Smoky Babe LPs / CDs
| # | year
of release | title | label # / notes |
|---|
| 1 | 1960 | Country Negro Jam Session
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- 44 Blues
Robert Pete Williams
- Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
Clarence Edwards
- Smokes Like Lightning
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- Who Broke The Lock
Clarence Edwards
- You Don't Love Me
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- It's The Sign Of The Judgement
Ben Douglas
- Foxhunt
Sally Dotson with Smoky Babe & Hillary Blunt
- Your Dice Won't Pass
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- Jelly Roll
Rebecca Smith etc.
- I've Got Religion
Smoky Babe
- Going Downtown Boogie
Clarence Edwards
- Stack O' Dollars
Willie Thomas & Butch Cage
- Brown Skin Woman
Leon Strickland with Lucius Bridges
- I Won't Be Your Low Down Dog No More
additional tracks on CD:
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
rec. in southwest Louisiana during the late 1950s and early 1960s by Harry Oster
cover photo of Butch Cage and Willie Thomas with their wives by Harry Oster
 Dr. Harry Oster discography | 
Folk-Lyric FL 111
 
= Arhoolie R 2018
= Trio PA-6028 (Jp 1974) notes by Chris Strachwitz
Arhoolie CD 372 www.arhoolie.com Butch Cage & Willie
Thomas discography |
| 2 | 1961 | 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
Dr. Harry Oster discography | notes by Harry Oster
Folk-Lyric FL 118notes by Harry Oster
= 77 LA 12-12 (1962)
77 Records discography notes by Harry Oster
= Arhoolie R 2019 (197?)
"Hot Blues" 
(=) Arhoolie CD 440
www.arhoolie.com |
| 3 | 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 (2001)
|
| 4 | 196? | The Country Blues
Storyville Blues Anthology Vol. 10
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 Harry Oster
Dr. Harry Oster discography | notes by Harry Oster
Storyville SLP 129
Storyville discography
= Teichiku ULS-1825-R
(Jp 1975)
Butch Cage & Willie
Thomas discography |
| 5 | 1979 | Blues Roots: Give Me The Blues
Smoky Babe
- Boogy
Avery Brady
- I Don't Want You No More
Doug Quattlebaum
- Good Woman Blues
Huddie Ledbetter
- Frankie And Albert, parts 1 + 2
[Jimmy Brewer
- Big Road Blues
Even though shown on the cover as well as on the label track listing and even though there's a picture and a short bio of Jim Brewer in the liner notes - this Jim Brewer track is actually / erraneously? not included; instead there's the following Arthur Weston track !!!]
Arthur Weston
- Someday Baby
Big Joe Williams
- Long Road Blues
Big Bill Broonzy
- You Better Mind
Clarence Edwards
- Mean Old Frisco
Bert Logan, Russ Logan, Big Joe Williams
- Four O'Clock In The Morning
Big Joe Henry Miller, Jimmy Lee Miller
- Down Here By Myself
Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires
- 21 Below Zero
Johnny Young
- Green Door Blues
Arthur Weston
- Roll Me Over Slow
Champion Jack Dupree
- Back Door Special
Roosevelt Sykes
- Southern Style Piano
Henry Brown
- Low Down Drag
Memphis Slim
- Funky Blues
Jimmy Yancey
- Yancey Special
Sunnyland Slim
- Sunnyland's Boogie
Speckled Red
- Cow Cow Blues
Otis Spann
- The Skies Are Blue
Memphis Slim
- A Letter Home
Otis Spann
- Boots And Shoes
Memphis Slim
- Rebecca Blues
Willie Mabon
- I'm The Fixer
Champion Jack Dupree
- I Just Want To Be Free | DLP
 
 
 
Storyville 6.28470
= PGP RTB 2LP 3220044to read liner notes
click on pictures of covers
G = German / E = English
text has been black/white
reversed to improve readability |
| 6 | 1996 | 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. 1960 in Scotlandville, La. by Harry Oster; previously issued on Folklyric LP 118 and Arhoolie LP 2019
Herman E. Johnson rec. 1961 in Baton Rouge, La. by Harry Oster; previously issued on Arhoolie LP 1060
Dr. Harry Oster discography |
Arhoolie CD 440www.arhoolie.com  Herman E. Johnson discography
|
| 7 | 1996 | Arhoolie Presents American Masters, Vol. 1
15 Down Home Country Blues Classics
Mississippi Fred McDowell
- Frisco Line
Lightnin' Hopkins
- Have You Ever Loved A Woman
John Jackson
- Going Down In Georgia On A Horn
Lil' Son Jackson
- Cairo Blues
Mance Lipscomb
- 'Bout A Spoonful
Black Ace
- Drink On Little Girl
Snooks Eaglin
- Country Boy Down In New Orleans
Bukka White
- Columbus Mississippi Blues
Dr. Ross
- Shake 'Em On Down
Robert Pete Williams
- Just Tippin' In
Jesse Fuller
- Hump In My Back
Big Joe Williams
- Brother James
Smoky Babe
- I'm Broke And I'm Hungry
R.L. Burnside
- Poor Black Mattie
K.C. Douglas
- Mercury Blues | 
Arhoolie CD 101www.arhoolie.com |
| 8 | 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-9917-2 |
| 9 | 1999 | Shake 'Em On Down
The Real Country Blues
- Shake 'Em On Down - Fred McDowell
- Sloppy Drunk Blues - Big Joe Williams
- Alabama Blues - Bukka White
- Need More Blues - Sleepy Joe Estes
- Judge Boushay Blues - Furry Lewis
- Pardon Denied Again - Robert Pete Williams
- Rabbit Blues - Smoky Babe
- Take Me Out Of The Bottom - Big Joe Williams
- Fred's Worried Life Blues - Fred McDowell
- Poor Black Mattie - R.L. Burnside
- Come Home To Me Baby - Joe Callicott
- Smokestack Lightning - Clarence Edwards
- Write Me A Few Lines - Fred McDowell
- Mississippi River - Smoky Babe
- Just Tippin' It - Robert Pete Williams
- She Left Me A Mule To Ride - Big Joe Williams
- Canned Heat - Houston Stackhouse
- Three O'Clock In The Morning - Johnny Woods
- 'Bout A Spoonful - Nathan Beauregard
- You Call Yourself A Cadillac - Robert Nighthawk
- Keep Your Nose Out Of My Business - Johnny Young & Otis Spann
- Oh Baby - Napeleon Strickland | 
Arhoolie/Ace CD 527www.arhoolie.com |
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