Illustrated Roosevelt Holts discography

source: David Evans: Roosevelt Holts Interview.- Blues Unlimited # 116 (November/December 1975), p. 9; photographer: David Evans Roosevelt Holts
b. January 15, 1905 near Tylertown, Walthall County, Mississippi
d. February 27, 1994 in Franklinton, Washington Parish, Louisiana
discography
source: Back cover of Blue Horizon 7-63201
photographer: Marina Bokelmann

1	3/1968	Roosevelt Holts: Presenting The Country Blues@ youtube (full album) - Prison Bound Blues (MBHL 10139) - Maggie Campbell Blues (MBHL 10140) - Feelin' Sad And Blue (MBHL 10141) * - I'm Going To Build Right On That Shore (MBHL 10142) @ youtube - Lead Pencil Blues (MBHL 10143) - Another Mule Kickin' In My Stall (MBHL 10144) - Little Bitty Woman (MBHL 10145) # - The Good Book Teach You (MBHL 10146) [] # - Big Road Blues (MBHL 10147) - Let's Talk It All Over Again (MBHL 10148) - Red River Blues (MBHL 10149) - She Put Me Outdoors (MBHL 10150) # * rec. January 27, 1966 in Franklinton, LA by David Evans; Roosevelt Holts, voc, g; Babe Stovall, g rec. February 3, 1966 in New Orleans, LA by David Evans; Roosevelt Holts, voc, g # rec. August 28, 1966 in Bogalusa, LA by David Evans; Roosevelt Holts, voc, g; [] L.H. Lane, hca back cover photo by Marina Bokelman notes by David Evans Blue Horizon 7-63201 (UK / Germany 3/1968) notes by David Evans = Blue Horizon BH 7704 (US / Ca 1968) "Electronically rechannelled for stereo" notes by David Evans = CBS SBP 473591 (New Zealand 1968) "Stereo" = Music Box International 40478 (Greece 1991) Roosevelt Holts discography Babe Stovall discography
2	1968	Goin' Up The Country Roosevelt Holts - My Phone Keeps Ringing # Isaiah Chattman - Found My Baby Gone @ youtube Arzo Youngblood - Bye And Bye Blues @ youtube Cornelius Bright - My Baby's Gone @ youtube Herb Quinn - Casey, You Can't Ride This Train @ youtube Arzo Youngblood - Four Women Blues L.V. Conerly - Bad Luck And Trouble Mager Johnson - Travelling Blues @ youtube O.D. Jones & Babe Stovall - Got The Blues This Morning Jack Owens - B & O Blues Bill "Boogie Bill" Webb - Dooleyville Blues Roosevelt Holts - Nowhere To Go # Mager Johnson - Big Road Blues Cornelius Bright - Devil Got My Woman @ youtube Jack Owens - Devil Got My Woman @ youtube # rec. August 28, 1966 in Bogalusa, LA by David Evans; Roosevelt Holts, voc, g notes (January 1968) by David Evans Decca LK 4931 (UK 1968) notes (January 1968) by David Evans = Decca BLK-16563-P (Germany) new notes (June 1975) by David Evans = Rounder 2012 (US 1975) shortened version of original 1968 notes by David Evans (english & italian) Albatros VPA 8451 (It 1979) "Bad Luck And Trouble" Rounder Records discography Albatros Records discography Jack Owens discography Herb Quinn discography Babe Stovall discography
3	1969	ROOSEVELT HOLTS with Boogie Bill - Down The Big Road (A) - Blues On My Mind (B) rec. April 2, 1969 in Bogalusa, LA; Roosevelt Holts, voc, g; Boogie Bill Webb, g; prod. by David Evans Bluesman 100 (US 1969)
4	1970	How Blue Can We Get? Volume I: White Fleetwood Mac - Watch Out Jellybread - Don't Pay Them No Mind Top Topham - Mini-Minor-Mo Duster Bennett - What A Dream Bacon Fat - Boom, Boom (Out Goes The Lights) Chicken Shack - Evelyn Christine Perfect - And That's Saying A Lot Bacon Fat - Small's On 53rd Fleetwood Mac - I'm Worried Chicken Shack - The Way It Is Jellybread - No Brag, Just Facts (parts 1 and 2) Fleetwood Mac - Rambling Pony Volume II: Black Elmore James - Hand In Hand Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - That's Alright Magic Sam - All Your Love Larry Johnson - Catfish Blues Otis Spann - My Love Depends On You Furry Lewis - Casey Jones Champion Jack Dupree - Grandma (You're A Bit Too Slow) George Smith - No Time For Jive Johnny Young - Deal The Cards Roosevelt Holts - Little Bitty Woman [Blue Horizon 7-63201] Bukka White - Bed Spring Blues Mississippi Joe Callicott - On My Last Go Round Otis Rush - Jump Sister Bessie DLP Blue Horizon PR 45/46 (UK 1970) DLP = Blue Horizon SPR 45/46 (NL 1970) Blue Horizon Records discography
5	1971	South Mississippi Blues Babe Stovall & Herb Quinn - See See Rider Eli Owens - Rabbit On A Log Roosevelt Holts - Big Fat Mama Blues [] @ youtube Herb Quinn - Casey Babe Stovall - Candy Man O.D. Jones & Babe Stovall, Dink Brister - Bye Bye Baby Eli Owens - Old Hen Cackle Esau Weary - You Don't Have To Go Babe Stovall - Do Lord, Remember Me Roosevelt Holts - Matchbox Blues * @ youtube Roosevelt Holts - Mean Conductor Blues # @ youtube Eli Owens - Muleskinner Blues Babe Stovall - Maypole March Myrt Holmes - Run Here, Fairo Isaac Youngblood - Hesitating Blues Esau Weary - Forty-Four Blues Babe Stovall - Boll Weevil Eli Owens - Ida Red - Sally Goodin' Babe Stovall - Sweet Bunch Of Daisies Eli Owens - Ways Like The Devil Roosevelt Holts - Home Town Skiffle # @ youtube # rec. August 31, 1965 in Franklinton, LA by David Evans; Roosevelt Holts, voc/sp, g * rec. April 2, 1969 in Bogalusa, LA by David Evans; Roosevelt Holts, voc, g [] rec. August 25, 1970 in Bogalusa, LA by David Evans; Roosevelt Holts, voc, g notes by David Evans Rounder 2009 (US 1971) notes by D.V. = Albatros VPA 8392 (It 1979) "See See Rider" = Rounder C-2009 (cassette) (US 1989) = Music Box International 40478 (Greece 1991) Albatros Records discography Babe Stovall discography
6	1972	The Legacy Of Tommy Johnson Isaac Youngblood & Herb Quinn - Big Road Blues Mager Johnson - Bye And Bye Blues Isaac Youngblood - Maggie Campbell Blues John Henry 'Bubba' Brown - Canned Heat Blues Boogie Bill Webb - Cool Water Blues Isaac Youngblood - Big Fat Mama Blues Houston Stackhouse & Carey 'Ditty' Mason - Pony Blues Arzo Youngblood - I Believe I'll Make Everything Alright Boogie Bill Webb - Show Me What You Got For Sale Arzo Youngblood - Prison Bound Blues Boogie Bill Webb - Maggie Campbell Blues Arzo Youngblood - The Old Folks Doing It And The Little Ones Trying Babe Stovall & O.D. Jones, g, Dink Brister, mand - Big Road Blues Boogie Bill Webb - Take Your Time Roosevelt Holts - Pine Top Boogie (instr.) # @ youtube Boogie Bill Webb - Don't You Lie To Me # rec. February 3, 1966 in New Orleans, LA; Roosevelt Holts, g notes by David Evans saydisc Matchbox SDM 224 (UK 1972) Babe Stovall discography
7	1972	Roosevelt Holts and his friends Roosevelt Holts - Barrelhouse Blues * # - Packing Up Her Trunk To Leave # Esau Weary - Bogalousa Boogie Roosevelt Holts - I'll Catch The Train And Ride # Esau Weary - Big Leg Woman Roosevelt Holts - Leaving This Town, Won't Be Back Til Fall [] Boogie Bill Webb - Maggie Campbell Blues § - Drinking And Stinking // § Eli Owens - Railroad Blues - Memphis Mail Blind Pete Burrell - I'll Fly Away # rec. August 24/25, 1970 in Bogalusa, LA by David Evans; Roosevelt Holts, voc, g; * Calvin Davis, g § rec. August 27, 1970 in New Orleans, LA by David Evans; Boogie Bill Webb, voc, g; Roosevelt Holts, g; // Robert Rucker, dr; [] rec. August 26, 1970 in Clifton, LA; Roosevelt Holts, voc, g; Herb Quinn, mandolin prod. by Chris Strachwitz & David Evans notes by David Evans Arhoolie 1057 (US 1972) Arhoolie Records discography Herb Quinn discography
8	1979	Way Back Yonder ... Original Country Blues Volume 3 Flora, Canton, Bentonia, Crystal Springs, Mississippi & Bogalusa, Louisiana (1978) - Sound Of The Yazoo river Mott Willis - Baby Please Don't Go William Diamond - Black Mattie - Shaggy Hound Jack Owens - Cherry Ball Blues no. 2 Jacob Stuckey - Devil Got My Woman Lonzo Burkes - Train I Ride - Back Door Friend - Smokestack Lightning Roosevelt Holts - Big Road Blues (2:30) # @ youtube - Look-A-Here Little Woman (3:41) ## @ youtube # rec. August 19, 1978 in Bogalusa, LA by Gianni Marcucci; Roosevelt Holts, voc, # ac g, ## el g depicted on the front cover is Charley Taylor (not mentioned in credits!) notes by Gianni Marcucci Albatros VPA 8460 = Albatros VC4965 (It 1979) (=) Albatros ALB 13 "Way Back Yonder... Original Country Blues Volumes 1, 2 & 3" (It 1979) Albatros Records discography Mott Willis discography Do Boy Diamond discography Jack Owens discography
	1982	Big Road Blues Roosevelt Holts - Sundown Blues # - Maggie Campbell Blues # - 2 more tracks Mager Johnson - 3 tracks Robert "Nighthawk" Johnson - 1 track Carey Lee Simmons - 2 tracks Babe Stovall - 1 track Willis Taylor - Mama Do Right Willis Taylor & Mott Willis - The Trashy Gang Blues Mott Willis - Riverside Blues - It Ain't Gonna Rain No More - Bad Night Blues - Who Is That Yonder Coming Down The Road? - Pick And Shovel Blues - Dresser Drawer Blues Arzo & Isaac Youngblood - No Place To Go # rec. April 2, 1969 in Bogalusa, LA; Roosevelt Holts, voc, g announced in David Evans' 1982 book (p. 322) by the same title, but obviously never issued; information about contents from http://www.deltahaze.com and EVANS 1982 Advent 2815 Advent Records discography
9	1992	Giants Of Country Blues Vol. 3 Jack Owens - Leavin' Blues Eugene Powell - Blues In Texas Son Thomas - Walking Cane LV Conerly - Hard Headed Woman Roosevelt Holts - Big Road Blues Arzo Youngblood - I Don't Want No Woman Sam Chatmon - Talkin' Bout My Girl Wade Walton - Catfish Blues Isaac Youngblood - Big Road Blues Wade Walton - Catfish Blues Isaac Youngblood - Big Road Blues Mott Willis - Long Tall Woman Robert Shaw - Ma Grinder Pt 2 - Mobile & KC Blues - The Cows - Rock Island Lavada Durst - Boogie Woogie Alex Moore - Henry 6 Mike Memphis Piano Red - Mama Likes Good Whiskey - After Hours Mose Vinson - Blues Jumped A Rabbit - Four O'Clock Blues cover drawing (of Robert Shaw) by Bernd Konrad notes by Michael Hortig Wolf 120.921 (Austria 1992) not identical with Wolf CD 120.918 with same title !!!
	1992	Big Road Blues The Real Thing from Mississippi 1951 - 1967 Bobo Thomas & Sonny Boy Williamson No. 2 - Catfish Blues Little Milton's Juke Band - Blow It Down - Jackson Juke Houston Stackhouse & Carey "Ditty" Mason - Mercy Blues - Few Clothes - Boogie Mager Johnson - Traveling Blues Little Milton Anderson & Eddie White - Little Milton's Boogie - Mistreated Baby Blues Tommy Lee Thompson - Packin' up My Blues Houston Stackhouse & Carey "Ditty" Mason - I Hate to Hear My Good Gal Call My Name - Big Road Blues - Talkin' 'Bout You - That's Alright Roosevelt Holts is subject of the cover photo, but does not appear as musical content of this album Collectables COL-CD-5269 (US 1992)
10	1993	Roosevelt Holts, Herlin Holts, L. V. Conerly The Franklinton Muscatel Society - Louise Blues # - Corina # - Coal-Black Woman # - Big Road Blues # - Roll and Tumble Blues [] # - Maggie Campbell Blues [] # - Up The Country Blues [] # - Rocks In My Pillow # - Two Wings // - He Satisfied Me // - Burke Holmes' Piece * - Red River Blues * - Don't The Sun Look Lonesome? § - Key To The Highway § - Meet Me In The Bottom § - I'm Gonna Build Right On That Shore § # rec. August 31, 1965 in Franklinton, LA; Roosevelt Holts, voc, g; [] L.V. Conerly, g // rec. August 31, 1965 in Franklinton, LA; L.V. Conerly, g * rec. February 1966 in Franklinton, LA; Roosevelt Holts, voc, g § rec. March 31 1969 in Bogalusa, LA; Roosevelt Holts, voc, g; Herlin Holts¹⁾, hca prod. by David Evans & Marc Ryan for Home Cooking Records ¹⁾ Roosevelt Holts' brother; FANCOURT & McGRATH 2006 and FORD 2007 both list his given name as "Merlin" notes by Marc Ryan Blue Moon CDBM 091 (UK 1993)
11	1999	Giants Of Country Blues Vol. 3 Jessie Mae Hemphill - Go Back To Your Used To Be @ youtube @ Spotify - Train, Train @ youtube @ Spotify - Shake It, Shake It @ youtube @ Spotify - Eagle Bird @ youtube @ Spotify - Shame On You @ youtube @ Spotify Ranie Burnette - I Wonder Why @ youtube @ Spotify - I Call My Baby @ youtube @ Spotify - I'm Goin' Away @ youtube @ Spotify Roosevelt Holts - Big Road Blues # @ youtube @ Spotify L.V. Conerly - Hard Headed Woman @ youtube @ Spotify Junior Kimbrough - Nobody But You @ Spotify - All Night Long @ Spotify - Lord Have Mercy @ Spotify - Please Don't Leave Me, Baby @ Spotify Tommy West - Catfish Blues @ Spotify - Goin' Away @ Spotify - Back Door Man Blues (with Jimmy Holmes, hca) @ Spotify Jacob Stuckey - I Love My Baby @ youtube @ Spotify # rec. September 1991 in Tylertown, MS by Andrea & Hannes Folterbauer; Roosevelt Holts, voc, g notes by David Evans & Hannes Folterbauer Wolf CD 120.918 (Austria 1999)
12	10/2013	Mott Willis & Others: Blues at home 13 recorded in Tennessee, Mississippi & Louisiana (1978-1982) William "Do-Boy" Diamond - Mississippi Flat (1:33) William "Do-Boy" Diamond - Black Mattie (tk 3) (2:08) Jacob Stuckey - It Must Have Been The Devil (tk 2) (1:13) Jacob Stuckey - It Must Have Been The Devil (tk 3) (2:03) Asie Payton - Catfish Blues No. 3 (tk 2) (3:48) Lum Guffin - Train I Ride 18 Coaches Long (2:00) Lum Guffin - Baby Please Don't Go, No. 2 (tk 1) (1:15) William "Do-Boy" Diamond - My Babe (1:20) Roosevelt Holts - Maggie Campbell (2:24) ## [previously unissued] @ youtube William "Do-Boy" Diamond - Shaggy Hound Blues (tk 2) (1:58) Lum Guffin - Louise Blues (2:24) Asie Payton - Blind Man (3:50) Memphis Willie Borum - 61 Highway Blues (2:47) Mager Johnson - Catfish Blues No. 2 (3:04) Lum Guffin - Baby Please Don't Go, No. 2 (tk 2) (2:11) Charlie Taylor - Untitled Blues (3:21) Walter Cooper - Baby Please Don't Go No. 3 (feat. Hammie Nixon) (2:27) Asie Payton - My Babe No. 2 (1:43) Lum Guffin - Rolling And Tumbling (4:36) Mott Willis - Baby Please Don't Go (2:13) Memphis Willie Borum - Army Blues (1:58) Lum Guffin - Catfish Blues (2:42) Mager Johnson - Traveling Man Blues (2:09) Lum Guffin - Casey Jones (3:06) Charlie Taylor - I Got The Blues So Bad (1:46) Asie Payton - Dust My Broom (1:37) Jacob Stuckey - It Must Have Been The Devil (tk 4) (1:49) Roosevelt Holts - Let's Talk It All Over Again (3:00) ## [previously unissued] @ youtube Roosevelt Holts - Big Road Blues (2:34) # [Albatros VPA 8460] @ youtube Roosevelt Holts - Little Bitty Woman (3:45) ## [previously unissued] @ youtube Clay Pittman - I Got The Blues This Morning (1:23) Walter Cooper - Peach Tree Blues (feat. Hammie Nixon) (3:35) all tracks rec., ed. and prod. by Giambattista Marcucci # rec. August 19, 1978 in Bogalusa, LA; Roosevelt Holts, voc, g; "'Big Road Blues' was done with a # Harmony Sovereign acoustic guitar; the remaining tracks were made on ## electric guitar." front cover photo by Giambattista Marcucci: Mott Willis on his porch, Crystal Springs, Mississippi, 1978 notes by Giambattista Marcucci Mbirafon 113 (It 10/2013) www.cdbaby.com
Additional information appreciated !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 112
- David Evans: Roosevelt Holts Interview.- Blues Unlimited # 116 (November/December 1975), pp. 9-11
- David Evans: Big Road Blues, Tradition and Creativity in the Folk Blues.- Berkeley (University of California Press) 1982
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver 2006, pp. 216, 565-566
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, p. 446
- http://record-fiend.blogspot.com/2010/08/big-road-blues-real-thing-from.html
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources
thanks to Alan Balfour, Hank Moore and Max Hoeffner for additional info / scans

Roosevelt Holts
source: David Evans: Roosevelt Holts Interview.- Blues Unlimited # 116 (November/December 1975), p. 10; photographer: Cheryl Evans

Roosevelt Holts
at Jeff Harris' BIG ROAD BLUES ("vintage blues radio & writing")

Delta Blues further reading

Evans, David: Big Road Blues - Tradition and Creativity in the Folk Blues.- left: Berkeley (University of California Press Hardback) 1982 / right: New York (Da Capo Paperback) 1987