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Willie Harris
b. May 15, 1893 at Mt. Airy, St. John The Baptist Parish, Louisiana
in 1942 living on the South side of Chicago, Illinois
d. after 1942, probably in Chicago, IL

discography

W I L L I E   H A R R I S

#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
   

- Hollow Log Blues (C-3445-B)

rec. May 7, 1929 in Chicago, IL; Willie Harris, voc, g; James Williams, p

Brunswick unissued

11929COLETHA SIMPSON

- Riverside Blues (C-3225- ) #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Lonesome Lonesome Blues (C-3543- ) *   @ youtube   @ Spotify

# rec. April 2, 1929 in Chicago, IL; Coletha Simpson, voc; James Williams, p

* rec. May 28, 1929 in Chicago, IL; Coletha Simpson, voc; James Williams, p; Willie Harris, g


Brunswick 7089 (US 1929)

21929WILLIE HARRIS

- West Side Blues (C-3446-A) #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- What Makes A Tom Cat Blue? (C-3544- ) *   @ youtube   @ Spotify

# rec. May 7, 1929 in Chicago, IL; Willie Harris, voc, g; James Williams, p; poss. Coletha Simpson, sp

* rec. May 28, 1929 in Chicago, IL; Willie Harris, g; James Williams, p


Brunswick 7092 (US 1929)

31929WILLIE HARRIS

- Lonesome Midnight Dream (C-5551- )   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Never Drive A Stranger From Your Door (C-5552- )   @ youtube   @ Spotify

c. mid-March 1930 in Chicago, IL; Willie Harris, voc, g; unknown, 2nd g


Brunswick 7149 (US 1929)

This is not the musician "Willie Harris Jr." who in 1936 played second guitar with 'Sonny Boy Nelson',
Mississippi Matilda and Robert Hill (although some sources tell us that he probably is!)
--> Eugene Powell discography

LP / CD compilations
41968Jackson 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 (US 1991)


= Yazoo HLP 1007 (180 g)

Yazoo Records discography

51969Favorite 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 (US 1969)


= Yazoo CD 1015

Yazoo Records discography

61972Country Blues Obscurities Vol. 2

Jelly Roll Anderson
- Free Women Blues
Bob Campbell
- Dice's Blues
- Shotgun Blues
Spider Carter
- Don't Leave Me Blues
Lonnie Clark
- Broke Down Engine
- Down In Tennessee
Bob Coleman
- Sing Song Blues

Willie Harris
- Lonesome Midnight Dream
Smoky Harrison
- Hop Head Blues
- Iggly Oggly Blues
Kid Prince Moore
- Bug Juice Blues
- Honey Dripping Papa
William Moore
- Midnight Blues
George Thomas
- Fast Stuff Blues
- Don't Kill Him In Here
Too Tight Henry
- Charleston Contest - part 1


 
Roots RL 340 (Austria 1972)

= autogram/Roots RL-340 (Germany 20??)

Roots Records discography

71974Uptown Blues
A Decade Of Guitar-Piano Duets 1927-1937

Big Bill Broonzy
- Mountain Blues
Rufus & Ben Quillian
- Sweet Miss Stella Blues [Paramount 12901]
Bo Carter
- When You Left
Charlie Campbell
- Goin' Away Blues
Teddy Darby
- My Leona Blues
- Down Home Blues
- You Do It
Leola Manning
- He Pans Me

Rufus & Ben Quillian
- Good Feeling Blues [Paramount 12901]>
Watson's Pulman 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 artwork by Garry Bready

notes by Stephen Calt and John Miller

Yazoo L 1042 (US 1974)


= Yazoo CD 1042 (US 1993)

Yazoo Records discography

81988Central Mississippi Blues
The Jackson Area   1928-1935

Willie Harris
- West Side Blues
- What Makes A Tom Cat Blue
- Lonesome Midnight Dream
- Never Drive A Stranger From Your Door
Caldwell 'Mississippi' Bracey
- You Scolded Me And Drove Me From Your Door
- Cherry Ball
- Stered Gal
- I'll Overcome Someday
"Big Road" Webster Taylor
- World In A Jug

"Big Road" Webster Taylor
- Sunny Southern Blues
Arthur Petties
- Two Time Blues
- Out On Santa Fe - Blues
- That Won't Do
- Good Boy Blues
- Quarrellin' Mama Blues
- Revenue Man Blues
The Mississippi Moaner
- Mississippi Moan
- It's Cold In China Blues

CD bonus tracks:
Louise Johnson
- All Night Long Blues
- Long Ways From Home
- On the Wall
- By The Moon And Stars
- All Night Long Blues



Wolf WSE 130 (Austria 1988)



(=) Wolf CD 111 (Austria 1998)

Wolf Records discography

91990Female Country Blues   1924-1930

Edna Johnson
- I'm Drifting From You Blues
- A Woman Gets Tired Of One Man All The Timeybr> Louise Ross
- No Home Blues
- Can't Fool Me Blues
Sadie James
- Mamma, Fold Your Hands
- What Makes A Bow-Legged Woman Crazy 'Bout Her Knock-Kneed Man?

Coletha Simpson
- Riverside Blues
- Black Man Blues
- Down South Blues

- Lonesome Lonesome Blues

Lizzie Washington
- Working Man Blues
- Fall Or Summer Blues
- Mexico Blues
- Sport Model Mamma Blues
- Daddy Threw Me Down Blues
Katherine Baker
- My Man Left Me Blues
- I Helped You, Sick Man, When You Were Sick And Down
Jenny Pope
- Rent Man Blues



Wolf WSE 141 (Austria 1990)

101993Rare Country Blues   1928-1937

Seth Richard
- Lonely Seth Blues
- Skoodeldum Doo
Charlie Kyle
- Kyle's Worried Blues
- Monkey-man Blues
- Walking Blues
- No Baby
Freezone
- Indian Squaw Blues

Willie Harris
- West Side Blues
- What Makes A Tom Cat Blue?
- Lonesome Midnight Dream
- Never Drive A Stranger From Your Door
Leola Manning
- He Cares For Me
- He Fans Me
- The Arcade Building Moan
- Satan Is Busy In Knoxville
- Laying In The Graveyard
- The Blues Is All Wrong
Jazzbo Tommy Settlers
- Low Down Blues Moan - Part 1
- Low Down Blues Moan - Part 2
- Shawking Weed Blues
- Bed Blues Blues (Big Bed Bug)
- Pearlie Mae Blues
- Don't Want You No More
- You Don't Mean Me No Good
- Blaze Face Cow


notes by Keith Briggs

Document DOCD-5170 (Austria 1993)

111996Blue Girls   Volume 1   1924-1930

Edna Johnson
- I'm Drifting From You Blues
- A Woman Gets Tired Of One Man All The Time
Sadie James
- Mamma, Fold Your Hands
- What Makes A Bow-Legged Woman Crazy?
Helen Beasley
- Tia Juana Blues
- Rambling Mind Blues

Coletha Simpson
- Riverside Blues
- Black Man Blues
- Down South Blues

- Lonesome Lonesome Blues
Julia Johnson
- Hard Headed Daddy
- Tickling Blues
Alura Mack
- My Kitchen Man
- West End Blues
- Wicked Daddy Blues
- Loose Like That
- Beef Blood Blues
- Cotton Belt Blues
- I Ain't Puttin' Out Nothin' Blues
- The Long Lost Blues
- Everybody's Man Is Mine
- Monkey Blues
- It Worries Me
- 82 Years Blues


notes by Alan Balfour

Document DOCD-5503 (Austria 1996)

121999Southern Blues   Volume One

- I'm Leaving Town - William Harris
- Mistreatin' Blues - Frank Stokes
- Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Dry Land Blues - Furry Lewis
- Last Time Blues - Charlie Mccoy
- Elder Greene Blues - Charley Patton

- Never Drive A Stranger From Your Door - Willie Harris
- Dough Roller Blues - Garfield Akers
- Beale Street Breakdown - Jed Davenport
- Skinny Legs Blues - Geeshie Wiley
- Stop And Listen - Mississippi Sheiks
- I Let My Daddy Do That - Hattie Hart
- Little Girl In Rome - Otto Virgial [Bluebird B6213]
- It's Cold In China Blues The Mississippi Moaner
- The Ins And Outs Of My Girl - Bo Carter
- Skippy Whippy - Mississippi Jook Band
- Preachin' Blues - Robert Johnson
- Lonesome World Robert Lee Mccoy
- Spider Bite Blues - James De Barry
- Special Streamline - Bukka White
- Jailhouse Blues - Sleepy John Estes
- Mozelle Blues - Tommy McClennan
- Standin' At My Window - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
- Anna Mae Cecil - Cecil Gant
- No Good Woman Blues Rudy Greene



Audio Book & Music Company ABMCD 1090


= Acrobat CD 130 (UK 2002)

132007A Richer Tradition - Country Blues & String Band Music 1923 - 1942

disc 1:
- Guitar Blues - Sylvester Weaver
- Time Ain't Gonna Make Me Stay - Ed Andrews
- Sundown Blues - Daddy Stovepipe
- Salt Lake City Blues - Papa Charlie Jackson
- Whiskey And Gin Blues - South Street Trio
- James Alley Blues - Richard "Rabbit" Brown
- Goin' To Leave You Blues - Big Boy Cleveland
- Hey Lawdy Mama - The France Blues - Papa Harvey Hull/Long "Cleve" Reed
- Chicken Can Waltz the Gravy Around, A - Stovepipe No-1/David Crockett
- Bamalong Blues - Andrew & Jim Baxter
- Man Trouble Blues - Jaybird Coleman
- Blue Coat Blues - "Blue Coat" Tom Nelson
- Frisco Whistle Blues - Ed Bell
- Two Ways To Texas - Emery Glen
- Gravel Camp Blues - Lewis Black
- T And T Blues - Mooch Richardson
- Death Bell Blues - Tom Dickson
- C.C. & O. Blues - Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley
- Middlin' Blues - George "Bullet" Williams
- Rolling Log Blues - Lottie Kimbrough
- Kyle's Worried Blues - Charlie Kyle
- Bull Frog Blues - William Harris
- Sobbin' Woman Blues - Elizabeth Johnson
- Miss Meal Cramp Blues - Alec Johnson
- Unknown Blues - Tarter & Gay


disc 2:
- Jail House Blues - Whistler & His Jug Band
- Blues, Just Blues, That's All - Old Southern Jug Band
- String Band Blues - Kansas City Blues Strummers
- Black Cat Blues - Old Pal Smoke Shop Four
- Dirty Guitar Blues - Leecan & Cooksey
- Boodle-Am-Shake - Dixieland Jug Blowers
- Quill Blues - Big Boy Cleveland
- Jug Band Special, The - Whistler & His Jug Band
- Cold Morning Shout - South Street Trio
- Violin Blues - Johnson Boys
- Easy Winner - The Blue Boys
- G- Burns Is Gonna Rise Again - Johnson / Nelson / Porkchop
- I Got a Gal - James Cole's String Band
- The Jazz Fiddler - Walter Jacobs/Lonnie Carter
- Knox Couty Stomp - Tennessee Chocolate Drops
- Adam And Eve - Tommie Bradley
- Runnin' Wild - James Cole's Washboard Four
- Giving It Away - Birmingham Jug Band
- Jackson Stomp - Mississippi Mud Steppers
- Old Hen Cackle - Coleman & Harper
- Travelin' Railroad Man Blues - Alabama Sheiks
- Old Hen Cackle - Coleman & Harper
- Ted's Stomp - Louie Blue/Ted Bogan
- Dusting the Frets - Dallas Jamboree Jug Band
- Arkansas Traveller - Nashville Washboard Band


disc 3:
- Original Stack O'Lee Blues - "Long Cleve" Reed / Little Harvey Hull
- Tuxedo Blues - Whistlin' Pete & Daddy Stovepipe
- Mean Conductor Blues - Ed Bell
- Back Door Blues - Emery Glen
- Spanish Blues - Lewis Black
- Helena Blues - Mooch Richardson
- I Heard the Voice Of a Pork Chop - Bogus Ben Covington
- Rising River Blues - George Carter
- She Could Toodle-Oo - Hambone Willie Newbern
- Weak Minded Woman - Willie Baker
- Old Rock Island Blues - Lonnie Coleman
- Cairo Blues - Henry Spaulding
- I Ain't Givin' Nobody None - Mae Glover
- Showers Of Rain Blues - Edward Thompson
- Framer's Blues - Eli Framer
- If I Call You Mama - Luke Jordan

- Never Drive A Stranger From Your Door - Willie Harris
- Mississippi Swamp Moan - Alfred Lewis
- Paddlin' Madeline Blues - Gitfiddle Jim
- Shaking Weed Blues - Tommy Settlers
- South Carolina Rag - Willie Walker
- Beans - El Morrow/Beans Hambone
- Poor Jane Blues - Jack Gowdlock
- Window Pane Blues - Tommie Bradley
- Hot Jelly Roll Blues - George Carter


disc 4:
- Labor Blues - Tom Dickson
- Goin' Away Blues - Lottie Kimbrough
- No Baby - Charlie Kyle
- Early Mornin' Blues - William Harris
- Dreaming Blues - Willie Reed
- Weeping Willow Blues - George Carter
- Way Down In Arkansas - Hambone Willie Newbern
- Wild About My Loving - Lonnie Coleman
- Indian Squaw Blues - Freezone
- Florida Bound - Edward Thompson
- God Didn't Make No Monkey Man - Eli Framer
- Tallahatchie River Blues - Mattie Delaney
- Diamond Ring Blues - Jim Jam (Walter Taylor)
- Bedside Blues - Jim Thompkins

- Lonesome Midnight Dream - Willie Harris
- Billy Goat Blues - John Byrd
- That Won't Do - Arthur Pettis
- Ghost Woman Blues - George Carter
- 'Toby' Woman Blues - Gene Campbell
- Rollin' Dough Blues - Jack Gowdlock
- Starvation Farm Blues - Bob Campbell
- Farewell To You Baby - Carl Martin
- Teasin' Brown Blues - Louie Lasky
- Married Woman Blues - George Torey
- Dago Blues - Virgil Childers


4 CD box

JSP JSPCD 7798 (UK 2007)



Additional information appreciated !!!

I herewith confess
that I do not have the ambition to list each and every CD anthology / compilation
containing only one (or two ;-) Willie Harris track(s) !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943, 4th ed. 1997, pp. 362, 799
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 167
- John Tefteller and Blues Images Collection - used with permission
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Bob Eagle and Fernando Goin for additional info / scans

 

 

 

 

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