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Wirz' AMERICAN MUSIC


Albatros Records label    
    Dischi  Albatros
    Serie 'USA Folk & Blues'
    discography

#
year of
release
title / notes
VPA 8137
(19??)
Musica Del Burundi
VPA 8146
(19??)
Il Canavese
VPA 8174
(19??)
Ritmi E Canti Del Marocco
VPA 8175
(19??)
Viva Chile
VPA 8183
(19??)
Santiago Penando estas
VPA 8184
(19??)
Victor Jara: Te Recuerdo Amanda
VPA 8187
(1974)
Il Blues Rurale - Country Blues

Richard Rabbit Brown - James Alley Blues
Blind Boy Fuller - Three Ball Blues
Willie Baker - Sweet Patunia
Willie Reed - Leaving Home
Leadbelly - See See Rider
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Pneumonia Blues
Texas Alexander - Water Bound Blues
Black Ace - Christmas Time Blues

Furry Lewis - Pearlee Blues
Bessie Tucker - Penitentiary
Sleepy John Estes - Diving Duck Blues
Charley Patton - High Water Everywhere
Robert Wilkins - National Stonewall Blues
Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues
Robert Johnson - Hellhound On My Trail
Big Joe Williams - Rooting Ground Hog


Albatros VPA 8187 (It 1974)
Albatros VC 0775 (cassette)

3 LP set
photo on the front cover depicts Arvella Gray, whose music is not present on any of the three LPs
   
(=) Albatros ALB 8 (= VPA 8187/88/89) "Il Blues Rurale / Jazzistico / Urbano"

VPA 8188
(1974)
Il Blues Jazzistico - Jazz Blues

Ma Rainey - Chain Gang Blues
Ida Cox - Fogism
Bertha Hill - Trouble IN My Mind
Clarence Williams' Orchestra - Red River Blues
Edith Johnson - Can't Make Another Day
Blind Roosevelt Graves - New York Blues
Trixie Smith - Freigt Train Blues
Big Bill Broonzy - You Do Me Any Old Way

Rosetta Howard - Rosetta Blues
Cow Cow Davenport - I Ain't No Iceman
Ollie Shepard - She Walks Like A Kangaroo
Rosetta Crawford - I'm Tired Of Fattenin' Frogs For Snakes
Jimmy Gordon - Me And My Gin
Joe Turner - Cherry Red
Billie Holiday - Billie's Blues
Jimmy Rushing - Boogie Woogie


Albatros VPA 8188 (It 1974)
Albatros VC 0776 (cassette)

3 LP set
photo on the front cover depicts Arvella Gray, whose music is not present on any of the three LPs
   
(=) Albatros ALB 8 (= VPA 8187/88/89) "Il Blues Rurale / Jazzistico / Urbano"

VPA 8189
(1974)
Il Blues Urbano - Urban Blues

Jesse James - Lonesome Day Blues
Blind Blake - Doing A Stretch
Speckled Red - The Dirty Dozens
Kokomo Arnold - Bad Luck Blues
Little Brother Montgomery - No Special Rider Blues
Memphis Minnie & Joe McCoy - She Put Me Outdoors
Red Nelson - Crying Mother Blues
Lonnie Johnson - New Falling Rain Blues

Georgia Tom - Don't Leave Me Here
Jimmy Yancey - Yancey Stomp
Big Bill Broonzy - Night Time Is The Right Time
Lucille Bogan - Pot Hound Blues
Leroy Carr - Blues Before Sunrise
Peetie Wheatstraw - Road Tramp Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson - Bluebird Blues n. 2
Roosevelt Sykes - You Can't Fix It Back


Albatros VPA 8189 (It 1974)
Albatros VC 0777 (cassette)

3 LP set
photo on the front cover depicts Arvella Gray, whose music is not present on any of the three LPs
   
(=) Albatros ALB 8 (= VPA 8187/88/89) "Il Blues Rurale / Jazzistico / Urbano"

ALB 8
(1974)
Il Blues Rurale - Jazzistico - Urbano

LP 1: VPA 8187
Richard Rabbit Brown - James Alley Blues
Blind Boy Fuller - Three Ball Blues
Willie Baker - Sweet Patunia
Willie Reed - Leaving Home
Leadbelly - See See Rider
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Pneumonia Blues
Texas Alexander - Water Bound Blues
Black Ace - Christmas Time Blues

Furry Lewis - Pearlee Blues
Bessie Tucker - Penitentiary
Sleepy John Estes - Diving Duck Blues
Charley Patton - High Water Everywhere
Robert Wilkins - National Stonewall Blues
Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues
Robert Johnson - Hellhound On My Trail
Big Joe Williams - Rooting Ground Hog

LP 1: VPA 8188
Ma Rainey - Chain Gang Blues
Ida Cox - Fogism
Bertha Hill - Trouble IN My Mind
Clarence Williams' Orchestra - Red River Blues
Edith Johnson - Can't Make Another Day
Blind Roosevelt Graves - New York Blues
Trixie Smith - Freigt Train Blues
Big Bill Broonzy - You Do Me Any Old Way

Rosetta Howard - Rosetta Blues
Cow Cow Davenport - I Ain't No Iceman
Ollie Shepard - She Walks Like A Kangaroo
Rosetta Crawford - I'm Tired Of Fattenin' Frogs For Snakes
Jimmy Gordon - Me And My Gin
Joe Turner - Cherry Red
Billie Holiday - Billie's Blues
Jimmy Rushing - Boogie Woogie

LP 1: VPA 8189
Jesse James - Lonesome Day Blues
Blind Blake - Doing A Stretch
Speckled Red - The Dirty Dozens
Kokomo Arnold - Bad Luck Blues
Little Brother Montgomery - No Special Rider Blues
Memphis Minnie & Joe McCoy - She Put Me Outdoors
Red Nelson - Crying Mother Blues
Lonnie Johnson - New Falling Rain Blues

Georgia Tom - Don't Leave Me Here
Jimmy Yancey - Yancey Stomp
Big Bill Broonzy - Night Time Is The Right Time
Lucille Bogan - Pot Hound Blues
Leroy Carr - Blues Before Sunrise
Peetie Wheatstraw - Road Tramp Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson - Bluebird Blues n. 2
Roosevelt Sykes - You Can't Fix It Back

a cura di / edited by Alessandro Roffeni
photo on the front cover depicts Arvella Gray, whose music is not present on any of the three LPs

3 LP set
   
Albatros ALB 8 (= VPA 8187/88/89) "Il Blues Rurale / Jazzistico / Urbano"

VPA 8198
(1974)
Pete Seeger: American Favorite Ballads   Volume 1

- Down In The Valley
- Oh, Mary Don't You Weep
- The Blue Tailed Fly (jimmie Crack Corn)
- Yankee Doodle
- Cielito Lindo
- Buffalo Gals
- The Wabash Cannonball
- So Long, It's Been Good To Know You

- The Wagoner's Lad
- The Big Rock Candy Mountain
- The Wreck Of The Old 97
- On Top Of Old Smoky
- I Ride An Old Paint
- Frankie And Johnny
- Old Dan Tucker
- Skip To My Lou
- Home On The Range


Folkways FA 2320 (US 1957)


= Folkways / Le Chant du
Monde FWX 52320 (Fr 1968?)


= Albatros VPA 8198

VPA 8199
(1974)
Pete Seeger: American Favorite Ballads   Volume 2

- Oh, Susanna
- The Riddle Song
- Oh, What A Beautiful City
- Sally Ann
- House Of The Rising Sun
- Shenandoah
- The Midnight Special
- Careless Love
- Hard Traveling

- Poor Boy
- Black Girl (In The Pines)
- Alabama Bound
- Stagger Lee
- Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
- Go Tell Aunt Rhodie
- The Water Is Wide
- The Fox
- The Keeper And The Doe


Folkways FA 2321 (US 1959)


= Folkways / Le Chant du
Monde FWX 52321 (Fr 196?)


Albatros VPA 8199

VPA 8200
(1974)
Pete Seeger: American Favorite Ballads   Volume 3

- John Brown's Body
- The Gal I Left Behind Me
- Oh, Mary Don't You Weep
- St. Louis Blues
- Four Nights Drunk
- Clementine
- Dink's Song
- New River Train
- Swanee River

- Camptown Races
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- Goodnight Irene
- Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
- Wimoweh
- The Farmer's Curst Wife
- When I First Came To This Land


Folkways FA 2322 (US 1959)


= Folkways / Le Chant du
Monde FWX 52322 (Fr 196?)


Albatros VPA 8200

VPA 8201
(1974)
Pete Seeger: American Favorite Ballads   Volume 4

- Banks Of The Ohio
- You Are My Sunshine
- Ballad Of Boll Weevil
- Where The Allegheny And Monongahela Flow
- Oh, How He Lied
- Froggie Went A-Courtin'
- Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier
- Go Down Moses

- America The Beautiful
- Hole In The Bucket
- Erie Canal
- Monsieur Banjo
- No More Auction Block
- What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor?
- Gee, But I Want To Go Home (Army Life)
- Sweet Betsy From Pike
- All My Trials


Folkways FA 2323 (US 1961)


= Folkways / Le Chant du
Monde FWX 52323 (Fr 196?)


Albatros VPA 8201

VPA 8202
(1974)
Pete Seeger: American Favorite Ballads   Volume 5

- Red River Valley
- Foggy Dew
- Molly Malone
- Talking Blues
- Lolly Too-Dum
- Riflemen Of Bennington
- Summertime

- I've Been Working On The Railroad
- Hallelujah, I'm A Bum
- Farther Along
- Ain't It A Shame
- Leatherwing Bat
- St. James Infirmary
- T.B. Blues


Folkways FA 2445 (US 1962)


= Folkways / Le Chant du
Monde FWX 52445 (Fr 196?)


Albatros VPA 8202

VPA 8205
(1974)
Victor Jara: El Derecho De Vivir En Paz (Vol. 2)
VPA 8206
(19??)
Musiche e canti popolari siciliani, Canti del lavoro
VPA 8207
(19??)
Inti Illimani Vol. 2
VPA 8209
(197?)
Woody Guthrie: (Vol. 1)


Albatros VPA 8209

VPA 8210
(197?)
Woody Guthrie: (Vol. 2)


Albatros VPA 8210

VPA 8217
(19??)
Victor Jara Vol. 3
VPA 8218
(19??)
Musica Popolare Di Cipro
VPA 8222
(19??)
Bergamo e il suo territorio
VPA 8223
(19??)
Brescia e il suo territorio
VPA 8225
(19??)
Fiestas In Guatemala
VPA 8227
(19??)
Inti Illimani Vol. 3
VPA 8230
(19??)
Musica Dell'Etiopia
VPA 8236
(19??)
I protagonisti. Le mondine di Villa Garibaldi
VPA 8232
(19??)
Gabon: Musica Fang Bwiti
VPA 8234
(1975)
Victor Jara Presente (Vol. 4)
VPA 8236
(19??)
I protagonisti. La musica del Carnevale di Bagolino
VPA 8237
(19??)
I protagonisti. Minatori della Valtrompia. La famiglia Bregoli di Pezzaze
VPA 8240
(1975)
Tennessee Blues Vol. 1

Little Laura Dukes
- Stack O'Lee Blues #   @ youtube
- Jimmy's Blues #   @ youtube
- Eh, Lordy Lord! (Doggone My Soul) #   @ youtube
- Bricks In My Pillow #   @ youtube
John 'Piano Red' Williams
- Baby Please Come Back To Me
- Forgive Me Baby
- Goin' To St. Louis
- Blues In The Mornin'

Bukka White
- Aberdeen Blues *
- Please! *
- I Ain't Got A Little Bed *
- All Night Long **
- Cross The River *

# rec. December 22, 1972 in Furry Lewis' bedroom in Memphis, TN by Gianni Marcucci; Laura Dukes, voc, ukulele; Furry's budgies, background chirping
* rec. December 22, 1972 in Memphis, TN by Gianni Marcucci; Bukka White, voc, g; ** poss. Hammie Nixon, kazoo

16-pp. booklet notes by Diego Carpitella

Albatros VPA 8240 (It 1975)
= Albatros VC 0715 (cassette)

30-pp. booklet notes (French, English & Italian) by Anonymous (most likely Gianni Marcucci)

(=) Dom disques Albatros CD DAF 101 (Fr 1997) "Tennessee Blues Vol. 1" (along with VPA 8261 "Tennessee Blues Vol. 2")

Laura Dukes discography
Bukka White discography

VPA 8246
(1975)
Woody Guthrie: Bound For Glory (Vol. 3)

- Stagolee
- Swim, Swim, Swimmy I Swim
- Ship In The Sky
- Little Sack Of Sugar
- Childrens' Song
- Vigilante Man
- Do Re Mi
- Pastures Of Plenty
- Grand Coulee Dam
- This Land Is Your Land
- Talking Fish Blues
- The Sinking Of Reuben James
- Jesus Christ
- There'S A Better World A-Comin'


Albatros VPA 8246

VPA 8247
(1975)
Woody Guthrie: Ballate di Sacco e Vanzetti (Vol. 4)

- I Just Want To Sing Your Name
- Red Wine
- Suasso's Lane
- The Flood And The Storm
- Vanzetti's Rock
- Root Hog And Die
- Sacco's Letter To His Son
- You Souls Of Boston
- Old Judge Thayer
- We Welcome To Heaven
- Vanzetti's Letter
- Two Good Men


Albatros VPA 8247
= Albatros VC 0721 (cass)

= Folkways FH 5485

more info

VPA 8249
(19??)
India Del Nord: Musica Popolare e Religiosa, Vol.  1
VPA 8256-8
3 LP set

(19??)
African Rhythms and Instruments
Recorded live at the First Pan-African Cultural Festival 1969
VPA 8258
(19??)
India Del Nord: Musica Popolare e Religiosa, Vol.  3
VPA 8261
(1975)
Dewey Corley / Mose Vinson: Tennessee Blues Vol. 2

Dewey Corley
- Stop And Listen *
- It Was A Dream *
- Fishing In The Dark *
- Blues Jumped The Rabbit * []
- Dewey's Blues (aka Dewey's Stomp) (instr) *
- Big Leg Woman *

Mose Vinson
- Memphis Boogie (instr) #
- So Long Blues #
- You May Be Old #
- I Can't (instr) #
- I Had A Dream Last Night #
- Rains All Night #

rec. August 22 & 27, 1972 in Memphis, TN by Gianni Marcucci & Lucio Maniscalchi

* Dewey Corley, voc, p; [] Gianni Marcucci, hca

# Dewey Corley, voc, kazoo, double b ["bull fiddle"]; Mose Vinson, voc, p

notes by Diego Carpitella + 18-pp. broschure



Albatros VPA 8261
= Albatros VC 0741 (cassette)

30-pp. booklet notes (French, English & Italian) by Anonymous (most likely Gianni Marcucci)

(=) Dom disques Albatros CD DAF 101 (Fr 1997) "Tennessee Blues Vol. 1" (along with VPA 8240 "Tennessee Blues Vol. 1")

Dewey Corley discography
Mose Vinson discography

VPA 8262
(19??)
Africa: Dolore e Magia
VPA 8265
(19??)
Inti Illimani Vol. 4
VPA 8266
(19??)
India Del Nord: Musica Popolare e Religiosa, Vol.  2
VPA 8269
(19??)
I protagonisti. Ernesto Sala. Il "piffero" di Cegni
VPA 8276
(1976)
Woody Guthrie: (Vol. 5)

 

VPA 8277
(1976)
Hammie Nixon
Tennessee Blues Vol. 3

- You're So Fine
- Nix's Boogie
- Sweet Old Kokomo
- My Babe
- But Someday Baby
- Yeller Yams
- Yeller Yams (n. 2)

- You Know I Don't Want No Woman
- Somebody Done Changed That Little Lock On My Door
- Sweet Old Kokomo (n. 2)
- Sugar Mama
- So Long
- She Keeps Me Worried And Bothered All The Time
- Holy Spirit Don't Leave Me

On-the-field-recordings by Lucio Maniscalchi & Gianni Marcucci

notes by Diego Carpitella

Albatros VPA 8277 (It 1976)
= Albatros VC 0757 (cassette)


reissued (along with VPA 8285) by Dom disques Fr 1997 as Albatros CD DAF 102 "Tennessee Blues Vol. 2"

VPA 8279
(19??)
Australia: Canti degli Aborigeni
VPA 8280
(19??)
Negro Prison Songs

 

VPA 8281
(19??)
Woody Guthrie: Poor Boy (Vol. 6)

 

VPA 8284
(19??)
Woody Guthrie: Songs To Grow On (Vol. 9)

 

VPA 8285
(1976)
'Sleepy' John A. Estes
Tennessee Blues Vol. 4

- Lord Have Mercy *   @ youtube
- Clean That Home *   @ youtube
- When You Loose [sic] Your Eyesight *   @ youtube
- I Wanna Tear It All The Time *   @ youtube
- Poor Man's Friend (T Model) * °°
- I'm Twist *   @ youtube
- Broke And Hungry *   @ youtube
- She Was A Dreamer *   @ youtube

- Someday Baby Blues **   @ youtube
- Mailman **   @ youtube
- Kansas City Blues ##   @ youtube
- Need More #   @ youtube
- President Kennedy ** °°
- I Came For To Do It (voc duet) ***   @ youtube
- John & Hammie's Blues (instr) ###   @ youtube
- The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair *   @ youtube

# rec. December 23, 1972 in Brownsville, TN by Lucio Maniscalchi & Gianni Marcucci; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, ## kazoo, ### hca; ## Gianni Marcucci, hca
* rec. December 31, 1972 in Brownsville, TN by Lucio Maniscalchi & Gianni Marcucci; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; ** Hammie Nixon, hca, *** voc, kazoo

°° not included on Albatros CD DAF 102

notes by Diego Carpitella

Albatros VPA 8285 (It 1976)
= Albatros VC 0766 (cassette)


reissued (along with VPA 8277) by Dom disques Fr 1997 as Albatros CD DAF 102 "Tennessee Blues Vol. 2"

Sleepy John Estes discograpy

VPA 8290
(19??)
Cuba Rivoluzionaria
VPA 8292
(1976)
Woody Guthrie: Goin' Down This Road (Vol. 7)

 

VPA 8293
(1976)
Woody Guthrie: The Struggle (Vol. 8)

= Folkways (1946)

VPA 8294
(19??)
Leadbelly: Looky Looky Yonder (Vol. 1)

= Verve Folkways FV 9021

VPA 8295
(19??)
Grecia: Musica Popolare del Dodescaneso
VPA 8297
(1975)
Musica Popolare delle Bahama
Popular Music Of The Bahamas

- I Drink All The Rum And Never Get Drunk - Bad Woman
- Take The Name Of Jesus With You
- 'Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus
- Liza Simeon
- Under The Precious Blood
- Mama, Bake A Johnny Cake, Christmas Coming
- Gal, You Want To Go Back To Scambo
- Everything The Monkey Do

- In The Sweet Bye And Bye
- If I Want Him To Receive Me
- Kindly Light
- Oh, Jesus, I Was Promised
- Orange Blossoms Smell So Sweet - Polka
- My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean
- When A Man Marries His Troubles Just Begin - Quadrille

a cura di / edited by
Samuel B. Charters


Albatros VPA 8297

VPA 8298
(19??)
Grecia: Musica Popolare della Grecia del Nord
VPA 8299
(19??)
Como e il suo territorio
VPA 8300
(197?)
Southern Prison Blues
blues da un penitenziario del sud

Hogman Maxey
- Duckin' And Dodgin'   @ youtube
John Henry Jackson & A.C. Craig
- My Baby Got To Go   @ youtube
Otis Webster
- Penitentiary Blues   @ youtube
Guitar Welch
- Lonesome Blues   @ youtube
Jesse Butcher & Guitar Welch
- They'll Miss Me When I'm Gone   @ youtube
Hogman Maxey
- Rock Me Mama   @ youtube

Guitar Welch
- Boll Weevil Blues   @ youtube
Hogman Maxey
- Hard Headed Woman   @ youtube
Otis Webster
- Standing At The Greyhound Bus Station   @ youtube
John Henry Jackson & A.C. Craig
- Tell Me Pretty Baby   @ youtube
Otis Webster
- Ball And Chain For Me [this track actually not enclosed on Tradition LP]   @ youtube
Guitar Welch
- Bad Luck Blues   @ youtube
The Cool Cats
- Goin' Home To My Old Used To Be   @ youtube

rec. 1959 at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, by Harry Oster

Dr. Harry Oster discography

notes by Harry Oster

Everest / Tradition TR 2066 (US 1961?)


= Storyville SLP 125
(Dk 196?)


= Storyville SLP 125 (Fr 196?)   "festival"


= Storyville Special 616002 (UK 1965)   "Louisiana
Prison Blues"


= Storyville ST 21 008 (Fr)

Storyville Records discography


= Albatros VPA 8300
(It 1976)


(=) Guimbarda GS-11027
(Sp 1979) "Bluesmen 2"


= Everest / Dargil 2066
(Portugal 198?)


(=) Collectables COL-CD
-0850 (US 2007)


(=) Essential 942311027
(2007)

VPA 8302
(19??)
Folkmusic Of Ireland (Vol. 9)


Albatros VPA 8302

VPA 8303
(1976)
Leadbelly: We Shall Be Free )Vol. 2)
with Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston & Sonny Terry

Cisco Houston discography

VPA 8305
(19??)
Inti Illimani Vol. 5
VPA 8306
(19??)
Victor Jara Vol. 5
VPA 8318
(19??)
Brasile: Muiscanera di Bahia
VPA 8341
(19??)
I protagonisti. I cantastorie di Pavia
VPA 8343
(1977)
Victor Jara: Canto Libre (Vol. 6)
VPA 8368
(1977)
Pete Seeger: American Industrial Ballads (Vol. 6)

- Peg and Awl
- The Blind Fiddler
- Buffalo Skinners
- Eight-Hour Day
- Hard Times in the Mill
- Roll Down the Line
- A Hayseed Like Me
- The Farmer is the Man (Who Feeds Us All)
- Come All You Hardy Miners
- He Lies in the American Land
- Casey Jones (The Union Scab)
- Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine

- Cotton Mill Colic 1
- Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat
- Mill Mother's Lament
- Fare Ye Well, Old Ely Branch
- Beans, Bacon, and Gravy
- The Death of Harry Simms
- Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
- The Ballad of Barney Graham
- My Children are Seven in Number
- Raggedy
- Pittsburgh Town
- Sixty Percent


Folkways FH 5251 (1956)


= Albatros VPA 8368

notes by Irwin Silber
= Smithsonian/Folkways CD
SF-40058 (US 1992)

VPA 8371
(1981)
Cisco Houston: Pie In The Sky
canzoni di cow-boys e di vagabondi

- Mule Skinner Blues
- Git Along Little Dogies
- The Erie Canal
- East Virginia Blues
- Travel On
- Beans, Bacon And Gravy

- Pie In The Sky
- The Job I Left Behind Me [= Mysteries ...]
- Soup Song
- Hobo's Lullaby
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
- Cryderville Jail
- I Ain't Got No Home

Folkways FA 2480
"Cisco Houston Sings Songs
Of The Open Road"


Albatros VPA 8371

Cisco Houston discography

VPA 8372
(19??)
I protagonisti. Cantori di Premana
VPA 8381
(19??)
I protagonisti. Calabresi a Milano
VPA 8386
(1977)
Come All You Coal Miners

George Tucker
- Black Lung Blues
Hazel Dickens
- Black Lung
Nimrod Workman
- Don't You Want To Go To That Land
Hazel Dickens
- Cold Blooded Murder
Sarah Ogan Gunning
- Come All You Coal Miners
Nimrod Workman
- Both Lungs Is Broke Down

George Tucker
- Thirty Inch Coal
Sarah Ogan Gunning
- Dreadful Memories
Hazel Dickens
- Clay County Miner
Nimrod Workman
- The N & W Train Don't Stop Here No More
Sarah Ogan Gunning
- That 25 Cents That You Paid
Hazel Dickens
- Manning Mine Desaster

prod. by Guy Caravan


Rounder 4005 (1973)


= Albatros VPA 8386

VPA 8387
(1977)
Mississippi Delta & South Tennessee Blues

Sam Chatmon
- Open Your Book
Eddie Cusic [name misspelled "Eddie Quesie"] & James Thomas, g
- Once I Had A Car
Asie Payton
- Catfish Blues
Wallace Johnson
- Pine Top's Boogie
James Thomas
- Bottle Up 'Em And Go [sic]
Eugene Powell
- Poor Boy Blues

Walter Cooper
- Peach Tree Blues
Cary Tate
- Early One Morning
Charley Sangster
- Bull Cow Blues
Van Hunt
- Mister Crump
Joe Cooper
- Boogie Children
Eugene Powell
- M & O Blues

rec. 1976 by Gianni Marcucci
photos by Enzo Castella

liner notes & booklet notes by Gianni Marcucci

Albatros VPA 8387 (It 1977)
= Albatros VC 4894 (cassette)

Sam Chatmon discography
Eddie Cusic discography
James 'Son' Thomas discography
Eugene Powell discography
Cary Tate discography

VPA 8392
(1979)
See See Rider
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


Rounder 2009 (197?)
"South Mississippi Blues"


= Albatros VPA 8392
"See See Rider"

VPA 8393
(19??)
Leadbelly: Midnight Special (Vol. 3)
with Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston

Cisco Houston
discography

VPA 8394
(1977)
Wake Up Dead Man
black convict worksongs from texas prisons
canti di lavoro di detenuti neri nei penitenziari del texas

Benny Richardson e gruppo
- Jody
W. D. Alexander e gruppo
- Julie
Joseph "Chinaman" Johnson e gruppo
- Long Hot Summer Days
Johnny Jackson e gruppo
- I'm In The Bottom
Ebbie Veasley, Marshall Phillips, Theo Mitchell
- Captain Don't Feel Sorry For A Longtime Man

Houston Page e gruppo
- Down The Line
Willie "Cowboy" Craig e gruppo
- Early In The Morning
Henry Scott e gruppo
- Hammer Ring
Joseph "Chinaman" Johnson e gruppo
- Fallin' Down
Voci anonime
- Log Loading Talk, Yells, Chants
Benny Richardson e gruppo
- Grizzly Bear

edited & collected by Bruce Jackson in the mid-1960s


Rounder LP 2013 (1975)


= Albatros VPA 8394


= Rounder CD 2013 (1994)

VPA 8395
(1978)
Ray Brothers And Red Cravens: Really Bluegrass

 

VPA 8408
(1977)
Sam Chatmon: Hollandale Blues

- St. Louis Blues
- That's All Right
- Stoop Down Girl
- Baby Please Come Back To Me
- I'm Fool About Her Loving

- Prowling Ground Hog
- Old Devil
- Used To Be
- Blues When It Rains
- Good Eating Meat
- Let's Get Drunk Again

rec. August 6, 1976 at Sam Chatmon's home in Hollandale, MS; Sam Chatmon, voc, g


Albatros VPA 8408 (It 1977)

CD and 180g LP
(=) Dynamic DYNA 32 (It 2006) "Blues When It Rains"

Sam Chatmon discography

VPA 8418
(1977?)
Georgia Blues
Blues Around My Bed

track list of Revival RVS 1007:
Willie Rockomo & Bruce Upshaw
- Black Rat Swing
Bruce Upshaw & Albert Yarborough
- I Wanna Love You
Bud Grant (rec. Thomaston, Ga, 1969)
- What's The Matter With The Mill
- Trouble In Mind
George Henry Bussey
- Sail On, Little Girl

Buddy Hubbard
- See See Rider
Willie Rockomo & Bruce Upshaw
- Love Her With A Feeling
Cliff Scott
- Sweet Ol Tampa
Bud White
- 16 Snow White Horses
Jesse Clarence Gorman
- Goin' Up The Country

track list of Albatros 8418 [?] and Rounder 2008:
Jesse Clarence Gorman
- Going Up The Country
George Hollis
- You Can't Play Me Down
Bud Grant
- Blues Around My Bed
Willie Rockomo & Bruce Upshaw
- Love Her With A Feeling
Bud White
- 16 Snow White Horses
Green Paschal
- Trouble Brought Me Down
Cliff Scott
- Long Wavy Hair
Bruce Upshaw & Albert Yarborough
- I Wana Love You

Emmit Jones (+ Jim Bunkley, g)
- Oh Red
Cliff Scott
- Sweet Ol Tampa
Bruce Upshaw
- Rosilee
George Five
- Old Hen Cackle
J.W. Jones & James Jones
- Buck Dance
Bud Grant
- Bud Grant's Hen Strut (instr.)
Precouis Bryant
- Rock Me
George Hollis
- Ain't Going To Germany
Dixon Hunt
- Got On My Traveling Shoes

rec. 1967 in Georgia by George Mitchell


Revival RVS 1007 (1971)
"Trouble In Mind"

Revival Records discography


= Albatros VPA 8418 (1977?)
"Georgia Blues"

notes by George Mitchell
click to read notes !
(=) Rounder 2008
  "Georgia Blues"

Rounder Records discography

VPA 8422
(1978)
Eugene Powell ("Sonny Boy Nelson")
Police In Mississippi

- Police In Mississippi Blues
- 44 Blues
- Blues Leaping From Texas
- Blues In G

- The Blues Jumped A Rabbit
- Old Home Blues
- Reminiscences
- Meet Me In The Bottom
- Dark Road Blues

rec. August 8, 1976 in Greenville, Miss. by Enzo Castello & Gianni Marcucci

Eugene Powell discography

click to read notes ! click to read notes !
Albatros VPA 8422

= Albatros VC 4919
(cass)

VPA 8424
(1979)
Cary Tate: Blues From The Heart

- Blues All In My Bread #
- Catfish Blues *
- Coal Black Mare #
- Bumble Bee Blues #
- What's That Smells Like Gravy? #
- What's That Smells Like Gravy? No. 2 *

- The Honeydripper #
- Moaning *
- Bluebird Blues *
- How Many More Years #
- I'm Going Down Brownsville *

# rec. July 27, 1976 in Humboldt, TN by Gianni Marcucci; Cary Tate, voc, g
* rec. August 12, 1976 in Humboldt, TN by Gianni Marcucci; Cary Tate, voc, g
front cover photograph by Gianni Marcucci

liner notes and 8-pp. booklet by Gianni Marcucci

Albatros VPA 8424 (It 1979)

Mbirafon CD 105

Cary Tate discography

VPA 8425
(197?)
Aunt Molly Jackson

 

VPA 8426
(197?)
Musica Dei Cajuns Della Louisiana

 

VPA 8428
(19??)
I protagonisti. Montanari di Val Brembana
VPA 8437
(1979)
La Ballata Afro-Americana
Afro-American Ballads   La Ballade Afro-Américaine


- Dying Crapshoot Blues - Blind Willie McTell
- Casey Jones (Kassie Jones, part 1) - Furry Lewis
- Casey Jones (Kassie Jones, part 2) - Furry Lewis
- Casey Jones (Southern Casey Jones) - Jesse James
- Boll Weevil - Leadbelly
- Bettie And Dupree (Dupree Blues) - Willie Walker
- Brady And Duncan (Bill Brady) - Leadbelly

- Ella Speed - Leadbelly
- John Henry - Willie Turner
- John Henry - Furry Lewis
- Titanic (Titanic Blues) - Hi Henry Brown
- Delia (Little Delia) - Blind Willie McTell
- Frankie And Albert (Frankie) - Mississippi John Hurt
- Stackolee (Billy Lyons And Stack O'Lee) - Furry Lewis

notes (Italian & English) by Alessandro Roffeni

Albatros VPA 8437 (It 1979)
= VC 4934 (cass)

VPA 8443
(1979)
Jack Owens: Bentonia Country Blues

- Cherry Ball Blues (2:52)   @ Spotify
- Keep On Groaning (4:32)   @ Spotify
- Please Give Me Your Money (1:58)   @ Spotify
- Devil Got My Woman (4:38)   @ Spotify

- Hard Time Killing Floor Blues (2:43)   @ Spotify
- Hard Time Killing Floor Blues Nr. 2 (2:47)   @ Spotify
- Don't Sell My Monkey (5:38)   @ Spotify

rec. August 13 & 16, 1978 in Bentonia, MS by Gianni Marcucci; Jack Owens, voc, g
photos by Gianni Marcucci

Jack Owens discography

notes by Gianni Marcucci

Albatros VPA 8443
(It 1979)

VPA 8447
(197?)
Almeda Riddle: My Old Cottage Home

 

VPA 8451
(1979)




Goin' Up The Country

Roosevelt Holts - My Phone Keeps Ringing #
Isaiah Chattman - Found My Baby Gone   @ youtube
Arzo Youngblood - Bye And Bye Blues   @ youtube
Cornelius Bright - My Baby's Gone   @ youtube
Herb Quinn - Casey, You Can't Ride This Train   @ youtube
Arzo Youngblood - Four Women Blues
L.V. Conerly - Bad Luck And Trouble
Mager Johnson - Travelling Blues   @ youtube

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   @ youtube
Jack Owens - Devil Got My Woman   @ youtube

# rec. August 28, 1966 in Bogalusa, LA by David Evans; Roosevelt Holts, voc, g

Jack Owens discographyHerb Quinn discography

Babe Stovall discographyRoosevelt Holts discography



notes (January 1968)
by David Evans

Decca LK 4931 (UK 1968)

notes (January 1968)
by David Evans

= Decca BLK-16563-P (Germany)

new notes (June 1975)
by David Evans
click to read booklet (pdf)!
= Rounder 2012 (US 1975)

Rounder Records discography

shortened version of
original 1968 notes
by David Evans
(english & italian)

Albatros VPA 8451
(It 1979)
"Bad Luck And Trouble"

VPA 8456
(1979)
Erotic Blues
Canti Erotici Afroamericani

Dirty Red
- Mother Fuyer
Sam Collins
- Slow Mama Slow
Washboard Sam
- Let Me Play Your Vendor
Bo Carter
- Ram Rod Daddy
Lucille Bogan
- Coffee Grindin' Blues
Lonnie Johnson
- Jelly Roll Baker
Tampa Red
- She Can Love So Good
Blind Blake
- Diddie Wa Diddie
Peetie Wheatstraw
- Peetie Wheatstraw Stomp
Mississippi John Hurt
- Candy Man Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson
- Suzie Q
Ruby Glaze & Blind Willie McTell
- Rollin' Mama Blues
Blind Boy Fuller
- I'm A Rattlesnakin' Daddy
Big Bill Broonzy
- Night Watchman Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Oil Well Blues
Walter Davis
- Think You Need A Shot

coll. by Alessandro Roffeni


Albatros VPA 8456
Albatros VC 4961 (cass)

notes by Alessandro Roffeni

= DOM/Albatros CD DAF 120

VPA 8457
(1979)
Piano Blues, Boogie Woogie, and Rags 1927 - 1941

Cripple Clarence Lofton
- Sixes And Sevens
Walter Roland
- Talkin' Low Blues
Jimmie Gordon
- Lookin' For The Blues
George Hannah
- Freakish Man Blues
Will Ezell
- Barrel House Man
Faber Smith
- I Received A Letter
Speckled Red
- The Dirty Dozen
Henry Brown
- Twenty-First Street Stomp

Joe Turner
- Roll 'Em Pete
Sugar Underwood
- Davis Street Blues
Roosevelt Sykes
- Love Will Wear You Down
James 'Boodle It' Wiggins
- My Lovin' Blues
Will Ezell
- West Coast Rag
Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell
- Gone Mother Blues
Pine Top Smith
- Pine Top Blues
Turner Parrish
- Fives

coll. by Alessandro Roffeni


Albatros VPA 8457

notes by Alessandro Roffeni

= DOM/Albatros CD
DAF 115

VPA 8458
(1979)
Way Back Yonder ...
Original Country Blues   Volume 1
Memphis & Brownsville, Tennessee (1976-1978)

Charley Sangster
- The Dirty Dozen (2:07)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Peach Tree Blues (2:11)   @ Spotify
Hammie Nixon
- Viola Lee Blues (2:55)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Walter Cooper
- Baby Please Don't Go (2:26)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Hammie Nixon
- Ida Mae (4:21)   @ youtube   @ Spotify

Lum Guffin
- Roll And Tumble Blues (4:36)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Casey Jones (3:06)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Willie Borum
- 61 Highway (2:44)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
John (Memphis Piano Red) Williams
- Cow Cow Blues (2:45)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- How Long Blues (4:16)   @ youtube     @ Spotify

originally unissued track from same session:
John (Memphis Piano Red) Williams
- William's Boogie (3:29)   @ youtube     @ Spotify
front cover photo (depicting Charley Sangster) by Gianni Marcucci

notes by Gianni Marcucci

Albatros VPA 5458 (It 1979)
= Albatros VC4963 (It 1979)


(=) Albatros ALB 13 "Way Back Yonder... Original Country Blues Volumes 1, 2 & 3" (It 1979)

Hammie Nixon discography
Lum Guffin discography
Willie Borum discography

VPA 8459
(197?)
Way Back Yonder ...
Original Country Blues   Volume 2
Clarksdale, Greenville, Leland, Mississippi (1978)

Wade Walton
- The Little Red Rooster (3:31)   @ Spotify
- Razor Rhythm (0:46)   @ Spotify
Ernest Roy
- Boogie Children (1:36)   @ Spotify
Big Jack Johnson
- Catfish Blues (1:58)   @ Spotify
Wallace Johnson
- Tommy Dorsey Boogie (2:23)   @ Spotify
- Vicksburg Blues (3:22)   @ Spotify

Eugene Powell
- Hesitation Blues (2:51)   @ Spotify
- See See Rider (2:20)   @ Spotify
Son Thomas
- Shake 'Em On Down (2:09)   @ Spotify
- If I Get Lucky (3:45)   @ Spotify
- Four Women Blues (2:01)   @ Spotify

Albatros VPA 8459 front cover photo (James 'Son' Thomas and daughter) by Gianni Marcucci
Albatros ALB 13 front cover photo by Gianni Marcucci

notes by Gianni Marcucci

Albatros VPA 8459 (It 1979)
= Albatros VC4964 (It 1979)


(=) Albatros ALB 13 "Way Back Yonder... Original Country Blues Volumes 1, 2 & 3" (It 1979)

Wade Walton discography
Eugene Powell discography
James 'Son' Thomas discography

VPA 8460
(1979)
Way Back Yonder ...
Original Country Blues   Volume 3
Flora, Canton, Bentonia, Crystal Springs, Mississippi & Bogalusa, Louisiana (1978)

- Sound Of The Yazoo river (0:55)   @ Spotify
Mott Willis
- Baby Please Don't Go (2:10)   @ Spotify
William Diamond
- Black Mattie (2:31)   @ Spotify
- Shaggy Hound (2:35)   @ Spotify
Jack Owens
- Cherry Ball Blues no. 2 (3:42)   @ Spotify
Jacob Stuckey
- Devil Got My Woman (1:57)   @ Spotify

Lonzo Burkes
- Train I Ride (2:36)   @ Spotify
- Back Door Friend (2:31)   @ Spotify
- Smokestack Lightning (2:16)   @ Spotify
Roosevelt Holts
- Big Road Blues (2:30)   @ Spotify
- Look-A-Here Little Woman (3:41)   @ Spotify

rec. August 1978 by Gianni Marcucci
depicted on the front cover is Charley Taylor (not mentioned in credits!)

notes by Gianni Marcucci

Albatros VPA 8460
= Albatros VC4965 (It 1979)


(=) Albatros ALB 13 "Way Back Yonder... Original Country Blues Volumes 1, 2 & 3" (It 1979)

Mott Willis discography
Do Boy Diamond discography
Jack Owens discography
Roosevelt Holts discography

VPA 8461
(1979)
I Got The Blues This Morning

Charley Sangster
- Dreamed Eyes Woman
- Kokomo Blues
Lum Guffin
- Louise
- Baby Please Don't Go
John Williams
- Mr. Freddy Blues
Charley Taylor
- The Blues So Bad
Eugene Powell
- Greenville Boogie
- I Got The Blues And I Can't Be Satisfied

James Thomas
- Mama Don't Allow
- Bumble Bee Blues
Lonzo Burkes
- Louisiana Blues
Eugene Powell
- Big Fat Mama
William Diamond
- Stop Your Crying
Sam Chatmon
- Falling Out
Eddie Cusic [name misspelled "Eddie Quesie"]
- You Better Stop Arguing Over Me
Wallace Johnson
- After Hours
Van Hunt
- Mississippi River Blues
Clay Pittman
- I Got The Blues This Morning
Asie Payton
- Blind Man

notes by Gianni Marcucci

Albatros VPA 8461

VPA 8462
(1979)
Forty-Four Blues
Piano Blues And Boogie Vol. 1

- Pinetop's Boogie - Mose Vinson
- Careless Love - Mose Vinson
- Early One Morning - Van Hunt & Mose Vinson
- Going Down Slow - John Williams
- Don't The Moon Look Lonesome - Mose Vinson
- Pinetop's Boogie No. 2 - Wallace Johnson
- Tommy Dorsey Boogie No. 2 - Wallace Johnson
- Pinetop's Boogie - John Williams
- The Honeydripper - Wallace Johnson
- One-Room Country Shack - Wallace Johnson
- Forty-Four Blues - Wallace Johnson
- Old Blue Jumped That Rabbit - Mose Vinson
- Rocky Mountain Blues - John Williams
- Mama Likes Good Whiskey - John Williams
- No More Dogging - Mose Vinson

rec. 1976/78 in Memphis & Mississippi by Gianni Marcucci


Albatros VPA 8462

VPA 8473
(1982)
Big City Blues

Bumble Bee Slim
- Burned Down Mill
Sonny Boy Williamson
- Good Morning, School Girl
Rosetta Howard
- Let Your Linen Hang Low
Curtis Jones
- Gold Digger Blues
Doctor Clayton
- On The Killin' Floor
Jazz Gillum
- Take A Little Walk With Me
Peg Leg Howell
- Sadie Lee Blues
Texas Alexander
- Sabine River Blues

Martha Copeland
- Stole My Man Blues
Cousin Joe
- Bad Luck Blues
Walter Davis
- I Did Everything I Could
Lonnie Johnson
- Mr. Johnson Swing
Peetie Wheatstraw
- Chicago Mill Blues
St. Louis Jimmy
- Going Down Slow
Jim Jackson
- My Monday Woman Blues
Leroy Carr
- Six Cold Feet In The Ground

notes (8-page booklet)
by Alessandro Roffeni

Albatros VPA 8473

= Albatros: VC 5021 (cass)

VPA 8474
(1982)
Combo Blues

Victoria Spivey
- Dirty T. B. Blues
The Alabama Jug Band
- Gulf Coast Blues
Bill Gaither
- Who's Been Here Since I Been Gone?
Bumble Bee Slim
- My Big Moments
Jimmie Gordon
- Plenty Trouble On Your Hand
Ollie Shepard
- No One To Call You Dear
Washboard Sam
- I Love My Baby
Rosetta Howard
- Men Are Like Street Cars

Peetie Wheatstraw
- Gangster's Blues
Joe Turner
- Last Goodbye Blues
T-Bone Walker
- Call It Stormy Monday
Jazz Gillum
- Hand Reader Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson
- Rub A Dub
Cousin Joe
- Box Car Shorty And Peter Blue
Big Bill Broonzy
- You Changed
Amos Milburn
- Let's Have A Party


Albatros VPA 8474

= Albatros VC 5022 (cass)

VPA 8490
(19??)
La settimana santa in Sicilia
VPA 8902
(19??)
Woody Guthrie
usa folk and blues with cisco houston and sonny terry

 

ALB 2
(19??)
America Del Nord: Musica degli Indiani e degli Eschimesi
ALB 8
(19??)
Il Blues Rurale / Jazzistico / Urbano

3 LP set

 

ALB 13
(1979)
Way Back Yonder... Original Country Blues Volumes 1, 2 & 3

Albatros VPA 5458
Albatros VPA 5459
Albatros VPA 5460

3 LP set

Albatros ALB 13

 

CDs Mbirafon (It)
Mbirafon 101
(2007)
Van Hunt: Field Recordings from Memphis, Tennessee
(1976-1982)

Blues At Home   Volume 1

Sweet Charlene & Mose Vinson - Sitting Here Drinking [previously unissued]
Mose Vinson - No More Dogging [Albatros VPA 8462]
Van Hunt & Mose Vinson - Early In The Morning About The Break Of Day - tk 1 [previously unissued]
Van Hunt & Mose Vinson - Early In The Morning About The Break Of Day - tk 2 [Albatros VPA 8462]
Mrs. Van Hunt discusses Early In The Morning [previously unissued]
Van Hunt - Nobody's Business But Mine [previously unissued]
Van Hunt - That's All Right [previously unissued]
Sweet Charlene & Mose Vinson - Forty Four Blues [previously unissued]
Sweet Charlene & Mose Vinson - Tin Pan Alley [previously unissued]
Van Hunt - Mississippi River Blues tk 1 [Albatros VPA 8461]
Mrs. Van Hunt discusses Mississippi River Blues [previously unissued]
Mose Vinson - Don't The Moon Look Lonesome [Albatros VPA 8462]
Mose Vinson, Van Hunt & Ruth Ogilvie - Just A Closer Walk With Thee [previously unissued]
Mose Vinson - Untitled Blues [previously unissued]
Van Hunt & Mose Vinson - I Never Knew Just What Our Love Would Do [previously unissued]
Van Hunt & Mose Vinson - Lonesome Road Blues [previously unissued]
Mrs. Van Hunt and Mrs. Ruth Ogilvie discuss repertoire [previously unissued]
Mose Vinson - Careless Love [Albatros VPA 8462]
Van Hunt & Mose Vinson - Corinna Corinna [previously unissued]
Mose Vinson - Old Blue Jumped A Rabbit tk 2 [previously unissued]
Mose Vinson discusses Old Blue Jumped A Rabbit [previously unissued]
Mose Vinson - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie [Albatros VPA 8462]
Van Hunt & Mose Vinson - The Darktown Strutters Ball [previously unissued]
Van Hunt - Crump And Jim Kinnane
Mrs. Van Hunt discusses Crump and Jim Kinnane [previously unissued]
Mrs. Van Hunt discusses bottleneck technique [previously unissued]
Van Hunt & Mose Vinson - Selling The Jelly Boogie [previously unissued]
Van Hunt - Troubled World [previously unissued]
Van Hunt & Mose Vinson - Sunnyland Special [previously unissued]

rec. during the late 1970s by Giambattista Marcucci; Van Hunt, voc, p, g; Mose Vinson, voc, p
photos by Giambattista Marcucci

36-page booklet

Mbirafon CD101 (It)

Mbirafon 102
(6/2009)
Sam Chatmon: Field Recordings from Hollandale, Mississippi
(1976-1982)

Blues At Home   Volume 2

- Open Your Book, Your Daddy Got To Read With You [Albatros VPA 8387]
- St. Louis Blues [Albatros VPA 8408]
- That's All Right [Albatros VPA 8408]
- Stoop Down Baby, Let Your Daddy See (complete version) [previously unissued]
- Baby Please Come Back To Me [Albatros VPA 8408]
- Brownskin Woman (Big Road Blues) tk 2 [previously unissued]
- Prowling Ground Hog [Albatros VPA 8408]
- Sam Chatmon discusses Prowling Ground Hog [previously unissued]
- Go Back Old Devil [Albatros VPA 8408]
- Sam Chatmon discusses Go Back Old Devil [previously unissued]
- Black Nights [Albatros VPA 8408 as "Used To Be"]
- Sam Chatmon discusses Black Nights [previously unissued]
- I'm Crazy About Her Loving [Albatros VPA 8408 as "I'm A Fool ..."]
- Last Time Shaking In The Bed With Me [previously unissued]
- I Get The Blues When It Rains [Albatros VPA 8408]
- Good Eating Meat [Albatros VPA 8408]
- Sam Chatmon discusses Good Eating Meat [previously unissued]
- Let's Get Drunk Again [Albatros VPA 8408]
- Sam Chatmon mentions musicians and producers [previously unissued]
- P Stands For Push [Albatros VPA 8408 as "Falling Out"]
- Sam Chatmon discusses his reluctance to fly [previously unissued]

rec. August 6, 1976 at Sam Chatmon's home in Hollandale; Sam Chatmon, voc, g, sp; rec., ed. & prod. by Giambattista Marcucci; digital remastered from original tapes; includes 32 page booklet with 15 photos

Sam Chatmon discography


Mbirafon CD102 (It)

Mbirafon 103
(2013)
Eugene Powell: Blues at home 3
recorded in Greenville, Mississippi   (1976-1982)

- Pony Blues (Santa Fe) (3:27) ["Police In Mississippi Blues"; Albatros 8422]
- Forty-Four Blues (tk 4) (1:54) [Albatros unissued]
- Forty-Four Blues (tk 1) (4:16) [Albatros VPA 8422]
- Texas Blues (3:12) ["Blues Leaping From Texas"; Albatros 8422]
- Untitled Blues (4:23) ["I Got The Blues And I Can't Be Satisfied" Albatros 8461]
- Meet Me In The Bottom (3:23) [Albatros VPA 8422]
- Poor Boy Blues (tk 1) (4:19) [Albatros VPA 8387]
- Poor Boy Blues (tk 2) (3:13) [Albatros unissued]
- Poor Boy Blues (tk 3) (1:32) [Albatros unissued]
- Old Home Blues (instr) (2:18) [Albatros unissued; different tk on Albatros VPA 8422]
- M & O Blues (3:22) [Albatros VPA 8422]
- Big Fat Mama Rag (1:28) [Albatros VPA 8461, sped up]
- I've Been A Dog In My Family (5:00) ["Blues in G"; Albatros VPA 8422]
- Blues Jumped A Rabbit (3:29) [Albatros VPA 8422]
- Dark Road Blues (2:29) [Albatros VPA 8422]
- Hesitation Blues (2:51) [Albatros VPA 8459]
- See See Rider (1:58) [Albatros unissued; different tk on Albatros VPA 8459!]
- Boogie-Woogie (1:18) ["Boogie Woogie"; Albatros VPA 8461, shortend]
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (1:35) [Albatros unissued]
- My Lonesome Song (2:25) [Albatros unissued]
- Don't Tear My Clothes (1:26) [Albatros unissued]
- Buddy Neal Blues (4:09) [Albatros unissued]
- So Cold In China (3:02) [Albatros unissued]
- Eugene Powell discusses his music (2:45) ["Reminiscences"; Albatros VPA 8422]

rec. August 8, 1976 in Greenville, Mississippi by Gianni Marcucci; Eugene Powell, voc, g, sp; rec., ed. & prod. by Giambattista Marcucci; digital remastered from original tapes
[ ] = my guesses

Eugene Powell discography


Mbirafon CD103 (It)

MP3 at www.cdbaby.com

Mbirafon 113
(10/2013)
Mott Willis & Others: Blues at home 13
recorded in Tennessee, Mississippi & Louisiana   (1978-1982)

William "Do-Boy" Diamond - Mississippi Flat (1:33)
William "Do-Boy" Diamond - Black Mattie (tk 3) (2:08)
Jacob Stuckey - It Must Have Been The Devil (tk 2) (1:13)
Jacob Stuckey - It Must Have Been The Devil (tk 3) (2:03)
Asie Payton - Catfish Blues No. 3 (tk 2) (3:48)
Lum Guffin - Train I Ride 18 Coaches Long (2:00)
Lum Guffin - Baby Please Don't Go, No. 2 (tk 1) (1:15)
William "Do-Boy" Diamond - My Babe (1:20)
Roosevelt Holts - Maggie Campbell (2:24) [previously unissued]
William "Do-Boy" Diamond - Shaggy Hound Blues (tk 2) (1:58)
Lum Guffin - Louise Blues (2:24)
Asie Payton - Blind Man (3:50)
Memphis Willie Borum - 61 Highway Blues (2:47)
Mager Johnson - Catfish Blues No. 2 (3:04)
Lum Guffin - Baby Please Don't Go, No. 2 (tk 2) (2:11)
Charlie Taylor - Untitled Blues (3:21)
Walter Cooper - Baby Please Don't Go No. 3 (feat. Hammie Nixon) (2:27)
Asie Payton - My Babe No. 2 (1:43)
Lum Guffin - Rolling And Tumbling (4:36)
Mott Willis - Baby Please Don't Go (2:13)
Memphis Willie Borum - Army Blues (1:58)
Lum Guffin - Catfish Blues (2:42)
Mager Johnson - Traveling Man Blues (2:09)
Lum Guffin - Casey Jones (3:06)
Charlie Taylor - I Got The Blues So Bad (1:46)
Asie Payton - Dust My Broom (1:37)
Jacob Stuckey - It Must Have Been The Devil (tk 4) (1:49)
Roosevelt Holts - Let's Talk It All Over Again (3:00) [previously unissued]
Roosevelt Holts - Big Road Blues (2:34) [Albatros VPA 8460]
Roosevelt Holts - Little Bitty Woman (3:45) [previously unissued]
Clay Pittman - I Got The Blues This Morning (1:23)
Walter Cooper - Peach Tree Blues (feat. Hammie Nixon) (3:35)

all tracks rec., ed. and prod. by Giambattista Marcucci
front cover photo by Giambattista Marcucci: Mott Willis on his porch, Crystal Springs, Mississippi, 1978

notes by Giambattista Marcucci

Mbirafon 113 (It)

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Will be completed and expanded with further details !!!

Sources:
- http://sunsite.kth.se/feastlib/mrf/yinyue/pw/ALBATR.HTM
- own record collection
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Yves Doremieux, Jeff Konkel, Jean-Pierre Urbain, Christian Bivel, Jean-Claude Legros, Simone Scarpa, Max Hoeffner and Wilson Fabian Ruales Villalva for additional info / scans

 

 

 

 

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