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B U M B L E   B E E   S L I M; source: http://sundayblues.org/archives/tag/bumble-bee-slim
source: http://sundayblues.org/archives/tag/bumble-bee-slim
Bumble Bee Slim
Admiral Amos Easton
b. May 7, 1905 in Atkinson, now Brantley County (then Wayne County), Georgia
d. June 8, 1968 at Los Angeles County General Hospital in Los Angeles, California

buried at City Cemetery, Brunswick, Georgia
discography
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#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
11931Bumble Bee Slim

- Yo Yo String Blues (L-1123-2)   @ youtube
- Stumblin' Block Blues (L-1121-1)   @ youtube

rec. c. October 1931 in Grafton, WI; Bumble Bee Slim, voc; unknown, g


Paramount 13102

21931Bumble Bee Slim

- No Woman No Nickel (L-1120-3)   @ youtube
- Chain Gang Bound (L-1122-2)   @ youtube

rec. c. October 1931 in Grafton, WI; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, g


Paramount 13109


= Champion 50024 (1935)
(as by "Shelley" Armstrong)

31931Bumble Bee Slim

- Rough Rugged Road Blues (L-1119-1)
- Honey Bee Blues (L-1124-2)

rec. c. October 1931 in Grafton, WI; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, g


Paramount 13132

41932Bumble Bee Slim

- Piney Woods Working Man (11516-A)
- Hard To Get (My Favor Rite Blues) (11517-A)

rec. March 17, 1932 in New York City; Amos Easton, voc; prob. Myrtle Jenkins, p; prob. Willie Bee James, g


Vocalion 1691

51932Amos Easton

- M And O Blues - Part I (J(C-8588-A)
- M And O Blues - Part II (J(C-8589-A)

rec. April 21, 1932 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; prob. Georgia Tom Dorsey, p


Vocalion 1694

61932Bumble Bee Slim

- Greasy Greens (11502-A) #   @ youtube
- I'm Waitin' On You (11503-A)   @ qmarketing

rec. March 16, 1932 in New York City; Amos Easton, voc; Myrtle Jenkins, p; Willie Bee James, g; # unknown male, 2nd voc


Vocalion 1719

71932Bumble Bee Slim

- B and O Blues (11504-A)
- Queen Bee Blues (11505-A)

rec. March 16, 1932 in New York City; Amos Easton, voc; Myrtle Jenkins, p; Willie Bee James, g


Vocalion 1720

81934Bumble Bee Slim & his Three Sharks

- The New B & O Blues (CP-1025-1)
- Busy Devil (CP-1031-1) #

rec. March 22, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; # unknown, cl; unknown (poss. Thomas A. Dorsey), p; unknown, g; unknown, md


Vocalion 02713

91934Bumble Bee Slim & his Three Sharks

- Someday Things Will Be Breaking My Way (CP-1022-2)
- Baby So Long (CP-1023-1)

rec. March 22, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown (poss. Thomas A. Dorsey), p; unknown, g; unknown, md


Vocalion 02728

101934Bumble Bee Slim & his Three Sharks

- Runnin' Drunk Blues (CP-1029-1)
- East St. Louis Blues (CP-1030-1) #

rec. March 22, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; # unknown, cl; unknown (poss. Thomas A. Dorsey), p; unknown, g; unknown, md


Vocalion 02742

111934Bumble Bee Slim & his Three Sharks

- Lost Confidence Blues (CP-1024-A)
- Wrecked Life Blues (CP-1028-1)

rec. March 22, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown (poss. Thomas A. Dorsey), p; unknown, g; unknown, md


Vocalion 02773

121934Amos

- Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On (80401-1)
- Step Child (80403-1)

rec. March 23, 1932 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, p; two unknowns, g


Bluebird B5475

131934Amos

- Squalling Panther Blues (80400-1) #
- Dead And Gone Mother (80402-1) *

rec. March 23, 1932 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; # unknown, p; two unknowns, g; * unknown, 3rd g


Bluebird B5517

= Bluebird B6649

141934Amos

- Sad And Lonesome (80406-1) #
- Bye Bye Baby Blues (80408-1) *

rec. March 23, 1932 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, p; two unknowns, g


Bluebird B5563

# = Bluebird B6834

* = Bluebird B6635

151934BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- Cruel Hearted Woman Blues - Part I (C-9392-A)
- Cruel Hearted Woman Blues - Part II (C-9393-A)

rec. September 6, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, p; two unknowns, g; unknow, plucked vn


Decca 7021

161934BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- The Longest Day You Live - Part 1 (C-9394-A)
- The Longest Day You Live - Part 2 (C-9395-A)

rec. September 6, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, p; two unknowns, g; unknow, plucked vn


Decca 7045

171934Bumble Bee Slim

- Helping Hand Blues (CP-1108-2)
- Bad Disposition Blues (CP-1111-1)

rec. September 7, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; poss. Jimmie Gordon, p; poss. Willie Bee James, g


Vocalion 02809

181934Bumble Bee Slim

- Rough Road Blues (CP-1109-1)
- New Mean Mistreater Blues (CP-1110-1)

rec. September 7, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; poss. Jimmie Gordon, p; poss. Willie Bee James, g


Vocalion 02829

191934Bumble Bee Slim

- Climbing On Top Of The Hill (Tricky Woman Blues) (C-9430-A)
- Ain't It A Crying Shame (C-9431-A)

rec. September 10, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; poss. Jimmie Gordon, p; poss. Willie Bee James, g


Decca 7031

201934Bumble Bee Slim

- Cold-Blooded Murder (C-738-A) *
- Sail On Little Girl No. 2 (C-734-A) #

# rec. October 19, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; prob. Big Bill Broonzy, prob. Willie Bee James or Charlie Jackson, g

* rec. October 20, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, p; prob. Big Bill Broonzy, g


Vocalion 02865

211934Bumble Bee Slim

- Bad Gal (C-731-B) #
- Burned Down Mill (C-739-A) *

# rec. October 19, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; prob. Big Bill Broonzy, prob. Willie Bee James or Charlie Jackson, g

* rec. October 20, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc, * whistling; unknown, p; prob. Big Bill Broonzy, g


Vocalion 02885

= Brunswick A86007 (Germany)

   

- Bad Gal (C-731-A) #
- Black Gal, What Makes You Head So Hard (C-732-B) []
- Black Gal, What Makes You Head So Hard (C-732-C)
- I Tried Everything I Could (C-733-A) #
- Good Morning (C-735-A) *
- Good Morning (C-735-B) *

rec. October 19, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; prob. Big Bill Broonzy, prob. Willie Bee James or Charlie Jackson, g; [] prob Charlie Jackson, bj

ARC unissued

# RST BD-2085
# Document DOCD-5262

* Document DOCD-5570

   

- Aching Pain Blues (C-737-A) # *
- Burned Down Mill (C-739-B) *

rec. October 20, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc, * whistling; unknown, p; prob. Big Bill Broonzy, g

Vocalion unissued

# RST BD 2108
* Document DOCD-5262

221934Amos

- Mean Mistreatin' Woman( 80935-1) #
- Worrisome Woman Blues (80936-1) *

rec. October 27, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; prob. Carl Martin, poss. Big Bill Broonzy, g


Bluebird B5780

# = Bluebird B6586
* = Bluebird B6559

231934Amos

- Mean Bad Man Blues (80937-1) *
- Muddy Water Blues (80938-1) #

rec. October 27, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, p; prob. Carl Martin, poss. Big Bill Broonzy, g


Bluebird B5862

# = Bluebird B6586
* = Bluebird B6612

   

- Black Gal, What Makes Your Head So Hard? (C-732-D)
- Aching Pain Blues (C-737-C)

rec. October 30, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, p; unknown, g

ARC unissued

241934Bumble Bee Slim

- Running Bad Luck Blues (C-867- )
- You Can't Take It, Baby (C-868-A)

rec. November 26, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; prob. Carl Martin, unknown, 2nd g


Vocalion 02903

251934Bumble Bee Slim

- I Tried Everything I Could (C-733-D)
- Blues Before Daylight (C-866-B)

rec. November 26, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; prob. Carl Martin, unknown, 2nd g


Vocalion 02930

261934Bumble Bee Slim

- My Troubles (C-864-B)
- Way Down In Georgia (C-869-A) #

rec. November 26, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; prob. Carl Martin, unknown, 2nd g; # voc duet with Ted Bogan


Vocalion 02970

   

- Muddy Water (C-865-A)
- Muddy Water (C-865-B)

rec. November 26, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; prob. Carl Martin, unknown, 2nd g; # voc duet with Ted Bogan

ARC unissued

271935Bumble Bee Slim

- Bleeding Heart Blues (C-9683-B) #
- Good Woman Blues (C-9771-A) *

# rec. January 18, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; prob. Charlie Segar or Horace Malcolm, p; unknown, g

* rec. February 1, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; prob. Charlie Segar or Horace Malcolm, p; unknown, g


Decca 7053

281935Bumble Bee Slim

- Let's Pitch A Boogie Woogie (C-9684-d) #
- Farewell Mistreater Blues (C-9769-A) *

# rec. January 18, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; prob. Charlie Segar or Horace Malcolm, p; unknown, g

* rec. February 1, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; prob. Charlie Segar or Horace Malcolm, p; unknown, g


Decca 7054

291935Bumble Bee Slim

- My Black Gal Blues No. 1 (C-9681-A)
- My Black Gal Blues No. 2 (C-9682-A)

rec. January 18, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; prob. Charlie Segar or Horace Malcolm, p; unknown, g


Decca 7071

301935Amos

- Everybody's Fishin' (85533-1) #
- Guilty Woman Blues (85534-1) *

rec. February 27, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; poss. Horace Malcolm, p; Big Bill Broonzy, g


Bluebird B5964

# = Bluebird 6521
(as by Bumble Bee Slim)


# = Bluebird 6559
(as by Bumble Bee Slim)

311935Amos

- There You Stand (85529-1)
- Milk Cow Blues (85532-1)

rec. February 27, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; poss. Horace Malcolm, p; Big Bill Broonzy, g


Bluebird B5880

= Montgomery Ward
M4837

321935Amos

- Tell Me What It's All About (85530-1) #
- You Gotta Change Your Way (85531-1) *

rec. February 27, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; poss. Horace Malcolm, p; Big Bill Broonzy, g


Bluebird B6008

# = Bluebird B6635
(as by Bumble Bee Slim)


* = Bluebird B6612
(as by Bumble Bee Slim)

331935Bumble Bee Slim / Milton Sparks

Bumble Bee Slim
- Everybody's Fishin' [Bluebird B5964 as by "Amos"]
Milton Sparks
- Ina Blues (91446-1) #


# rec. July 28, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Milton Sparks, voc; Walter Davis, p; Henry Townsend, g

Sparks Brothers discography


Bluebird B6521

341935Bumble Bee Slim

- Bricks In My Pillow (C-950-A)
- If The Blues Was Whiskey (C-952-A) #

rec. April 4, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Myrtle Jenkins, p; # unknown, g


Vocalion 02995

351935Bumble Bee Slim

- Big 80 Blues (C-949-B)
- Policy Dream Blues (You Better Get On It) (C-951-B) #

rec. April 4, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Myrtle Jenkins, p; # unknown, g


Vocalion 03090

361936Bumble Bee Slim

- Feather Bed Blues (C-954-A) #
- Where Was You Last Night? (C-1030-A) *

# rec. April 4, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Myrtle Jenkins, p; # unknown, g
* rec. June 26, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Big Bill Broonzy, g; Black Bob, p


Vocalion 04661

= Conqueror 9276

371935Bumble Bee Slim

- Mean Bloody Murder Blues (C-9918-A)
- Walking And Drifting Blues (C-9919-A)

rec. April 12, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, p; Charlie McCoy, g


Decca 7079

381935Bumble Bee Slim

- Good Evening Blues (C-9686-A) #
- When The Sun Goes Down (C-9920-A) *

# rec. January 18, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; prob. Charlie Segar or Horace Malcolm, p; unknown, g

* rec. April 12, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, p; Charlie McCoy, g


Decca 7089

   

- Baby Fare You Well (C-1029-A)
- Baby Fare You Well (C-1029-B)

rec. June 26, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Big Bill Broonzy, g; Black Bob, p

ARC unissued

Document

   

Dumb Trick Blues (C-1226-3)

rec. March 11, 1936 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Roy Palmer, tb; Arnett Nelson, cl; Myrtle Jenkins, p; unknown, g

ARC unissued

391935Bumble Bee Slim

- I Done Lost My Baby (C-1031-A) #
- When The Sun Goes Down (C-1071-A) *

# rec. June 26, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton (in Vocalion files: "Sam Talbot"), voc; Big Bill Broonzy, g; Black Bob, p; prob. Washboard Sam, wb
* rec. July 18, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Myrtle Jenkins, p; Big Bill Broonzy, g


Vocalion 03054

408/1935 

Decca 7098 (1st, 2nd & 3rd pressing)
BUMBLE BEE SMITH (1st pressing)
- The Death Of Leroy Carr (Dedicated to the Memory of Leroy Carr) (90083-A) *   @ youtube
- Blues Blues (C-9406-A) #   @ youtube
or
BUMBLE BEE SLIM (2nd pressing)
- The Death Of Leroy Carr (Dedicated to the Memory of Leroy Carr) (90083-A) *
- Blue Blues (C-9406-A) #
or
BUMBLE BEE SLIM (3rd pressing)
- The Death Of Leroy Carr (Dedicated to the Memory of Leroy Carr) (90083-A) *
- Blues Blues (C-9406-A) #

Broadway 9005
LEROY CARR'S BUDDY
- The Death Of Leroy Carr (Dedicated to the Memory of Leroy Carr) *
- Blues Blues #

# rec. September 6, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, p; unknown, g; unknown, plucked vn
* rec. July 7, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Dorothy Rice, p; Scrapper Blackwell, g

       
        Bumble Bee Smith: "Blues Blues"Bumble Bee Slim: "Blue Blues"Bumble Bee Slim: "Blues Blues"
Decca 7098 (US 8/1935 ff.)

Broadway label picture from 78 Quarterly Vol. One, No. 7 (1992), p. 35
= Broadway (Decca) 9005 (US 1935/36?) (as by Leroy Carr's Buddy)

Scrapper Blackwell discography

411935BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- What's Wrong? (C-9917-A) #
- Sail On Sail On Blues 90091-A) *

# rec. April 12, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, p; Charlie McCoy, g

* rec. July 8, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Dorothy Rice, p; Scrapper Blackwell, g


Decca 7101

421935BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- Fattenin' Frogs For Snakes (C-1069-B)
- Lemon Sqeezing Blues (C-1070-B)

rec. July 11, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, p; unknown, g


Vocalion 03005

431935BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- I Keep On Drinking (To Drive My Blues Away)–Part 1 (C-1065-A)
- I Keep On Drinking (To Drive My Blues Away)–Part 2 (C-1066-A)

rec. July 11, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, p; unknown, g


Vocalion 03037

= Conqueror 8869

441935BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- Sometimes Blues (C-1067-A)
- Steady Roll Mama Blues (C-1068-A)

rec. July 11, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, p; unknown, g


Vocalion 03130

451935BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- Sail On Little Girl - No. 3 (C-1072-B)
- Cold Blooded Murder - No. 2 (C-1073-A)

rec. July 18, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Myrtle Jenkins, p; Big Bill Broonzy, g


Vocalion 03165

461935"SHELLEY" ARMSTRONG

- How Long How Long Blues (90185-A)
- You Don't Mean Me No Good (90186-A)

rec. July 18/19, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, p; unknown, g


Champion 50008

471935"SHELLEY" ARMSTRONG

- New B & O Blues (90187-A)
- Prison Bound Blues (90188-A)

rec. July 18/19, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, p; unknown, g


Champion 50028


= Decca 7350

481935"SHELLEY" ARMSTRONG

- Sloppy Drunk Blues (90196-A)
- D.B.A. Blues (90197-A)

rec. July 22, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, p; unknown, g


Champion 50029

491935BUMBLE BEE SLIM and his Rhythm Riffers

- I'll Take You Back (90305-A) #
- Sick And Tired Of Singing The Blues (90306-A) *

rec. September 6, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, * voc; unknown, t; unknown, as/ts; unknown, ts; unknown, p; unknown, g; unknown, sb; # Jimmie Gordon, voc


Decca 7121

   

- I Got 'em All (90307)
- When The Deal Goes Down (90308)

rec. September 6, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, t; unknown, as/ts; unknown, ts; unknown, p; unknown, g; unknown, sb

Decca unissued

501935BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- Smoky Mountain Blues (90084-A) #
- Hey Lawdy Mama (90092-A) *

# rec. July 7, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Dorothy Rice, p; Scrapper Blackwell, g

* rec. July 8, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Dorothy Rice, p; Scrapper Blackwell, g


Decca 7126

511935BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- My Old Pal Blues (Dedicated To The Memory Of Leroy Carr) (90189-A)
- Last Respects (Dedicated To The Memory Of Leroy Carr) (90190-A)

rec. July 18/19, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, p; unknown, g


Decca 7127

521935BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- New When The Sun Goes Down (90319-A)
- Happy Life Blues (90321-A)

rec. September 11, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, p; unknown, g; unknown, sb


Decca 7138

   

- How Can I Get It? (90320)

rec. September 11, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, ???; unknown, p; unknown, g; unknown, sb; Jimmie Gordon, voc

Decca unissued

531935BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- B And O Line Blues (C-9770-B)
- Some Old Rainy Day (C-9772-B)

rec. February 1, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; prob. Charlie Segar or Horace Malcolm, p; unknown, g


Decca 7145

541935BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- Deep Bass Boogie (C-9405-A) #
- Tired Of Your Low Down Nasty Ways (C-9685-c) *

# rec. September 6, 1934 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, p; two unknowns, g; unknown, plucked vn

* rec. January 18, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; prob. Charlie Segar or Horace Malcolm, p; unknown, g


Decca 7162

551936BUMBLE BEE SLIM (& PEETIE WHEATSTRAW)

BUMBLE BEE SLIM
- Meet Me In The Bottom (Hey Lawdy Mama) 90613-A) #
BUMBLE BEE SLIM and PEETIE WHEATSTRAW
- No Good Woman (Fighting Blues) 90614-A) *

rec. February 7, 1936 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Peetie Wheatstraw, p, * voc; # unknown, g


Decca 7170

561936BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- When Somebody Loses (Then Somebody Wins) (C-1223-1, 2) #
- New Orleans Stop Time (C-1227-2) *


# rec. February 5, 1936 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Myrtle Jenkins, p; Memphis Minnie, g
* rec. February 6, 1936 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Black Bob, p, sp; Memphis Minnie, voc, poss. g; unknown, sb


Vocalion 03197

571936BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- Dumb Trick Blues (C-1226-2) #
- When I Get My Money (I Mean My Bonus) (C-1294-2) *



originally unissued track from February 5, 1936 session:
- Dumb Trick Blues (C-1226-1) # [Document DOCD-5265]

# rec. February 5, 1936 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Myrtle Jenkins, p; Casey Bill Weldon, g
* rec. March 11, 1936 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Myrtle Jenkins, p


Vocalion 03221

581936BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- This Old Life I'm Living (C-1225-2) #
- I Done Caught My Death Of Cold (C-1231-1) *

# rec. February 5, 1936 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Myrtle Jenkins, p, sp; Casey Bill Weldon, g
* rec. February 6, 1936 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Myrtle Jenkins, p, sp; Casey Bill Weldon, g


Vocalion 03767

591936BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- Ramblin' With That Woman (C-1224-2) #
- If I Make It Over (C-1780-1) *

# rec. February 5, 1936 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Myrtle Jenkins, p; Memphis Minnie, g
* rec. January 27, 1937 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; prob. Albert Ammons, p; unknown, g


Vocalion 04042

601936BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- You Got To Live And Let Live (C-1228-1) #
- Rock Hearted Woman (C-1347-2) *

# rec. February 6, 1936 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Black Bob, p; Casey Bill Weldon, g; unknown, sb; unknown, perc
* rec. April 2, 1936 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Myrtle Jenkins, p; unknown, g


Vocalion 03929

611936BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- Hard Rocks In My Bed (C-1229-1)   @ youtube
- No More Biscuit Rolling Here (C-1232-2) *   @ youtube



originally unissued tracks from February 6, 1936 session:
- Who's Been Here Today (C-1230-1) [Document DOCD-5265]   @ youtube
- No More Biscuit Rolling Here (C-1232-1) * [Document DOCD-5265]   @ youtube

rec. February 6, 1936 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Black Bob, p; * Casey Bill Weldon, g; unknown, sb


Vocalion 03328

621936BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- New Policy Dream Blues (C-1342-1)   @ youtube
- Back In Jail Again (C-1343-2)   @ youtube

rec. April 2, 1936 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Myrtle Jenkins, p; unknown, g


Vocalion 03242

631936BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- New Big 80 Blues (C-1341-1)   @ youtube
- Wet Clothes Blues (C-1344-1) #   @ youtube

rec. April 2, 1936 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Myrtle Jenkins, p; # unknown, g


Vocalion 03267

641936BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- New Bricks In My Pillow (C-1340-1)   @ youtube
- Any Time A Night (C-1345-2) #   @ youtube

rec. April 2, 1936 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Myrtle Jenkins, p; # unknown, g


Vocalion 03298

651936BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- Right From Wrong (C-953-A) #
- Fast Life Blues (C-1346-2) *

# rec. April 4, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Myrtle Jenkins, p; unknown, g
* rec. April 2, 1936 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Myrtle Jenkins, p; unknown, g


Vocalion 03446

661936BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- Cry On! Cry On! 61218-A)
- Funny Feelin' 61222-A)

rec. August 20, 1936 in New York City; Amos Easton, voc; Honey Hill, p; poss. Bill Gaither, g


Decca 7214

671936BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- Hard Driving Man 61220-A)
- Upside Down 61225-A)

rec. August 20, 1936 in New York City; Amos Easton, voc; Honey Hill, p; poss. Bill Gaither, g


Decca 7220

681936BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- Ease Me Down 61219-A)
- Lady Friend (Get Yourself A Job) 61223-A)

rec. August 20, 1936 in New York City; Amos Easton, voc; Honey Hill, p; poss. Bill Gaither, g


Decca 7232

691936BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- Must I Keep On Crying 61221-A)
- Letter Writing 61224-A)

rec. August 20, 1936 in New York City; Amos Easton, voc; Honey Hill, p; poss. Bill Gaither, g


Decca 7273

701936BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- Honest Confession (61227-A)
- I'm Gonna Tear Your Kingdom Down (61236-A)

rec. August 21, 1936 in New York City; Amos Easton, voc; Honey Hill, p; poss. Bill Gaither, g


Decca 7208

711936BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- Christmas And No Santa Claus (61228-A)
- Santa Claus Bring Me A New Woman (61235-A)

rec. August 21, 1936 in New York City; Amos Easton, voc; Honey Hill, p; poss. Bill Gaither, g


Decca 7239

721936BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- Buggie Bed (61229-A)
- Head Whippin' Party (61234-A)

rec. August 21, 1936 in New York City; Amos Easton, voc;


Decca 7249

731936BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- Blue Expression Blues (61233-A) #
- Every Goodbye Ain't Gone (61237-A) *

# rec. August 21, 1936 in New York City; Amos Easton, voc; Honey Hill, p; poss. Bill Gaither, g

* rec. August 23, 1936 in New York City; Amos Easton, voc; Honey Hill, p; poss. Bill Gaither, g


Decca 7300

741936BUMBLE BEE SLIM & HIS RHYTHM RIFFERS

- I's Gonna Break 'em Down (61230-A) #
- Past And Gone (61244-A) *

# rec. August 21, 1936 in New York City; Amos Easton, voc; Honey Hill, p; poss. Bill Gaither, g; # unknown, kazoo; # unknown, wb

* rec. August 23, 1936 in New York City; Amos Easton, voc; Honey Hill, p; poss. Bill Gaither, g


Decca 7343

751936BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- New How Long How Long (61226-A) #
- True Blue (61238-A) *

# rec. August 21, 1936 in New York City; Amos Easton, voc; Honey Hill, p; poss. Bill Gaither, g

* rec. August 23, 1936 in New York City; Amos Easton, voc; Honey Hill, p; poss. Bill Gaither, g


Decca 7371

   

- Let's Go Muggin' (61231-A)

rec. August 21, 1936 in New York City; Amos Easton, voc; Honey Hill, p; poss. Bill Gaither, g

Decca unissued

761936BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- Please Baby (61240-A)
- The Jive Of Mine (61243-A)

rec. August 23, 1936 in New York City; Amos Easton, voc; Honey Hill, p; poss. Bill Gaither, g


Decca 7423

771936BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- Green Country Gal (No More To Say) (61241-A)
- If I Could Speak My Mind (61242-A)

rec. August 23, 1936 in New York City; Amos Easton, voc; Honey Hill, p; poss. Bill Gaither, g


Decca 7440

   

- Rockpile Blues (61239-A)

rec. August 23, 1936 in New York City; Amos Easton, voc; Honey Hill, p; poss. Bill Gaither, g

Decca unissued

781936Bumble Bee Slim

- Can't You Trust Me No More? (C-1028-B) #
- When The Music Sounds Good (C-1293-2) *

# rec. June 26, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Big Bill Broonzy, g; Black Bob, p
* rec. March 11, 1936 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Roy Palmer, tb; Arnett Nelson, cl; Myrtle Jenkins, p; unknown, g; unknown, sp


Vocalion 03209

791936Bumble Bee Slim

- I'm Needing Someone (Exactly Like You) (C-1032-A) #
- Rough Treatment (C-1664-2) *

# rec. June 26, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; Big Bill Broonzy, g; Black Bob, p; prob. Washboard Sam, wb
* rec. November 12, 1936 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; prob. Myrtle Jenkins, p; unknown, sb


Vocalion 03637

= ARC 7-09-67


Man at Work !!!
11936Bumble Bee Slim

- Hobo Jungle Blues (C-1647-2) #
- Slave Man Blues (C-1648-1)
- I'm Going To Live My Life Alone (C-1649-1)
- I'm Going To Live My Life Alone (C-1649-2)
- My Big Moments (C-1654-1)
- I'll Meet You In The Bottom (C-1655-1)
- Meet Me At The Landing (C-1656-2)

rec. November 4, 1936 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, cl; Black Bob, p; prob. Big Bill Broonzy, g; unknown, sb; # unknown, bird-call effects


Vocalion 03

11936Bumble Bee Slim

- One Lonesome Day (C-1661-1)
- One Lonesome Day (C-1661-2)
- Big Six (C-1662-1)
- Just Yesterday (C-1663-1)

rec. November 12, 1936 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; prob. Myrtle Jenkins, p; unknown, sb


Vocalion 03

11937Bumble Bee Slim

- Pains In My Body (C-1777-1)
- Pains In My Body (C-1777-2)
- I'm Having So Much Trouble (C-1778-1)
- Rising River Blues (C-1779-1)
- Rising River Blues (C-1779-2)
- She Never (C-1781-1)
- She Never (C-1781-2)
- It Ain't No Trouble (C-1782-1)
- It Ain't No Trouble (C-1782-2)
- 12 O'clock Southern Train (C-1783-1)
- 12 O'clock Midnight (C-1784-1)
- You Sure Look Good To Me (C-1785-1)
- Woman For Every Man (C-1786-1) #
- Woman For Every Man (C-1786-2) #

rec. January 27, 1937 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc, # whistling;


Vocalion 03

11937Bumble Bee Slim


- Bumble Bee's New Muddy Water (C-1932-1)
- When Your Deal Goes Down (I'll Come Back To You) (C-1933-2)
- Goodbye (I'll Try To Forget) (C-1934-1)
- Goodbye (I'll Try To Forget) (C-1934-2)
- Uncertain Blues (C-1935-2)
- Uncertain Blues (C-1935-2)

rec. June 10, 1937 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; unknown, t; poss Blind John Davis, p; poss Fred Williams, dr


Vocalion 03

11937Bumble Bee Slim


- You've Got To Do As I Bid You (C-1943-2)
- Cross Country (C-1944-1)
- Cross Country (C-1944-2)
- You Brought Me Back (C-1945-2?)
- You Brought Me Here [sic] (C-1945-2)
- Going Back To Florida (C-1946-2?)
- Going Back To Florida (C-1946-2)
- Good Old Easy Street (C-1948-2)

rec. June 22, 1937 in Chicago, IL; Amos Easton, voc; # unknown, cl; * unknown, ts; unknow, p; prob Fred Williams, dr


Vocalion 03

   

- Round The World Blues

Leadbitter & Slaven 1987: "rec. 1943/4 in Chicago, IL; Bumble Bee Slim, voc, Little Brother Montgomery, p; unknown, b"

this is actually:
- Round The World Blues (K 5141)

rec. September 1946 in Chicago, IL; Lee Brown, voc, p; Alex Atkins, as; Leroy Foster, g; Big Crawford, b (on Queen/King 4751: "Lee Brown 'The Heartbreaker' And His Barberton Boogie Woogie Cat"


Queen/King unissued

Proper CDBOX 7 (1999)

a1951AMOS EASTON

- Strange Angel (BB-3)   @ youtube
- Lonesome Trail Blues (BB-2)   @ youtube

rec. August 15, 1951 in Los Angeles, CA; Amos Easton, voc; Maurice Simon, as; Maxwell Davis, ts; Jewell Grant, ts; Willard McDaniel, p; Mitchell 'Tiny' Webb, g; Billy Hadnott, b; Oscar Lee Bradley, dr


Specialty 410

   

- Please, Please, Please (BB-1)
- Sometimes (BB-4) #

rec. August 15, 1951 in Los Angeles, CA; Amos Easton, voc; Maurice Simon, as; Maxwell Davis, ts; Jewell Grant, ts; Willard McDaniel, p; Mitchell 'Tiny' Webb, g; Billy Hadnott, b; Oscar Lee Bradley, dr

Specialty unissued

# Specialty CD 7065

b1951BUMBLE BEE SLIM

- Lonesome Old Feeling (BB-6) #   @ youtube
- Ida Red (BB-10) *   @ youtube

# rec. August 15, 1951 in Los Angeles, CA; Amos Easton, voc; Willard McDaniel, p; Mitchell 'Tiny' Webb, g; Billy Hadnott, b; Oscar Lee Bradley, dr

* rec. November 2, 1951 in Los Angeles, CA; Amos Easton, voc; Willard McDaniel, p; Mitchell 'Tiny' Webb, g; Billy Hadnott, b; Oscar Lee Bradley, dr


Fidelity 3004

   

- Lonesome Old Feeling (BB-11)
- Tiny's Boogie (BB-13)   @ youtube

rec. November 2, 1951 in Los Angeles, CA; Amos Easton, voc; Willard McDaniel, p; Mitchell 'Tiny' Webb, g; Billy Hadnott, b; Oscar Lee Bradley, dr

Fidelity unissued

Specialty CD 7065

c19??KING BUMBLE BEE SLIM & HIS PACIFIC COAST SENDERS

- Two Guitar's Battle (MGR 100-4)
- Twin Beds (MGR 101-4) #

rec. ??? in Los Angeles, CA; Amos Easton, voc, g; # ts; Kid Hall, g; p; b; dr


Marigold no #


EP / LP / CD compilations
11960Low Down Blues

Leroy Carr - Mean Mistreater Mama No. 2
Bumble Bee Slim - I Done Lost My Baby
Charlie Campbell - Goin' Away Blues
Jack Kelly - Red Ripe Tomatoes
Blind Boy Fuller - Thousand Woman Blues [sic]
Big Bill Broonzy - Come Home Early
Washboard Sam - I'm A Prowlin' Groundhog

Black Boy Shine - Coal Woman Blues
Mississippi John Hurt - Stack O'Lee Blues
Texas Alexander - Katy Crossing Blues
Roosevelt Scott - Do You Call That Right?
Yas Yas Girl - Reckless Life Blues
Brownie McGhee - Try Me One More Time
Little Bill Gaither - A Short Cut To The Grave
Champion Jack Dupree - Heavy Heart Blues


ed. by H.R. Rookmaaker

gatefold LP
notes by H.R. Rookmaaker

Fontana 682.099 TL (NL 1960)

Fontana Records discography

21961?Bumble Bee Slim
Treasures of North American Negro Music Vol. 10

- Burned Down Mill [Vocalion 02885]
- Wet Clothes Blues [Vocalion 03267]

- My Big Moments [Vocalion 03550]
- Big Six [Vocalion 03550]

45 rpm EP
notes by Henderik R. Rookmaaker

Fontana 467.182 TE (NL 1961?)

2a1961The Tenor and Organ of
Curtis Amy & Paul Bryant: Meetin' Here

Pacific Jazz PJ-26 track sequence:
- Meetin' Here (7:04)
- Early In The Morning (6:46)
- If I Were A Bell (6:02)

- One More Hamhock Please (7:59)
- Angel Eyes (6:18)
- Just Friends (4:10)


Fresh Sound Records FSR-CD 767 track sequence:
- Meetin' Here
- Early In The Morning
- If I Were A Bell
- One More Hamhock Please
- Angel Eyes
- Just Friends

- Meet Me In The Bottom #
- In The Evening #
- New B&O Blues #
- Puppy Love #
- Wake Up In The Mornin' #
- Wee Baby Blues #
- I'm The One #

tracks 1-6, from the album "Meetin' Here - Curtis Amy & Paul Bryant" (Pacific Jazz Stereo-26)
tracks 7-13, from the album "Bumble Bee Slim - Back in Town!" (Pacific Jazz Stereo-54)

rec. 1961/62 at Pacific Jazz Studios, Hollywood, CA; prod. by Richard Bock
Curtis Amy, ts; # Bumble Bee Slim, voc; Lou Blackburn, tb; Richard Holmes, org; Joe Pass g; Leroy Vinnegar, b; § Ron Jefferson, dr

notes by John William Hardy

Pacific Jazz PJ-26 (1961)


= Fresh Sound Records FSR-CD 767 (2013) "Curtis Amy & Paul Bryant - Meetin' Here Bumble Bee Slim - Back in Town!"

31962Bumble Bee Slim: Back In Town!@ youtube (full album playlist)

Pacific Jazz PJ/ST-54 track sequence:
- Direct South # °°
- Wake Up In The Mornin' * §
- Driftin' Blues # °°
- Puppy Love *
- New B & O Blues * [] §

- Midnight Special # °°
- In The Evening *
- Meet Me In The Bottom * §
- Wee Baby Blues * §
- I'm The One * §

rec. 1962 at Pacific Jazz Studios, Hollywood, CA; prod. by Richard Bock
# Bumble Bee Slim, voc, g; Les McCann, p; Leroy Vinnegar, b, Ron Jefferson, dr
* Bumble Bee Slim, voc; [] Lou Blackburn, tb; Curtis Amy, ts; Richard Holmes, org; Joe Pass g; [] Leroy Vinnegar, b; § Ron Jefferson, dr

Fresh Sound Records FSR-CD 767 track sequence:
- Meetin' Here
- Early In The Morning
- If I Were A Bell
- One More Hamhock Please
- Angel Eyes
- Just Friends

- Meet Me In The Bottom *
- In The Evening *
- New B&O Blues *
- Puppy Love *
- Wake Up In The Mornin' *
- Wee Baby Blues *
- I'm The One *

tracks 1-6, from the album "Meetin' Here - Curtis Amy & Paul Bryant" (Pacific Jazz Stereo-26)
* tracks 7-13, from the album "Bumble Bee Slim - Back in Town!" (Pacific Jazz Stereo-54)
°° 3 tracks on Fresh Sound Records FSR-CD 764 "Les McCann: On Time"
Pacific Jazz ST-54 front and back cover photographs by Woody Woodward

notes (May 1962) by Bumble Bee Slim (Pete Welding)
  vinyl yellow
Pacific Jazz PJ-54 (US 1962)

notes (May 1962) by Bumble Bee Slim (Pete Welding)
  vinyl translucent red
(=) Pacific Jazz ST-54 (US 1962)

notes by Paul Oliver
 
= Fontana 688 138 ZL (UK 1964) (Folk Blues USA series) "Bee's back in town"


(=) Fresh Sound Records FSR-CD 767 (2013) "Curtis Amy & Paul Bryant - Meetin' Here, featuring Bumble Bee Slim - Back in Town!"


= Cleopatra/StarDust CLP 0634 (2013)

(=) Black & Partners (2014) "Curtis Amy & Paul Bryant: Just Friends"

Fontana Records discography

41963Hootenanny Saturday Night!

Bud & Travis
- Raspberries And Strawberries
- La Bamba
Gold Coast Singers
- Gunga Din
The Folkswingers
- Wabash Cannonball
- Midnight Speacial

Lynn Gold
- Quiet Land
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
- Livin' With The Blues
Barbara Dane
- How Long Blues

Bumble Bee Slim
- Wake Up In The Mornin'
Lightnin' Hopkins
- How Long Have I Been Gone

click to read notes !
World Pacific WP-1813 (1958)


= Fontana 688 009 ZL (1963)

Fontana Records discography

5196?Bumble Bee Slim

- Greasy Greens
- I'm Waitin' On You
- B And O Blues
- Queen Bee Blues
- Sail On Little Girl No. 2
- Cold-blooded Murder
- Bricks In My Pillow
- If The Blues Was Whiskey

- Feather Bed Blues
- What's Wrong?
- Sail On Sail On Blues
- I Keep On Drinking (To Drive My Blues Away) - Part 1
- I Keep On Drinking (To Drive My Blues Away) - Part 2
- Fattenin' Frogs For Snakes
- Lemon Sqeezing Blues
- Fast Life Blues

plain white sleeve

Memory BBS 1 (Fr 196?))

61967All Star Blues

Memphis Slim
- Whisky And Gin
- How Long Blues
Lowell Fulson
- Don't Be So Evil
Floyd Dixon
- Houston Jump
Lowell Fulson
- Poor Boy Blues
Floyd Dixon
- Sad Feeling Blues

Lowell Fulson
- My Woman Can't Be Found

Bumble Bee Slim
- Lonesome Old Feeling [Fidelity 3004]
Smokey Hogg
- Bottle Up And Go [Combo 4]
- Ooh! Baby [Combo 4]
John Lee Hooker [actually Ernest Lewis]
- Little Mae Belle
- Lou Della


re-issue prod. by Alan Bates
front cover photo by Norman L. Hunter

notes by Paul Oliver

Polydor 423 243 (Germany 1967)

71967Out Came The Blues   Vol. 2

- Let Your Linen Hang Low - Rosetta Howard
- Southern Casey Jones - Jesse James
- Pigmeat Blues - Georgia White
- Black Snake Blues - Victoria Spivey
- All Night Long Blues - Peetie Wheatstraw
- Got The Blues For The West End - Lonnie Johnson
- Callin' Corrine - Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon

- I Ain't No Ice Man - Cow Cow Davenport
- Double Dozens (You Dirty No Gooder) - Sweet Pease Spivey
- Lonesome Day Blues - Jesse James
- Blue Ghost Blues - Lonnie Johnson
- Walking The Street - Georgia White

- Green Country Gal - Bumble Bee Slim
- No Good Man - Trixie Smith


Ace of Hearts AH 158 (UK 1967)

7a1968This Is The Blues Vol. 2

Luke 'Long Gone' Miles
- I Feel All Right
Lightnin Hopkins
- How Long Have It Been Since You Been Home
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
- Baby Please Don't Go

Bumble Bee Slim
- Puppy Love
Luke 'Long Gone' Miles
- Barefoot Rock

Lightnin Hopkins, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry & Big Joe Williams
- You Steal My Chickens, You Can't Make 'Em Lay
Barbara Dane
- How Long Blues

Bumble Bee Slim
- Wake Up In The Mornin'
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
- Livin' With The Blues
Luke 'Long Gone' Miles
- Long Gone


gatefold LP
notes (September 1968) by Pete Welding


three different label imprints: 1. no special imprint [mono?] - 2. "stereo" - 3. "electronically re-recorded to simulate stereo"
   
World Pacific ST-20150 (US 1968)

gatefold LP

= World Pacific/Liberty WPS-20150 ("electronically rechanneled stereo") (Germany 19??)


= World Pacific/Toshiba WP-8761 (Jp 1969)

81968The Georgia Blues 1927-1933

Yazoo LP L-1012 track sequence:
Fred McMullen - Wait And Listen
Gitfiddle Jim [Kokomo Arnold] - Paddlin' Blues
George Carter - Rising River Blues
George Carter - Hot Jelly Roll Blues
Gitfiddle Jim [Kokomo Arnold] - Rainy Night Blues
Peg Leg Howell - Rolling Mill Blues
Willie Baker - Weak-Minded Blues

Blind Blake - Police Dog Blues
Blind Blake - That'll Never Happen No More

Bumble Bee Slim - No Woman No Nickel
Charlie Lincoln [Charley Lincoln] - Doodle Hole Blues
Barbecue Bob - Unnamed Blues
Willie Baker - Crooked Woman Blues
Sylvester Weaver - Can't Be Trusted Blues


Yazoo CD 1012 YAZ / Vivid VSCD-1156 track sequence:
Fred McMullen - Wait And Listen
Peg Leg Howell - Rolling Mill Blues
Blind Blake - Police Dog Blues

Bumble Bee Slim - No Woman No Nickel
Willie Baker - Weak-Minded Blues
Barbecue Bob - Unnamed Blues
Charlie Lincoln - Doodle Hole Blues
Sylvester Weaver - Can't Be Trusted Blues
Blind Blake - That'll Never Happen No More
George Carter - Rising River Blues
Gitfiddle Jim - Rainy Night Blues
George Carter - Hot Jelly Roll Blues
Willie Baker - Crooked Woman Blues
Gitfiddle Jim - Paddlin' Blues


notes by Stephen Calt, Nick Perls & Michael Stewart
 
Yazoo L-1012 (US 1968) "STEREO" on back cover   black label: "390 East 8th Street, NY 10009"   red/orange label: "54 King Street, NY 10014"

notes by Stephen Calt, Nick Perls & Michael Stewart
 
= Yazoo L-1012 (US 197?) "STEREO" on back cover "Waverly Place, NY 10014"

notes by Stephen Calt, Nick Perls & Michael Stewart

= Yazoo L-1012 (US 198?) "STEREO" on back cover   "P.O. Box 810, Newton, New Jersey 07860"


= Yazoo 1012 cassette (US 1989)


= Yazoo CD 1012 YAZ (US 1991)


= Vivid VSCD-1156 (Jp)

Yazoo Records discography

91968Screening The Blues
Aspects Of The Blues Tradition

Jack Ranger - Thieving Blues
Butterbeans And Susie - Papa Ain't No Santa Claus (Mama Ain't No Christmas Tree)
Washington Phillips - Denomination Blues
Hambone Willie Newbern - Nobody Knows (What The Good Deacon Does)
Hambone Willie Newbern - Roll And Tumble Blues

Bumble Bee Slim - Policy Dream Blues
Memphis Minnie - He's In The Ring (Doing The Same Old Thing)

Memphis Minnie - Joe Louis Strut
George Noble - Sissy Man Blues
Robert Johnson - Phonograph Blues
Clara Smith - It's Tight Like That
Bertha Idaho - Down On Pennsylvania Avenue
Curley Weaver - Sweet Petunia
Bessie Jackson - Shave 'em Dry (tk 1)
Lucille Bogan - Shave 'em Dry (tk 2)


front cover photo depicts Tommy McClennan!

notes by Paul Oliver

CBS 63288 (UK 1968)

notes by Paul Oliver

= CBS 63 288 (Germany 1968)

notes by Paul Oliver plus leaflet in Japanese
 
= CBS/Epic ECPJ-24 (Jp)

album has been issued in association with the book "Screening The Blues - Aspects of the Blues Tradition" by Paul Oliver, published by Cassell and Company, 1968

101969Masters Of The Blues 1928-1940

Robert Johnson (recorded Dallas, June 20, 1937)
- Little Queen Of Spades
- Love In Vain Blues
Curley Weaver accompanied by Blind Willie McTell (recorded Chicago, April 23, 1935)
- Sometime Mama
- Two Faced Woman
Little Bill Gaither (recorded Chicago, June 12, 1940)
- Georgia Barrel House
Blind Boy Fuller (recorded Chicago, June 12, 1940)
- You Got To Have Your Dollar
Robert Hill (recorded New Orleans, Oct 15, 1936)
- I Had A Gal For The Last Fifteen Years

Tommy Johnson (recorded Memphis, August 31, 1928)
- Lonesome Blues (take 1) unissued
- Lonesome Blues (take 2) unissued
- Canned Heat Blues

Bumble Bee Slim (Amos Easton) with Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell (NY, March 16, 1932)
- I'm Waitin' On You
Frank Stokes (recorded Memphis, Feb 2, 1928)
- Downtown Blues (unissued take)
Texas Alexander (recorded San Antonio, March 10, 1928) with Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson
- Yellow Girl Blues
- I Am Calling Blues

notes by Chris Albertson

Historical HLP-31

Historical Records discography

111969Favorite Country Blues Piano-Guitar Duets 1929-1937

Willie Harris
- West Side Blues
Charlie Spand
- Good Gal
- Back To The Woods Blues
Leroy Carr
- Sloppy Drunk Blues
Roosevelt Sykes "& Clifford Gibson"
- Tired Of Being Mistreated
Springback James
- Poor Coal Passer
Leola Manning
- The Blues Is All Wrong

Joe Evans
- Down In Black Bottom
- Shook Woman Blues
Blind Blake
- Poker Woman Blues
Walter Davis
- Sloppy Drunk Again
Cripple Clarence Lofton
- Monkey Man Blues

Bumble Bee Slim
- New Orleans Stop Time
Buddy Woods
- Don't Sell It, Don't Give It Away


front cover drawing by Rory Block

notes by Stephen Calt, Jerome Epstein, Nick Perls, Michael Stewart

Yazoo L-1015


= Yazoo CD 1015

Yazoo Records discography

121969Vintage Country Blues Vol. 6

Scrapper Blackwell
Big Bill Broonzy
- Something Good

Bumble Bee Slim
- Everybody's Fishing
Tommy Griffin
- Mistreatin' Papa
- Snake Hipping Blues
Frank James
- Springback Papa

Elijah Jones
- Katy Fly
- Mean Actin' Mama
Robert Petway
- Let Me Be Your Boss
Josh White
- Cherry Picker
- Pigmeat And Whiskey Blues
Joe Williams
- Crawlin' King Snake
Blind Squire Turner
- She Ain't No Girl Of Mine
- Pitty-Pat Blues



Down With The Game D 206

DWTG discography

131970Recording The Blues

Lucille Bogan - Skin Game Blues
Bertha 'Chippie' Hill (with Louis Armstrong) - Kid Man Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Rabbit Foot Blues
Whistlin' Alex Moore - Blue Bloomer Blues
Barbecue Bob - Crooked Woman Blues
Georgia Cotton Pickers - She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day
Rev. J. M. Gates - Death's Black Train Is Coming
Mississippi Sheiks - Loose Like That

Blind Willie Johnson - When The War Was On
Allan Shaw - I Couldn't Help It
Tim Wilkins - New Stock Yard Blues

Bumble Bee Slim - Bricks In My Pillow
Big Bill - Detroit Special
Lil Johnson - Press My Button (Ring My Bell)
Peetie Wheatstraw - Ain't It A Pity And A Shame
Pinetop Burks - Fannie Mae Blues


notes by Robert W.M. Dixon and John Godrich

CBS M 52797 (UK 1970)



= Epic ECPJ-23 (Jp 1970)

album illustrates the book "Recording The Blues" in the Blues Paperback Series, produced by November Books Ltd., and published in 1970 by Studio Vista Ltd.

141970Early Folk Blues Vol. 2   Hometown Skiffle

Beale Street Sheiks - You Shall
Excelsior Quartette - Jelly Roll Blues
Mississippi Sheiks - Too Long
Napoleon Fletcher - She Showed It All
Hokum Boys - I'm Gonna Get It
Ol Ced Odom & Lil "Diamonds" Hardaway - Derbytown
Paramount All Stars - Hometown Skiffle - part 1
Paramount All Stars - Hometown Skiffle - part 2

Beale Street Sheiks - It's A Good Thing
Excelsior Quartette - Kitchen Mechanic Blues
Winston Holmes & Charlie Turner - Skinner

Bumble Bee Slim - Slave Man Blues
Hokum Boys - Keep Your Mind On It
Tampa Red and The Chicago Five - Stop Truckin' And Suzi-Q
Yank Rachell - Texas Tommy
The Delta Boys - Every Time My Heart Beats


compiled by David Harrison; prod. by Gef Lucena

notes by Tony Russell

Matchbox SDR 206 (UK 1970)

151970The Story Of The Blues Vol. 2

Side One: Guitar Pickers
Curley Weaver - No No Blues
Little Hat Jones - Hurry Blues
Emery Glen - Blue Blazes Blues
'Mooch' Richardson - Low Down Barrelhouse Blues 2
Lonnie Johnson - Broken Levee Blues
Buddy Moss - Undertaker Blues
J.B. Lenoir - Mojo Boogie
Son House - Pearline


Side Two: Piano Blues
Whistlin' Alex Moore - West Texas Woman
Sylvester Palmer - Lonesome Man Blues
George NobleThe Seminole Blues
Cripple Clarence Lofton - Brown Skin Blues

Bumble Bee Slim - Ramblin' With That Woman
Roosevelt Scott - Black Gal Blues
Roosevelt Sykes - Training Camp Blue
Champion Jack Dupree - Junker Blues



Side Three: Blues Girls
Maggy Jones - Good Time Flat Blues
Clara Smith - Whip It To A Jelly
Cleo Gibson - I've Got Ford Movement In My Hips
Martha Copeland - Desert Blues
Victoria Spivey - Christmas Morning Blues
Liza Brown, Ann Johnson - Get On Out Of Here
Merline Johnson - Good Old Easy Street
Big Maybelle - Maybelle's Blues


Side Four: Blues Groups
Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie - That Will Be Alright
Mississippi Mud Steppers - Jackson Stomp
Jazzbo Tommy & Lowlander's - Blaze Face Cow
Duskey Dailey & His Band - Miss Georgia Blues
Willie 'Long Time' Smith - My Buddy Dr. Clayton
Otis Rush - Love That Woman
Magic Sam - All Your Love
John Littlejohn - Been Around The World


compiled by Paul Oliver

DLP
notes by Paul Oliver

CBS 66232 (UK 1970)

= CBS 88630 (NL 1970)

notes by Paul Oliver

= CBS 66232 (It 1970) "La Storia del Blues Vol. Due"

other releases at discogs.com

4 LP set

(=) CBS 66426 (Fr 1972) "Vol. 1 & 2"

= CBS LSP 14410 (Germany 1981)

161970/71?The Blues Tradition
Notable Performances by Early Bluesmen (1927-1932)

Big Bill Broonzy
- Big Bill Blues
- Mr. Conductor Man
King Solomon Hill
- The Gone Dead Train
- Tell Me, Baby

Bumble Bee Slim
- No Woman, No Nickel
- Chain Gang Bound
Willie Brown
- M & O Blues
- Future Blues

Blind Roosevelt Graves
- Staggerin' Blues
- Low Down Woman
Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Peach Orchard Mama
- Oil Well Blues
Bobby Grant
- Nappy Head Blues
- Lonesome Atlanta Blues
Buddy Boy Hawkins
- Shaggy Dog Blues
- Jailhouse Fire Blues


"Reissued by special arrangement with John Steiner"; cover illustration [Sam Collins!] courtesy John Steiner; prod. by Orrin Keepnews

notes by Michael Cuscuna

Milestone MLP 2016

Milestone Records discography

171973The City Blues

Roosevelt Sykes
- Homesick Blues

Bumble Bee Slim
- Strange Angel
- Lonesome Trail Blues
Jesse Thomas
- Jack O'Diamonds
Mercy Dee
- The Drifter [Specialty previously unissued]
- Dark Muddy Bottom [Specialty 481]
Big Maceo Merriweather
- Just Tell Me Baby

Honeyboy
- Blood Stains On The Wall
- My Time Ain't Long
Gus Jenkins
- Cold Love
- Worries & Troubles
Frankie Lee Sims
- Yeh Baby
Mercy Dee & Thelma
- Rent Man Blues
Joe Turner
- Still In The Dark

notes by Samuel Charters

Specialty SNTF 5015 (UK 1973)

181973Down Home Blues

- Big City Blues - Big Maceo
- Lonesome Old Feeling - Bumble Bee Slim
- I'll Get Along Sonehow - Frankie Lee Sims
- My Woman Knows The Score - Mercy Dee [Specialty 458]
- Cryin' For My Baby - Pete McKinley
- I'm through with You - Smokey Hogg
- I Ate The Wrong Part - Little Temple And His "88"

- One Sunday Morning - Big Maceo
- Goin' Back To Mama - Clarence London
- One Room Country Shack - Mercy Dee [Specialty 458]

- Ida Red - Bumble Bee Slim
- Yeh, Baby! - Frankie Lee Sims
- Mean Black - Pete McKinley
- Ay-Tete Fee - Clifton Chenier


Specialty SNTF 5024 (UK 1973)

= Specialty SPY 28092 (Fr 1977)

191975Blues In The Thirties

The Mississippi Mudder (Joe & Charlie McCoy)
- Going Back Home Blues [Decca 7087]
Memphis Minnie
- Dirty Mother For You [Decca 7048]
Kokomo Arnold
- Old Black Cat Blues (Jinx Blues) [Decca 7050]>
Blind Willie McTell
- Hillbilly Willie's Blues [Decca 7117]
Frankie Black (Scrapper Blackwell) & Dot Rice
- No Good Woman Blues [Champion 50049]
Sleepy John Estes
- Someday Baby Blues [Champion 50068]
The Honey Dripper (Roosevelt Sykes) & Kokomo Arnold
- The Honey Dripper [Decca 7050]

Jesse James
- Lonesome Day Blues [Decca 7213]

Bumble Bee Slim
- Green Country Gal (No More To Say) [Decca 7440]
Johnny Temple
- Louise Louise Blues [Decca 7254]
Alex Moore
- Bull Cow Blues [Decca 7552]
Andrew Hogg
- Family Trouble Blues [Decca 7303]
Blind Boy Fuller
- Some Day You're Gonna Be Sorry [Decca 7892]
Peetie Wheatstraw & Lonnie Johnson
- What More Can A Man Do? [Decca 7429]



MCA-3526 (Jp 1975)

201975The Blues Box - Country Blues

record 1:
Kokomo Arnold
- Shake That Thing
Baby Doo
- The Death Of Walter Barnes
Scrapper Blackwell
- Motherless Boy Blues
Dot Rice & Frankie Black
- Texas Stomp
Son Bonds
- Trouble Trouble Blues
Walter Coleman
- I'm Going To Cincinnati
- Smack That Thing
Blind Teddy Darby
- The Girl I Left Behind


Bumble Bee Slim
- Bleeding Heart Blues
Cow Cow Davenport
- I Ain't No Iceman
- Railroad Blues
Big Boy Teddy Edwards
- W-P-A Blues
Cow Cow Davenport
- Louisiana
Blind Boy Fuller
- Stingy Mama
- Working Man Blues
Gene Gilmore
- Natchez Fire



record 2:
Bill Gaither
- Pains In My Heart
- In The Wee Wee Hours
Jimmie Gordon
- Graveyard Blues
- Sweet Jelly Rollin'
The Harlem Hamfats
- Baby Don't You Tear My Clothes
- Let Me Feel It
Honey Hill
- Boogie Woogie
- Set 'Em

Springback James
- Stingaree Mama Blues
- Rusty Can Blues
Lonnie Johnson
- Flood Water Blues
- Blue Ghost Blues
Signifying Mary Johnson
- Peepin' At The Risin' Sun
- Black Gal Blues
Charlie McCoy
- Candy Man Blues
- Baltimore Blues



record 3:
Joe McCoy
- I Got To Have A Little More
- Please Baby
Robert Lee McCoy
- Gonna Keep It For Me Daddy
- Mama Don't Allow Me To Stay Out All Night Long
Charlie McFadden
- People People
Leothus "Lee" Green
- 44 Blues
Barrel House Buck McFarland
- Mercy Mercy Blues
- Weeping Willow Blues

Arthur McKay
- Central Limited Blues
- She Squeezed My Lemon
Blind Willie McTell
- Let Me Play With Your Yo-Yo
- Ticket Agent Blues
Alice Moore
- Telephone Blues
- Don't Deny Me Baby
Shorty Bob Parker
- The Death Of Slim Green
- So Cold In China



record 4:
Johnny Temple
- Louise Louise Blues
Black Ace
- Whiskey And Woman
Curley Weaver
- Oh Lawdy Mama
Peetie Wheatstraw
- These Times
Georgia White
- Daddy Let Me Lay It On You
- Dead Man's Blues
Oscar Woods
- Evil Hearted Woman Blues
- Don't Sell It-Don't Give It Away

Charlie Pickett
- Crazy 'Bout My Black Gal
- Trembling Blues
Red Nelson
- Detroit Special
- Streamline Train
Sloke And Ike
- Slocum Blues
- Chocolate Candy Blues
Johnnie Strauss
- Hard Working Woman
Roosevelt Sykes
- Soft And Mellow


coll. by Robert "Bob" Hertwig (TELDEC product manager)

4 LP set
notes (in German and English) by Robert Hertwig





MCA Coral 6.30106 (Germany 1975)

= MCA Coral 82.024 / RCOX 7526/1-4 (Germany 1975)

(=) Bob CD 203 (Germany 2006)

211976Bumble Bee Slim 1931-1937
Everybody's Fishing

- Everybody's Fishing
- Chain Gang Bound
- Baby So Long
- Some Things Will Be Breaking My Way
- Back In Jail Again
- New Policy Dream Blues
- New Big 80 Blues
- Hard Rocks In My Bed

- No More Biscuit Rolling Here
- 12 O'Clock Southern Train
- Just Yesterday
- This Old Life I'm Living
- Greasy Greens
- You Got To Live And Let Live
- Wet Clothes Blues
- Dead And Gone Mother


Magpie PY 1801

Magpie Records discography

221976Songs Of Complaint And Protest
Folk Music In America Vol. 7

Mattie, Marthie, and Minnie
- You Can't Live With ‘Em (And You Can't Live Without ‘Em)
Wilmoth Houdini
- Don't Do That To Me
Dutch Coleman
- Granny Get Your Hair Cut
John McGhee
- Well World Doggone

Bumble Bee Slim
- Hard Rocks In My Bed
Jerry McCain And His Upstarts
- My Next Door Neighbour
Ewgen Zukowsky
- Wujko politykan

David McCarn
- Poor Man, Rich Man
Gabriel Brown
- I'm Gonna Take It Easy
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- Kill That Nigger Dead
J.B. Lenoir
- Mississippi Road
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
- Over The Hills To The Poorhouse
Bessie Tucker
- Key To The Bushes Blues
Walter Roland
- Collector Man Blues
The Tiger
- Workers' Appeal

collection ed. by Richard K. Spottswood for The Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture


Library of Congress LBC-7

231976Folk Music In America Vol. 11
Songs Of Humor And Hilarity


Maddox Bros. And Rose
- I'll Make Sweet Love To You
Ted Johnson And His Scandinavian Orchestra
- Nikolina
The Ozarkers
- The Arkansas Hotel
Sylvester Weaver
- Me And My Tapeworm
Smith, Fairley, Thomas and Smith
- Old Cold 'Tater
Atilla and The Lion
- Mamaguille
W. A. Lindsey And Alvin Conder
- I Surely Am Living A Ragtime Life
Claude Boone
- Down Where The Watermelons Grow
"Beans" Hambone-El Morrow
- "Beans"


Amos Easton (Bumble Bee Slim)
- Everybody's Fishin'
The Clovers
- Derbytown
Bruno Rudzinski
- Przyszedl Chlop Do Karczmy
Gail Gardner
- The Moonshine Steer
New Arkansas Travelers
- Handy Man
Harilaos
- To Sapounakj
Mrs. Juze Dereskeviciene
- Fordukas
Jimmie Strothers
- Tennessee Dog
Fiddlin' John Carson
- Ain't No Bugs On Me


notes by Dick Spottswood

Library of Congress
LBC-11

241978Arnett Nelson The Rhythm Kings 1936-1938
When The Music Sounds Good

Washboard Rhythm Kings
- Please Come Down To My House
- Brown Skin Mama
- Street-Walkin' Blues
- Arlena

Bumble Bee Slim
- When The Music Sounds Good
Tampa Red
- Maybe It's Someone Elese You Love
Leonard Scott
- You Done Tore Your Playhouse Down
- She's Got Something Good

Arnett Nelson
- Oh! Red
Victoria Spivey
- Any-Kind-A-Man
- I Ain't Gonna Let You See My Santa Claus
Casey Bill Weldon
- Christmas Time Blues
Washboard Sam
- You Got To Take It
Red Nelson
- Don't Tear My Clothes No. 3
Lorraine Walton
- Waiting Blues
Washboard Sam
- Down On The Old Village Store


New Orleans clarinettist Nelson as accompanist

notes by Ernest Virgo

Magpie PY 1803

25197?New Deal Blues

Joe McCoy
- Meat Cutter Blues
One Arm Slim
- Howling Man Blues
Black Ace
- Whiskey And Women
Lee Green
- Memphis Fives
Bo Carter
- Don't Do It No More
Peanut the Kidnapper
- Suicide Blues
Chatman Brothers
- If You Don't Want Me

Walter Davis
- Sweet Sixteen
Memphis Minnie
- Keep It To Yourself
Big Bill
- Dreamy Eyed Baby

Bumble Bee Slim
- You Can't Take It Baby
Pinetop
- Tell Her About Me
Sonny Scott
- Firewood Man
Scrapper Blackwell
- Alley Sally Blues


rec. 1933 - 39

notes by Don Kent
and Michael Stewart

Mamlish S-3801

Mamlish Records discography

261980The Accompanist 1933-1941
'play it for me' (The Piano Blues Vol. 14)

Bumble Bee Slim
- New Bricks In My Pillow
- New Orleans Stop Time
- Any Time A Night
- Rough Treatment
- When Somebody Loses
Johnson & Trowbridge
- Steady Grindin'
Lil Johnson
- I Lost My Baby
- Keep On Knocking

Carl Rafferty
- Dresser With The Drawers
Bill Gaither
- Georgia Woman Stomp
Charlie McFadden
- Times Are So Tight
Johnny Temple
- What Is That She Got
Mary Johnson
- Deceitful Woman
Blind Squire Turner
- Pitty Pat
Trowbridge
- Bad Luck Blues
Kansas City Kitty
- Christmas Mornin'

foreword by Francis Smith
notes by Bob Hall and Richard Noblett

Magpie PY 4414

Magpie Records discography

271981Francis 'Scrapper' Blackwell: Blues That Make Me Cry

- Mr. Scrapper's Blues
- Down And Out Blues
- Non-Skid Tread
- Be-Da-Da-Bum
- Mean Baby Blues
- Sneaking Blues
- Morning Mail Blues
- Blues That Make Me Cry

- D Blues
- A Blues
- My Old Pal Blues
- Bad Liquor Blues

- The Death Of Leroy Carr
- Smoky Mountain Blues
- Wayback Blues
- Sail On sail On Blues


notes by Guido van Rijn & Hans Vergeer

Agram AB 2008 (NL 1981)

281983Boogie Blues
Women Sing & Play Boogie Woogie

Lil Armstrong - Original Boogie
Georgia White - Territory Blues
Helen Humes - Be Ba Ba Le Ba Boogie
Lucille Bogan - Alley Boogie
Hazel Scott - Brown Bee Boogie
Merline Johnson - Want To Woogie Some More
Sweet Georgia Brown - The Low Down Lonely Blues
Gladys Bentley - Before Midnight

Dorothy Donegan - Piano Boogie
Christine Chatman - The Boogie Woogie Girl
Ella Fitzgerald - Cow Cow Boogie
Memphis Minnie - Shout The Boogie
Hadda Brooks - Bully Wully Boogie

Myrtle Jenkins & Bumble Bee Slim - When Somebody Loses
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Strange Things Happening Every Day
Mary Lou Williams - Boogie Misterioso



Rosetta 1309 (US 1983)

Rosetta Records discography

291986Bumble Bee Slim (Amos Easton)   1931-1937

- No Woman No Nickel
- Squalling Panther Blues
- Bye Bye Baby Blues
- Deep Bass Boogie
- Climbing On Top Of The Hill
- Right From Wrong
- Can't You Trust Me No More?
- I Done Lost My Baby
- Steady Roll Mama Blues

- How Long How Long Blues
- You Don't Mean Me No Good
- Must I Keep On Crying
- Letter Writing
- Slave Man Blues
- Rising River Blues
- 12 O'Clock Midnight
- You Brought Me Back
- Going Back To Florida


Document DLP 506 (Austria 1986)


= Story of the Blues 3501-2 (Austria 1991)

Document Records discography

301988Bumble Bee Slim (Amos Easton)   1934-1937

LP track sequence:
- Burned Down Mill (tk A)
- You Can't Take It, Baby
- Bleeding Heart Blues
- Policy Dream Blues
- Hey Lawdy Mama
- When The Sun Goes Down
- Cold Blooded Murder - No. 2
- When Somebody Loses (tk 2)
- Ramblin' With That Woman

- New Orleans Stop Time (tk 2)
- When The Music Sounds Good (tk 2)
- New Bricks In My Pillow
- Any Time At Night
- Green Country Gal
- My Big Moments (tk 1)
- Big Six
- Rough Treatment
- I'm Having So Much Trouble

CD track sequence:
- Burned Down Mill
- You Can't Take It Baby
- Bleeding Heart Blues
- Policy Dream Blues
- Right From Wrong
- Hey Lawdy Mama
- Steady Roll Mama Blues
- When The Sun Goes Down
- Cold Blooded Murder (II)
- How Long How Long Blues
- When Somebody Loses
- Ramblin' With That Woman
- New Orleans Stop Time
- When The Music Sounds Good
- New Bricks In My Pillow
- Any Time At Night
- Slave Man Blues
- Green Country Gal
- My Big Moments
- Big Six
- Rough Treatment
- I'm Having So Much Trouble
- Going Back To Florida


Best of Blues BOB 9 (Austria 1988)


(=) Best of Blues CD 6 (Austria 2004) "Best of Blues Vol. 6"

311988OJL's GA - The Black Country Music Of Georgia 1927-36

Tampa Red
- Down In Spirit Blues
Buddy Moss
- Jealous Hearted Man
Lillie Mae
- Wise Like That
Sam Montgomery
- King Of Knaves No. 2
Sylvester Weaver
- Rock Pile Blues

Bumble Bee Slim
- Hey Lawdy Mama
Charlie Lincoln
- Ugly Papa

Rufus & Ben Quilian
- Keep It Clean
Eddie Head & Family
- Lord, I'm The True Vine
Kokomo Arnold
- Model "T" Woman Blues
Georgia Tom
- Hear Me Beefing At You
Sara Martin
- Useless Blues
Barbecue Bob
- Crooked Woman Blues
Luther Magby
- Jesus Is Getting Ready For The Great Day
Rev. Gates
- David & Uriah


notes by Don Kent

Origin OJL-25

OJL Records discography

321989Roots Of The Postwar Blues

- New Little Pretty Mama (Tee-Ninecy Mama) - Leroy's Buddy
- Crawling King Snake - Tony Hollins
- If You See My Rooster (Please Run Him Home) - Memphis Minnie
- A Hard Pill To Swallow - Son Bond
- Beer Drinking Woman - Memphis Slim
- Sweet Man Blues - Little Buddy Doyle
- West Coast Blues - Walter Davis
- Mattie Mae Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson
- Tired Of Your Low Down Ways - Leroy Carr
- Piggly Wiggly - Charlie McFadden
- My Little Machine - Sonny Boy Williamson
- First Time I Met You - Little Brother Montgomery
- Black Angel Blues - Bessie Jackson
- Renewed Love Blues - Little Buddy Doyle

- Rough Treatment - Bumble Bee Slim
- She Fooled Me - Washboard Sam

notes by Tom Carter [= Mike Rowe]

Swingtime/Bluetime BT 2015 ("Denmark" 1989)

331990Bumble Bee Slim (Amos Easton) Vol. 1   (1932-1934)

- M And O Blues - Part 1
- M And O Blues - Part 2
- The New B & O Blues
- Runnin' Drunk Blues
- East St.Louis Blues
- Busy Devil
- Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On
- Step Child
- Sad And Lonesome

- Cruel Hearted Woman Blues - Part 1
- Cruel Hearted Woman Blues - Part 2
- The Longest Day You Live - Part 1
- The Longest Day You Live - Part 2
- Blue Blues
- Rough Road Blues
- Ain't It A Crying Shame
- Bad Gal
- I Tried Everything I Could


RST Blues Documents BD-2085 (Austria 1990)

341991Bumble Bee Slim (Amos Easton) Vol. 2   (1934-1935)

- Bad Gal
- Aching Pain Blues
- Mean Mistreatin' Woman
- Worrisome Woman Blues
- Muddy Water Blues
- I Tried Everything I Could
- My Troubles
- Blues Before Daylight
- My Black Gal Blues No.1
- My Black Gal Blues No.2

- Let's Pitch A Boogie Woogie
- Tired Of Your Low Down Nasty Ways
- Good Evening Blues
- Farewell Mistreater Blues
- B And O Line Blues
- Good Woman Blues
- Some Old Rainy Day
- Tell Me What It's All About
- You Gotta Change Your Way
- Big 80 Blues


RST Blues Documents BD-2108 (Austria 1991)

34a1991Legends Of The Blues - Volume Two

- Henry Ford Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
- Ninety-Eight Degree Blues - Alger "Texas" Alexander
- Trinity River Blues - T-Bone Walker
- She Shook Her Gin - Barbecue Bob
- Turpentine Blues - Tampa Red
- No No Blues - Curley Weaver
- Bo-Easy Blues - Bessie Jackson
- School Boy Blues - Walter Roland

- Cold Blooded Murder No. 2 - Bumble Bee Slim
- My Baby Won't Pay Me No Mind - Buddy Moss
- Old Jim Canan's - Robert Wilkins
- Take It Easy Greasy - Lil Johnson
- Two Timin' Woman - Casey Bill Weldon
- Down Hill Pull - Victoria Spivey
- Down In The Slums - Curtis Jones
- Separation Blues - Merline Johnson
- Soon This Morning No. 2 - Charlie Spand
- Is That A Monkey You Got? - Jazz Gillum
- Hurry Down Sunshine - Champion Jack Dupree
- Goodbye Now Brownie - Brownie McGhee


prod. by Lawrence Cohn

booklet notes by Pete Welding

Columbia CD CK-/CT-47467 (US 1991) (Roots n' Blues series)

 
= Columbia/Legacy COL 468770 2 (US / Australia 1991) (Roots n' Blues series)


= SPV GmbH SPV 42722 CD (Germany 2008) (Roots n' Blues series)

20 CD box set, CD 6
     

(=) Sony Music 88875043322 (US 2014) (Roots n' Blues series)

34b1992Roots N' Blues - The Retrospective   (1925-1950)

disc 1:
Charlie Poole with The North Carolina Ramblers - Whitehouse Blues
Aiken County String Band - High Sheriff
Frank Hutchison - The Last Scene Of The Titanic
Hersal Thomas - Suitcase Blues
Reverend J.M. Gates - Death's Black Train Is Coming
Dora Carr - Cow-Cow Blues
Vance's Tennessee Breakdowners - Washington County Fox Chase
Fiddlin' John Carson - I'm Going To Take The Train To Charlotte
Ernest V. Stoneman's Trio - Untitled
Whistler And His Jug Band - Low Down Blues
Washington Phillips - Paul & Silas In Jail
Barbecue Bob - Blind Pig Blues
Austin & Lee Allen - Chattanooga Blues
Sherman Tedder - Untitled
Dallas String Band with Coley Jones - Hokum Blues
Gladys Bentley - Worried Blues
Elizabeth Johnson - Empty Bed Blues Part 1
Elizabeth Johnson - Empty Bed Blues Part 2
South Georgia Highballers - Blue Grass Twist
Charlie Bowman And His Brothers - Moonshiner And His Money
Clarence Green - Johnson City Blues
Reverend Johnny Blakey assisted by The Sanctified Singers - Warming By The Devil's Fire
Papa Too Sweet & Harry Jones - (Honey) It's Tight Like That
Mississippi John Hurt - Big Leg Blues
Daniels-Deason Sacred Harp Singers - Hallelujah


disc 2:
Hershel Brown and His Happy Five - Liberty
Mamie Smith - My Sportin' Man
Blues Birdhead - Mean Low Blues
Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - C.C. & O. Blues
The Okeh Atlanta Sacred Harp Singers - Ortonville
Slim Doucet - Dear Black Eyes (Chere Yeux Noirs)
Roosevelt Sykes - Roosevelt Blues
The Hokum Boys - Gin Mill Blues
Joe Falcon acc. by Clemo Breaux & Ophy Breaux - Osson
W.T. Narmour & S.W. Smith - Sweet Milk And Peaches (Breakdown)
Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers With Riley Puckett & Clayton McMichen - Soldier's Joy
Whistlin' Alex Moore - They May Not Be My Toes
Mississippi Sheiks - The Jazz Fiddler
Lonnie Johnson - I Have To Do My Time
Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton - Lonesome Frisco Line
Roy Harvey & Leonard Copeland - Back To The Blue Ridge
Buster Carter & Preston Young - Darn Good Girl
Bo Carter - West Jackson Blues
Lonnie Johnson & Violet Green - You Had Too Much
Silver Leaf Quartet - Oh! Glory Glory
Freeny's Barn Dance Band - Don't You Remember The Time
Pelican Wildcats - Walkin' Georgia Rose
Peetie Wheatstraw - Police Station Blues
Tindley Quaker City Gospel Singers - Hallelujah Side
Will Batts - Highway # 61 Blues


disc 3:
W. Lee O'Daniel & Lightcrust Doughboys - Doughboys Theme Song # 1
W. Lee O'Daniel And His Hillbilly Boys - Ida (Sweet As Apple Cider)
W. Lee O'Daniel & Lightcrust Doughboys - Doughboys Theme Song # 2
Blind Willie (McTell) - Bell Street Lightnin'   @ youtube
Charlie Patton - Jersey Bull Blues   @ youtube
Walter Roland - Every Morning Blues
Blue Ridge Ramblers - D Blues
Breaux Freres - La Valse Des Yeux Bleus
Bessie Jackson - Skin Game Blues
Leroy Carr with Scrapper Blackwell - Good Woman Blues   @ youtube
Pinewood Tom (Josh White) - Sissy Man   @ youtube
The Rhythm Wreckers - Blue Yodel # 2 (My Lovin' Gal Lucille)
The Anglin Twins - Just Inside The Pearly Gates

Bumble Bee Slim - Hard Rocks In My Bed   @ youtube
The Two Charlies - Tired Feelin' Blues
Eldon Baker And His Brown County Revelers - One Eyed Sam
A'nt Idy Harper And The Coon Creek Girls - Poor Naomi Wise
Kid Prince Moore - South Bound Blues
Big Bill Broonzy - C & A Blues
George Curry - My Last Five Dollars
The Nite Owls - Memphis Blues
The Alley Boys Of Abbeville - Pourquoi tu m'aime pas
Reverend Benny Campbell - Have Mercy On Me
Albert Ammons - Shout For Joy
Jack Kelly - Flower Blues
Bob Clifford - Onion Eating Mama
Callahan Bros. - Brown's Ferry Blues # 2
Little Buddy Doyle - Slick Capers Blues
Bill McKinley (Jazz Gillum) - Poor Boy Blues


disc 4:
Frank Edwards - We Got To Get Together
Sweet Violet Boys - You Got To See Mama Every Night (Or You Can't See Mama At All)
The Humbard Family - I'll Fly Away
Tony Hollins - Cross Cut Saw Blues
Peter Cleighton (Clayton) - Black Snake Blues
Black Cats And The Kitten - Step It Up And Go
Bob And Randall Atcher - Papa's Going Crazy, Mama's Going Mad
Adolf Hofner And His San Antonians - Cotton-Eyed Joe
Poor Boy Burke - Old Vets Blues
Little Son Joe - Black Rat Swing
Big Maceo Merriweather - Maceo Special
The Light Crust Doughboys with J.B. Brinkley - It's Funny What Love Will Make You Do
Hank Penny And His Radio Cowboys - Army Blues
James "Beal Street" Clark - Who But You
Homer Harris - Tomorrow May Be Too Late
McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) - Burying Ground Blues
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys - Goodbye Old Pal
Gene Autry - Dixie Cannonball
Bill Landford & The Landfordaires - Run On For A Long Time
(Big) Joe Williams - Baby, Please Don't Go
Sister Myrtle Fields acc. by The Austin McCoy Trio - I'm Toiling
Willie "Boodle It" Right - Two By Four Blues
Bailes Bros. - You Can't Go Halfway (And Get In)
Molly O'Day & The Cumberland Mountain Folks - Heaven's Radio
Rosetta Howard - Plow Hand Blues
Memphis Seven - Grunt Meat Blues
Deep South Boys - Until I Found The Lord
Brother Porter & Brother Cook - I Know My Jesus Won't Deny Me


compiled by Lawrence Cohn

4 disc set
notes by Lawrence Cohn and Pete Welding

Columbia Legacy 47911/47912-15 (US 1992)

20 CD box set
     

(=) Sony Music 88875043322 (US 2014)

351994Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 1   (1931-1934)
Complete Recorded Work in Chronological Order

- Rough Rugged Road Blues
- No Woman No Nickel
- Stumbling Block Blues
- Chain Gang Bound
- Yo Yo String Blues
- Honey Bee Blues
- Greasy Greens
- I'm Waitin' On You
- B And O Blues
- Queen Bee Blues
- M And O Blues - Part I
- M And O Blues - Part II
- Someday Things Will Be Breaking My Way
- Baby So Long
- Lost Confidence Blues
- The New B & O Blues
- Wrecked Life Blues
- Runnin' Drunk Blues
- East St. Louis Blues
- Busy Devil
- Squalling Panther Blues
- Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On
- Dead And Gone Mother

notes by Jerry Zolten

Document DOCD-5261 (Austria 1994)

361994Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 2   (1934)
Complete Recorded Work in Chronological Order

- Step Child
- Sad And Lonesome
- Bye Bye Baby Blues
- Cruel Hearted Woman Blues - Part 1
- Cruel Hearted Woman Blues - Part 2
- The Longest Day You Live - Part 1
- The Longest Day You Live - Part 2
- Deep Bass Boogie
- Blue Blues
- Rough Road Blues
- New Mean Mistreater Blues
- Climbing On Top Of The Hill
- Ain't It A Crying Shame
- Bad Gal (tk A)
- Bad Gal (tk B)
- I Tried Everything I Could
- Sail On Little Girl No. 2
- Aching Pain Blues
- Cold-blooded Murder
- Burned Down Mill (tk A)
- Burned Down Mill (tk B)
- Mean Mistreatin' Woman
- Worrisome Woman Blues
- Mean Bad Man
- Muddy Water Blues

notes by Jerry Zolten

Document DOCD-5262 (Austria 1994)

371994Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 3   (1934-1935)
Complete Recorded Work in Chronological Order

- I Tried Everything I Could
- My Troubles
- Blues Before Daylight
- Running Bad Luck Blues
- You Can't Take It Baby
- Way Down In Georgia
- My Black Gal Blues No. 1
- My Black Gal Blues No. 2
- Bleeding Heart Blues
- Let's Pitch A Boogie Woogie
- Tired Of Your Low Down Nasty Ways
- Good Evening Blues
- Farewell Mistreater Blues
- B And O Line Blues
- Good Woman Blues
- Some Old Rainy Day
- There You Stand
- Tell Me What It's All About
- You Gotta Change Your Way
- Milk Cow Blues
- Everybody's Fishing
- Guilty Woman Blues
- Big 80 Blues
- Bricks In My Pillow

notes by Jerry Zolten

Document DOCD-5263 (Austria 1994)

381994Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 4   (1935)
Complete Recorded Work in Chronological Order

- Policy Dream Blues
- If The Blues Was Whiskey
- Right From Wrong
- Feather Bed Blues
- What's Wrong?
- Mean Bloody Murder Blues
- Walking And Drifting Blues
- When The Sun Goes Down
- Can't You Trust Me No More?
- Where Was You Last Night?
- I Done Lost My Baby
- I'm Needing Someone
- The Death Of Leroy Carr
- Smoky Mountain Blues
- Sail On Sail On Blues
- Hey Lawdy Mama
- I Keep On Drinking - Part 1
- I Keep On Drinking - Part 2
- Sometimes Blues
- Steady Roll Mama Blues
- Fattenin' Frogs For Snakes
- Lemon Squeezing Blues
- When The Sun Goes Down
- Sail On Little Girl - No. 3
- Cold Blooded Murder - No. 2

notes by Jerry Zolten

Document DOCD-5264 (Austria 1994)

391994Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 5   (1935-1936)
Complete Recorded Work in Chronological Order

- How Long How Long Blues
- You Don't Mean Me No Good
- New B & O Blues
- Prison Bound Blues
- My Old Pal Blues
- Last Respects
- Sloppy Drunk Blues
- D.B.A. Blues
- I'll Take You Back
- Sick And Tired Of Singing The Blues
- New When The Sun Goes Down
- Happy Life Blues
- When Somebody Loses
- Ramblin' With That Woman
- This Old Life I'm Living
- Dumb Tricks Blues (tk 1)
- Dumb Tricks Blues (tk 2)
- New Orleans Stop Time
- You Got To Live And Let Live
- Hard Rocks In My Bed
- Who's Been Here Today?
- I Done Caught My Death Of Cold
- No More Biscuit Rolling Here (tk 1)
- No More Biscuit Rolling Here (tk 2)

notes by Jerry Zolten

Document DOCD-5265 (Austria 1994)

401994Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 6   (1936)
Complete Recorded Work in Chronological Order

- Meet Me In The Bottom (Hey Lawdy Mama)
- No Good Woman (Fighting Blues)
- When The Music Sounds Good (tk 2)
- When I Get My Money (I Mean That Bonus)
- New Bricks In My Pillow
- New Big 80 Blues
- New Policy Dream Blues
- Back In Jail Again
- Wet Clothes Blues
- Any Time A Night
- Fast Life Blues
- Rock Hearted Woman
- Cry On! Cry On!
- Ease Me Down
- Hard Driving Man
- Must I Keep On Crying
- Funny Feelin'
- Lady Friend (Get Yourself A Job)
- Letter Writing
- Upside Down (Since My Baby Get Away)
- New How Long How Long
- Honest Confession
- Christmas And No Santa Claus
- Buggie Bed

notes by Jerry Zolten

Document DOCD-5266 (Austria 1994)

411994Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 7   (1936)
Complete Recorded Work in Chronological Order

- I'se Gonna Break 'em Down
- Blue Expression Blues
- Head Whippin' Party
- Santa Claus Bring Me A New Woman
- I'm Gonna Tear Your Kingdom Down
- Every Goodbye Ain't Gone
- True Blue
- Please Baby
- Green Country Gal
- If I Could Speak My Mind
- The Jive Of Mine
- Past And Gone
- Hobo Jungle Blues
- Slave Man Blues
- My Big Moments
- I'll Meet You In The Bottom
- Meet Me At The Landing
- Big Six
- Just Yesterday
- Rough Treatment
- Pains In My Body (tk 2)
- I'm Having So Much Trouble
- Rising River Blues (tk 1)

notes by Jerry Zolten

Document DOCD-5267 (Austria 1994)

421994Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 8   (1937-1951)
Complete Recorded Work in Chronological Order

- Rising River Blues (tk 2)
- If I Make It Over
- She Never (tk 1)
- She Never (tk 2)
- 12 O'clock Southern Train
- 12 O'clock Midnight
- You Sure Look Good To Me
- Woman For Every Man (tk 1)
- Woman For Every Man (tk 2)
- Bumble Bee's New Muddy Water
- When Your Deal Goes Down
- Goodbye (I'll Try To Forget) (tk 1)
- Goodbye (I'll Try To Forget) (tk 2)
- Uncertain Blues (tk 1)
- You've Got To Do As I Bid You
- You Brought Me Here (tk 1)
- Going Back To Florida (tk 1)
- Good Old Easy Streets
- Lonesome Trail Blues
- Strange Angel
- Lonesome Old Feeling
- Ida Red

notes by Jerry Zolten

Document DOCD-5268 (Austria 1994)

42a1996Booze & The Blues

State Street Swingers - You Drink Too Much (3:13)
Charley Jordan - Cherry Wine Woman (2:50)
Memphis Minnie - Drunken Barrel House Blues (2:49)
Mississippi Sheiks - Bootlegger's Blues (3:31)
Barbecue Bob as Robert Hicks - Me And My Whiskey (3:06)
Kid Prince Moore - Bug Juice Blues (2:38)
Charlie Spand - Rock And Rye (2:36)
Charlie Burse & Memphis Jug Band - Rukus Juice And Chittlin' (2:51)
Merline Johnson as The Yas Yas Girl - Bad Whiskey Blues (2:35)

Amos Easton as Bumble Bee Slim - I Keep On Drinking (To Drive My Blues Away) - Part 1 (3:04)
Amos Easton as Bumble Bee Slim - I Keep On Drinking (To Drive My Blues Away) - Part 2 (3:09)
Little Big Gaither - Moonshine By The Keg (2:44)
Lucille Bogan as Bessie Jackson - Drinking Blues (2:54)
Peetie Wheatstraw - More Good Whiskey Blues (2:59)
Joshua White as Pinewood Tom - Pigmeat And Whiskey Blues (3:01)
Casey Bill Weldon - Give Me Another Shot (2:42)
Lewis Black - Corn Liquor Blues (2:55)
Sloppy Henry - Canned Heat Blues (2:53)
The Big Three Trio & Rosetta Howard - When I Been Drinking (3:15)
Big Bill Broonzy - When I Been Drinking (2:50)
Jack Newman - Blackberry Wine (2:46)
Rev. W.M. Mosley - Drinking Shine (3:04)

SPV GmbH SPV 91 732 CD bonus tracks:
Leadbelly - Honey, I'm All Out And Down (3:13)
Robert Johnson - Drunken Hearted Man (2:24)


Roots n' Blues series prod. by Lawrence Cohn

notes by Mark A. Humphrey

Columbia/Legacy CK 67002 (US 1996) (Roots n' Blues series)

notes by Mark A. Humphrey

Columbia/Legacy COL 483586 2 (EU 1996) (Roots n' Blues series)

notes by Neil Slaven

= SPV GmbH SPV 91 732 CD (Germany 2008) (Roots n' Blues series)

20 CD box set, CD 14
notes by Dean Rudland
     

(=) Sony Music 88875043322 (US 2014) (Roots n' Blues series)

431997Bumble Bee Slim Vol. 9   (1934-1951)
Unissued test pressings & alternate takes

- Good Morning (tk A)
- Good Morning (tk B)
- Muddy Water (tk A)
- Muddy Water (tk B)
- Baby Fare You Well (tk A)
- Baby Fare You Well (tk B)
- Who's Been Here Today?
- I'm Going To Live My Life Alone (tk 1)
- I'm Going To Live My Life Alone (tk 2)
- One Lonesome Day (tk 1)
- One Lonesome Day (tk 2)
- Pains In My Body (tk 1)
- It Ain't No Trouble (tk 1)
- It Ain't No Trouble (tk 2)
- Uncertain Blues (tk 2)
- Cross County (tk 1)
- Cross County (tk 2)
- You Brought Me Here (tk 2)
- Going Back To Florida (tk 2)

notes by Jerry Zolten

Document DOCD-5570

441997Jumpin' & Jivin'

- Something's Goin' On In My Room - Daddy Cleanhead
- Tell It Like It Is - Roy Milton
- Lucy Brown - Duke Henderson
- Mad Lad Returns - Leo Parker
- Drink Up -- Light Up - Nelson Alexander Trio
- Baby, Don't Do That To Me - Roy Milton

- Sometimes - Amos Easton [Specialty unissued]
- When the Rooster Crows (aka I Want My Baby) - Joe Turner
- Hep Cat Boogie - Jimmy Liggins
- Baby, You Don't Know - Roy Milton
- Red Top - King Pleasure

- Ida Red - Amos Easton [Fidelity unissued]
- Cool Goofin' - Rudy Ferguson
- Wine Woogie - Marvin Phillips
- Twisted - Annie Ross

- Tiny's Boogie - Amos Easton [Fidelity unissued]
- If You Don't Know - Roy Milton
- I Must Have Been An Ugly Baby - King Perry
- Stop Talkin',
Walkin' - Eddie Jefferson
- Gonna Leave You Baby - Roy Milton
- Squattin' - Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
- Hole In The Wall - Floyd Dixon
- Got A Penny, Benny? - Joe Carroll
- Make Me Know It - Roy Milton
- Moody's Mood For Love (aka I'm In The Mood for Love) - King Pleasure



Specialty CD 7065 (US)

= Ace CDCHD 654 (UK)

45199?Scrapper Blackwell Vol. 2   1934-1958

- Morning Mail Blues
- Blues That Make Me Cry
- Mean Mistreater Mama (Joshua White, voc)
- She's Alright With Me (Joshua White, voc)
- D Blues
- A Blues
- My Old Pal Blues (Dedicated To The Memory Of Leroy Carr)
- Bad Liquor Blues
- Alley Sally Blues
- No Good Woman Blues

- The Death Of Leroy Carr (Bumble Bee Slim, voc)
- Smoky Mountain Blues (Bumble Bee Slim, voc)
- Motherless Boy Blues
- Wayback Blues
- Texas Stomp

- Sail On Sail On Blues (Bumble Bee Slim, voc)
- Hey Lawdy Mama (Bumble Bee Slim, voc)
- Little Girl Blues
- Life Of A Millionaire
- Little Boy Blue

- Blues


Document BDCD-6030

461998Bumble Bee Slim: The Blues: From Georgia To Chicago   1931-1937

disc 1:
- Chain Gang Bound
- Greasy Greens
- B and O Blues
- Dead And Gone Mother
- Policy Dream Blues
- If The Blues Was Whiskey
- I'm Needing Someone
- Smoky Mountain Blues
- Sail On Sail On Blues
- Fattening Frogs For Sankes
- My Old Pal Blues
- Sloppy Drunk Blues
- When Somebody Loses
- This Old Life I'm Living
- Dumb Tricks Blues
- You Got To Live And Let Live
- I Done Caught My Death Of Cold

disc 2:
- No More Biscuits Rolling Here
- Meet Me In The Bottom
- When The Music Sounds Good
- New Police Dream Blues
- Any Time At Night
- I'se Gonna Break 'em Down
- Please Baby
- The Jive Of Mine
- Slave Man Blues
- My Big Moments
- Meet Me At The Landing
- Rough Treatment
- Rising River Blues
- She Never
- 12 O'clock Southern Train
- You Sure Look Good To Me
- Woman For Every Man
- Going Back To Florida

2 CD set

Fremeaux & Ass. FA 261

471999Broke, 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)

482000Bumble Bee Slim: Baby So Long

- Chain Gang Bound
- No Woman No Nickel
- Greasy Greens
- M&o Blues, Pt. 1
- M&o Blues, Pt. 2
- Baby So Long
- Cruel Hearted Woman Blues, Pt. 1
- Cruel Hearted Woman Blues, Pt. 2
- Longest Day You Live, Pt. 1
- Longest Day You Live, Pt. 2
- Squalling Panther Blues
- Dead And Gone Mother
- I Done Lost My Baby
- You Don't Mean Me No Good
- Everybody's Fishing
- Back In Jail Again
- New Policy Dream Blues
- Must I Keep On Crying
- Slave Man Blues
- 12 O'clock Midnight


ABM ABMMCD 1223 (UK 2000)

notes by Neil Slaven

= Acrobat ACRCD 138 (UK 2002)

492002The Essential Bumble Bee Slim

disc 1:
- Bricks in My Pillow
- Policy Dream Blues
- Everybody's Fishing
- Chain Gang Bound
- Someday Things Will Be Breaking My Way
- Tell What It's All About
- D.B.A. Blues
- Can't You Trust Me No More
- New B & O Blues
- Rambling With That Woman
- New Orleans Stop Time
- I Done Caught My Death of Cold
- Let's Pitch a Boogie Woogie
- Back in Jail Again
- When the Music Sounds Good
- Steady Roll Mama Blues
- Sometimes
- Tiny's Boogie

disc 2:
- Sloppy Drunk Blues
- Bleeding Heart Blues
- Bad Girl
- No Woman No Nickel
- Baby So Long
- Deep Bass Boogie
- Squalling Panther Blues
- Dead and Gone Mother
- Hey Lawdy Mama
- Mean Mistreatin' Woman
- You Can't Take It Baby
- When Somebody Loses
- No Good Woman
- I'se Gonna Break 'Em Down
- This Old Life I'm Living
- New Big 80 Blues
- Wet Clothes Blues
- No More Biscuit Rolling Here

2 CD set
notes by Terry Heath

Document CBL 200031 (UK 2002)

49a2003Classic Blues Artwork from the 1920s Volume 1
2004 Calendar with free CD

CD and Calendar contents:
- He's In The Jailhouse Now - Blind Blake
- No Job Blues - Ramblin' Thomas
- 22-20 Blues - Skip James
- Rising High Water Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Down The Dirt Road Blues - Charley Patton
- Death Cell Blues - Blind Willie McTell

- Rough Rugged Road - Bumble Bee Slim
- Dry Spell Blues - Son House
- Bad Feeling Blues - Blind Blake
- Beale Town Bound - The Beale Street Sheiks
- Black Snake Dream - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Dead Drunk Blues - Ma Rainey


Supplementary CD tracks:
- I Want Someone To Love Me - Tommy Johnson
- Cold Woman Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds
- Times Has Done Got Hard - King Solomon Hill


restored by Richard Nevins


Blues Images Calendar Vol. 1 (rel. 2003, for 2004)


Blues Images CD BIM-101 (US 2003) accompanying Blues Images Calendar Vol. 1 (for 2004)

Blues Images calendar discography

502017American 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)



Will be completed and expanded with further details !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Jean-Claude Arnaudon: Dictionnaire du Blues.- Paris, France (Filipacci) 1977, p. 58
- Karel Bogaert: Blues Lexicon.- Antwerpen (Standaard) 1972, p. 61-62
- Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943, 4th ed. 1997, pp. 232-239
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, pp. 325-326
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver 2006, p. 75
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, pp. 337-338
- Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- New York 1987, pp. 167-168
- Mike Leadbitter & Neil Slaven: Blues Records 1943 to 1970 - A selective discography, Vol. one, A to K.- p. 387
- http://sundayblues.org/archives/tag/bumble-bee-slim
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Alan Balfour, Rob Ford, Joe Louis, Klaus Kilian, Paul Vernon, Peter Brown and Don Deering for additional info / scans

 

 

 

 

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