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B O   C A R T E R, 1940s [?]; source: Front cover of Yazoo 1014 ('Courtesy of Frederick Ramsey Jr.')
Bo Carter 1940s [?]
source: Front cover of Yazoo 1014
("Courtesy of Frederick Ramsey Jr.")
Bo Carter
Armenter 'Bo' Chatmon   a/k/a "Bo Carter"
b. January 18941) near Bolton, Hinds County, Mississippi
d. September 21, 19642) at Shelby County Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee

buried at Nitta Yuma African American Cemetary in Panther Burn, Sharkey County, Mississippi
discography

 

1) 1900 census (June 28) gives January 1894 for birth of Armentia, "daughter"
The 1917 draft card gives March 21, 1893
other sources (e.g. en.wikipedia.org) claim June 30, 1893 or even 1892

2) Tennessee Death Records Index as "Armetia Chatmon", age 71

 

see also Bo Carter/Chatmon as member of  The Mississippi Sheiks

B O   C A R T E R, July 1960; photographer: Paul Oliver
Bo Carter, July 1960   photographer: Paul Oliver

#year
of release
title / label / notes

10 inch 78 rpm
11928BO CHATMAN

- East Jackson Blues (NOR-762-B)   @ youtube
- Good Old Turnip Greens (NOR-756- )   @ youtube



unissued track from same session:
- The Yellow Coon Has No Race (NOR-755- )



rec. c. December 1928 in New Orleans, LA; (most likely) Bo Chatmon, voc, prob. violin; prob. Charlie McCoy, mand; prob. Walter Vinson, g


Brunswick 7048

21929CHARLIE McCOY and BO CHATMAN / JOHN OSCAR

CHARLIE McCOY and BO CHATMAN
- Corrine Corrina (NOR-761- ) #   @ youtube
JOHN OSCAR
- In The Gutter (TC-3359- ) *


# rec. c. December 1928 in New Orleans, LA; (most likely) Bo Chatmon, voc, prob. violin; Charlie McCoy, voc, prob. mand; prob. Walter Vinson, g
* rec. April 24, 1929 in Chicago, IL; John Oscar, voc, prob. p


Brunswick 7080

= Supertone S2212 (as by "Chatman And McCoy")

= Vocalion 02701

31930BO CARTER

- I'm An Old Bumble Bee (404720-B)   @ youtube
- I've Got The Whole World In My Hand (404722-A)   @ youtube

rec. December 15, 1930 at King Edward Hotel in Jackson, MS; Bo Carter, voc, g


OKeh 8852

3a1930CHARLIE MCCOY AND BO CARTER

- The Northern Starvers Are Returning Home (404787-B / 480031-A)   @ youtube
- Mississippi I'm Longing For You (404788-A / 4800 32-A)   @ Spotify

rec. December 19, 1930 at King Edward Hotel in Jackson, MS; Charlie McCoy, voc, prob. g; Bo Carter, voc, prob. violin


OKeh 8853

41930BO CARTER and WALTER JACOBS

- Times Is Tight Like That (404725-B)   @ youtube
- Same Thing The Cats Fight About (404724-B)   @ youtube

rec. December 15, 1930 at King Edward Hotel in Jackson, MS; Bo Carter, voc, g; Walter Vinson, voc


OKeh 8858

51930BO CARTER

- Mean Feeling Blues (404721-A)   @ youtube
- She's Your Cook But She Burns My Bread Sometimes (404723-B)   @ youtube

rec. December 15, 1930 at King Edward Hotel in Jackson, MS; Bo Carter, voc, g


OKeh 8870

61931BO CARTER

- Pin In Your Cushion (404924-A)   @ youtube
- I Love That Thing (404928-B)   @ youtube

rec. June 4, 1931 in New York City; Bo Carter, voc, g


OKeh 8887

71931BO CARTER

- Loveless Love (404927-B)   @ youtube
- Baby When You Marry (404931-A)   @ youtube

rec. June 4, 1931 in New York City; Bo Carter, voc, g


OKeh 8888

81931BO CARTER

- Howling Tom Cat Blues (404937-B) *   @ youtube
- Sorry Feeling Blues (404930-A) #   @ youtube

# rec. June 4, 1931 in New York City; Bo Carter, voc, g
* rec. June 5, 1931 in New York City; Bo Carter, voc, g


OKeh 8889

91931BO CARTER

- Banana In Your Fruit Basket (404923-B)   @ youtube
- Pussy Cat Blues (404925-B)   @ youtube

rec. June 5, 1931 in New York City; Bo Carter, voc, g


Columbia 14661-D


= Vocalion 03091

101931BO CARTER

- Ram Rod Daddy (404926-A) #   @ youtube
- Ants In My Pants (404938-B) *   @ youtube

# rec. June 4, 1931 in New York City; Bo Carter, voc, g
* rec. June 5, 1931 in New York City; Bo Carter, voc, g

 
OKeh 8897


= Vocalion 03259 (as by "BO" CARTER)

111931BO CARTER

- Backache Blues (404929-B ) #   @ youtube
- Blue Runner Blues (404939-A) *   @ youtube

# rec. June 4, 1931 in New York City; Bo Carter, voc, g
* rec. June 5, 1931 in New York City; Bo Carter, voc, g


OKeh 8906

121931BO CARTER

- My Pencil Won't Write No More (404922-A)   @ youtube
- Boot It (404932-A)   @ youtube



originally unissued track from same session:
- Twist It, Baby (404933-B) # [Yazoo LP 1034, Document DOCD-5078]   @ youtube



rec. June 4, 1931 in New York City; Bo Carter, voc, g; # unknown, sp


OKeh 8912

131931BO CARTER

- I've Got A Case Of Mashin' It (405016-2)   @ youtube
- What Kind Of Scent Is This? (405019-1)   @ youtube

rec. October 24, 1931 in Atlanta, GA; Bo Carter, voc, g


OKeh 8923

141931BO CARTER

- Last Go Round (405026-1) *   @ youtube
- So Long Baby, So Long (404934-B) #   @ youtube

# rec. June 5, 1931 in New York City; Bo Carter, voc, g
* rec. October 25, 1931 in Atlanta, GA; Bo Carter, voc, g


OKeh 8930

   

- The Law Gonna Step On You (404935-A) [Yazoo 1034]   @ youtube
- Pig Meat Is What I Crave (404936-B) [Yazoo 1064]   @ youtube

rec. June 5, 1931 in New York City; Bo Carter, voc, g

OKeh unissued

151931BO CARTER

- You Don't Love Me No More (405018-1) #   @ youtube
- I Want You To Know (405025-1) *   @ youtube

# rec. October 24, 1931 in Atlanta, GA; Bo Carter, voc, g
* rec. October 25, 1931 in Atlanta, GA; Bo Carter, voc, g


OKeh 8935

161931BO CARTER

- Baby How Can It Be (405029-1) #   @ youtube
- Pretty Baby (405024-1)   @ youtube

rec. October 25, 1931 in Atlanta, GA; Bo Carter, voc, g; # prob. Lonnie Chatmon, violin


OKeh 8952

171931BO CARTER

- New Auto Blues (405017-1) #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- You Keep On Spending My Change (405027-1) *   @ youtube



unissued track from October 25, 1931 session:
- I Wish To Make You Mine Some Day (405028-2) *



# rec. October 24, 1931 in Atlanta, GA; Bo Carter, voc, g
* rec. October 25, 1931 in Atlanta, GA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Columbia 14671-D

181934Bo Carter

- Bo Carter Special (82611-1)   @ youtube
- Queen Bee (82614-1) #   @ youtube

rec. March 26, 1934 at Texas Hotel in San Antonio, TX; Bo Carter, voc, g; # prob. Lonnie Chatmon, violin


Bluebird B5489

191934Bo Carter

- Howlin' Tom Cat Blues (82630-1)   @ youtube
- Don't Cross Lay Your Daddy (82631-1)   @ youtube

rec. March 26, 1934 at Texas Hotel in San Antonio, TX; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B5536

201934Bo Carter

- Banana In The Fruit Basket (82619-1)   @ youtube
- Pin In Your Cushion (82618-1)   @ Spotify

rec. March 26, 1934 at Texas Hotel in San Antonio, TX; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B5594

211934Bo Carter

- Beans (82612-1)   @ youtube
- Tellin' You 'Bout It (82616-1) #   @ youtube

rec. March 26, 1934 at Texas Hotel in San Antonio, TX; Bo Carter, voc, g; # prob. Lonnie Chatmon, violin


Bluebird B5629

221934Bo Carter

- Please Don't Drive Me From Your Door (82617-1) #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Nobody's Business (82613-1)   @ youtube

rec. March 26, 1934 at Texas Hotel in San Antonio, TX; Bo Carter, voc, g; # prob. Lonnie Chatmon, violin


Bluebird B5704

231934Bo Carter

- Backache Blues (82610-1)   @ Spotify
- Nobody Knows My Baby (82615-1) #   @ Spotify

rec. March 26, 1934 at Texas Hotel in San Antonio, TX; Bo Carter, voc, g; # prob. Lonnie Chatmon, violin


Bluebird B5825

241935Bo Carter

- Old Shoe Blues (87621-1)   @ Spotify
- Let Me Roll Your Lemon (87624-1)   @ youtube

rec. January 19, 1935 in New Orleans, LA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B5861

251935Bo Carter

- Mashing That Thing (87625-1)   @ youtube
- Who Broke The Latch? (87618-1)

rec. January 19, 1935 in New Orleans, LA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B5912

261935Bo Carter

- Don't Do It No More (87619-1)   @ Spotify
- Skin Ball Blues (87620-1)

rec. January 19, 1935 in New Orleans, LA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B5997

271935Bo Carter

- Blue Runner Blues (87626-1)
- Fifty-Fifty With Me (87627-1)

rec. January 19, 1935 in New Orleans, LA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B6024

281935Bo Carter

- Please Warm My Weiner (87622-1)   @ youtube
- She's Gonna Crawl Back Home To You (87623-1)   @ Spotify

rec. January 19, 1935 in New Orleans, LA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B6058

291935Bo Carter

- When You Left [sic; should have been "When Your Left Eye Go To Jumping"] (87639-1)   @ Spotify
- To Her Burying Ground (87638-1)   @ Spotify

rec. January 19, 1935 in New Orleans, LA; Bo Carter, voc, g; prob. Harry Chatmon, p


Bluebird B6124

301936Bo Carter

- All Around Man (99238-1)   @ youtube
- Cigarette Blues (99244-1)   @ youtube

rec. February 20, 1936 in New Orleans, LA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B6295

= Montgomery Ward M-7049 (2/12/1940)

311936Bo Carter

- Ride My Mule (99233-1)   @ youtube
- Spotted Sow Blues (99236-1)   @ Spotify

rec. February 20, 1936 in New Orleans, LA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B6315

321936Bo Carter

- Ain't Nobody Got It (99243-1)
- Rolling Blues (99237-1)   @ youtube

rec. February 20, 1936 in New Orleans, LA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B6373

331936Bo Carter

- It's Too Wet (99241-1)
- Dinner Blues (99242-1)   @ Spotify

rec. February 20, 1936 in New Orleans, LA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B6407

341936Bo Carter

- Fat Mouth Blues (99239-1)
- You Better Know Your Business (99240-1)   @ Spotify

rec. February 20, 1936 in New Orleans, LA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B6444

351936Bo Carter / Milton Sparks

Bo Carter
- T Baby Blues (99234-1) #
Milton Sparks
- Erie Train Blues (91445-1) *


# rec. February 20, 1936 in New Orleans, LA; Bo Carter, voc, g
* rec. July 28, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Milton Sparks, voc; Walter Davis, p; Henry Townsend, g


Bluebird B6529

Sparks Brothers / "Pinetop & Lindberg" discography

361935Henry Townsend / Bo Carter

Henry Townsend
- She's Got A Mean Disposition (85494-1) #

Bo Carter
- I Get The Blues (99235-1) *   @ youtube

# rec. February 25, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Henry Townsend, voc, g
* rec. February 20, 1936 in New Orleans, LA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B6589

Henry Townsend discography

371936Bo Carter

- All Around Man–Part 2 (02615-1)
- Doubled Up In A Knot (02617-1)   @ Spotify

rec. October 15, 1936 at St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, LA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B6659


Montgomery Ward M-7114 (2/12/1940)

381936Bo Carter

- Sue Cow (02624-1)   @ youtube
- Flea On Me (02622-1)   @ Spotify

rec. October 15, 1936 at St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, LA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B6695

Montgomery Ward M-7113 (2/12/1940)

391936Bo Carter

- Pussy Cat Blues (02613-1)   @ youtube
- Worried G Blues (02618-1)

rec. October 15, 1936 at St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, LA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B6735

401936Bo Carter

- Bo Carter's Advice (02616-1)   @ Spotify
- Got To Work Somewhere (02623-1)   @ Spotify

rec. October 15, 1936 at St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, LA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B7073 (US 1936)

411936Bo Carter

- The Ins And Outs Of My Girl (02614-1)   @ youtube
- Don't Mash My Digger So Deep (02621-1)   @ youtube

rec. October 15, 1936 at St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, LA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B7213

   

- Leads Gone Bad (02620-1)

rec. October 15, 1936 at St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, LA; Bo Carter, voc, g

Bluebird unissued

421938Bo Carter

- Shake 'Em On Down (027869-1)   @ youtube
- Who's Been Here? (027873-1)   @ Spotify

rec. October 22, 1938 in San Antonio, TX; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B7927

431938Bo Carter

- Lucille Lucille (027886-1)   @ Spotify
- Brown Skin Woman (027885-1)

rec. October 22, 1938 in San Antonio, TX; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B7952

441938Bo Carter

- Shoo That Chicken (027875-1)   @ Spotify
- Be My Salty Dog (027881-1)

rec. October 22, 1938 in San Antonio, TX; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B7968

451938Bo Carter

- Let's Get Drunk Again (027876-1)   @ youtube
- Ways Like A Crawfish (027883-1)   @ Spotify

rec. October 22, 1938 in San Antonio, TX; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B8045

461938Bo Carter

- Girl For Every Day In The Week (027870-1)
- World In A Jug (027872-1)

rec. October 22, 1938 in San Antonio, TX; Bo Carter, voc, g



Bluebird B8078

471938Bo Carter

- Old Devil (027878-1)   @ youtube
- Five Dollar Bill (027882-1)

rec. October 22, 1938 in San Antonio, TX; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B8093

481938Bo Carter

- Whiskey Blues (027874-1)   @ Spotify
- Country Fool (027879-1)   @ Spotify

rec. October 22, 1938 in San Antonio, TX; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B8122

491938Bo Carter

- Some Day (027877-1)   @ youtube
- Santa Claus (027880-1)   @ youtube

rec. October 22, 1938 in San Antonio, TX; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B8147

501938Bo Carter

- Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me (02619-1) #   @ youtube
- Trouble In Blues (027871-1) *



unissued track from October 22, 1938 session:
- Best Piece Of Furniture (027884-1) *



# rec. October 15, 1936 at St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, LA; Bo Carter, voc, g
* rec. October 22, 1938 in San Antonio, TX; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B8159

511940Bo Carter

- County Farm Blues (047645-1)   @ Spotify
- Arrangement For Me–Blues (047647-1)   @ Spotify

rec. February 12, 1940 in Atlanta, GA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B8397

Montgomery WardM-8758 (2/12/1940)

521940Bo Carter

- Border Of New Mexico Blues (047646-1)   @ youtube
- Lock The Lock (047648-1)   @ youtube

rec. February 12, 1940 in Atlanta, GA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B8423

Montgomery Ward M-8759 (2/12/1940)

531940Bo Carter

- Trouble, Oh Trouble (047650-1)   @ Spotify
- Baby Ruth (047651-1)

rec. February 12, 1940 in Atlanta, GA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B8459

Montgomery Ward M-8760 (2/12/1940)

541940Bo Carter

- Policy Blues (047653-1)   @ youtube
- My Baby (047652-1)   @ youtube

rec. February 12, 1940 in Atlanta, GA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B8495

Montgomery Ward M-8761 (2/12/1940)

551940Bo Carter

- Tush Hog Blues (047654-1)   @ Spotify
- My Little Mind (047655-1)

rec. February 12, 1940 in Atlanta, GA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B8514

Montgomery Ward M-8762 (2/12/1940)

561940Bo Carter

- Honey (047657-1)   @ youtube
- What You Want Your Daddy To Do? (047658-1)   @ youtube



unissued tracks from same session:
- Squeeze Your Orange (047649-1)
- Total Ole Shaker (047656-1)



rec. February 12, 1940 in Atlanta, GA; Bo Carter, voc, g


Bluebird B8555

Montgomery Ward M-8763 (2/12/1940)

   

- Little Pretty Woman
- Crazy Blues
- Instrumental

rec. July 20, 1960 in Memphis, TN by Paul Oliver; Armenter Chatmon, voc, g; Will Shade, hca, g; Dewey Corley, b

unreleased


LP / CD compilations
571964The Country Blues Volume Two

Texas Alexander
- Levee Camp Moan
Peg Leg Howell
- Tishamingo Blues
Henry Townsend
- Mistreated Blues
Eddie Kelly's Washboard Band
- Poole County Blues
Papa Charlie Jackson
- Papa's Lawdy Lawdy Blues
"Georgia Bill"
- Scarey Day Blues
Luke Jordan
- Church Bells Blues


Bo Carter
- I'm An Old Bumble Bee
Charlie Lincoln
- Jealous Hearted Blues
Bukka White
- Strange Place Blues
Blind Boy Fuller with Sonny Terry
- Bye Bye Baby Blues
Charlie Pickett
- Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon
Brownsville Son Bonds
- Weary Worried
Big Maceo with Tampa Red
- Maceo's 32 - 20


compiled and edited by Samuel Charters


RBF 9 (US 1964)

RBF discography

581966 The Party Blues

Dennis McMillon
- Paper Wooden Daddy   @ youtube
Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Bed Springs Blues   @ youtube
Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band
- It's Tight Like That   @ youtube
- How Long How Long Blues   @ youtube
- She Loves So Good   @ youtube
Red Nelson ["Dirty Red"]
- Mother Fuyer
Soldier Boy Houston
- Western Rider Blues [Atlantic 971]   @ youtube

Bill Johnson's Louisiana Jug Band
- Don't Drink It In Here   @ Spotify
Memphis Jug Band
- Oh Ambulance Man   @ youtube
- Cave Man Blues   @ youtube
Jim Hill & Eddie Anthony
- Wringing That Thing   @ youtube
Mississippi John Hurt
- Candy Man Blues   @ youtube

Bo Carter
- All Around Man   @ youtube
Blind Blake
- Diddie Wa Diddie   @ youtube


prod. by Richard Spottswood


Melodeon MLP 7324 (US 1966)


Melodeon MLP 7324 ("Biograph" reissue 197?) "Party Blues"

Melodeon Records discography

58a1967The Immortal Blind Lemon Jefferson

- Lemon's Worried Blues
- Prison Cell Blues
- Hangman's Blues
- Lock Step Blues
- Piney Woods Money Mama
- Low Down Mojo Blues

- Rabbit Foot Blues
- Match Box Blues
- Easy Rider Blues
- Bootin' Me 'Bout
- Black Horse Blues
- Corinna Blues


Milestone MLP 2004


= CBS 63738 (UK)

Milestone Records discography

591966Rare Blues Of The Twenties   No. 5

Bo Carter
- Ram Rod Daddy
- Ants In My Pants
Roosevelt Sykes
- Boot That Thing
- 44 Blues
Jim Jackson
- This Mornin' She Was Gone
- This Ain't No Place For Me
Lewis Black
- Rock Island Blues - part 1

Lewis Black
- Spanish Blues. No. 2
Teddy Bunn
- Pattin' Dat Cat
- It's Sweet Like So
Billy Bird
- Alabama Blues - part 1
- Alabama Blues - part 2
Pigmeat Pete & Catjuice Charlie
- Do It Right
- The Gin Done Done It



Historical ASC-5 (No. 5)

= Historical ASC-5829-5


= Historical HLP-5 (Vol. 5)

Historical Records discography

601967Blues Roots / Mississippi

Tommy Johnson
- Canned Heat Blues
- Big Fat Mama Blues
- Big Road Blues
Mississippi Jook Band
- Barbecue Bust
Joe Williams
- My Grey Pony

Bo Carter
- Cigarette Blues
- All Around Man

Robert Johnson
- I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
- Honeymoon Blues
Charlie McCoy
- That Lonesome Train Took My Baby Away
Tommy McClennan
- Whiskey Head Man
Robert Petway
- Bertha Lee Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson
- Miss Louisa Blues
- Until My Love Come Down


compiled by Samuel Charters

notes by Samuel Charters

RBF 14 (US 1967)

RBF discography

611967Down With The Game   Volume 2
Vintage Country Blues

Casey Bill Weldon
- Gonna Take My Time
- Somebody Changed The Lock
Furry Lewis
- Everybody's Blues
- Rock Island Blues
Poor Boy Lofton
- Dirty Mistreater
- Rainey Day Blues
Walter Davis
- I Think You Need A Shot

Walter Roland
- Red Cross Blues No. 2
Sonny Scott
- No Good Biddie

Bo Carter
- Sue Cow
- Flea On Me
- Pussy Cat Blues
Robert Lee McCoy
- Prowlin' Nighthawk
- C.N.A.



Down With The Game D 201

Down With The Game discography

621968Mississippi Blues Vol. 3 1928-1942

Arthur Petties
- Out On The Santa Fe Blues

Bo Carter
- I Want You To Know
Poor Boy Lofton
- Jake Leg Blues
- My Mean Baby Blues
Mississippi Sheiks
- Jail Bird Love Song
- Yodeling Fiddling Blues
Big Joe McCoy
- I'm Through With You
- When You Said Goodbye

Robert Johnson
- Drunken Hearted Man
Mr. Freddie Spruell
- Let's Go Riding
Robert Petway
- My Baby Left Me
- Cotton Pickin' Blues
Mississippi John Hurt
- Stack O'Lee Blues
Mississippi Jook Band
- Dangerous Woman
Tommy McClennan
- Mozelle Blues
- Mr. So And So Blues


compiled and produced by Evelyn Sperker


Roots RL-314 (Austria 1968)

Roots Records discography

631968Jackson Blues 1928-1938

Ishmon Bracey
- Trouble Hearted Blues
Charlie McCoy
- Last Time Blues
Walter Vincent
- Overtime Blues
Arthur Pettis
- Two Time Blues

Bo Carter
- Old Devil
Tommy Johnson
- Lonesome Home Blues
- Black Mare Blues

Willie Lofton
- Dark Road Blues
Mississippi Sheiks
- Stop And Listen Blues
Mississippi Mudder
- Going Back Home
Tommy Johnson
- Bye Bye Blues
Willie Harris
- Never Drive A Stranger From Your Door
Ishman Bracey
- The Fore Day Blues
- Pay Me No Mind Blues


notes by Dave Evans
click to read notes !
Yazoo 1007 (US 1968)

click to emlarge !
= Yazoo CD 1007 YAZ (US 1991)


= Yazoo HLP 1007 (180 g)

Yazoo Records discography

641968Bo Carter - Greatest Hits 1930-1940

- Who's Been Here?
- Tellin' You 'Bout It
- Dinner Blues
- The Ins And Outs Of My Girl
- Country Fool
- Bootlegger's Blues
- Let's Get Drunk Again

- Bo Carter's Advice
- Arrangement For Me Blues
- The New Stop And Listen Blues
- Beans
- I Want You To Know
- Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me
- Pales Tax

notes by Stephen Calt, Nick Perls & Michael Stewart
click to read notes !
Yazoo L-1014 (US 1968)


= Yazoo L-1014 (US 1974 or later)

Yazoo Records discography

651968?Classic Guitar Blues

Peg Leg Howell
- Rock And Gravel Blues
- Low Down Rounder Blues
Sylvester Weaver
- True Love Blues
- Poor Boy Blues
Mississippi John Hurt
- Frankie

- Spike Driver Blues
Bo Carter
- Pencil Blues
- Backache Blues

Bo Carter
- Boot It
- I've Got A Case Of Mashin' It
Carl Martin
- Farewell To You Baby
- You Can't Play My Cheap
- Badly Mistreated Man
- Good Morning, Judge
Curley Weaver
- Sometime Mama
- Two Faced Woman



Confidential CLP 002 (Fr 1968?)

661969Let's Go Riding
Guitar Rags! Blues! Hokum! All The Good-Time Music From The Good Old Days!
14 rare numbers for easy listening: 1924-1936

Mr. Freddie
- Let's Go Riding
Willie Walker
- South Carolina Rag
Will Bennett
- Railroad Bill
Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley
- Gonna Tip Out Tonight
Bill Moore
- Ragtime Crazy
Walter Hawkins
- A Rag Blues
Sylvester Weaver
- I'm Busy and You Can't Come In

Hambone Willie Newbern
- Way Down In Arkansas
Ellis Williams
- Buttermilk Blues

Bo Carter
- Sue Cow
Carl Martin
- Morning, Judge
Peg Leg Howell and His Gang
- Peg Leg Stomp
Blind Blake
- Southern Rag
Gitfiddle Jim
- Paddlin Madeline Blues


notes by Bill Givens and David Evans

Origin Jazz Library OJL 18 (US 1969)

OJL Records discography

66a1971New Deal Blues

Joe McCoy
- Meat Cutter Blues
One Arm Slim
- Howling Man Blues
Black Ace
- Whiskey And Woman
Lee Green
- Memphis Fives

Bo Carter
- Don't Do It No More [Bluebird B5997]
Peanut the Kidnapper
- Suicide Blues
Chatman Brothers
- If You Don't Want Me Please Don't Dog Me 'Round

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



Mamlish S-3801 (US 1971)

Mamlish Records discography

671973Bo Carter: Twist It Babe 1931-1940

- The Law Gonna Step On You [previously unissued]
- Honey
- Shake 'Em On Down
- Rolling Blues
- Howlin' Tom-Cat Blues
- Policy Blues
- My Baby

- Twist It Baby [previously unissued]
- Some Day
- Doubled Up In A Knot
- I Get The Blues
- Let Me Roll Your-Lemon
- Pussy Cat Blues
- Bo Carter Special

notes by Stephen Calt and John Miller
 
Yazoo L-1034 (US 1973)

Yazoo Records discography

681974Uptown Blues
A Decade Of Guitar-Piano Duets 1927-1937

Big Bill Broonzy
- Mountain Blues
Rufus & Ben Quillian
- Sweet Miss Stella Blues

Bo Carter
- When You Left ["When Your Left Eye Go To Jumping"]
Charlie Campbell
- Goin' Away Blues
Teddy Darby
- My Leona Blues
Down Home Blues
- You Do It
Leola Manning
- He Fans Me

Rufus & Ben Quillian
- Good Feeling Blues
Watson's Pullman Porters
- Barbecue Blues
Cripple Clarence Lofton
- Policy Blues
Willie Harris
- What Makes A Tom Cat Blue?
Mack Rhinehart & Brownie Stubblefield
- Uptown Blues
Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell
- Papa's On The Housetop
Charley Spand
- Ain't Gonna Stand For That


cover art by Garry Bready

notes by Stephen Calt and John Miller

Yazoo L-1042 (US 1974)


= Yazoo CD 1042 YAZ (US 1993)

Yazoo Records discography

691974Please Warm My Weiner
Old Time Hokum Blues

Whistling Bob Howe & Franke Griggs
- The Coldest Stuff In Town [actually "The Hottest Stuff In Town"]
Tommie Bradley & James Cole
- Adam And Eve
Buddie Burton
- Ham Fatchet Blues Part 1
Georgia Tom & Tampa Red
- The Alley Crap Game
Rufus & Ben Quillian
- Satisfaction Blues
Hokum Boys
- I Had To Give Up Gym
Papa Charlie Jackson
- You Put It In, I'll Take It Out
Butterbeans & Susie
- Elevator Papa, Switchboard Mama
Robert & Charlie Hicks
- Darktown Gambling - The Crap Game
The Yazoo All Stars[actually "The Paramount All Stars"]
- Hometown Skiffle Part 1
- Hometown Skiffle Part 2
Memphis Minnie
- Banana Man Blues
Leola B & Kid Wesley Wilson
- Uncle Joe

Bo Carter
- Please Warm My Weiner


Yazoo L-1043 (US 1974)


= Air Mail Recordings AIRAC-1321 (Jp 2007)

= Yazoo 1043HLP [180g reissue LP]

Yazoo Records discography

701976Copulatin' Blues   Volume One
16 Original Blues Classics

Stash ST-101 track sequence:
- Preachin' Blues - Sidney Bechet And His New Orleans Feetwarmers
- Stavin' Chain (That Rockin' Swing) - Lil Johnson
- Do Your Duty - Bessie Smith Acc By Buck And His Band
- New Rubbin' On The Darned Old Thing - Oscars Chicago Swingers
- Press My Button (Ring My Bell) - Lil Johnson
- Stavin' Chain - Johnny Temple
- Don't You Make Me High - Merline Johnson (The Yas Yas Girl)
- You Stole My Cherry - Lil Johnson

- I Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl - Bessie Smith
- Get Off With Me - Coot Grant
- My Daddy Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll) - Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band
- Keep Your Hands Off My Mojo - Grant And Wilson
- Winin' Boy - Jelly Roll Morton
- Shave 'Em Dry (second version, unissued) - Lucille Bogan
- Barbecue Bess - Bessie Jackson (Lucille Bogan)
- I'll Keep Sittin On It (If I Can't Sell It) - Georgia White

Stash CD 1 / Mojo CD 301 track sequence:
- Preachin' Blues - Sidney Bechet
- Stavin' Chain (That Rockin' Swing #1) - Lil Johnson
- New Rubbin' on That Darn Old Thing - Oscar's Chicago Swingers
- The Candy Man - Rosetta Howard
- Take You Hands Off My Mojo - Coot Grant/Kid Wesley Wilson
- Don't You Make Me High - Merline Johnson
- Wet It! - Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon & the Harlem Hamfats
- Press My Button, Ring My Bell - Lil Johnson/Black Bob
- You Can't Tell the Difference After Dark - Alberta Hunter
- Get Off With Me - Coot Grant/Kid Wilson/Cool Grant/Kid Wesley Wilson
- How Do They Do It That Way? - Victoria Spivey
- If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' On It (Before I Give It Away) - Georgia White
- Yas! Yas! Yas! - Jimmy Strange/The Yas-Yas Man
- My Daddy Rocks Me With One Steady Roll - Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band/Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon
- Stavin' Chain - Johnny Temple/Harlem Hamfats

- Please Warm My Weiner - Bo Carter
- You Stole My Cherry - Lil Johnson
- Sissy Man Blues - Connie McLean
- You Can't Sleep in My Bed - Mary Dixon
- Winin' Boy Blues - Jelly Roll Morton
- It's Tight Like That - Clara Smith
- Shave 'Em Dry - Lucille Bogan/Walter Roland

notes by Howard "Stretch" Johnson

Stash ST-101 (US 1976)


(=) Stash CD 1 (US 19??)


= Stash CD 1 (US 1987)


= Mojo CD 301 (1996) "The Copulatin' Blues"

Stash/Jass Records discography

711977Next Week Sometime
a compilation of "pre-war" blues 1927-1940

Alec Johnson
- Miss Meal Cramp Blues
- Sister Maud Mule
- Sundown Blues
- Next Week Sometime
- Mysterious Coon
- Toodle Doo
Papa Charlie Jackson
- Long Gone Lost John
- I'm Looking For A Woman Who Knoes How To Treat Me Right

Charley Lincoln
- Gamblin' Charley
- Ugly Papa
Biliken Johnson & Neal Roberts
- Frisco Blues
Lewis Black
- Gravel Camp Blues

Bo Carter
- What You Want Your Daddy To Do?
Tampa Red
- Blue And Evil Blues
Washington Phillips
- Denomination Blues - part 1
- Denomination Blues - part 2


 
Nugrape CBR-001 (Australia 1977)

Nugrape Records discography

721977?Jackson Blue Boys (And two from New Orleans)
Sixteens classics of blues, jazz, hokum and minstrelsy 1928 - 1940

New Orleans Nehi Boys
- Mobile Stomp
- Farish Street Rag
Mississippi Blacksnakes
- Blue Sky Blues
Sonny Boy Nelson
- Low Down
Willie Lofton
- It's Killing Me
- Poor Boy Blues
Alec Johnson
- Mysterious Coon


Bo Carter
- County Farm Blues
- Border Of New Mexico
Charlie McCoy
- It Ain't No Good part 1
Arthur Pettis
- Thart Won't Do
Walter Vincson
- Losing Blues
Jackson Blue Boys
- Hidin' On Me
- Sweet Alberta
Johnny Temple
- Snapping Cat


notes by Chris Smith

Policy Wheel PW 4593

Policy Wheel Records discography

731979?The Roots Of Rock

Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie
- When The Levee Breaks
Charley Patton
- A Spoonful Blues
Bukka White
- Shake 'em On Down
Skip James
- I'm So Glad

Bo Carter
- Corrine Corrine.
Blind Blake
- Diddie Wa Diddie
Blind Willie McTell
- Statesboro Blues

- Bull Doze Blues
Tommy Johnson
- Big Road Blues
Hambone Willie Newbern
- Roll And Tumble Blues
Blind Joe Reynolds
- Outside Woman Blues
Robert Wilkins
- That's No Way To Get Along
Blind Blake
- That Will Never Happen No More
Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Walk Right In


notes by Steve Calt

Yazoo 1063 (US 1979?)


Yazoo CD 1063 (US 1991?)

Yazoo Records discography

741979Bo Carter: Banana In Your Fruit Basket
Red Hot Blues 1931-36

- All Around Man
- Banana In Your Fruit Basket
- Pig Meat Is What I Crave [previosuly unissued]
- Pussy Cat Blues
- My Pencil Won't Write No More
- Ants In My Pants
- Cigarette Blues

- Howling Tom Cat Blues
- What Kind Of Scent Is-This?
- Mashing That Thing
- Blue Runner Blues
- Don't Mash My Digger So Deep
- Pin In Your Cushion
- Ram Rod Daddy

notes by Steve Calt

Yazoo L-1064 (US 1979)


= Yazoo CD 1064


= Air Mail Recordings AIRAC-1326 (Jp 2007)

= Yazoo 1064HLP [180g reissue LP]

Yazoo Records discography

751979Erotic Blues
Canti Erotici Afroamericani

Dirty Red
- Mother Fuyer
Sam Collins
- Slow Mama Slow
Washboard Sam
- Let Me Play Your Vendor

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

coll. by Alessandro Roffeni


Albatros VPA 8456
Albatros VC 4961 (cassette)

notes by Alessandro Roffeni

= DOM/Albatros CD DAF 120

Albatros Records discography

761982The Best of Bo Carter Vol. 1   1928-1940

- Corrine Corrina
- I'm An Old Bumble Bee
- Mean Feeling Blues
- She's Your Cook But She Burns My Bread Sometimes
- Loveless Love
- Last Go Round
- Baby, How Can It Be?
- Don't Do It No More
- Please Warm My Weiner

- When Your Left Eye Go To Jumping
- Ride my Mule
- Flea On Me
- Sue Cow
- Old Devil
- Lock The Lock
- Trouble, Oh Trouble
- Baby Ruth
- What You Want Your Daddy To Do?

"Original recordings from the collections of Joe Bussard, Roger Misiewicz, Johnny Parth"


Earl Archives BD-610 (Austria 1982)

771984Trouble Done Bore Me Down

Barbecue Bob
- Good Time Rounder
- Trouble Done Bore Me Down
Charley Jordan
- Doin' Wrong Blues

Walter Vinson
- That's It
- Same Thing The Cats Fight About
- Times Is Tight Like That
Jim Jackson
- Policy Blues
Lucille Bogan
- House Top Blues
- Superstitious Blues

Washington Phillips
- Mother's Last Word To Her Son
- Paul And Silas In Jail
James Stump Johnson
- Baby B. Blues
- Worried Man Blues
Scrapper Blackwell
- Springtime Blues
- Mix That Thing
Texas Alexander
- Thirty Day Blues
Sylvester Weaver
- Gonna Ramble Blues
- Teasing Brown Blues


notes by Guido van Rijn
and Hans Vergeer

Agram 2011 (NL 1984)

781984Songsters & Saints
Vocal Traditions on Race Records Vol. 1

LP 1:
Dances And Traveling Shows
Peg Leg Howell and Eddie Anthony
- Turkey Buzzard Blues
Pink Anderson and Simmie Dooley
- Gonna Tip Out Tonight
"Beans" Hambone - El Morrow
- Beans
Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band
- Under The Chicken Tree
Alec Johnson
- Mysterious Coon
"Big Boy" George Owens
- The Coon Crap Game
Memphis Sheiks
- He's In The Jailhouse Now
Charley Patton
- Elder Greene Blues
Hambone Willie Newbern
- Way Down In Arkansas

Comment, Parodies And Ballad Heroes
Lil McClintock
- Furniture Man
Julius Daniels
- Can't Put The Bridle On That Mule This Morning
Hezekiah Jenkins
- The Panic Is On
Bogus Ben Covington
- I Heard The Voice Of A Pork Chop
Johnson - Nelson - Porkchop
- G. Burns Is Gonna Rise Again

Bo Chatman
- Good Old Turnip Greens
Two Poor Boys
- John Henry Blues
Will Bennett
- Railroad Bill
Kid Coley
- Clair And Pearley Blues



LP 2:
Baptists And Sanctified Preachers
Rev. Jim Beale
- The Hand Of The Lord Was Upon Me
Rev. A.W. Nix
- After The Ball Is Over
Rev. Isaiah Shelton
- As The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest
Rev. J.M. Milton
- Silk Worms And Boll Weevils
Rev. H.M. Massey
- Old Time Baptism - part 2
Rev. J.T. Burch
- Baptised By Water, and Baptism By The Holy Ghost
Rev. E.S (Shy) Moore
- The Solemn Warning
Elder Curry
- Prove All Things
Rev. Leora Ross
- God's Mercy To Colonel Lindbergh


Gospel Soloists And Evangelists
Missionary Josephine Miles and Sister Elizabeth Cooper
- You Have Lost Jesus
Mother McCollum
- When I Take My Vacation In Heaven
Eddie Head and his Family
- Down On Me
Washington Phillips
- I Am Born To Preach The Gospel
Blind Roosevelt Graves and Brother
- Telephone To Glory
The Guitar Evangelist
- Death Is Only A Dream
Blind Willie Davis
- Your Enemy Cannot Harm You
Blind Nesbit
- Pure Religion
William and Versey Smith
- When That Great Ship Went Down


prod. by Gef Lucena

DLP
notes by Paul Oliver

Matchbox MSEX 2001/2002 (UK 1984)

This set is issued to complement the book "Songsters & Saints: Vocal Traditions On Race Records" by Paul Oliver, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 1984

Matchbox Records discography

78a1985Mississippi Sheiks   1930
(Vol.1)   Mostly New to LP

- Driving That Thing
- Alberta Blues
- Winter Time Blues
- The Sheik Waltz
- The Jazz Fiddler
- Stop And Listen Blues
- Lonely One In This Town
- We Are Both Feeling Good Right Now
- Grinding Old Fool

- Jake Leg Blues
- West Jackson Blues [previosuly unissued]
- Baby Keeps Stealin' Lovin' On Me
- River Bottom Blues
- Loose Like That
- Sitting On Top Of The World no. 2
- Times Done Got Hard
- Still I'm Traveling On
- Church Bell Blues

notes by Paul Oliver

Matchbox MSE 1005 (UK 1985) (Bluesmaster series)

Matchbox Records discography
Mississippi Sheiks discography
Sam Chatmon discography

791986Copulating Rhythm
Sixteen Blues and Jazz Rarities

- The Candy Man - Rosetta Howard
- Tired As I Can Be - Bessie Jackson
- You've Got To Save That Thing - Ora Alexander

- Ants In My Pants - Bo Carter
- Don't Tear My Clothes - The Chicago Black Swans
- My Baby (Squeeze Me Again) - Lil Johnson
- She Showed It All - Napoleon Fletcher
- Honey, You're So Good To Me - Lil Johnson

- You've Gotta Have That Thing - The Dallas Jug Band
- If You Don't Give Me What I Want - Lil Johnson

- Please Warm My Weiner - Bo Carter
- Try And Get It - Bea Foote
- Grinding Mill - Johnny Temple
- If You See My Rooster - Memphis Minnie
- I Don't Want No Skinny Woman - Blind Boy Fuller
- Take It Easy, Greasy - Lil Johnson



Jass Three (US 1986)

Stash/Jass Records discography

801986Copulating Rhythm   Volume 2

- Get 'Em From The Peanut Man (Hot Nuts) - Georgia White
- Southern Can Mama - Blind Willie And Partner
- Let Me Pat That Thing - The Hokum Boys
- My Handy Man - Ethel Waters
- Six Or Seven Times - The Chocolate Dandies
- The Duck's Yas-Yas-Yas - James "Stump" Johnson
- My Handy Man Ain't Handy No More - Miss Edith Wilson
- I Wonder Who's Boogiein' My Woogie Now - Oscar's Chicago Swingers

- What's That Smells Like Fish? - Blind Boy Fuller
- How Do They Do It That Way? - Victoria Spivey
- Papa's Got Your Water On - The Memphis Jug Band
- Honey Dripper Blues - Hattie North

- All Around Man - Bo Carter
- (Easy Rider) I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone - Tampa Red And His Hokum Jug Band
- Uncle Ned, Don't Use Your Head - Lonnie Johnson
- I'm Wild About That Thing - Bessie Smith



Jass Five (US 1986)

Stash/Jass Records discography

811987Bo Carter 1931-1940
Mississippi Party Blues Singer With Guitar Accompaniment

- I Love That Thing
- Boot It
- So Long, Baby, So Long
- I've Got A Case Of Mashin' It
- I Keep On Spending My Change
- Queen Bee
- Old Shoe Blues
- She's Gonna Crawl Back Home To You
- Spotted Sow Blues

- Fat Mouth Blues
- You Better Know Your Business
- Whiskey Blues
- Ways Like A Crawfish
- Brown-Skin Woman
- The County Farm Blues
- Border Of New Mexico Blues
- Tush Hog Blues
- My Little Mind

compiled by Johnny Parth


Old Tramp OT 1203 (NL 1987)

821987Them Dirty Blues
A Five Record Copulation Compilation

LP 1:
- Bring On Home To Grandma - Mississippi Mud Mashers °°
- (Good Mornin' Susie) I'm Gonna Heat Your Bread - Lee Green °°
- Keep It To Yourself - Lonnie Johnson And Spencer Williams
- Worn Out Engine Blues - Blind Boy Fuller °°
- She Done Sold It Out - Memphis Jug Band °°
- Big Leg Mama - Kokomo Arnold °°
- Daddy, You've Got Everything - Mary Dixon °°
- Take A Pro - Unidentified Armed Forces Radio Orchestra °°

- Yas Yas Yas No.1 - Jimmy Strange, The Yas Yas Man
- The Hottest Stuff In Town - Bob Howe and Frankie Griggs °°
- Every Morning Blues - Walter Roland
- Ram Rod Blues - Mississippi Sheiks °°
- Ash Can Blues - Bob Clifford °°
- Caught Us Doing It - Hokum Boys °°
- Blue Bloomer Blues - Whistlin' Alex Moore °°
- Mister Mary Blues - Speedy Holmes °°

LP 2:
- Wet It - Frankie Half Pint Jaxon
- I Want Some Of Your Pie - Blind Boy Fuller °°
- You Can't Sleep In My Bed - Mary Dixon
- Messin' Around - Bud Jackson's Swannee Serenaders °°
- The Coldest Stuff In Town - Whistling Bob Howe and Frankie Griggs
- Somebody's Been Using That Thing - Holmes And Howard °°
- She Really Meant To Keep It - Johnny Messner and His Orchestra
- Empty Bed Blues, Part One - Bessie Smith

- Empty Bed Blues, Part Two - Bessie Smith
- Big Mama - Walter Roland °°
- Loose Like That - The Mississippi Sheiks °°
- Once Or Twice - Lonnie Johnson and Spencer Williams °°
- Shake It, Baby - Blind Boy Fuller °°
- I Can't Use That Thing - Connie McClean's Rhythm Boys °°
- If You Can't Get Five, Take Two - Georgia White 1) °°
- Tricks Ain't Walkin' - Jimmy Rushing °°
1) back cover erroneously lists "She Really Meant To Keep It - Johnny Messner and His Orchestra" as track #7 on both sides of LP 2! (evidence: http://www.horntip.com/mp3/1930s/1930s--1978ca_them_dirty_blues_(boxed_LPs)/?fref=gc)

LP 3:
- Somebody's Been Using That Thing, No.2 - The Hokum Boys
- Shave 'em Dry - Papa Charlie Jackson
- Sissy Man - Pinewood Tom
- Sissy Blues - Ma Rainey with Her Georgia Band
- Two Old Maids In A Folding Bed - Monette Moore with Her Swing Shop Boys
- Rollin Mama Blues - Ruby Glaze and Hot Shot Willie
- Windy City Blues - Ruth Ladson with The Three Shadows
- Stew Meat Blues - Lucille Bogan

- Toothache Blues - Victoria Spivey and Lonnie Johnson
- Anybody Here Want To Try My Cabbage? - Maggie Jones with Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson
- Take Your Hand Off It - Lil Johnson
- I'm Gonna Keep My Hair Parted - Washboard Sam and His Washboard Band
- I'm A Mighty Tight Woman - Sippie Wallace
- Gas Man Blues - Mae Glover
- Black Snake Blues - Victoria Spivey
- I Got What It Takes - Blanch Galloway with Her Joy Boys

LP 4:
- The Candy Man - Rosetta Howard
- Tired As I Can Be - Bessie Jackson (Lucille Bogan) °°
- You've Got To Save That Thing - Ora Alexander °°
- Ants In My Pants - Bo Carter (Bo Chatman) °°
- Don't Tear My Clothes - The Chicago Black Swans °°
- My Baby (Squeeze Me Again) - Lil Johnson °°
- She Showed It All - Napoleon Fletcher °°
- Honey, You're So Good To Me - Lil Johnson °°

- You've Gotta Have That Thing - The Dallas Jug Band °°
- If You Don't Give Me What I Want - Lil Johnson °°
- Please Warm My Weiner - Bo Carter (Bo Chatman) °°
- Try And Get It - Bea Foote °°
- Grinding Mill - Johnny Temple °°
- If You See My Rooster - Memphis Minnie °°
- I Don't Want No Skinny Woman - Blind Boy Fuller
- Take It Easy, Greasy - Lil Johnson °°

LP 5:
- Get 'em From The Peanut Man (Hot Nuts) - Georgia White °°
- Southern Can Mama - Blind Willie and Partner °°
- Let Me Pat That Thing - The Hokum Boys
- My Handy Man - Ethel Waters °°
- Six Or Seven Times - The Chocolate Dandies °°
- The Duck's Yas-yas-yas - James "Stump" Johnson °°
- My Handy Man Ain't Handy No More - Miss Edith Wilson °°
- I Wonder Who's Boogiein' My Woggie Now - Oscar's Chicago Swingers °°

- What's That Smells Like Fish? - Blind Boy Fuller °°
- How Do They Do It That Way? - Victoria Spivey
- Papa's Got Your Water On - The Memphis Jug Band °°
- Honey Dripper Blues - Hattie North (Edith North Johnson) °°
- All Around Man - Bo Carter (Bo Chatman) °°
- (Easy Rider) I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone - Tampa Red and his Hokum Jug Band °°
- Uncle Ned, Don't Use Your Head - Lonnie Johnson °°
- I'm Wild About That Thing - Bessie Smith

°° on JASS CD-11/12 (50 tracks!)

comp. by Joe Lauro
cover illustration by Collin Kellogg

5 LP box set (80 tracks)

Jass Box One (US 1987)

5 cassette set (80 tracks)

(=) Jass JCB1-1 - JCB1-5 (US 1988)

2 CD set (50 tracks)

(=) Jass JASS CD-11/12 (US 1989)

Stash/Jass Records discography

831988Bo Carter   1928-1938

- Good Old Turnip Greens [NOR-756]
- East Jackson Blues [NOR-762]
- Backache Blues [40492-b]
- Sorry Feeling Blues [404930-a]
- Baby, When You Marry [404931-a]
- You Don't Love Me No More [405018-1]
- Please Don't Drive Me From Your Door [82617-1]
- Pin In Your Cushion [82618-1]
- Banana In The Fruit Basket [82619-1]

- Don't Cross Lay Daddy [82631-1]
- Who Broke The Latch ? [87618-1]
- Got To Work Somewhere [02623-1]
- Trouble In Blues [027871-1]
- World In A Jug [027872-1]
- Shoo That Chicken [027875-1]
- Be My Salty Dog [027881-1]
- Five Dollar Bill [027882-1]
- Lucille, Lucille [027886-1]


Document DLP 524 (Austria 1988)

Document Records discography

841989The Rarest Bo Carter Vol. 2   1930-1938

- I've Got The Whole Word In My Hand
- Same Thing The Cats Fight About
- Times Is Tight Like That
- Pretty Baby
- Backache Blues
- Nobody's Business
- Skin Ball Blues
- Blue Runner Blues

- Fifty-Fifty With Me
- On Her Burying Ground
- T Baby Blues
- It's Too Wet
- Ain't Nobody Got It
- All Around Man - Part 2
- Worried G Blues
- A Girl For Every Day Of The Week
- Santa Claus

"Original recordings from the collections of Joe Bussard, Roger Misiewicz, Johnny Parth, Guido van Rijn and Ernest Vigo"


Earl Archives BD-618 (Austria 1989)

84a1990Legends Of The Blues Volume One

Columbia LP C/AL 46215 track sequence:
- St. Louis Blues - Bessie Smith
- Match Box Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Ain't No Tellin' - Mississippi John Hurt
- Lord, I Just Can't Keep From Crying - Blind Willie Johnson

- Pigmeat Is What I Crave - Bo Carter
- Southern Can Is Mine - Blind Willie McTell
- Low Down St. Louis Blues - Lonnie Johnson
- Revenue Man Blues Patton - Charley Patton
- Stormy Night Blues - Leroy Carr
- I Believe I'll Make A Change - Josh White

- Forth Worth And Dallas Blues - Leadbelly
- Sweet Home Blues - Peetie Wheatstraw
- Stop Breakin' Down Blues - Robert Johnson
- Truckin' My Blues Away, #2 - Blind Boy Fuller
- Spreadin' Snakes Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
- Nothing In Ramblin' - Memphis Minnie
- Fixin' To Die Blues - Bukka White
- Hard Day Blues - Muddy Waters
- Don't You Leave Me Here (tk 1) - Big Joe Williams
- Death Letter - Son House


SPV Blue CD SPV 91722 bonus tracks:
- Hell Hound On My Trail - Robert Johnson
- Rock Island Line - Leadbelly and The Golden Gate Quartet


original series compiled & prod. by Lawrence Cohn

notes by Paul Oliver

Columbia LP C/AL 46215 (US 1990)

notes by Paul Oliver

= Columbia/Legacy CD CK 46215 (US 1990)

notes by Paul Oliver

= CBS/Legacy CD 467245 (EU 1990)


= CBS/Sony CSCS 5323 (Jp 1990)

notes by Neil Slaven

(=) SPV Blue SPV 91722 (Germany/Poland 2008)

20 CD box set, CD 5
     

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

851991Bo Carter Vol. 1
1928 to 4 June 1931

- Good Old Turnip Greens
- Bungalow Blues
- Mary Blues
- Electrocuted Blues (Electric Chair Blues)
- Corrina Corrina
- East Jackson Blues
- I'm An Old Bumble Bee
- Mean Feeling Blues
- I've Got The Whole World In My Hand
- She's Your Cook But She Burns My Bread Sometimes
- Same Thing The Cats Fight About
- Times Is Tight Like That
- My Pencil Won't Write No More
- Banana In Your Fruit Basket
- Pin In Your Cushion
- Pussy Cat Blues
- Ram Rod Daddy
- Loveless Love
- I Love That Thing
- Backache Blues
- Sorry Feeling Blues
- When You Marry Baby
- Boot It
- Baby Twist It

notes by Ken Romanowski

Document DOCD-5078 (Austria 1991)

861991Bo Carter Vol. 2
5 June 1931 to 26 March 1934

- Baby, So Long So Long
- The Law Gonna Step On You
- Pig Meat Is What I Crave
- Howling Tom Cat Blues
- Ants In My Pants
- Blue Runner Blues
- I've Got A Case Of Mashin' It
- You Don't Love Me No More
- What Kind Of Scent Is This?
- Pretty Baby
- I Want You To Know
- Last Go Round
- I Keep On Spending My Change
- How Can It Be Baby
- Bo Carter Special
- Beans
- Nobody's Business
- Queen Bee
- Tellin' You 'Bout It
- Please Don't Drive Me From Your Door
- Pin In Your Cushion
- Banana In The Fruit Basket

notes by Ken Romanowski

Document DOCD-5079 (Austria 1991)

871991Bo Carter Vol. 3
27 March 1934 to 20 February 1936

- Howlin' Tom Cat Blues
- Don't Cross Lay Your Daddy
- Who Broke The Latch?
- Don't Do It No More
- Skin Ball Blues
- Old Shoe Blues
- Please Warm My Weiner
- She's Gonna Crawl Back Home To You
- Let Me Roll Your Lemon
- Mashing That Thing
- Blue Runner Blues
- Fifty-Fifty With Me
- To her Burying Ground
- When Your Left Eye Go To Jumping
- Ride My Mule
- T Baby Blues
- I Get The Blues
- Spotted Sow Blues
- Rolling Blues
- All Around Man
- Fat Mouth Blues
- You Better Know Your Business

The person depicted on the front cover obviously is not Bo Carter!

notes by Ken Romanowski

Document DOCD-5080 (Austria 1991)

881991Bo Carter Vol. 4
20 February 1936 to 22 October 1938

- It's Too Wet
- Dinner Blues
- Ain't Nobody Got It
- Cigarette Blues
- Pussy Cat Blues
- The Ins And Outs Of My Girl
- Pt. 2 All Around Man
- Bo Carter's Advice
- Doubled Up In A Knot
- Worried G Blues
- Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me
- Don't Mash My Digger So Deep
- Flea On Me
- Got To Work Somewhere
- Sue Cow
- Shake 'Em On Down
- A Girl For Every Day Of The Week
- Trouble In Blues
- World In A Jug
- Who's Been Here?
- Whiskey Blues
- Shoo That Chicken

notes by Ken Romanowski

Document DOCD-5081 (Austria 1991)

891991Bo Carter Vol. 5
22 October 1938 to 12 February 1940

- Let's Get Drunk Again
- Some Day
- Old Devil
- Country Fool
- Santa Claus
- Be My Salty Dog
- Five Dollar Bill
- Ways Like A Crawfish
- Brown-Skin Woman
- Lucille Lucille
- The County Farm Blues
- Border Of New Mexico Blues
- Arrangement for Me-Blues
- Lock The Lock
- Oh Trouble Trouble
- Baby Ruth
- My Baby
- Policy Blues
- Tush Hog Blues
- My Little Mind
- Honey
- What You Want Your Daddy To Do?

notes by Ken Romanowski
 
Document DOCD-5082 (Austria 1991)

901992Roots 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 - Bell Street Lightnin'
Charlie Patton - Jersey Bull Blues
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
Pinewood Tom (Josh White) - Sissy Man
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
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)

911993Too Late, Too Late Blues   Vol. 1
Newly Discovered Titles & Alternative Takes

Blind Blake
- Early Morning Blues (3057-2)
Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Lock Step Blues (20750)
- Hangman's Blues (20751-2)
George 'Bullet' Williams
- Frisco Leaving Birmingham (tk 3)
Bessie Tucker
- My Man Has Quit Me (tk 2)
Memphis Jug Band
- Stealin', Stealin' (tk 3)
Willie Baker
- Weak-Minded Woman (14782 - Test)
Rev. D C Rice
- Will They Welcome Me There?
Charlie Spand
- Levee Camp Man (-6) (breakdown)
- Mississippi Blues (-v6)
Robert Peeples
- Worry Blues
Charley Patton
- I Shall Not Be Moved (tk 2)
Big Bill Broonzy
- Bow Leg Baby
Frank Brasswell
- Mountain Girl Blues (16575)
Memphis Minnie
- Memphis Minnie-Jitis Blues (tk B)
Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom
- Do It Some More
Kansas City Kitty
- Knife Man Blues

Bo Carter (Bo Chatman)
- New Auto Blues
Big Bill Broonzy
- Worried In Mind Blues
'Kansas Joe' Mccoy
- Meat Cutter Blues (alt tk)
- What's The Matter With You?
Memphis Minnie
- Reachin' Pete (tk B)
Kokomo Arnold
- Milk Cow Blues No. 5
Memphis Minnie
- Running And Dodging Blues (tk 2 - Test)
Little Buddy Doyle
- Slick Capers Blues
Lonnie Johnson
- The Victim Of Love


notes by Roger Misiewicz

Document DOCD-5150 (Austria 1993)

921994Too Late Too Late   Vol. 2   (1897-1935)
More Newly Discovered Titles & Alternative Takes

Cousins & De Moss
- Pour Mourner
Jim Jackson
- Jim Jackson's Affinity (negro Vaudeville Sketch)
Unknown
- Turkey In The Straw (negro Shout)
Male Quartette
- Way Down Yonder In The Cornfield
Blind Blake
- West Coast Blues (2669)
- Come On Boys Let's Do That Messin' Around (tk 1)
Booker Orchestra
- Salty Dog
Bantley & Williams
- Big Fat Mamma
Rev. Moses Mason
- John The Baptist
- Go Wash In The Beautiful Stream (tk 2)
Ma Rainey
- Traveling Blues (tk 2)
Charley Patton
- Lord I'm Discouraged
- I'm Goin' Home
Gene Campbell
- Toby Woman Blues
- Turned Out Blues
Lonnie Johnson
- Jelly Killed Old Sam
- The Faults Of All Women And Men
Kansas Joe
- I'm Going Crazy
- Dresser Drawer Blues
Ramblin' Thomas
- Ground Hog Blues No. 2 [Victor 23365]
- Little Old Mama Blues [Victor 23365]
Joshua White
- Broad Players Blues
- Big House Blues

Bo Carter
- Backache Blues (82610)
- Nobody Knows My Baby
Kokomo Arnold
- Policy Wheel Blues (90158)


notes by Guido van Rijn

Document DOCD-5216 (Austria 1994)

931997Southern Country Blues Vol. 1: Down In Boogie Alley

disc 1: Memphis & The Mississippi Delta
Frank Stokes - 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Part II
Cannon's Jug Stompers - Walk Right In
Jim Jackson - Old Dog Blue
Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe - Pickin' The Blues
Memphis Jug Band - Stealin' Stealin'
Furry Lewis - Big Chief Blues
Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues
Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues
Charley Patton - High Sheriff Blues
Son House - My Black Mama - Part II
Robert Johnson - Crossroads Blues
Big Joe Williams & Sonny Boy Williamson - Break 'Em On Down

Bo Carter - Banana In Your Fruit Basket
The Mississippi Sheiks - Sitting On Top Of The World
Tommy Johnson - Big Road Blues
Muddy Waters - Country Blues (No. 1)


disc 2: Alabama & The Eastern States
Ed Bell - Bad Boy
Jaybird Coleman - Man Trouble Blues
Lucille Bogan & Walter Roland - Down In Boogie Alley
Papa Charlie Jackson - Papa's Lawdy Lawdy Blues
Blind Blake - Hey Hey Daddy Blues
Ma Rainey & Tampa Red & Georgia Tom Dorsey - Black Eye Peas
Peg Leg Howell - Coal Man Blues
Georgia Cotton Pickers - Diddle-Da-Diddle
Andrew Baxter & Jim Baxter - Georgia Stomp
Blind Willie McTell - Love Changing Blues
Josh White - Silicosis Is Killin' Me
Rev. Gary Davis - Cross And Evil Woman Blues
Blind Boy Fuller & Sonny Terry - You Got To Have Your Dollar
Luke Jordan - Cocaine Blues


disc 3: South & The Mid-Western States
Texas
Henry Thomas - Old Country Stomp
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Matchbox Blues
Blind Willie Johnson - God Moves On The Water
Hattie Hudson - Doggone My Good Luck Soul
Texas Alexander & Willie Reed - Easy Rider Blues
J. T. "Funny Paper" Smith - Howling Wolf Blues - No. 1
Leadbelly - Four Day Worry Blues
Arkansas
3-8. Buddy Boy Hawkins - A Rag
Louisiana
King Solomon Hill - Down On My Bended Knee (tk 2)
Amédé Ardoin - Blues De Basile
Oscar Woods - Don't Sell It - Don't Give It Away
Kansas
Lottie Kimbrough - Going Away Blues
Missouri
Henry Townsend - Henry's Worry Blues
Lonnie Johnson - Woke Up With The Blues In My Fingers
Mary Johnson & Henry Brown & Ike Rodgers - Room Rent Blues
Charley Jordan - Keep It Clean
Roosevelt Sykes - Poor Boy Blues
Sparks Brothers - "4-11-44"


compiled by Johnny Parth; licensed from Document Records; remastered

3 CD set
20-page booklet by Steven C. Tracy

Starsounds 3712-2 (US 1997)

= 1201 Music (2001) "Southern Country Blues Vol. 2: Down In Boogie Alley" [sic]

941999Tommy Johnson & Associates

- Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Cool Drink Of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Big Road Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Bye-Bye Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Maggie Campbell Blues - Tommy Johnson
- I Wonder To Myself - Tommy Johnson
- Slidin' Delta - Tommy Johnson
- Lonesome Home Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Stop and Listen Blues - Mississippi Sheiks
- Down The Big Road Blues - Mattie Delaney
- Jake Leg Blues - Willie Lofton
- Dirty Mistreater - Willie Lofton
- Stop Look And Listen - Kokomo Arnold
- Sad And Lonesome - Bumble Bee Slim
- Rough Road Blues - Bumble Bee Slim
- Going Back Home Blues - Missisipi Mudder

- Bo Carter's Advice - Bo Carter
- Ten Pound Hammer - Mose Andrews
- Joliet Bound - Kansas Joe
- Wait And Listen - Fred Mc Mullen
- Saturday Blues - Ishman Bracey
- Trouble Hearted Blues - Ishman Bracey



Catfish KATCD 118 (UK 1999)

Catfish Records (UK) discography
Tommy Johnson discography

952000Bo Carter's Advice

- I'm An Old Bumble Bee
- Ram Rod Daddy
- Bo Carter's Advice
- Pussy Cat Blues
- I've Got The Whole World In My Hand
- I Want To Know
- Let's Get Drunk Again
- Old Devil
- Honey
- All Around Man
- Beans
- Blue Runner Blues
- Mashing That Thing
- Dinner Blues
- Ways Like A Crawfish
- Who's Been Here
- Shake 'Em On Down
- She's Gonna Crawl Back Home To You
- Howling Tom Cat Blues
- Arrangement For Me Blues

notes by Pat Harrison

Catfish KATCD 154 (UK 2000)

Catfish Records (UK) discography

962000The Great Race Record Labels   Vol. 3   (OKeh Records)

- I Am Calling Blues - Texas Alexander
- Sorry Feeling Blues - Bo Carter
- Gamblin' Man Blues - Jack Dupree
- Life Saver Blues - Lonnie Johnson
- Kentucky Blues - Little Hat Jones
- You Gonna Need Me - Charlie McCoy
- Born For Bad Luck - Brownie McGhee
- She's A Bad Girl - Mississippi Sheiks
- Struggle Buggie - Buddy Moss
- Shelby County Workhouse Blues - Hambone Willie Newbern
- Crazy Blues - Mamie Smith
- Way Back Down Home - Freddie Spruell
- Caldonia Blues - Sippie Wallace
- Chitlin' Rag Blues - Sylvester Weaver
- Roaming Gambler - Doc Clayton
- The Jive Blues - Memphis Slim
- Sweet Man Blues - Frank Edwards
- Money Green - Alfried Fields
- Lost Lover Blues - Blind Boy Fuller
- Married Woman Blues - Tony Hollins
- Worry Blues - Tom Dickson
- Insane Crazy Blues - Memphis Jug Band
- Me & My Chauffeur Blues - Memphis Minnie



Catfish KATCD 167 (UK 2000)

Catfish Records (UK) discography

972000The Early Blues Roots of Bob Dylan
Under The Influence   Vol. 4

- Ragged and Dirty - Sleepy John Estes
- Blood In My Eyes - Mississippi Sheiks
- Broke Down Engine - Blind Willie McTell
- Stack-o-Lee - Mississippi John Hurt
- Will The Circle Be Unbroken -Rev. J. C. Burnett
- Frankie And Albert - Mississippi John Hurt
- Sittin' On Top Of The World - Mississippi Sheiks
- Step It Up And Go - Blind Boy Fuller
- It Hurts Me Too - Tampa Red

- Corrina Corrina - Bo Carter
- Honey Allow Me One More Chance - Texas Henry Thomas
- Fixin' To Die - Bukka White
- See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Railroad Bill - Will Bennett
- Motherless Children - Blind Willie Johnson
- Grasshoppers In My Pillow - Leadbelly
- Poor Lazarus - Josh White
- Matchbox Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Candy Man - Mississippi John Hurt
- Po' Boy - Bukka White
- Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin' Bed - Blind Willie Johnson



Catfish KATCD 168 (UK 2000)

Catfish Records (UK) discography

98200020th Century Blues

disc 1:
- Down Hearted Blues - Alberta Hunter
- Worried Mam Blues - Ida Cox
- Weeping Willow Blues - Bessie Smith
- See See Rider Blues - Ma Rainey
- Maxwell Street Blues - Papa Charlie Jackson
- Mr. Johnson's Blues - Lonnie Johnson
- Dirty Woman Blues - Victoria Spivey
- Milk Cow Blues - Freddie Spruell
- West Cost Blues #2 - Blind Blake
- I'm A Mighty Tight Woman - Sippie Wallace
- Today Blues - Peg Leg Howell
- Barbecue Blues - Barbecue Bob
- Rook Island Blues - Furry Lewis
- Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues - Jim Jackson
- One Dime Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Cool Drink Of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson
- No More Women Blues - Texas Alexander
- C C And O Blues - Pink Anderson
- Bulldoze Blues - Henry Thomas
- Kokomo Blues - Scrapper Blackwell
- Cow Cow Blues - Cow Cow Davenport
- Feather Bed - Gus Cannon
- Hard Dallas Blues #4 - Ramblin' Thomas
- Prison Bound Blues - Leroy Carr
- Ain't No Tellin' - Mississippi John Hurt

disc 2:
- Train Time Blues - Tampa Red
- Nobody Knows - Hambone Willie Newbern
- Number Forty Four Blues - Lee Green
- The Dirty Dozens - Speckled Red
- That's No Way To Get Along - Robert Wilkins
- Divin' Duck Blues - Sleepy John Estes
- Devil In The Woodpile - Noah Lewis
- Come Around To My House Mama - Blind Willie McTell
- Six Shooter Blues - Georgia Tom Dorsey
- Sitting On Top Of The World - Mississippi Sheiks
- Preachin' The Blues - Son House
- Bye Bye Baby Blues - Little Hat Jones
- Bothering That Thing - Kansas Joe McCoy
- You May Leave - The Memphis Jug Band
- Black Angel Blues - Lucille Bogan
- Things About Coming My Way - Walter Vinson
- Cypres Grove Blues - Skip James
- How Do You Want It Done? - Big Bill Broonzy
- Baby Boogie Woogie - Curley Weaver
- Hard Time Blues - Buddy Moss
- My Butcher Man - Memphis Minnie
- Hang It On The Wall - Charlie Patton
- Night Latch Blues - Yank Rachell
- Midnight Special - Lead Belly
- Numbers Blues - Peetie Wheatstraw

disc 3:
- Bricks In My Pillow - Bumble Bee Slim (aka Amos Easton)
- Lead Pencil Blues - Johnnie Temple
- Mama Don't Allow #2 - Washboard Sam
- Vicksburg Blues #2 - Little Brother Montgomery
- Baby Please Don't Go - Big Joe Williams
- Honky Tonk Train Blues - Meade Lux Lewis
- Boogie Woogie Stomp - Albert Ammons

- Cigarette Blues - Bo Carter
- The Honeydripper - Roosevelt Sykes
- Lone Wolf Blues - Oscar Woods
- Sarah Jane - Jazz Gillum
- Untrue Blues - Blind Boy Fuller
- Runaway Man Blues - Floyd Council
- Black Ace - Black Ace
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Sonny Boy Williamson (aka John Lee Williamson)
- Prowling Nighthawk - Robert Lee McCoy
- Stop Breakin' Down Blues - Robert Johnson
- Red Hot Blues - Casey Bill Weldon
- Old Bachelor Blues - Son Bonds
- Don't Know - 'Cripple' Clarence Lofton
- Cotton Farm Blues - Walter Davis
- Bottle It Up And Go - Tommy McClennan
- Roll 'Em Pete - Joe Turner
- Bukka's Jitterbug Swing - Bukka White
- Alabama Blues - Charles Spand

disc 4:
- Blues At Midnight - Memphis Slim
- Junkers Blues - Jack Dupree
- Catfish - Robert Petway
- Black Spider Blues - Robert Lockwood Jr.
- I Be's Troubled - Muddy Waters
- Going Down Slow - St. Louis Jimmy Oden
- My Mama Don't Allow Me - Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
- Wind Howlin' Blues - David 'Honeyboy' Edwards
- Mean Old World - T-Bone Walker
- Cherry Red - Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson
- Caldonia Boogie - Louis Jordan
- I'm Gonna Take It Easy - Gabriel Brown
- Driftin' Blues - Charles Brown
- Chicago Breakdown - Big Maceo
- Feel So Bad - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Big Legged Woman - Brownie McGhee
- Guitar In My Hand - Clarence Brown
- Ain't Nobody's Business - Jimmy Witherspoon
- After Hours Boogie - Pee Wee Crayton
- Boogie Chillen - John Lee Hooker
- Everyday I Have The Blues - Lowell Fulson
- Get The Blues - B.B. King
- Rocking With Red - Piano Red
- Ludella - Jimmy Rogers
- Evans Shuffle - Little Walter (aka Marion Walter Jacobs) with Muddy Waters


4 CD box

Catfish KATX1 (UK 2000)

Catfish Records (UK) discography

992001The Roots of Muddy Waters

- Walking Blues - Son House
- Catfish Blues - Robert Petaway
- Roll And Tumble Blues - "Hambone" Willie Newbern
- 320 Blues - Robert Johnson
- Kind Hearted Woman - Robert Johnson
- Big Leg Woman - Johnnie Temple
- Lead Pencil Blues - Johnnie Temple
- Bumble Bee Blues - Memphis Minnie
- I Done Got Wise - Big Bill Broonzy
- I Can't Be Satisfied - Big Bill Broonzy
- Caldonia - Louis Jordan
- Going Down Slow - St. Louis Jimmy
- Soon Forgotten - St. Louis Jimmy
- Mean Ol' Frisco - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
- Blues Before Sunrise - Leroy Carr
- Diggin' My Potatoes - Washboard Sam
- Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker
- We Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town - Will Weldon
- Piney Brown - Joe Turner
- Going Back To Memphis - Memphis Jug Band
- Trouble In Mind - Bertha "Chippie" Hill
- Someday Baby - Sleepy John Estes

- Corrina, Corrina - Bo Carter


Catfish KATCD 175 (UK 2001)

Catfish Records (UK) discography

1002001Prison Blues

- Chain Gang Blues - Kokomo Arnold
- Big Rock Jail - Ed Bell
- He's In The Jailhouse Now - Jim Jackson
- Prison Blues - Alice Moore, Ike Rodgers
- Jailhouse Fire Blues - Buddy Boy Hawkins
- Christmas In Jail, Ain't That a Pain - Leroy Carr
- Penitentiary Bound Blues - Sylvester Weaver
- Blind Lemon's Penitentiary Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Midnight Special - Leadbelly
- County Jail Special - Champion Jack Dupree
- The County Farm Blues - Mae Glover, James Parker
- New Prison Blues - Peg Leg Howell
- Dekalb Chain Gang - Fred McMullen

- The County Farm Blues - Bo Carter
- Alabama Prison Blues - Jesse Wadley
- County Jail - Big Maceo, Tampa Red
- Crime Don't Pay - Merline Johnson
- County Jail Blues - "Funny Paper" Smith
- Big House Bound - Blind Boy Fuller
- Ninety-Nine Year Blues - Julius Daniels
- Doin' A Stretch - Blind Blake, Alex Robinson
- Parchman Farm Blues - Bukka White, Washboard Sam
- Prisoner Bound - Frank Busby, Honey Hill


drawing on the CD's front cover depicts, among others, Buddy Moss (guitar playing sans convict uniform), whose music is not present on the CD


Catfish KATCD 179 (UK 2001)

Catfish Records (UK) discography

1012002The Roots of Ry Cooder

- Do Re Mi - Woody Guthrie
- Pigmeat Papa - Leadbelly
- Police Dog Blues - Blind Blake
- Brownsville Blues - Sleepy John Estes
- Dark Was The Night - Blind Willy Johnson
- On A Monday - Leadbelly
- Vigilante Man - Woody Guthrie
- Cherry Ball Blues - Skip James
- Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Them All - Fiddlin' John Carson
- The Bourgeois Blues - Leadbelly
- You Can't Stop A Tattler - Part 1 - Washington Phillips
- You Can't Stop A Tattler - Part 2 - Washington Phillips
- Diddie Wah Diddie - Blind Blake
- How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? - Blind Alfred Reed
- Viola Lee Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson -
- Irene - Leadbelly
- Statesboro Blues - Blind Willie McTell
- Poor Me - Charley Patton
- Candy Man Blues - Mississippi John Hurt

- Corrine, Corrina - Bo Carter


Catfish KATCD 216 (UK 2002)

Catfish Records (UK) discography

1022003The Essential Bo Carter

- The Law Gonna Step On You
- Pigmeat Is What I Crav
- Twist It Babe
- Same Thing The Cats All Fight About
- Banana In Your Fruit Basket
- I Want You To Know
- Baby How Can It Be?
- Don't Do It No More
- Mashing That Thing
- It's Done Gone Wet (with the Mississippi Sheiks)
- Cigarette Blues
- Honey
- Let's Get Drunk Again
- Old Devil Blues
- Pussy Cat Blues
- Corrine Corrina
- I've Got The Whole World In My Hand
- Ways Like A Crawfish
- Ram Rid Daddy
- Howling Tom Cat Blues
- She's Gonna Crawl Back Home To You
- All Around Man
- What Kind Of Scent Is This?
- Sales Tax (with the Mississippi Sheiks)
- Last Go Round
- Beans
- Shake 'em On Down
- Back To Mississippi (with the Mississippi Sheiks)
- Arrangement For Me Blues
- Let Me Roll Your Chicken
- I Get The Blues
- Rolling Blues
- Pussy Cat Blues
- Who's Been Here?
- Bo Carter's Advice


Document CLB-200028 (UK 2003)

1032010Let Me Tell You About The Blues
The Evolution of Atlanta Blues

CD 1:
Ed Andrews - Time Ain't Gonna Make Me Stay
Julius Daniels - My Mama Was A Sailor
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Match Box Blues
Barbecue Bob - Barbecue Blues
Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band - Under The Chicken Tree
Riley Puckett - A Darkey's Wail
Blind Willie McTell - Mama Tain't Long Fo Day
Emery Glen - Back Door Blues
Memphis Jug Band - Kansas City Blues
Will Weldon - Turpentine Blues
Vol Stevens - Vol Stevens Blues
Charlie Lincoln - Jealous Hearted Blues
Peg Leg Howell - Skin Game Blues
Bobby Grant - Lonesome Atlanta Blues
Pink Anderson/Simmie Dooley - CC & O Blues
Henry Williams & Eddie Anthony - Georgia Crawl
Nellie Florence - Midnight Weeping Blues
Uncle Bud Walker - Look Here Mama Blues
Sloppy Henry - Canned Heat Blues
Curley Weaver - No No Blues
Too Tight Henry - Charleston Contest Pt. 1
Billy Bird - Down In The Cemetery
Alec Johnson - Miss Meal Cramp Blues
Willie Baker - Mama, Don't Rush Me Blues
George Carter - Rising River Blues


CD 2:
Macon Ed & Tampa Joe - Worrying Blues
Hambone Willie Newbern - Shelby County Workhouse Blues
Lonnie Coleman - Old Rock Island Blues
Peg Leg Howell & Jim Hill - Ball And Chain Blues
Harris & Harris - This Is Not The Stove To Brown Your Bread
Eli Framer - Framer's Blues
Barbecue Bob - She Shook Her Gin
Pillie Bolling - Brown Skin Woman
Barefoot Bill - Snigglin Blues
Blind Willie Johnson - You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond
Jaybird Coleman - Coffee Grinder Blues
Lil McClintock - Furniture Man
Willie Walker - South Carolina Rag
Georgia Cotton Pickers - I'm On My Way Down Home
Lillie Mae - Buggy Jail House Blues
Birmingham Jug Band - Giving It Away
King David's Jug Band - What's That Tastes Like Gravy

Bo Carter - What Kind Of Scent Is This
Mississippi Sheiks - Bed Spring Poker
Mary Willis (with Blind Willie McTell) - Talkin' To You Wimmen About The Blues
Fred McMullen - DeKalb Chain Gang
Georgia Browns - Decatur Street 81
Buddy Moss - Hard Times Blues
Chasey Collins - Atlanta Town
Blind Willie McTell - Dying Crapshooter's Blues


CD 3:
Pinetop Slim - Applejack Boogie
Curley Weaver - Brown Skin Woman
Blind Willie McTell - Love Changin Blues
Frank Edwards - Gotta Get Together
David Wylie - You're Gonna Weep And Moan
Fred Jackson - Duck Fever
Billy Wright - Stacked deck
Blow Top Lynn - Reliefin Blues
Tommy Brown - V-8 Baby
Chuck Willis - It Ain't Right To Treat Me Wrong
Joyce Jackson - Body Rocking Daddy
Waymon Brown - Barefoot Susie
Roy Mays Orchestra - Royal Peacock Boogie
Willie Brown - Korea Blues
Little Richard - Get Rich Quick
Piano Red - Hey Good Lookin'
Junior Tamplin - Under The Viaduct (In Atlanta, GA)
Little Richard - Thinkin Bout My Mother
Melvin Smith - Everybody's Got The Blues
Zilla Mays & The Blues Caravan - Nite Shift Blues
H-Bomb Ferguson - You Made Me Baby
Billy Wright - Four Cold, Cold Walls
Arthur Big Boy Crudup - If You Ever Been To Georgia
Papa Lightfoot - Mean Old Train
Piano Red - Wrong Yo-Yo


3 CD set

Fantastic Voyage FVTD055 (UK 2010)

1042011Bo Carter: The County Farm Blues

- Good Old Turnip Greens
- Corrine Corrina
- She's Your Cook But She Burns My Bread Sometimes
- Twist It, Baby
- The Law Gonna Step On You
- Ants In My Pants
- I Want You To Know
- Nobody's Business
- Queen Bee
- Tellin' You 'Bout It
- Don't Cross Lay Your Daddy
- Please Warm My Weiner
- Cigarette Blues
- The Ins And Outs Of My Girl
- Bo Carter's Advice
- Sue Cow
- Shake 'Em On Down
- Who's Been Here?
- Let's Get Drunk Again
- Some Day
- Old Devil
- The County Farm Blues
- My Baby
- Honey


P-Vine PCD-20089 (Jp 2011)

1052012Bo Carter & The Mississippi Sheiks

disc 1:
- Good Old Turnip Greens
- Sweet Alberta
- Pt. 1 It Ain't No Good
- It's Hot Like That
- Blue Heaven Blues
- Pt. 1 Your Friends Gonna Use It Too
- Sitting On Top of the World
- The Jazz Fiddler
- Stop and Listen Blues
- Alma Waltz
- Grind So Fine
- Mississippi Low Down
- Seen Better Days
- Frost Texas Tornado Blues
- Jake Leg Blues
- Bootleggers' Blues
- I'm an Old Bumble Bee
- Your Good Man Caught the Train and Gone
- Unhappy Blues
- Please Don't Wake It Up
- I've Got the Whole World In My Hand
- Same Thing the Cats Fight About
- Times Is Tight Like That
- You Gonna Need Me

disc 2:
- Northern Starvers are Returning Home
- My Pencil Won't Write No More
- Banana In Your Fruit Basket
- Sorry Feeling Blues
- Twist It Baby
- The Law Gonna Step On You
- Howling Tom Cat Blues
- What Kind of Scent Is This
- The World is Going Wrong
- She's a Bad Girl
- Kind Treatment
- Living In a Strain
- Too Long
- I Want You to Know
- Last Go Round
- Beans
- Nobody Knows My Baby
- Please Don't Drive Me From Your Door
- Bed Spring Poker
- I Got Blood In My Eyes for You
- Shooting High Dice
- She's Crazy About Her Lovin'
- He Calls That Religion
- Hitting the Numbers
- It's Done Got Wet

disc 3:
- I Am the Devil
- She's Got Something Crazy
- You'll Work Down to Me Someday
- Somebody's Got to Help Me
- Sales Tax
- Lean To One Woman
- I Can't Go Wrong
- Dead Wagon Blues
- She's Going to Her Lonesome Grave
- Fingering With Your Fingers
- Don't Cross Lay Your Daddy
- Don't Do It No More
- Old Shoe Blues
- Let Me Roll Your Lemon
- To Her Burying Ground
- When Your Left Eye Go To Jumping
- Spotted Sow Blues
- All Around Man
- You Better Know Your Business
- Dinner Blues
- Cigarette Blues
- Please Don't Dog Me Around If You Don't Want Me
- Wake Me Just Before Day
- Stir It Now
- Please Don't Give My Love Away

disc 4:
- Pussy Cat Blues
- The Ins and Outs of My Girl
- Bo Carter's Advice
- Doubled Up In a Knot
- Your Biscuits are Big Enough for Me
- Don't Mash My Digger So Deep
- Flea on Me
- Got to Work Somewhere
- Shake 'Em On Down
- Whiskey Blues
- Shoo That Chicken
- Old Devil
- Country Fool
- Santa Claus
- Be My Salty Dog
- Ways Like a Craw Fish
- Lucille Lucille
- The County Farm Blues
- Border of New Mexico Blues
- Arrangement for Me Blues
- Oh Trouble Trouble
- My Baby
- Policy Blues
- Tush Hog Blues
- What You Want Your Daddy To Do

4 CD set
notes by Neil Slaven

JSP JSPCD 77151 (UK 2012)

1062013St. Charles Blues

Sonny Boy Nelson - Pony Blues
Robert Hill - G Blues

Bo Carter - Pussy Cat Blues
Chatman Brothers - If You Don't Want Me Please Don't Dog Me ‘round
Sonny Boy Nelson - Street Walkin'

Bo Carter - Sue Cow
Robert Hill - Hill's Hot Sauce
Chatman Brothers - Please Don't Give My Love Away

Bo Carter - Bo Carter's Advice
Sonny Boy Nelson - Low Down
Mississippi Matilda - Happy Home Blues
Robert Hill - Lumber Yard Blues

Bo Carter - Flea On Me
Sonny Boy Nelson - Lovin' Blues
Chatman Brothers - Stir It Now

Bo Carter - Got To Work Somewhere
Robert Hill - I'm Going To Write And Tell Mother
Bo Carter - Doubled Up In A Knot
Sonny Boy Nelson - If You Don't Believe I'm Leaving, Baby
Bo Carter - The Ins And Out Of My Girl
Mississippi Matilda - Hard Working Woman Blues
Bo Carter - All Around Man - Part 2
Robert Hill - You're Gonna Look Like A Monkey When You Get Old
Bo Carter - Worried G Blues
Chatman Brothers - Wake Me Just Before Day
Bo Carter - Don't Mash My Digger So Deep
Sonny Boy Nelson - Long Tall Woman
Bo Carter - Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me


Nehi NEH 03 (UK 2013)

1071/2014Jackson Stomp
The Charlie McCoy Story

Charlie McCoy - Last Time Blues
Tommy Johnson - Cool Drink Of Water Blues
Johnnie Temple - Lead Pencil Blues (It Just Won't Write)
Charlie McCoy - That Lonesome Train That Took My Baby Away
Mississippi Mud Steppers - Jackson Stomp
Alec Johnson - Miss Meal Cramp
Curtis Jones - Palace Blues
Jackson Blue Boys - Hidin' On Me
Jackson Blue Boys - Sweet Alberta
Will Weldon - Gonna Take My Time
Charlie McCoy (Papa Charlie's Boys) - Gypsy Woman Blues
Harlem Hamfats - Oh! Red
Sonny Boy Williamson - Black Panther Blues
Charlie McCoy (Papa Charlie's Boys) - Too Long

Bo Carter - East Jackson Blues
Ishmon Bracey - Leavin' Town Blues
Mississippi Black Snakes - Blue Sky Blues
Charlie McCoy (The Mississippi Mudder) - Candy Man Blues
Memphis Minnie - Long As I Can See You Smile
Charlie McCoy And Bo Carter - Corrine Corrina
Charlie McCoy (The Mississippi Mudder) - Charity Blues
Walter Vinson - It's Gonna Stare You In The Face
Monkey Joe - Preach, Pray And Moan
Kansas Joe McCoy - Dresser Drawer Blues
Charlie McCoy (The Mississippi Mudder) - Motherless & Fatherless
Mississippi Mud Steppers - Sunset Waltz



Nehi NEH 02 (UK 1/2014)

10810/201923 Classic Blues Songs from the 1920s Volume 17
2020 Calendar with free CD

CD and Calendar contents:
- Got The Blues - B.B. King
- Blood Thirsty Blues - Victoria Spivey
- Baby Keeps Stealing Lovin' On Me - Mississippi Sheiks

- Howling Tom Cat Blues - Bo Carter
- Days Is Lonesome - Texas Alexander with the Mississippi Sheiks
- Ain't Gonna Stand For That - Charlie Spand
- I'm Gonna Move To Louisiana - Part 1 and Part 2 - Jim Jackson
- Ashley St. Blues - Leola B. Wilson with Blind Blake
- Bad Luck Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- She's Making Whoopee In Hell Tonight - Lonnie Johnson
- Shave 'Em Dry - Bessie Jackson
- Read Your A B C's - Mississippi Sarah and Daddy Stovepipe


Supplementary CD tracks:
- Life Is A Cheater - Irma Records Demo [unreleased] - Juke Boy Barner
- Life Is A Cheater - Music City Records Demo [unreleased] - Juke Boy Barner
- I Got Hip To It - Irma Records Demo [unreleased] - Juke Boy Barner
- Tillie Lee - William Moore
- Dying Blues - Leola B. Wilson with Blind Blake
- Come On Babe - "Blues Boy Bill" (= Louis Meyers)
- Little Boy Blue - "Blues Boy Bill" (= Louis Meyers)
- It's Hard Time - Joe Stone
- Back Door Blues - Joe Stone
- Back To Mississippi - Mississippi Sheiks


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Blues Images Calendar Vol. 17 (rel. 2019, for 2020)


Blues Images CD BIM-117 (US 2019) accompanying Blues Images Calendar Vol. 17 (for 2020)

Blues Images calendar discography



Additional information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Jean-Claude Arnaudon: Dictionnaire du Blues.- Paris, France (Filipacci) 1977, p. 64-65
- Karel Bogaert: Blues Lexicon.- Antwerpen (Standaard) 1972, p. 73-74
- Robert M.W. Dixon & John Godrich: Blues & Gospel Records 1902 - 1942.- Hatch End, Middlesex (Brian A.L. Rust), 1963/64, p. 
- Robert M.W. Dixon & John Godrich: Blues & Gospel Records 1902 - 1942.- London (Storyville Publications), revised 2nd ed. 1969, p. 
- Robert M.W. Dixon & John Godrich: Blues & Gospel Records 1902 - 1942.- Chigwell (Storyville Publications), fully revised 3rd ed. 1982, p. 150-153

- Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943, 4th ed. 1997, p. 150-153, 560, 694
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, pp. 214, 454
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver (Eyeball Productions) 2006, p. 85
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970 (2nd edition).- Vancouver (Eyeball Productions) 2012, p. 106

- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970 (3rd edition).- Vancouver (Eyeball Productions) 2019, p. 108
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, p. 230-231
- Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- New York (Da Capo Press) 1987, p. 118-119
- Mike Leadbitter & Neil Slaven: Blues Records 1943 to 1966 - A complete guide to 20 years of recorded blues.- London/New York (Oak Publications), 1968.- no entry
- Mike Leadbitter & Neil Slaven: Blues Records 1943 to 1970 - A selective discography, Vol. one, A to K.- London (Record Information Services), 1987.- no entry

- http://www.discogs.com/artist/636818-Bo-Carter
- John Tefteller and Blues Images Collection - used with permission
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to John Heneghan, Russell Shor, Chris Smith, Tom Ball, Helge Thygesen and T. DeWayne Moore for additional info / scans

 

Tony Russell & Chris Smith with Neil Slaven, Ricky Russell & Joe Faulkner: The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings.- London/New York/Toronto (Penguin Books), 2006  
Bo Carter entry by Tony Russell
in Tony Russell & Chris Smith with Neil Slaven, Ricky Russell & Joe Faulkner: The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings.- London/New York/Toronto (Penguin Books), 2006, pp. 109-110

 

The Mississippi Sheiks (B O   C A R T E R, Walter Vinson & Lonnie Chatmon) by Robert Crumb
The Mississippi Sheiks (Bo Carter, Lonnie Chatmon & Walter Vinson) by Robert Crumb
source: Robert Crumb's "Heroes Of The Blues" Trading Card #12

B O   C A R T E R by Robert Crumb
Bo Carter by Robert Crumb
source: Robert Crumb's "Heroes Of The Blues" Trading Card #36

 

B O   C A R T E R, July 1960; photographer: Paul Oliver
Bo Carter, Memphis, TN, July 1960; photographer: Paul Oliver

 

B O   C A R T E R, Will Shade & Gus Cannon, July 1960; photographer: Paul Oliver
Bo Carter, Will Shade & Gus Cannon, Memphis, TN, July 1960
photographer: Paul Oliver; photo up to now only published in (at least) two separate parts, photoshop merged by Stefan Wirz

 

B O   C A R T E R on the cover of Stefan Grossman's 1968 instruction book 'The Country Blues Guitar'
Cover of Stefan Grossman's 1968
instruction book "The Country Blues Guitar"
This obviously is not Bo Carter! Who else is it?

 

 

 

 

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