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M E M P H I S   W I L L I E   B; source: Front cover of Bluesville BVLP 1034
source: Front cover of Bluesville BVLP 1034
photographer: Samuel B. Charters

Memphis Willie B.
Willie Borum
b. November 4, 1912 in Memphis, Tennessee
d. Oktober 5, 1993 in Memphis, Tennessee

buried at West Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery in Memphis, TN
discography

#year
of release
title / label / notes

10 inch 78 rpm
Since this ain't no museum, my aim is not to depict actually existing specimen of 78 rpm records,
but to show the labels as pristine as workmanlike possible

even if this - in some cases - takes a whole lot of my time to photoshop process the initial data
11934Hattie Hart with Allen Shaw

- Coldest Stuff In Town (15952-1) #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Happy-Go-Lucky Blues (15970-1) *   @ Spotify



unissued tracks from September 17, 1934 session:
- Mama, Easy Me Your Key
- Lucky Some Day
- Low Down Papa
- Drop Down Papa
- Didn't He Ramble
- Country Farm Blues
- Barrel House Mama
- Home Breakin' Blues



# rec. September 13, 1934 in New York City; Hattie Hart, voc; Allen Shaw, g, voc; prob. Willie Borum, g, voc

* rec. September 17, 1934 in New York City; Hattie Hart, voc; Allen Shaw, g; prob. Willie Borum, g


Vocalion 02821

21934Hattie Hart

- I Lets [sic] My Daddy Do That (15899-2)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- I'm Missing That Thing (15898-1)   @ Spotify



unissued tracks from same session:
- Down Home Shake (15950-)
- Runnin' Wild Blues (15951-)



rec. September 13, 1934 in New York City; Hattie Hart, voc; Allen Shaw, g; prob. Willie Borum, g


Vocalion 02855

   

- Ain't Gonna Worry My Life Any More (15963-)
- Didn't You Ever Treat Me Mean? (15964-)
- My V-8 Baby (15965-)
- Coon Can Mama (15966-)

rec. September 17, 1934 in New York City; Willie Borum, voc, g


Vocalion unissued

31934Allen Shaw

- I Couldn't Help It (15967-1) *   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Moanin' The Blues (15978-1) #   @ youtube



unissued track from September 18, 1934 session:
- Gamblin' Man (15977-)



* rec. September 17, 1934 in New York City; Allen Shaw, voc, g
# rec. September 18, 1934 in New York City; Allen Shaw, voc, g; prob. Willie Borum, 2nd g


Vocalion 02844


LP / CD compilations
41961Introducing Memphis Willie B.

- Brownsville Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Country Girl Blues #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Highway 61   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Bad Girl Blues #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- The Stuff Is Here #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Overseas Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify

- Stop Cryin' Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Worried Man Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Mailman Blues #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Everyday I Have The Blues  @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Mattie Mae #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Grief Will Kill You   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. August 12, 1961 in Memphis, TN; Memphis Willie B., voc, g, # hca; prod. by Kenneth S. Goldstein & Samuel B. Charters
front cover photograph by Samuel B. Charters

notes by Sam Charters
click to read liner notes!  
Bluesville BV/BVLP 1034 (US 1961)

notes by Sam Charters

= OBC OBCCD-573-2 (US 1994)

= OBC 00025218057325 (EU 10/2006)

Bluesville Records discography
OBC Records discography

51962Memphis Willie B.: Hard Working Man Blues

- Lonesome Home Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- L & N Blues #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Hardworking Man Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Dying Mother Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Honey Maker Blues #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- P 38 Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify

- Funny Caper Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Good Potatoes   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- I Have Found Something New   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Uncle Sam Blues #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Wine Drinking Woman   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Car Machine Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. August 12, 1961 in Memphis, TN; Memphis Willie B., voc, g, # hca; prod. by Kenneth S. Goldstein & Samuel B. Charters
front cover photograph by Samuel B. Charters

notes by Samuel B. Charters
click to read liner notes!
Bluesville BV/BVLP 1048 (US 1962)

notes by Samuel B. Charters
click to read liner notes!
= Prestige BVLP 1048 (US 196?)   - trident label in use 1964 -1971

notes by Sam Charters

= OBC OBCCD-578-2 (US 1994)

= OBC 00025218057820 (EU 2006)

Bluesville Records discography
OBC Records discography

61962Bawdy Blues

Memphis Slim - Sweet Root Man
Tampa Red - Let Me Play With Your Poodle
Victoria Spivey - I'm A Red Hot Mama
Lonnie Johnson - Jelly Roll Baker
Memphis Slim - Churning Man Blues
Pink Anderson - Try Some Of That #   @ youtube   @ Spotify

Memphis Slim - Steady Rollin' Blues
Tampa Red - Jelly Whipping Blues
Victoria Spivey - That Man

Memphis Willie B. - Car Machine Blues
Memphis Slim - If You See Kay
Blind Willie McTell - Beedle Um Bum [Bluesville 1040]


rec. between 1956 and 1961
# rec. April 12, 1961 in Spartanburg, SC by Samuel Charters; Pink Anderson, voc, g; prod. by Kenneth S. Goldstein
design and collage: Christos Gianakos

notes by John Greenway

Bluesville BV/BVLP 1055 (US 1962)

notes by John Greenway

Prestige BVLP 1055 (US 196?) - trident label in use 1964 -1971

notes by John Greenway

= OBCCD-544 (US 1991)

Tampa Red discography
Lonnie Johnson discography
Pink Anderson discography
Blind Willie McTell discography
Bluesville Records discography
OBC Records discography

71967The Blues
Music from the Documentary Film by Samuel Charters@ youtube (full album)

J.D. Short
- Introduction   @ youtube

Memphis Willie B.
- Alone In The Evening Blues (instr) # *  @ youtube @ Spotify
J.D. Short
- Slidin' Delta   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Pink Anderson (with son "Little Pink")
- Old Cotton Fields Of Home   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Furry Lewis
- John Henry   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Baby Tate
- Bad Blues (instr) #   @ youtube   @ Spotify

Memphis Willie B. & Gus Cannon
- Sitting Here Thinking # []   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Sleepy John Estes
- Lonesome Ground   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Baby Tate
- If I Could Holler Like A Mountain Jack   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- When I First Started Hoboing   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Pink Anderson
- Weeping Willow Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify


rec. in the summer of 1962 by Samuel Barclay Charters with Ann Charters, technical assistant. "The Blues" was finished early in 1963, and was premiered at the University of Chicago Folk Festival in January, 1963.
# rec. August 12, 1961 in Willie Borum's radio repair shop and rehearsal room in Memphis, TN; Memphis Willie B., voc, g, * hca; [] Gus Cannon, jug; prod. by Kenneth S. Goldstein & Samuel B. Charters
photography by Ann Charters

notes by Samuel Charters

Asch A-101 (US 1967)
= Folkways FA AS101

notes by Samuel Charters

= Blue Angel BA20011 (Germany 1978/79?) (Zweitausendeins)

CDr
notes by Samuel Charters

= Smithsonian Folkways FW-ASCH101-CCD (US 2007)

J.D. Short discography
Pink Anderson discography
Furry Lewis discography
Baby Tate discography
Gus Cannon discography
Sleepy John Estes discography

81970Memphis Jamboree 1927-1936

Will Batts - Highway No. 61 Blues
Memphis Minnie - Ain't No Use You Tryin' To Tell On Me

Hattie Hart - Coldest Stuff In Town
Yank Rachell & Dan Smith - Squeaky Work Bench Blues
Memphis Minnie - Soo Cow Soo
The Two Charlies - I Couldn't Stay Here
Kansas Joe Mccoy - Joliet Bound

Memphis Minnie - Drunken Barrel House Blues
Furry Lewis - Dry Land Blues
Memphis Minnie - That'll Be Alright
Kansas Joe Mccoy - Something Gonna Happen To You
Gus Cannon - Can You Blame The Colored Man
Jim Jackson & Co. - Jim Jackson's Jamboree
San Townsend - Lily Kimball Blues


notes by Stephen Calt, Nick Perls, Michael Stewart

Yazoo L 1021 (US 1970)

= CD 1021 YAZ (US 1991)

Yazoo Records discography

91973?Low Down Memphis Barrelhouse Blues

Hattie Hart - I Let My Daddy Do That
Will Shade - Better Let That Stuff Alone
Robert Wilkins - Alabama Blues
South Memphis Jug Band - Policy Rag
South Memphis Jug Band - Doctor Medicine
Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie - Shake Mattie
Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie - My Washwoman's Gone

Mooch Richardson - T and T Blues
John Estes - My Black Gal Blues
Jack Kelly - Highway No. 61 Blues
Mooch Richardson - Burying Ground Blues
Jim Jackson - Bootlegging Blues
Memphis Minnie - Reachin' Pete
Mooch Richardson- Low Down Barrelhouse Blues pt. 1


rec. 1928 - 1935


Mamlish S 3803 (US 1973?)

Mamlish Records discography

101979


Way Back Yonder ...
Original Country Blues Volume 1
Memphis & Brownsville, Tennessee (1976-1978)

Charley Sangster
- The Dirty Dozen (2:07)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Peach Tree Blues (2:11)   @ Spotify
Hammie Nixon
- Viola Lee Blues (2:55)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Walter Cooper
- Baby Please Don't Go (2:26)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Hammie Nixon
- Ida Mae (4:21)   @ youtube   @ Spotify

Lum Guffin
- Roll And Tumble Blues (4:36)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Casey Jones (3:06)   @ youtube   @ Spotify

Willie Borum
- 61 Highway (2:44) #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
John (Memphis Piano Red) Williams
- Cow Cow Blues (2:45)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- How Long Blues (4:16)   @ youtube     @ Spotify


originally unissued track from same session:
John (Memphis Piano Red) Williams
- William's Boogie (3:29) @ Spotify


# rec. August 30, 1978 in the back room of his house at 740 Alma Street in Memphis, TN by Gianni Marcucci; Willie Borum, voc, g
front cover photo (depicting Charley Sangster) by Gianni Marcucci

notes by Gianni Marcucci

Albatros VPA 5458
(It 1979)


(=) Albatros ALB 13
"Way Back Yonder...
Original Country Blues
Volumes 1, 2 & 3"

(It 1979)

Albatros Records discography
Lum Guffin discography
Hammie Nixon discography

111988Bluesville Vol. 1   "Folk Blues"

Furry Lewis - Judge Boushay Blues   @ youtube
Memphis Willie B. - Country Girl Blues   @ youtube
K.C. Douglas - Big Road Blues   @ youtube
Big Joe Williams - Levee Camp Blues   @ youtube
Robert Curtis Smith - Catfish Blues   @ youtube
Sidney Maiden - San Quentin Blues   @ youtube
Wade Walton - Big Fat Mama   @ youtube
Pete Franklin - Grievin' Me   @ youtube

Blind Willie McTell - The Dying Crapshooter's Blues   @ youtube
Lonnie Johnson - Fine Booze and Heavy Dues   @ youtube
Scrapper Blackwell - Blues Before Sunrise   @ youtube
Reverend Gary Davis - You Got To Move   @ youtube
Blind Snooks Eaglin - Brown Skinned Woman   @ youtube
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Pawn Shop   @ youtube
Lightnin' Hopkins - T-Model Blues   @ youtube
Doug Quattlebaum - You Is One Black Rat   @ youtube


Ace CDCH 247 bonus tracks:
Memphis Willie B - Highway 61   @ youtube
Furry Lewis - Shake 'em On Down   @ youtube
Blind Snooks Eaglin - Alberta   @ youtube
Baby Tate - See What You Done Done   @ youtube
Scrapper Blackwell - Goin' Where The Monon Crosses The Yellow Dog   @ youtube


compiled by Ray Topping

notes (8-pp. booklet) by John H. Cowley
read liner notes, part 1read liner notes, part 2
Ace CH 247 (UK 1988)


Ace CDCH 247 (UK 1988)

Bluesville Records discography

12199?Robert Wilkins - Tom Dickson - Allen Shaw: Memphis Blues (1928 - 1935)
Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order

Robert Wilkins (1928 - 1935)
- Rolling Stone - Part 1
- Rolling Stone - Part 2
- Jail House Blues
- I Do Blues
- That's No Way To Get Along
- Alabama Blues
- Long Train Blues
- Falling Down Blues
- Nashville Stonewall Blues
- Police Sergeant Blues
- Get Away Blues
- I'll Go With Her Blues
- Dirty Deal Blues
- Black Rat Blues
- New Stock Yard Blues
- Old Jim Canan's
- Losin' Out Blues
Tom Dickson (1928)
- Death Bell Blues
- Worry Blues
- Happy Blues
- Labor Blues

Allen Shaw (1934)
- I Couldn't Help It
- Moanin' The Blues #

# with prob. Willie Borum, 2nd g


Document DOCD-5014


Document DOCD-5014
"Memphis Blues Vol. 1"

131994Memphis Blues   1927-1938

Ollie Rupert (1927)
- I Raised My Window And Looked At The Risin' Sun
Ain't Goin' To Be Your Low Down Dog
Walter Rhodes (1927)
- The Crowing Rooster
- Leaving Home Blues
Pearl Dickson (1927)
- Twelve Pound Daddy
- Little Rock Blues
Madelyn James (1930)
- Stinging Snake Blues
- Long Time Blues
Charlie Bozo Nickerson (1930)
- What's The Matter Now? - Part 1
- What's The Matter Now? - Part 2
- Bozo's Blues - Part 1
- Bozo's Blues - Part 2
Sam Townsend (1930)
- I'm Missing That
- Lily Kimball Blues

Hattie Hart (1934)
- I'm Missing That Thing *
- I Let My Daddy Do That *
- Coldest Stuff In Town (duet w. Allen Shaw) *#
- Happy-Go-Lucky Blues *
George Torey (1937)
- Married Woman Blues
- Lonesome Man Blues
John Henry Barbee (1938)
- Six Weeks Old Blues (take 1)
- Six Weeks Old Blues (take 2)
- God Knows I Can't Help It
- You'll Work Down To Me Someday
- Against My Will


* with prob. Willie Borum, g, # voc


Document DOCD 5159
"Memphis Blues Vol. 2"

141994Memphis Country Blues
Greatest Hits Vol. 1

- Ain't No Use You Trying To Tell Me - Memphis Minnie (1935)
- Walk Right In - Cannon's Jug Stompers (1929)
- Old Jim Cannan - Robert Wilkins, Kids Spoons (1935)
- Highway 61 Blues - Will Weldon (1927)
- Roll and Tumble Blues - Hambone Willie Newbern (1929)

- Coldest Stuff in Town - Hattie Hart, Allen Shaw, Willie Borum (1934)
- Jim Jackson's Jamboree - Jim Jackson, Tampa Red, Georgia Tom, Speckled Red (1929)
- New Frisco Town - Bukka White, Napoleon Harrison (1930)
- Shake 'Em on Down - Bukka White, Napoleon Harrison (1937)
- Someday Baby Blues - Sleepy John Estes, Hammie Nixon (1935)
- Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Frank Stokes, Dan Sane
- The Beale Street Sheiks (1925)
- Stealin', Stealin' & Whitewash Station Blues - Memphis Jug Band (1928)
- Everybody's Blues - Furry Lewis (1927)
- That's No Way to Get Along - Robert Wilkins ( 1929)


prod. by Richard Hite using selections from his personal 78 collection


Memphis Archives
MA-7001-CD

151995The Bluesville Years, Vol. 3
"Beale Street Get-Down"


Furry Lewis
- John Henry
- When My Baby Left Me
- Shake 'Em On Down
- Back On My Feet Again
- Goin' To Kansas City
- Casey Jones
- I Will Turn Your Money Green

Memphis Willie B.
- Brownsville Blues [Bluesville 1034]
- Country Girl Blues [Bluesville 1034]
- The Stuff Is Here [Bluesville 1034]
- Every Day I Have The Blues [Bluesville 1034]
- I Have Found Somebody New [Bluesville 1048]
- Dying Mother Blues [Bluesville 1048]
- Mailman Blues [Bluesville 1034]
Memphis Slim
- Steady Rolling Blues
- Mean Mistreatin' Mama
- Three-In-One Boogie
- Letter Home
- Two Of A Kind



Prestige PRCD-9907-2

Bluesville Records discography

161995Memphis Masters
Early American Blues Classics   1927-1934

- Country Woman - Will Batts
- Death Bell Blues - Tom Dickson
- Billy Lyons and Stackolee - Furry Lewis
- Pile Driver Blues - Joe McCoy
- I'm Going Away Blues - Frank Stokes
- Little Rock Blues - Pearl Dickson
- Beale Street Breakdown - Jed Davenport
- Where Is My Good Man At? - Memphis Minnie
- Doctor Medicine - South Memphis Jug Band
- Poor Boy A Long Way From Home - Gus Cannon
- Red Ripe Tomatoes - Jack Kelly
- Downtown Blues - Frank Stokes
- Last Chance Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Better Leave That Stuff Alone - Will Shade
- Won't You Be Kind? - Hattie Hart
- Cadillac Baby - Will Batts
- Bob Lee Junior Blues - Memphis Jug Band
- T And T Blues - Mooch Richardson

- I Let My Daddy Do That - Hattie Hart
- Old Sometime Blues - Frank Stokes

remastered by Richard Nevins

notes by Don Kent

Yazoo CD 2008 (US 1994)

Yazoo Records discography

171996Uncle 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

181998Slide Guitar - The Streamline Special

- Country Blues - Taj Mahal
- Packin' Trunk Blues - Leadbellly
- Preachin' Blues - Robert Johnson
- Don't Sell It - Buddy Woods, Kitty Gray
- Two Timin' Woman - Casey Bill Weldon
- Homesick & Lonesome Blues - Blind Boy Fuller
- Special Streamline - Bukka White
- Bottleneck Blues - Sylvester Weaver

- Moanin' The Blues - Allen Shaw
- High Sheriff Blues - Charley Patton
- Diddle-Da-Diddle - Georgia Cotton Pickers
- Decatur St. 81 - The Georgia Browns
- Travelin' Blues - Blind Willie McTell
- No Matter How She Done It - Tampa Red, Georgia Tom
- Hard Times - Curley Weaver, Buddy Moss
- You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond - Blind Willie Johnson
- Preachin' Blues - Son House
- I Feel Like Going Home - Muddy Waters
- Come On In My Kitchen - Jo-Ann Kelly
- I Can Stand To See You Die - Shuggie Otis
- I Feel So Bad - Michael Bloomfield And Friends
- Am I Wrong - Keb' Mo'



Columbia CK 65518

191999The Bluesville Years, Vol. 12
"Jump, Jumpin the Blues"


K.C. Douglas
- You Got A Good Thing Now
Sonny Terry
- My Baby Done Gone
- High Powered Woman

Memphis Willie B.
- Good Potatoes
Lightnin Hopkins
- Wine Spodee-o-Dee
Memphis Slim
- Frankie And Johnny Boogie
Willie Dixon with Memphis Slim
- Don't You Tell Nobody
Little Brother Montgomery
- Santa Fe
Billy Boy Arnold
- Get Out of Here
- You Better Cut That Out
Homesick James
- Working with Homesick
Otis Spann and James Cotton
- Lightnin
Shakey Jake
- It Won't Happen Again
Roosevelt Sykes
- Runnin The Boogie
- Hey Big Momma
Curtis Jones
- Good Time Special
Jimmy Witherspoon
- One Scotch One Bourbon One Beer
- Kansas City
- Drinking Beer
Mildred Anderson
- I'm Free
- Cool Kind Of Poppa
Sunnyland Slim
- Slim's Shout



Prestige PRCD-9922-2

Bluesville Records discography

201999The Greatest In Country Blues


- Moanin' The Blues - Willie Borum / Allen Shaw

3 CD set

GJM - 1201 Music 7002

212003The Truman And Eisenhower Blues
African-American Blues and Gospel Songs 1945-1960

Willie Borum
- Overseas Blues


Agram ABCD 2018

222012Memphis Willie B: A Mess Of Blues

- Hard Working Man Blues
- Good Potatoes
- Lonesome Home Blues
- Dying Mother Blues
- Car Machine Blues
- P 38 Blues
- Wine Drinking Woman
- L & N Blues
- I Have Found Somebody New
- Uncle Sam Blues
- Funny Caper Blues
- Honey Maker Blues

MP3 only [?]

Black Cat

2310/2013Mott Willis & Others: Blues at home 13
recorded in Tennessee, Mississippi & Louisiana (1978-1982)

William "Do-Boy" Diamond - Mississippi Flat (1:33)
William "Do-Boy" Diamond - Black Mattie (tk 3) (2:08)
Jacob Stuckey - It Must Have Been The Devil (tk 2) (1:13)
Jacob Stuckey - It Must Have Been The Devil (tk 3) (2:03)
Asie Payton - Catfish Blues No. 3 (tk 2) (3:48)
Lum Guffin - Train I Ride 18 Coaches Long (2:00)
Lum Guffin - Baby Please Don't Go, No. 2 (tk 1) (1:15)
William "Do-Boy" Diamond - My Babe (1:20)
Roosevelt Holts - Maggie Campbell (2:24) [previously unissued]
William "Do-Boy" Diamond - Shaggy Hound Blues (tk 2) (1:58)
Lum Guffin - Louise Blues (2:24)
Asie Payton - Blind Man (3:50)

Memphis Willie Borum - 61 Highway Blues (2:47) # [Albatros VPA 8458]
Mager Johnson - Catfish Blues No. 2 (3:04)
Lum Guffin - Baby Please Don't Go, No. 2 (tk 2) (2:11)
Charlie Taylor - Untitled Blues (3:21)
Walter Cooper - Baby Please Don't Go No. 3 (feat. Hammie Nixon) (2:27)
Asie Payton - My Babe No. 2 (1:43)
Lum Guffin - Rolling And Tumbling (4:36)
Mott Willis - Baby Please Don't Go (2:13) [Albatros VPA 8460]

Memphis Willie Borum - Army Blues (1:58) # [previously unissued]
Lum Guffin - Catfish Blues (2:42)
Mager Johnson - Traveling Man Blues (2:09)
Lum Guffin - Casey Jones (3:06)
Charlie Taylor - I Got The Blues So Bad (1:46)
Asie Payton - Dust My Broom (1:37)
Jacob Stuckey - It Must Have Been The Devil (tk 4) (1:49)
Roosevelt Holts - Let's Talk It All Over Again (3:00) [previously unissued]
Roosevelt Holts - Big Road Blues (2:34) [Albatros VPA 8460]
Roosevelt Holts - Little Bitty Woman (3:45) [previously unissued]
Clay Pittman - I Got The Blues This Morning (1:23)
Walter Cooper - Peach Tree Blues (feat. Hammie Nixon) (3:35)


all tracks rec., ed. and prod. by Giambattista Marcucci
# rec. August 30, 1978 in the back room of his house at 740 Alma Street in Memphis, TN by Gianni Marcucci; Willie Borum, voc, g
front cover photo by Giambattista Marcucci: Mott Willis on his porch, Crystal Springs, Mississippi, 1978

notes by Giambattista Marcucci

Mbirafon 113 (It)

www.cdbaby.com

242014The 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)



Additional information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Jean-Claude Arnaudon: Dictionnaire du Blues.- Paris, France (Filipacci) 1977, p. 186
- Karel Bogaert: Blues Lexicon.- Antwerpen (Standaard) 1972, pp. 267-268
- Robert M.W. Dixon & John Godrich: Blues & Gospel Records 1902 - 1943, 3rd ed. 1982, p. 104 (Borum), 306/307 (Hart), and 646 (Shaw)
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 243
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, p. 164
- Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- New York (Da Capo Press) 1987, p. 62
- Bengt Olsson: Memphis Blues.- Studio Vista, London 1970 (paperback edition), pp. 68-69
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

source of left column picture: Front cover of Bluesville BVLP 1048; photographer: Samuel B. Charters

thanks to 'Sam Hopkins' and Alan Balfour (both o' 'em), Max Hoeffner, Michael Hortig, Bob Eagle, Helge Thygesen, Rob Ford, Russell Shor and John Tefteller for additional info / scans

 

two Willie Borum photos at Del Goldfarb's site

 

M E M P H I S   W I L L I E   B   1934
1934  

M E M P H I S   W I L L I E   B   19??
19??  

 

M E M P H I S   W I L L I E   B and his wife, 1961; source:
Memphis Willie B. and his wife Velma, 1961

 

M E M P H I S   W I L L I E   B; source: Front cover of Bluesville BVLP 1048
source: Front cover of Bluesville BVLP 1048
photographer: Samuel B. Charters

 

M E M P H I S   W I L L I E   Borum &nbspM 1969; source: Willie Borum 1969; source: Bengt Olsson: Memphis Blues.- Studio Vista, London 1970 (paperback edition), p. 69<br>photographer: Bengt Olsson (?)
Willie Borum 1969
source: Bengt Olsson: Memphis Blues.- Studio Vista, London 1970 (paperback edition), p. 69
photographer: Bengt Olsson (?)

 


Sam Charters, Izzy Young, Willie Borum, Furry Lewis, Gus Cannon
in front of Izzy Young's Folklore Center at 110 MacDougal Street, Greenwich Village, New York City, NY, 1965
source: Front cover of Samuel Charters: Walking A Blues Road - A Selection of Blues Writing 1956-2004.- New York (Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd.) 2004
photographer: Ann Charters

 

Willie Borum, Furry Lewis & Gus Cannon in front of Izzy Young's Folklore Center at 110 MacDougal Street, Greenwich Village, New York City, NY, 1965; source: Ann Charters and Samuel Charters: Blues Faces - A Portrait of the Blues.- Boston (David R. Godine Publisher) 2000, p. 73; photographer: Ann Charters
Willie Borum, Furry Lewis & Gus Cannon
in front of Izzy Young's Folklore Center at 110 MacDougal Street, Greenwich Village, New York City, NY, 1965
source: Ann Charters and Samuel Charters: Blues Faces - A Portrait of the Blues.- Boston (David R. Godine Publisher) 2000, p. 73
photographer: Ann Charters

 

 

 

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