Robert Curtis Smith 45 rpm / LPs / CDs
| # | year
of release | title | label # / notes |
|---|
| 1 | 1960 | I Have To Paint My Face
F 1005 (1960, first pressing) track list:
Sam Chatman
- I Have To Paint My Face [lyrics]
- You Shall Be Free (Nigger Be A Nigger) *
- I Stand And Wonder
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- Forty-Four Blues
Jasper Love
- Desert Blues
Sam Chatmon
- Lay My Burden Down (Glory Hallelujah) *
Kathryn Pitman and group
- Save A Seat For Me
Wade Walton & R. C. Smith
- Barbershop Rhythm
R.C. Smith
- Going Back To Texas
Jasper Love & Columbus Jones
- The Slop *
R. C. Smith
- Lost Love Blues *
- Lonely Widow [actual title: "Lonely Widower"]
Wade Walton
- Rooster Blues
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- Butch's Blues
* omitted from 1969 and 1980 remastered LP versions
notes by Mack McCormick:
  
F 1005 (1960, second pressing, and 1980) track list:
Sam Chatman
- I Have To Paint My Face [lyrics]
K. C. Douglas
- Big Road Blues #
Sam Chatman
- I Stand And Wonder
Big Joe Williams
- Texas Blues #
Bukka White
- Drifting Blues #
Wade Walton & R. C. Smith
- Barbershop Rhythm
R. C. Smith
- Going Back To Texas
K. C. Douglas & Sidney Maiden
- Blues And Trouble #
R. C. Smith
- Lonely Widow [actual title: "Lonely Widower"]
Wade Walton
- Rooster Blues
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- Butch's Blues
# on remastered LP version only
rec. July 24, 1960 in Clarksdale, Miss. by Chris A. Strachwitz with assistance from Mr. and Mrs. Paul Oliver; Robert Curtis Smith, voc, g | notes by Mack McCormick
Arhoolie F 1005
(1960, first pressing)notes by Chris Strachwitz
Arhoolie F 1005 (1980)
subtitled "A Random Collection of
Mississippi Blues"  Arhoolie discography
partly reissued on Arhoolie
CD 432 (1995) subtitled
"Mississippi Blues 1960"
www.arhoolie.com |
| 2 | 1960 | Blues 'n Trouble
Big Joe Williams
- Married Woman Blues
Lil' Son Jackson
- Johnny Mae
Lowell Fulson
- Good Woman Blues
Mance Lipscomb
- Back Water Blues
Jasper Love
- Jove's Honeydripper
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- One Thin Dime
Sam Chatman
- God Don't Like Ugly
"Whistling" Alex Moore
- Wake Up Old Lady
Black Ace
- Hitchhiking Woman
Robert Curtis Smith
- Stella Ruth #
Mercy Dee
- I Been A Fool
Sidney Maiden
- Chicago Blues *
Fat Boy Hayes [aka 'Jelly Belly']
- Goin' Back South *
* on 1980 remastered LP version only
on CD 432 only:
Sam Chatmon
- Hollandale Blues
# rec. July 24, 1960 in Clarksdale, Miss. by Chris Strachwitz | 
Arhoolie FS 101notes by Chris Strachwitz
Arhoolie F 1006 Arhoolie discography
partly reissued on Arhoolie
CD 432 (1995) subtitled
"Mississippi Blues 1960"
www.arhoolie.com
|
| 3 | 196? | Robert Curtis Smith
- We Love Each Other (A)
- Don't Drive Me Away (B)
rec. July 28, 1961 in Memphis, Tenn.; R.C. Smith, voc, g; Sam Moore, dr | 7 inch 45 rpm
Arhoolie 45-502 |
| 4 | 1965 | Bad Luck N' Trouble
Clifton Chenier
- Why Did You Go Last Night
R.C. Smith
- Don't Drive Me Away #
Mercy Dee
- Bird Brain Baby
Lightning Hopkins & Spider Kilpatrick
- Candy Wagon
James Phillips
- No Lovin'
Little Son Willis
- Bad Luck N' Trouble
- Harlem Blues
K.C. Douglas
- I Know You Didn't Want Me
Fred McDowell
- Fred's Rambling Blues
Detroit Slim
- Nelly Mae
Essie Jenkins
- Influenza Blues
Bukka White
- Midnight Blues
Manny Nichols
- Throw A Little Boogie
# rec. July 28, 1961 in Memphis, Tenn.; R.C. Smith, voc, g; Sam Moore, dr | 
Arhoolie F-1018 |
| 5 | 1963 | The Blues of Robert Curtis Smith:
Clarksdale Blues
- Put Your Arms Around Me
- Catfish
- Rock Me Mamma
- Council Spur Blues
- I Feel So Good
- I'm Going Away
- Ain't That Loving You, Baby
- Get A Real Young Woman
- See My Chauffer
- Sunflower River Blues
- Katy Mae
- Goody, Goody
- Can You Remember Me
- I Hate To Leave You With Tears In My Eyes
rec. July 28, 1961 in Clarksdale, Miss.; Robert Curtis Smith, voc, g | notes by Mack McCormick
Bluesville 1064Bluesville discography |
| | | Robert Curtis Smith
- I Feel So Good
- Everybody's Fishing
- One Day Jesus Came #
- She Want Me To Cry
- Everybody's Fishing
- Counncil Spur Blues
rec. July 28, 1961 in Clarksdale, Miss.; Robert Curtis Smith, voc, g | Bluesville unissued
resp. # "rejected" |
| 6 | 1965 | Conversation With The Blues
A Documentary of Field Recordings by Paul Oliver
Boogie Woogie Red - "So Much Good Feeling" Spoken, with own piano
Willie Thomas - "A Little Different" Spoken
James Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - "Kill That Nigger Dead" Cage, vocal and fiddle; Thomas, vocal and guitar
Lil' Son Jackson - "The Onliest Way" Spoken
J. B. Lenoir - "My Father's Style" Guitar solo
J. B. Lenoir - "So It Rocked On" Spoken
J. B. Lenoir - "Move To Kansas City" Vocal and own guitar
Otis Spann - "When She Comes Back" Spoken
Otis Spann - "Poor Country Boy" Vocal, with own piano
Lightnin' Hopkins - "Ain't No Easy Thing" Spoken
Mance Lipscomb - "Evil Heart Blues" Vocal and own piano #
Blind Arvella Gray - "A Roughneck" Spoken
Roosevelt Sykes - "West Helena Blues" Vocal and guitar
Will Shade - "Days Of Nineteen-Hundred" Spoken
Will Shade - "Newport News Blues" Vocal and own guitar
Whistling Alex Moore - "Chock House Days" Spoken
Whistling Alex Moore - "Come and Get Me" Vocal and own piano
Whistling Alex Moore - "Chock House Days" Spoken
Brother John Sellers - "Move Back For What?" Spoken
J. B. Lenoir - "I Been Down So Long" Vocal and own guitar
Jasper Love - "Santa Fé Blues" Vocal and piano
John Lee Hooker - "Somewhere Down The Line" Spoken
Robert Curtis Smith - "I Hope One Day My Luck Will Change" #
Otis Spann - "Only Places They Can Go" Spoken
Otis Spann - "People Calls Me Lucky" Vocal and own piano
Henry Townsend - "What Have I Committed" Spoken
James Butch Cage - "Tween Midnight And Day" Vocal and own guitar
Little Brother Montgomery - "Walking Basses" Spoken
Little Brother Montgomery - "Dud Low Joe" Piano solo
Little Brother Montgomery - "It's A Barrelhouse Blues" Spoken
Little Brother Montgomery - "Vicksburg Blues" Vocal with piano
Little Brother Montgomery - "They Beat Me To Chicago" Spoken
Roosevelt Sykes - "They All Called Him 'Pork Chops'" Spoken
Roosevelt Sykes - "Forty-Four Blues" Vocal and own piano
Robert Junior Lockwood & Sunnyland Slim - "Doctor Clayton And Me" Spoken
Robert Junior Lockwood & Sunnyland Slim - "Take A Little Walk With Me" Vocal with own electric guitar, with Sunnyland Slim, piano
Edwin Buster Pickens - "To Have The Blues Within" Spoken
Mance Lipscomb - "Blues In The Bottle" Vocal and own guitar
# rec. July 24, 1960 in Clarksdale, Miss. by Chris A. Strachwitz with assistance from Mr. and Mrs. Paul Oliver; Robert Curtis Smith, voc, g; Wade Walton, voc
LP accompanying Paul Oliver's book by the same title
 | 
Decca LK 4664
2nd ed. (1997) of book
(with enclosed CD)
|
| 7 | 1969 | Blues Roots
- Frisco Lines - Fred McDowell
- Fare You Well Baby Blues - Joe Callicott
- Long Haired Doney - R. L. Burnside
- Mean Stepfather - Big Joe Williams
- Bald Eagle Train - Bukka White and Washboard Willie
- Don't Drive Me Away - R.C. Smith #
- Long Tall Girl - Mance Lipscomb
- Red River Blues - Lil' Son Jackson
- I Am the Black Ace - Black Ace
- Whistling Alex Moore - Alex Moore
- Texas Blues - L. and M. Fulson
- Cat Bear - John Jackson
- Ma Grinder - Robert Shaw
- Take a Walk - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Bear Cat - John Jackson
- Snowing and Raining - Guitar Slim and Jelly Belly
- Got A Date I Can't Be Late - Jesse Fuller
- You Got Another - Lightnin' Hopkins and Barbara Dane
- Struggle Here - Juke Boy Bonner and Simon
- Listen At That Bull - G. Coleman
- Trouble Blues - Big Joe Turner
- Dream - Little Willie Littlejohn
- Sugar Daddy - Wade Walton
- I'm Feeling Alright - Big Mama Thorton
- Sometimes I Cry - Johnny Young
- Black Snake Blues - Clifton Chenier
- Two Bugs - Earl Hooker
# rec. July 28, 1961 in Memphis, Tenn.; R.C. Smith, voc, g; Sam Moore, dr
 
"The selections from this album have been comprised from the catalog of Arhoolie Records ... Except where otherwise indicated, all selections produced and recorded by Chris Strachwitz" | two record set
Poppy PYS-60.003
= RCA Victor SHP-6124/25
= RCA Victor LPM 10304Poppy discography 
= Tomato DLP 2696181 (1989)
reissued as Tomato CD
TOM 3001
|
| 7a | 1970 | John Jeremy's Film
Blues Like Showers Of Rain
Gus Cannon
- My Money Never Runs Out
J.B. Lenoir
- It Hurts Me So Bad (Someday Baby)
Willie Thomas, James 'Butch' Cage & Grandson
- Little Red Rooster
Little Brother Montgomery
- Trembling Blues
J.B. Lenoir
- I Feel Like Playing My Box
Sunnyland Slim & Robert Lockwood
- Take a Little Walk With Me
Wade Walton & R.C. Smith
- Barbershop Rhythm
J.B. Lenoir
- I Been Don So Long [from Decca 4664]
Otis Spann
- People Call Me Lucky
Willie Thomas & James 'Butch' Cage
- Penitentiary Blues
Sunnyland Slim & Robert Lockwood Jr.
- Prison Bound
J.B. Lenoir
- I Don't Care What Nobody Say (Stand By Me)
Willie Thomas & James 'Butch' Cage
- Kill That Nigger Dead
J.B. Lenoir
- It Hurts Me So Bad (Someday Baby)
Robert Curtis Smith
- Blues | 
Kay 014 KJ (1979)
(30 minutes)
= Rhapsody 8022 (1986)
(=) Vestapol DVD 13003
(2003 "bonus track")
"Legends of Country
Blues Guitar Vol. 1"
|
| 8 | 1988 | Bluesville Vol. 1
"Folk Blues"
Furry Lewis
- Judge Boushay Blues
Memphis Willie B.
- Country Girl Blues
K.C. Douglas
- Big Road Blues
Big Joe Williams
- Levee Camp Blues
Robert Curtis Smith
- Catfish Blues
Memphis Willie B
- Highway 61 (CD only)
Furry Lewis
- Shake 'em On Down (CD only)
Sidney Maiden
- San Quentin Blues
Wade Walton
- Big Fat Mama
Pete Franklin
- Grievin' Me
Blind Willie McTell
- Dying Crapshooter's Blues
Blind Snooks Eaglin
- Alberta (CD only)
Lonnie Johnson
- Fine Booze and Heavy Dues
Scrapper Blackwell
- Blues Before Sunrise
Doug Quattlebaum
- You Is One Black Rat
Reverend Gary Davis
- You Got to Move
Blind Snooks Eaglin
- Brown Skin Woman
Baby Tate
- See What You Done Done (CD only)
Scrapper Blackwell
- Goin' Where The Monon Crosses The Yellow Dog (CD only)
Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry
- Pawn Shop
Lightnin' Hopkins (LP only)
- T-Model Blues | notes by John H. Cowley
 
Ace CH 247
Ace CDCH 247
Bluesville discography |
| 9 | 1995 | I Have To Paint My Face
- I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatmon [lyrics]
- Big Road Blues - K.C. Douglas
- I Stand And Wonder - Sam Chatmon
- Texas Blues - Big Joe Williams
- Night Shirt Blues - K.C. Douglas (previously unreleased)
- Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas/Bruce Bratton (previously unreleased)
- Hollandale Blues - Sam Chatmon (previously unreleased)
- Slop, The - Jasper Love/Columbus Jones
- Stella Ruth - R.C. Smith
- God Don't Like Ugly - Sam Chatmon
- Rooster Blues - Wade Walton
- Barbershop Rhythm - Wade Walton / R.C. Smith
- Going Back To Texas - R.C. Smith
- Blues And Trouble - K.C. Douglas/Sidney Maiden
- Lonely Widower - R.C. Smith
- Lost Love Blues - R.C. Smith
- Married Woman Blues - Big Joe Williams
- Love's Honeydripper - Jasper Love
- Desert Blues - Jasper Love
- One Thin Dime - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas
- Butch's Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas
- Forty Four Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas
- Chicago Blues - Sidney Maiden/K.C. Douglas |
Arhoolie CD 432www.arhoolie.com |
| 10 | 1999 | The Bluesville Years, Vol. 9
"Down the Country Way"
J.T. Adams And Shirley Griffith
- Match Box Blues
- O Mama How I Love You
Robert Curtis Smith
- Get A Real Young Woman
- I'm Going Away
Smoky Babe
- Hottest Brand Goin'
- Locomotive Blues
Robert Pete Williams
- Free Again
- Rolling Stone
Wade Walton
- Rock Me, Mamma
- Blues, Stay Away From Me
Big Joe Williams
- Jockey Ride Blues
- Coal And Iceman Blues
Pete Franklin
- I Got To Find My Baby
- Black Gal
Scrapper Blackwell
- Blues Before Sunrise
- A Blues
Blind Willie Mctell
- Broke Down Engine Blues
- Don't Forget It
Tampa Red
- Dark And Stormy Night
- You Better Let My Gal Alone | 
Prestige PRCD-9917-2Bluesville discography |
| 11 | 1999 | From Mississippi To Chicago
R.L. Burnside
- Poor Black Mattie
Pinetop Perkins
- Kansas City
Robert Curtis Smith #
- The Lord Will Make A Way Somehow
Boogaloo Ames
- Tommy Dorsey's Boogie Woogie
R.L. Burnside
- See My Jumper Hangin' On The Line
Robert Curtis Smith #
- Lye Water Conversion
Pinetop Perkins
- Everyday I Have The Blues
R.L. Burnside
- Fireman Ring The Bell
Eddie Cusic
- Gonna Lose A Good Man
R.L. Burnside
- Skinny Woman
Robert Curtis Smith #
- Thank You
- Milky White Way
R.L. Burnside
- Bad Luck
Robert Curtis Smith #
- Calvary
Boogaloo Ames
- After Hours
# rec. 1990 in Mississippi by Matthew Block
from liner notes: "R.C. Smith made a fine album for the Prestige Bluesville label in the 1960s -- it was one of the best albums in the Bluesville series. Soon thereafter, Smith disappeared from the blues world, but 30 years later, he was rediscovered living in Chicago. He had given up blues in the passing years, but he continued to play in church, evolving a great style that brings to mind the work of one of the great bluesmen of the 1960s, Robert Pete Williams. The autobiographical piece "Lye Water Conversion" proves Smith to be just as good at inventing songs on the spot as Lightnin' Hopkins and Robert Pete Williams." | 
Hightone HMG 1008= P-Vine PCD 5574 (Jp 1999) www.hightone.com |
| 12 | 2000 | Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary
disc 1
- San Francisco Bay Blues - Jesse Fuller (previously unreleased)
- Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas
- Shake Shake Mama - Mance Lipscomb
- Cairo Blues - Lil' Son Jackson
- Barbershop Rhythm - Wade Walton / Robert Curtis Smith
- One Thin Dime - Butch Cage / Willie Thomas
- Charmin' Betsy - Hodges Brothers
- Whistlin' Alex Moore's Blues - Alex Moore
- I Am The Black Ace - Black Ace
- Brother James - Big Joe Williams
- Lady Luck - Mercy Dee
- Don't Drive Me Away - R.C. Smith
- Zydeco Introduction - Zydeco Announcer
- Bernadette Chere - Albert Chevalier
- Bald Headed Woman - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Baby Please Don't Go - James Campbell
- Believe On Me - Rev. Louis Overstreet
- Low Down Blues - George Lewis
- Country Blues, The - J.E. Mainer
- Crowley Waltz - The Hackberry Ramblers
- She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain - Booker White (previously unreleased)
- Ay, Ai Ai - Clifton Chenier
- Write Me A Few Lines - Fred McDowell
- Charlie James - Mance Lipscomb
- Louisiana Blues - Clifton Chenier
disc 2
- Cindy - John Jackson
- Little Red Rooster - Big Mama Thornton
- La Betaille - Isom Fontenot
- Calcasieu Waltz - Nathan Abshire
- Almlied - Eibelsberger Duo
- I Wonder Where You Are Tonight - Del McCoury
- In The Breeze - Jerry Hahn Quintet
- Goin' Back To The Country - Juke Boy Bonner
- Sometimes I Cry - Johnny Young
- Two Bugs And A Roach - Earl Hooker
- Dream - John Littlejohn
- Things Gonna Get Better - Bee Houston
- Visions - Sonny Simmons
- I Wish I Could Sing - Bongo Joe
- Boogieing In Strasbourg - Alex Moore
- The Death Of Dr. Martin Luther King - Big Joe Williams
- Please Settle In Vietnam - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Shake 'Em On Down - Fred McDowell / Johnny Woods
- El Desesperado - Los Pinguinos Del Norte
20- Creole Belles - New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra
21- Finger Lickin' Good - Charlie Musselwhite
disc 3
- Church Point Breakdown - Austin Pitre
- Gstanzeln Aus Dem Freistriztal - Original Herberstein Trio
- Gibson Creek Shuffle - Charles Ford Band
- Ups And Downs - L.C. Robinson
- You Ain't Got A Chance - Piano Red
- Home Sweet Home - Boisec Ardoin / Canray Fontenot
- Satan's Burning Hell - Bill Neely
- Luzita - Narciso Martinez
- Yo Me Enamore - Trio San Antonio
- Borracho Perdido - Trio San Antonio
- One Of These Mornings (I'm Checkin' Out) - J.C. Burris
- Allons A Grand Coteau - Clifton Chenier
- En Bas Du Chene Vert - Dewey Balfa / Marc Savoy/D.L. Menard
- Besos Y Copas - Chavela Ortiz Y Brown Express
- Fast Santa Fe - Robert Shaw
- I'll See You In C-U-B-A - Any Old Time String Band
- El Balaju - Conjunto Alma Jarocha
- La Gata - Los Caporales De Panuco
- Beym Rebas Sude - The Klezmorim
- J'ai Laisse De La Maison - Cheese Read
- Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio - Don Santiago Jimenez Sr.
- Mi Problema - Lydia Mendoza
disc 4
- Gritenme Piedras Del Campo - Flaco Jimenez
- Co-Fe - John Delafose
- Single Girl - Rose Maddox
- Bec De La Manche - Canray Fontenot
- Bosco Stomp - Octa Clark / Hector Duhon
- Negra Ausencia - Santiago Jimenez Jr.
- La Chanson De Cinquante Sous - Michael Doucet Dit BeauSoleil (previously unreleased)
- Shake What You Got - Preston Frank
- Little Black Eyes - Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band
- The Chill Of A Saturday Afternoon - Wade Fruge
- Jolie Blonde - Chuck Guillory
- Here To Stay - Rebirth Brass Band
- I Know That's Right - Katie Webster
- I've Been There - Lawrence Ardoin
- Mentiste Cuando Dijiste - Flaco Jimenez
- Aguililla - Los Campesinos De Michoacan
- La Reine De La Salle - Odile Falcon
- Chanson De La Sagesse - Michael Doucet
- Hot Chili Mama - BeauSoleil
- Check Out The Zydeco - C.J. Chenier
- El Canoero - Valerio Longoria
- Corrido Del Mono - Los Gavilanes De Oakland
- San Francisco Can Be Such A Lonely Town - Omar Sharriff
disc 5
- Mother - Paramount Gospel Singers
- Gumagarugu - Chatuye
- Khandan-E Amaturi III - Aziz Herawi
- A Ti, Colombia - Ivan Cuesta
- Food Stamp Blues - Treme Brass Band
- Ain't It A Shame - Elder Roma Wilson
- J'ai Ete Au Bal - Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band
- La Mal Sentada - Los Cenzontles
- Falling For You - Rose Maddox
- Los Traficantes Del Bravo - Los Palomares Del Bravo (previously unreleased)
- Jesus Will Fix It For You - Sonny Treadway
- Medved Na Lancu - Csokolom
- Jale Griego - Jose Moreno
- El Corrido De Esequiel Hernandez - Santiago Jimenez, Jr.
- What's His Name - Jesus! - The Campbell Brothers
- Just A Closer Walk With Thee - Aubrey Ghent
Compilation producers: Chris Strachwitz & Elijah Wald; 66-page booklet by Chris Strachwitz, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt & Elijah Wald; digitally remastered by Mike Cogan | 5 CD box
Arhoolie CD 491 |
Will be completed and expanded with further details !!!
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