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Garfield Akers
Garfield Akers1) a/k/a Garfield Partee (né poss. James Garfield Echols)
b. 1901/1902 in Brights, DeSoto County, Misissippi
b. tentatively 1908 in Aiken, Tate County, Mississippi
d. possibly in Memphis, Tennessee
d. about 1959, reportedly in Hernando, DeSoto County, Mississippi

discography

 

1) 'Akers' is almost certainly just a misspelling/mishearing on Vocalion's part

#year
of release
title / label / notes

10 inch 78 rpm
Since this ain't no museum, my aim is not to depict actually existing specimen of 78 rpm records,
but to show the labels as pristine as workmanlike possible

even if this - in some cases - takes a whole lot of my time to photoshop process the initial data
11/1930Garfield Akers

- Cottonfield Blues—Part I (M-201- )   @ youtube
- Cottonfield Blues—Part II (M-202-A)   @ youtube

rec. c. September 23, 1929 at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN; Garfield Akers, voc, g; Joe Callicott, 2nd g


Vocalion 1442 (US 1/1930)

Mississippi Joe Callicott discography

21930Garfield Akers

- Dough Roller Blues (MEM-776- )   @ youtube
- Jumpin' And Shoutin' Blues (MEM-777-A)   @ youtube

rec. c. February 21, 1930 in Memphis, TN; Garfield Akers, voc, g


Vocalion 1481 (US 1930)


LP / CD compilations
31962Really! The Country Blues 1927-1933@ youtube (full album playlist)

Tommy Johnson - Maggie Campbell Blues
William Moore - Old Country Rock
Son House - My Black Mama, Parts 1 and 2
Sunny Boy and His Pals - France Blues
Skip James - Devil Got My Woman
Ishman Bracey - Woman Woman Blues

Sam Collins - The Jail House Blues
George 'Bullet' Williams - Touch Me Light Mama
Henry Sims - Tell Me Man Blues
Buster Johnson - Undertaker Blues
Henry Thomas - Don't Ease Me In

Garfield Akers - Cottonfield Blues - part 1
Garfield Akers - Cottonfield Blues - part 2

compiled by Bill Givens; edited by Pete Whelan; lyrics transcribed by Bill Givens and David Evans

Rory Block: "Stefan [Grossman] gave me a record called 'Really The Country Blues' and that was the beginning of my love affair with the music".

insert brochure notes by Gayle Dean Wardlow

Origin Jazz Library OJL 2 (US 1962, 1st ed.)

notes by Bill Givens and Pete Whelan
 
= Origin Jazz Library OJL 2

notes by Bill Givens and Pete Whelan
   
= Origin Jazz Library OJL 2

notes by Bill Givens and Pete Whelan

= Origin Jazz Library OJL 2

notes by Bill Givens and Pete Whelan on three stapled A4 copy sheets

= Origin Jazz Library OJL 2

= Soundmark 48172 (2011, download only)

OJL Records discography

41965Country Blues Encores 1927-1935

Ishman Bracey
- Saturday Blues
Blind Joe Reynolds
- Outside Woman Blues
Tommy Johnson
- Cool Drink Of Water Blues
Henry Sims
- Farrell Blues
Rube Lacey
- Mississippi Jailhouse Groan
Jaybird Coleman
- Man Trouble Blues
John Byrd
- Old Timbrook Blues
Skip James
- I'm So Glad

Red Hot Old Man Mose
- Molly Man

Garfield Akers
- Jumpin' And Shoutin' Blues
Charlie Jordan
- Keep It Clean
Bill Wilber
- My Babe, My Babe
The Mississippi Moaner
- It's Cold In China Blues
Big Bill and Thomps
- House Rent Stomp
Sunny Boy and His Pals
- Don't You Leave Me Here
Bill Moore
- One Way Gal


Origin Jazz Library OJL-8 (US 1965)

OJL Records discography

51965The Mississippi Blues Number 2
16 Previously Unreissued Sides In The Mississippi Delta Style By A Cadre Of Prophetic Bluesmen Who Voiced The Full, Raw Language Of This Area's Rich Musical Argot!

Son House
- Dry Spell Blues - part 1
- Dry Spell Blues - part 2
Louise Johnson
- All Night Long Blues
- Long Ways From Home
Charlie Patton
- Rattlesnake Blues
- Screamin And Hollerin The Blues
Jaydee Short
- Lonesome Swamp Rattlesnake
- Telephone Arguin' Blues

Blind Willie Reynolds
- 3rd Street Woman Blues
- Nehi Blues
Robert Wilkins
- I'll Go With Her Blues
- Get Away Blues
Hi Henry Brown
- Titanic Blues
- Preacher Blues
Joe Calicott
- Fare Thee Well Blues

Garfield Akers
- Dough Roller Blues

notes by David Evans and Bill Givens
 
Origin Jazz Library OJL-11 (US 1965)


Origin Jazz Library OJL-11 (US 19??)

OJL Records discography

61972Goin' Away Walking

Philips track list:
- Gravel Camp Blues - Lewis Black (Dallas - 10/12/27)
- Starvation Farm Blues - Bob Campbell (1934)
- Chocolate To The Bone - Barbecue Bob (Atlanta - 13/4/28)
- Court Street Blues - Stovepipe No. 1 and David Crockett (Atlanta 1927)
- When You Get To Thinking - "Texas" Alexander and Lonnie Johnson (Chicago - 1929)
- Tallahassee Blues- Tallahassee Tight (1934)
- Skin Game Blues - Peg Leg Howell (Atlanta 1927)

- Elm Street Blues - Texas Bill Day, Billiken Johnson (Dallas 1929)
- Bad Boy - Barefoot Bill (Atlanta 1930)
- When The Levee Breaks - Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie (1929)
- When You Are Gone - Blind Boy Fuller (Chicago 1940)
- Strange Place Blues - Bukka White (Chicago 1940)
- Lonesome Blues - Henry Williams and Eddie Anthony (Atlanta 1928)
- Walking Blues - Otis Harris (Dallas 1928)

Flyright track list:
Lewis Black
- Gravel Camp Blues (Memphis 1927)
Bob Campbell
- Starvation Farm Blues (New York 1934)
Stovepipe No. 1 & David Crockett
- Court Street Blues (St. Louis 1927)
"Texas" Alexander & Lonnie Johnson
- When You Get To Thinking (San Antonio 1929)
Tallahassee Tight
- Tallahassee Women (New York 1934)
Peg Leg Howell
- Skin Game Blues (Atlanta 1927)
Texas Bill Day & Billiken Johnson
- Elm Street Blues (Dallas 1929)

Otis Harris
- Walking Blues (Dallas 1928)
Barefoot Bill
- Bad Boy (Atlanta 1930)
Henry Williams & Eddie Anthony
- Lonesome Blues (Atlanta 1928)
Charlie Campbell
- Goin' Away Blues (Birmingham Ala 1937)

Garfield Akers
- Jumpin' and Shoutin' Blues (Memphis 1930)
Sunny Boy & His Pals
- Don't You Leave Me Here (Chicago 1927)
Bill Moore
- One Way Gal (Chicago 1928)

notes by Paul Oliver

Philips BBL 7369 (UK 1960) "Blues Fell This Morning"


(=) Flyright LP 103 (UK 1972) "Goin' Away Walking"

Flyright Records discography

71972Legendary 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

Blind Willie Reynolds
- Married Man Blues
- Third Street Woman 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



Roots RSE 2 (Austria 1972)

= Monogram (Autogram) Roots special edition Collector's Series RSE-2 (Germany 198?)

Roots Records discography

81972Deep South Country Blues

William Harris
- Bull Frog Blues
William Moore
- Old Country Rock
Son House
- My Black Mama part I
- My Black Mama part II
Sunny Boy & His Pals (Papa Harvey Hull & Long Cleve Reed)
- The France Blues
Kid Bailey
- Mississippi Bottom Blues
- Rowdy Blues

Willie Brown
- Future Blues
- M & O Blues
George "Bullet" Williams
- Touch Me Light Mama
Henry Sims
- Tell Me Man Blues
Buster Johnson
- Undertaker Blues

Garfield Akers
- Cottonfield Blues part 1
- Cottonfield Blues part 2

 
Flyright LP 102 (UK 1972)

Flyright Records discography

8a1976Blues In The Twenties

Bo Weavil Jackson - You Can't Keep No Brown
Furry Lewis - Sweet Papa Moan
Henry Thomas - Cottonfield Blues
Tampa Red & Georgia Tom - It's Tight Like That
Bertha "Chippie" Hill - Trouble In Mind
Leroy Carr - How Long How Long Blues - no. 2
Pine Top Smith - Nobody Knows You When You'r Down And Out

Henry Spaulding - Cairo Blues
Henry Brown - Stomp 'Em Down To The Bricks
Gus Cannon & Hosea Woods - Last Chance Blues
Robert Wilkins - That's No Way To Get Along
Jim Jackson - Jim Jackson's Jamboree - part 1
Jim Jackson - Jim Jackson's Jamboree - part 2

Garfield Akers - Dough Roller Blues
"Funny Paper" Smith - Howlin' Wolf Blues no. 1

notes by Toyo Nakamura
 
MCA MCA-3525 (Jp 1976)

91988Delta 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 (Austria 1988)

Document Records discography

101990
The Greatest in Country Blues   (1927-1956)

LP 1:
- High Water Everywhere - Charlie Patton
- See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson

- Cotton Field Blues Part 2 - Garfield Akers
- James Alley Blues - Richard "Rabbit" Brown
- Had A Good Father And Mother - Washington Phillips
- Travelin' Blues - Blind Willie McTell
- Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Minglewood Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Nappy Head Blues - Bobby Grant
- Third Street Woman Blues - Blind Willie Reynolds
- My Black Momma Part I - Son House
- Bull-Doze Blues - Henry Thomas
- Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground - Blind Willie Johnson
- Trouble Hearted Blues - Ishman Bracey
- Honey In The Rock - Blind Mamie Forehand
- Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt
- Man Trouble Blues - Jaybird Coleman
- How Long - Frank Stokes
- Future Blues - Willie Brown
- Voice Throwin' Blues - Walter "Buddy Boy" Hawkins


LP 2:
- Devil Got The Woman - Skip James
- When That Great Ship Went Down - William And Versey Smith
- The Jail House Blues - Sam Collins
- Touch Me Light Momma - George "Bullet" Williams
- Mothers Love - Blind Joe Taggart
- Skin Man Blues - "Hi" Henry Brown
- Lost Lover Blues - Lottie Kimbrough
- Levee Camp Moan Blues - Texas Alexander
- K.C. Moan - Memphis Jug Band
- Paddlin' Madeline Blues - Gitfiddle Jim
- Preachin' Blues - Robert Johnson
- Billy Lyons And Stack O'Lee - Furry Lewis
- Fryin' Pan Skillet Blues - Bessie Tucker
- Dallas Rag - Dallas String Band
- Crazy Cryin' Blues - Memphis Minnie
- Woke Up This Morning - Roosevelt Graves
- That's No Way To Get Along - Robert Wilkins
- McAbee Railroad Piece - Palmer McAbee
- The Gone Dead Train - King Soloman Hill
- Hastings St. - Blind Blake And Charlie Spand


LP 3:
- Shorty George - Smith Casey
- Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down - Bozie Sturdivant
- I Be's Troubled - Muddy Waters
- How You Want It Done? - Big Bill Broonzy
- She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day - The Georgia Cotton Pickers
- Sic 'Em Dogs On - Bukka White
- California Desert Blues - Lane Hardin
- Lonesome Day Blues - Jesse James
- Moanin' The Blues - Allen Shaw
- Midnight Hour Blues - Leroy Carr
- Jack O'Diamonds - Pete Harris
- Dust My Broom - Elmore James
- Rowdy Blues - Kid Bailey
- Rollin' And Tumblin' - Baby Face Leroy
- Penitentiary Blues (Pt. 1 & 2) - Smokey Hogg
- Baby How Long - Dan Pickett
- Mighty Long Time - Sonny Boy Williamson
- River Blues (Pt. 2) - Lowell Fulson
- Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf
- Moanin' Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins


compiled by Johnny Parth

3 LP set
24-pp. booklet notes by Paul Oliver
 
RST Blues Documents BD-01 (Austria 1990)

3 CD set
notes by Paul Oliver

1927-1930


1927-1936


1929-1956
= Story Of Blues/Da Music 3521/3522/3523 (Austria 1992)

= Century Media SOB 3521-2/3522-2/3523-2 (1994)

3 CD set

= 1201 Music 7002-2 (US 1999)

111990Son House And The Great Delta Blues Singers (1928-1930)

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 Thee 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 (Austria 1990 ff.)

notes by Bob Groom

= Document DOCD-5002 (EU 2000)

notes by Bob Groom

= Document DOCD-5002 (EU 2008)

121994Mississippi Masters
Early American Blues Classics 1927 - 35

Garfield Akers
- Dough Roller Blues (1930)
William Harris
- Kansas City Blues (1928)
Otto Virgial
- Litle Girl In Rome (1935)
Mattie Delaney
- Tallahatchie River Blues (1930)
Geeshie Wiley
- Last Kind Words (1930)
Joe Calicott
- Fare Thee Well Blues (1930)
Williams Harris
- Bullfrog Blues (1928)
John D. Fox
- The Moaning Blues (1927)
Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas
- Pick Poor Robin Clean (1931)
Blind Joe Reynolds
- Outside Woman Blues (1930)
King Solomon Hill
- Gone Dead Train (1932)

Garfield Akers
- Cottonfield Blues Part 1 (1929)
- Cottonfield Blues Part 2 (1929)
Williams Harris
- Hot Time Blues (1928)
Geeshie Wiley
- Skinny Leg Blues (1930)
Blind Joe Reynolds
- Third Street Woman Blues (1930)
John D. Fox
- Worried Man Blues (1927)
Mattie Delaney
- Down The Big Road Blues (1930)
King Solomon Hill
- Whoopee Blues (1932)
Elvie Thomas
- Motherless Child Blues (1930)


Yazoo CD 2007 (US 1994)

Yazoo Records discography

12a1999Broke, 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-pp. booklet by Joop Visser

Proper CDBOX 7 (UK 1999)

132003The Best There Ever Was
The Legendary Early Blues Performers Classic Recordings From the 1920s & 30s

Garfield Akers
- Dough Roller Blues
Tommy Johnson
- Big Road Blues
Son House
- My Black Mamma - part 1
Mississippi John Hurt
- Ain't No Tellin
Skip James
- Cypress Grove
Blind Willie Johnson
- I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole
Blind Willie McTell
- Mama Tain't Long Fo' Day
Jaydee Short
- Barefoot Blues
Robert Wilkins
- I'll Go With Her Blues
Ed Bell
- Squabblin Blues
Charlie Patton
- It Won't Be Long
Frank Stokes
- What's The Matter Blues
Geeshie Wiley
- Last Kind Word Blues
Williams Harris
- Bullfrog Blues
Blind Blake
- You Gonna Quit Me Blues
King Solomon Hill
- The Gone Dead Train
Memphis Minnie
- Outdoor Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Prison Cell Blues
Sam Collins
- Graveyard Digger's Blues
Furry Lewis
- Big Chief Blues


Yazoo CD 3002 (US 2003)

Yazoo Records discography

1411/2013Peabody Blues

Furry Lewis
- John Henry (The Steel Driving Man) - Part 1
- John Henry (The Steel Driving Man) - Part 2
- Black Gypsy Blues
- Creeper's Blues
Walter Vinson
- You're Friend Gonna Use It Too - Part 1
- You're Friend Gonna Use It Too - Part 2
- Overtime Blues
Charlie McCoy
- It Ain't No Good - Part 1
- It Ain't No Good - Part 2
Speckled Red
- House Dance Blues
- The Dirty Dozen
- Wilkins Street Stomp
Jenny Pope
- Whiskey Drinking Blues
- Doggin' Me Around Blues
Robert Wilkins
- That's No Way To Get Along
- Alabama Blues
- Long Train Blues
- Falling Down Blues

Garfield Akers
- Cottonfield Blues - Part 1
- Cottonfield Blues - Part 2
Jed Davenport
- How Long How Long Blues
- Cow Cow Blues
Joe Williams
- I Want It Awful Bad
- Mr. Devil Blues
Kid Bailey
- Mississippi Bottom Blues
- Rowdy Blues



Nehi NEH01 (UK 11/2013)

152014Classic Blues Artwork from the 1920s Volume 12
2015 Calendar with free CD

CD and Calendar contents:
- When The Levee Breaks - Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe
- Dark Road Blues - Willie Lofton
- Texas Easy Street Blues - Henry Thomas
- I Want To Live So God Can Use Me - Brother Son Bonds and Hammie Nixon
- Match Box Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Dry Bone Shuffle - Blind Blake
- A Spoonful Blues - Charley Patton
- Walk Right In - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- The New Shake That Thing - Mississippi Sheiks
- Conjur Man Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
- You Got What I Want - Chocolate Brown with Blind Blake
- Clanka A Lanka (Sleep On Mother) - Famous Blue Jay Singers of Birmingham

Supplementary CD tracks:
- Alcohol And Jake Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Ridin' Horse - Tommy Johnson
- Raggin' The Blues - William Moore

- Jumpin' And Shoutin' Blues - Garfield Akers
- Greyhound Blues - Bill Wilber
- My Babe My Babe - Bill Wilber
- Don't You Leave Me Here - Papa Harvey Hull and Long Cleve Reed
- Cherry Hill Blues - Chocolate Brown with Blind Blake
- Beer Garden Blues - Willie Lofton Trio
- Match Box Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Little Sow Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
- I'm Leaning On The Lord - Famous Blue Jay Singers of Birmingham


restored by Richard Nevins


Blues Images Calendar Vol. 12 (rel. 2014, for 2015)


Blues Images CD BIM-112 (US 2014) accompanying Blues Images Calendar Vol. 12 (for 2015)

Blues Images calendar discography

16201620 Classic Blues Songs from the 1920s Volume 14
2017 Calendar with free CD

CD and Calendar contents:
- Cottonfield Blues - Part I and Part II - Garfield Akers
- How Long How Long Blues - Jed Davenport
- I'm Talking About You - Memphis Minnie
- Ain't Gonna Lay My 'Ligion Down (tk 2) - Frank Palmes
- Lord I'm Discouraged - Charley Patton
- Louisiana Glide - Blind Leroy Garnett
- Illinois Blues - Blind Blake
- Nehi Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds
- I Can't Be Satisfied - Big Bill Johnson (Broonzy)
- Mr. Devil Blues - Joe Williams
- Fattenin' Frogs - Mobile Strugglers
- Let Your Light Shine On Me - Blind Willie Johnson

Supplementary CD tracks:
- I'll Just Wring My Hands And Cry - Blind Gussie Nesbitt
- Motherless Children - Blind Gussie Nesbitt
- Bumble Bee - Memphis Minnie
- Chain 'Em Down - Blind Leroy Garnett
- Outside Woman Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds
- Yola My Blues Away - Skip James
- I'm Goin' Home - Charley Patton
- The Western Blues - Big Bill Johnson (Broonzy) & The Western Kid (Frank Braswell)
- Memphis Blues - Mobile Strugglers
- Woman Woman Blues - Ishman Bracey
- Suit Case Full Of Blues - Ishman Bracey


restored by the AMERICAN EPIC sound team


Blues Images Calendar Vol. 14 (rel. 2016, for 2017)


Blues Images CD BIM-114 (US 2016) accompanying Blues Images Calendar Vol. 14 (for 2017)

Blues Images calendar discography

172017American Epic: The Collection

disc 1:
- The Coo Coo Bird (The Cuckoo) - Clarence Ashley
- On the Road Again - Memphis Jug Band
- The Panama Limited - Bukka White
- Indian War Whoop - Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers
- 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do, Pt. 1 - Frank Stokes
- K.C. Railroad Blues - Andrew & Jim Baxter
- I Am Bound for the Promised Land - Alfred G. Karnes

- Cottonfield Blues, Pt. 2 - Garfield Akers
- I Wish I Was a Mole In the Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
- Down On Penny's Farm - Bentley Boys
- Foldin' Bed - Whistler's Jug Band
- Greenback Dollar - Weems String Band
- Tallahatchie River Blues - Mattie Delaney
- Walk Right In - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow - The Carter Family
- Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson
- Bayou Teche - Columbus Fruge
- Cool Drink of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Train On the Island - J.P. Nestor

disc 2:
- My Heart Keeps Singing - Elder J.E. Burch
- Ninety-Nine Year Blues - Julius Daniels
- I Get My Whiskey From Rockingham - Earl Johnson and his Clodhoppers
- Death's Black Train Is Coming - Rev. J. M. Gates
- Waiting for a Train - Jimmie Rodgers
- Darling, Where Have You Been So Long? - Tenneva Ramblers
- Rocky Road - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
- Ma Blond Est Partie - Amadie Breaux, Ophey Breaux & Cleoma Breaux
- Peg and Awl - Carolina Tar Heels
- Chocolate to the Bone - Barbecue Bob
- Down On Me - Eddie Head and Family
- Prenez Courage - Cleoma Breaux with Joseph Falcon and Ophy Breaux
- Pickin' Off Peanuts - Dilly and his Dill Pickles
- Just Because - Nelstone's Hawaiians
- Dupree Blues - Willie Walker
- Ladies On the Steamboat - Burnett & Rutherford
- Mamma, 'Tain't Long Fo' Day - Blind Willie McTell

disc 3:
- Cecilia - Cuarteto Flores
- La Coquetera - Los Borinquenos
- Coconito - Guty Cárdenas Y Lencho
- Lovesick Blues - Emmett Miller
- Long Tall Mama - Big Bill Broonzy
- John Henry Blues - Two Poor Boys
- Mr. Tom Hughes' Town - Lead Belly
- Louis Collins - Mississippi John Hurt
- I Am The Light of the World - Blind Gary Davis
- Fifty Miles of Elbow Room - Rev. F.W. McGee
- Chant of the Eagle Dance - Hopi Indian Chanters
- Hilo Hula - Mike Hanapi & The Ilima Islanders
- If The River Was Whiskey - Charlie Poole
- Stackalee - Frank Hutchison
- The Wreck of the '97 - Ernest Stoneman
- Faded Coat of Blue - Buell Kazee
- Country Blues - Dock Boggs
- Sail Away Ladies - Uncle Dave Macon and His Fruit-Jar Drinkers
- Sail Away Lady - Uncle Bunt Stephens
- Sally Gooden - Eck Robertson
- Arkansas Traveller - Don Richardson

disc 4:
- Hard Time Blues - Lane Hardin
- Down the Dirt Road Blues - Charley Patton
- Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home - Banjo Joe
- Hastings Street - Blind Blake & Charlie Spand
- See That My Grave's Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Gonna Have 'Lasses In the Morning - Golden Melody Boys
- New Orleans Stop Time - Memphis Minnie & Bumblebee Slim
- Prove It On Me Blues - Ma Rainey
- Gonne Die with My Hammer in My Hand - Williamson Brothers & Curry
- Last Kind Words Blues - Geeshie Wiley
- Banjoreno - Dixieland Jug Blowers
- It's a Good Thing - Beale Street Sheiks
- Trust In God and Do the Right - Blind Willie Davis
- Someday Baby Blues - Sleepy John Estes
- Lonesome Road Blues - Sam Collins
- Future Blues - Willie Brown
- Bull Doze Blues - Henry Thomas
- Brown Skin Gal (Down the Lane) - Massey Family
- Henry Lee aka Young Hunting - Dick Justice
- Old Country Rock - William Moore
- La Danseuse - Delma Lachney & Blind Uncle Gaspard
- My Black Mama, Pt. 1 & 2 - Son House
- Cypress Grove Blues - Skip James

disc 5:
- Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson
- Mal Hombre - Lydia Mendoza
- Sunshine Special - Frenchy's String Band
- Old Jim Canan's - Robert Wilkins
- Les Blues De Voyage - Amédé Ardoin & Dennis McGee
- The Lost Child - Stripling Brothers
- I'm Gonna Cross the River Jordan Some of These Days - Jaybird Coleman
- Tomi Tomi - Sol K. Bright with The Aloha Serenaders
- Sittin' On Top of the World - Mississippi Sheiks
- James Alley Blues - Richard Rabbit Brown
- The Indian Tom Tom - Big Chief Henry's Indian String Band
- Blues In a Bottle - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
- Je Me Suis En Alle - Bartmont Montet & Joswell Dupuis
- Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson
- E Mama Ea - Sol Hoopii & His Novelty Quartette
- Ghost Dance - Truett & George
- Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind On Jesus) - Roosevelt Graves & Brother
- Allons A Lafayette - Joseph Falcon
- Corrido De Joaquin Murrieta, Pt. 1 & 2 - Los Madrugadores
- Denomination Blues (Part 1 & 2) - Washington Phillips


"American Epic: The Collection gathers 100 of these original recordings from the 1920s and 1930s in one five-disc set, restored to unprecedented levels of sonic fidelity. For this box set, compiled by Director Bernard MacMahon, engineer Nicholas Bergh refined a transfer process using a mix of both modern and vintage equipment in order to extract the remarkable resolution from the records that is often missed."

5 CD set
 
American Epic AMPC451 (US 2017)

Sources:
- own record collection
- Görgen Antonsson discographies
- Robert M.W. Dixon & John Godrich: Blues & Gospel Records 1902 - 1943, 3rd ed. 1982, p. 32
- Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943.- Oxford (Clarendon), 4th ed. 1997, p. 2
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 219/220, 456
- John Tefteller and Blues Images Collection - used with permission
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

Thanks to Gayle Dean Wardlow, David J Costa and Bob Eagle for additional info

 

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