Illustrated Reverend Pearly Brown discography

source: http://almostinfocus.blogspot.de/
photographer: Danny Gilleland
source: Front cover of Southern Folk Cultural
Revival Project Records no #

Reverend
Pearly Brown
b. August 18, 1915 in Abbeville, Georgia
d. June 28, 1986 in Sumter County (Plains?), Georgia
discography

source: Photo accompaying article in The Telegraph published September 11, 2010
(archived at http://www.lucindawilliams.com/forum/)
photographer's name not given (possibly Danny Gilleland?)

#	year of release	title / label / notes
1	1961	Blind Pearly Brown: Georgia Street Singer [earlier release] Rev. Pearly Brown: Georgia Street Singer [later release] - God Don't Never Change @ youtube @ Spotify - Just A Closer Walk With Thee @ Spotify - You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion @ Spotify - Savior, Don't You Pass Me By @ Spotify - Motherless Children @ youtube @ Spotify - Oh What A Morning @ Spotify - I Must See Jesus @ Spotify - Nobody's Fault But Mine @ youtube @ Spotify - I Know It Was The Blood @ Spotify - By And By (I'm Gonna See The King) @ Spotify - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning @ youtube @ Spotify - If I Never See You Anymore @ Spotify - Ninety-Nine And A Half Won't Do @ Spotify - It's A Mean Old World @ Spotify - The Great Speckled Bird @ Spotify rec. 1961 in Macon, GA by Harry Oster and Richard Allen; Pearly Brown, voc, g CD bonus tracks (not recorded by Harry Oster): - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning * @ Spotify - You Gotta Move § @ Spotify - I'm On My Way To The Canaan Land § @ Spotify - Good By # @ Spotify - What A Morning #* @ Spotify bonus tracks rec. 1974 at KPFA Radio in Berkeley, CA by Chris Strachwitz; Pearly Brown, voc, g, # 12-str g; * Christine Brown, voc; § Bob Young, hca; Duane Cox, washtub b; previously unissued Folk-Lyric FL 108 cover photo by Harry Oster; Arhoolie CD 9025 cover photo by Chris Strachwitz notes by Harry Oster 1945 Bay Street, Baton Rouge 2, LA Folk-Lyric FL 108 (US 1961) also: original sleeve with re-release labels notes by Harry Oster 3323 Morning Glory, Baton Rouge, Louisiana = Folk-Lyric FL 108 (US 196? re-release) ≠ Arhoolie 2017 (scheduled for January 1976 release) [release never materialized, some Folk-Lyric LPs were sold from Arhoolie bins] original notes by Harry Oster & new notes by Chris Strachwitz (=) Arhoolie CD 9025 (US 2002) "You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion" Arhoolie Records discography Harry Oster discography
2	1964	Country Spirituals Snooks Eaglin - Down By The Riverside Butch Cage, Willie Thomas & crowd - When I See The Blood Della Williams - Motherless Children New Orleans Street Gospel Singers - I Will Be Your God Otis Webster - In My Saviours Care Charles Henderson, Butch Cage, Willie Thomas & crowd - Jesus On The Main Line Rev. Pearly Brown - If I Never See You Anymore [Folk-Lyric FL 108] Andy Mosely, George Williams & Hogman Maxey - I Know I Got Religion Otis Webster - This Little Light Of Mine Angola Quartet - Be With Me Jesus Robert Pete Williams - I'm Glad My Mother Teached Me How To Pray Rev. Pearly Brown - Nobody's Fault But Mine [Folk-Lyric FL 108] Butch Cage, Willie Thomas & crowd - If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again @ youtube rec. by Harry Oster notes by Harry Oster Storyville SLP 135 (Dk 1964) Storyville Records discography
3	1972	It's A Mean Old World Anne Romaine - Forsaken Lover Alice Gerrard & Hazel Dickens - Two Soldiers - Two Dollar Bill - Mannington Mine Rev. Pearly Brown - It's A Mean Old World - You Got To Move - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning Brenda Jones - Daniel - Hell No John Shines [sic (on front & back cover)] - Steady Rollin' Man - Southern Fool ¹⁾ @ youtube Jack Wright - The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore - Lucy Jane Ora & Arlie Watson - The Banks Of The Ohio - Springtime Is Here - Lost John collection of songs by artists featured on the Southern Folk Festival and Old Time Mountain Music Tours between 1966-1972 ¹⁾ with reference to Booker White's residence on Mosby Street in Memphis (actually White lived in Mosby Street, Baton Rouge, while Furry Lewis' home was in Mosby Street, Memphis, TN --- but who cares ;-) Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project Records no #
Wet Willie: Keep On Smilin'.- Capricorn 0128 (1974) BROWN v. CAPRICORN RECORDS, INC. (1975)
4	1975	Reverend Pearly Brown: It's A Mean Old World To Try To Live In Rounder LP 2011track sequence: - How Long Has It Been Since You've Been Home - The Day Is Past And Gone - It's A Mean Old World To Try To Live In - What A Time - Pure Religion - Help Me To Understand @ youtube - How About You - Nothin' But Joy - Another Child Of God Gone Home @ youtube - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burnin' - Please Mommy Stay Home With Me - Peace Will Prevail @ youtube - Goodbye Rounder CD 82161-0221-2 track sequence: - How Long Has It Been Since You Been Home - The Day Is Past And Gone - It's A Mean Old World To Try To Live In - What A Time - Pure Religion - Help Me To Understand - How About You - Nothin' But Joy - Another Child Of God Gone Home - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burnin' - Please Mommy Stay Home With Me - Peace Will Prevail - Steal Away °° @ youtube - You Got To Move °° - I Know The Lord Will Make A Way °° - Sometimes I Feel Like My Time Ain't Long °° - Motherless Children °° - When I Take My Vacation °° - Goodbye rec. August 1973 in Americus, GA by Bruce Kaplan & Bill Nowlin; Rev. Pearly Brown, voc, g, overdubbed voc (on some tracks); Christine Brown, voc (on some tracks) °° CD bonus tracks photography by Tom Hill notes by Jim Pettigrew, Jr. Rounder 2011 (US 1975) (=) Rounder 82161-0221-2 (US 2005) Rounder Records discography
5	1977	Mariposa Folk Festival 1976@ youtube (full album) LP 1: Akinsi Novalinga - Feather Lucie Amarualik Alicie Tulauga Inuit Throat Singers Samson Neacappo - A Dress Song Ahbenoojeyug Singers - Honour Song Duke Redbird - Tobacco Burns Floyd Westerman - Custer Died For Your Sins Alanis Obomsawin - Bush Lady Willie Dunn - Heh Broker Duke Redbird - Old Woman Enoch Kent - The Irish Recruiting Sargeant Finlay MacNeill - Bagpipes Norman Kennedy - The Cruel Mother Alistair Anderson - Madame Bonaparte Owen McBride - Blackwater Slide Mac Masters - The Black Sheep Archie Fisher - The Mingelay Boat Song LP 2: Roscoe Holcomb - Little Birdie Michael Cooney - The Dummy Line Colleen Peterson - Chattanooga Night Jackie Washington - In My Solitude @ youtube Steve Goodman - Old Fashioned Taj Mahal - Satisfied 'N Tickled Too @ youtube Robert Paquette - La Destinee, La Rose Au Bois Stew Cameron - Paddy Murphy's Wake Stan Dueck - Birdie In The Middle Humber River Valley Boys - The Little White Church Toronto Sacred Harp Singers - Mere Original Sloth Band - Coming In Glory Strange Creek Singers - A Time's Been Swiftly Rolling By Rev. Pearly Brown - Sometimes I Feel Like My Time Ain't Long @ youtube Bernice Reagon - There Is More Love Somewhere prod. & ed. by Bill Usher cover etching by Linda Jurcisek DLP Mariposa M-76 002 (Ca 1977) 1976 program
6	1993	Blues With A Feeling Recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival disc 1 / Vanguard VCD 73133-2: - Introduction by Dick Waterman (2:05) Son House (1965) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Preachin' Blues (3:54) - Death Letter (4:01) - Empire State Express (3:50) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] Skip James (1964 blues workshop, introduction most likely by Bill Barth) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Devil Got My Woman (4:52) @ youtube Bukka White [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2; 3VCD 208-10] - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (5:00) Robert Pete Williams [Vanguard VRS 9180; 3VCD193/95-2] - Levee Camp Blues (5:26) °° Mississippi Fred McDowell [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Louise Louise (3:05) Rev. Robert Wilkins - Don't Let Nobody Turn You 'round (3:48) @ youtube Rev. Pearly Brown & Mrs. Christine Brown - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning (3:06) # @ youtube Fred and Annie Mae McDowell with Rev. Robert Wilkins - What Do You Think About Jesus (5:43) @ youtube Lightnin' Hopkins (July 23, 1965 morning "Blue Guitar" workshop) [ Vanguard VCD 79715-2] - The Woman I'm Loving, She's Taken My Appetite (Monkey Faced Woman) (3:22) @ youtube - Come On Baby (2:13) @ youtube - Baby Please Don't Go (2:46) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube Mance Lipscomb [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Freddie (2:01) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube - So Different Blues (2:33) @ youtube - God Moves On The Water (The Sinking Of The Titanic) (2:36) @ youtube disc 2 / Vanguard VCD 73134-2: Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (4:02) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] Mississippi John Hurt [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Here I Am Lord, Send Me (3:54) - Make Me A Pallet On The Floor (3:20) Jesse Fuller [Vanguard VRS-9185; 3VCD193/95-2; 3VCD 208-10] - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:51) °° John Lee Hooker (1964 blues workshop) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - I Can't Quit You Baby / Stop Now Blues (2:48) @ youtube Muddy Waters (1968 blues workshop) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Walkin' Blues (4:31) @ youtube - I Can't Be Satisfied (3:16) @ youtube Eddie Boyd & Willie Dixon - Five Long Years (2:26) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] Willie Dixon & Lafayette Leake with Pete Seeger, bj - Wrinkles (instr) (3:28) Dave Van Ronk - Cocaine (3:44) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] John Hammond - Drop Down Mama (2:50) Eric Von Schmidt - Grizzly Bear (4:55) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] John Koerner - Traveling Blues (4:49) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube The Chambers Brothers [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - See See Rider (3:21) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube Paul Butterfield Blues Band (July 23, 1965) - Blues With A Feeling (4:12) * [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2; 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube - Look Over Yonders Wall (2:10) * @ youtube - Born In Chicago (4:08) ** [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] @ youtube compilation prod. by Mary Katherine Aldin # rec. 1966; Rev. Pearly Brown, voc, g; Christine Brown, voc * rec. July 23, 1965 at an afternoon workshop called "Blues: Origins and Offshoots" (late addition to the roster - advertisements for the concert series make no mention of the group); Paul Butterfield, voc, hca; Michael Bloomfield, g; Elvin Bishop, g; Jerome Arnold, b; Sam Lay, dr; Nick Gravenites, voc; ** Bruce Langhorne, tamb "all tracks previously unreleased except" °° 2 CD set notes (May 1993) by Mary Katherine Aldin Vanguard VCD2-77005 (US/Germany 1993) (=) Vanguard VCD 73133-2 (US 1997) "part one" (=) Vanguard VCD 73134-2 (US 1997) "part two"
7	1995	Gospel at Newport - Christian's Automobile - The Dixie Hummingbirds °° - Only Believe - Swan Silvertone Singers °° - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning # - Rev. Pearly Brown & Mrs. Christine Brown "°°" [actually previously on Vanguard VCD2-77005] - Gonna Lay Down My Sword And Shield - Joseph Spence °° - Swing Down Chariot - Dorothy Love Coates & The Gospel Harmonettes °° - Jesus Hear My Prayer - Swan Silvertone Singers °° - I've Got So Much To Shout About - The Dixie Hummingbirds °° - Trouble In The Land Will Soon Be Over - Dorothy Love Coates & The Gospel Harmonettes °° - You Better Mind - Bessie Jones, Janie Hunter °° - See God's Ark A-Moving - Moving Star Hall Singers [Vanguard VRS 9182] - What A Time # - Rev. Pearly Brown & Mrs Christine Brown °° - Highway To Heaven - Rev. Alex Bradford & The Stone Temple Baptist Church Singers °° - Samson And Delilah (aka "If I Had My Way") - Reverend Gary Davis [Vanguard VRS-9145] @ youtube - This Little Light Of Mine - The Freedom Singers °° - John The Revelator - Son House °° - Every Day Will Be Sunday By And By - Dorothy Love Coates & The Gospel Harmonettes °° - Just A Closer Walk With Thee - The Chambers Brothers/Joan Baez °° - Oh Mary Don't You Weep - Swan Silvertone Singers [Vanguard VRS-9186] - Pray On My Child - The Staple Singers [Vanguard VRS-9185] rec. live at the Newport Folk Festival 1959, 1963-66 # rec. 1966; Rev. Pearly Brown, voc, g; Christine Brown, voc °° previously unreleased notes by Mary Katherine Aldin Vanguard VCD 77014-2 (EU 1995) Ace/Vanguard VCD 77014-2 (EU 2004)
7a	1996	Devil Got My Woman Blues at Newport 1966@ ok.ru (full dvd) Skip James - Devil Got My Woman @ youtube - I'm So Glad @ youtube - Worried Blues @ youtube Bukka White - Baby You're Killing Me @ youtube [Son House dancing!] - Old Lady Blues @ youtube Son House - Forever On My Mind @ youtube Howlin' Wolf - Meet Me In The Bottom @ youtube [Howlin' Wolf / Son House "discussion"!] - How Many More Years @ youtube - Dust My Broom @ youtube Rev. Pearly Brown with Mrs. Christine Brown - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning @ youtube - Pure Religion - It's A Mean Old World Bukka White - Please Don't Put Your Daddy Outdoors - 100th Man @ youtube filmed by Alan Lomax at the Newport Folk Festival 1966; photos by David Gahr "'Devil Got My Woman' is not, however, concert footage from Newport. Alan Lomax recreated a juke joint at Newport, stocked the bar, and let nature take its course." VHS video, 61 min Vestapol 13049 (EU 1996) DVD, 30-page booklet by Mark Humphrey Vestapol OV13049 (EU 2001) P-Vine PHV-35
8	2002	Reverend Pearly Brown: You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion - God Don't Never Change * - Just A Closer Walk With Thee * - You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion * - Savior, Don't You Pass Me By * - Motherless Children * - Oh What A Morning * - I Must See Jesus * - Nobody's Fault But Mine * - I Know It Was The Blood * - By And By (I'm Gonna See The King) * - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning * - If I Never See You Anymore * - Ninety-Nine And A Half Won't Do * - It's A Mean Old World * - The Great Speckled Bird * - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning (2) - You Gotta Move - I'm On My Way To The Canaan Land - Good By - What A Morning (2) * rec. 1961 in Macon, Georgia by Harry Oster and Richard Allen remaining tracks rec. 1974 at KPFA Radio in Berkeley, CA by Chris Strachwitz; Pearly Brown, voc, g; Christine Brown, voc; Bob Young, hca; Duane Cox, washtub b; previously unissued cover photo by Chris Strachwitz Harry Oster discography Folk-Lyric FL 108 original notes by Harry Oster & new notes by Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie CD 9025 (US 2002) Arhoolie Records discography
9	2009	How Long Has It Been Since You've Been Home Jim Bunkley - Old Red # 2 Charley Jackson - Morning Train Pearly Brown - How Long Has It Been Since You've Been Home? Peg Leg Howell - Blood Red River William Robertson - Lucy Mae Mrs. Ramsey - Me & My Short Box Rev. Gary Davis - You Got To Go Down Gus Cannon - Lelah The Staple Singers - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean Robert Johnson - Hold My Body Down James Shorter - Search Me Lord Bukka White - I Am In A Heavenly Way Rosa Lee Hill - Bullying Well Blind Willie McTell - Travellin' Blues Memphis Minnie - Frankie Jean Bayless Rose - Blackdog Blues Sonny Boy & His Pals - Don't Leave Me Here Willie Moore - One Way Gal Red Hot Ole Mose - Molly May Long Cleve Reed & The Down Home Boys - Stack O' Lee Mississippi MRC-018 (cassette)
10	2014	The Roots Of It All: Acoustic Blues - The Definitive Collection, Vol. 3 disc 1: The 1960s Mance Lipscomb - Shake, Shake, Mama (2:50) John Lee Hooker - Tupelo (3:19) Rev. Gary Davis - Samson And Delilah (4:05) Robert Pete Williams - I've Grown So Ugly (2:48) Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand (3:03) Lonnie Johnson - Moaning Blues (4:01) Smoky Babe - Hottest Brand Goin' (4:06) Herman E. Johnson - I Just Keeps On Wanting You (2:45) Scrapper Blackwell - Shady Lane (5:27) Pink Anderson - I Got Mine (3:07) Pete Franklin - Prison Bound (4:21) Shirley Griffith - Bye Bye Blues (4:11) R.C. Smith - Please Don't Drive Me Away (2:25) Memphis Willie B. - Wine Drinking Woman (3:36) Baby Tate - What Have I Done To You (2:42) Leroy Dallas - She Caught The M & O (3:43) Sleepy John Estes - Vernita's Blues (2:19) J.D. Short - I'm Just Wastin' My Time (5:25) Muddy Waters - Feel Like Going Home (3:52) Buddy Moss - Amy (2:42) Johnny Young - Want My Lovin' (3:30) Arvella Gray - Corrine, Corrina (2:13) Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man (2:53) Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis - Alberta (2:56) disc 2: The 1970s Son House - Empire State Express (3:41) Mississippi Fred McDowell - Frisco Lines (3:59) J.B. Lenoir - If I Get Lucky (2:59) Skip James - Sickbed Blues (4:06) R.L. Burnside - Long Haired Doney (2:45) Furry Lewis - Old Original Furry Lewis Blues (3:46) Joe Callicott - Lonesome Katy Blues (3:04) John Jackson - Rocks And Gravel (3:15) Babe Stovall - Worried Blues (3:33) Howlin' Wolf - Ain't Goin' Down That Dirt Road #2 (4:20) Larry Johnson - Four Women Blues (2:33) Jack Owens - I Love My Baby (4:50) Johnny Shines - Your Troubles Can't Be Like Mine (4:18) Brownie McGhee - My Last Suit (3:53) Juke Boy Bonner - Tired Of The Greyhound Bus (2:26) Tarheel Slim - So Sweet, So Sweet (3:19) Tom Shaw - Baby Be A Boy Child Named Him After Me (5:44) Eddie Taylor - Bullcow Blues (3:10) Bill Williams - Salty Dog (4:37) Guitar Shorty - Jessie Jones (3:58) Rev. Pearly Brown - It's A Mean Old World To Try To Live In (2:24) Louisiana Red - Dead Stray Dog (3:56) David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Big Fat Mama (2:56) Henry Townsend - Can't You See (3:18) front cover photo (of Big Joe Williams) by Axel Küstner 112-pp. booklet notes by Bill Dahl Bear Family BCD 17231 (Germany 2014)
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Legendary street singer Brown
getting posthumous induction into Hall of Fame

A documentary on Rev. Pearly Brown called "It's a Mean Old World" was filmed by John W. English in 1977
and eventually was combined with a film about bluesman Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup entitled "Born in the Blues"
and released on video in 1995 by Shanachie Entertainment Corp.

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Legendary street singer Browngetting posthumous induction into Hall of Fame

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Legendary street singer Brown
getting posthumous induction into Hall of Fame