Babe Stovall
Jewell Stovall
b. October 4, 1907 in Tylertown, Mississippi
d. September 21, 1974 in New Orleans, Louisiana
discography

Babe Stovall LPs / CDs

#	year of release	title	label # / notes
1	1964	Babe Stovall - I'm Gwine To New Orleans (Candy Man) - Do Lord - Good Morning Blues - Don't You Want To Go - Tell Me Brown Eyes - Time Is Winding Up - Coal Black Mare - Careless Love - Salty Dog - Corinne Corinna - If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again - Woman Blues rec. New Orleans, July 1964; + Gosoon Phillipps. bjo; Sylvester Handy, b	notes by E.L. Borenstein Verve VPM 1
2	196?	Encore For The Chicago Blues Muddy Waters Blues Men - Yes Sir! Boss Harvey Hill - I Feel So Good Koko Taylor - I'm Looking For A Man Memphis Slim - Chicago To Paris Babe Stovall - My Brown Is A Mistraeter Big Joe Williams - Move Your Hand Olive Brown - Woman's Lament J.B. Lenoir - Korea Blues Washboard Sam's Band - Chicago Rock Victoria Spivey - T B Blues Willie Dixon - Brooklyn Going To Be My Home John Hammond & Babe Stovall, g & Kazoo Papa [= Len Kunstadt], kazoo - Squeeze My Lemon John Henry Barbee - Six Weel Old Blues Viola Wells - See See Rider Homesick James - Somebody's Been Talkin' Roosevelt Sykes - Dirty Mother Fuyer	rec. Autumn 1965 Spivey 1009 Spivey discography
3	1968	Roosevelt Holts: Presenting The Country Blues - Prison Bound Blues - Maggie Campbell Blues - Feelin' Sad And Blue (with Babe Stovall, guitar) - I'm Going to Build Right On That Shore - Lead Pencil Blues - Another Mule Kickin' In My Stall - Little Bitty Woman - The Good Book Teach You (with L.H. Lane, harmonica) - Big Road Blues - Let's Talk It All Over Again - Red River Blues - She Put Me Outdoors	rec. 1966 Blue Horizon 7-63201
4	1968	Goin' Up The Country Roosevelt Holts - My Phone Keeps Ringing Isaiah Chattman - Found My Baby Gone Arzo Youngblood - Bye And Bye Blues Cornelius Bright - My Baby's Gone Herb Quinn - Casey, You Can't Ride This Train Arzo Youngblood - Four Women Blues L.V. Conerly - Bad Luck And Trouble Mager Johnson - Travelling Blues O.D. Jones & Babe Stovall - Got The Blues This Morning Jack Owens - B & O Blues Bill "Boogie Bill" Webb - Dooleyville Blues Roosevelt Holts - Nowhere To Go Mager Johnson - Big Road Blues Cornelius Bright - Devil Got My Woman Jack Owens - Devil Got My Woman "Got The Blues ..." rec. in New Orleans Aug. 14, 1966 by David Evans	notes by David Evans Decca LK 4931 notes by David Evans = Rounder 2012 (1975) Albatros VPA 8451 (I 197?) "Bad Luck And Trouble" Albatros discography
5	1970	South Mississippi Blues Babe Stovall & Herb Quinn - See See Rider Eli Owens - Rabbit On A Log Roosevelt Holts - Big Fat Mama Blues Herb Quinn - Casey Babe Stovall - Candy Man O. D. Jones & Babe Stovall, Dink Brister - Bye Bye Baby Eli Owens - Old Hen Cackle Esau Weary - You Don't Have To Go Babe Stovall - Do Lord, Remember Me Roosevelt Holts - Matchbox Blues Roosevelt Holts - Mean Conductor Blues Eli Owens - Muleskinner Blues Babe Stovall - Maypole March Myrt Holmes - Run Here, Fairo Isaac Youngblood - Hesitating Blues Esau Weary - Forty-Four Blues Babe Stovall - Boll Weevil Eli Owens - Ida Red - Sally Goodin' Babe Stovall - Sweet Bunch Of Daisies Eli Owens - Ways Like The Devil Roosevelt Holts - Home Town Skiffle rec. by David Evans between 1965 and 1971	notes by David Evans Rounder 2009 notes by D.V. = Albatros VPA 8392 (It 1979) "See See Rider" Albatros discography
6	1972	The Legacy Of Tommy Johnson Isaac Youngblood & Herb Quinn - Big Road Blues Mager Johnson - Bye And Bye Blues Isaac Youngblood - Maggie Campbell Blues John Henry 'Bubba' Brown - Canned Heat Blues Boogie Bill Webb - Cool Water Blues Isaac Youngblood - Big Fat Mama Blues Houston Stackhouse & Carey 'Ditty' Mason - Pony Blues Arzo Youngblood - I Believe I'll Make Everything Alright Boogie Bill Webb - Show Me What You Got For Sale Arzo Youngblood - Prison Bound Blues Boogie Bill Webb - Maggie Campbell Blues Arzo Youngblood - The Old Folks Doing It And The Little Ones Trying Babe Stovall & O.D. Jones, g, Dink Brister, mand - Big Road Blues Boogie Bill Webb - Take Your Time Roosevelt Holts - Pine Top Boogie Boogie Bill Webb - Don't You Lie To Me	notes by David Evans saydisc Matchbox SDM 224
7	1972	Folk Festival Of The Smokies, Vol. II Ramona Jones - Wake Up Susan Janette Carter - I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow Jim Cope & Dave Millard - Deportee Jean & Lee Schilling - Old Joe Clark Bergerfolk - This Little Light Of Mine Sonia Malkine - What Are Little Girld Made Of? Frank George - Payday Jean & Lee Schilling - Hand Me Down My Walkin' Cane Babe Stovall - C. C. Rider Glenn Ohrlin - Jake And Roaney And The Bald Faced Steer Glenn & Kaye Ohrlin - The Hanging Of Eva Dugan Sparky Rucker - Down The Valley Pinnacle Mountain Boys - Salty Dog Babe Stovall - Time Is Windin' Up Frank George - John Henry - Minstrel Boy from back cover of FFS-529	Traditional FFS-529
8	1976	Babe Stovall Story - Dirty Mistreater - Snow Fallin' Blues - Baby, Let Me Follow You Down - Gonna Move To Kansas City - Goin' Up The Country Blues - Good Morning Blues - See See Rider - God's Word Shall Never Pass Away - How Long Blues - Coal Black Mare - Maypole Song - Don't Mean Me No Good rec. in New Orleans March/Aug. 1966 by John Bentley	Southern Sound SD 203
9	1975	Sorrow, Come Pass Me Around A Survey Of Rural Black Religious Music Ephram Carter and his Fife & Drum Band - Sorrow, Come Pass Me Around Willard Artis 'Blind Pete' Burrell - Do Remember Me Babe Stovall - The Ship Is At The Landing Annie Lee & Oscar Crawford - You Don't Know What The Lord Has Done For Me Rev. Rubin Lacey - Talk About A Child That Do Love Jesus Robert 'Nighthawk' Johnson - Can't No Grave Hold My Body Down Dorothy Lee, Norma Jean & Shirley Marie Johnson - You Got To Give An Account Katie Mae Young - By The Grace Of My Lord, I've Come A Long Way Eddie Lee 'Mustright' Jones - My Sun Don't Never Go Down Robert 'Nighthawk' Johnson - Climbing High Mountains Chester Davis and Congregation; Compton Jones & Group; Furry Lewis - Glory, Glory Hallelujah Willard Artis 'Blind Pete' Burrell - A Little Talk With Jesus Makes It Right Pattie Rosemon - I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say Babe Stovall - When The Circle Be Unbroken Napoleon Strickland - Motherless Children Willard Artis 'Blind Pete' Burrell - I Shall Not Be Moved rec. by David Evans "Among my more treasured possessions is a general survey of black rural religious singing, which he produced several years before the disc under consideration. It is called Sorrow Come Pass Me Around, and in terms of superb it is completely off the scale. If nobody has had the foresight to re-issue that LP, and you happen to see it in some expensive second-hand vinyl catalogue, do not pause to worry about how you are going to raise the asking price. Once you have the disc home and on your turntable, all qualms about the bank you so rashly decided to stick up, will be utterly dissipated." Fred McCormick - 9.3.01	notes by David Evans Advent 2805 = P-Vine PCD 2104 (Jp 1991) Advent discography
10	1990	Babe Stovall - Careless Love - Big Road Blues - C C Rider - Going Away To Wear You Off My Mind - Don't You Want To Go - Good Morning Blues - Salty Dog - Going To New Orleans [= Candy Man] - Woman Blues - I Ain't Gonna Be Your Dog No More - Time Is Winding Up - If I Could Only Hear My Mother Pray Again - Corinne Corinna - Careless Love rec. in New Orleans September 15, 1958, December 6, 1958, May 10, 1961, c. June 1964	notes by Klaus Kilian Flyright FLY 625 Flyright discography
11	1993	Ruff Stuff The Roots of Texas Blues Guitar Nathaniel "Bill" Barnes - Jack Of Diamonds Is A Hard Card To Play Lee Mackey - Out And Down - Jay Bird Blues Willie Menifee & Mance Lipscomb - If I Get Lucky, Mama Mance Lipscomb - Angel Child Mance Lipscomb & Teodar Jackson - Reconsider Baby Bill Neely . Matchbox Blues Nathaniel "Bill" Barnes - What's Wrong, Baby Babe Stovall - Worried Blues - Dirty Mistreater T.J. Jackson - Out And Down - Corrina Corrina Oscar "Preacher" Nelson & Newton "Hoss" Nelson - Broke And Ain't Got A Dime - Alcohol Blues Jimmy Nelson - West Texas Blues rec. 1964-1966 by Tary Owens	notes by Tary Owens & Julie Howell Catfish CD CTF 1003 Catfish discography
12	1999	John Bentley & His Buddies Volume 11 in Euphonic's Piano Series John Bentley - Trouble In Mind Bentley & Guy "The Bear" Richards - Cocaine Blues Bentley & Dave Gary - Two Fifes John Bentley - Down The Road Babe Stovall - Ship Is At The Landing Bentley & Guy "The Bear" Richards - Ain't Much Bentley & Guy "The Bear" Richards - Can't Judge A Book John Bentley - How Long Blues - Roll & Tumble Babe Stovall - Trouble In Mind Bentley & Guy "The Bear" Richards - Fulsom Prison Blues Bentley & Roosevelt Sykes - West Helena Fish Fry	Euphonic ESR-1211
13	2003	Box Of The Blues Babe Stovall, Herb Quinn - See See Rider	4 CD set Rounder CDROUN2171 www.rounder.com
14	2003	Babe Stovall: The Old Ace Mississippi Blues & Religious Songs - Good Morning Blues - Candy Man - Going Away To Wear You Off My Mind - The Ship Is At The Landing - Baby Let Me Follow You Down - Worried Blues - Will The Circle Be Unbroken? - How Long How Long Blues - Dirty Mistreater - Good Morning Little School Girl - God's Word Shall Never Pass Away - Kansas City Blues - Medley: Big Road Blues and Careless Love - Interview: Family - Interview 2: Playing in New Orleans rec. 1968 by Bob West	notes by David Evans Arcola ACD 1005 www.arcolarecords.com
15	2004	I Blueskvarter Chicago 1964, Volume Three CD One Snooks Eaglin - Yours Truly - Pine Top´s Boogie Woogie - My Babe - Let Me Go Home, Whiskey - Careless Love - Rock Island Line - CC Rider - I`m Looking For A Woman - Hello Dolly - Lonesome Road Babe Stovall - Good Morning Blues - Candy Man - Fo´ Day Blues - Gonna Move To Kansas City Johnny Moment - Keep Our Business To Yourself - You Got To Mind How To Treat Someone Else Will Shade - I Got The Blues So Bad - I Can´t Stand It Furry Lewis - Baby, I Know You Don´t Love Me Earl Bell - Travellin´ Man - Terraplane Blues Moose Williams - Mother Keep Your Light Burning High In The Window CD Two Willie Mabon - Somebody´s Got To Pay Big Walter Horton - West Side Blues - Tin Pan Alley - This Is It Sunnyland Slim - Prison Bound Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Hot Potatoes - One Room Country Shack Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues Johnny Young - You Got Bad Blood, I Think You Need A Shoot Washboard Sam - Mama Don´t Allow Big Joe Williams - Rootin´ Groundhog - Southern Blues - King´s Highway Blues Champion Jack Dupree - Improvisations and Interview - Drive 'em Down Special - Improvisations and Interview - I Feel Like A Millionaire - Improvisations and Interview - Barrelhouse Woman - Improvisations and Interview	2 CD set Jefferson Records SBACD 12658/9 www.jeffersonbluesmag.com
Will be completed and expanded with further details !!!

 

Babe Stovall tributes

#	year of release	Artist: Record Title - featured song	label # / notes
1	1984	James Sparky Rucker: Drive Back The Night - Babylon Blues - Lay My Burden Down - M & O Blues - Blues In The Bordertown Jail - Drive Back The Night - A Song For Babe - Satisfied And Tickled Too - Kind-hearted Woman - Break Of Day Blues - A Beautiful Life tracks on Bellaphon CD - Babylon Blues - Lay My Burden Down - M & O Blues - Blues In A Bordertown Jail - Drive Back The Night - A Song For Babe - Satisfied And Tickled Too - Kind-Hearted Woman - Break Of Day Blues - A Beautiful Life - Rock Me Baby # - Crossroads # # additional tracks from L+R 42.063 (AFBF '83) rec. November 7, 1983; James "Sparky" Rucker voc, ac g; Louisiana Red, el g; Carey Bell, hca	L+R 42.062 (=) Bellaphon CDLR 82005 (1996) "James 'Sparky' Rucker" (Blues Classics series) L+R discography

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Simon A. Napier: Gwine To New Orleans - Meet Babe Stovall.- Blues Unlimited 23 (1965), p. 10
- David Evans: Babe Stovall.- Blues Unlimited 29 (Jan. 1966), p. 9-10; 30 (Febr. 1966), p. 9; 31 (March 1966), p. 20
- David Evans: Babe Stovall.- in: Simon A. Napier (ed.): Back Woods Blues.- Bexhill-On-Sea 1968, pp. 50-55
  (reprint from Blues Unlimited 29 - 31 (Jan. - March 1966))
- Bruce Cook: Listen To The Blues.- New York 1973, pp. 93-98
- Bryan Pickup: The Babe Stovall Story.- Talking Blues 4 (1977), p. 2 - 5
  (incl. discography by Bryan Pickup and Chris Smith)
- David Evans: Big Road Blues - Tradition & Creativity in the Folk Blues.- New York 1987, p. 303-309
- Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- New York 1987, p. 486-487
- http://sundayblues.org/archives/100
- Ebay auctions
- diverse internet resources

source of left column picture: front cover of Flyright FLY 625 ("courtesy of Sacha Clay")

thanks for additional info / label scans to Alan Balfour

Percy Randolph, Willie Thomas, and Babe Stovall
at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 1970
(from Michael P. Smith: New Orleans Jazz Fest, A Pictoral History.- Gretna 1991, p. 31)

Babe Stovall Franklinton, LA. 1971; photographer: Fay Rogers
(from back cover of Flyright FLY 625)