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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.Stefan Wirz www.wirz.de |
Sonny Boy Nelson / Eugene Powell 78 rpm / LPs / CDs
| # | year
of release | title | label # / notes |
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10 inch 78 rpm |
| 1 | 1936 | Sonny Boy Nelson
- Street Walkin' (02600-1)
- Pony Blues (02602-1)
rec. October 15, 1936 at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, LA; Eugene Powell, voc, g; Willie Harris Jr., g |
Bluebird B6672 |
| 2 | 1936 | Robert Hill
- You Gonna Look Like A Monkey When You Get Old (02605-1)
- It Is So Good (02611-1)
rec. October 15, 1936 at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, LA; Robert Hill, hca, voc.; Eugene Powell, g; prob. Willie Harris Jr., 2nd g |
Bluebird B6680 |
| 3 | 1936 | George Guesnon / Robert Hill
George Guesnon
- Goodbye Good Luck To You (02659-1) *
Robert Hill
- Pal, How I Miss You Tonight (02608-1) #
# rec. October 15, 1936 at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, LA; Robert Hill, hca, voc.; Eugene Powell, g; prob. Willie Harris Jr., 2nd g
* rec. October 16, 1936 at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, LA; Creole George Guesnon, voc, Little Brother Montgomery, p | 
Bluebird B6706 |
| 4 | 1936 | Robert Hill
- Just Smilin' (02607-1) #
- Hill's Hot Sauce (02612-1)
rec. October 15, 1936 at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, LA; Robert Hill, hca, voc, # kazoo.; Eugene Powell, g; prob. Willie Harris Jr., 2nd g |
Bluebird B6716 |
| 5 | 1936 | Sonny Boy Nelson
- Lovin' Blues (02599-1)
- If You Don't Believe I'm Leaving Baby (02601-1)
rec. October 15, 1936 at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, LA; Eugene Powell, voc, g; Willie Harris Jr., g |
Bluebird B6718 |
| 6 | 1936 | Robert Hill
- I Had A Gal For The Last Fifteen Years (02603- )
- Tell Me What's Wrong With You (02604- )
rec. October 15, 1936 at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, LA; Robert Hill, hca, voc.; Eugene Powell, g; prob. Willie Harris Jr., 2nd g |
Bluebird B6741 |
| 7 | 1936 | Robert Hill
- I'm Going To Write And Tell Mother Hill
- Lumber-Yard Blues
rec. October 15, 1936 at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, LA; Robert Hill, hca, voc.; Eugene Powell, g; prob. Willie Harris Jr., 2nd g | 
Bluebird B6776 |
| 8 | 1936 | Robert Hill / Blue Bill
Robert Hill
- G Blues (02606-1) #
Blue Bill
- More Blues (100899-1) *
# rec. October 15, 1936 at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, LA; Robert Hill, hca, speech.; Eugene Powell, g; prob. Willie Harris Jr., 2nd g
* rec. August 5, 1936; George Clarke ('Blue Bill'), voc, hca; or: George Clarke, hca solo; acc. unknown, g |
Bluebird B6795 |
| | | Mississippi Matilda
- Peel Your Banana (02593- )
rec. October 15, 1936 at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, LA; Matilda Powell, voc.; Eugene Powell, g; prob. Willie Harris Jr., g | Bluebird unissued |
| 9 | 193? | Mississippi Matilda
- Hard Working Woman (02595- )
- Happy Home Blues (02596- )
rec. October 15, 1936 at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, LA; Matilda Powell, voc.; Eugene Powell, g; prob. Willie Harris Jr., g |
Bluebird B6812 |
| 10 | 1937 | Sonny Boy Nelson / Tampa Red
Sonny Boy Nelson
- Low Down (02598-1) #
Tampa Red
- When Love Comes In (07608- ) *
# rec. October 15, 1936 at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, LA; Eugene Powell, voc, g; Willie Harris Jr., voc, g; prob. Bo Carter, g
* rec. May 4, 1937 in Aurora, IL; Tampa Red & The Chicago Five | 
Bluebird B7091 |
| 11 | 193? | Sonny Boy Nelson / John Estes
Sonny Boy Nelson
- Long Tall Woman (02597-1) #
John Estes
- The Girl I Love, She Got Long And Curly Hair (55581-1) *
# rec. October 15, 1936 at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, LA; Eugene Powell, voc, g; Willie Harris Jr., g
* rec. September 24, 1929 in Memphis, TN [Victor V38549] | 
Bluebird B7849 |
| 12 | 193? | Mississippi Matilda / Mack & Mack
Mississippi Matilda
- A. & V. Blues (02594- ) #
Mack & Mack
- Black (01899-1) *
# rec. October 15, 1936 St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, La; Matilda Powell, voc.; Eugene Powell, g; prob. Willie Harris Jr., g
* rec. December 22, 1936 in Chicago, IL; Billy Mack and Mary Mack, voc duet, acc. poss. Albert Ammons, p |
Bluebird B7908 |
LP / CD compilations |
| 13 | 1968 | Down With The Game Vol. 3
Will Batts
- Cheatin' Woman
- Cadillac Baby
Lucille Bogan
- Shave 'Em Dry
Big Bill Broonzy
- C & A Blues
Dipper Boy Council
- I Don't Want No Hungry Woman
- Lookin' For My Baby
Sam Montgomery
- I'm Through With You
Sonny Boy Nelson
- Low Down
Charlie Pickett
- Trembling Blues
Yank Rachell
- Night Latch Blues
- Gravel Road Blues
Walter Roland
- Piano Stomp
Frank Stokes
- Mistreatin' Blues | 
Down With The Game
D 203 Down With The Game
discography
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| 14 | 1969 | Masters Of The Blues 1928-1940
Robert Johnson
- Little Queen Of Spades
- Love In Vain Blues
Curley Weaver
- Sometime Mama,
- Two Faced Woman
Little Bill Gaither
- Georgia Barrel House
Blind Boy Fuller
- You Got To Have Your Dollar
- I Had A Gal For The Last Fifteen Years
Robert Hill
- I Had A Gal For The Last Fifteen Years
Tommy Johnson
- Lonesome Blues take 1 (unissued)
- Lonesome Blues take 2 (unissued)
- Canned Heat
Bumble Bee Slim
- I'm Waiting On You
- Downtown Blues
Frank Stokes
- Downtown Blues (unissued take)
Texas Alexander
- Yellow Girl Blues
- I Am Calling You Blues | notes by Chris Albertson
Historical HLP-31Historical discography |
| | | Eugene Powell
rec. 1970 and 1972 by Gene Rosenthal and Steve LaVere | Adelphi unissued |
| 15 | 1974 | Lonesome Road Blues
15 Years in the Mississippi Delta 1926 - 1941
Big Joe Williams
- Little Leg Woman
Arthur Pettis
- Good Boy Blues
Sonny Boy Nelson
- Street Walkin'
Mississippi Bracey
- Stered Gal
- Cherry Ball
Sam Collins
- My Road Is Rough And Rocky
- Lobesome Road Blues
Robert Petway
- Catfish Blues
Freddie Spruell
- Milk Cow Blues
- Tom Cat Blues
Skip James
- I'm So Glad
Robert Lockwood
- Take A Little Walk With Me
Johnny Temple
- The Evil Devil Blues
The Mississippi Moaner
- It's Cold In China Blues | notes by Stephen Calt
and John Miller
Yazoo 1038
= Yazoo CD 1038 (1992?)
Yazoo discography |
| 16 | 1976 | Harmonica Blues
Great Harmonica Performances of the 1920s and '30s
Freeman Stowers
- Railroad Blues
State Street Boys
- Crazy About You
Carver Boys
- Wang Wang Harmonica Blues
Lee Brown
- My Driving Wheel
Ashley & Foster
- Bay Rum Blues
Robert Hill
- I'm Going To Write And Tell Mother
Chuck Darling
- Blowin' The Blues
- Harmonica Rag
Jaybird Coleman
- Man Trouble Blues
Jazz Gillum
- I Want You By My Side
Alfred Lewis
- Friday Moan Blues
Chicken Wilson & Skeeter Hinton
- House Snake Blues
Bobby Leecan & Robert Cooksey
- Need More Blues
De Ford Bailey
- Davidson County Blues | 
Yazoo L 1053Yazoo discography |
| 17 | 1977 | Mississippi Delta & South Tennessee Blues
Sam Chatmon
- Open Your Book
Eddie Quesie & James Thomas, g
- Once I Had A Car
Asie Payton
- Catfish Blues
Wallace Johnson
- Pine Top's Boogie
James Thomas
- Bottle Up And Go
Eugene Powell
- Poor Boy Blues
Walter Cooper
- Peach Tree Blues
Cary Tate
- Early One Morning
Charley Sangster
- Bull Cow Blues
Van Hunt
- Mister Crump
Joe Cooper
- Boogie Children
Eugene Powell
- M & O Blues
rec. 1976 | 
Albatros VPA 8387= Albatros VC 4894 (cassette) Albatros discography |
| 18 | 1977? | Jackson Blue Boys (And two from New Orleans)
Sixteens classics of blues, jazz, hokum and minstrelsy 1928 - 1940
New Orleans Nehi Boys
- Mobile Stomp
- Farish Street Rag
Mississippi Blacksnakes
- Blue Sky Blues
Sonny Boy Nelson
- Low Down
Willie Lofton
- It's Killing Me
- Poor Boy Blues
Alec Johnson
- Mysterious Coon
Bo Carter
- County Farm Blues
- Border Of New Mexico
Charlie McCoy
- It Ain't No Good part 1
Arthur Pettis
- Thart Won't Do
Walter Vincson
- Losing Blues
Jackson Blue Boys
- Hidin' On Me
- Sweet Alberta
Johnny Temple
- Snapping Cat | notes by Chris Smith
Policy Wheel PW 4593Policy Wheel discography |
| 19 | 1978 | Eugene Powell ("Sonny Boy Nelson")
Police In Mississippi
- Police In Mississippi Blues
- 44 Blues
- Blues Leaping From Texas
- Blues In G
- The Blues Jumped A Rabbit
- Old Home Blues
- Reminiscences
- Meet Me In The Bottom
- Dark Road Blues
rec. August 8, 1976 in Greenville, Miss. by Enzo Castello & Gianni Marcucci | 
Albatros VPA 8422= Albatros VC 4919
(cassette) Albatros discography |
| 20 | 197? | Way Back Yonder ...
Original Country Blues Volume 2
Clarksdale, Greenville, Leland, Mississippi (1978)
Wade Walton
- The Little Red Rooster
- Razor Rhythm
Ernest Roy
- Boogie Children
Big Jack Johnson
- Catfish Blues
Wallace Johnson
- Tommy Dorsey Boogie
- Vicksburg Blues
Eugene Powell
- Hesitation Blues
- See See Rider
Son Thomas
- Shake 'Em On Down
- If I Get Lucky
- Four Women Blues | 
Albatros VPA 8459Albatros discography |
| 20a | 1979 | I Got The Blues This Morning
Charley Sangster
- Dreamed Eyes Woman
- Kokomo Blues
Lum Guffin
- Louise
- Baby Please Don't Go
John Williams
- Mr. Freddy Blues
Charley Taylor
- The Blues So Bad
Eugene Powell
- Greenville Boogie
- I Got The Blues And I Can't Be Satisfied
James Thomas
- Mama Don't Allow
- Bumble Bee Blues
Lonzo Burkes
- Louisiana Blues
Eugene Powell
- Big Fat Mama
William Diamond
- Stop Your Crying
Sam Chatmon
- Falling Out
Eddie Cusic [name misspelled "Eddie Quesie"]
- You Better Stop Arguing Over Me
Wallace Johnson
- After Hours
Van Hunt
- Mississippi River Blues
Clay Pittman
- I Got The Blues This Morning
Asie Payton
- Blind Man | notes by Gianni Marcucci
Albatros VPA 8461Albatros discography |
| 21 | 1980 | Delta Blues Festival '79
Napoleon Strickland Fife and Drum Band (Jesse Mae Hemphill, Abe Young)
- Shimmy Shawhaha
Boyd Rivers
- Grow Sick And Die (de.youtube.com)
Clyde Maxwell
- Alberta
Big Joe Williams
- Tell Me Mama
Harmonica Medley:
Napoleon Strickland with Hammie Nixon
- Fox Chase
- Let's Boogie
- Rock Me Mama
- Mule To Ride
Sam Chatmon & Eugene Powell
- How Long
Johnny Shines
- Have You Ever Loved A Woman
Sam Myers
- Everything's Gonna Be Alright
Sylvia Embry
- Goin' To New York
Betty Fikes & Johnny Shines Band
- Rock Me Baby
Lefty Dizz
- You Might Have Made Your Move Too Soon
rec. September 8, 1979 in Freedom Village (outside Greenville), Mississippi, by Worth Long in cooperation with Mississippi Action for Community Education (MACE)
 soundtrack of film "Mississippi Delta Blues" 60 min, colour, mono, 1980; filmed live at the 2nd Mississippi Delta Blues Festival at Freedom Village, hosted by Willie Dixon (Kay Jazz KJ 081)
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Delta Blues DBF 79
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| 22 | 1988 | Giants Of Country Blues Guitar
(1967 - 1981)
Jessie Mae Hemphill #
- Eagle Bird #
- Shame, Shame #
Son House
- Baby Please Don't Dog Me 'Round
Sam Chatmon
- Stoop Down Baby
- Baby Please Come Back To Me
- Stop And Listen
Eugene Powell
- 44 Blues
- Suitcase Full Of Troubles
- Texas - Santa Fe
Furry Lewis
- Going To Brownsville
Jack Owens
- Hard Times
- Cherry Ball
- Give Me Your Money
- Devil Blues
Mager Johnson / Carey 'Ditty' Mason
- Traveling Man Blues
Mott Willis
- Traveling Man Blues
- Someday Blues
- Bad Night Blues
# rec. 1991 (on CD only) | 
Wolf 120.911
(=) Wolf CD 120.911
"Giants Of Country Blues
Guitar Vol. 1 (1967 - 1991)"
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| 23 | 198? | Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon / Sonny Boy Nelson:
Southern Blues
Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon *
- You Rascal You
- I Ain't Gonna Sell It
- Someday Baby You Ain't Gonna Worry My Life Anymore
- The Death Of President Kennedy
- Tear It Down (Tearing Little Daddy)
- Mama Don't Allow Me To Stay Out All Night Long
- 80 Highway
- Mama Won't You Do That Thing
Sonny Boy Nelson (Eugene Powell) #
- "44" Blues
- Pony Blues
- Don't Cry Baby
- M&O Blues
- Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue
- G Rag
- My Gal's Got A Heart Like A Rock Cast In The Sea
- I Just Keep On Working
- Blues On My Mind
* rec. live at El Mocombo, Toronto, 1974
# rec. in Greenville, Miss., 1985 | 
Wolf 120.916 |
| 24 | 1989 | Sonny Boy Nelson with Mississippi Matilda and Robert Hill (1936)
Complete Recordings In Chronological Order
Mississippi Matilda
- A. & V. Blues
- Hard Working Woman
- Happy Home Blues
Sonny Boy Nelson
- Long Tall Woman
- Low Down
- Lovin' Blues
- Street Walkin'
- If You Don't Believe I'm Leaving, Baby
- Pony Blues
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 Mother Hill
- It Is So Good
- Hill's Hot Sauce | notes by Paul Oliver
Wolf WSE 128 |
| 25 | 199? | Giants Of Country Blues Vol. 3
Jack Owens
- Leavin’ Blues
Eugene Powell
- Blues In Texas
Son Thomas
- Walking Cane
LV Conerly
- Hard Headed Woman
Roosevelt Holts
- Big Road Blues
Arzo Youngblood
- I Don’t Want No Woman
Sam Chatmon
- Talkin’ Bout My Girl
Wade Walton
- Catfish Blues
Isaac Youngblood
- Big Road Blues
Wade Walton
- Catfish Blues
Isaac Youngblood
- Big Road Blues
Mott Willis
- Long Tall Woman
Robert Shaw
- Ma Grinder Pt 2
- Mobile & KC Blues
- The Cows
- Rock Island
Lavada Durst
- Boogie Woogie
Alex Moore
- Henry 6 Mike
Memphis Piano Red
- Mama Likes Good Whiskey
- After Hours
Mose Vinson
- Blues Jumped A Rabbit
- Four O’Clock Blues | 
Wolf 120.921not identical with Wolf CD
120.918 with same title !!! |
| 26 | 1993 | Jack Owens & Eugene Powell
The Last Giants Of Mississippi Blues
Jack Owens
- Cherry Ball
- Hard Times
- Devil
- You Leavin'
- No Lovin'
- Please Give Me Your Money
Eugene Powell
- 44 Blues
- Suitcase Full Of Troubles
- Police In Mississippi
- Born In Texas
- Good Mornin', Little Schoolgirl
- Blues In Texas
- Goin' Up The Country
- When I Leave Town
- Mississippi River
- Mean Mistreating Mama
Jack Owens & Bud Spires
- Hard Times
- My Baby's Gone
- Keep On Rumblin'
- Cool Water
- Devil
rec. 1981-91 | 
Wolf CD 120.931 |
| 27 | 1994 | Memphis Blues Caravan, Vol. 1
Sam Chatmon
- Forgive Me Too
Big Sam Clark
- I Fell in Love With This Woman
Sonny Boy Nelson
- Pony Blues
Earl Bell
- Travelin' Blues
Sleepy John Estes / Hammie Nixon
- President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long
- Yellow Yam Blues
Bukka White
- Bed Springs Blues
Furry Lewis
- Mary Tell-Blues/Mother Story
Harmonica Frank
- Goin' Away Happy
Houston Stackhouse
- Crying Won't Help You
Joe Willie Wilkins & His King Biscuit Boys
- Me And The Devil Blues | notes by Steve LaVere
Memphis Archives
CD 7008 |
| 28 | 199? | Mississippi Blues Vol. 3
Complete Recordings of Robert Petway, Mississippi Matilda & Sonny Boy Nelson
Robert Petway
- Catfish Blues
- Ride 'em On Down
- Rockin' Chair Blues
- My Little Girl
- Let Me Be Your Boss
- Left My Baby Crying
- Sleepy Woman Blues
- Don't Go Down Baby
- Bertha Lee Blues
- Boogie Woogie Woman
- Hollow Log Blues
- In The Evening
- My Baby Left Me
- Cotton Pickin' Blues
Mississippi Matilda
- A & V Blues
- Hard Working Woman
- Happy Home Blues
Sonny Boy Nelson
- Long Tall Woman
- Low Down
- Lovin' Blues
- Street Walkin'
- If You Don't Believe I'm Leaving Baby
- Pony Blues | notes by Chris Smith
Document DOCD 5671 |
additional information appreciated !!!
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Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Görgen Antonsson discographies
- Lawrence Cohn: Nothing But The Blues.- New York, London, Paris (Abbeville Press) 1993, p.
- Robert M.W. Dixon & John Godrich: Blues & Gospel Records 1902 - 1943, 3rd ed. 1982, p. 158, 334, 531/532, 559
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources
thanks to Alan Balfour for additional info
source of left column picture: Cover of CrossCut Catalog 95/96; photographer: Axel Küstner 1994
Eugene Powell 1994
(CrossCut Catalog 95/96
photographer: Axel Küstner)
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