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J.B.  L E N O I R; source: Front cover of Amiga 850176; photographer: Raeburn Flerlage [not Horst Lippmann!]
source: Front cover of Amiga 850176
photographer: Raeburn Flerlage [not Horst Lippmann]
Rönnog Seaberg, Sunnyland Slim, Steve Seaberg, St. Louis Jimmy & J.B. Lenoir, 1964; photographer: Peter Amft
Rönnog Seaberg, Sunnyland Slim, Steve Seaberg, St. Louis Jimmy & J.B. Lenoir, 1964; photographer: Peter Amft

 

J.B. Lenoir
Lenoir himself pronounced his family name "Le-nor", not "Len-wah"!

b. March 5, 1929 near Monticello, Lawrence County, Mississippi
d. April 29, 1967 in Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois

buried at Salem Church Cemetery in Monticello, MS
discography

Sunnyland Slim, Steve Seaberg, St. Louis Jimmy & J.B.  L E N O I R on the cover of 'Guds Ansikte', (autobiographical) novel by Rönnog Seaberg.- Stockholm (Rabén & Sjögren),1965; source:
Sunnyland Slim, Steve Seaberg, St. Louis Jimmy & J.B. Lenoir on the cover of "Guds Ansikte" (autobiographical) novel by Rönnog Seaberg.- Stockholm (Rabén & Sjögren), 1965; photographer: Peter Amft

#year
of release
title / label / notes
   

- In The Evening   @ youtube
- Please Don't Go Away   @ youtube

rec. 1950 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Snooky Pryor. hca; Sunnyland Slim, p; poss. Eddie Taylor, g

J.O.B. unissued

Negro Rhythm 107 (1978)
Official 6049 (1989)

11950J. B. AND HIS BAYOU BOYS

- My Baby Told Me (JB 31643)   @ youtube
- Korea Blues (JB 31644)   @ youtube

rec. late 1950 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Sunnyland Slim, p; Leroy Foster, g; Alfred Wallace, dr

Joe Brown (J.O.B.) recordings sold / leased to Chess

   
Chess 1449     Some copies of Chess 1449 feature JB 31644 mis-labeled as "Carrie Lee"

21950J. B. LENORE and his Bayou Boys

- Deep In Dept Blues (JB 31641)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Carrie Lee (JB 31642)   @ youtube

rec. late 1950 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Sunnyland Slim, p; Leroy Foster, g; Alfred Wallace, dr

Joe Brown (J.O.B.) recordings sold / leased to Chess


Chess 1463

31952J. B. LENOIR and HIS COMBO

- Let's Roll (J 42343-2)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- People Are Meddling (In Our Affairs) (J 42344)   @ youtube   @ Spotify



originally unissued tracks from same session:
- Let's Roll (J 42343-1) #   @ youtube   @ Spotify [Flyright 564]
- Lettie Mae
- I Feel All Right

rec. October 22, 1951 at Modern Recording Studio in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Sunnyland Slim, p; Alfred Wallace, dr


J.O.B. 112

   

- I Have Married (U 1008)   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. late 1952 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Sunnyland Slim, p; unknown, b; Alfred Wallace, dr

J.O.B. unissued

Flyright 564 (1980)

411/1952J. B. LENORE and His Combo

- The Mountain (U 1009)   @ youtube
- How Much More (U 1011)   @ youtube

rec. late 1952 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Sunnyland Slim, p; unknown, b; Alfred Wallace, dr

 
J.O.B. 1008

55/1953J. B. LENORE and His Combo

- The Mojo (U 2319-4)   @ youtube
- How Can I Leave (U 2322-4)   @ youtube

rec. January 12, 1953 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; J.T. Brown, ts; Sunnyland Slim, p; unknown, b; Alfred Wallace, dr

 
J.O.B. 1012

610/1953J. B. LENORE and His Combo

- I'll Die Tryin' (U 1010-1) #   @ youtube
- I Want My Baby (U 2321-4) *   @ youtube

# rec. late 1952 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Sunnyland Slim, p; unknown, b; Alfred Wallace, dr

* rec. January 12, 1953 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; J.T. Brown, ts; Sunnyland Slim, p; unknown, b; Alfred Wallace, dr

   
J.O.B. 1016

   

- The Mojo (U 2319-1) #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Slow Down Woman (U 2320-1) #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Slow Down Woman (U 2320-2) *   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- I Want My Baby (U 2321-1) #   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. January 12, 1953 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; J.T. Brown, ts; Sunnyland Slim, p; unknown, b; Alfred Wallace, dr

Chance/J.O.B. unissued

* Constellation CS 6 (US 1964)

# P-Vine PLP 707 (Jp 1977)
Flyright 564 (UK 1980)

   

- When I Was Young (U 2323-1)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Bassology (U 2324-1)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Worried About My Baby (U 2325-1)   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. January 12, 1953 in Chicago, IL; Sunnyland Slim, voc, p; J.T. Brown, ts; J.B. Lenoir, g; Moody Jones, b; Alfred Wallace, dr

Chance/J.O.B. unissued

Constellation CS 6 (1964)

   

- Livin' In The White House (U 2326) []   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Please Don't (U 2327-1) #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Please Don't (U 2327-2) []   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. January 12, 1953 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Shines, voc; J.T. Brown, ts; Sunnyland Slim, p; J.B. Lenoir, g; Moody Jones, b; Alfred Wallace, dr

Chance/J.O.B. unissued

[] Constellation CS 6 (1964)

# P-Vine PCD 2176
# Westside WESM 635

74/1954J. B. LENORE and His Combo

- Play A Little While (J 42341)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Louise (J42342)   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. October 22, 1951 at Modern Recording Studio in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Sunnyland Slim, p; Alfred Wallace, dr

 
J.O.B. 1102

81/1955J. B. LENOIR

- I'm In Korea (P53202-2)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Eisenhower Blues (P53203-5)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
or (later)
- Tax Paying Blues (P53203AA)   @ youtube   @ Spotify



originally unissued track from same session:
- Eisenhower Blues (P53203-1)   @ youtube   @ Spotify [Relic 8017]

rec. c. April 1954 at Universal Studios in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Lorenzo Smith, ts; Joe Montgomery, p; Al Galvin, dr

   
Parrot 802
[Al Bensons's label]

91/1955J. B. LENORE

original version with longish guitar solo (at about 1:50) on "Mamma Talk To Your Daughter"
- Mamma Talk To Your Daughter (P53214-2)   @ youtube
- Man Watch Your Woman (P53215)   @ youtube

later version with shortened guitar solo on "Mamma Talk To Your Daughter"
- Mamma Talk To Your Daughter (P53214-2, edited version)   @ youtube
- Man Watch Your Woman (P53215)

rec. October 6, 1954 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Lorenzo Smith, ts; Joe Montgomery, p; Al Galvin, dr

The later version of "Mamma Talk To Your Daughter" has been re-edited because people thought the record was skipping or repeating

 
Parrot 809

Bootleg 503 (UK 1965)

105/1955J. B. LENORE

- Mama Your Daughter Is Going To Miss Me (P55224)   @ youtube
- What Have I Done (P55225)   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. March 14, 1955 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Alex Atkins, as; Ernest Cotton, ts; Joe Montgomery, p; Al Galvin, dr

   
Parrot 814

   

- We've Both Got To Realise (We Can't Go On This Way) (P55226)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Give Me One More Shot (P55227)   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. March 14, 1955 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Alex Atkins, as; Ernest Cotton, ts; Joe Montgomery, p; Al Galvin, dr

Parrot unissued

Chess 2ACMB 208 (1976)

1111/1955J. B. LENORE

- Fine Girls (P55275)   @ youtube
- I Lost My Baby (P55276)   @ youtube

rec. October 6, 1954 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Ernest Cotton, ts; Joe Montgomery, p; Al Galvin, dr

 
Parrot 821

   

- Sitting Down Thinking #   @ youtube
- I'm Gonna Die Someday (take 2) *   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. October 6, 1954 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Ernest Cotton, ts; Joe Montgomery, p; Al Galvin, dr

Parrot unissued

# Chess 2ACMB 208 (1976)

* Relic 8017 (1989)

128/1956J. B. LENORE

- Let Me Die With The One I Love (7902)   @ youtube
- If I Give My Love To You? (7903)   @ youtube

rec. September 14, 1955 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Alex Atkins, as; Ernest Cotton, ts; Joe Montgomery, p; Willie Dixon, b; Al Galvin, dr

   
Checker 844

   

- Natural Man (7900) #   @ youtube
- Don't Dog Your Woman (7901) #   @ youtube
- Lowdown Dirty Shame (7904) *   @ youtube

rec. September 14, 1955 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; # * Alex Atkins, as; # * Ernest Cotton, ts; Joe Montgomery, p; Willie Dixon, b; Al Galvin, dr

Checker unissued

# Chess 410 (1970)

* Chess 2ACMB 208 (1976)

   

- Lenoir Blues
- Everybody Wants To Know (Laid Off Blues) #   @ youtube
- If You Love Me *   @ youtube
- J.B.'s Rock *   @ youtube

rec. 1955? in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Alex Atkins, as; Ernest Cotton, ts; Joe Montgomery, p; Willie Dixon, b; Al Galvin, dr

Checker unissued

# Chess 410 (1970)

* Chess 2ACMB 208 (1976)

132/1957J. B. LENIOR [sic]

- Don't Touch My Head!!! (8360)   @ youtube
- I've Been Down So Long (8362)   @ youtube

rec. December 19, 1956 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Alex Atkins, as; Ernest Cotton, ts; Joe Montgomery, p; Willie Dixon, b; Al Galvin, dr

 
Checker 856

149/1957J. B. LENOIR

- What About Your Daughter? (8363)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- 5 Years (8364)   @ youtube

rec. December 19, 1956 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Alex Atkins, as; Ernest Cotton, ts; Joe Montgomery, p; Willie Dixon, b; Al Galvin, dr

 
Checker 874

   

- When I Am Drinking (8361)   @ youtube

rec. December 19, 1956 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Alex Atkins, as; Ernest Cotton, ts; Joe Montgomery, p; Willie Dixon, b; Al Galvin, dr

Checker unissued

Chess 2ACMB 208 (1976)

157/1958J. B. LENOIR

- Daddy Talk To Your Son (8728)   @ youtube
- She Don't Know (8729) #   @ youtube

rec. 1958 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Alex Atkins, as; Ernest Cotton, ts; Leonard Caston. org; Joe Montgomery, p; Robert Lockwood Jr., g; Willie Dixon, b; Al Galvin, dr; # voc group

   
Checker 901

   

- Daddy Talk To Your Son (alt tk)
- I Don't Know (alt tk)   @ youtube
- Good Looking Woman (8730)   @ youtube
- Voodoo Boogie (8731)   @ youtube

rec. 1958 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Alex Atkins, as; Ernest Cotton, ts; Leonard Caston, org; Joe Montgomery, p; Robert Lockwood Jr., g; Willie Dixon, b; Al Galvin, dr

Checker unissued

Chess 2ACMB 208 (1976)

1610/1959J. B. LENOIR

- Back Door (K90W 2914)   @ youtube
- Lou Ella (K90W 2915)   @ youtube

rec. August 11, 1958 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Junior Wells, hca; Ernest Cotton, ts; Joe Montgomery, p; Jesse Fowler, dr

   
Shad 5012

177/1960J. B. LENOIR

- Oh Baby (60-1428) (2:10)   @ youtube
- Do What I Say (60-1431)   @ youtube

rec. May 10, 1960 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Alex Atkins, ts; Ernest Cotton, ts; Joe Montgomery, b; Jesse Fowler, dr

 
VeeJay VJ 352

   

- Oh Baby (alt tk) (2:21) #
- It's The Thing (60-1429)
- What Can I Do (60-1430)

rec. May 10, 1960 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Alex Atkins, ts; Ernest Cotton, ts; Joe Montgomery, b; Jesse Fowler, dr

# I don't think this is actually an alt tk - rather a little bit slowed down and muffled version of 60-1428 (as if dubbed from a tape of a tape) - my voucher copy being the Official LP --- listen to it yourself:  

VeeJay unissued

# Python 25
# Official 6049

181960The Blues

Priscilla Bowman
- Hands Off Him (McShann - Bowman)
Jimmy Reed
- You Don't Have To Go (Reed)
Roscoe Gordon
- Just A Little Bit (Thornton - Bass - Washington - Brown - Thompson)
John Lee Hooker
- Dimples (Hooker)
Gene Allison
- You Can Make It If You Try (AIIison - Jarrett)
Jimmy Reed
- Ain't That Lovin' You Baby (Reed)

Billy Boy
- I Wish You Would (Arnold)
Memphis Slim
- Messin' Around (Frazier)

J.B. Lenoir
- Do What I Say (Lenoir) [VJ 352]
Harold Burrage
- Cryin' For My Baby (Burrage)
Elmore James
- Coming Home (James)
Jimmy Witherspoon
- Kansas City (Littlefield)


That album (Elmore James track) made Brian Jones search for a 'steel' - read more

contents of Vee Jay LP-1074:
Jimmy Witherspoon
- Kansas City
Bridges & Pauline
- Spring
Jimmy Reed
- Baby What You Want Me To Do
Billy Emerson
- The Pleasures Al Mine
Earl Phillps
- Oop De Oop

Dee Clark
- Blues Get Off My Mind
Crume Brothers
- It's You I Love
Pee Wee Crayton
- I Found Peace Of Mind
Eddie Taylor
- Bad Boy
Joe Buckner
- Evenin' time

notes by Alexis Korner

Vee Jay LP 1020 (US mono)   later issues with a 'stereo' sticker have the mono record inside

notes by Alexis Korner

= EMI/Columbia Co 33SX1417 (UK 1962 mono)

= Joy 185 (UK 1973)


(=) Vee Jay VJS-2-1007 (DLP 1974) (reissue of LP-1020 and LP-1074)

   

- My Dear Old Mother §   @ Spotify
- I Want To Know   @ Spotify
- J.B.'s Harp Rack Blues []   @ Spotify
- I Had My Trouble   @ Spotify
- Louise #   @ Spotify
- Mojo Boogie #   @ Spotify

rec. July 9, 1963 at Nina's Lounge in Chicago by Norman Dayron; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g, [] hca; # Sunnyland Slim, p

unissued

§ Roots TR 1005 (1977)

Fuel 2000 CD 061300 (2003)

   

- It's You Baby #   @ Spotify
- Brown Skin Woman *   @ Spotify
- Piney Brown Blues   @ Spotify
- For You, My Love   @ Spotify

rec. July 9, 1963 at Nina's Lounge in Chicago by Norman Dayron; Sunnyland Slim, voc, p; J.B. Lenoir, g; # John Lee Granderson, g; * Michael Bloomfield, g

unissued

Fuel 2000 CD 061300 (2003)

   

- My Name Is J.B. Lenoir #
- I Want The Whole World To Know #
- Alabama March

rec. 1963; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g

# titles appear in Wim Wenders film, 'Soul of a Man'

unissued

JSP CD 2154

191963

J.B. LENOIR And His African Hunch Rhythm

- I Sing Um The Way I Feel (789 or 18928) **   @ youtube
- I Feel So Good (790 or 18929) #   @ youtube



originally unissued tracks from same session:
- I Sing Um The Way I Feel (tk. 17) * [Flyright 590]
- I Sing Um The Way I Feel (tk. 18) * [Flyright 590]
- I Feel So Good (tk. 21, inc.) ## [Flyright 590]

rec. July 23, 1963 in Chicago, IL
* J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; "Peeples", bgs; ** Willie Dixon, sp
# J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Donald Hankins, ts; ## Jarret Gibson, bs; Lafayette Leake, p; Milton Rector, b; Willie Smith, dr; Willie Dixon, 2nd voc

 
USA 744 (US 1963)


= Sue WI-339 (UK 1965)

201964A Bucket Of Blues
Collector's Showcase - Vol. 6

John Lee Hooker
- 609 Boogie [Chance 1122]
- Road Trouble [Chance 1122]
T-Bone Walker & Marl Young's Orchestra
- Come Back To Me Baby Blues [Mercury 8016]
- I Can't Stand Being Away From You [previously unissued]
- She's Gonna Rain [sic] Me Blues [Old Swingmaster 11; She's Going To Ruin Me]

J.B. Lenore
- Mojo Boogie [J.O.B. 1012]
- Slow Down Woman (U2320-2) [previously unissued]

J.B. Lenore
- I Want My Baby [J.O.B. 1016]
- How Can I Leave [J.O.B. 1012]
Sunnyland Slim
- When I Was Young [previously unissued]
- Bassology [previously unissued]
- Worried About My Baby [previously unissued]
[Johnny Shines]
- Livin' In The Whitehouse [sic; previously unissued; Livin' In The White House]
- Please Don't [previously unissued]

Chance / J.O.B. recordings put out by Art Sheridan & Ewart Abner


Constellation SC-6

211965Conversation With The Blues
A Documentary of Field Recordings by Paul Oliver

LP tracks:
Boogie Woogie Red - So Much Good Feeling (spoken, with own piano)
Willie Thomas - A Little Different spoken
James Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - Kill That Nigger Dead (Cage, vocal and fiddle; Thomas, vocal and guitar)
Lil' Son Jackson - The Onliest Way (spoken)

J.B. Lenoir - My Father's Style (guitar solo)
J.B. Lenoir - So It Rocked On (spoken)
J.B. Lenoir - Move To Kansas City (vocal and own guitar)
Otis Spann - When She Comes Back (spoken)
Otis Spann - Poor Country Boy (vocal, with own piano)
Lightnin' Hopkins - Ain't No Easy Thing (spoken)
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)


compiled by Michael Vernon and Paul Oliver
front cover photograph of James 'Butch' Cage (on fiddle) and Willie Thomas (guitar) taken outside Butch Cage's home in Zachary, LA by Paul Oliver

CD track sequence:@ youtube (full album)
- 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 - Edwin "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 17, 1960 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g or sp

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)


Doyosha LLC (1st Jp ed. 2016) ISBN 978-4-907511-25-8 (190 × 129 × 21,8 mm | 336 pages (incl. 48 photos) | weight: 9,5 pound; price: 1.850 JPY equals 14,84 EUR)   translated by Yasufumi Higurashi

221965Pure Blues Volume One

Homesick James
- Crossroads
Buster Brown
- Don't Dog Your Woman
Lightnin' Slim
- Bad Feeling Blues
Etta James
- Roll With Me Honey
Frankie Lee Sims
- What Will Lucy Do?
John Lee Hooker
- Boogie Chillun
Bobby Peterson
- One Day


J.B. Lenoir
- I Sing Um The Way I Feel
Willie Mae Thornton
- Tom Cat
Elmore James
- I Wish I Was A Catfish
Mercy Baby
- Mercy's Blues
Lightnin' Hopkins
- Bad Boogie
James Brown
- Why Does Everything Happen To Me


compiled by Guy Stevens

notes by Guy Stevens

Sue ILP 919 (UK 1965)

231965J.B. LENOIR

- Man Watch Your Woman [Parrot 809]
- Mama Talk To Your Daughter [Parrot 809, later version with shortened guitar solo]


Bootleg 503 (Mike Rowe's label)

241966J.B. Lenoir: Alabama Blues

- Alabama Blues (3:10)   @ youtube
- The Mojo Boogie (2:13) #   @ youtube
- God's Word (3:36)   @ youtube
- The Whale Has Swallowed Me (2:21) #   @ youtube
- Remove This Rope (3:30)   @ youtube
- I Feel So Good (1:50) # []   @ youtube

- Alabama March (2:50)   @ youtube
- Talk To Your Daughter (2:42) #   @ youtube
- Mississippi Road (2:55)   @ youtube
- Good Advice (2:41)   @ youtube
- Vietnam (2:37)   @ youtube
- I Want To Go (1:37) #   @ youtube

rec. May 5, 1965 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; # Freddie Below, dr; [] Willie Dixon, additional voc

Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 42.001 track sequence
- Alabama Blues
- The Mojo Boogie
- God's Word
- The Whale Has Swallowed Me
- Remove This Rope
- I Feel So Good
- Alabama March
- Talk To Your Daughter
- Mississippi Road
- Good Advice
- Vietnam
- I Want To Go
- Down In Mississippi # [] °°   @ youtube
- If I Get Lucky °°   @ youtube
- Born Dead °°   @ youtube
- Feeling Good # [] °°   @ youtube

°° additional tracks from L+R 42.012

front cover photograph of Amiga 8 50 176 by Raeburn Flerlage [not Horst Lippmann as claimed on the back cover]
front cover photograph of L+R 42.001 by Horst Lippmann

notes by Horst Lippmann

CBS 62593 (Germany 1966)

notes by Horst Lippmann

= CBS 62593 (Fr 1966)

= CBS SBP-2 (Australia)

notes by Horst Lippmann

= Scout ScS-5 (Germany 1969)

notes by Jens Gerlach
 
= Amiga 8 50 176 (GDR 1969)

notes by Horst Lippmann

= L+R 42.001 (Germany 1979)

notes (1980) by Walter Sellhorn

= Amiga Jazz 850176 (GDR 1980)

= L+R/EDIGSA 12L0075 (Sp 1980)

notes by Jonny Meister

(=) Evidence CD 26068 (US 1995) "Vietnam Blues: The Complete L+R Recordings" (along with L+R 42.012)


= Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 42001 (Germany 1998)

180 g LP

= Pure Pleasure PPAN LR 42.001 (UK 2009)

180 g LP & CD
notes (1979) by Horst Lippmann

(=) Zweitausendeins / Blue Angel 580000 (Germany 2014) "Alabama Blues"

Scout Records discography
L+R Records discography

251966J. B. LENORE

- Mojo Boogie (BH 103 / VER.110)   @ youtube
- I Don't Care What Nobody Say (BH 104 / VER.111)   @ youtube

rec. July 17, 1960 in Chicago, IL by Paul Oliver; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g

 
Blue Horizon 45-1004

261966Decade Of The Blues - The 1950s

Smokey Hogg
- Highway 51

J.B. Lenoir
- The Mountain
- How Much More
Shakey Jake
- Call Me If You Need Me
Little Walter
- Moonshine Baby
Leroy Foster
- Red Headed Woman
Cousin Leroy
- I'm Lonesome
Sunnyland Slim
- Woman Trouble

Little Walter
- Bad Actin' Woman

J.B. Lenoir
- Eisenhower Blues
Willie Nix
- Try Me One More Time
Willie Love
- 21 Minutes To Nine
Floyd Jones
- Big World
James Banister
- Blues And Trouble
- Gold Digger
Smokey Hogg
- Baby Don't You Tear My Clothes



Highway 51 H-100 (UK 1966)
BU34

Highway 51 Records discography

271965American Folk Blues Festival '65 - Studio Session

Fred McDowell
- Highway 61

J.B. Lenoir
- Slow Down (1:48) #   @ Spotify
Walter Horton
- Christine
Roosevelt Sykes
- Come On Back Home
Eddie Boyd
- Five Long Years
- The Big Question

Jimmy Lee Robinson
- Rosalie
John Lee Hooker
- King Of The World
- Della Mae
Buddy Guy
- First Time I Met The Blues
Big Mama Thornton
- Houn' Dog
Doctor Ross
- My Black Name Is Ringing


# rec. October 7, 1965 at a studio in Hamburg, Germany; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Walter Horton, hca

Philips/Phonogram SFL-7386 track sequence:
John Lee Hooker - King Of The World (AFBF 1965)
John Lee Hooker - Della May [sic] (AFBF 1965)

J.B. Lenoir - Slow Down (AFBF 1965)
Fred McDowell - Highway 61 (AFBF 1965)
Doctor Ross - My Black Name Is Ringing (AFBF 1965)
Jimmy Lee Robinson - Rosalie (AFBF 1965)
Buddy Guy - First Time I Met The Blues (AFBF 1966)

Eddie Boyd - Five Long Years (AFBF 1965) [track sequence of side B?]
Eddie Boyd - The Big Question (AFBF 1965)
Junior Wells - Checkin' On My Baby (AFBF 1965)
Roosevelt Sykes - Running The Boogie (AFBF 1966)
Little Brother Montgomery - I Keep On Drinking (AFBF 1966)
Sippie Wallace - Suitcase Blues (AFBF 1966)
Otis Rush - All Your Love or My Own Fault (actually "Sweet Little Angel") (AFBF 1966)

ACT CD 9204 track sequence:
Lost Blues Tapes Vol. 1 - American Folk Blues Festival [1963, 1964, 1965]

John Lee Hooker - Della Mae (alt tk) (3:16) (AFBF 1965)
Big Mama Thornton -Hound Dog (outtake & at tk) (3:32) (AFBF 1965)
Muddy Waters - Captain, Captain (3:32) (AFBF 1963) (AFBF 1965)
Sonny Boy Williamson II - I Got To Cut Out (3:06) (AFBF 1964)
Big Walter Horton - Blues Harp Shuffle (3:26) (AFBF 1964)
Willie Dixon - Strong Brain - Broad Mind (2:48) (AFBF 1964)
Willie Dixon - Big Leg Women (2:44) (AFBF 1964)
Sugar Pie deSanto - You Keep Me Running (3:04) (AFBF 1964)
Buddy Guy - South Side Jump (2:55) (AFBF 1965)

J.B. Lenoir - If I Get Lucky (3:05) (AFBF 1965) #   @ youtube
Fred McDowell - Got A Letter This Morning (3:10) (AFBF 1965)
Roosevelt Sykes -Sail On (3:00) (AFBF 1965)
Memphis Slim -Memphis Boogie (3:16) (AFBF 1963)
Hammie Nixon with Sleepy John Estes - Your Best Friend's Gone (3:20) (AFBF 1964)
Doctor Ross - Farewell Baby (5:11) (AFBF 1965)
John Lee Hooker - Della Mae (outtake) (1:09) (AFBF 1965)

Evidence ECD 26100 track sequence:
disc 5: American Folk Blues Festival 'sixty five

Mississippi Fred McDowell - Highway 61
J.B. Lenoir - Slow Down, Woman
Big Walter "Shakey" Horton - Blues Harp Shuffle °°
Big Walter "Shakey" Horton - Christine
Roosevelt Sykes - Come On Back Home
Eddie Boyd - Five Long Years
Eddie Boyd - The Big Question
Jimmie Lee Robinson - Rosa Lee
John Lee Hooker - King Of The World
John Lee Hooker - Della Mae
Buddy Guy - First Time I Met The Blues
Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog
Doctor Ross - My Black Name Is Ringing
John Lee Hooker - Della Mae (alt tk) °°
Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog (alt tk) °°
Buddy Guy - South Side Jump °°

J.B. Lenoir - If I Get Lucky °°
Mississippi Fred McDowell - Got A Letter This Morning °°
Roosevelt Sykes - Sail On °°
Doctor Ross - Farewell, Baby °°


°° bonus tracks (from ACT CD 9204)

notes by Horst Lippmann

Fontana 885 422 TY (Germany 1965)

notes by Horst Lippmann

= Fontana 885 422 TY ("Special Edition")

notes by Horst Lippmann

Fontana TL 5286 (UK 1965)


(=) Philips/Phonogram SFL-7386 (Jp 1969) "American Folk Blues Festival 65-66"

notes by Willy Leiser

= L+R 42.025 (Germany 1980)


= Optimism LR CD-2025 (US 1983)


= Optimism LRC-2025 (US 1983) (cassette)


= Bellaphon CDLR 42025 (Germany 1990)


ACT CD 9204-2 (UK 1992)

5 CD set
notes by Bill Dahl
   
(=) Evidence ECD 26100 (US 1995)

notes by Jerry Gordon

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

American Folk Blues Festival discography

28196?Encore For The Chicago Blues

Muddy Waters Blues Men
- Yes Sir! Boss
Harvey Hill
- I Feel So Good
Koko Taylor
- I'm Looking For A Man
Memphis Slim
- Chicago To Paris
Babe Stovall
- My Brown Is A Mistraeter
Big Joe Williams
- Move Your Hand
Olive Brown
- Woman's Lament

J.B. Lenoir #
- Korea Blues

Washboard Sam's Band
- Chicago Rock
Victoria Spivey
- T B Blues
Willie Dixon
- Brooklyn Going To Be My Home
John Hammond
- Squeeze My Lemon
John Henry Barbee
- Six Weel Old Blues
Viola Wells
- See See Rider
Homesick James
- Somebody's Been Talkin'
Roosevelt Sykes
- Dirty Mother Fuyer


# rec. 1965 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Lafayette Leake, p; Willie Dixon, b

notes by Len Kunstadt

Spivey 1009 (US 196?)

Spivey Records discography

291967Decade Of The Blues - The 1950s Volume Two

Dennis McMillon
- Goin' Back Home
Rattlesnake Cooper
- Rattlesnake Blues
- Lost Woman Blues
Thunder Smith
- Cruel Hearted Woman
Jesse James
- Forgive Me Blues
- Corinna's Boogie
Gus Jinkins
- You Told Me
[Flash 115]
J.B. Lenoir
- I'm In Korea

Robert Nighthawk
- The Moon Is Rising
Memphis Minnie
- Kissing In The Dark
- World Of Trouble
D.C. Washington
- Happy Home Blues
Willie Lane
- Prowlin' Ground Hog
- Too Many Women Blues
Stickhorse Hammond
- Too Late Baby
- Highway 51


Record produced by Ted Griffiths & Trev Huyton

notes by Chris Roby

Highway 51 H-101 (UK 1967)
BU43

Highway 51 Records discography

301968Bye Bye, Bird ...
Solo Blues

Sonny Boy Williamson
- Bye Bye Bird
Robert Pete Williams
- Midnight Boogie
Little Brother Montgomery
- Vicksburg Blues
Willie Dixon
- Big Legged Woman
Sonny Boy Williamson
- In My Own Little Cabin

Sunnyland Slim
- Leavy [sic] Camp Moan
Sonny Boy Williamson
- Dissatisfied

J.B. Lenoir
- Everybody Is Crying About Vietnam #   @ youtube
Hubert Sumlin
- When I Feel Better


rec. October 7 (or 8?), 1965 in Hamburg, Germany; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g


Scout Sc-1 (Germany 1968)

Scout Records discography

311968J.B. Lenoir

- Lou Ella [Shad 5012]
- Back Door [Shad 5012]
- Oh Baby [VeeJay unissued, alt tk]
- Do What I Say [VeeJay 352]
- The Mojo Boogie
- Slow Down Woman
- I Want My Baby [Job 1016]

- How Can I Leave? [Job 1012]
- Mama Talk To Your Daughter [Parrot 809]
- Fine Girls [Parrot 821]
- Mama Your Daughter Is Gonna Miss Me [Parrot 814]
- I'll Die Tryin' [Job 1060]
- I Feel So Good

plain white jacket

Python PLP-25 (UK 1968)


Python PLP-25 (UK 196?)

Python Records discography

321969This Is Blues

Homesick James
- Crossroads

J.B. Lenoir
- I Sing Um The Way I Feel
Elmore James
- It Hurts Me Too
Buster Brown
- Doctor Brown
Sonny Boy Williamson
- No Nights By Myself
Willie Mae Thornton
- Tom Cat
Freddy King
- Driving Sideways

Lowell Fulsom
- Talking Woman Blues
Lightnin' Hopkins
- Wonder What Is Wrong With Me
Frankie Lee Sims
- What Will Lucy Do
Otis Rush
- I Can't Quit You Baby
Junior Wells
- Prison Bars All Around Me
Sammy Myers
- Sleeping In The Ground
Tarheel Slim
- Numer 9 Train


compiled by Guy Stevens


Island IWP 5 (UK 1969)

331969Look out, Sam !
Group Blues

Otis Rush Blues Band
- It Takes Time # (2:36) [Amiga 855 126]   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Magic Sam's Blues Band
- All Your Love ||| (2:40) [CBS 1444; L+R 42.014]   @ youtube

J.B. Lenoir's Afro-American Blues Band
- Down in Mississippi (3:10) [] [previously unissued; Crusade 24-4011]   @ youtube
The Junior Wells Blues Band
- Vietnam Blues § (4:38) [Amiga 855114]   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Magic Sam's Blues Band
- Look Out, Sam! ||| (1:55) [previously unissued; L+R 42.014]   @ youtube
Joe Turner with the Otis Rush Blues Band
- Come On, Baby * (4:15) [previously unissued, actually "Hide & Seek"]   @ youtube

Magic Sam's Blues Band
- Sometimes || (3:30) [previously unissued; L+R 42.014]   @ youtube
The Junior Wells Blues Band
- Over Yonder Walls § (2:57) [Amiga 855 126]   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Magic Sam's Blues Band
- Call Me If You Need Me ||| (2:08) [previously unissued; L+R 42.014]   @ youtube
The Junior Wells Blues Band
- Shake My Hand § (4:45) [previously unissued]   @ youtube
Magic Sam's Blues Band
- Torchering [sic, actually "Torturing"] My Soul || (3:50) [previously unissued; L+R 42.014]   @ youtube

J.B. Lenoir and Company
- I Feel So Good (1:50) [] [CBS 62593]   @ youtube

# * § rec. October 16, 1966 at the Friedrichstadt-Palast, East-Berlin, GDR (American Folk Blues Festival 1966)
# Otis Rush, voc, g; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr
* Big Joe Turner, voc; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Otis Rush, g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr
§ Junior Wells, voc, hca; Otis Rush, g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr

|| rec. October 30, 1963 resp. ||| rec. February 11, 1964 in Chicago, IL; Magic Sam, voc, g; Johnny 'Big Moose' Walker, p, org; Mac Thompson, b; Bob Richey, dr

[] rec. October 7 (or 8?), 1965 in a studio in Hamburg, Germany (American Folk Blues Festival 1965) May 5, 1965 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Freddie Below, dr; Willie Dixon, additional voc

notes by Horst Lippmann

Scout Sc-2 (Germany 1969)

Scout Records discography
American Folk Blues Festival discography
Otis Rush discography
Magic Sam discography
Little Brother Montgomery discography

341970J.B. Lenoir: Crusade

Crusade (Polydor 24-4011)
- Down In Mississippi #
- Voodoo Music
- Tax Paying Blues
- If I Get Lucky
- Oh Captain (One Of These Mornings) [] #
- How Much More?
- Everything I Do [] #

- Feeling Good #
- Shot On James Meredith   @ youtube
- Round And Round
- Slow Down
- Vietnam Blues
- Leaving Here
- Born Dead
- Need Somebody's Help []

between tracks: Ella Louise Lenoir interviewed by John Mayall
"Electronically re-channelled for stereo"

rec. September 2, 1966 at Sound Studio under the supervision of Willie Dixon, Chicago: J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Freddie Below, dr, # Willie Dixon, voc
[] rec. autumn 1962 in Chicago by Willie Dixon for a film by Steve Seaberg; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; # Willie Dixon, voc

Down In Mississippi (L+R 42.012)@ youtube
- Down In Mississippi #
- Slow Down
- If I Get Lucky
- Shot On Meredith
- Round And Round
- Voodoo Music

- Born Dead
- Leavin' Here
- Vietnam Blues
- How Much More
- Tax Payin' Blues
- Feelin' Good #

Ella Louise Lenoir interviews omitted !

rec. September 2, 1966 at Sound Studio under the supervision of Willie Dixon, Chicago: J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Freddie Below, dr, # Willie Dixon, voc

J.B. Lenoir (Bellaphon CDLR 82001)
- Down In Mississippi
- Alabama Blues °°
- Feelin' Good
- If I Get Lucky
- Mississippi Road °°
- The Mojo Boogie °°
- Born Dead
- Talk To Your Daughter °°
- Move This Rope °°
- Slow Down
- Shot On Meredith
- Round And Round
- Voodoo Music
- Leavin' Here
- Vietnam Blues
- Tax Payin' Blues
- How Much More

°° additional tracks from L+R 42.001


Crusade 24-4011 (US) [John Mayall's label, Polydor subsidiary]
= Polydor 2425009 (UK)
= Polydor 2482014 (UK)

notes by Jonny Meister

Lippmann + Rau 42.012 (Germany 1980) "Down In Mississippi"

= L+R Records 12L0273 5 (Sp 1981)

notes by Jonny Meister

(=) Evidence CD 26068 (US 1995) "Vietnam Blues: The Complete L+R Recordings" (along with L+R 42.001)


(=) Bellaphon CDLR 82001 (Germany 1996) "J.B. Lenoir" (Blues Classics series)

180 g LP & CD

(=) Zweitausendeins / Blue Angel 580004 (Germany 2014) "Down In Mississippi"

L+R Records discography

34a1970The Story Of The Blues Vol. 2

Side One: Guitar Pickers
Curley Weaver - No No Blues
Little Hat Jones - Hurry Blues
Emery Glen - Blue Blazes Blues
'Mooch' Richardson - Low Down Barrelhouse Blues 2
Lonnie Johnson - Broken Levee Blues
Buddy Moss - Undertaker Blues

J.B. Lenoir - Mojo Boogie
Son House - Pearline

Side Two: Piano Blues
Whistlin' Alex Moore - West Texas Woman
Sylvester Palmer - Lonesome Man Blues
George NobleThe Seminole Blues
Cripple Clarence Lofton - Brown Skin Blues
Bumble Bee Slim - Ramblin' With That Woman
Roosevelt Scott - Black Gal Blues
Roosevelt Sykes - Training Camp Blue
Champion Jack Dupree - Junker Blues



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


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


compiled by Paul Oliver

DLP
notes by Paul Oliver

CBS 66232 (UK 1970)

= CBS 88630 (NL 1970)

notes by Paul Oliver

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

4 LP set

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

= CBS LSP 14410 (Germany 1981)

other releases at discogs.com

351970J.B. Lenoir: Natural Man

- Natural Man [previously unissued]
- Don't Dog Your Woman [previously unissued]
- Let Me Die With The One I Love [Checker 844]
- Carrie Lee [Chess 1463]
- Mama What About Your Daughter [Checker 874]
- If I Give My Love To You [Checker 844]
- Five Years [Checker 874]

- Don't Touch My Head [Checker 856]
- I've Been Down So Long [Checker 856]
- What Have I Done? [Parrot 814]
- Eisenhower Blues [Parrot 802]
- Korea Blues [Chess 1449]
- Everybody Wants To Know [previously unissued]
- I'm In Korea [Parrot 802] Dol DOL1504 track sequence:
- Natural Man
- Mama, What About Your Daughter
- Give Me One More Shot
- Everybody Wants To Know
- JB's Rock
- If You Love Me
- Low Down Dirty Shame
- Don't Touch My Head
- When I Am Drinking
- I've Been Down For So Long

- Five Years
- Don't Dog Your Woman
- I Don't Know
- Good Looking Woman
- If I Give My Love To You
- Carrie Lee
- Korea Blues
- Eisenhower Blues
- Let Me Die With The One I Love
- What Have I Done

rec. 1955; J.B. Lenoir with Alex Atkins, Ernest Cotton, Joe Montgomery, Willie Dixon, Al Gavin, Baby Face Leroy Foster, Sunnyland Slim, Alfred Wallace, Lorenzo Smith
cover photo by Ray Flerlage


Chess LP 410 (US 1970)


= Chess/Victor SWX-6138M (Jp 1975)


= Bellaphon BJS 4003 (Germany)


= Chess BRP 2014 (It 1981)

DLP

(=) P-Vine PLP-824-5 (Jp 1983) "A Memoir for
Lenoir"

notes by Christopher Morris

= Chess/MCA CH 9323
= Chess/MCA CHD 9323 (US 1990)

= Vogue 670 114 (Fr 1990)


(=) Dol DOL1504 (2014)

361970John Jeremy's Film
Blues Like Showers Of Rain
@ youtube

Gus Cannon
- My Money Never Runs Out

J.B. Lenoir
- It Hurts Me So Bad (Someday Baby)
Willie Thomas, James 'Butch' Cage & Grandson
- Little Red Rooster
Little Brother Montgomery
- Trembling Blues

J.B. Lenoir
- I Feel Like Playing My Box
Sunnyland Slim & Robert Lockwood
- Take a Little Walk With Me
Wade Walton & R.C. Smith
- Barbershop Rhythm

J.B. Lenoir
- I Been Down So Long [from Decca 4664]
Otis Spann
- People Call Me Lucky
Willie Thomas & James 'Butch' Cage
- Penitentiary Blues
Sunnyland Slim & Robert Lockwood Jr.
- Prison Bound

J.B. Lenoir
- I Don't Care What Nobody Say (Stand By Me)
Willie Thomas & James 'Butch' Cage
- Kill That Nigger Dead

J.B. Lenoir
- It Hurts Me So Bad (Someday Baby)
Robert Curtis Smith
- Blues


Kay 014 KJ (1979)
(30 minutes)


= Rhapsody 8022 (1986)


(=) Vestapol DVD 13003
(2003 "bonus track")
"Legends of Country
Blues Guitar Vol. 1"

371971Nothing But The Blues
The record companion to Hanover Publications' book "Nothing But The Blues" compiled by the Editors of Blues Unlimited

LP 1:
J.B. Lenoir - I Don't Care What Nobody Say [Blue Horizon 45-1004]
Juke Boy Bonner - Runnin' Shoes [Blues Unlimited 101]
Doctor Ross - Goin' Down Slow [Blue Horizon LP-1]
Model 'T' Slim - Woman's The Glory Of Man [Audio Blues AB-1933-A]
Little Mack Simmons - Come Back [C.-J. 606]
Johnny Shines - Pipeline Blues [Blue Horizon 7-63212]

Boozoo Chavis - Forty One Days [Folk Star 1201]
Hop Wilson - That Wouldn't Satisfy [Goldband G-1071]
Big Walter - My Tears [Flyright LP 4700]
Lonesome Sundown - I Stood By [Excello 2145]
Arthur Gunter - Don't Leave Me Now [Excello 2147]
Rockin' Sydney - Keep On Pushin' [previously unissued]


LP 2:
B.B. King - Eyesight To The Blind [Kent 441]
Otis Rush - All Your Love (I Miss Loving) [Cobra 5032]
Buddy Guy - Sit And Cry (The Blues) [Artistic 1501]
John Brim - Lifetime Baby [previously unissued]
Elmore James - Goin' For Good [previously unissued]
Magic Sam - All Night Long [Cobra 5025]

Lightnin' Slim - Greyhound Blues [Excello 2252]
Slim Harpo - Loving You (The Way I Do) [Excello 2282]
Otis Spann - Can't Do Me No Good [Blue Horizon 57-3142]
Sunnyland Slim - Midnight Jump [Blue Horizon 7-63213]
Johnny Young - Moaning And Groaning [Blue Horizon 7-63852]
George Smith - Telephone Blues [Blue Horizon7-63858]


compiled by Mike Leadbitter & Mike Vernon

2 LP set
notes by Mike Leadbitter

CBS 66278 (UK 1971)

DLP accompanying the book by the same title:

Mike Leadbitter (ed.): Nothing But The Blues.- London / New York (Hanover Books / Oak Publications) 1971

381972The Story Of The Blues, Vol. 2

J.B. Lenoir
- Mojo Boogie [Blue Horizon 45-1004]


CBS 66232


Epic Sony ECPI-9/10 (Jp 1975)

391972Chicago Blues Anthology

Album 1
- Tough Times - John Brim
- Anna Lee - Robert Nighthawk
- So Glad I Found You - Johnny Shines
- Having Fun - Memphis Slim
- Goin' Away Baby - Jimmy Rogers
- I Don't Know - Willie Mabon

- Dark Road - Floyd Jones
- Dust My Broom - Elmore James

- Eisenhower Blues - J.B. Lenoir
- By Myself - Big Bill Broonzy & Washboard Sam
- Murmur Low - Big Boy Spires
- Rattlesnake - John Brim


Album 2
- I See My Baby - Elmore James
- Korea Blues - J.B. Lenoir
- You Can't Live Long - Floyd Jones
- I Can't Stop - Willie Dixon
- Third Degree - Eddie Boyd
- Ten Years Ago - Buddy Guy

- Be Careful - John Brim
- Jackson Town Gal - Robert Nighthawk
- The World's In A Tangle - Jimmy Rogers
- You Know My Live - Willie Dixon
- My Time After A While - Buddy Guy
- Chicago Bound - Jimmy Rogers

2 LP set
notes by Pete Welding

Chess 2CH 60012

= Chess CH 50 011 (Fr)

= Chess CXMD4053 (UK Chess Masters)


= Chess/MCA 2CH 92520
(1984)

401976

 


Vogue 427003 gatefold inner sleeve

J.B. Lenoir: Chess Masters

- Natural Man [Chess LP 410]
- Don't Dog Your Woman [Chess LP 410]
- Let Me Die With The One I Love [Checker 844]
- Carrie Lee [Chess 1463]
- Mama What About Your Daughter [Checker 874]
- If I Give My Love To You [Checker 844]
- Five Years [Checker 874]

- Don't Touch My Head [Checker 856]
- I've Been Down So Long [Checker 856]
- What Have I Done? [Parrot 814]
- Eisenhower Blues [Parrot 802]
- Korea Blues [Chess 1449]
- Everybody Wants To Know (Laid Off Blues) [Chess LP 410]
- I'm In Korea [Parrot 802]


- Mama Your Daughter's Going To Miss Me [Parrot 814]
- We Can't Go On This Way [previously unissued]
- Give Me One More Shot [previously unissued]
- When I Am Drinking [previously unissued]
- J.B.'s Rock [previously unissued]
- If You Love Me [previously unissued]
- Low Down Dirty Shame [previously unissued]

- Man, Watch Your Woman [Parrot 809]
- Mama Talk To Your Daughter [Parrot 809]
- Sitting Down Thinking [unknown]
- Daddy Talk To Your Son [Checker 901]
- I Don't Know (She Don't Know) [Checker 901]
- Good Looking Woman (I'm Looking For A Woman) [previously unissued]
- Voodoo Boogie (Voodoo Woman) [previously unissued]

DLP
notes by Cub Koda

Chess 2ACMB-208


= Vogue 427003 (Fr) Chicago Golden Years 'Double Album' 3


Chess CH-2-9212 (1984)
= Chess CH 92506
Chess CXMD 4054 (UK)

411977Rare Gems
Previously unissued Chicago blues recordings from the collection of Norman Dayron

Roots TR 1005 LP 1 // TK Records TKR 82539:
Little Brother Montgomery - Ain't Nobody Here But Me   @ youtube
John Lee Granderson - Bumble Bee   @ youtube
Robert Nighthawk - Murderin' Blues (= Goin' Down To Eli's = Cheatin' And Lyin' Blues)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Otis Spann - Hotel Lorraine   @ youtube
Big Joe Williams - Sinkin' Blues   @ Spotify
Johnnie Jones - Worried Life Blues   @ youtube

Rev. Robert Wilkins - Glory Glory Hallelujah   @ youtube
Big Joe Williams and Paul Butterfield - Wild Cow Moan   @ Spotify
Johnnie Jones with Billy Boy Arnold - I Hear My Black Name Ringing   @ youtube
James Cotton with Elvin Bishop - So Glad I'm Living   @ Spotify
Little Brother Montgomery - Buddy Bolden's Blues   @ youtube


Roots TR 1005 LP 2:
Otis Spann - Blues For Martin Luther King   @ youtube
Robert Pete Williams - Ugly Man Blues   @ Spotify
Little Brother Montgomery - Prescription For The Blues   @ youtube
James Cotton with Elvin Bishop, Paul Butterfield - Diggin' My Potatoes   @ Spotify

J.B. Lenoir - My Dear Old Mother °°   @ youtube
Maxwell Street Jimmy - Someday Baby   @ youtube

James Cotton with Elvin Bishop, Paul Butterfield, Billy Boy Arnold - Three Harp Boogie (= South Side Boogie)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Big Joe Williams - Screamin' And Cryin'   @ Spotify
Little Brother Montgomery - Salty Dog   @ youtube
Robert Nighthawk - Medley: Annie Lee & Sweet Black Angel   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Rev. Robert Wilkins - Just A Closer Walk With Thee (2:50) °°   @ youtube


°° not on Bullseye/Rounder CD BB 9530

Bullseye/Rounder CD BB 9530 track sequence
Little Brother Montgomery - Ain't Nobody Here But Me
John Lee Granderson - Bumble Bee
Robert Nighthawk - Murderin' Blues
Otis Spann - Hotel Lorraine
Big Joe Williams - Sinkin' Blues
Johnnie Jones - Worried Life Blues
Rev. Robert Wilkins - Glory Glory Hallelujah
Big Joe Williams and Paul Butterfield - Wild Cow Moan
Johnnie Jones with Billy Boy Arnold - I Hear My Black Name Ringing
James Cotton with Elvin Bishop - So Glad I'm Living
Little Brother Montgomery - Buddy Bolden's Blues
Otis Spann - Blues For Martin Luther King
Robert Pete Williams - Ugly Man Blues
Little Brother Montgomery - Prescription For The Blues
James Cotton with Elvin Bishop, Paul Butterfield - Diggin' My Potatoes

J.B. Lenoir - My Dear Old Mother °°
Maxwell Street Jimmy - Someday Baby
James Cotton with Elvin Bishop, Paul Butterfield, Billy Boy Arnold - Three Harp Boogie
Big Joe Williams - Screamin' And Cryin'
Little Brother Montgomery - Salty Dog
Robert Nighthawk - Medley: Annie Lee & Sweet Black Angel
Rev. Robert Wilkins - Just A Closer Walk With Thee °°


rec. early to mid 1960s in Chicago, IL by Norman Dayron; compiled and edited by Norman Dayron & Mark Naftalin

notes by Pete Welding
Roots TR 1005, front cover; click to enlarge! Roots TR 1005, back cover; click to enlarge! Roots TR 1005, inner sleeve; click to enlarge! Roots TR 1005, label 1; click to enlarge! Roots TR 1005, label 2; click to enlarge! Roots TR 1005, label 3; click to enlarge! Roots TR 1005, label 4; click to enlarge! Roots TR 1005, inner gatefold 1; click to enlarge!Roots TR 1005, inner gatefold 2; click to enlarge!Roots TR 1005, inner gatefold 3; click to enlarge! Roots TR 1005, inner gatefold 4; click to enlarge!
Roots TR 1005 (US 1977)

= CBS S2BP 220205 (Australia 1977)

notes by Pete Welding
TK Records TKR 82539, front cover; click to enlarge! TK Records TKR 82539, back cover; click to enlarge! TK Records TKR 82539, notes; click to enlarge!
(=) TK Records TKR 82539 (UK 1978) "Rare Gems Vol. 1" (LP 1 only)

notes by Pete Welding

(=) Bullseye Blues CD BB 9530 (US 1993) "Rare Chicago Blues 1962-1968"

421977J.B. Lenore - Sunnyland Slim - Lazy Bill: Chance Vintage Blues R&B Crops Vol. 3

J.B. Lenore [sic]
- Mojo Boogie (issued as "The Mojo")
- Slow Down Woman
- I Want My Baby
- How Can I Leave
Sunnyland Slim
- When I Was Young

Sunnyland Slim
- Bassology
- Worried About My Baby
Lazy Bill
- She Got Me Walkin' [Chance unissued]
- I Had A Dream [Chance unissued]
- My Baby's Gone [Chance unissued]
- I Can't Sleep, I Can't Eat [Chance unissued]



P-Vine PLP-707 (Jp 1977)

Lazy Bill Lucas discography

42a1977Songs Of Complaint And Protest
Folk Music In America Vol. 7

Mattie, Marthie, and Minnie
- You Can't Live With ‘Em (And You Can't Live Without ‘Em)
Wilmoth Houdini
- Don't Do That To Me
Dutch Coleman
- Granny Get Your Hair Cut
John McGhee
- Well World Doggone
Bumble Bee Slim
- Hard Rocks In My Bed
Jerry McCain And His Upstarts
- My Next Door Neighbour
Ewgen Zukowsky
- Wujko politykan

David McCarn
- Poor Man, Rich Man
Gabriel Brown
- I'm Gonna Take It Easy
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- Kill That Nigger Dead

J.B. Lenoir
- Mississippi Road
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
- Over The Hills To The Poorhouse
Bessie Tucker
- Key To The Bushes Blues
Walter Roland
- Collector Man Blues
The Tiger
- Workers' Appeal


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


Library of Congress LBC7

431978Blues Is Killing Me
14 Rare Performances

Leroy Foster - Blues Is Killin' Me   @ youtube
Robert Lockwood - Dust My Broom   @ youtube
Grace Brim - Man Around My Door   @ youtube
Floyd Jones - Big World   @ youtube

J.B. Lenoir - How Much More   @ youtube
Moody Jones - Please Somebody   @ youtube
Harry Brooks - Black Mare   @ youtube

"poss. "Elga Edmonds" [Elga Edmonds]" [actually Ernest 'Little Son Joe' Lawlars] - Ethel Bea   @ youtube
Eddie Boyd - Hard Headed Woman   @ youtube
Sunnyland Slim - The Devil Is A Busy Man   @ youtube
B.B. King - Recession Blues   @ youtube
John & Grace Brim - Hard Pill To Swallow   @ youtube
Memphis Minnie and Her Combo - World Of Trouble   @ youtube
Percy Parham - Just A Mouse   @ deezer


the woman depicted on the front cover is Fannie Brewer, wife of Jim Brewer

notes by Pete Welding

Juke Joint 1501

441978going to chicago blues!   1949-1957

Robert Jr. Lockwood
- Aw Aw Baby [J.O.B. 1107]   @ youtube
- Sweet Woman From Maine [J.O.B. 1107]   @ youtube
L.C. McKinley
- Blue Evening (Blues) [Vee Jay unissued]   @ youtube

J.B. Lenoir
- In The Evening [J.O.B. unissued]   @ youtube
- Please Don't Go Away [J.O.B. unissued]   @ youtube
Forest City Joe
- Ash Street Boogie [Aristocrat unissued]   @ youtube

Willie Mabon
- It's Gonna Hurt You [Federal unissued]   @ youtube
- Got To Find My Baby [Federal unissued]   @ youtube
Robert Jenkins Trio
- Steelin' Boogie pt. 1 [Parkway 103]   @ youtube
- Steelin' Boogie pt. 2 [Parkway 103]   @ youtube
Sunnyland Slim
- Back To Korea [Sunny 101]   @ youtube
- It's All Over Now [Sunny 101]   @ youtube


A Division of Son Brimmer Enterprises
Album production: Joe Willie Gilmore
Liner notes: Hayes Williams
Mastering: Friday Ford Studios
Design and Calligraphy: Garfield Akers
Photos: Dudlow Tutwiler Archives


Negro Rhythm 107
[George Paulus label]

BU 130/26

451979Vivian & Jimmy's Blues Showcase

Willie Cobbs
- You Don't Love Me [Vee Jay 411]
- You're So Hard To Please [Vee Jay 411]
- Lonely Boy [Pure Gold 302, remastered by Vee Jay]
Christine Kittrell
- Sittin' & Drinkin' [Vee Jay 399]
- I'm A Woman [Vee Jay 444]
- It's Nobody's Fault [Vee Jay 444]

J.B. Lenoir
- Do What I Say [Vee Jay 352]

J.B. Lenoir
- Oh Baby [Vee Jay 352]
Snooky Pryor
- Someone To Love Me [Vee Jay 215]
- You Tried To Ruin Me [Vee Jay unissued]
- Judgment Day [Vee Jay 215]
Floyd Jones
- Schooldays (On My Mind) [Vee Jay 111]
- Ain't Times Hard [Vee Jay 111]
- Any Old Lonesome Day [Vee Jay 126]


 
Teichiku ULS-1913-JY (Jp 1979)

Snooky Pryor discography
Johnny Young discography
Floyd Jones discography

461980J.B. Lenoir: Mojo Boogie - The Tay May Club
The Job series Vol. 2

- Let's Roll (tk 2) [JOB 112]
- People Are Meddling (In Our Affairs) [JOB 112]
- I Have Married [previously unissued]
- I'll Die Tryin' [JOB 1016]
- The Mountain [JOB 1008]
- How Much More [JOB 1008]
- Let's Roll (tk 1) [previously unissued]

- The Mojo (tk 1) [P-Vine PLP-707]
- Slow Down Woman [P-Vine PLP-707]
- I Want My Baby [JOB 1016]
- How Can I Leave [JOB 1012]
- Play A Little While [JOB 1102]
- Louise [JOB 1102]
- The Mojo (tk 4) [JOB 1012]

front cover photo depicting poss. Al Galvin, Willie Dixon, J.B. Lenoir & J.T. Brown at the Tay May Club, Chicago, IL; photographer: "GLADYS"

notes by Mike Rowe

Flyright 564

Flyright Records discography

471980Sunnyland Slim
The Job series Vol. 4

- You've Got To Stop
- Glad I Don't Worry
- Down Home Child
- Sunny Land Special
- Leaving Your Town
- Harp Instrumental
- Over Night


- Slow Down Woman (tk 2) (J.B. Lenoir, voc, g)
- I Want My Baby (tk 4) (J.B. Lenoir, voc, g)
- When I Was Young (Sunnyland Slim, voc, p)
- Bassology (instr)
- Worried About My Baby (Sunnyland Slim, voc, p)
- Livin' In The White House (Johnny Shines, voc, g)
- Please Don't (Johnny Shines, voc, g)
- That Woman (Sunnyland Slim, voc, p)

notes by Mike Rowe

Flyright FLY 566

Flyright Records discography

481980The First Blues Sampler

Louisiana Red & Sunnyland Slim Blues Band
- Chicago, Glad To Be Back Home

J.B. Lenoir
- I Feel So Good [L+R 42.001]
The Eddie Taylor Blues Band + Carey Bell
- Wreck On 83 Highway
Willie Dixon with Hubert Sumlin, Sunnyland Slim
- My Babe
Eddie Boyd with Buddy Guy a.o.
- Blue Monday Blues
Eunice Davis with Wasboard Doc, Lucky & Flash a.o.
- Rock Little Daddy

Hubert Sumlin & Carey Bell
- Brought Up The Hard Way
Willie Mabon with Hubert Sumlin, Eddie Taylor a.o.
- Monday Woman
Wasboard Doc, Lucky & Flash; guest Lousiana Red
- Early One Morning
Philadelphia Jerry Ricks & Oscar Klein
- Levee Woman
Sunnyland Slim Blues Band; guest Carey Bell
- Tired Of Travelling
Lousiana Red
- Witchcraft Blues


tracks from other L+R LPs, and unissued takes


L+R 42.006 (Germany 1980)


= L+R 30 888 2 (Germany 1980) "Blues Meeting" (Club Edition)

L+R Records discography

491981Chicago Blues - A Quarter Century

LP 1
Big Road To Chicago
Johnny Shines
- Ramblin'
- Fish Tail
- Cool Driver
- Ain't Doin' No Good
Floyd Jones
- Dark Road
Moody Jones
- Rough Treatment
- Why Should I Worry
- Please Somebody


5 Long Years At Steel Mill
Eddie Boyd
- Five Long Years
- Hard Head Woman
J.T. Brown
- My Gal Went Away
- Soup Line
Memphis Minnie
- Kissing In The Dark
Son Joe
- I'd Write A Letter
Little Brother Montgomery
- Keep On Drinkin'
Memphis Slim
- Black Cat Crossed My Trail



LP 2
Chicago Blues Is Killing Me
Baby Face Leroy
- Blues Is Killing Me
- Late Hours At Midnight
- Pet Rabbit
John Lee Henley
- Knockin' On Lula Mae's Door
- Rhythm Rockin' Boogie

J.B. Lenoir
- Let It Roll
John Brim
- Hard Pill To Swallow


Just Blowing
Louis Meyers
- Just Wailing
- Bluesy
Big Walter Horton
- Have A Good Time
- Need My Baby
Little Willie Foster
- Crying The Blues
- Little Girl
Junior Wells with Earl Hooker
- Calling All Blues



LP 3
Down Home Child Grown Up
Sunnyland Slim
- Down Home Child
- Over Night
- Highway 61
Lee Jackson
- Fishin' In My Pond
- I'll Just Keep Walking
Arbee Stidham
- When I Find My Baby
Homesick James
- Crossroads


Rather Fight Than Switch
Buddy Guy
- Sit And Cry
- Try To Quit You Baby
Shakey Jake with Magic Sam
- Call Me If You Need Me
Jesse Fortune
- Too Many Cooks
- Heavy Heart Beat
A.C. Reed
- I'd Rather Fight Than Switch
Ricky Allen
- Ouch!



LP 4
Hard Times Follow Me
Fenton Robinson
- From My Heart
- Say You're Leavin'
Mighty Joe Young
- Hard Times
Earl Hooker
- Blues In D Natural
Lonnie Brooks
- Figure Head
Reggie Boyd
- Nothing But Poison
Andrew Brown
- You Better Stop


Sing The Way I Feel
Koko Taylor
- Honky Tonky
Big Moose
- Rambling Woman
- Foot Race
Big Mac
- Rough Dried Woman
Detroit Jr.
- The Way I Feel
- Call My Job
Bobby Rush
- I Don't Know
Buster Benton
- Money Is The Name Of The Game

4 LP set

P-Vine PLP-9022-9025 (Jp 1981)

501981Chicago Blues Session Before Sunrise

Buddy Guy
- This Is The End (take 4, 5, 6 & 7)
- You Sure Can't Do (rehearsal & take 5, 6 & 7)
Charles Clark & Sonny Boy
- Row Your Boat (take A + B)

Koko Taylor
- Like Heaven To Me (track 6)
- Honkey Tonky (track 9 & 10)

J.B. Lenore
- I Sing 'um The Way I Feel
- I Feel So Good
Jesse Fortune
- Heavy Heart Beat
- You Got A Good Thing
- God's Gift To Man


P-Vine PLP-9026

511981J.B. Lenoir: Gonna Give You Good Advice
Blues Roots   Vol. 18

- Mama Talk To Your Daughter [Parrot 809]
- Carrie Lee [Chess 1463]
- I've Been Down So Long [Parrot 856]
- Give Me One More Shot [Chess 2 ACMB-208]
- Korea Blues [Chess 1449]
- I'm In Korea [Parrot 802]
- Voodoo Boogie [Chess 2 ACMB-208]

- Don't Touch My Head [Checker 856]
- What Have I Done [Parrot 814]
- Eisenhower Blues [Parrot 802]
- Everybody Wants To Know [Chess 2 ACMB-208]
- We Can't Go On This Way [Chess 2 ACMB-208]
- Don't Dog Your Woman [Chess 2 ACMB-208]
- Mama What About Your Daughter [Checker 874]

series compiled by Manfred Miller & Wolfgang Michels

notes by Manfred Miller

Teldec/Chess 6.24808 AG (Germany 1981)

Blues Roots discography

521982Down Home Chicago Blues
Black Music in the 1950s Volume 5
Presenting the historic Parkway Session, 1950

Baby Face Leroy with Little Walter & Muddy Waters
- I Just Keep Loving Her *
- Just Keep Loving Her *
- Boll Weavil *
- Rollin' And Tumblin' - part 1 [- part 2] *
- Rollin' And Tumblin' - part 2 [- part 1] *
- Red Headed Woman *
- Moonshine Blues *

- Muskadine Blues *
- Bad Acting Woman *

J.B. Lenoir with Sunnyland Slim
- I Wanna Play A Little While #
- Louise #
- People Are Meddlin' (In Our Affairs) #
Sunnyland Slim
- I Done You Wrong []
- Low Down Sunnyland Train []

* rec. January 1950 in Chicago for Monroe Passis' Parkway label; Baby Face Leroy Foster, voc, dr; Little Walter, g, voc; Muddy Waters, g, voc
# JOB recordings; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Sunnyland Slim, p
[] rec. for Regal; Sunnyland Slim, voc, p
Delmark DL/DD 648 compilation prod. by Robert G. Koester
Delmark DL/DD 648 cover artwork by Jeanette Walzak, cover photo by Val Wilmer, liner photos by Ray Flerlage
P-Vine PLP-364 cover photo by Mark Power


Delmark / P-Vine PLP-9038 (Jp 1982)

notes by Jim O'Neal
 
= Delmark DL 648 (US 1984) "The Blues World of Little Walter"


= Delmark / P-Vine PLP-364 (Jp 1988) "The Blues World of Little Walter"

notes by Jim O'Neal

= Delmark DD 648 (US 1993) "The Blues World of Little Walter" ("from original masters, digitally restored")

Delmark Records discography
Baby Face Leroy Foster discography
Muddy Waters discography

531983J.B. Lenoir: A Memoir For Lenoir

- Carrie Lee
- Korea Blues
- I'm In Korea
- Eisenhower Blues
- Man Watch Your Woman
- Mama Talk To Your Daughter
- Sitting Down Thinking

- Mama Your Daughter Is Going To Miss Me
- Give Me One More Shot
- What Have I Done
- We Can't Go On This Way
- Fine Girls
- J.B.'s Rock
- If You Love Me


- Natural Man
- Everybody Wants To Know
- Don't Dog Your Woman
- Let Me Die With The One I Love
- If I Give My Love To You
- Low Down Dirty Shame
- Don't Touch My Head
- When I'm Drinkin'

- I've Been Down So Long
- Mama, What About Your Daughter
- Five Years
- Daddy Talk To Your Son
- I Don't Know
- Good Looking Woman
- Voodoo Boogie

DLP

P-Vine PLP-824 / 825 (Jp 1983)

541983Out Of Bad Luck

Magic Sam
- Out Of Bad Luck
- Every Night About This Time
Koko Taylor
- It's Like Heaven To Me
- Honky Tonky

J.B. Lenoir
- I Sing Um The Way I Feel [USA inc. alt tk]
- I Sing Um The Way I Feel [USA alt tk]
- Feel So Good [USA inc. alt tk]
Jesse Fortune
- Heavy Heart Beat (2 takes)
- Good Things
- Too Many Cooks
Magic Sam
- Blue Light Boogie
Homesick James
- Baby's Sweet
A.C. Reed
- I'd Rather Fight Than Switch
Ricky Allen
- Ouch!

notes by Alan Balfour

Flyright FLY 590 (UK 1983)

Flyright Records discography

54a1983Chess Masters - Chicago Blues

Johnny Jones - Big Town Playboy
Johnny Jones - Shelby County
Blue Smitty - Sad Story [Chess 1522]
Blue Smitty - Elgin Movements [Chess unissued]
Blue Smitty - Date Bait [Chess unissued]
Eddie Boyd - Twenty Four Hours


J B Lenoir - Eisenhower Blues
J B Lenoir - Sitting Down Thinking
John Brim - It Was A Dream
Henry Gray - I Declare That Ain't Right
Henry Gray - Matchbox Blues
John Brim - Lifetime Baby


Otis Spann - It Must Have Been The Devil
Otis Spann - Five Spot
John Brim - Go Away
John Brim - That Ain't Right
Jimmy Rogers - You're The One
Jimmy Rogers - If It Ain't Me

Muddy Waters - Rock Me
Jimmy Rogers - One Kiss
Howlin' Wolf - I'm Leavin' You
Buddy Guy - Let Me Love You Baby
Buddy Guy - My Time After Awhile
Robert Nighthawk - Someday


concept by Matt Haywood; compiled by Leslie Fancourt & Matt Haywood

DLP

Chess CXMD 4013 (UK 1983)

551986J.B. Lenoir & Willie Dixon: One Of These Mornings

- Fox Squirrel []   @ Spotify
- I Feel So Good []   @ Spotify
- One Of These Mornings (= Oh Captain) [] #   @ Spotify
- Mumble Low [] #   @ Spotify
- When My Left Eye Jumps [] #   @ Spotify

- Mama Talk To Your Daughter []   @ Spotify
- My Mamma Told Me (= Need Somebody's Help) []   @ Spotify
- Alabama Blues $   @ Spotify
- God's Word $   @ Spotify
- The Whale $ #   @ Spotify
- Remove This Rope $   @ Spotify

[] rec. autumn 1962 in Chicago, IL by Willie Dixon; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; # Willie Dixon, additional voc

$ prob. rec. March 5, 1965 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Freddie Below, dr; # Willie Dixon, additional voc

notes by John Stedman

JSP 1105

55a1987The Best of Chess Blues   Volume One

- Rollin' Stone - Muddy Waters
- Black Angel Blues (Sweet Black Angel) - Robert Nighthawk
- 24 Hours - Eddie Boyd and His Chess Men
- Seventh Son - Willie Mabon
- Reconsider Baby - Lowell Fulsom
- (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters
- Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf
- Juke - Little Walter & His Night Cats

- Eisenhower Blues - J.B. Lenoir
- Walking By Myself - Jimmy Rogers
- Don't Start Me Talkin' - Sonny Boy Williamson
- Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights) - Little Walter


compiled by Andy McKaie


Chess CHD-31315

561988J.B. Lenoir: The Parrot Sessions 1954-55
Vintage Chicago Blues

- Mama Talk To Your Daughter
- Eisenhower Blues [Parrot 802]
- I Lost My Baby
- Give Me One More Shot
- Man, Watch Your Woman
- I'm In Korea

- I'm Gonna Die Someday
- What Have I Done?
- Fine Girls
- We've Both Got To Realize
- Eisenhower Blues (tk 1)
- Sitting Down Thinking
- Mama Your Daughter's Going to Miss Me

notes (September 1988) by Dick Shurman
 
Relic LP 8017 (US 1988)

notes by Dick Shurman

= Relic CD 7020 (US 1994)

571989J.B. Lenoir: I Don't Know

- I've Been Down For So Long
- Don't Touch My Head
- Eisenhower Blues
- What Have I Done
- Mama Your Daughter's Going To Miss Me
- Everybody Wants To Know
- Give Me One More Shot
- We Can't Go On This Way
- If You Loved Me
- When I Am Drinking
- J.B.'s Rock
- Low Down Dirty Shame
- Mama Talk To Your Daughter
- Sitting Down Thinking
- Man Watch Your Woman
- Daddy Talk To Your Son
- I Don't Know
- Voodoo Boogie
- Good Looking Woman


Vogue CD 670406 (Fr)

581989J.B. Lenoir: His JOB Recordings 1951-1954

- Let's Roll [tk 2]
- People Are Meddling (In Our Affairs)
- I Have Married
- I'll Die Tryin'
- The Mountain
- How Much More
- Let's Roll [tk 1]
- The Mojo Boogie [tk 1]
- Slow Down Woman [tk 1]
- I Want My Baby [tk 1]
- How Can I Leave
- Play A Little While
- Louise
- The Mojo Boogie [tk 4]
- Slow Down Woman [tk 2]
- I Want My Baby [tk 4]
- When I Was Young
- Bassology
- Worried About My Baby
- Livin' In The White House
- Please Don't


Flyright FLYCD 4 (UK)


= Paula CD 4 (US 1990)

The JOB label

Flyright Records discography

591989J.B. Lenoir: Fine Blues

- Deep In Debt Blues [Chess 1463]
- My Baby Told Me [Chess 1449]
- In The Evening [Negro Rhythm 107]
- Please Don't Go Away [Negro Rhythm 107]
- Fine Girls [Parrot 821]
- I Lost My Baby [Parrot 821]
- Daddy Talk To Your Son [Checker 901]
- She Don't Know [Checker 901]

- Back Door [Shad 5012]
- Lou Ella [Shad 5012]
- Oh Baby [VeeJay 352]
- Do What I Say [VeeJay 352]
- Move To Kansas City [Decca 4664]
- I Been Down So Long [Decca 4664]
- Mojo Boogie [Blue Horizon 45-1004]
- I Don't Care What Nobody Say [Blue Horizon 45-1004]
- Oh Baby (alt tk) [Python 25]

notes by Terry Ohmer
>
Official 6049 (Dk)

601991The Way I Feel

Homesick James
- Crossroads
Jesse Fortune
- Heavy Heart Beat
Detroit Junior
- Call My Job

J.B.Lenoir
- I Feel So Good
Jesse Fortune
- Good Things
Homesick James
- My Baby's Sweet
Andrew Brown
- You Better Stop
Harold Burrage
- I Cry For You
Willie Mabon
- Somebody Got To Pay
Jesse Fortune
- Too Many Cooks
T.V.Slim
- You Can't Love Me
Detroit Junior
- The Way I Feel
Willie Mabon
- Some More
Koko Taylor
- Honky Tonk
Willie Mabon
- Mew Orleans Blues
Big Moose
- Rambling Woman
Fenton Robinson
- Say You're Leavin'
Lillian Offitt
- Oh Mama
Mighty Joe Young
- Hard Times
Willie Mabon
- Something For Nothing
- Some Time I Wonder


Flyright FLYCD 43


= Paula PCD-23 (US)

611992J.B. Lenoir: 1951 / 1958

- Mama What About Your Daughter
- We Can't Go On This Way
- Give Me One More Shot
- Everybody Wants To Know
- J.B.'s Rock
- If You Love Me
- Low Down Dirty Shame
- Don't Touch My Head
- When I Am Drinking
- I've Been Down So Long
- Five Years
- Daddy Don't Talk To Your Son
- I Don't Know
- Good Looking Woman
- Voodoo Boogie
- Carrie Lee
- Korea Blues
- Eisenhower Blues
- Man, Watch Your Woman
- I'm In Korea
- Mama Talk To Your Daughter
- Sitting Down Thinking
- Don't Dog Your Woman
- Natural Man
- If I Give My Love To You
- Let Me Die With The One I Love
- Mama Your Daughter's Going To Miss Me
- What Have I Done?


New Rose CD 5117

621992J.B. Lenoir: The Topical Bluesman: From Korea To Vietnam
[common misconception: "The Tropical Bluesman"]

- Natural Man
- When I'm Drinking
- Back Door
- Lou Ella
- Mojo Boogie
- Lay Down Dirty Shame
- I Don't Care What Nobody Say [Blue Horizon 45-1004]
- Move To Kansas City
- I Been Down So Long
- Man Watch Your Woman
- Mama Talk To Your Daughter
- Alabama Blues
- Eisenhower Blues
- I'm In Korea
- Carrie Lee
- Korea Blues
- Sitting Down Thinking
- Let's Roll
- JB's Rock
- I'll Die Trying
- How Much More
- Don't Touch My Head
- Voodoo Boogie
- Everybody Crying About Vietnam


Blues Encore CD 52017 (It)

631993J.B. Lenoir: Mama, Watch Your Daughter
Charly Blues Masterworks Vol. 47

- Mama Talk To Your Daughter
- Man Watch Your Woman
- Eisenhower Blues
- If You Love Me
- Sitting Down Thinking
- Mama Your Daughter's Going
- To Miss Me
- What Have I Done
- We Can't Go On This Way
- Give Me ONe More Shot
- Everybody Wants To Know
- J.B.'s Rock
- Low Down Dirty Shame
- Don't Touch My Head
- When I'm Drinking
- I've Been Down For So Long
- Daddy Talk To Your Son
- I Don't Know
- Voodoo Boogie


Charly CDBM 47

641993J.B. Lenoir: Eisenhauer Blues
The Blues Collecion

- Mama Talk To Your Daughter
- Men Watch Your Woman
- Eisenhower Blues
- If You Love Me
- Sitting Down Thinking
- Mama Your Daughter Is Going To Miss Me
- What Have I Done
- We Cant Go On This Way
- Give Me One More Shot
- Everybody Wants To Know
- J B Rock
- Long Down Dirty Shame
- Dont Touch My Head
- When I Am Drinking
- I've Been Down For So Long
- Daddy Talk To Your Son
- I Dont Know
- Good Looking Woman
- Voodoo Boogie

series edited by Tony Russell

notes by Neil Slaven

Orbis BLU NC 034

651994Lost Blues Tapes Vol. 1
American Folk Blues Festival 1963-65

- Della Mae - John Lee Hooker #
- Hound Dog - Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton #
- Captain Captain - Muddy Waters *
- I Got To Cut Out - Sonny Boy Williamson §
- Blues Harp Shuffle - 'Big' Walter Horton §
- Strong Brain Broad Mind - Willie Dixon §
- Big Leg Woman - Willie Dixon §
- You Got Me Runnin' - Sugar Pie Desanto §
- South Side Jump - Buddy Guy #

- If I Get Lucky (3:05) - J.B. Lenoir ##
- Got A Letter This Morning - 'Mississippi' Fred McDowell #
- Sail On - Roosevelt Sykes #
- Memphis Boogie - Memphis Slim *
- Your Best Friend's Gone - John Estes & Hammie Nixon §
- Farewell Baby - Dr. Isaiah Ross #
- Della Mae - John Lee Hooker #


# rec. October 7 (or 8?), 1965 in a studio in Hamburg, Germany (American Folk Blues Festival 1965); ## J.B. Lenoir, voc, g
* rec. October 13, 1963 in Bremen (American Folk Blues Festival 1963)
§ rec. October 9, 1964 in Hamburg (American Folk Blues Festival 1964)

notes by Siegfried Loch

ACT CD 9204-2 (UK 1992)


ACT CD 9204 (UK 1994)

65a1995J.B. Lenoir: Vietnam Blues
The Complete L+R Recording

- Alabama Blues
- Mojo Boogie
- God's Word
- The Whale Has Swallowed Me
- Move This Rope
- I Feel So Good
- Alabama March
- Talk To Your Daughter
- Mississippi Road
- Good Advice
- Vietnam Blues
- I Want To Go
- Down in Mississippi
- Slow Down Woman
- If I Get Lucky
- Shot On James Meredith
- Round And Round
- Voodoo Music
- Born Dead
- Leaving Here
- Vietnam Blues
- How Much More
- Tax Payin' Blues
- Feelin' Good

notes by Jonny Meister

Evidence CD 26068 (US 1995) re-release of "Alabama Blues" and "Down In Mississippi"

65b1995Ain't Times Hard
Modern Blues Anthology

CD 1:
- Dust My Broom - Elmore James
- Well That's All Right - Howlin' Wolf
- Five Long Years - Eddie Boyd
- Seems Like A Million Years - Willie Nix
- We All Gotta Go Sometime - Joe Hill Louis

- Mojo Boogie - J.B. Lenoir
- Evening Sun - Johnny Shines
- I'm Looking For A Woman - Little Hudson
- Easy - Big Walter Horton
- Bear Cat (The Answer To Hound Dog) - Rufus Thomas
- Take A Little Chance - Jimmy De Berry
- Feelin' Good - Junior Parker
- Mystery Train - Junior Parker
- The Boogie Disease - Doctor Ross
- Hart's Bread Boogie - Billy Love
- Ain't Times Hard - Floyd Jones
- Combination Boogie - J.B. Hutto
- Cotton Crop Blues - James Cotton
- I'm Gonna Murder My Baby - Pat Hare
- You Don't Have To Go - Jimmy Reed
- Bad Boy - Eddie Taylor
- Aw Baby (Sweet Home Chicago) - Robert Jr. Lockwood
- So Long Baby, Goodbye - Willie Johnson


CD 2:
- I Wish You Would - Billy Boy Arnold
- Big Town Playboy - Eddie Taylor
- Hands Off - Priscilla Bowman
- I Ain't Got You - Billy Boy Arnold
- Every Woman I Know (Crazy About Automobiles) - Billy 'The Kid' Emerson
- Judgement Day - Snooky Pryor
- I Can't Quit You Baby - Otis Rush
- Have A Good Time - Big Walter Horton
- The Telephone Is Ringing - Pee Wee Crayton
- Going Back Home - Big Joe Williams
- It's You Baby - Sunnyland Slim
- Fishin' In My Pond - Lee Jackson
- The Twelve Year Old Boy - Elmore James
- All Your Love - Magic Sam
- Honest I Do - Jimmy Reed
- Blues Get Off My Shoulder - Bobby Parker
- Mama, You Got A Daughter - John Lee Hooker
- Double Trouble - Otis Rush
- Row Your Boat - Charles Clark
- Roll You Moneymaker - Shakey Jake
- This Is The End - Buddy Guy
- Number Nine Train - Tarheel Slim
- Kansas City - Jimmy Witherspoon
- I'm In The Mood - John Lee Hooker


CD 3:
- Bad Luck And Trouble - Boogie Jake
- No More Doggin' - Rosco Gordon
- Baby, What You Want Me To Do - Jimmy Reed
- Rockin' The House - Memphis Slim
- Just A Little Bit - Rosco Gordon
- Fannie Mae - Buster Brown
- Somebody's Doin' Me Wrong - Edgar Blanchard
- Little By Little - Junior Wells
- Will My Man Be Home Tonight? - Lillian Offitt
- You Don't Have To Go - Sam Myers
- Messin' With The Kid - Junior Wells
- Blue Guitar - Earl Hooker
- Sittin' Here Drinkin' - Christine Kitrell
- You Don't Love Me - Willie Cobbs
- Bright Lights, Big City - Jimmy Reed
- Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker
- Got Me A Louisiana Woman - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Shake Your Moneymaker - Elmore James
- Mean Old Frisco - Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
- My Baby's Sweet - Homesick James
- It Hurts Me Too - Elmore James
- Too Many Cooks - Jesse Fortune
- Cut You A-Loose - Rick Allen
- You Better Stop - Andrew Brown


CD 4:
- Rough Dried Woman, Pt. 1 - Big Mac
- Ain't Broke Ain't Hungry - Polka Dot Slim
- Figure Head - Lonnie Brooks
- The Way I Feel - Detroit Junior
- Southern Country Boy - Carter Brothers
- Out Of Bad Luck - Magic Sam
- Ride With Your Daddy Tonight - Frank Frost
- Say You're Leavin' - Fenton Robinson
- She's Crazy 'bout Entertainers - Jerry Mccain
- Hard Times - Young, Mighty Joe
- Rambling Woman - Johnny 'Big Moose' Walker
- Put It All In There - George 'Wild Child' Butler
- Long Way From Home - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Rock Me Baby - Ike And Tina Turner
- Cummins Prison Farm - Calvin Leavy
- Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker
- Shakin' Hands With The Judge - Little Joe Blue
- My Baby - Lowell Fulson
- High Cost Of Livin' - Al King
- It's My Fault Darling - Little Johnny Taylor
- Go And Help Yourself - Albert Washington
- Bowlegged Woman, Knock-Kneed Man, Pt. 1 - Bobby Rush
- Spider In My Stew - Buster Benton
- Food Stamp Blues - Eddie Lang


compiled by Les Fancourt

4 CD set with 44 pp. booklet

Charly CD DIG 3 (UK 1995)

661996J.B. Lenoir: Blues Classics

- Down In Mississippi
- Alabama Blues
- Feelin' Good
- If I Get Lucky
- Mississippi Road
- The Mojo Boogie
- Born Dead
- Talk To Your Daughter
- Move This Rope
- Slow Down
- Shot On Meredith
- Voodoo Music
- Leaving Here
- Vietnam Blues
- Tax Payin' Blues
- How Much More


Bellaphon CDLR 82001

671996Uncle Sam Blues

- Army Blues - Bukka White
- G.I. Blues - Lightnin' Slim
- Red's Dream - Louisiana Red

- Vietnam Blues - J.B. Lenoir
- Stormy Desert - Cooper Terry
- Overseas Blues - Memphis Willie Borum
- Uncle Sam Don't Take My Man - Snooky Pryor
- Back To Korea Blues - Sunnyland Slim
- Vietcong Blues - Junior Wells
- Million Lonesome Women - Brownie McGhee
- '41 Blues - Dr. Clayton
- Pearl Harbour Blues - Dr. Clayton
- Give Me A 32-30 - Arthur Big Boy Crudup
- Win The War Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson
- The Army Blues - David Edwards
- Atomic Bomb Blues - Homer Harris
- So Cold In Vietnam - Johnny Shines
- Sad News From Korea - Lightnin' Hopkins


Blues Encore CD 52043

67a1997The Blue Horizon Story 1965-1970 Vol. 1

disc 1 - The Pre-CBS Years:
- Across The Board - Hubert Sumlin
- Sumlin Boogie - Hubert Sumlin
- Baby You Just Don't Know - Woodrow Adams with Boogie Blues Blasters
- Winehead Woman - Woodrow Adams with Boogie Blues Blasters
- Christmas Time (Part 1) - Jimmy McCracklin

- Mojo Boogie - J.B. Lenore [Blue Horizon 45-1004]
- I Don't Care What Nobody Say - J.B. Lenore [Blue Horizon 45-1004]
- Mean Old World - Doctor Isaiah Ross
- Someone To Love Me - T.S. McPhee
- I Feel So Good - Jo Ann Kelly
- Good Morning Baby - Drifting Slim
- My Sweet Woman - Drifting Slim
- Lonely Years - John Mayall & Eric Clapton
- Bernard Jenkins - John Mayall & Eric Clapton
- Superintendent Blues - Houston Boines
- Monkey Motion - Houston Boines
- Can't Quit You Baby - Savoy Brown's Blues Band
- Get Your Head Happy - Champion Jack Dupree with T.S. McPhee
- Talk All In My Sleep - Champion Jack Dupree with T.S. McPhee
- Hot Rock - Stone's Masonry
- Christine - Hound Dog Taylor
- Come Back - 'Little' Mack Simmons & His Boys
- My Walking Blues - 'Little' Mack Simmon And His Boys
- It's So Miserable To Be Alone - Eddie Boyd (with Peter Green and John McVie)
- Empty Arms - Eddie Boyd (with Peter Green and John McVie)

disc 2 - The CBS Years - part One:
- I Believe My Time Ain't Long - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
- Warning - Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation
- When My Left Eye Jumps - The Chicken Shack Featuring Stan Webb (with Christine Perfect)
- She Drives Me Out Of My Mind - Arthur K. Adams
- The Big Boat - Eddie Boyd (with Peter Green and John McVie)
- Black Magic Woman - Fleetwood Mac
- Prison Bound Blues - Roosevelt Holts
- Need Your Love So Bad - Fleetwood Mac
- How Am I Doing - Champion Jack Dupree with Stan Webb
- Can't Do Me No Good - Otis Spann
- The Woman I Love - B.B. King
- You Don't Have To Go - Curtis Jones
- Albatross [instrumental] - Fleetwood Mac
- Since My Baby Hit The Numbers - Guitar Crusher Jimmy Spruill O
- Next Time You See Me - Garfield Love Jimmy Spruill Orchestra
- Solid Gold - Johnny Shines
- Layin' In My Cell, Sleepin' - Sunnyland Slim
- It's Hard But It's Fair - Bobby Parker
- I Couldn't Quit My Baby - Bobby Parker
- Stumbling Block - Champion Jack Dupree
- I'd Rather Go Blind - Chicken Shack (with Christine Perfect)
- Temperature Is Rising (98.8) - Otis Spann With Fleetwood Mac
- All Your Love (I Miss Loving) - Otis Rush And His Band

disc 3 - The CBS Years - part Two:
- Everything Gonna Be Alright - Magic Sam
- Hideaway - Chicken Shack
- My Baby's Gone - David 'Honeyboy' Edwards (with Peter Green and Mick Fleetwood)
- Mandy Lee - Coyne Clague
- Too Long - Gordon Smith
- You Don't Know My Mind - Mississippi Joe Callicott
- Judge Harsh Blues - Furry Lewis
- Drifting Blues - Bukka White
- Southern Train - Larry Johnson
- Tears In The Wind - Chicken Shack
- I'm Gonna Wind Up Ending Up Or I'm Gonna End Up Winding Up With You - Duster Bennett
- She Wants To Rock 'N' Roll - Harmonica Slim
- Moaning And Groaning - Johnny Young
- Someday Your Gonna Learn (To Treat Me Right) - George Smith
- Ridin' The Blinds - Top Topham
- Boom Boom (Out Goes The Lights) - Bacon Fat
- Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu - Jellybread
- Crazy 'Bout You Baby - Christine Perfect
- Voodoo Rhythym - Key Largo
- I Want You To Love Me - Duster Bennett
- I'm Gonna Leave You - Martha Velez
- Blues Feeling - Bacon Fat


prod. by Mike Vernon

3 CD box set
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67bh2001The Parrot Records Blues Story

- Bad Luck Blues - Albert King
- Mama Talk to Your Daughter - J.B. Lenoir
- West Coast Blues - Ernest Lewis
- Tough Times - John Brim
- That Ain't Right - Henry Gray
- Cool Playing Blues - Curtis Jones
- Easy Lovin' - Little Papa Joe
- Fine Girls - J.B. Lenoir
- Looking for My Baby - Little Papa Joe
- Murder In The First Degree - St. Louis Jimmy Oden
- Blue Blues Boogie - Nature Boy Brown
- Yes, She's Gone - Dusty Brown
- Santa Fe - Baby Boy Warren
- Devil Is A Busy Man - Sunnyland Slim
- Crosstown Blues - Snooky Pryor
- No More Lovin' - Ernest Lewis
- Falling Rain Blues - Little Willie Foster
- Gary Stomp - John Brim
- Wrong Blues - Curtis Jones

- Eisenhower Blues - J.B. Lenoir
- Mattie Mae - Baby Boy Warren
- Four Day Jump - Little Willie Foster
- Going Back To Memphis - Sunnyland Slim
- Watch Yourself - Henry Gray
- Be on Your Merry Way - Albert King


notes by Victor Pearlin

Preserved CD 8575 (US 2001)

682002J.B. Lenoir: Mojo Boogie

- Let's Roll [Take 2]
- People Are Meddling In Our Affairs
- (I Wanna) Play A Little While
- Louise
- How Much More
- The Mountain
- I Have Married
- I'll Die Tryin'
- The Mojo [Take 4]
- How Can I Leave
- Want My Baby [Take 4]
- Slow Down Woman [Take 2]
- I Sing Um The Way I Feel
- I Feel So Good
- Let's Roll [Take 1]
- The Mojo [Take 1]
- I Want My Baby [Take 1]
- Slow Down Woman [Take 1]
- I Sing Um The Way I Feel [Take 18]
- I Feel So Good [Take 21]


Fuel 2000 CD 61182

692002Rough Treatment: The J.O.B. Records Story

disc 1:
- Evening Sun - Johnny Shines
- Late Hours At Midnight - Babyface Leroy
- Pet Rabbit - Babyface Leroy

- How Much More - J.B. Lenoir
- Mojo - J.B. Lenoir
- Boogie Fool - Snooky Pryor
- Crying Shame - Snooky Pryor
- Boogie Twist - Snooky Pryor
- Rough Treatment - Little Hudson
- Don't Hand Around - Little Hudson
- Sweet Woman From Maine - Robert Jr. Lockwood
- Dust My Broom - Robert Jr. Lockwood
- Dark Road - Floyd Jones
- Skinny Mama - Floyd Jones
- Kissing In The Dark - Memphis Minnie
- Five Long Years - Eddie Boyd
- Hard Pill To Swallow - John Brim
- Glad I Don't Worry No More - Fat Man
- Please Somebody - Moody Jones
- Keep Drinkin' - Little Brother Montgomery
- Rhythm Rockin' Boogie - John Lee
- Man Around My Door - Grace Brim
- Down Home Child - Sunnyland Slim
- Ethel Bea - Little Son Joe
- Ramblin' - Johnny Shines
- Goin' Back To Memphis - Ernest Cotton


disc 2:
- Aw Aw Baby - Robert Jr. Lockwood
- Pearly B - Robert Jr. Lockwood
- Leaving Your Town - Sunnyland Slim
- Overnight - Sunnyland Slim
- Trouble In The Morning - John Brim
- You've Got To Stop This Mess - Fat Man
- Eighty Nine Ten - Snooky Pryor
- Raising Sand - Snooky Pryor
- Things Going So Tough With Me - Little Hudson
- I'm Looking For A Woman - Little Hudson

- Play A Little While - J.B. Lenoir
- People Are Meddling - J.B. Lenoir
- Knockin' On Lula's Mae's Door - John Lee
- Big World - Floyd Jones
- On The Road Again - Floyd Jones
- Brutal Hearted Woman - Johnny Shines
- Cool Driver - Johnny Shines
- Hospitality Blues - Grace Brim
- Louella - Babyface Leroy
- Blues Is Killing Me - Babyface Leroy
- Blue Coat Man - Eddie Boyd
- Little Too Late - Little Son Joe
- Why Should I Worry - Moody Jones
- Boogie - Little Brother Montgomery
- World Of Trouble - Memphis Minnie
- Drinking Woman - John Brim
- Uh'm Beautiful - Ernest Cotton

2 CD set

Westside CD WESD 233

69a2002The USA Records Blues Story

- Figure Head - Lonnie Brooks
- The Duck Walk - Eddy Clearwater
- Some Time I Wonder - Willie Mabon
- From My Heart - Fenton Robinson
- Going Or Coming - Ricky Allen
- Forget It - Jimmy Burns
- It's Bad To Make A Woman Mad - Detroit Junior
- You Better Stop - Andrew Brown
- Hard Times (Follow Me) - Mighty Joe Young
- Like Heaven To Me - Koko Taylor

- I Feel So Good - J.B. Lenoir
- I'd Rather Fight Than Switch - A.C. Reed
- Just Got Some - Willie Mabon
- Too Many Cooks - Jesse Fortune
- Crossroads - Homesick James
- I Have Made A Change - Ricky Allen
- She's A Sweet One - Junior Wells
- Through All Your Faults - Jimmy Burns
- Call My Job - Detroit Junior
- Momee, Momee - Eddy Clearwater
- Something Can Go Wrong - Andrew Brown
- I'm Not Going Home - Lonnie Brooks
- Say You're Leavin' - Fenton Robinson
- My Baby's Sweet - Homesick James
- Honky Tonky - Koko Taylor
- Good Things - Jesse Fortune


compiled by Bill Dahl

notes by Bill Dahl

Fuel 2000 061209 (US 2002)
= Varese Sarabande (US 2002)

69b2003J.B. Lenoir, Sunnyland Slim & Friends: Live In '63
18 Classic Tracks

- Harlem Can't Be Heaven (Sunnyland Slim)
- I Want To Know (Lenoir)
- It's You Baby (Sunnyland Slim / Lenoir / John Lee Granderson)
- Brown Skin Woman (Sunnyland Slim / Lenoir)
- Lend Me Your Love (Sunnyland Slim / Oden, St. Louis Jimmy)
- J.B.'s Harp-Rack Blues (Lenoir)
- Piney Brown Blues (Sunnyland Slim / Lenoir)
- For You, My Love (Sunnyland Slim / Lenoir)
- My Dear Old Mother (Oden)
- I Had My Trouble (Lenoir)
- J.L.'s Blues (Granderson, John Lee / Mike Bloomfield)
- Everything's Gonna Be Alright ( Granderson, John Lee / Mike Bloomfield)
- That's All Right (Granderson, John Lee / Mike Bloomfield)

- Louise (Lenoir / Sunnyland Slim)
- Mojo Boogie (Lenoir / Sunnyland Slim)
- The Devil Is A Busy Man (Sunnyland Slim / Lenoir)
- Worried Life Blues (Sunnyland Slim)
- Sunnyland Blues (Sunnyland Slim)


rec. July 9, 1963 at Nina's Lounge in Chicago by Norman Dayron; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g, hca; Sunnyland Slim, voc, p; John Lee Granderson, voc, g; Mike Bloomfield, acoustic g; St. Louis Jimmy Oden, hca


Fuel 2000 CD 061300

702003J.B. Lenoir: One Of These Mornings

- Fox Squirrel °°
- I Feel So Good °°
- One Of These Mornings (= Oh Captain) °°
- Mumble Low °°
- When My Left Eye Jumps °°
- Mama Talk To Your Daughter °°
- My Mamma Told Me (= Need Somebody's Help) °°
- Alabama Blues °°
- God's Word °°
- The Whale °°
- Remove This Rope °°
- I Feel So Good (live)   @ Spotify
- Mama Talk To Your Daughter   @ Spotify
- My Name Is J B Lenoir   @ Spotify
- I Want The Whole World To Know   @ Spotify
- Alabama March   @ Spotify

J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Fred Below, dr; Willie Dixon, additional voc

°° previously on JSP 1105 (1986)


JSP CD 2154

712003J.B. Lenoir: Passionate Blues

- Alabama Blues
- The Mojo Boogie
- God's Word
- The Whale Has Swallowed
- Move This Rope
- I Feel So Good
- Alabama March
- Talk To Your Daughter
- Mississippi Road
- Good Advice
- Vietnam
- I Want To Go
- Down In Mississippi
- If I Get Lucky
- Born Dead
- Feelin' Good
- Slow Down
- Shot On Meredith
- Leavin' Here
- Vietnam Blues
- Tax Payin' Blues
- How Much More


Bellaphon CDLR 720527

722003Martin Scorsese presents
J.B. Lenoir

- Eisenhower Blues
- Korea Blues
- Mama Talk To Your Daughter
- Sitting Down Thinking
- Give Me One More Shot
- Natural Man
- Don't Dog Your Woman
- Low Down Dirty Shame
- If You Love Me
- Don't Touch My Head
- Mama, What About Your Daughter
- When I Am Drinking
- Five Years
- Good Looking Woman
- Voodoo Boogie


Chess CHEB61702.2

722003The Soul Of A Man
(soundtrack to Wim Wenders film)

- Vietnam Blues (Cassandra Wilson)
- Down In Mississippi (Eagle-Eye Cherry, Vernon Reid And James 'Blood' Ulmer)
- Hard Time Killing Floor Blues (Lucinda Williams)
- Look Down The Road (Lou Reed)

- I Feel So Good (Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds)
- Slow Down (Cassandra Wilson)
- Don't Dog Your Woman (T-Bone Burnett)
- Voodoo Music (Los Lobos)
- The Death Of J.B. Lenoir (John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers)
- Alabama Blues (J.B. Lenoir)
- God's Word (Shemekia Copeland)
- Illinois Blues (Alvin Youngblood Hart)
- I'm So Glad (Beck)
- Special Rider Blues (The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion)
- Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground (Marc Ribot)
- Devil Got My Woman (Bonnie Raitt)
- Crow Jane (Skip James)
- Washington, D.C. Hospital Blues (Garland Jeffreys)
- Soul Of A Man (Blind Willie Johnson)
- See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (Lou Reed)


Hip-O Records
www.hip-o.com

72a2003Chicago Blues Down-Homers Vol. 2
The J.O.B. Recordings 1950's

J.B. Lenoir
- Let's Roll
- I Have Married
- The Mountain
- I'll Die Tryin'
- How Much More
Memphis Minnie
- Kissing In The Dark
- World Of Trouble
- I Love Again
- What A Night
Little Son Joe
- Ethel Bea
- I'd Write A Letter (A Little Too Late)
Little Hudson
- Rough Treatment
- I'm Looking For A Woman
- Things Going To Tough With Me
- Don't Hang Around
- Shake It Baby
J.T. Brown
- My Gal Went Away
- Soup Line
- Short Dresses

J.B. Lenoir
- The Mojo
- Slow Down Woman
- I Want My Baby
- How Can I Leave


P-Vine PCD 24113

732004The Truman and Eisenhower Blues

- Josh White - The Man Who Couldn't Walk Around
- Jack Dupree - May God Bless Our New President!
- Cousin Joe - Post War Future Blues
- Smokey Hogg - High Priced Meat
- Jack McVea - Inflation Blues
- Willie Borum - Overseas Blues
- Golden Gate Quartet - Atom And Evil
- Pilgrim Travelers - Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb
- Josh White - Free And Equal Blues
- Andrew Tibbs - Bilbo Is Dead
- Tommie Jenkins - Freedom Choo Choo Blues
- Royal Harmonaires - Henry Wallace Is The Man
- Harmon Ray - President's Blues
- Gospel Pilgrims - I'm So Grateful To The N.A.A.C.P.
- Echoes Of Zion - Keep Still
- Louis Jordan - Jordan For President
- Homesick James - Wartime
- Max Bailey - Drive Soldiers Drive
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe - There's Peace In Korea
- Bobo Jenkins - Democrat Blues
- Memphis Slim - Four Years Of Torment

- J.B. Lenoir - Eisenhower Blues
- Dizzy Dixon - Soup Line
- Tommy Dean - Recession
- Chris Kenner - Rocket To The Moon
- Brother Will Hairston - The Alabama Bus parts 1 & 2

notes by Guido van Rijn

Agram ABCD 2018

742005The Chronological J.B. Lenoir 1951 - 1954

- Deep In Debt Blues
- Carrie Lee
- My Baby Told Me
- Korea Blues
- Play A Little While
- Louise
- Let's Roll
- People Are Meddling
- I Have Married
- The Mountain
- I'll Die Tryin'
- How Much More
- The Mojo
- Slow Down Woman
- I Want My Baby
- How Can I Leave
- I'm In Korea
- Eisenhower Blues
- Tax Paying Blues
- Mamma Talk To Your Daughter
- Man Watch Your Woman
- Sitting Down Thinking
- I'm Gonna Die Someday (I Must Die)


Classics CD 5128 (Fr)

752005The Chronological J.B. Lenoir 1955 - 1956

- Mama Your Daughter Is Going To Miss Me
- What I Have Done
- We've Got Both To Realise
- Give Me One More Shot
- Fine Girls
- I Lost My Baby
- Natural Man
- Don't Dog Your Woman
- Let Me Die With The One I Love
- If I Give My Love To You ?
- Lowdown Dirty Shame
- Everybody Wants To Know
- If You Love Me
- J.B.'s Rock
- Don't Touch My Head !!
- When I Am Drinking
- I've Bee Down So Long
- What About Your Daughter ?
- 5 Years


Classics CD 5184 (Fr)

75a2014The Roots Of It All: Acoustic Blues - The Definitive Collection, Vol. 3

disc 1: The 1960s
Mance Lipscomb - Shake, Shake, Mama (2:50)
John Lee Hooker - Tupelo (3:19)
Rev. Gary Davis - Samson And Delilah (4:05)
Robert Pete Williams - I've Grown So Ugly (2:48)
Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand (3:03)
Lonnie Johnson - Moaning Blues (4:01)
Smoky Babe - Hottest Brand Goin' (4:06)
Herman E. Johnson - I Just Keeps On Wanting You (2:45)
Scrapper Blackwell - Shady Lane (5:27)
Pink Anderson - I Got Mine (3:07)
Pete Franklin - Prison Bound (4:21)
Shirley Griffith - Bye Bye Blues (4:11)
R.C. Smith - Please Don't Drive Me Away (2:25)
Memphis Willie B. - Wine Drinking Woman (3:36)
Baby Tate - What Have I Done To You (2:42)
Leroy Dallas - She Caught The M & O (3:43)
Sleepy John Estes - Vernita's Blues (2:19)
J.D. Short - I'm Just Wastin' My Time (5:25)
Muddy Waters - Feel Like Going Home (3:52)
Buddy Moss - Amy (2:42)
Johnny Young - Want My Lovin' (3:30)
Arvella Gray - Corrine, Corrina (2:13)
Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man (2:53)
Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis - Alberta (2:56)


disc 2: The 1970s
Son House - Empire State Express (3:41)
Mississippi Fred McDowell - Frisco Lines (3:59)

J.B. Lenoir - If I Get Lucky (2:59)
Skip James - Sickbed Blues (4:06)
R.L. Burnside - Long Haired Doney (2:45)
Furry Lewis - Old Original Furry Lewis Blues (3:46)
Joe Callicott - Lonesome Katy Blues (3:04)
John Jackson - Rocks And Gravel (3:15)
Babe Stovall - Worried Blues (3:33)
Howlin' Wolf - Ain't Goin' Down That Dirt Road #2 (4:20)
Larry Johnson - Four Women Blues (2:33)
Jack Owens - I Love My Baby (4:50)
Johnny Shines - Your Troubles Can't Be Like Mine (4:18)
Brownie McGhee - My Last Suit (3:53)
Juke Boy Bonner - Tired Of The Greyhound Bus (2:26)
Tarheel Slim - So Sweet, So Sweet (3:19)
Tom Shaw - Baby Be A Boy Child Named Him After Me (5:44)
Eddie Taylor - Bullcow Blues (3:10)
Bill Williams - Salty Dog (4:37)
Guitar Shorty - Jessie Jones (3:58)
Rev. Pearly Brown - It's A Mean Old World To Try To Live In (2:24)
Louisiana Red - Dead Stray Dog (3:56)
David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Big Fat Mama (2:56)
Henry Townsend - Can't You See (3:18)


front cover photo (of Big Joe Williams) by Axel Küstner

112-pp. booklet notes by Bill Dahl

Bear Family BCD 17231 (Germany 2014)

762015J.B. Lenoir: I Wanna Play A Little While
The Complete Singles Collection 1950 - 1960
plus 22 bonus tracks not originally issued

disc 1:
- Korea Blues [Chess 1449]
- My Baby Told Me [Chess 1449]
- Carrie Lee [Chess 1463]
- Deep In Debt Blues [Chess 1463]
- Let's Roll [J.O.B. 112]
- People Are Meddling (In Our Affairs) [J.O.B. 112]
- The Mountain [J.O.B. 1008]
- How Much More [J.O.B. 1008]
- How Can I Leave [J.O.B. 1012]
- The Mojo [J.O.B. 1012]
- I'll Die Tryin' [J.O.B. 1016]
- I Want My Baby [J.O.B. 1016]
- I Wanna Play A Little While [J.O.B. 1102]
- Louise [J.O.B. 1102]
- I'm In Korea [Parrott 802]
- Eisenhower Blues [Parrott 802]
- Tax Paying Blues [Parrott 802]
- Mama Talk To Your Daughter [Parrott 809]
- Man Watch Your Woman [Parrott 809]
- Mama Your Daughter's Going To Miss Me [Parrott 814]
- What Have I Done [Parrott 814]
- Fine Girls [Parrott 821]
- I Lost My Baby [Parrott 821]
- Let Me Die With The One I Love [Checker 844]
- If I Give My Love To You [Checker 844]
- Don't Touch My Head [Checker 856]
- I've Been Down For So Long [Checker 856]
- Mama What About Your Daughter [Checker 874]

disc 2:
- Five Years [Checker 874]
- Daddy Talk To Your Son [Checker 901]
- She Don't Know [Checker 901]
- Back Door [Shad 5012]
- Lou Ella [Shad 5012]
- Oh Baby [VeeJay VJ 352]
- Do What I Say [VeeJay VJ 352]
- Move To Kansas City [Decca LP LK 4664]
- I Been Down So Long [Decca LP LK 4664]
bonus tracks not originally released:
- I Have Married [J.O.B.; Flyright 564]
- Slow Down Woman [J.O.B.; P-Vine PLP 707, Flyright 564]
- Livin' In The Whitehouse - Johnny Shines [J.O.B.; Constellation CS 6]
- Please Don't - Johnny Shines [J.O.B.; Constellation CS 6]
- When I Was Young - Sunnyland Slim [J.O.B.; Constellation CS 6]
- Bassology - Sunnyland Slim [J.O.B.; Constellation CS 6]
- Worried About My Baby - Sunnyland Slim [J.O.B.; Constellation CS 6]
- We've Both Got To Realise (We Can't Go On This Way) [Parrot; Chess 2ACMB 208]
- Give Me One More Shot [Parrot; Chess 2ACMB 208]
- Sitting Down Thinking [Parrot; Chess 2ACMB 208]
- I'm Gonna Die Someday [Parrot; Chess 2ACMB 208]
- Natural Man [Checker; Chess 410]
- Don't Dog Your Woman [Checker; Chess 410]
- Low Down Dirty Shame [Checker; Chess 2ACMB 208]
- Everybody Wants To Know (Laid Off Blues) [Checker; Chess 410]
- J.B.'s Rock [Checker; Chess 2ACMB 208]
- If You Love Me [Checker; Chess 2ACMB 208]
- When I Am Drinking [Checker; Chess 2ACMB 208]
- I Don't Know (alt tk) [Checker; Chess 2ACMB 208]
- Good Looking Woman [Checker; Chess 2ACMB 208]
- Voodoo Boogie [Checker; Chess 2ACMB 208]

2 CD set

Jasmine JASCD 809 (UK 2015)

772017Down Home Blues - Chicago - Fine Boogie

CD 1:
James McCain - I Got To Check Up On My Baby(3:32)
James McCain - Good Morning Mr. Roosevelt (2:40)
Bluesboy Bill - Come On Babe (2:28)
Johnny Shines - Tennessee Woman Blues (2:51)
Muddy Waters - Jitterbug Blues (2:52)
Muddy Waters - Burying Ground Blues (2:45)
Muddy Waters - Hard Day Blues (2:50)
John Sellers - Let Me Be Your Sidetrack (2:47)
Willie "Long Time" Smith - My Buddy Doctor Clayton (3:04)
Willie "Long Time" Smith - I Love You Baby Boogie (3:09)
Little Walter with Othum Brown - Ora Nelle Blues (2:37)
Little Walter - I Just Keep Loving Her (2:29)
Jimmy Rogers - Little Store Blues (2:37)
Johnny Young - Money Taking Woman (2:35)
Johnny Temple - Old '98' Blues (2:25)
Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied (2:43)
St. Louis Jimmy - Florida Hurricane (2:57)
Delta Joe aka Sunnyland Slim - Train Time (3:19)
Delta Joe aka Sunnyland Slim - Roll Tumble And Slip (3:25)
Floyd Jones - Stockyard Blues (2:54)
Floyd Jones - Keep What You Got (2:22)
Little Walter - Blue Baby (2:17)
Little Walter - I Want My Baby (2:48)
Robert Nighthawk with Ethel Mae Brown - Down The Line (2:50)
The Nighthawks - She Knows How To Love A Woman (3:09
Big Maceo - One Sunday Morning (2:52)
Big Maceo - Just Tell Me Baby (2:29)


CD 2:
Pete Franklin - Down Behind The Rise (3:12)
Pete Franklin - Casey Brown Blues (3:15)
Mildred White - Kind Hearted Woman (2:52)
Mildred White - Cutting Out On Me (2:57)
Muddy Waters - Last Time I Fool Around With You (2:39)
Muddy Waters - You Gonna Need my Help (3:04)
Baby Face Leroy - My Head Can't Rest Anymore (3:16)
Baby Face Leroy - Take A Little Walk With Me (3:10)
Gray Haired Bill - Gertrude (2:38)
Gray Haired Bill - I'm A Hard Working Man (2:59)
The Nighthawks - Black Angel Blues (3:05)
Jimmy Rogers - Ludella (2:42)
Muddy Waters - Rollin' Stone (3:03)
Floyd Jones - Dark Road (3:15)
Floyd Jones - Overseas (2:13)
Floyd Jones - Playhouse (2:45)
Muddy Waters - Long Distance Call (2:41)
Muddy Waters - All Night Long (3:50)

J.B. Lenoir - Let's Roll (2:52)
Howlin' Wolf - Howling Wolf Boogie (2:40)
Johnny Shines - Ramblin' (2:32)
Johnny Shines - Ain't Doin' No Good (2:36)
Snooky Pryor - Fine Boogie (3:04)
Memphis Minnie - Conjur Man (2:59)
Little Walter - Juke (3:00)
Little Walter - Can't Hold Out Much Longer (2:55)


CD 3:
Elmore James - She Just Won't Do Right (3:04)
Elmore James - My Best Friend (3:22)
Elmore James - Whose Muddy Shoes (3:17)
Baby Face Leroy - Blues Is Killin' Me (3:04)
Baby Face Leroy - Late Hours At Midnight (3:11)
Blue Smitty - Crying (3:03)
Blue Smitty - Date Bait (2:37)
Jimmy Rogers - Mistreated Baby (3:30)
Jimmy Rogers - What's The Matter (3:17)
Homesick James - Whiskey Headed Woman (2:48)
Little Walter - Blue Midnight (3:04)
Johnny Williams - Silver Haired Woman (2:47)
Johnny Williams - Fat Mouth (2:39)
Jimmy Reed - You Don't Have To Go (3:06)
Jimmy Rogers - Act Like You Love Me (3:03)
Homesick James - Homesick (3:08)
Homesick James - Late Hours At Midnight (2:52)
Billy Boy Arnold - Hello Stranger (2:53)
Billy Boy Arnold - I Ain't Got No Money (2:31)
Johnny Shines - Evening Shuffle (2:16)

J.B. Lenoir - The Mojo (2:53)
J.B. Lenoir - Slow Down Woman (3:24)
Howlin' Wolf - You Gonna Wreck My Life (2:37)
Big Boy Spires - Someday little Darling (3:11)
Big Boy Spires - Rhythm Rock Boogie (2:38)
Memphis Minnie - Kissing In The Dark (2:32)


CD 4:
Sonny Boy Williamson - Work With Me (2:56)
Sonny Boy Williamson - You Killing Me (3:24)
Sonny Boy Williamson - Don't Start Me Talkin' (2:36)
John Brim - Ice Cream Man (2:49)
John Brim - Life Time Baby (3:06)
Lazy Bill - My Baby's Gone (2:45)
Lazy Bill - I Can't Sleep, I Can't Eat (2:50)
Albert King - Little Boy Blue (2:45)
Albert King - Sweet Woman (2:59)
Sunnyland Slim - Trouble Of My Own (3:04)
Sunnyland Slim - Worried About My Baby (3:01)
Henry Gray - I Declare That Ain't Right (3:09)
Henry Gray - Matchbox Blues (3:25)
J.B. Hutto - Price Of Love (3:02)
Big Boy Spires - Tired Of Being Mistreated (2:30)
Sunnyland Slim - I Done You Wrong (3:04)
Sunnyland Slim - Be My Baby (2:55)
Little Walter - Got To Find My Baby (3:09)

J.B. Lenoir - Eisenhower Blues (2:32)
Dusty Brown - Yes She's Gone (2:41)
Dusty Brown - He Don't Love You (3:15)
Dusty Brown - Rusty Dusty (2:47)
Jimmy Rogers - You're The One (2:37)
Billy Boy Arnold - Sweet On You Baby (2:36)
Billy Boy Arnold - You Got To Love Me (2:29)
Jimmy Reed - You Upset My Mind (2:53)
Jimmy Reed - Come On Baby (2:40)


CD 5:
Elmore James - The Twelve Year Old Boy (3:07)
Elmore James - Coming Home (2:27)
Elmore James - It Hurts Me Too (3:06)
John Brim -Go Away (2:45)
John Brim - That Ain't Right (2:51)
Birmingham Junior - Birmingham Late Hours (2:30)
Birmingham Junior - You're Too Bad (2:31)
Howlin' Wolf - Break Of day (2:48)
Howlin' Wolf - Bluebird (3:35)
Howlin' Wolf - You Ought To Know (3:22)
Otis Spann - I'm Leaving You (2:42)
Otis Spann - I'm In Love With You Baby (2:40)
Snooky Pryor - Someone To Love Me (2:37)
Snooky Pryor - Judgement Day (2:47)
Snooky Pryor - You Tried To Ruin Me Baby (2:02)
Po' Joe Williams - Kings Highway (2:27)
Po' Joe Williams - Eula Mae (2:50)
Sonny Boy Williamson - Don't Lose Your Eye (3:04)
Sonny Boy Williamson - I Wonder Why (1:34)
Sonny Boy Williamson - I Know What Love Is All About (2:42)
Jimmy Reed - When You Left Me (2:37)
Jimmy Reed - It's You Baby (2:27)
Jimmy Reed - Do The Thing (2:47)
Sonny Boy Williamson - The Key To Your Door (2:37)
John Brim - I Would Hate To See You Go (2:46)
John Brim - You Got Me Where You Want Me (3:02)
Eddie Boyd - 24 Hours Of Fear (2:34)
Eddie Boyd - Five Long Years (2:46)


88-pp. book by Mike Rowe

5 CD set

Wienerworld WNRCD5100 (US/EU 2017)

?19??J.B. Lenoir / Lowell Fulson: The Mojo Boogie & The Low Society Blues

J.B. Lenoir
Lowell Fulson


Low Society 001 (UK 19??)



Additional information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver 2006, pp. 316-317
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970 (2nd edition).- Vancouver 2012, p. 
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, p. 631-632
- http://www.ne.jp/asahi/ko-1/crossroads/blues/j/lenore.htm
- http://www.kiwi-us.com/~slim//lenoir.html
- http://home.no.net/bluesman/Hjemmeside/jb.htm
- diverse other internet resources

thanks to Alan Balfour, Flemming Nielsen, Paul Vernon, Lex Jansen, Benoît Brière, Byron Foulger, Ulf Bergenblad, Brad Barrett, Ray Templeton, Scott Dirks, Gerrit Robs, Barret Hansen, Xyros Tweefijv and Steve Cook for additional info / scans

 

[not Al Galvin!] Odie Payne dr; Willie Dixon, b; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; J.T. Brown, ts at Tay May Club, Chicago, IL; photographer: 'GLADYS'
poss. Al Galvin Odie Payne Jr., dr; Willie Dixon, b; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; J.T. Brown, ts at Tay May Club, Chicago, IL
photographer: "GLADYS"

 

J.B. Lenoir, Chicago, Illinois, 1959; source: Back cover of Official LP 6049 (Dk 1989); photographer: Jacques Demêtre
J.B. Lenoir, Chicago, Illinois, 1959
source: Back cover of Official LP 6049 (Dk 1989) "J.B. Lenoir: Fine Blues"
photographer: Jacques Demêtre; photoshop cleaned up by Stefan Wirz

 

J.B. Lenoir, Kopenhagen, Denmark, October 8, 1965; source: http://www.gettyimages.dk/photos/j.b.-lenoir; photographer: Jan PerssonJ.B. Lenoir, Kopenhagen, Denmark, October 8, 1965; source: http://www.gettyimages.dk/photos/j.b.-lenoir; photographer: Jan Persson
J.B. Lenoir, most likely in Kopenhagen, Denmark, October 8, 1965
source: http://www.gettyimages.dk/photos/j.b.-lenoir
photographer: Jan Persson

 

J.B. Lenoir, Paris, France, October 30, 1965; source: Philippe Bas-Rabérin (ed.): Blues - Les Incontournables.- Paris (Éditions Filipacchi) 1994, p. 113; photographer: Jacques Demêtre
source: Philippe Bas-Rabérin (ed.): Blues - Les Incontournables.- Paris
(Éditions Filipacchi) 1994, p. 113; photographer: Jacques Demêtre
J.B. Lenoir, Paris, France, October 30, 1965; source: Back cover of Official LP 6049 (Dk 1989)
source: Back cover of Official LP 6049 (Dk 1989) "J.B. Lenoir: Fine Blues"
photographer: Jacques Demêtre
J.B. Lenoir, Paris, France, October 30, 1965

 

J.B. Lenoir, Doctor Ross & 'Jimmy Lee' (Jimmie Lee Robinson) in front of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, October 30, 1965; photographer: Jacques Demêtre; click to enlarge!
J.B. Lenoir, Doctor Ross & "Jimmy Lee" (Jimmie Lee Robinson)
in front of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, October 30, 1965

source: Rhythm & Blues Panorama 38/39 (1965), p. 26; photographer: Jacques Demêtre

 

1965 AFBF ensemble: Big Mama Thornton, Big Walter Horton, J.B. Lenoir, Doctor Ross, John Lee Hooker & Mississippi Fred McDowell, October 1965; source: Les Génies du Blues, Volume 2.- Paris (Editions Atlas) 1992, p. 12; photographer: Jean-Pierre Leloir; click to enlarge!
1965 AFBF ensemble: Big Mama Thornton, Big Walter Horton, J.B. Lenoir, Doctor Ross,
Fred Below (on drums in background), John Lee Hooker & Mississippi Fred McDowell, October 1965

source: Les Génies du Blues, Volume 2.- Paris (Editions Atlas) 1992, p. 12; photographer: Jean-Pierre Leloir

 

J.B. Lenoir & Junior Wells during the 'Alabama Blues' tour (subsequent to the American Folk Blues Festival '66, featuring Lenoir, Wells, Little Brother Montgomery, Jack Myers & Fred Below), late October or November 1966 with a Gagliano Model K-150 archtop guitar (made by Höfner/Germany); source: Giuseppe Pino: Black & Blues.- Hamburg, Germany (earBOOKS, a division of edel CLASSICS GmbH) 2005, no pagination; photographer: Giuseppe Pinoclick to enlarge!   J.B. Lenoir during the 'Alabama Blues' tour (subsequent to the American Folk Blues Festival '66, featuring Lenoir, Wells, Little Brother Montgomery, Jack Myers & Fred Below), late October or November 1966 with a Gagliano Model K-150 archtop guitar (made by Höfner/Germany); source: Giuseppe Pino: Black & Blues.- Hamburg, Germany (earBOOKS, a division of edel CLASSICS GmbH) 2005, no pagination; photographer: Giuseppe Pinoclick to enlarge!
J.B. Lenoir (& Junior Wells) during the "Alabama Blues" tour (subsequent to the American Folk Blues Festival '66,
featuring Lenoir, Wells, Little Brother Montgomery, Jack Myers & Fred Below),
late October or November 1966 with a Gagliano Model K-150 archtop guitar (made by Höfner/Germany)

source: Giuseppe Pino: Black & Blues.- Hamburg, Germany (earBOOKS, a division of edel CLASSICS GmbH) 2005, no pagination; photographer: Giuseppe Pino
BTW: The date given in Pino's book ("1968") cannot be correct, because Lenoir died April 29, 1967!

 

J.B.  L E N O I R's burial service; source: Back cover of Crusade LP 24-4011   J.B.  L E N O I R's burial service; source: Back cover of Crusade LP 24-4011
J.B. Lenoir's burial service     source: Back cover of Crusade LP 24-4011

 

J.B.  L E N O I R's grave at Salem Church Cemetery, Monticello, MS; source: http://www.deadbluesguys.com/dbgtour/lenoir_j_b.htm
J.B. Lenoir's grave at Salem Church Cemetery, Monticello, MS
source: http://www.deadbluesguys.com/dbgtour/lenoir_j_b.htm

more info & how to get there

 

 

 

 

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