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Wirz' AMERICAN MUSIC

J I M   B R E W E R
Fannie and Jim Brewer with Carrie Robinson on Maxwell Street, 1966
photographer: Frank Scott

"My mother didn't name me 'Blind',
she named me 'Jim'"


Jim Brewer
a/k/a James, Jimmy, 'Blind Jim' Brewer
b. October 3, 1920 in Brookhaven, Lincoln County, Mississippi
d. June 2, 1988 at a Chicago Housing Authority apartment in Chicago, Illinois

buried at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois
discography
J I M   B R E W E R; from Juke 13 (1988), p. 21; photographer: Tano Ro)
source: Juke Blues 13 (1988), p. 21; photographer: Tano Ro

#year
of release
title / label / notes
11961Blues From Maxwell Street

Blind Arvella Grey [sic] #
- Corrine Corrina   @ youtube

James Brewer *
- I'm So Glad Good Whiskey's Back   @ youtube
Blind Arvella Grey [sic] #
- Have Mercy, Mr. Percy   @ youtube
- Railroad Work Song & John Henry   @ youtube
- Have Mercy, Mr. Percy No. 2   @ youtube

King David //
- Fannie Mae ["Don't Start Me Talkin'"]   @ youtube
- Sugar Mama   @ youtube
- Good Mornin', Little Schoolgirl   @ youtube
- 38 Pistol   @ youtube
- 44 Blues   @ youtube
Daddy Stovepipe \\
- Tennessee Waltz   @ youtube
- South Of The Border   @ youtube
- Old Time Religion   @ youtube
- Monkey And The Baboon   @ youtube


# rec. July 11, 1960 in Chicago, IL by John Steiner; Arvella Gray, voc, g; session organized by Paul Oliver
* rec. July 11, 1960 in Chicago, IL by John Steiner; James Brewer, voc, g; session organized by Paul Oliver
// rec. July 1960 in Chicago, IL by Donald R. Hill & Robert Koester; King David, voc, hca
\\ rec. July 1960 in Chicago, IL by Björn Englund & Donald R. Hill; Daddy Stovepipe (Johnny Watson), voc, hca, g

front cover photo: Arvella Gray, 1960; photographer: Paul Oliver

notes by Paul Oliver

Heritage HLP 1004 (UK 1961)

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= Collector's Issue C-5527 (Austria 1989?)

notes by Paul Oliver, Rien Wisse & Gary Atkinson
click to enlarge! click to enlarge!
= Document DOCD 5692 (UK 2012)

Heritage Records discography
Collector's Issue discography
Arvella Gray discography
Daddy Stovepipe discography

21966Ramblin' On My Mind
Classic Train and Travel Blues

Johnny Youngwith Little Walter Jacobs, Jimmy Walker
- Hear That Whistle Blow   @ youtube
Carl Hodges
- Standing At The Greyhound Bus Station   @ youtube
Leroy 'Country' Dallas
- She Caught The M&O   @ youtube   @ Spotify

Jimmy Brewer
- Pea Vine Whistle #   @ youtube
Honeyboy Edwards
- Highway 61   @ youtube
Big Joe Williams
- Ramblin' On My Mind   @ youtube

Blind Connie Williams
- Key To The Highway   @ youtube
Dr. Isaiah Ross
- Hobo Blues   @ youtube
John Lee Granderson
- My Home Ain't Here   @ youtube
Bill Jackson
- Freight Train Blues   @ youtube
Elijah Brown
- Cryin' Won't Make Me Stay   @ youtube
W.B. 'Piano Bill' Bryson
- Mean Old Train   @ youtube


# rec. July 1964 in Chicago, IL by Pete Welding and Norman Dayron; Jim Brewer, voc, g
cover photograph (Railroad Station, Edwards, Mississippi, 1936) by Walker Evans

notes by Pete Welding
   
Milestone MLP-3002 (mono) (US 1966)

Milestone MSP-93002 (stereo) most likely never happened, 'cause all musical content only existed in mono!

notes by Pete Welding   "Made in France by Pathé Marconi"

= Milestone 2C 062-94300 M (Fr 1973)

Milestone Records discography

2a1965Conversation With The Blues
A Documentary of Field Recordings by Paul Oliver

LP tracks:
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)
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 (vocal and own guitar)
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)

CD track sequence:@ youtube (full album)
- So Much Good Feeling - Boogie Woogie Red
- A Little Different - Willie Thomas
- Kill That Nigger Dead - James "Butch" Cage & Willie Thomas
- The Onliest Way - Lil Son Jackson
- My Father's Style / So It Rocked On / Move To Kansas City - J.B. Lenoir
- When She Come Back / Poor Country Boy - Otis Spann
- Ain't No Easy Thing - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Evil Heart Blues - Mance Lipscomb
- A Roughneck - Blind Arvella Gray #
- West Helena Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
- Days of 1900 / Newport News Blues - Will Shade
- Chock House Days / Come and Get Me - Whistling Alex Moore
- Move Back! For What? - Brother John Sellers
- Been Down So Long - J.B. Lenoir
- A Place They Call Boots' - James "Stump" Johnson []
- Henry Brown Blues - Henry Brown
[]
- They Called Us Gandy Dancers # / Work Songs & John Henry ## - Blind Arvella Gray # with Blind James Brewer ## [] (starting @ 31:23)
- Santa Fe Train - Edwin "Buster" Pickens
- Most Reason I Sing - Robert Curtis Smith
- Santa Fe Blues - Jasper Love
- Somewhere Down The Line - John Lee Hooker
- I Hope One Day My Luck Will Change - Robert Curtis Smith []
- Only Places They Can Go / People Call Me Lucky - Otis Spann
- What Have I Committed? - Henry Townsend
- 'Tween Midnight And Day - James "Butch" Cage
- Walking Basses / Dud Low Joe / The First Vicksburg Blues - Little Brother Montgomery
- They Call Him "Pork Chops" / Forty-Four Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
- Blues In The Bottle - Mance Lipscomb
- To Have The Blues Within - Edward "Buster" Pickens
- Colorado Springs Blues - Edwin "Buster" Pickens []


All tracks recorded between June 26 and August 28, 1960
# rec. July 9, 1960 in Chicago, IL; Arvella Gray, voc, g or sp; ## Jim Brewer, g

LP and CD have slightly different tracks: [] = not on LP resp. CD !!!

notes (plus 6-pp. insert) by Paul Oliver    Decca LK 4664 insert (1 sheet folded to 6 pp.)
 
Decca LK 4664 (UK 1965)

notes by Paul Oliver

= Decca LK 4664 (Germany 1965)

 

LP resp. CD accompanying Paul Oliver's book by the same title:


London (Cassell) (1st UK ed. 1965)   xv, 217 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm

 
New York (Horizon Press) (1st US ed. 1965)   xix, 217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

 
London ("Jazz Book Club") JBC 64 (2nd UK ed. 1967)


Cambridge (University Press) 0 521 59181 3 (revised edition of the original 1965 book with enclosed CD) (2nd US ed. 1997)


Doyosha LLC (1st Jp ed. 2016) ISBN 978-4-907511-25-8 (190 × 129 × 21,8 mm | 336 pages (incl. 48 photos) | weight: 9,5 pound; price: 1.850 JPY equals 14,84 EUR)   translated by Yasufumi Higurashi

31967Can't Keep From Crying
Topical Blues on the Death of President Kennedy

Big Joe Williams - A Man Amongst Men   @ youtube
James & Fannie Brewer - I Want To Know Why
John Lee Granderson - A Man For The Nation   @ youtube
Otis Spann - Sad Day In Texas   @ youtube
Mary Ross - President Kennedy Gave His Life
Bill Jackson - The 22nd Day Of November


James Brewer - Why Did He Have To Go?
Johnny Young - I Tried Not To Cry
Avery Brady - Poor Kennedy   @ youtube

Fannie Brewer - When We Got The Message
Jimmy Brown - He Was Loved By All The People   @ youtube

CD bonus tracks:
Johnny Young - Tribute To J.F.K.   @ youtube
Avery Brady - Poor Kennedy no. 2


rec. in Chicago, IL in the weeks immediately following JFK's death on November 22, 1963 by Norman Dayron and Peter J. Welding; prod. by Peter J. Welding

cover photo of Big Joe Williams by Lars Swanberg

printed on LP's back cover: "TESTAMENT RECORDS, P.O. Box 1813, Chicago, Illinois 60690"
later additionally stamped "New address: 577 Levering, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024"

notes by Peter J. Welding     "5851 Blackstone Avenue/Chicago 37, Illinois"

    "577 Levering Avenue/Los Angeles, Calif./90024"

Testament S-01 (US 1964 ff.)
BU 62 (May 1969), p. 26

notes by Peter J. Welding

= Bounty BY 6035 (UK 1967)

notes by Peter J. Welding

(=) Testament TCD-5007 (US 1994)

Testament Records discography

41974Jim Brewer

- I'll Fly Away
- Liberty Bill
- She Wants To Boogie
- Good Morning Blues
- Rocky Mountain   @ youtube
- St. Louis Blues

- Corrina
- Don't You Lie To Me
- Black, Brown And White
- It Hurts Me Too
- Shak-A-You-Boogie
- Crawlin' King Snake
- Key To The Highway

rec. 1973 live at the Kirkland College, North Ferrisburg, VT by Earth Audio Techniques, Inc.; Jim Brewer, voc, g; prod. by Michael Couture and A.M. Cohen

notes by A.M. Cohen
and Roy Filson

Philo 1003

51975Blues Scene USA Vol. 4
Mississippi Blues

Bert Logan, Russ Logan, Big Joe Williams
- Four O'Clock In The Morning
Roosevelt Charles
- Bye Bye Baby Blues
Big Joe Williams, Coot Venson
- Sugar Mama
Avery Brady
- I Don't Want You No More
Big Joe Williams, Willie Lee Harris
- I Can Seen My Baby In My Dreams

Jimmy Brewer
- Big Road Blues #

Arthur Weston, Big Joe Williams, George Robertson
- Someday Baby
Big Joe Williams, Coot Venson
- Long Road Blues
Johnny Young
- Pony Blues
Big Joe Williams, Ruby McCoy
- Rising Sun Blues
Johnny Young, Big Boy Spires
- 21 Below Zero
Jimmy Brown, Big Joe Williams, Willie Lee Harris
- Goin' Back Home
Big John Henry Miller, Jimmy Lee Miller
- Down Here By Myself


# rec. July 1964 in Chicago, IL by Pete Welding; Jim Brewer, voc, g

notes by Pete Welding

Storyville SLP 180
= Storyville 670180
= Teichiku ULS-1815-R (Jp)

notes by Pete Welding

= Storyville SLP 4035 "Blues Roots Vol. 1"

Storyville Records discography

61979Chicago Blues - Live at the Fickle Pickle@ youtube (full album)

Johnny Jones & Willie Dixon
- Johnny's Boogie
Maxwell Street Jimmy
- Long Haired Doney
John Henry Barbee
- Baby I Need Your Love
Billy Boy Arnold & Johnny Jones
- Sloppy Drunk

Blind James Brewer
- Big Road Blues #
- See What Poor Kelly Done #
Big Joe Williams
- Sugar Mama

Billy Boy Arnold & Johnny Jones
- Early In The Morning
Maxwell Street Jimmy
- Make Some Love To Me
- Smokestack Lightnin'
Billy Boy Arnold & Johnny Jones
- My Little Machine
John Henry Barbee
- Tell Me Baby
Billy Boy Arnold & Johnny Jones
- Going To The River


# rec. 1963 at the Fickle Pickle Club in Chicago, IL; Jim Brewer, voc,

notes by George Mitchell (May 1979) & Bruce Bastin

Flyright LP 549 (UK 1979)

Flyright Records discography

 1979Blues Roots: Give Me The Blues

LP 1:
Smoky Babe - Boogy
Avery Brady - I Don't Want You No More
Doug Quattlebaum - Good Woman Blues
Huddie Ledbetter - Frankie And Albert, parts 1 + 2
[Jimmy Brewer - Big Road Blues
Even though shown on the cover as well as on the label track listing and even though there's a picture and a short bio of Jim Brewer in the liner notes, this Jim Brewer track is actually / erroneously? not included; instead there's the following Arthur Weston track !!!]

Arthur Weston - Someday Baby
Big Joe Williams - Long Road Blues
Big Bill Broonzy - You Better Mind

Clarence Edwards - Mean Old Frisco
Bert Logan, Russ Logan, Big Joe Williams - Four O'Clock In The Morning
Big Joe John Henry Miller, Jimmy Lee Miller - Down Here By Myself
Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires - 21 Below Zero
Johnny Young - Green Door Blues
Arthur Weston - Roll Me Over Slow


LP 2:
Champion Jack Dupree - Back Door Special
Roosevelt Sykes - Southern Style Piano
Henry Brown - Low Down Drag
Memphis Slim - Funky Blues
Jimmy Yancey - Yancey Special
Sunnyland Slim - Sunnyland's Boogie

Speckled Red - Cow Cow Blues
Otis Spann - The Skies Are Blue
Memphis Slim - A Letter Home
Otis Spann - Boots And Shoes
Memphis Slim - Rebecca Blues
Willie Mabon - I'm The Fixer
Champion Jack Dupree - I Just Want To Be Free

compiled by Manfred Miller
front cover lino-cut by Hartmut Heumann


accompanying flyer

DLP
notes by Manfred Miller   (English translation by Christa M. Gowing)

Storyville 6.28470 (Germany 1979)
to read liner notes click on pictures of covers: G = German / E = English   text has been black/white reversed to improve readability


= PGP RTB 2LP 3220044 (Yugoslavia 1981)

Storyville Records discography

71983Jim Brewer: Tough Luck

- Kansas City Blues #   @ Spotify
- Come Back Baby #   @ Spotify
- Rock Me Mama []   @ Spotify
- Goin' Away Blues *   @ Spotify
- Big Road *   @ Spotify
- Long Ways From Home *   @ Spotify
- Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad *   @ Spotify

- Hair Like A Horse's Mane #   @ Spotify
- Poor Kelly []   @ Spotify
- Mean Old 'Frisco #   @ Spotify
- Tough Luck Blues #   @ Spotify
- Oak Top Boogie []   @ Spotify
- Pea Vine Whistle #   @ Spotify

prod. by Michael Robert Frank, Earwig Records; special production assistance and encouragement by Andy Cohen

# rec. March 20, 1982 at Acme Studios in Chicago, IL; Jim Brewer, voc, g; eng. by Michael Rasfield & Doug Durham

* rec. November 1, 1980 live at the the 9th annual Gambier Folk Festival, Gambier, OH; Jim Brewer, voc, g; sound eng. by Howard L. Sacks; recording eng. by Douglas M. Gertner

[] rec. January to March 1978 at Reel Recording Co. in DeKalb, Ill.; Jim Brewer, voc, g; prod. & eng. by Jeff Meier & Mark Leach; [+ unissued titles acc. by Court Dorsey, hca]

notes by Howard L. Sacks

Earwig LPS-4904


= Earwig CD-R 4904 (US 2009)

8199516th Anniversary Sampler

- Jelly Roll King - Jelly Roll Kings
- Lightnin' Struck The Poor House - Kansas City Red

- Hair Like A Horse's Mane - Jim Brewer #
- Oil Man - Big Jack Johnson
- Be Careful How You Vote - Sunnyland Slim
- I'm Gonna Build My Bed On The Bottom of...
  Little Brother Montgomery
- Bottom Of The Harp - Louis Myers
- Wes Cide Bluze - Jimmy Dawkins
- Eyes Full Of Tears - David Edwards
- When The Blues Hit You - Lester Davenport
- Cairo - John Primer
- Shake Your Apple Tree - H-Bomb Ferguson
- Past, Present, and Future - Aron Burton
- Stick Candy - Lovie Lee
- Better Know What You Runnin' From
  Homesick James Williamson
- Come Here Mama - Little Willie Anderson
- Young Girl - Big Leon Brooks
- Sittin' Here Wonderin' - Louisiana Red


# rec. March 20, 1982 in Chicago, IL; Jim Brewer, voc, g


Earwig 4943 CD

9199920th Anniversary Collection

- Jelly Roll Stroll - Jelly Roll Kings
- Mr. Freddie Blues - Floyd Jones

- Long Ways From Home - Jim Brewer *
- You Can Have My Woman - Big Jack Johnson
- Gonna Put Her Down - Frank Fros
- Patience Like Job - Sunnyland Slim
- Daddy, When Is Mama Comin Home? - Big Jack Johnson
- Hard, Oh Lord - Little Brother Montgomery
- Wiggle Tail - Louis Myers
- Beetin Knockin Ringin - Jimmy Dawkins
- The Army Blues - David Edwards
- Slow Down Baby - Lester Davenport
- Lawhorn Special - John Primer
- Leavin' You Tomorrow - H-Bomb Ferguson
- Trouble - Aron Burton
- Tell Me That You Love Me - Lovie Lee
- What Done Got Into That Woman
  Homesick James Williamson
- 69th Street Bounce - Willie Anderson
- Please Mr. Catfish - Big Leon Brooks
- Parole Blues - Louisiana Red
- I'm Just a Natural Man - Aron Burton
- North Carolina Bound - Lil Ed / Dave Weld
- You Can't Call The Blues - Johnny Jones
- Life Sentence Of The Blues - Liz Mandville Greeson
- Every Now And Then - David Edwards / Carey Bell
- I Wanna Get Married - Willie Kent
- She Got A Thing Goin' On - Sunnyland Slim / Bonnie Lee
- Red's Vision - Louisiana Red
- I Wanna Get In Your Head, Before I Get ...
  Johnny Drummer
- The Friendly Stranger - Liz Mandville Greeson
- Millennium Blues - Louisiana Red


* rec. November 1, 1980 live at the Gambier Folk Festival, Gambier, OH; Jim Brewer, voc, g

2 CD set

Earwig 4946 CD

101999I Blueskvarter Chicago 1964, Volume One

CD One:
Willie Mabon
- Michelle   @ Spotify
- I'm Hungry   @ Spotify
- I Don't Know   @ Spotify
- New Orleans Blues   @ Spotify
- I'm The Fixer   @ Spotify

James Brewer
- I Know A Woman, She Lives Up The Hill   @ Spotify
- Big Road Blues   @ Spotify
- Blues In The Morning, Blues Every Turn Around   @ Spotify
- Poor Kelly Blues   @ Spotify
- I Don't No Woman, She Got Hair Like Drops Of Rain   @ Spotify
Eddie Boyd (+ Mike Bloomfield)
- Five Long Years   @ Spotify
- Her Picture In The Frame   @ Spotify - Early Grave   @ Spotify
- The Big Question   @ Spotify
- Look Over Younder Wall   @ Spotify
Yank Rachell
- Going To Pack Up My Things And Go   @ Spotify
- Every Night And Day, I Hear My Baby Call My Name   @ Spotify
- My Baby Rocks Me   @ Spotify
- My Baby's Gone, Soon I'll Be Gone Myself   @ Spotify



CD Two:
Johnny Young (+ Slim Willis, Otis Spann, Robert Whitehead)
- Why Did You Break My Heart   @ Spotify
- Better Cut It Out   @ Spotify
- My Baby Walked Out And Left   @ Spotify
- Step By, Baby   @ Spotify
- Monkey-Face Woman   @ Spotify
Sunnyland Slim (+ Mike Bloomfield)
- Brownskin Woman   @ Spotify - It's You Baby   @ Spotify
- One Room Country Shack   @ Spotify
- Sunnyland's Jump   @ Spotify
- Rock Me   @ Spotify
Big Walter Horton (+ Robert Nighthawk)
- Let's Have A Good Time   @ Spotify
- Mean Mistreater   @ Spotify
- I'm In The Mood   @ Spotify
- Louise, Louise   @ Spotify
- You Don't Mistreat Me   @ Spotify
- Trouble In Mind
  @ Spotify
Interviews (& Olle Helander)
Willie Mabon   @ Spotify
James Brewer   @ Spotify
Eddie Boyd   @ Spotify
Yank Rachell   @ Spotify




unissued tracks from same session:
Yank Rachell
- Texas Tony (takes 1 to 3)
- Bye Bye Baby
- Sometimes I Believe My Baby Treats Me Wrong
- My Rock Is My Steady Pistol


CD 1 tracks all rec. May 16, 1964 in Chicago, IL
Willie Mabon, voc, p
James Brewer, voc, g
Eddie Boyd, voc, p; Mike Bloomfield, g
Yank Rachell, voc, mand, g; Mike Bloomfield, p; John Lee Granderson, g


CD 2 tracks all rec. May 1964 in Chicago, IL
Johnny Young rec. May 23, 1964; Johnny Young, voc, g; Slim Willis, hca; Otis Spann, p; Robert Whitehead, dr
Sunnyland Slim rec. May 19, 1964; Sunnyland Slim, voc, p
Walter Horton rec. May 23, 1964; Walter Horton, voc, hca; Robert Nighthawk, g
all interviews rec. May 16, 1964


2 CD set
notes by Scott Barretta, Björn Helander, Peps Persson, Sven Zetterberg & Louise Hoffsten

Jefferson Records SBACD 12653/4 (Sweden 1999)

111999And This Is Maxwell Street

CD One:
- The Sun Is Shining - Johnny Young (4:01)
- Can't Hold Out Much Longer - Big John Wrencher (5:17)
- Juke Medley - Carey Bell (1:32)
- That's All Right - Robert Night Hawk (0:51)
- Red Top/Ornithology - Little Arthur King (1:49)   @ youtube
- Maxwell Street Jam - Carey Bell (2:23)   @ youtube
- Lucille - Big John Wrencher (5:19)   @ youtube
- Corinna, Corinna - Arvella Gray (1:53)
- Power To Live Right - Carrie Robinson (2:12)   @ youtube
- Cheating And Lying Blues - Robert Night Hawk (+ John Lee Granderson, 2nd g; rec. near the corner of 14th and Newberry) (4:53)
- Honky Tonk - Robert Night Hawk (3:32)   @ youtube
- Dust My Broom - Robert Night Hawk (4:50)
- Peter Gunn Jam - Robert Night Hawk (3:18)   @ youtube
- I Need Love So Bad - Robert Night Hawk (7:01)   @ youtube
- All I Want For My Breakfast - Johnny Young (5:23)
- Take It Easy, Baby - Robert Night Hawk (356:)   @ youtube
- Long Gone John - Unknown Harpist (2:26)



CD Two:
- Mama, Talk To Your Daughter - Big Mojo Elem (6:04)   @ youtube
- I'm Ready - Carey Bell (2:34)   @ youtube
- Carey'n On - Carey Bell (1:50)   @ youtube

- When The Saints Go Marching In - James Brewer Gospel Group (5:44) #
- Back Off Jam - Robert Night Hawk (5:12)   @ youtube
- John Henry - Arvella Gray (6:56)   @ youtube
- Anna Lee/Sweet Black Angel - Robert Night Hawk (8:25)   @ youtube
- Love You Tonight - Big John Wrencher (4:19)   @ youtube
- The Time Have Come - Robert Night Hawk (5:07)   @ youtube
- Cruisin' In A Cadillac - Carey Bell (1:57)   @ youtube
- Honey Hush - Robert Night Hawk (3:33)   @ youtube

- I'll Fly Away - James Brewer Gospel Group (5:54) #
- I Shall Overcome - Fannie Brewer (1:51)   @ youtube

CD Three bonus material:
Mike Bloomfield interviews Robert Night Hawk

# rec. October/November 1964 on Maxwell Street in Chicago, IL for Mike Shea's Documentary Film 'And This Is Free'; Jim Brewer, voc, g; Amos Gilmore, Mother Mary Northern, Carrie Robinson, voc, tamb; "Albert Holland" [Hollins], g; Fannie Brewer, collecting money
CDs prod. by Ian Talcroft

2 CD set
with 62 pp. booklet

P-Vine PCD-5527/28 (Jp 1999)

3 CD set
notes by Colin Talcroft with Allan Murphy

(=) Rooster CD ROO2641 (US 2000)

3 CD set

(=) Catfish KAT3D1 (UK 2000)

Catfish Records (UK) discography

Sources / Further reading:
- Clas Ahlstrand: Blind Jimmie [sic!] Brewer.- Blues Unlimited 48 (1967), pp. 11-12
- Andy Cohen: Jim Brewer: Blues Traditionalist.- Sing Out! Vol. 31 #2 (1985), pp. 26-32
- Andy Cohen: Jim Brewer 1920-1988 - Bluesman.- Sing Out! (1988), p. 32
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 225
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver 2006, pp. 51-52
- Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 2011, p. 54
- Ludwig Reitz: Blind Jim Brewer.- Blues Forum 6 (1982), pp. 9-11
- Joe Riley: An Interview with Jim Brewer.- JEMF Quarterly 17 # 64 (1981), pp. 215-218
- Jim Brewer obituary.- Living Blues 82 (1988)

thanks to Alan Balfour, Colin Talcroft, eRIC LeBlanc, Frank Scott and Andy Cohen for additional info / photo / scans

 

Preserve Maxwell Street website

Chuck Cowdery's Save Maxwell Street website

 

Andy Cohen remembers Blind Jim Brewer

 

source: Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who (1979), p. 65; photo by Ray Flerlage; click to enlarge!
source: Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who (1979), p. 65
photo by Ray Flerlage

 

Jim Brewer appears on four movies:
Mike Shea's 1964 documentary "AND THIS IS FREE"
BLUES LIKE SHOWERS OF RAIN (1970)
BIG CITY BLUES (1980)
and
MAXWELL STREET BLUES (1981)
available on Rhapsody Films

 

Jim Brewer & Andy Cohen at WHRW radio station at State University at Binghamton, New York, 1971; click to enlarge!
Jim Brewer & Andy Cohen at WHRW radio station
at State University at Binghamton, New York, 1971
(press photo by Leo F. Fahey)
(Jim Brewer plays a Gibson D-28, Andy Cohen a Gibson J-200)

 

Jim Brewer with Michael Kennedy and Strawberry McCloud at the New Harmony Festival of Traditional Music, June 1977; source: Sing Out! 31/2 (1985), p. 30; photo by Dillon Bustin; click to enlarge!
Jim Brewer with Michael Kennedy and Strawberry McCloud
at the New Harmony Festival of Traditional Music, June 1977;
source: Sing Out! 31/2 (1985), p. 30; photo by Dillon Bustin


Fannie & Jim Brewer & Albert Hollins
Chicago, Maxwell Street Market, May 11, 1980
source: Blues Forum 6 (1982), p. 11
photo by Friedemann Heinze

On the main stage at the '84 Old Songs Festival;
source: Sing Out! 31/2 (1985), p. 26;
photo by Armen Katchaturian

Chicago, 1967;
source: Blues Forum 6 (1982), p. 9
photo by Clas Ahlstrand

On stage at the '84 Old Songs Festival;
source: Sing Out! 31/2 (1985), p. 27;
photo by Armen Kachaturian

On stage at the '84 Old Songs Festival;
source: Sing Out! 31/2 (1985), p. 32;
photo by John Reese

source: Sing Out! 31/2 (1985), p. 29;
photo by Robert Barclay

 

 

 

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