W I L L I E   G U Y   R A I N E Y; photographer: Margo Rosenbaum)
Willie Guy Rainey at the Georgia Grassroots Music Festival
source: Blues Unlimited 131/132, 1978, p. 36
photographer: Margo Rosenbaum

Willie Guy
Rainey

b. April 17, 1901 in Calhoun County, Alabama
d. August 23, 1983 in College Park, Georgia

discography

 
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.

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Willie Guy Rainey LPs
#year
of release
titlelabel # / notes
11978Georgia Grassroots Music Festival

The Eller Brothers
- Going To Georgia
The Female Nightingales
- I'm Wrapped Up, Tied Up, And Tangled Up In His Love
Eddie Kirkland
- Mojo Hand
Betty Smith
- Little Margaret
Ed Hoover & Burt Williamson
- Sugar Foot Rag
John Lee Ziegler
- Used To Be Mine, But Look Who Got Her Now
The Jazzology All-Stars
- Walking Stick

Willie Guy Rainey voc, p
- Temper Blues
James 'Tip' Neal
- Jews Harp Jump

Brother Theotis Taylor
- If I Could Just Hold Out Till Tomorrow Comes
Clint Carter & His Old-Time Fiddle Band
- Sally Goodin
Embry Raines
- All Night Boogie
Uncle John Patterson
- Snowbird In Ashbank
The Washboard Band
- Toddy For The Body Song
Joe Parr
- Indian Chief Blues
Grandpa Lester Smallwood
- Cripple Creek
Golden Bailey
- The Dog
Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers
- I'm Gonna Lay Down My Life For My Lord

rec. at the 1976 and 1977 Georgia Grassroots Music Festival, Atlanta, GA


Georgia Grassroots Music
Festival Records HY 1346
2197?Willie Guy Rainey

- So Sweet *
- Keep On Trucking #
- Sitting On Top Of The World
- Old-Time Religion $
- Step It Up And Go

- Don't You Lie To Me
- Kansas City Blues
- Somebody's Calling My Name
- Bottle It Up And Go #
- New York Waltz $
- John Henry

Willie Guy Rainey voc, acoustic g
* Willie Guy Rainey voc, electric g
$ Willie Guy Rainey voc, p
# + Albie Scholl, harm, Tommy Dean, b, Don Shackleford, dr
rec. 1978 by Bruce Baxter; prod. & ed. by George Mitchell




Southland SLP-7

Southland discography

Sources / Further reading:
- Robert Springer: Georgia blues today.- Blues Unlimited 131/132, 1978, p.36-37
- Robert Springer: Review 'Georgia Grassroots Music Festival' (Album without label, not for sale commercially)
  Blues Unlimited 133 (1979), p. 27-28
- Val Wilmer: Still got the blues - Georgia bluesmen talking to Val Wilmer.- Blues Unlimited 133 (1979), p. 16-20
- Robert Springer: Review of Southland SLP-7 in Blues Unlimited 137/138, 1980, p. 47-48
- Jim O'Neal: Willie Guy Rainey.- Living Blues 58 (1983), p. 44

 

from Blues Unlimited 131/132, 1978, p. 55; photographer: Valerie Wilmer
source: Blues Unlimited 131/132 (1978), p. 55; photographer: Valerie Wilmer

 

cover of Blues Unlimited 133, 1979; click to enlarge !
cover of Blues Unlimited 133, 1979
photographer: Valerie Wilmer

 

from back cover of Southland SLP-7; photographer not named
source: back cover of Southland SLP-7; photographer not named

 

Stefan Wirz


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