Jim Thompkins 78 rpm / LPs / CDs

#	year of release	title	label # / notes
10 inch 78 rpm
1	1930	JIM THOMPKINS - Bedside Blues (MEM-780- )   @ youtube SPECKLED RED - We Got To Get That Thing Fixed (C-5585 1/2- ) rec. February 21, 1930 in Memphis, TN; Jim Thompkins, voc, g rec. April 8, 1930 in Chicago, IL; Speckled Red, voc, p	Brunswick 7200
		- Down Fall Blues (MEM-781/82) rec. February 21, 1930 in Memphis, TN; Jim Thompkins, voc, g	Brunswick unissued
LP / CD compilations
2	1969	Up And Down The Mississippi Richard (Rabbit) Brown - Mystery Of The Dunbar's Child - I'm Not Jealous Roots Buddy Boy Hawkins - Jail House Fire Blues - Shaggy Dog Blues Bo Weavil Jackson - You Can't Keep No Brown Mae Glover & John Byrd - Pig Meat Papa Jim Thompkins - Bedside Blues Bertha Lee & Charley Patton - Mind Reader Blues Robert Lee McCoy - Friar's Point Blues Mississippi Bracey - You Scolded Me And Drove Me From Your Door - I'll Overcome Someday Will Weldon - Hitch Me To Your Buggy (And Drive Me Like A Mule) Little Buddy Doyle - Grief Will Kill You - Bad In Mind Blues Lane Hardin - California Desert Blues Henry Townsend - Henry's Worry Blues	Roots RL 319 Roots discography
3	1972	Legendary Sessions - Memphis Style 1929 - 39 Kid Bailey - Mississippi Bottom Blues - Rowdy Blues Garfield Akers & Joe Callicott - Cottonfield Blues - Part 1 - Cottonfield Blues - Part 2 Garfield Akers - Dough Roller Blues - Jumpin' And Shoutin' Blues Joe Callicott - Fare Thee Well Blues - Traveling Mama Blues Jim Thompkins - Bedside Blues Bukka White - The New 'Frisco Train - The Panama Limited - I Am In The Heavenly Way - Promise True And Grand - Sic 'Em Dogs On - Po' Boy Blind Willie Reynolds - Married Man Blues - Third Street Woman Blues	Roots RSE 2 = Monogram (Autogram) Roots special edition Collector's Series RSE-2 (D 198?) Roots discography
4	1988	Delta Blues Vol. 2 (1929-1939) Kid Bailey - MIssissippi Bottom Blues - Rowdy Blues Garfield Akers with Joe Callicott - Cottonfield Blues part 1 - Cottonfield Blues part 2 Garfield Akers - Dough Roller Blues - Jumpin And Shoutin' Blues Joe Callicott - Fare Thee Well Blues - Traveling Mama Blues Jim Thompkins - Bedside Blues Bukka White - The New Frisco Train - The Panama Limited - I Am in the Heavenly Way - Promise True and Grand - Sic Em Dogs On - Po Boy Sam Collins - Graveyard Digger's Blues	Document DLP 533
5	1990	Son House And The Great Delta Blues Singers (1928-1929) Son House - My Black Mama - part 1 - My Black Mama - part 2 - Preachin" The Blues - part 1 - Preachin" The Blues - part 2 - Dry Spell Blues - part 1 - Dry Spell Blues - part 2 - Walking Blues Willie Brown - M&O Blues - Future Blues Kid Bailey - Mississippi Bottom Blues - Rowdy Blues Garfield Akers - Cottonfield Blues - part 1 - Cottonfield Blues - part 2 - Dough Roller Blues - Jumpin' And Shoutin' Blues Joe Callicott - Fare Tree Well Blues - Traveling Mama Blues Jim Thompkins - Bedside Blues Blind Joe (Willie) Reynolds - Outside Woman Blues - Nehi Blues - Married Man Blues - Third street Woman Blue Rube Lacy - Mississippi Jail House Blues - Ham Hound Crave	notes by Bob Groom Document DOCD-5002
6	1995	The Essential Recordings of Memphis Blues - My Money Never Runs Out - Gus Cannon - Mr Crump Don't Like It - Beale Street Sheiks - Twelve Pound Daddy - Pearl Dickson - Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Frank Stokes - Happy Blues - Tom Dickson - I Will Turn Your Money Green - Furry Lewis - Judge Harsh Blues - Furry Lewis - Rollin' Stone (part 1 & 2) - Robert Wilkins - That's No Way To Get Along - Robert Wilkins - Walk Right In - Canon's Jug Stompers - KC Moan - Memphis Jug Band - Cocaine Habit Blues - Memphis Jug Band - Travelling Mama Blues - Joe Callicott - Bedside Blues - Jim Thompkins - Ticket Agent Blues - Lewis, Noah Jug Band - Hesitation Blues - Jim Jackson - Can I Do It For You (part 1) - Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe - Granpa And Grandma Blues - Memphis Minnie Jug Band - Highway No 61 Blues - Kelly, Jack & His South Memphis Jug Band - Moanin' The Blues - Allen Shaw - Sugar Farm Blues - Yank Rachell - Need More Blues - 'Sleepy' John Estes - Renewed Love Blues - Little Buddy Doyle	Indigo IGOCD 2038 (UK)
7	1999	Broke, Black And Blue An Anthology Of Blues Classics And Rarities disc 1 Up Country Blues - Barrel House Blues - Ed Andrews - Georgia Stockade Blues - Tom Delaney - Sun Brimmers Blues - Memphis Jug Band - Goin' To Leave You Blues - Big Boy Cleveland - Dry Bone Shuffle - Blind Blake - Up Country Blues - DeFord Bailey - Dead Drunk Blues - Sippie Wallace - Original Stack O'Lee Blues - Long 'Cleve' Reed - Easy Rider Don't You Deny My Name - Barbecue Bob - Bo Lita - Kid Brown - Everybody Help The Boys Come Home - William & Versey Smith - Church Bells Blues - Luke Jordan - Two Ways To Texas - Emery Glen - It Won't Be Long Now - Barbecue Bob & Laughing Charley - Bottleneck Blues - Weaver & Beasley - Rock Island Blues - Lewis Black - Midnight Blues - Bill Moore - Fare Thee Blues - Johnnie Head - My Monday Woman Blues - Jim Jackson - What's The Matter Blues - Frank Stokes - School Girl Blues - Rosie Mae Moore - Cool Drink Of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson - Left Alone Blues - Ishman Bracey - T And T Blues - Mooch Richardson - TC Johnson Blues - T. C. Johnson disc 2 Broke & Hungry Blues - Ham Hound Crave - Rube Lacey - No More Women Blues - Alger "Texas" Alexander - How Long, How Long Blues - Willie Jackson - Unknown Blues - Tarter & Gay - Chicken Wilson Blues - Chicken Wilson - Stack O' Lee Blues - Mississippi John Hurt - Broke And Hungry Blues - Peg Leg Howell - Funny Feathers - Victoria Spivey - Pitchin' Boogie - William Ezell - Mr- Devil Blues - Jed Davenport - Mississippi Bottom Blues - Kid Bailey - Weary Heart Blues - James Wiggins - Poor Man Blues - Henry Townsend - Framer's Blues - Eli Framer - Trinity River Blues - T-Bone Walker - Heavy Suitcase Blues - Charley Taylor - Traveling Mama Blues - Joe Calicott - Jumpin' And Shoutin' Blues - Garfield Akers - Bedside Blues - Jim Thompkins - Walking Blues - Son House - Future Blues - Willie Brown - Long Ways from Home - Louise Johnson - Frisco Blues - Bayless Rose - Good Boy Blues - Arthur Petties - No Special Rider Blues - Little Brother Montgomery disc 3 Good Whiskey Blues - Married Man Blues - Blind Willie Reynolds - Dupree Blues - Willie Walker - 22-20 Blues - Skip James - Lonesome Road Blues - Sam Collins - Midnight Hour Blues - Leroy Carr - Fat Mama Blues - Jabo Williams - Never Mind Blues - Georgia Boyd - Twelves (Dirty Dozens) - Kokomo Arnold - Little Leg Woman - Big Joe Williams - That's What My Baby Likes - Bessie Jackson - Good Whiskey Blues - Peetie Wheatstraw - Strut That Thing - Cripple Clarence Lofton - Teasin' Brown Blues - Louie Lasky - Cold Blooded Murder, No.2 - Bumble Bee Slim - Baby You Gotta Change Your Mind - Blind Boy Fuller - Ashes In My Whiskey - Walter Davis - It's Cold in China Blues - The Mississippi Moaner - Jockey Blues - Jazz Gillum - Prisoner Blues - George Clarke - Back Door Blues - Casey Bill Weldon - Don't Sell It (Don't Give It Away) - Buddy Woods - Booker T. Blues - Washboard Sam - Hard Scufflin' Blues - Little Buddy Doyle - Jersey Belle Blues - Lonnie Johnson - Baby, Please Don't Tell On Me - Tommy McClennan disc 4 Jumpin' At The Club Blue Flame - East St.Louis Blues - Faber Smith, Jimmy Yancey - Bukka's Jitterbug Swing - Bukka White - Can't You Read - Big Maceo Merriweather - Life Is Like That - Memphis Slim - Memory Of Sonny Boy - Forrest City Joe - Horse Shoe Boogie - Lee Brown - Ruby Moore Blues - Lee Brown - Low Land Blues - Lee Brown - Round The World Blues - Lee Brown - Rock That Boogie - Jimmie Gordon - Fast Life - Jimmie Gordon - Mistreated Blues - Jimmie Gordon - I Ain't Like That No More - Jimmie Gordon - Chain Gang Blues - Johnny Temple - Yum, Yum, Yum - Johnny Temple - My Baby's Acting Funny - Jimmie Gordon - It's Time To Go - Jimmie Gordon - That Woman's A Pearl Diver - Jimmie Gordon - Jumpin' At The Club Blue Flame - Jimmie Gordon - I Believe I'll Go Downtown Again - Johnny Temple - Something In The Moon That Gives Me A Thrill - Johnny Temple - Dixie Flyer - Johnny Temple - Believe My Sins Have Found Me Out - Johnny Temple - Rhythm Mama - Johnny Temple - New Little Girl, Little Girl - Lee Brown	4 CD set,   40 page booklet by Joop Visser Proper CDBOX 7 (UK 1999)
7	2000	Classic Slide Guitar Blues - Somebody's Changed The Lock On My Door - Casey Bill Weldon - East Texas Rag - Smith Casey - Bedside Blues - Jim Thompkins - Last Time Blues - Charlie McCoy - Country Farm Blues - Son House - Busy Bootin' - Kokomo Arnold - Whoopee Blues - King Solomon Hill - Early One Mornin' - Dan Pickett - Fence Breakin' Blues - Shreveport Home Wreckers - Moanin' The Blues - Allen Shaw - Weak Minded Blues - Willie Baker - Rollin' And Thunder (parts 1 and 2) - Babyface Leroy & Muddy Waters - Down At The Depot - John Lee, - Nappy Head Blues - Bobby Grant - Married Man Blues - 'Blind' Joe Reynolds - Shake It Gal - Ramblin' Thomas - Black Hearted Blues - Tampa Red - Mississippi Boweavil Blues - Charley Patton - Yellow Dog Blues - Sam Collins - Jacksonville Blues - Nellie Florence	Catfish CATCD 157 (UK)
8	2007	When The Levee Breaks - Mississippi Blues Rare Cuts 1926-1941 disc 1: - Cottonfield Blues Part 1 - Garfield Akers - (featuring Joe Calicott) - Bedside Blues - Jim Thompkins - Mississippi Bottom Blues - Kid Bailey - (featuring Unknown) - Poor Boy Blues - Sam Butler - I'm Leavin' Town - William Harris - (featuring Joe Robinson) - Hittin' The Bottle Stomp - Mississippi Jook Band - (featuring Roosevelt Graves/Aaron Graves/Coone... - Last Kind Words Blues - Geeshie Wiley - Third Street Woman Blues - Blind Willie Reynolds - Muddy Water Blues - Freddie Spruell - Fare Thee Well Blues - Joe Calicott - That Won't Do - Arthur Petties - Four O'Clock Flower Blues - Willie '61' Blackwell - (featuring Alfred Elkins) - Evil Devil Woman Blues - Joe McCoy - (featuring Charlie McCoy) - Jail House Blues, The - Sam Collins - Black Spider Blues - Robert Lockwood - (featuring Alfred Elkins) - Traveling Riverside Blues Take 1 - Robert Johnson - Baltimore Blues - Charlie McCoy - (featuring Joe McCoy) - Down The Big Road Blues - Mattie Delaney - You Scolded Me And Drove Me - Mississippi Bracey - (featuring Virginia Bracey) - Milk Cow Blues - Freddie Spruell - Ten Pound Hammer - Mose Andrews - Noiseless Motor Blues - Willie '61' Blackwell - (featuring Alfred Elkins) - Jailhouse Fire Blues - Walter 'Buddy Boy' Hawkins - 41 Highway - Freddie Spruell - (featuring Carl Martin) - Times Has Done Got Hard - King Solomon Hill disc 2: - Mississippi County Farm Blues - Son House - When The Levee Breaks - Joe McCoy - (featuring Memphis Minnie) - Ninety Nine Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds - Snake Doctor Blues - Jelly Jaw Short - Little Girl In Rome - Otto Virgial - It's Cold In China Blues - Mississippi Moaner - Bald Eagle Blues - Willie '61' Blackwell - Boodle-De-Bum Blues - Bogus Ben Covington - Bull Frog Blues - William Harris - Dangerous Woman - Mississippi Jook Band - (featuring Roosevelt Graves/Aaron Graves/Cooney Vaughn) - Shaggy Dog Blues - Buddy Boy Hawkins - Devil In The Lion's Den - Sam Collins - Quarrellin' Mama Blues - Arthur Petties - (featuring Unknown/Jed Davenport) - Devil And My Brown Blues - Sam Butler - Take A Little Walk With Me - Robert Lockwood - (featuring Alfred Elkins) - Last Time Blues - Charlie McCoy - Dough Roller Blues - Garfield Akers - Crowing Rooster, The - Walter Rhodes - (featuring 'Pet' And 'Can') - Motherless Child Blues - Geeshie Wiley/Elva Thomas - Married Woman Blues - George Torey - She's Young And Wild - Willie '61' Blackwell - (featuring Alfred Elkins) - Cherry Ball - Mississippi Bracey - (featuring Virginia Bracey) - Bad Notion Blues - Otto Virgial - Don't Cry Baby - Freddy Spruell - (featuring Carl Martin) - Rowdy Blues - Kid Bailey - (featuring Unknown) disc 3: - My Buddy Blind Papa Lemon - King Solomon Hill - Snatch It Back Blues - Walter 'Buddy Boy' Hawkins - Machine Gun Blues - Willie '61' Blackwell - (featuring Alfred Elkins) - Revenue Man Blues - Arthur Petties - (featuring Unknown/Jed Davenport) - Mr Freddie's Kokomo Blues - Freddie Spruell - (featuring Carl Martin) - Over To My House - Geeshie Wiley - (featuring Elvie Thomas) - Barefoot Blues - Jelly Jaw Short - Jumpin' And Shoutin' Blues - Garfield Akers - Look Who's Coming Down The Road - Georgia Pine Boy - (featuring Unknown) - Traveling Mama Blues - Joe Calicott - Leavin' Here Blues - William Harris - Got The Blues About Rome - Otto Virgial - Young Heifer Blues - Mose Andrews - Skippy Whippy - Mississippi Jook Band - (featuring Roosevelt Graves/Aaron Graves/Cooney Vaughn) - Yellow Dog Blues - Sam Collins - You Can't Keep No Brown - Sam Butler - Tallahatchie River Blues - Mattie Delaney - Stered Gal - Mississippi Bracey - Motherless And Fatherless Blues - Mississippi Mudder - (featuring Unknown) - Don't Misuse Me, Baby - Willie '61' Blackwell - (featuring Alfred Elkins) - I'm Gonna Train My Baby - Robert Lockwood - (featuring Alfred Elkins) - Out On Santa Fe Blues - Arthur Petties - It's Hard Times - Joe Stone - Your Good Man Is Gone - Freddie Spruell - (featuring Carl Martin) - Cold Woman Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds disc 4: - Clarksdale Moan - Son House - Adam And Eve In The Garden - Bogus Ben Covington - Lonesome Man Blues - George Torey - Leaving Home Blues - Walter Rhodes - (featuring 'Pet' And 'Can') - Loving Lady Blues - Sam Collins - Early Mornin' Blues - William Harris - Number Three Blues - Walter 'Buddy Boy' Hawkins - Tell Me Baby - King Solomon Hill - Little Boy Blue - Robert Lockwood - (featuring Alfred Elkins) - Cottonfield Blues Part 2 - Garfield Akers - (featuring Joe Calicott) - Chalk My Toy - Willie '61' Blackwell - (featuring Alfred Elkins) - Barbecue Bust - Mississippi Jook Band - (featuring Roosevelt Graves/Aaron Graves/Cooney Vaughn) - Two Time Blues - Arthur Petties - Back Door Blues - Joe Stone - Way Back Down Home - Freddie Spruell - Skinny Leg Blues - Geeshie Wiley - Meat Cutter Blues - Joe McCoy - (featuring Charlie McCoy) - Mississippi Moan - Mississippi Moaner - Married Man Blues - Blind Willie Reynolds - Jefferson County Blues - Sam Butler - Rampaw Street Blues - Willie '61' Blackwell - (featuring Alfred Elkins) - I'll Overcome Someday - Mississippi Bracey - (featuring Virginia Bracey) - Good Boy Blues - Arthur Petties - Grand Daddy Blues - Jelly Jaw Short - Let's Go Riding - Freddie Spruell - (featuring Carl Martin)	4 CD box JSP JSPCD 7781 (UK)
9	2007	A Richer Tradition - Country Blues & String Band Music 1923 - 1942 disc 1 - Guitar Blues - Sylvester Weaver - Time Ain't Gonna Make Me Stay - Ed Andrews - Sundown Blues - Daddy Stovepipe - Salt Lake City Blues - Papa Charlie Jackson - Whiskey And Gin Blues - South Street Trio - James Alley Blues - Richard "Rabbit" Brown - Goin' To Leave You Blues - Big Boy Cleveland - Hey Lawdy Mama - The France Blues - Papa Harvey Hull/Long "Cleve" Reed - Chicken Can Waltz the Gravy Around, A - Stovepipe No-1/David Crockett - Bamalong Blues - Andrew & Jim Baxter - Man Trouble Blues - Jaybird Coleman - Blue Coat Blues - "Blue Coat" Tom Nelson - Frisco Whistle Blues - Ed Bell - Two Ways To Texas - Emery Glen - Gravel Camp Blues - Lewis Black - T And T Blues - Mooch Richardson - Death Bell Blues - Tom Dickson - C.C. & O. Blues - Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - Middlin' Blues - George "Bullet" Williams - Rolling Log Blues - Lottie Kimbrough - Kyle's Worried Blues - Charlie Kyle - Bull Frog Blues - William Harris - Sobbin' Woman Blues - Elizabeth Johnson - Miss Meal Cramp Blues - Alec Johnson - Unknown Blues - Tarter & Gay disc 2 - Jail House Blues - Whistler & His Jug Band - Blues, Just Blues, That's All - Old Southern Jug Band - String Band Blues - Kansas City Blues Strummers - Black Cat Blues - Old Pal Smoke Shop Four - Dirty Guitar Blues - Leecan & Cooksey - Boodle-Am-Shake - Dixieland Jug Blowers - Quill Blues - Big Boy Cleveland - Jug Band Special, The - Whistler & His Jug Band - Cold Morning Shout - South Street Trio - Violin Blues - Johnson Boys - Easy Winner - The Blue Boys - G- Burns Is Gonna Rise Again - Johnson/Nelson/Porkchop - I Got a Gal - James Cole's String Band . Jazz Fiddler, The - Walter Jacobs/Lonnie Carter - Knox Couty Stomp - Tennessee Chocolate Drops - Adam And Eve - Tommie Bradley - Runnin' Wild - James Cole's Washboard Four - Giving It Away - Birmingham Jug Band - Jackson Stomp - Mississippi Mud Steppers - Old Hen Cackle - Coleman & Harper - Travelin' Railroad Man Blues - Alabama Sheiks - Old Hen Cackle - Coleman & Harper - Ted's Stomp - Louie Blue/Ted Bogan - Dusting the Frets - Dallas Jamboree Jug Band - Arkansas Traveller - Nashville Washboard Band disc 3 - Original Stack O'Lee Blues - "Long Cleve" Reed/Little Harvey Hull - Tuxedo Blues - Whistlin' Pete & Daddy Stovepipe - Mean Conductor Blues - Ed Bell - Back Door Blues - Emery Glen - Spanish Blues - Lewis Black - Helena Blues - Mooch Richardson - I Heard the Voice Of a Pork Chop - Bogus Ben Covington - Rising River Blues - George Carter - She Could Toodle-Oo - Hambone Willie Newbern - Weak Minded Woman - Willie Baker - Old Rock Island Blues - Lonnie Coleman - Cairo Blues - Henry Spaulding - I Ain't Givin' Nobody None - Mae Glover - Showers Of Rain Blues - Edward Thompson - Framer's Blues - Eli Framer - If I Call You Mama - Luke Jordan - Never Drive a Stranger From Your Door - Willie Harris - Mississippi Swamp Moan - Alfred Lewis - Paddlin' Madeline Blues - Gitfiddle Jim - Shaking Weed Blues - Tommy Settlers - South Carolina Rag - Willie Walker - Beans - El Morrow/Beans Hambone - Poor Jane Blues - Jack Gowdlock - Window Pane Blues - Tommie Bradley - Hot Jelly Roll Blues - George Carter disc 4 - Labor Blues - Tom Dickson - Goin' Away Blues - Lottie Kimbrough - No Baby - Charlie Kyle - Early Mornin' Blues - William Harris - Dreaming Blues - Willie Reed - Weeping Willow Blues - George Carter - Way Down In Arkansas - Hambone Willie Newbern - Wild About My Loving - Lonnie Coleman - Indian Squaw Blues - Freezone - Florida Bound - Edward Thompson - God Didn't Make No Monkey Man - Eli Framer - Tallahatchie River Blues - Mattie Delaney - Diamond Ring Blues - Jim Jam (Walter Taylor) - Bedside Blues - Jim Thompkins - Lonesome Midnight Dream - Willie Harris - Billy Goat Blues - John Byrd - That Won't Do - Arthur Pettis - Ghost Woman Blues - George Carter - 'Toby' Woman Blues - Gene Campbell - Rollin' Dough Blues - Jack Gowdlock - Starvation Farm Blues - Bob Campbell - Farewell To You Baby - Carl Martin - Teasin' Brown Blues - Louie Lasky - Married Woman Blues - George Torey - Dago Blues - Virgil Childers	4 CD box JSP JSPCD 7798 (UK)
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Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943, 4th ed. 1997, pp. 850, 921
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources