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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.Stefan Wirz www.wirz.de |
Wade Walton LPs / CDs
| # | year
of release | title | label # / notes |
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| 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 17, 1960 at the Big 6 Barbershop, Clarksdale, MS by Chris A. Strachwitz with assistance from Mr. and Mrs. Paul Oliver; Wade Walton, voc, g; unknown rooster, crowing [identified as 'Eric Arthur Rooster' by Paul Vernon and David J Costa ;-]
[] rec. July 24, 1960 at the Big 6 Barbershop, Clarksdale, MS by Chris A. Strachwitz with assistance from Mr. and Mrs. Paul Oliver; Wade Walton, razor stropping/speech with Robert Curtis Smith, g, speech | 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"
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| 2 | 1963 | The Blues of Wade Walton: shake 'em on down
- Big Fat Mamma
- Choo Choo De Shoo Shoo (instr) [] #
- Short Hair Woman
- Forty-Four
- Kansas City Blues
- Rock Me, Mamma
- Blues, Stay Away From Me (instr) []
- Parchman Farm
- Big Six
- Shake 'Em On Down
rec. 1962 in Bergenfield, NJ; Wade Walton, voc, g, [] hca; # Memphis Mango (Dave Mangurian), g; prod. by Kenneth S. Goldstein (and [uncredited] Dave Mangurian & Don R. Hill), rec. by Rudy van Gelder | notes by Dave Mangurian
Bluesville BVLP 1060Bluesville discography |
| 3 | 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
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Decca LK 4664
2nd ed. (1997) of book
(with enclosed CD)
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| 4 | 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"
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| 5 | 197? | Way Back Yonder ...
Original Country Blues Volume 2
Clarksdale, Greenville, Leland, Mississippi (1978)
Wade Walton
- The Little Red Rooster #
- Razor Rhythm []
Ernest Roy
- Boogie Children
Big Jack Johnson
- Catfish Blues
Wallace Johnson
- Tommy Dorsey Boogie
- Vicksburg Blues
Eugene Powell
- Hesitation Blues
- See See Rider
Son Thomas
- Shake 'Em On Down
- If I Get Lucky
- Four Women Blues
# rec. August 9, 1978 in Clarksdale, MS by Gianni Marcucci; Wade Walton, voc, g
[] rec. August 10, 1978 in Clarksdale, MS by Gianni Marcucci; Wade Walton, razor stropping | 
Albatros VPA 8459
(=) Albatros ALB/13
(along with Albatros VPA
5453 & Albatros VPA 5460
3 LP set It 1979)
Albatros discography |
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- Catfish Blues
- Shake 'em On Down
rec. c. 1978 prob. in Clarksdale, MS by Gianni Marcucci; Wade Walton, voc, g | Albatros unissued |
| 6 | 1988 | Bluesville Volume 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 | 
 
Ace CH 247
Ace CD 247
Bluesville discography |
| 7 | 1990 | Clarksdale, Mississippi: Coahoma the Blues
Johnnie Billington
C.V. Veal
Wesley "Junebug" Jefferson
Sam Carr
Big Jack Johnson
Frank Frost
"Super Chikan"
David "Pecan" Porter
Wade Walton
- What's Wrong With You? #
- Leaving 4th Street #
- Close Shave Boogie []
# rec. 1990 in Clarksdale, MS; Wade Walton, voc, g; unknown acc.
[] rec. July 8, 1990 in Clarksdale, MS; Wade Walton, razor stropping/speech; Big Jack Johnson, g | 
Rooster R 2627 (double
lenght cassette) |
| 8 | 199? | Giants Of Country Blues Vol. 3
Jack Owens
- Leavin' Blues
Eugene Powell
- Blues In Texas
Son Thomas
- Walking Cane
LV Conerly
- Hard Headed Woman
Roosevelt Holts
- Big Road Blues
Arzo Youngblood
- I Don't Want No Woman
Sam Chatmon
- Talkin' Bout My Girl
Wade Walton
- Catfish Blues #
Isaac Youngblood
- Big Road Blues
Mott Willis
- Long Tall Woman
Robert Shaw
- Ma Grinder Pt 2
- Mobile & KC Blues
- The Cows
- Rock Island
Lavada Durst
- Boogie Woogie
Alex Moore
- Henry 6 Mike
Memphis Piano Red
- Mama Likes Good Whiskey
- After Hours
Mose Vinson
- Blues Jumped A Rabbit
- Four O'Clock Blues
# rec. November 6, 1981 in Clarksdale, MS by Michael Hortig; Wade Walton, voc, g | 
Wolf 120.921 (Austria)not identical with Wolf CD
120.918 with same title !!! |
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- Untitled Blues
- Dust My Broom
- Rock Me Mama
rec. November 6, 1981 in Clarksdale, MS by Michael Hortig; Wade Walton, voc, g, hca | Wolf unissued |
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- Joe Brown
- Jungle Bells
- Dust My Broom
- Rock Me Mama
- Catfish Blues
- Little Red Rooster
- I Want No Woman
- Star Spangled Banner
- Field Holler
rec. November 7, 1981 in Clarksdale, MS by Michael Hortig; Wade Walton, voc, g, hca | Wolf unissued |
| 9 | 1995 | I Have To Paint My Face
- I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatmon
- 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 432Arhoolie discography |
| 10 | 1997 | Big Jack Johnson: The Oil Man Got Drunk
Rooster Blues Sessions 1990 1993 1994
- Rudolph Got Drunk Last Night
- The Things That I Used To Do (band version)
- Ice Storm Blues (Part 1)
- Ice Storm Blues (Part 2)
- Vampire Woman
- Close Shave Boogie #
- The Spoonful
- Little Piggy
- Corrine,Corrina
- Fightin' Woman
- I'm A Lonely Woman
- Baby Please Don't Go
- Hummin' Blues (Part 1)
- Hummin' Blues (Part 2)
- Jingle Bell Boogie
- The Things That I Used To Do (solo version)
# rec. July 8, 1990 in Clarksdale, MS; Wade Walton, razor stropping/speech; Big Jack Johnson, g | 
P-Vine PCD-5291
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| 11 | 1999 | The Bluesville Years Volume 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 |
Additional information appreciated !!!
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Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver 2006, pp. 496, 558
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, pp. 1008-1009
- Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 2011, p. 479
- Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- New York 1987, p. 534
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources
source of left column picture: Front cover of Bluesville BVLP 1060
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFCwsWENy74
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