana Acadians
- Grand Texas - Chuck Guillory
- Colinda - Wallace "Cheese" Read
- Tu Peux Cogner - Mrs. Odeus Guillory
- La Patate Chaude - Mrs. Rodney Fruge
- Je Charche Tout Partout - Wallace "Cheese" Read
- T'Es Petite, Mais T'Es Mignonne - Wallace "Cheese" Read
- La Danse De La Limonade - Mrs. Rodney Fruge
- La Betaille Dans Le 'Tit Arbre - Isom J Fontenot
- Grand Mamou - Savy Augustine
- La Danse De Mardi Gras - Bee Deshotels
- Mes Souliers Sont Rouges - Bee Deshotels
- Contredanse Francaise - Isom J. Fontenot
-Y Avait Boitine Boiteuse - Bee Deshotels
- Aux Natchitoches - Bee Deshotels
- Contredanse De Mamou - Shelby Vidrine
- Saute Crapeau - Isom J. Fontenot
- Cadet Roussel - Isom J. Fontenot
- L'Arbre Est Dans Ces Feuilles - Bee Deshotels
- J'Ai Traverse La Mer Et Les Montagnes - Isom J. Fontenot
- Fiddle Stomp - Wallace "Cheese" Read
- Ma Chere Belle - Wallace "Cheese" Read
- French Jig - Wallace "Cheese" Read
- Empty Bottle Stomp - Wallace "Cheese" Read
- I Met A Girl In The Swamp - Wallace "Cheese" Read
- You Had Some But You Don't Anymore - Isom J. Fontenot
- Two-Step De Lanse Maigre - Isom J. Fontenot
- Mamou Breakdown - Wallace "Cheese" Read
- Prison Song - Austin Pitre
- Ninety Nine Year Waltz - Milton Molitor
- Lost Lover Breakdown - Austin Pitre
- Le Blues De Elton - Milton Molitor
- Contredanse - Austin Pitre
- Molitor Waltz - Milton Molitor
- Hey Mom - Milton Molitor |
Arhoolie CD 359www.arhoolie.com |
| 43 | 1994 | Robert Pete Williams:
I'm Blue As A Man Can Be
- Pardon Denied Again
- This Wild Old Life
- Just Tippin' In #
- Louise
- Church On Fire No. 2 #
- Texas Blues
- I'm Blue As A Man Can Be
- Up and Down Blues
- So Much Is Happenin' In This Wicked World #
- Come Here Baby
- Levee Camp Blues
- Two Wings #
- Angola Special
- Motherless Children Have A Hard Time
- Please Lord, Help Me on My Way #
# previously unreleased |
Arhoolie CD 394www.arhoolie.com Robert Pete Williams
discography |
| 44 | 1994 | Robert Pete Williams:
When A Man Takes The Blues
- When A Man Takes The Blues *#
- I Had Trouble *#
- All Night Long #
- Dyin' Soul
- I Got The Blues So Bad
- Sinner Don't You Know #
- Hot Springs Blues #
- This Train Is Heaven Bound #
- Sant Fe Blues
- Blue In Me
- Death Comes Creepin' In Your Room #
- Wife And Farm Blues #
- I Want To Die Easy #
- Robert Pete Williams Monologue *#
# previously unreleased
* recorded by Chris Strachwitz in Berkeley, Ca., April 1970 |
Arhoolie CD 395www.arhoolie.com Robert Pete Williams
discography |
| 45 | 199? | Wallace “Cheese” Read:
Cajun House Party
- Bayou Pom Pom
- One-Step A Chaumont
- Les Veuves De La Coulee
- Read's Two-Step
- Tolan Waltz
- Grand Texas
- Bosco Stomp
- Chere Mama Creole
- Le Pays De L'Acadien
- Keep A Knocking
- Tu M'as Quitté Dans La Louisiane
- Perrodin Two-Step
- Cankton Waltz
- J'ai Laisse De La Maison
- 'Tit Canard Mulet
- Mamou Two-Step
- Louisiana Two-Step
- Parting Waltz
- Saute Crapeau
- La Branche du Murier
- Chère Meon
- Madame Sosthene
- Chère Tout-Toute
- Mamou Breakdown
- La Valse de Mauvaise Penchant
- Mon Coer (Est Barré) Dans L'Armoire
- Battle of New Orleans
- Chère Bébè
- Valse de L'Anse Maigre
recorded by Chris Strachwitz in 1979
recorded in the late 1950s by Dr. Harry Oster, previously unissued | 
Arhoolie CD 415www.arhoolie.com |
| 46 | 199? | Angola Prisoners' Blues
- Prisoner's Talking Blues (Robert Pete Williams) #
- Stagolee (Hogman Maxey) #
- Electric Chair Blues (Guitar Welch) #
- Black Night Is Fallin' (Hogman Maxey) #
- Some Got Six Months (Robert Pete Williams) #
- I'm Gonna Leave You Mama (Guitar Welch) #
- I'm Lonesome Blues (Robert Pete Williams) #
- Angola Bound (A Capella Group)
- Worried Blues (Hogman Maxey)
- Josephine (Guitar Welch)
- Soldier's Plea (Clara Young)
- The Moon Is Rising (Odea Mathews)
- I'm Still In Love With You (Thelma Mae Joseph)
- I Miss You So (Vocal Group)
- Hello, Sue (Butterbeans)
- Fast Life Woman (Hogman Maxey)
- Careless Love (Otis Webster)
- Have You Ever Heard The Church Bells Tone (Roosevelt Charles/Otis Webster)
- 61 Highway (Guitar Welch)
- Strike At Camp I (Roosevelt Charles)
# from Arhoolie LP 2011
all others previously unreleased | rec. between 1952 and 1960
Angola State Penitentiary
Louisiana
by Harry Oster
Arhoolie CD 419
www.arhoolie.com www.louisianafolklife.org Robert Pete Williams
discography |
| 47 | 199? | Smoky Babe, Herman E. Johnson:
Louisiana Country Blues
Smoky Babe
- I'm Broke And I'm Hungry
- Too Many Women
- Two Wings
- Mississippi River
- My Baby She Told Me
- Rabbit Blues
- Black Ghost
- Ain't Got No Rabbit Dog
- Bad Whiskey
- Black Gal
- My Baby Put Me Down
- Going Back Home
- Regular Blues
Herman E. Johnson
- I Just Keeps On Wanting You
- You Don't Know My Mind
- Motherless Children
- Depression Blues
- She's A-Looking For Me
- She Had Been Drinking
- I'm Growing Older
- Po' Boy
- Leavin' Blues
- Piano Blues
- Where The Mansion's Prepared For Me
Smoky Babe rec. in 1960 by Harry Oster in Scotlandville, La.; previously issued on Folklyric LP 118 and Arhoolie LP 2019
Herman E. Johnson rec. in 1961 by Harry Oster in Baton Rouge, La.; previously issued on Arhoolie LP 1060 |
Arhoolie CD 440www.arhoolie.com Smoky Babe discography |
| 48 | 199? | Prison Worksongs
Rodney Mason, Rev. Rogers & Roosevelt Charles
- Berta
Guitar Welch, Hogman Maxey & Andy Mosley
- Take This Hammer
Rev. Rogers, Rodney Mason & Smith
- Stewball
Odea Mathews
- Five Long Years for One Man
Guitar Welch, Hogman Maxey & Andy Mosley
- Alberta Let Your Bangs Grow Long
James Russel & Gang
- I Had Five Long Years
Johnny Butler & Gang
- Early In The Mornin'
Roosevelt Charles, Davis & Rodney Mason
- All Teamed Up in Angola's Mule Lot
Willy Rafus & Gang
- I Got a Hurtin' In My Right Side
Rodney Mason, Willy Rafus & Davis
- Let Your Hammer Ring
Willy Rafus, Andy Mosley & Johnny Butler
- Cleaning This Highway
Guitar Welch, Hogman Maxey & Robert Pete Williams
- John Henry
Odea Mathews
- Something Within Me
Murray Macon
- Jesus Cares
Emanuel Dunn
- Working On The Levee (Part 1)
- Working On The Levee (Part 2)
Big Louisiana
- Take This Hammer
Creola Scott/Ceola Scott
- Pickin' Cotton All Day Long
Emanuel Dunn
- My Mule "Grey" | rec. 1959
Angola State Penitentiary
Louisiana
by Harry Oster
notes by Harry Oster
& Chris Strachwitz
Arhoolie CD 448
www.arhoolie.com Robert Pete Williams
discography |
| 49 | 200? | Rev. Pearly Brown:
You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion
- God Don’t Ever Change *
- Motherless Children *
- It’s A Mean World *
- The Great Speckled Bird *
- I Must See Jesus *
- Just A Closer Walk With Thee *
- You’re Gonna Need That Pure Religion *
- Keep That Lamp Burned And Trimming *
- Nobody’s Fault But Mine *
- I Know It Was The Blood
- By And By (I'm Gonna See The King)
- Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning
- If I Never See You Anymore
- Ninety-Nine And A Half Won't Do
- It's A Mean Old World
- The Great Speckled Bird
- Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning
- You Gotta Move
- I'm On My Way To The Canaan Land
- Good By
- What A Morning
* Folk-Lyric FL 108 (recorded by Harry Oster in 1961 in Macon, Georgia)
previously unissued material that he recorded with his wife on radio station KPFA - FM in 1974 | rec. by Harry Oster
and Richard Allen
Arhoolie CD 9025
www.arhoolie.com |
| 50 | 2003 | Angola Prison Spirituals
Andy Mosely & Robert Pete Williams
- I'm On My Way
Robert Pete Williams
- Church On Fire With The Word Of God
Robert "Guitar" Welch
- What Shall I Do
Angola Quartet
- Brother Norah
Tom Dutson & Robert Pete Williams
- Little School Song
Robert Pete Williams
- Dyin' Soul
Roosevelt Charles
- Let My People Go
Robert Pete Williams
- So Much Is Happenin' In The News
Tom Dutson & Robert Pete Williams
- Dig My Grave With A Silver Spade
Andy Mosely & "Hogman" Maxey
- Brother Mosely Crossed The Water
Angola Quartet No. 2
- I'm Stranded On The Banks Of Jordan
Robert Pete Williams
- I'm Goin' Back With Him When He Comes
Rev. Benjamin E. Osborne
- The Old Ship Of Zion
Robert Pete Williams
- When I Lay My Burden Down
Angola Quartet
- See How They Done My Lord
- Be With Me Jesus
Angola Vocal Group
- Rise And Fly
Andy Mosely & "Hogman" Maxey
- I Know I Got Religion
- Jesus
Angola Choir
- I Take Jesus (Do Lord, Remember Me)
- Each Day (Life's Evening Sun)r
- Steal Away | rec. 1959
Angola State Penitentiary
Louisiana
by Harry Oster
notes by Harry Oster
& Chris Strachwitz
= Arhoolie CD 9036
www.arhoolie.com Robert Pete Williams
discography |
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