Aladdin 165 (2nd release)
"LIGHTNIN'" HOPKINS AND "THUNDER" SMITH
- Can't Do Like You Used To (52-3)   @ youtube
- West Coast Blues (53-1)   @ youtube


Aladdin 165 (2nd release)

Aladdin 166

Aladdin 167

 
Aladdin 168

Gold Star 3131

 
= Modern 20-529

Aladdin 209

Gold Star 613

Gold Star 614 [Bill Quinn's label]

Gold Star unissued

Gold Star 616

 
Gold Star 624

Gold Star 634

Gold Star 637

 
Gold Star 640

Gold Star 656

Gold Star 662 (US 1949)

= Sittin' In With 644 (US 1952)

# Dart LP 8000
Verve LP 8453
Verve LP 331.010 (Fr)

Arhoolie LP 2010

Gold Star 664

Gold Star 665

Gold Star 666 (US 1949)

Gold Star 669

= Harlem 2336 (US 1953)

Gold Star 673 (US 1949/50)

# = Harlem 2331 (US 1953)

Sittin' In With 611 (US 1951)

Sittin' In With 621 (US 12/1951)

Jax 621 (US 195?) [Bob Shad's label]

 
Sittin' In With 635 (US 1952)

Sittin In With 640 [Morty and Bob Shad's label]

Sittin' In With 642 (US 1952)

Sittin In With 648

Imperial 5245

= Imperial 5-5245 (reissue US 2009)

 
Decca 48312

"Cemetery Blues" has been released on some CD compilations without that darn dubbed "sobbing" noise, e.g. on Mainstream/Legacy CD JK 53626 (US 1993)   @ youtube>

 
Herald 425 (US 4/1954)

 
Herald 428 (US 5/1954)

   
Herald 436 (US 9/1954)

   
Herald 443 (US 12/1954)     label picture on the far right (45 rpm side B) is from a repro/bootleg

 
Herald 476 (US 4/1956)

 
Ace 516 (US c. 5/1956) "Lightning Hopkins"

 
= Herald 520 (US 5/1958) "Lightnin' Hopkins"

Bluesville 45-813 (US 12/1961)

Bluesville 45-817 (US 1962)

Bluesville 45-820 (US 4/1962)

Bluesville 45-821

Bluesville 45-822

Bluesville 45-825

Arhoolie unissued

 
Prestige 45-343

Prestige 45-391

Prestige 45-452

Herald LP-1012 (US 1955)

notes by Anonymous

Score SLP-4022 (mono) (US 1958)

(=) Imperial LP 9180-A
Imperial LP 12180-A (stereo) (US 1962) "Lightnin' Hopkins On Stage"

= Polydor 46 859 (Fr 1964) "Bad Luck Blues - Volume II"

(=) Toshiba/EMI LLR-8189 (Jp 197?) "Lightnin' Hopkins Strums The Blues"

(=) Score / Liberty / Pathé Marconi 2C 068-83.076 (Fr 1982) "Lightnin' Hopkins Strums The Blues"

= DOL DOL1122 (EU 2013) "Lightnin' Hopkins On Stage"

Oldays CD ODR6045 (Jp 2015) "Lightnin' Hopkins Strums The Blues"

(=) Third Man TMR554 (US 2019) "Lightnin' Hopkins Strums The Blues"

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

Lynn Gold
- Quiet Land
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
- Livin' With The Blues
Barbara Dane
- How Long Blues
Bumble Bee Slim
- Wake Up In The Mornin'

World Pacific WP-1813

= Fontana 688 009 ZL (1963)

notes by Samuel B. Charters

Folkways FS 3822 (US 1959)

= Disques Ricordi FA 3822 (Fr 196?) (Folkways serie)

notes by Samuel B. Charters

= Folkways FS 31011 (US 1965) "Lightnin' Hopkins" [electronic "stereo"]

notes by Samuel B. Charters

= Verve Folkways VLP/SVLP 5003 (UK 1965) "The Roots of Lightnin' Hopkins"

notes by Samuel Charters

= Verve Folkways FV/FVS 9000 [on labels: FVS 9000] (US 1972) "The Roots of Lightnin' Hopkins" ("Stereophonic")

= XTRA 1127 (UK 1972) "The Roots of Lightnin' Hopkins"

notes by Samuel B. Charters

= Blue Angel BA-20008 (Germany) "The Roots of Lightnin' Hopkins"

notes by Sam Charters

= Smithsonian Folkways SF 40019 (US 1990) "Lightnin' Hopkins"

notes (1990) by Sam Charters

= Smithsonian Folkways CD SF 40019 (US 1990) "Lightnin' Hopkins"

Document Private Issue tracks:
- Goin' To Galveston #
- Met The Blues At The Corner #
- How Many Days Must I Wait (16) §
- Beggin' Up And Down The Streets (21) *
- Black Snake (22) *
- If You Ever Been Mistreated (26) *
- Children's Boogie (27) * []
- Dig Me In The Morning (29) &
- Back To Arkansas (39) &
- Corrine, Corrina (32) [Candid CJM 8026]
- Have You Ever Seen A One-Eyed Woman Cry? (34) &
- Hard Headed Children (35) {} []
- Tom Moore's Farm (36) [77 LA 12/3]
- Blues For Queen Elizabeth (39) {}
- Hello England (41) {}
- The Dirty Dozens (43) [Raglan LP 51]
- When The Saints Go Marching In (45) //
- Long Way From Texas (47) [Heritage HLP 1001]
- Look Out, Settegast, Here Me And My Partner Come (47) [Heritage HLP 1001]
- Getting Out Of The Bushes Tap Dance (51) [Heritage HLP 1001]
- Whiskey, Whiskey (58) [Heritage HLP 1001]
- Suicide Blues (60) [Heritage HLP 1001]

"photograph by kind permission of Andy Hanson"

notes by Mack McCormick
 
77 LA 12/1 (UK 1959)

(=) Document CD no # "Private Issue" (c.1998) (strictly limited edition of 100 copies, never sold, but given away at Document wrap party in Vienna) "Lightnin' Hopkins 1954 & 1959" with extra tracks from Heritage HLP 1001 and other places

Joel Hopkins rec. June 12 and # October 31, 1959 in Dickinson, TX by Mack McCormick
Sam Hopkins rec. November 19, 1959 in Houston, TX by Mack McCormick
[] additional track on Collector's Issue LP (from Candid CJM 8026)
§ actually Hopkins sings "Soldiers dyin' in Germany, Red Cross on my arm"
photography by Ed Badeaux (Joel Hopkins), Andrew Hanson (Lightnin' Hopkins)

Document DOCD 5619 track sequence:
Sam 'Suitcase' Johnson
- Sam's Comin' Home
- Sam's Boogie
Bobo Thomas
- Catfish Blues (I Wish I Was A Catfish)
Clifford Gibson (1951)
- Sneaky Groundhog
- Let Me Be Your Handy Man
Juke Boy Bonner
- Rock With Me Baby
- Well Baby
Joel Hopkins (1959)
- Good Times Here, Better Down The Road
- Thunder In Germany
- I Ain't Gonna Roll For The Big Hat Man No More
- Accused Me Of Forgin' Can't Even Write My Name
- Matchbox Blues
Jewell Long (1960)
- Frankie And Albert
- My Pony Run Blues
- Sealy Rag
- Muddy Shoes Blues
Clifford Gibson (1960)
- It's Best To Know Who You're Talking To
- I Don't Want No Woman
- The Monkey Likes To Boogie
- No Success Blues
Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
- Angel Child (tk 2)

Document Private Issue tracks:
Lightnin' Hopkins 1954 & 1959
- Goin' To Galveston #
- Met The Blues At The Corner #
- How Many Days Must I Wait (16) §
- Beggin' Up And Down The Streets (21) *
- Black Snake (22) *
- If You Ever Been Mistreated (26) *
- Children's Boogie (27) * []
- Dig Me In The Morning (29) &
- Back To Arkansas (39) &
- Corrine, Corrina (32) [Candid CJM 8026]
- Have You Ever Seen A One-Eyed Woman Cry? (34) &
- Hard Headed Children (35) {} []
- Tom Moore's Farm (36) [77 LA 12/3]
- Blues For Queen Elizabeth (39) {}
- Hello England (41) {}
- The Dirty Dozens (43) [Raglan LP 51]
- When The Saints Go Marching In (45) //
- Long Way From Texas (47) [Heritage HLP 1001]
- Look Out, Settegast, Here Me And My Partner Come (47) [Heritage HLP 1001]
- Getting Out Of The Bushes Tap Dance (51) [Heritage HLP 1001]
- Whiskey, Whiskey (58) [Heritage HLP 1001]
- Suicide Blues (60) [Heritage HLP 1001]

notes by Tony Standish

Heritage HLP 1001 (UK 1960)

notes by Tony Standish

= Collector's Issue C-5530 (Austria 1990?) "Joel & Lightnin' Hopkins (1959)"
Alan Balfour review (Blues & Rhythm 53 - July 1990) at www.blindman.com

Joel Hopkins tracks available on Document DOCD-5619 "Rural Blues Vol. 2 1951-1962"

(=) Document CD no # "Private Issue" (c.1998) (strictly limited edition of 100 copies, never sold, but given away at Document wrap party in Vienna) "Lightnin' Hopkins 1954 & 1959" with tracks from 77 LA 12/1, Heritage HLP 1001 and other places

notes (French) by Jacques Demêtre

Brunswick 87 504 selection (Fr 1960)

notes (English) by Nat Henthoff, notes (German) by Dr. Dietrich Schulz-Köhn

= Brunswick LPBM 87 504 (Germany)

notes (English) by Nat Henthoff, notes (German) by Dr. Dietrich Schulz-Köhn

= Fonit LPB. 87504 (It)

notes by Ed Michel

World Pacific WPL 296
= WP 1296 (mono)
= ST-1296 (stereo)

= Vogue LAE 12266 (1963)

notes by Ed Michel

= World Pacific ST-1817 "First Meetin'" (US 1963)

notes by Paul Oliver
Fontana 688.007 ZL (1964) "Penitentiary Blues" (Folk Blues U.S.A. series)

World Pacific WP 2826 (Jp) "First Meetin' Of Blues Giants"

= United Artists GXF-38 (Jp 1978)

= Kimberly 2017 (mono)
= 11017 (stereo) "Southern Meetin'"

notes by Bill Dahl

(=) Fuel 2000 CD 061101 (2001) "Lightnin' Hopkins & The Blues Summit"

first issued with no label
name ('ufsom' being the
master name printed on
the label)

12-page booklet

Raglan R 51

Mrs. Melton - The Ballad Of Davy Crockett
IC Forest & Gozy Kilpatrick - Crying Won't Make Me Stay
Dudley Alexander Washboard Band - Baby Please Don't Go

Dennis Gainus - You Gonna Look Like A Monkey   @ youtube
Jim Wilkie - Bad Lee Brown
Pete Rose - Sand Mountain Blues
Linna Belle Hafti - Soldier Will You Marry Me
Joel Hopkins - Good Times Here, Better Down The Road *   @ youtube
John Lomax Jr. - The Grey Goose   @ youtube
Andrew Everett - Hello Central, Give Me 209
John Q Anderson - The Miller Boy
George Coleman [= Bongo Joe] - After Hours Improvisation   @ youtube
Joseph Johnson, R G Williams & Group - Shake It Mister Gater
Grover Dickson and Group - Grizzly Bea

Candid CJM 8026 track sequence:
Harry Stephens - The Streets Of Laredo
Jimmy Womack - Talking Blues
Jimmy Womack - The Jealous Lover
Harry Burton and Group - Yellow Gal
Andrew Everett - KC Ain't Nothing But A Rag
Ed Badeaux - The Waitress And The Sailor
Lightnin' Hopkins - Corrine, Corrina #
Mrs. Melton - The Ballad Of Davy Crockett
John Q Anderson - The Miller Boy
R.C. Forest & Gozy Kilpatrick - Crying Won't Make Me Stay
Dudley Alexander Washboard Band - Baby Please Don't Go

Dennis Gainus - You Gonna Look Like A Monkey
Jim Wilkie - Bad Lee Brown
Pete Rose - Sand Mountain Blues
Linna Belle Hafti - Soldier Will You Marry Me
Joel Hopkins - Good Times Here, Better Down The Road *
John Lomax Jr. - The Grey Goose
Andrew Everett - Hello Central, Give Me 209
Edwin Pickens - Blues In The Bottom [actually not included, following George Coleman title instead !]
George Coleman [= Bongo Joe] - After Hours Improvisation (p instr)
Joseph Johnson, R G Williams & Group - Shake It Mister Gater
Grover Dickson and Group - Grizzly Bear

collected by members of the Houston Folklore Group (Harold Belikoff, Ed Badeaux, Pete Seeger, Chester Bower, John Lomax, Jr., Mack McCormick) and compiled by Mack McCormick

# rec. July 13, 1959 in Houston, TX by Mack McCormick; Lightnin' Hopkins, voc, g
* rec. June 12, 1959 in Dickinson, TX by Mack McCormick; Joel Hopkins, voc, g
|| rec. August 17, 1960 in Houston, TX by Chris Strachwitz, Mack McCormick & Paul Oliver

17 pp. notes by Mack McCormick
 
77 LA 12-2 (UK 1960)

notes by Mack McCormick
 
(=) Candid CJM 8026 (US 1962) "Treasury of Field Recording" [Cadence subsidiary label]

[= CJM 8025 / CJS 9025 ???
9025 is Otis Spann: Walking The Blues; 9026 is Charles Mingus: Reincarnation Of A Lovebird !!!]

Paul Elliott - Deep Ellum Blues
George Coleman [= Bongo Joe] - This Old World Is In A Terrible Condition

Gozy Kilpatrick - Goin' To The River
Percy Wilborn Quartet - Oh, What A Time (A History of World War II)
Jimmy Womack - Atomic Energy
Anonymous [= Mance Lipscomb] - Tom Moore's Farm *   @ youtube

18-pp. booklet notes (March 1960) by Mack McCormick with additions and corrections by Paul Oliver

77 LA 12/3 (UK 1960)

Blind Boy Fuller - Thousand Woman [sic!] Blues
Arthur Crudup - If I Get Lucky
Charlie Pickett - Down The Highway

Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues
Blind Willie Johnson - Take Your Burden To The Lord
Tommy McClennan - New Highway 51

Furry Lewis - John Henry
Blind Willie Johnson - Nobody's Fault But Mine
Furry Lewis - Warm Up
Bukka White - Bukka's Jitterbug Swing
Furry Lewis - Casey Jones
Peg Leg Howell - Coal Man Blues
John Hurt - Frankie
Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Mama
Papa Charlie Jackson - Airy Man Blues
Skip James - Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues
Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - New How Long Blues

Bert Bilbro - Mohana Blues °°
Sonny Terry & Oh Red - Harmonica Stomp
Frank Stokes - Shiney Town Blues
Virgil Perkins - Trouble In Mind
Arthur Crudup- Mean Old Frisco
Brownie McGhee- Sportin' Life Blues
Virgil Perkins - [Washboard] Solo
Charlie Burse - Tippin' Round
Ham Gravy - Mama Don't 'Low It
Moochie Reeves - Key To The Highway

2 LP boxed set
notes (8-pp. booklet) by Samuel B. Charters

same front cover as RF-202(X) (1964), but with more reddish lettering


notes captioned "RBF RECORDS album No. RF 202 Copyright © 1960"


RBF RF-202 (US 1960)

(=) RBF RF-202 (X) (US 1964)

James (Willie) Wayne
- Junco Partner
- Please, Baby, Please

Sonny Terry
- Goin' Down Slow
Brownie McGhee
- Mean Old Frisco
Arbee Stidham
- Feeling Blue & Low
- I'm In The Mood
Smokey Hogg
- Shake A Leg [alt tk]
- I Love You Baby [SIW 565]

Mainstream MRL-310 track sequence:
Ray Charles
- Why Did You Go
- Back Home
- I Found My Baby There
- Guitar Blues
James Wayne
- Junco Partner
- Please Baby Please

Arbee Stidham
- I Want To Rock
- Feeling Blue & Low
- I'm In The Mood
Lil Son Jackson
- Roberta
- She's Gone

notes by Nat Hentoff

Time T/70006 (mono)
Time ST/70006 (stereo)

notes by Nat Hentoff

Time LP N90P-1382/83

= Realm RM 101 (1963) "Ray Charles In R&B Greats"

(=) Mainstream MRL-310 (US 1971)

MGM E/SE-3917 [unissued]

= Dart LP 8000 (US 1960) "Lightning Strikes Again"

notes by Frederick Warner

= Verve V8453 (US 1962) "Fast Life Woman"

= Verve Bel Air 331.010 (Fr 1962?) "Sam Lightnin' Hopkins Blues et Gospel N^o 2"

= D D-8000 (US 1967) "Blues Underground"

- Introduction to Big Car Blues
- Big Car Blues
- Coffee House Blues
- Stoll Pigeon Blues
- Ball Of Twine
- Blues For Gamblers #
- Right On That Shore #

- Early Morning Blues # []
- Walk On
- Blues For The Lowlands
- Down By The Riverside
- Blowin' The Fuses
- Po' Boy []
- I'm A Stranger Here (live)
- Trouble In Mind (live

[] CD bonus tracks not included in original Davon LP
rec. Aug 1961; Lightnin' Hopkins; Brownie McGhee; Sonny Terry; # Big Joe Williams
DCC remastered by Steve Hoffman

notes by Barbara Dane
Davon 2015

= Horizon WP-1617 (mono)
Horizon SWP-1617 (stereo) (US 1963)

notes by Joe Goldberg

Bluesville 1019 (Fr 1961)

notes by Joe Goldberg

Bluesville BVLP 1019

notes by Joe Goldberg

= Prestige PR 7811 (US 1970) ("electronically remastered for stereo")

= OBC 532 (US 1989)

= OBC CD-532 (US 1991)

7 CD set
notes by Samuel Charters

(=) Prestige/Bluesville 7PCD-4406-2 (US 1991) "The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings"

3 CD set

(=) Not Now NOT3CD128 "Bluesville Story 1960-1962"

- Black And Evil [unissued] #
- Walkin' With Frankie [unissued] #

rec. February 16 & 26, 1959 in Houston, Tx. by Mack McCormick
# with Luke 'Long Gone' Miles, voc

Tradition Everest S-2056 track sequence:
- Short Haired Woman
- Bottle It Up And Go
- Long Time
- The Foot Race Is On
- Prison Blues Comes Down On Me #
- Bunion Stew

- Mama And Papa Hopkins
- Get Off My Toe
- Trouble In Mind
- Till The Gins Runs Out
- Gonna Pull A Party
- When The Saints Go Marching In

notes by Mack McCormick

Tradition TLP 1035

some tracks on Tradition Everest S-2056 (US 1968) "The Best of Lightnin' Hopkins"

= Bellaphon BLS 4022 (Germany 197?)

= Columbia SL-5018-EV (Jp)

notes by Mack McCormick

= Rycodisk TCD 1003 (1996)

notes by Joe Nick Patoski

= Tradition 1084 (US 2002) "The Tradition Masters"   2 CD-set (along with "Autobiography In Blues")

P-Vine PCD-23762 track sequence:
- Jake Head Boogie
- Lonesome Dog Blues
- Tell Me Pretty Mama
- Last Affair
- Don't Keep My Baby Long
- Santa Fe Blues
- Give Me Back That Wig
- Beggin' You To Stay °°
- Bad Luck And Trouble °°
- Ticket Agent °°
- War News Blues °°
- Everyday I Have The Blues °°
- Needed Time °°
- One Kind Favor °°
- Black Cat °°
- Someday Baby °°

°° from Crown LP

P-Vine PCD-93618 track sequence:
- Jake Head Boogie
- Lonesome Dog Blues
- Bad Luck And Trouble [short tk]
- Bad Luck And Trouble
- Beggin' You To Stay (Someday Baby)
- Tell Me Pretty Mama
- War News Blues
- Ticket Agent
- Give Me Back That Wig
- Don't Keep My Baby Long (original 78 version)
- House Upon The Hill
- Last Affair [short tk]
- Last Affair
- Everyday I Have The Blues [short tk]
- Everyday I Have The Blues
- Drifting
- Black Cat
- Another Fool In Town
- Candy Kitchen
- Needed Time
- Mistreater Blues
- Some Day Baby
- One Kind Favor
- Santa Fe
- Jake Head Boogie (alt tk)
- Lonesome Dog Blues (alt tk)
- Ticket Agent (alt tk)
- Give Me Back That Wig (alt tk)
- Don't Keep My Baby Long (original master tk)
- Mistreater Blues (alt tk)
- Candy Kitchen (alt tk)
- Needed Time (alt tk)

Crown CLP-5224 (US 1961)

Crown CLP 5362 (US 1961)

= Custom CM 2051 (US)

= United Superior US 7713 (US 1970)

= P-Vine PLP-392 (Jp 1989)

mini LP CD

(=) P-Vine PCD-23762 (Jp 2006)

(=) P-Vine PCD-93618 (Jp 2012)

notes by Mack McCormick

Bluesville BV 1029

(=) Bluesville BV 1081 (US 1965)

= Fontana 688 301 ZL (UK 1965)

= Bluesville BV SP101

notes by Mack McCormick

= OBC CD-548-2 (1992)

7 CD set
notes by Samuel Charters

(=) Prestige/Bluesville 7PCD-4406-2 (US 1991) "The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings"

3 CD set

(=) Not Now NOT3CD128 "Bluesville Story 1960-1962"

notes by Mack McCormick

Bluesville BV/BVLP 1045 (US 1962)

notes by Mack McCormick

= Prestige BV/BVLP 1045

= OBCCD-506-2

= Vogue SLDP 829 (Fr 1972)

= Ace CH 290 (UK 1993)

= Ace CD CHD 930 (along with BVLP 1057)

= Carrere 68.422 (Fr 1983)

= Prestige GSL 238 (South Africa 1985)

= Vogue CD 670405 (Fr 1989)

7 CD set
(=) Prestige/Bluesville 7PCD-4406-2 (US 1991) "The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings"

3 CD set

(=) Not Now NOT3CD128 "Bluesville Story 1960-1962"

notes by Mack McCormick

Bluesville BVLP 1057

= Ace CH 256 (UK 1988)

= Ace CH 409 (along with BVLP 1061 and BVLP 1070) "How Many More Years I Got ..."
= Fantasy FCD-24725-2

= Ace CD CHD 930 (along with BVLP 1045)

(=) Prestige/Bluesville 4406 The Complete Prestige/ Bluesville Recordings 7 CD set

notes by Chris A. Strachwitz

Arhoolie F 1011 (US 1962) "Lightnin' Sam Hopkins"

notes by Chris A. Strachwitz

= Fontana 688 801 ZL (1964) "Burnin' In L.A."

= Trio PA-3064 (Jp 197?) (has sides A and B switched!)

(=) Arhoolie CD 403 "Po' Lightnin'"

= Arhoolie F 1011 (US 2012 repress; includes download card for a free digital copy of the entire album)

notes by Joachim E. Berendt

Philips B 681 555 L (Philips Twen Serie 11)

Guitar Slim & Jelly Belly - Yellow-Brown Woman
Little Son Willis - Nothing But The Blues
Blind James Phillips - Night Is Falling
Lil' Son Jackson - Bad Whiskey - Bad Women
Juke Boy Bonner - Ridin' The Greyhound Bus Again (4:10) °° [add'l track, on later release only]   @ youtube
Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - B & O Blues

Mercy Dee - Sugar Daddy
Big Joe Williams - Little Machine
Paul McZiel Zydeco Band - I'm Sad And I'm Blue
Blind James Campbell - Sittin' Here Drinking
Robert Shaw - Turn Loose My Tongue
Dr. Ross (Isaiah Ross) - Downtown Boogie (tk 2) (2:20) °° [add'l track, on later release only]   @ youtube

notes by Chris A. Strachwitz   "Arhoolie Records, Box No. 5073, Berkeley 5, Calif."

Arhoolie F 1012 (US 1962) (11 tracks!)

notes by Chris A. Strachwitz   "Arhoolie Records, Box 9195, Berkeley, Ca. 94709"

Arhoolie F 1012 (US 196?) (11 tracks!)

notes by Chris A. Strachwitz   "Arhoolie Records, Box 9195, Berkeley, Ca. 94709"

Arhoolie F 1012 (US 1964?) (13 tracks!)

Frankie Lee Sims
- Walking With Frankie [Ace 527]
Sonny Boy Williams
- No Nights By Myself
Elmore James
- I Believe
Charles Brown
- Trouble Blues
Earl King
- Those Lonely, Lonely Nights

Eddie Bo
- I'll Keep On Trying

Sonny Boy Williams
- Boppin' With Sonny
- No Nights By Myself
Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
- Mean Old World
- Baby I've Been Mistreated
Elmore James
- Dust My Broom
Bo Bo Thomas
- I Wish I Was A Catfish

Lightnin' Slim
- Bad Feeling Blues [Ace 505]
Schoolboy Cleve
- Beautiful Beautiful Love
- My Baby Done Gone

Teem LP-5005 [Ace budget subsidiary]

notes by LeRoi Jones

Bluesville BVLP 1059 (US 1963)

notes by LeRoi Jones

= Prestige PR 7802 (US 1970)

notes by LeRoi Jones

= Prestige PR 7802 (US 1973)

notes by LeRoi Jones

= OBC LP OBC-521 (US 1987)

notes by LeRoi Jones

= OBCCD-521-2 (US 1990)

set of two 45 rpm 180 g LPs
notes by LeRoi Jones

= Analogue Productions AJAZ 1059 (US 2008)

- Kiddio - Brook Benton
- Lover's Question - Clyde McPhatter
- Fannie-May - Buster Brown
- Ya Ya - Lee Dorsey
- Any Day Now - Chuck Jackson
- Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lyman

- I'll Drown In My Own Tears - Ray Charles
- What Am I Living For - Chuck Willis

Mercury MG 20826 (mono)

= Mercury SR 60826 (rechanneled to simulate stereo)

Bluesville BVLP 1061 (US 1963)

Prestige BVLP 1061 (US 1964)

= Ace CH 409 (UK 19??) (along with BVLP 1057 and BVLP 1070) "How Many More Years I Got ..."
= Fantasy FCD-24725-2

7 CD set
notes by Samuel Charters

(=) Prestige/Bluesville 7PCD-4406-2 (US 1991) "The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings"

Bluesville BVLP 1070 (US 1963)

= OBC OBCCD-551-2 (US 1992)

= Ace CH 409 (UK 19??) (along with BVLP 1057 and BVLP 1061) "How Many More Years I Got ..."
= Fantasy FCD-24725-2

7 CD set
notes by Samuel Charters

(=) Prestige/Bluesville 7PCD-4406-2 (US 1991) "The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings"

Bluesville BVLP 1073 (US 1963)

= OBC LP-522 (US 1987)

= OBC OBCCD-522-2 (US/Germany 1990)

7 CD set
notes by Samuel Charters

(=) Prestige/Bluesville 7PCD-4406-2 (US 1991) "The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings"

= JVC JVCXR-0211-2 (US 2001)

= Oldays ODR 6009 (Jp 2016)

= Analogue Productions APRJ 1073 (US 2016)

Lil' Son Jackson - Gambling Blues [Gold Star 668]
Lil' Son Jackson - Homeless Blues [Gold Star 668]
Lee Hunter - Back To Santa Fe [Gold Star 651]
L.C. Williams - Strike Blues [Gold Star 667]
Leroy Ervin - Blue, Black And Evil [Gold Star 628]
Leroy Ervin - Rock Island Blues [Gold Star 628]
Lightning Hopkins - Grievance Blues [Gold Star 669]
Lightning Hopkins - Baby Please Don't Go [Gold Star 646] °°

L.C. Williams - You Never Miss The Water [Gold Star 614]
Thunder Smith - Santa Fe Blues [Gold Star 644]
Thunder Smith - Big Stars Are Falling [Gold Star 615]
Lightning Hopkins - Big Mama Jump [Gold Star 3131]
L.C. Williams - I Wonder [Gold Star unissued]
Lightning Hopkins - Death Bells [Gold Star 646]
L.C. Williams - I Won't Be Here Long [Gold Star 648]
L.C. Williams - Black Woman [Gold Star 648] °°

°° re-release bonus tracks



P-Vine PCD-2519 bonus tracks (from Arhoolie F 1017):
Black Ace - Beer Drinking Woman
Rattlesnake Cooper - I'm Leaving Town
Mercy Dee Walton - Ebony Baby
Billy Bizor - Tom Moore
Alex Moore - Chock House Boogie
Smokey Hogg - Hello Baby
Robert Shaw - The Fives
Lightnin' Hopkins - Hurricanes Carla & Esther
Mercy Dee Walton - 8th Wonder Of The World

notes by Paul Oliver     Arhoolie Records, Box 5073, Berkeley 5, California
 
Arhoolie 2006 (US 1963)

notes by Paul Oliver     Arhoolie Records, Box 9195, Berkeley, Ca. 94709

(=) Arhoolie 2006 (US 19??) (first re-release, bonus tracks not indicated on sleeve nor label!)

notes by Paul Oliver     Arhoolie Records, Box 9195, Berkeley, Ca. 94709

Arhoolie 2006 (US 19??) (second re-release, bonus tracks indicated on labels, but not on sleeve!)

(=) P-Vine PCD-2519 (Jp 1989)

(=) Arhoolie CD 352

Arhoolie Records discography
Lil' Son Jackson discography
L.C. Williams discography
Thunder Smith discography

notes by Chris Strachwitz     Arhoolie Records, Box 9195, Berkeley, California 94719

Arhoolie 2007 (US 1963) "Early Recordings"

notes by Chris Strachwitz

= Fontana 688 803 ZL (NL 1966) "Bluebird Blues"

= Stateside ISR-8145 (Jp 19??) "Early Recordings"

notes (1963) by Chris Strachwitz     Arhoolie Records, 10341 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito, CA 94530

= Arhoolie 2007 (US 1969) "Early Recordings"

notes (1963) by Chris Strachwitz     Arhoolie Records, 10341 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito, CA 94530

= Arhoolie 2007 (US 1975) "Early Recordings"

Lil Son Jackson
- Roberta
- She's Gone


Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
- Dissatisfied Woman
- Pawn Shop Blues
- Goin' Down Slow
- Mean Old Frisco
Arbee Stidham
- Feeling Blue And Low
- I Want To Rock

Smokey Hogg
- Saved All My Money
- What In The World Am I Gonna Do
Lightnin Hopkins
- Fast Life Woman
- Buck Dance Boogie
- Worried Blues
- Home In The Woods

2 LP set

Time PMS- (Jp 1964)

2 LP set

= Columbia / Mainstream XM-93/94-MS (Jp 1969)

Will Shade - I Can't Stand It (1:20) [RBF 202, Wolf 120.920]   @ youtube
Hambone Willie Newbern - Shelby County Work House Blues [OKeh 8740]
Robert Johnson - From Four Until Late [Vocalion 03623]
Furry Lewis - You Can Leave, Baby [rec. October 3, 1959, previously unissued, Wolf 120.920]
Sleepy John Estes - Milk Cow Blues [aka "Sloppy Drunk Blues", Victor V38614]
L'il Son Jackson - Roberta Blues [Gold Star 638]
Blind Boy Fuller - Thousand Woman [sic] Blues [OKeh 05657]
Arthur Crudup - If I Get Lucky [Bluebird B8858]
Charlie Pickett - Down The Highway [Decca 7707]

Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues [Decca 7026]
Blind Willie Johnson - Take Your Burden To The Lord [Columbia 14520-D]
Tommy McClennan - New Highway 51 [Bluebird B8499]
Blind Willie McTell - Mama T'ain't Long 'Fo' Day [Victor 21474]
Charlie Burse - Take Your Fingers Off It (0:34) [previously unissued]
Charlie Lincoln - My Wife Drove Me From My Door [Columbia 14305-D]
Peg Leg Howell - Skin Game Blues [Columbia 14473-D]

Blind Willie Johnson - Nobody's Fault But Mine [Columbia 14303-D]
Furry Lewis - Warm Up [rec. October 3, 1959, previously unissued, Wolf 120.920]
Bukka White - Bukka's Jitterbug Swing [OKeh 05625]
Peg Leg Howell - Coal Man Blues [Columbia 14194-D]
Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Mama [Columbia 14632-D]
Papa Charlie Jackson - Airy Man Blues [Paramount 12219]
Skip James - Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues [Paramount 13085]
Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - New How Long Blues [Vocalion 1435]

Sonny Terry & Oh Red - Harmonica Stomp [OKeh 05538]
Frank Stokes - Shiney Town Blues [Victor V38589]
Virgil Perkins - Trouble In Mind [rec. November 6, 1955, previously unissued]
Arthur Crudup - Mean Old Frisco [Bluebird 34-0704]
Brownie McGhee - Sportin' Life Blues [Alert 401]
Virgil Perkins - [washboard] Solo [rec. November 6, 1955, previously unissued]
Charlie Burse - Tippin' Round (1:27) [previously unissued]
Ham Gravy (= Washboard Sam) - Mama Don't Love It [aka "Mama Don't Allow, No. 1", Vocalion 03275]
Moochie Reeves - Key To The Highway (3:11) [previously unissued]   @ youtube

2 LP boxed set
notes (8-pp. booklet) by Samuel B. Charters

originally issued with same front and back cover as RF-202 (1960) but with orange lettering
RBF RF-202 (X) (US 1964)

later issued with addition "All original recordings are included in their entirety" on back cover
= RBF RF-202 (X) (US 196?)

= RBF RF-202 (X) (US 196?)

= RBF RF-202 (X) (US 1966?)

2 LP boxed set
(abbreviated) notes by Samuel B. Charters

= XTRA 1035 (UK 1966)

DLP gatefold
notes by Samuel B. Charters

= XTRA 1035 (UK 1966?)

= Fontana 982.099

2 x CDr
notes by Samuel B. Charters

= Smithsonian CD RF 202 (US 2012)

The Shenandoah Trio
- Santy Anna
Rod McKuen
- Someplace Green
Mason Williams
- Saturday Night Banjo
Barbara Dane
- Barbara Allen
Roy Guest
- Jesse James
Tennessee Three
- Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms

Phil Campos
- Big Jack
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
- I'm A Stranger Here
Art & Paul
Jump Down, Turn Around
Katie Lee
- Tell Old Bil

notes by Dave Hubert

In Records LP-1001 (US 1964)

Philips/Phonogram SFL-7385 track sequence:
- Five Long Years - Muddy Waters (AFBF 1963)
- Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues - Willie Dixon (AFBF 1963)
- Crazy For My Baby - Willie Dixon (AFBF 1963)
- Matt's Guitar Boogie - Matthew Murphy (AFBF 1963)
- I Don't Know - Sonny Boy Williamson (AFBF 1963)

- I'm Trying To Make London My Home - Sonny Boy Williamson (AFBF 1964)
- Ain't It A Pity - Lightnin' Hopkins (AFBF 1964)
- Baby, Please Don't Go - Lightnin' Hopkins (AFBF 1964)
- Everytime I Get To Drinkin' - Sunnyland Slim (AFBF 1964)
- No Title Boogie - Hubert Sumlin (AFBF 1964)
- Dust My Broom - Howlin Wolf (AFBF 1964)

Evidence ECD 26087-2 track sequence:
Fred McDowell - Highway 61 (1965)
Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby Please Don't Go (1964)
John Lee Hooker - Della Mae (1965)
Memphis Slim - Wish Me Well (1963)
Muddy Waters - Five Long Years (1963)
Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog (1965)
Howlin' Wolf - Dust My Broom (1964)
T-Bone Walker - I'm In Love (1962)
Sunnyland Slim - Everytime I Get To Drinkin' (1964)
Buddy Guy - First Time I Met The Blues (1965)
Sugar Pie DeSanto - Slip In Mules (1964)
Shakey Jake - Love My Baby (1962)
Eddie Boyd - Five Long Years (1965)
Sonny Boy Williamson - Dissatisfied (1964)
Otis Spann - Goin' Down Slow (= "Had My Fun") (1963)
Brownie McGhee - Crying At The Station (1962)
J.B. Lenoir - Slow Down (1965)

notes by Horst Lippmann & Fritz Rau (introduction), Georges Adins, Joachim E. Berendt, Jacques Demêtre, Bob Koester, Horst Lippmann, Paul Oliver (artists' portraits)

Fontana 681 522 TL (mono) (Germany 1964)
= Fontana 885 411 TY (stereo) (Germany 1964)

notes by Jean Tronchot

= Fontana 681 522 TL (mono) (Fr 1964)

notes by Jean Tronchot

= Fontana 885 411 MY (stereo) (Fr 1964)

= Fontana TL 5225 (UK 1964)

[not = Amiga 850043 !!!]

(=) Philips/Phonogram SFL-7385 (Jp 1969) "American Folk Blues Festival 63-64"

notes by Willy Leiser

= L+R 42.024 (Germany 1981)

= L+R 42.024 (Germany 1982)

= Edigsa/L+R 12L0293 (Sp 1982)

= Optimism/L+R CD LR-2024 (US 198?)

5 CD box set
notes by Bill Dahl
 
(=) Evidence ECD 26100 (US 1995) "American Folk Blues Festival '62-'65"     CD 4: "'sixty four"

notes by Jerry Gordon

(=) Evidence ECD 26087-2 (US 1997) "American Folk Blues Festival '62-'65 - Highlights"

Evidence ECD 260101 "American Folk Blues Festival '66 - '72" (as announced in the notes accompanying Evidence ECD 26087-2) obviously never happened!

= Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 42024 (Germany 1998)

3 CD set
 
(=) Bellaphon CDLR 726321 (Germany 2002) "1962, 1963, 1964"     CD 3: 1964

180 g LP

= Pure Pleasure/L+R PPAN LR42024 (UK 2014)

John Henry Barbee
- Your Friend #   @ youtube
- Backwater Blues #   @ youtube

Lonnie Johnson
- My Baby Is Gone   @ youtube
- You Don't Know What Love Is   @ youtube
Math. Murphy
- Gravel Road   @ youtube
John Lee Hooker
- Stand By Me Baby [Guest Star GS 1902]   @ youtube
- Baby Please Don't Go [Guest Star GS 1902]   @ youtube

notes by Paul Oliver

Storyville SLP 166 (Denmark 1964)

Storyville SLP 166 (Denmark 1966?)

= Discophon (S) 4311 (Spain 1973)

# Storyville STCD 8003

Storyville Records discography
Big Joe Williams discography
John Henry Barbee discography
Lonnie Johnson discography>

James Phillips
- No Lovin'
Little Son Willis
- Bad Luck N' Trouble
K.C. Douglas
- I Know You Didn't Want Me

Fred McDowell
- Fred's Rambling Blues
Little Son Willis
- Harlem Blues
Detroit Slim
- Nelly Mae
Essie Jenkins
- Influenza Blues
Bukka White
- Midnight Blues
Manny Nichols
- Throw A Little Boogi

Arhoolie F-1018 (US 1965)

Arhoolie Records discography

on front cover: Sleepy John Estes' hands cropped from a 1962 photo by Georges Adins
>

Mance Lipscomb - Evil Heart Blues (vocal and own piano)
Blind Arvella Gray - A Roughneck (spoken)
Roosevelt Sykes - West Helena Blues (vocal and guitar)
Will Shade - Days Of Nineteen-Hundred (spoken)
Will Shade - Newport News Blues (vocal and own guitar)
Whistling Alex Moore - Chock House Days (spoken)
Whistling Alex Moore - Come and Get Me (vocal and own piano)
Brother John Sellers - Move Back For What? (spoken)
J. B. Lenoir - I Been Down So Long (vocal and own guitar)

Jasper Love - Santa Fé Blues (vocal and piano)
John Lee Hooker - Somewhere Down The Line (spoken)
Robert Curtis Smith - I Hope One Day My Luck Will Change (vocal and own guitar)
Otis Spann - Only Places They Can Go (spoken)
Otis Spann - People Calls Me Lucky (vocal and own piano)
Henry Townsend - What Have I Committed (spoken)
James Butch Cage - Tween Midnight And Day (vocal and own guitar)
Little Brother Montgomery - Walking Basses (spoken)
Little Brother Montgomery - Dud Low Joe (piano solo)
Little Brother Montgomery - It's A Barrelhouse Blues (spoken) []
Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues (vocal with piano)
Little Brother Montgomery - They Beat Me To Chicago (spoken) []
Roosevelt Sykes - They All Called Him 'Pork Chops' (spoken)
Roosevelt Sykes - Forty-Four Blues (vocal and own piano)
Robert Junior Lockwood & Sunnyland Slim - Doctor Clayton And Me (spoken) []
Robert Junior Lockwood & Sunnyland Slim - Take A Little Walk With Me (vocal with own electric guitar, with Sunnyland Slim, piano) []
Edwin Buster Pickens - To Have The Blues Within (spoken) #
Mance Lipscomb - Blues In The Bottle (vocal and own guitar

CD tracks:
- So Much Good Feeling - Boogie Woogie Red
- A Little Different - Willie Thomas
- Kill That Nigger Dead - James "Butch" Cage & Willie Thomas
- The Onliest Way - Lil Son Jackson
- My Father's Style / So It Rocked On / Move To Kansas City - J.B. Lenoir
- When She Come Back / Poor Country Boy - Otis Spann
- Ain't No Easy Thing - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Evil Heart Blues - Mance Lipscomb
- A Roughneck - Blind Arvella Gray
- West Helena Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
- Days of 1900 / Newport News Blues - Will Shade
- Chock House Days / Come and Get Me - Whistling Alex Moore
- Move Back! For What? - Brother John Sellers
- Been Down So Long - J.B. Lenoir
- A Place They Call Boots' - James "Stump" Johnson []
- Henry Brown Blues - Henry Brown []
- They Called Us Gandy Dancers / Work Songs / John Henry - Blind Arvella Gray with Blind James Brewer []
- Santa Fe Train - Edward "Buster" Pickens #
- Most Reason I Sing - Robert Curtis Smith
- Santa Fe Blues - Jasper Love
- Somewhere Down The Line - John Lee Hooker
- I Hope One Day My Luck Will Change - Robert Curtis Smith
- Only Places They Can Go / People Call Me Lucky - Otis Spann
- What Have I Committed? - Henry Townsend
- 'Tween Midnight And Day - James "Butch" Cage
- Walking Basses / Dud Low Joe / The First Vicksburg Blues - Little Brother Montgomery
- They Call Him "Pork Chops" / Forty-Four Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
- Blues In The Bottle - Mance Lipscomb
- To Have The Blues Within - Edward "Buster" Pickens #
- Colorado Springs Blues - Edwin "Buster" Pickens # []

All tracks recorded between June 26 and August 28, 1960
# rec. July 14, 1960 in Chicago, IL

LP and CD have slightly different tracks: [] = not on LP resp. CD !!!

notes (plus 6-pp. insert) by Paul Oliver    Decca LK 4664 insert (1 sheet folded to 6 pp.)
 
Decca LK 4664 (UK 1965)

notes by Paul Oliver

= Decca LK 4664 (Germany 1965)

LP resp. CD accompanying Paul Oliver's book by the same title:


London (Cassell) (1st UK ed. 1965)   xv, 217 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm

 
New York (Horizon Press) (1st US ed. 1965)   xix, 217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

 
London ("Jazz Book Club") JBC 64 (2nd UK ed. 1967)

Cambridge (University Press) 0 521 59181 3 (revised edition of the original 1965 book with enclosed CD) (2nd US ed. 1997)

Bluesville BV 1029

notes by Mack McCormick

Bluesville BV 1081 (US 1965)

notes by Mack McCormick

= Prestige PR 7831

notes by Mack McCormick

= XTRA 5044 (UK 1967)

7 CD set
notes by Samuel Charters

(=) Prestige/Bluesville 7PCD-4406-2 (US 1991) "The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings"

notes (November 1963) by Francis Squibb

Prestige/Bluesville BV/BVLP 1084 (US 1965)

notes (November 1963) by Francis Squibb

Prestige/Bluesville PR 1084 (US 19??)

= Prestige PR 7592 (US 1968) "Lightnin' Hopkins' Greatest Hits!"

7 CD set
notes by Samuel Charters

(=) Prestige/Bluesville 7PCD-4406-2 (US 1991) "The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings"

notes (July 1964) by Chris Albertson

Prestige PR 1086 (US 1964)

notes (July 1964) by Chris Albertson

= Stateside SL 10155 (UK 1964)

= Prestige FELP 10.014 (Fr 1965)

= Fantasy F-24702 "Double Blues"
= Ace CDCH 354

7 CD set
notes by Samuel Charters

(=) Prestige/Bluesville 7PCD-4406-2 (US 1991) "The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings"

notes (September 1965) by Chris Albertson

Prestige PR 7377 (mono) (US 1965)


= Prestige PR 7377 (stereo) (US 1965)

notes (September 1965) by Chris Albertson

= Prestige PR 7377 (New Zealand 1965)

the musician depicted on the front cover of Everest / Archive of Folk & Jazz Music FS 313 isn't Lightnin' Hopkins, but T-Bone Walker!

Everest / Archive Of Folk & Jazz Music FS 313 (US 1965)

Release/re-release history:

Pickwick 33 PC/SPC 3013 (US 1965) "The King Of The Blues"   = Blue Horizon 2431-005 (UK 1971) "Let's Work Awhile"
(=) Rhapsody RHAP 8 (UK 1980) "At His Natural Best"   = Phoenix 10 PHX 342 (1982) "Love Lightning - At His Natural Best" = Black Label 2005 (US 1991) "Lightnin''s Love" = LaserLight Digital/Delta Distribution CD 17 196 (US 2001) "Lightnin''s Love"
(=) JSP 1076 (UK 1984) "Electric Lightnin'"   = P-Vine PCD-23891 (Jp 2007) c "Electric Lightnin'"
(=) Collectables COL CD 5203 (US 1990) "The Lost Texas Tapes: Volume 1"
(=) Collectables COL CD 5204 (US 1990) "The Lost Texas Tapes: Volume 2"
(=) Collectables COL CD 5207 (US 1990) "The Lost Texas Tapes: Volume 5"
(=) Little Darlin'/Koch KOC-CD 9850 (US 2005) "The Little Darlin' Sound of Lightnin' Hopkins: Lightnin' Strikes Twice (The Lost Texas Tapes)"

 
notes by Herman Schoenfeld
 
Pickwick 33 PC-3013 (mono) / SPC-3013 (stereo) (US 8/1965)

notes by Herman Schoenfeld & Mike Vernon

= Blue Horizon 2431-005 (UK 1971) "Let's Work Awhile"

the musician depicted on the front cover of Verve Folkways FV-/FVS-9022 isn't Lightnin' Hopkins, but Reverend Gary Davis

notes by Jerry Schoenbaum

Verve Folkways FV-/FVS-9022

Society SOC 1020 (UK 1966)

(=) Fuel 2000 CD 061101 (2001) "Lightnin' Hopkins & The Blues Summit"

# rec. June 18, 1964 at the Cabale (later The Questing Beast) in Berkeley, CA
[] rec. November 26, 1961 in Berkeley, CA

notes by Chris A. Strachwitz

Arhoolie 1022 (US 1966)

= Fontana 688 807 ZL

Arhoolie F 1030 (US 1966)

(=) Arhoolie CD 484 (US 2000)

Arhoolie Records discography
Mance Lipscomb discography>

- Levee Camp Moan - Texas Alexander
- Match Box Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Walk Right In - Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Four Till Late - Robert Johnson
- Cow Cow Blues - Speckled Red
- Low Friends - Victoria Spivey

- See See Rider - Leadbelly
- Willie May Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
- The Sky Is Crying - Sonny Boy Williamson
- I'm Gonna Lay Down - Brownie McGhee

notes (November 1, 1966) by Mike Raven
 
XTRA 1047 (UK 1966)

Arhoolie 1009 (US 1967)

LP 2:
Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Joe Williams
- Drinking In The Blues (100857)
- Poor Boy (100858)
- Everybody's Blues (Three Aces On The Bottom Of The Deal) (100859)
- Razor Sharp Blues (100860)
- Chain Gang Blues (100861)
- Brand New Car (New Car Blues (100862)
- I've Been Scorned (I've Been Buked) (100863)
- Great Gospel Blues (I'm Gonna Mourn On That Shore) (100864)

rec. July 6 & 7, 1960 at the Ash Grove, Los Angeles, CA; Sonny Terry hca, voc -3,5/8; Brownie McGhee, g, voc; Lightnin' Hopkins, g, voc -1,2,4/8; Big Joe Williams, g, voc -1/3,5/8); Jimmy Bond, b -3,4

LP 3:
Jimmy Witherspoon
- Tell Him I Was Flyin', Pt. 1&2 (Take This Hammer, Pt. 1 (100865))
- Goin' To Chicago Blues (100866)
- In Blues (100867)
- Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You? (100868)
- Loser's Blues (100869)
- Please Send Me Someone To Love (100870)
- Life's Highway (Keys To The Highway) (100871)
- Cry The Blues (100872)
- Out Blues (100873)
- Since I Fell For You (100874)
- Everything (100875)
- Tell Him I Was Flyin', Pt. 2&3 (100876)

rec. 1960 in Los Angeles, CA; Jimmy Witherspoon, voc; Teddy Edwards, ts; Paul Moer, p; Richard "Groove" Holmes, org; Herman Mitchell, g; Jimmy Bond, b; Frank Butler, dr;

gatefold LP
notes (September 1968) by Pete Welding


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

gatefold LP

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

notes (September 1968) by Pete Welding
 
Imperial LM-94000 (US 10/1968)

notes (September 1968) by Pete Welding

= Liberty LBL 83213E (UK 1968)