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Wirz' AMERICAN MUSIC

F R A N K   S T O K E S with a Martin 00-28 guitar; source:
Frank Stokes with a Martin 00-28 guitar
Hooks Brothers photo (glass plate found in the 1990s)
a cut out version of that photo has been used for a 1927 Victor catalog
Dan Sane & F R A N K   S T O K E S; source: Front cover of Yazoo LP L-1056
Dan Sane & Frank Stokes (playing a guitar with a tailpiece!)
source: Front cover of Yazoo LP L-1056

 
Frank Stokes
b. January 1, 1877 (military registration card & death certificate) or June 1878 (1900 census) in Whitehaven, Shelby County, Tennessee
d. September 12, 1955 at John Gaston Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee

buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee
discography

1927 Victor catalog with a cut out version of the Hooks Brothers photo at the left
1927 Victor catalog
with a cut out version of the Hooks Brothers photo

#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
11927Beale Street Sheiks   Stokes and Sane

- You Shall (4771-3) (2:50) #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- It's A Good Thing (4772-1) (2:56) #   @ youtube   @ Spotify

or

- You Shall (20043-2) (2:43) *   @ Spotify
- It's A Good Thing (20044-2) (2:59) *   @ youtube   @ Spotify

# c. August 1927 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g
* c. September 1927 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g


4771-3


4772-1


Paramount 12518

21927Beale Street Sheiks (Stokes and Sane)

- Half Cup Of Tea (4774-1)   @ youtube
- Sweet To Mama (4773-1)   @ Spotify

c. August 1927 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g


Paramount 12531

= Broadway 5039
as by Memphis Showboys

31927Beale Street Sheiks   Stokes and Sane

- Mr. Crump Don't Like It (20045-2)   @ youtube
- Blues In "D" (20048-2) #   @ Spotify

c. September 1927 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g, # sp


Paramount 12552

41927Beale Street Sheiks   Stokes and Sane

- Beale Town Bound (4775-2) #   @ youtube
- Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon (20047-2) *   @ youtube

# c. August 1927 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g
* c. September 1927 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g


Paramount 12576

51927Beale Street Sheiks

- Jazzin' The Blues (4778-1)   @ Spotify
- Last Go Round (4771-1)   @ youtube

c. August 1927 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g


Paramount 12591

61928Frank Stokes

- Bedtime Blues (41825-1)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Downtown Blues (41822-1)   @ Spotify
or
- Downtown Blues (41822-2)   @ Spotify

rec. February 1, 1928 at the Memphis Auditorium in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g; unknown, g


Victor 21272

71928Frank Stokes

- Mistreatin' Blues (45419-1)   @ youtube
- It Won't Be Long Now (45420-1)   @ youtube
or
- It Won't Be Long Now (45420-2)

rec. August 27, 1928 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g


Victor 21672


Victor 21672 (tk 2) test pressing

81928Frank Stokes

- Stomp That Thing (45426-2) *   @ youtube
- Nehi Mamma Blues (45421-2) #   @ youtube

# rec. August 27, 1928 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g
* rec. August 28, 1928 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g


Victor 21738

   

- Killing Me (45427-2)

rec. August 28, 1928 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g

Victor unissued

91928Frank Stokes

- 'Tain't Nobody's Business [If I Do] –Part 1 (45452-1)   @ youtube
- 'Tain't Nobody's Business [If I Do] –Part 2 (45453-2)   @ youtube

rec. August 30, 1928 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g


Victor V38500

   

- 'Tain't Nobody's Business–Part 2 (45453-1)   @ youtube

rec. August 27, 1928 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g

Victor unissued

X LVA3032
Blues Classics BC 5
RCA 89276 (Fr)
RCA RA9051 (Jp)
Document DOCD-5013

101928Frank Stokes

- I Got Mine (45422-2) #   @ youtube
- How Long (45455-1) *   @ youtube

# rec. August 27, 1928 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g
* rec. August 30, 1928 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g


Victor V38512

111928Frank Stokes

- What's The Matter Blues (41826-1) #   @ youtube
- Take Me Back (45454-2) *   @ youtube

# rec. February 1, 1928 at the Memphis Auditorium in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g; unknown, g
* rec. August 30, 1928 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g


Victor V38531

121929Beale Street Sheiks

- Wasn't That Doggin' Me (21242-2)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Rockin' On The Hill Blues (21240-2)   @ youtube   @ Spotify

c. March 1929 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g


Paramount 12758

131929Beale Street Sheiks

- Ain't Goin' To Do Like I Used To Do (21229-2)   @ Spotify
- Hunting Blues (21234-1)   @ Spotify

c. March 1929 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g


Paramount 12774

141929The Beale Street Sheiks

- Fillin' In Blues—Part I (21241-1)   @ Spotify
- Fillin' In Blues—Part II (21241-2)   @ Spotify

c. March 1929 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g


Paramount 12894

   

- Jumpin' On The Hill [Policy Wheel] / Unnamed Blues [Yazoo] (21246-1)   @ Spotify

c. March 1929 in Chicago, IL; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g

Paramount unissued

Policy Wheel 4591
Yazoo 1056
Document DOCD-5012

151929Frank Stokes

- Bunker Hill Blues (55574-1)   @ youtube
- South Memphis Blues (55573-2)   @ youtube

rec. September 23, 1929 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Will Batts, vn


Victor V38548

161929Frank Stokes

- Right Now Blues (55584-2)   @ youtube
- Shiney Town Blues (55591-1)   @ youtube

rec. September 25, 1929 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Will Batts, vn


Victor V38589

171929Frank Stokes

- Old Sometime Blues (56304-2)   @ youtube
- I'm Going Away Blues (56303-2)   @ youtube

rec. September 30, 1929 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g; Will Batts, vn


Victor V23341

181929Frank Stokes

- Frank Stokes' Dream (56305-2)   @ youtube
- Memphis Rounders Blues (56306-2)   @ youtube

rec. September 30, 1929 in Memphis, TN; Frank Stokes, voc, g


Victor V23411


LP / CD compilations
191953Kings of the blues
backgrounds of jazz vol. 3

Jim Jackson
- I'm Wild About My Lovin'
- This Morning She Was Gone
Furry Lewis
- I Will Turn Your Money Green
- Dry Land Blues (alt 1)


Frank Stokes
- Down Town Blues (tk 1) [Victor 21272]
- 'Tain't Nobody's Business (- Part 2) (tk 1) [Victor unissued]
Ishman Bracey
- Leavin' Town Blues
- Brown Mamma Blues


10 inch LP
notes by Bill Grauer, Jr. and Orrin Keepnews

RCA "X" LVA-3032 (UK 1953)

201960The Rural Blues
A Study of the Vocal and Instrumental Resources

LP 1:
Will Shade - I Can't Stand It
Hambone Willie Newbern - Shelby County Work House Blues
Robert Johnson - From Four Until Late
Furry Lewis - You Can Leave, Baby
Sleepy John Estes - Sloppy Drunk Blues [= "Milk Cow Blues"]
L'il Son Jackson - Roberta Blues
Lightnin' Hopkins - Bad Luck And Trouble °°
Blind Boy Fuller - Thousand Woman [sic!] Blues
Arthur Crudup - If I Get Lucky
Charlie Pickett - Down The Highway

Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues
Blind Willie Johnson - Take Your Burden To The Lord
Tommy McClennan - New Highway 51
Lightnin' Hopkins - Penitentiary Blues °°
Blind Willie McTell - Mama T'ain't Long 'Fo' Day
Charlie Burse - Take Your Fingers Off It
Charlie Lincoln - My Wife Drove Me From My Door [on back cover: "Drive"]
Peg Leg Howell - Skin Game Blues
Lightnin' Hopkins - Come Go Home With Me °°
Lightnin' Hopkins - Goin' Back To Florida
Robert Johnson - Standing At The Crossroads



LP 2:
Lightnin' Hopkins - One Kind Favor
Furry Lewis - John Henry
Blind Willie Johnson - Nobody's Fault But Mine
Furry Lewis - Warm Up
Bukka White - Bukka's Jitterbug Swing
Furry Lewis - Casey Jones
Peg Leg Howell - Coal Man Blues
John Hurt - Frankie
Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Mama
Papa Charlie Jackson - Airy Man Blues
Skip James - Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues
Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - New How Long Blues

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


compiled by Samuel B. Charters
"The Material is in part from unissued material in the author's collection, in part from material on the author's Folkways releases, and in part from early blues recordings."

RF-202 features only extracts of most of the recordings!
°° tracks not on RF-202 (X) (1964)

Moochie Reeves track rec. July 1954 in Mobile, AL; previously unissued and from Samuel B. Charters' collection

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

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



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



RBF RF-202 (1960)

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

RBF discography

20a1964The Rural Blues
A Study of the Vocal and Instrumental Resources

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

Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues [Decca 7026]
Blind Willie Johnson - Take Your Burden To The Lord [Columbia 14520-D]
Tommy McClennan - New Highway 51 [Bluebird B8499]
Blind Willie McTell - Mama T'ain't Long 'Fo' Day [Victor 21474]
Charlie Burse - Take Your Fingers Off It (0:34) [previously unissued]
Charlie Lincoln - My Wife Drove Me From My Door [Columbia 14305-D]
Peg Leg Howell - Skin Game Blues [Columbia 14473-D]
Lightnin' Hopkins - Goin' Back To Florida [rec. January 16, 1959, Folkways FS 3822]   @ youtube (3:17)
Robert Johnson - Standing At The Crossroads [aka "Cross Road Blues", Vocalion 03519]


LP 2:
Lightnin' Hopkins - One Kind Favor (0:57) [rec. January 16, 1959, previously unissued]   @ youtube
Blind Willie Johnson - Nobody's Fault But Mine [Columbia 14303-D]
Furry Lewis - Warm Up [rec. October 3, 1959, previously unissued, Wolf 120.920]
Bukka White - Bukka's Jitterbug Swing [OKeh 05625]
Peg Leg Howell - Coal Man Blues [Columbia 14194-D]
Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Mama [Columbia 14632-D]
Papa Charlie Jackson - Airy Man Blues [Paramount 12219]
Skip James - Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues [Paramount 13085]
Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - New How Long Blues [Vocalion 1435]

Sonny Terry & Oh Red - Harmonica Stomp [OKeh 05538]

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


compiled by Samuel B. Charters
"The Material is in part from unissued material in the author's collection, in part from material on the author's Folkways releases, and in part from early blues recordings."

"All original recordings are included in their entirety" (RBF notes), while the previously unissued tracks (Charters' "field recordings") all seem to be cut short, "some without the courtesy of a proper fadeout, some of the cuts occur mid-stanza" (Charles Radcliffe review in Blues Unlimited 30, pp. 20-21)

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

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


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


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


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

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

= XTRA 1035 (UK 1966)

DLP gatefold
notes by Samuel B. Charters

= XTRA 1035 (UK 1966?)

= Fontana 982.099

2 x CDr
notes by Samuel B. Charters

= Smithsonian CD RF 202 (US 2012)

RBF discography
XTRA Records discography

211965Country Blues Classics   Volume 1

Billy Baker
- No No Blues
Fred McMullen
- De Kalb Chain Gang
Curley Weaver
- Ticket Agent
Cripple Clarence Lofton
- Brown Skin Girls
Black Ivory King
- Flying Crow
John Lee
- Blind's Blues
Munroe Moe Jackson
- Go Away From My Door
Elmore James
- Dust My Broom

Joe McCoy
- Evil Devil Woman
Jim Jackson
- I Heard The Voice Of A Porkchop
Jesse James
- Southern Casey Jones
Black Ivory King
- Southern Casey Jones
Tim Wilkins (Robert Wilkins)
- Dirty Deal Blues
Tommie Bradley & Cole
- Window Pane Blues

Frank Stokes
- Downtown Blues (tk 2)
- T'aint Nobody's Business (tk 1)
Tony Hollins
- Stamp Blues


 
Blues Classics BC 5 (US 1965)

Blues Classics discography

221965Country Blues Classics   Volume 2

Bayless Rose
- Frisco Blues

Frank Stokes
- I Got Mine
Joe Williams
- I'm Getting Wild About Her
Bukka White
- Bukka's Jitterbug Swing
- Good Gin Blues

Frank Stokes
- How Long
Bobo Jenkins
- Democrat Blues
Blind Norris
- Sundown Blues

Scrapper Blackwell
- Rambling Blues
Pinetop Slim
- Applejack Boogie
Milton Sparks
- Erie Train Blues
Blind Boy Fuller
- Rag Mama Rag
Dan Pickett
- Baby, How Long
Frank Edwards
- Terraplane Blues
- We Got To Get Together
Johnny Shines
- Ramblin'



Blues Classics BC 6 (US 1965)

Blues Classics discography

231966Bluebird Blues 1933-46

RCA Victor LPV-518 / RCA RD-7786 track sequence:
Blind Willie McTell
- Lonesome Day Blues
- Searching The Desert For The Blues
Tampa Red
- Kingfish Blues
- Mean Mistreater Blues
Big Joe Williams
- Wild Cow Blues
- Somebody's Been Borrowing That Stuff °°
Sonny Boy Williamson
- Down South
- Moonshine

Tommy McClennan
- Bluebird Blues °°
- Brown Skin Girl
Sleepy John Estes
- Lawyer Clark Blues °°
- Little Laura Blues °°
Arthur Crudup
- Black Pony Blues
- Death Valley Blues
Lonnie Johnson
- Jersey Belle Blues
- Crowing Rooster Blues


reissue prod. by Brad McCuen; °° = tracks not on RCA 430.701

RCA 430.701 track sequence:
Frank Stokes
- It Won't Be Long Now °°
Blind Willie McTell
- Lonesome Day Blues
- Searching The Desert For The Blues
Tampa Red
- Kingfish Blues
- Mean Mistreater Blues
Leroy Carr
- Ain't It A Shame °°
Big Joe Williams
- Wild Cow Blues
Curtis Jones
- Drinking And Thinking Blues °°

Curtis Jones
- School Mate Blues °°
Sonny Boy Williamson
- Down South
- Moonshine
Tommy McClennan
- Brown Skin Girl
Arthur Crudup and Joe McCoy
- Black Pony Blues
- Death Valley Blues
Lonnie Johnson
- Jersey Belle Blues
- Crowing Rooster Blues


compiled by Bert Bradfield; °° = tracks not on RCA Victor LPV-518 / RCA RD-7786

notes by Lawrence Cohn

RCA Victor LPV-518 (1965)

notes by Lawrence Cohn

= RCA RD-7786 (UK 1965)


(not =) RCA 430.701 (Fr 1966) "Blue Bird Blues (1928-1942)" (Treasury Of Jazz #61)

24196810 Years In Memphis 1927-1937

Furry Lewis - Billy Lyons And Stack O 'Lee
Furry Lewis - Big Chief Blues

Frank Stokes - What's The Matter Blues
Frank Stokes - Jazzin' The Blues
Tom Dickson - Happy Blues [OKeh 8590]
Tom Dickson - Death Bell Blues [OKeh 8590]
Kansas Joe - Pile Drivin' Blues

George Torey - Married Woman Blues
George Torey - Lonesome Man Blues
Gus Cannon - Poor Boy
Allen Shaw - Moanin' The Blues
Robert Wilkins - Jailhouse Blues
Robert Wilkins - Falling Down Blues
Big Boy Cleveland - Goin' To Leave You Blues


notes by Don Kent   390 East 8th Street   New York, New York 10009

back cover has side 1 and side 2 tracks interchanged!
Belzona L-1002 (US 1968)

notes by Don Kent   390 East 8th Street   New York, N.Y. 10009

= Yazoo L-1002 (US 1968)

notes by Don Kent   54 King Street   New York, N.Y. 10014

= Yazoo L-1002 (US 19??)

notes by Don Kent   245 Waverley Place   New York, N.Y. 10014

= Yazoo L-1002 (US 19??)

notes by Steve Calt [!]

= Yazoo L-1002 (US 19??)

Yazoo Records discography

251968Down With The Game Vol. 3

Big Bill (Broonzy)
- C & A Blues
Devil's Daddy In Law (Floyd Council)
- Lookin' For My Baby
Sonny Boy Nelson
- Low Down
Yank Rachell & Dan Smith
- Night Latch Blues
- Gravel Road Blues

Frank Stokes
- Mistreatin' Blues
(Big) Joe Williams
- Meet Me Around The Corner

Walter Roland
- Piano Stomp
Will Batts
- Cheatin' Woman
- Cadillac Baby
Lucille Bogan
- Shave 'Em Dry
Devil's Daddy In Law (Floyd Council)
- I Don't Want No Hungry Woman
Sam Montgomery
- I'm Through With You
Charlie Pickett
- Trembling Blues



Down With The Game D 203 (UK 1968)

DWTG discography

261968Frank Stokes' Dream 1927-1931

Tom Dickson
- Labor Blues

Frank Stokes
- Frank Stokes' Dream
- Take Me Back
Pearl Dickson
- Twelve Pound Daddy
Furry Lewis
- Black Gypsy Blues
- Creeper's Blues
Noah Lewis
- Devil In The Woodpile

Will Weldon
- Turpentine Blues
Furry Lewis
- I Will Turn Your Money Green
- Judge Harsh Blues
Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe
- 'Frisco Town
- I Don't Want That Junk Outta You
Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Noah's Blues

Frank Stokes
- Last Go Round

notes by Fritz Peterson

Yazoo L-1008 (US 1968)


= Yazoo CD 1008 YAZ (US 1992?)

Yazoo Records discography

26a1968The Memphis Area - 1927-1932

Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Madison Street Rag
- Hollywood Rag
Sleepy John Estes
- Broken-Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too
- Black Mattie Blues
Hambone Willie Newbern
- Nobody Knows What The Good Deacon Does
Burse & Stephen
- Tappin' That Thing
"Poor Jab"
- Come Along, Little Children

Frank Stokes
- It Won't Be Long Now - tk. 2

Memphis Minnie
- Garage Fire Blues
Noah Lewis' Jug Band
- Bad Luck's My Buddy
Sleepy John Estes
- Stack O' Dollars
- My Black Gal Blues
Hambone Willie Newbern
- Roll And Tumble Blues
Robert Wilkins
- Nashville Stonewall Blues
- Police Sergeant Blues
Memphis Jug Band
- Kansas City Blues


   
Roots RL-307 (Austria 1968)

Roots Records discography

271968Frank Stokes with Dan Sane & Will Batts   1927-1929

- You Shall
- Sweet To Mama
- Half Cup Of Tea
- Beale Town Bound (Beale Street Sheiks August 1927)
- Mr. Crump Don't Like It
- Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon (Beale Street Sheiks September 1927)
- Bedtime Blues (Frank Stokes February 1928)

- Mistreatin' Blues
- Nehi Mama Blues
- Stomp That Thing (Frank Stokes August 1928)
- Ain't Goin' To Do Like I Used To Do (Beale Street Sheiks March 1929)
- South Memphis Blues
- Bunker Hill Blues
- Memphis Rounders Blues (Frank Stokes September 1929)


Roots RL-308 (Austria 1968)

Roots Records discography

281969Memphis Blues

Johnson Boys
- Prater Blues

Frank Stokes
- 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - part 1
Ollie Rupert
- I Raised My Window
Ollie Rupert
- Ain't Gonna Be Your Low Down Dog
Hambone Willie Newbern
- She Could Toodle
William & Versey Smith
- Everybody Help The Boys Come Home
Furry Lewis
- Mr. Furry's Blues
- Mistreatin' Mama

Allen Shaw
- I Couldn't Help It
Tom Dickson
- Worry Blues
Sleepy John Estes
- Poor John Blues
- Whatcha Doin'?
Rosie Mae Moore
- School Girl Blues
Jim Jackson
- Bootlegging Blues
Memphis Jug Band
- You Got Me Rollin'
Washboard Rhythm Kings
- Shoot 'Em


 
Roots RL 323 (Austria 1969)


= Roots/Saydisc RL 323 (UK 1969) [differing from Roots RL-323 only by sticker on front cover top left!]


= autogram/Roots RL 323 (Germany)

Roots Records discography

291969Masters Of The Blues   1928-1940

Robert Johnson (recorded Dallas, June 20, 1937)
- Little Queen Of Spades
- Love In Vain Blues
Curley Weaver accompanied by Blind Willie McTell (recorded Chicago, April 23, 1935)
- Sometime Mama
- Two Faced Woman
Little Bill Gaither (recorded Chicago, June 12, 1940)
- Georgia Barrel House
Blind Boy Fuller (recorded Chicago, June 12, 1940)
- You Got To Have Your Dollar
Robert Hill (recorded New Orleans, Oct 15, 1936)
- I Had A Gal For The Last Fifteen Years

Tommy Johnson (recorded Memphis, August 31, 1928)
- Lonesome Blues (take 1) unissued
- Lonesome Blues (take 2) unissued
- Canned Heat Blues
Bumble Bee Slim (Amos Easton) with Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell (NY, March 16, 1932)
- I'm Waitin' On You

Frank Stokes (recorded Memphis, Feb 2, 1928)
- Downtown Blues (unissued take)
Texas Alexander (recorded San Antonio, March 10, 1928) with Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson
- Yellow Girl Blues
- I Am Calling Blues


notes by Chris Albertson

Historical HLP-31 (US 1969)

Historical Records discography

301969Going Away Blues 1926 - 1935

Lottie Beaman
- Going Away Blues
- Rolling Log Blues
George 'Big Boy' Owens
- Kentucky Blues
Charlie Kyle
- Kyle's Worried Blues
Jelly Jaw Short
- Grand Daddy Blues

Frank Stokes
- Right Now Blues
George 'Bullet' Williams
- Frisco Leaving Birmingham

Charley Jordan
- Stack O'Dollar Blues
Henry Thomas
- Railroadin' Some
Robert Wilkins
- Old Jim Canaan
- New Stockyard Blues
William McCoy
- Central Tracks Blues
Uncle Bud Walker
- Look Here Mama Blues
Elvie Thomas & Geeshie Wiley
- Over To My House



Yazoo L-1018 (US 1969)

= CD 1018 YAZ (US 1992)

Yazoo Records discography

311969?The Blues In Memphis 1927-1939

Sleepy John Estes
- Drop Down Mama
- Married Woman Blues
Allen Shaw
- I Couldn't Help It
Robert Wilkins
- New Stock Yard Blues
Yank Rachell
- Gravel Road Woman
Furry Lewis
- Falling Down Blues

Beale Street Shieks
- Mr. Crump Don't Like It

Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie
- That Will Be Alright
- Goin' Back To Texas
Vol Stevens
- Vol Stevens Blues
Minnie Wallace
- The Old Folks Started It
Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Viola Lee Blues
Jack Kelly
- Flower Blues
Will Weldon
- Hitch Me To Your Buggy And Drive Me Like A Mule


front cover design by Marina Bokelman

notes by Dave [sic] Evans

Origin Jazz Library OJL-21 (US 1969?)

OJL Records discography

31a1970Cream Of The Crop

Son House
- Shetland Pony Blues
Willie Brown
- Make Me A Pallet On The Floor
Bukka White
- Sic 'Em Dogs On
- Po' Boy
William Harris
- Kitchen Range Blues
Dennis Crumpton & Robert Summers
- Go I'll Send Thee
- Everybody Ought To Pray Sometime
Bo Weavil Jackson (Sam Butler)
- Why Do You Moan?

Son House
- The Pony Blues
- The Jinx Blues - part 1
Alfred Lewis
- Mississippi Swamp Moan
Walter "Buddy Boy" Hawkins
- Workin' On The Railroad
- Yellow Woman Blues
Richard (Rabbit) Brown
- James Alley Blues

The Beale Street Sheiks
- Rockin' On The Hill Blues


Roots RL 332 (Austria 1970)

Roots Records discography

321970Kings Of Memphis Town (1927-1930)

Furry Lewis
- Falling Down Blues
- Mean Old Bedbug Blues
- Why Don't You Come Home
- Furry's Blues
- Kassie Jones - pt. 1
- Kassie Jones - pt. 2
Robert Wilkins
- Alabama Blues
- Long Train Blues


Frank Stokes
- Downtown Blues
- Hunting Blues
Sleepy John Estes
- The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair
- Divin' Duck Blues
- Milk Cow Blues
- Expressman Blues
Lonnie McIntorsh
- Sleep On Mother, Sleep On
- The Lion And The Tribes Of Judah



Roots RL 333 (Austria 1970)

Roots Records discography

331970Some Cold Rainy Day

Tommy Johnson
- Slidin' Delta
- I Wonder To Myself
Georgia Cotton Pickers (Buddy Moss, Curley Weaver, Fred McMullen)
- I'm On My Way Down Home
- Diddle-Da-Diddle
- She Looks So Good
- She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day (78 rpm!)
- She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day (72 rpm!)
Curly Weaver & Ruth Willis
- Some Cold Rainy Day

Fred McMullen & Ruth Willis
- Just Can't Stand It
Joe Evans & Arthur McClain
- My Baby Got A Yo-Yo
- Mill Man Blues

Beale Street Sheiks (Frank Stokes & Dan Sane)
- Fillin' In Blues - Part 1
- Fillin' In Blues - Part 2
Charlie 'Dad' Nelson
- Cleveland Stomp
- Scoville Ave. Blues


Southern Preservation Records S.P.R. 2 compiled by Jeff Tarrer

notes by Jeff Tarrer

Southern Preservation Records S.P.R. 2 (UK 1970)

 
= Flyright LP 114 (UK 1974/5?)

Flyright Records discography

341970Home Town Skiffle
Early Folk Blues   Vol. 2

Beale Street Sheiks
- You Shall
Excelsior Quartette
- Jelly Roll Blues
Mississippi Sheiks
- Too Long
Napoleon Fletcher
- She Showed It All
Hokum Boys
- I'm Gonna Get It
Ol Ced Odom & Lil "Diamonds" Hardaway
- Derbytown
Paramount All Stars
- Hometown Skiffle - part 1
- Hometown Skiffle - part 2


Beale Street Sheiks
- It's A Good Thing
Excelsior Quartette
- Kitchen Mechanic Blues
Winston Holmes and Charlie Turner
- Skinner
Bumble Bee Slim
- Slave Man Blues
Hokum Boys
- Keep Your Mind On It
Tampa Red and The Chicago Five
- Stop Truckin' And Suzi-Q
Yank Rachell
- Texas Tommy
The Delta Boys
- Every Time My Heart Beats


compiled by David Harrison

notes by Tony Russell

Matchbox SDR 206 (UK 1970)

351971Blues 1920-40

LP track sequence:
LP 1
Tommy Johnson - Big Road Blues
Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues
Ishman Bracey - Trouble-Hearted Blues
Blind Willie McTell - Dark Night Blues
Blind Willie McTell - Loving Talking Blues
Clifford Gibson - Drayman Blues
Bukka White - The Panama Ltd.

Jim Jackson - I'm Wild About My Loving
Furry Lewis - Dry Land Blues

Frank Stokes - T'Ain't Nobody's Business
Frank Stokes - Frank Stokes' Dream
Sleepy John Estes - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair
Sleepy John Estes - Lawyer Clark Blues
Memphis Minnie - Don't Want No Woman



LP 2
Memphis Jug Band - Memphis Jug Blues
Memphis Jug Band - Going Back To Memphis
Memphis Jug Band - Jug Band Waltz
Gus Cannon - Viola Lee Blues
Gus Cannon - Going To Germany
Gus Cannon - Walk Right In
Daddy Stovepipe - The Spasm

Tommy McClennan - Whiskey Head Woman
Tommy McClennan - De'se My Blues
Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go
Big Joe Williams - Highway 49
Big Joe Williams - Peach Orchard Mama
Robert Petway - Catfish Blues
Robert Lockwood - Take A Little Walk With Me



LP 3
Leroy Carr - Rocks In My Bed
Leroy Carr - - Six Cold Feet In The Ground
Peetie Wheatstraw - Devil's Son-In-Law
Peetie Wheatstraw - Peetie Wheatstraw
Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues - part 3
Big Maceo - Worried Life Blues
Joe Pullum - Hard Working Man Blues [Bluebird B6276]

Big Bill Broonzy - Friendless Blues
Big Bill Broonzy - The Southern Blues
Tampa Red - Kingfish Blues
Robert Lee McCoy - Tough Luck
Sonny Boy Williamson - Good Morning Schoolgirl
Sonny Boy Williamson - Early In The Morning
Jazz Gillum - Key To The Highway



CD track sequence:
CD 1
Early Years of Country Blues
Tommy Johnson - Road Blues (3:18)
Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues (3:37)
Ishman Bracey - Trouble-Hearted Blues (3:24)
Blind Willie McTell - Dark Night Blues (2:49)
Blind Willie McTell - Loving Talking Blues (2:34)
Clifford Gibson - Drayman Blues (2:59)
Clifford Gibson - She Rolls It Slow (2:44) °°
Bukka White - The Panama Ltd. (3:08)
Memphis Blues
Jim Jackson - I'm Wild About My Loving (3:11)
Furry Lewis - Dry Land Blues (3:05)

Frank Stokes - 'Taint Nobody's Business (3:11)
Frank Stokes - Frank Stokes' Dream (2:52)
Sleepy John Estes - The Girl I Love, She Got ... (2:56)
Sleepy John Estes - Poor John Blues (2:52) °°
Sleepy John Estes - Lawyer Clark Blues (3:09)
Son Bonds - A Hard Pill To Swallow (2:58) °°
Memphis Minnie - Don't Want No Woman (3:13)
Jug Band
Memphis Jug Band - Memphis Jug Blues (3:30)
Memphis Jug Band - Going Back To Memphis (2:20)
Memphis Jug Band - Jug Band Waltz (2:49)
Cannon's Jug Stompers - Viola Lee Blues (3:08)
Cannon's Jug Stompers - Going To Germany (2:32)
Cannon's Jug Stompers - Walk Right In (2:52)
Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah - The Spasm (2:54)
Washboard Sam & His Washboard Band - Gonna Hit The Highway (3:09) °°

CD 2
Mississippi Blues In The 30's
Tommy McClennan - Whisky Head Woman (3:00)
Tommy McClennan - Des'e My Blues (3:17)
Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go (3:21)
Big Joe Williams - Highway 49 (3:12)
Big Joe Williams - Peach Orchard Mama (2:46)
Robert Petway - Catfish Blues (2:52)
Robert Lockwood - Take A Little Walk With Me (2:55)
Piano Blues
Leroy Carr - Rocks In My Bed (3:11)
Leroy Carr - Six Cold Feet In The Ground (3:06)
Peetie Wheatstraw - Devil's Son-In-Law (3:22)
Peetie Wheatstraw - Pete Wheatstraw (3:15)
Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues Part 3 (3:07)
Big Maceo - Worried Life Blues (2:57)
Big Maceo - Detroit Jump (2:47) °°
Joe Pullum with Andy Boy - Hard Working Man Blues (3:35)
City Blues
Big Bill Broonzy - Friendless Blues (3:22)
Big Bill Broonzy - The Southern Blues (3:32)
Tampa Red - Kingfish Blues (3:11)
Robert Lee McCoy - Tough Luck (3:04)
Sonny Boy Williamson - Good Morning Schoolgirl (3:01)
Sonny Boy Williamson - Elevator Woman (2:38) °°
Sonny Boy Williamson - Early In The Morning (2:58)
Jazz Gillum - Key To The Highway (2:40)
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - That's All Right (2:54) °°


compiled by Yasufumi Higurashi, Toyo Nakamura & Hiroshi Suzuki; manufactured from Master Recordings of RCA corporation

°° CD has seven additional tracks!

3 LP folding box with 30-page booklet

RCA Victor RA-5433/5 (Jp 1971)

3 LP slide-in box with 30-page booklet

= RCA Victor RA-9051/3 (Jp 1975)

2 CD set, notes by Hiroshi Suzuki, Toyo Nakamura, Yasufumi Higurashi, Hisamitsu Noguchi & Shoichi Yui

= RCA BVCP-8733/4 (Jp 1994) "Blues 1927-46"

2 CD set

= RCA BVCM-37530/1 (Jp 2004) "Blues 1927-46"

361971Ragtime 2 / The Country
Country Mandolins, Fiddles, and Guitars

- Dallas Rag - Dallas String Band
- No Use Workin' So Hard - Carolina Tarheels
- Old Weary Blues - Jesse Young's Tennessee Band
- Hungry Man's Scuffle - Jolly Jivers

- Downtown Blues - Frank Stokes
- They Go Wild Simply Wild Over Me - Leake County Revelers
- Hale's Rag - Theron Hale and Daughters

- Laughing Rag - Sam Moore and Horace Davis
- Lindy - Proximity String Quartet
- Kansas City Dog Walk - Charlie Turner
- Ozark Rag - East Texas Serenaders
- Dill Pickle Rag - Kessinger Brothers
- Rag Mama Rag - Blind Boy Fuller


compiled by Samuel Charters
cover design by Ronald Clyne

notes by Samuel Charters


RBF 18 (US 1971)

RBF discography

371972Mississippi & Beale Street Sheiks 1927 - 1932
Sittin' On Top Of The World

The Mississippi Sheiks
- I'll Be Gone, Long Gone
- Please Baby
- Don't Wake It Up
- Go Away Woman
- New Shake That Thing
- Isn't A Pain To Me
- The New Sittin' On Top Of The World
- The New Stop And Listen Blues


The Beale Street Sheiks
- Last Go Round
- Jazzin' The Blues
- Mr. Crump Don't Like It
- Blues In "D"
- You Shall
- It's A Good Thing
- Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon
- Sweet To Mama


Biograph BLP-12041 (US 1972)

Biograph Records discography

381976Jumping On The Hill

The Beale Street Sheiks
- Jumping On The Hill
Memphis Jug Band
- My Love Is Cold
Furry Lewis
- Cannon Ball Blues
Kaiser Clifton
- She'll Be Back Some Day
The Delta Boys
- Don't You Want To Know?
Jim Jackson
- Old Dog Blues
Memphis Jug Band
- Little Green Slippers
Too Tight Henry
- Squinch Owl Moan

Tom Dickson
- Worry Blues
Memphis Jug Band
- Fishin' In The Dark
Little Buddy Doyle
- She's Got Good Dry Goods
Kaiser Clifton
- Teach Me Right From Wrong
Hattie Hart
- Won't You Be Kind To Me?
Jim Jackson
- Santa Fe Blues
Memphis Jug Band
- Jug Band Quartette
Too Tight Henry
- The Way I Do


notes (unsigned) by Chris Smith

Policy Wheel PW 459-1 (UK 1976)

Policy Wheel Records discography

391977Frank Stokes: Creator Of The Memphis Blues

- Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon
- Memphis Rounders Blues
- Unnamed Blues
- Stomp That Thing
- Mr. Crump Don't Like It
- Nehi Mamma Blues
- It's A Good Thing
- You Shall
- It Won't Be Long Now
- Mistreatin' Blues
- Wasn't That Doggin' Me
- 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do Part 2
- Sweet To Mama
- Beale Town Bound

cover artwork by Robert Armstrong

notes by Steve Calt

Yazoo L-1056 (US 1977)


= Yazoo CD 1056 (US 1990)

Yazoo Records discography

401984Memphis Blues (1928 - 1930)
(Jazz Tribune No. 51)

Frank Stokes
- How Long?
- 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do Part 2
- It Won't Be Long Now
- Right Now Blues
Jim Jackson
- I'm Wild About My Lovin'
- I'm Gonna Move To Louisiana Part 1
- I'm Gonna Move To Louisiana Part 2
- This Mornin' She Was Gone

Furry Lewis
- Kassie Jones Part 1
- Dry Land Blues
- I Will Turn Your Money Green
- Mistreatin' Mama
Robert Wilkins
- Jailhouse Blues
- Rolling Stone Part 1
- Rolling Stone Part 2
- I Do Blues


Memphis Jug Band
- Sun Brimmer Blues
- Snitchin' Gambler Blues
- Peaches In The Springtime
- A Black Woman Is Like A Black Snake
Minnie Wallac
- Dirty Butter
- The Old Folks Started It
Hattie Hart
- Won't You Be Kind To Me?
- You Wouldn't, Would You Papa?

Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Big Railroad Blues
- Feather Bed
- Viola Lee Blues
- Bring It With You When You Come
Memphis Minnie
- I'm Going back home
- I Never Told A Lie
Joe McCoy and Joe Johnson
- Don't Want No woman
Memphis Minnie
- Georgia Skin


DLP

RCA NL 89276

= BMG/RCA CD 74321264092 (1995)

411984Frank Stokes 1927-29
The Remaining Titles

- Half Cup Of Tea (4774-2)
- Ain't Goin' To Do Like I Used To Do (21229-2)
- Hunting Blues (21234-1)
- Rockin' On The Hill Blues (21240-2)
- Fillin' In The Blues - Part 1 (21241-1)
- Fillin' In The Blues - Part 2 (21241-2)
- South Memphis Blues (55573-2)
- Bunker Hill Blues (55574-1)
- Right Now Blues (55584-2)
- Shiney Town Blues (55591-1)

- Downtown Blues (41822-1) [actually 41822-2!]
- Bedtime Blues (41825-1)
- What's The Matter Blues (41826-1)
- It Won't Be Long Now (45420-1)
- I Got Mine (45422-2)
- 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do Part-1 (45452-1)
- 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do Part-2 (45453-1)
- Take Me Back (45454-2)
- How Long (45455-1)
- Frank Stoke's Dream (56305-2)

notes by Paul Oliver

Matchbox MSE 1002 (UK 1984)

Matchbox Records discography

421984Songsters & Saints
Vocal Traditions on Race Records Vol. 2

LP 1:
Medicine Show Songsters
Papa Charlie Jackson
- I'm Alabama Bound
- Long Gone Lost John
Cannon's Jug Stompers
- My Money Never Runs Out
Banjo Joe (Gus Cannon)
- Can You Blame The Colored Man
Jim Jackson
- Bye, Bye, Policeman
- My Monday Woman Blues
- Old Dog Blue

Beale Street Sheiks (Stokes and Sane)
- Mr. Crump Don't Like It
- Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon

Songsters East and West
Stovepipe No. 1 and David Crockett
- A Chicken Can Waltz The Gravy Around
- A Woman Get's Tired Of The Same Man All The Time
Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas"
- Old Country Stomp
- Bob McKinney
- Arkansas
Luke Jordan
- Traveling Coon
- Cocaine Blues
Blind Blake
- He's In The Jail House Now
- West Coast Blues / Dry Bone Shuffle [?]



LP 2:
The Straining Preachers
Rev. J.C. Burnett
- The Donfall Of Nebuchadnezzar
- The Gambler's Doom
Rev. J.M. Gates
- Yonder Comes My Lord With A Bible In His Hand
- God's Wrath In The St. Louis Cyclone
- The Eagle Stirs Her Nest
Rev. F.W. McGee
- The Half Ain't Never Been Told
- Jonah In The Belly Of The Whale
Rev. D.C. Rice
- Come And See
- We Got The Same Kind Of Power Over Here

Saints of Church and Street
Arizona Dranes
- It's All Right Now
- Just Look
Blind Joe Taggart
- God's Gonna Separate The Wheat From Tares
- There's A Hand Writing On The Wall
Blind Willie Johnson
- If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down
- God Moves On The Water
- The Rain Don't Fall On Me
Elders McIntosh and Edwards
- The Latter Rain Is Fall
Memphis Sanctified Singers
- He Got Better Things For You


gatefold DLP
notes by Paul Oliver
click to read track listing !
Matchbox MSEX 2003/2004 (UK 1984)

This DLP set was issued to complement Paul Oliver's book "Songsters & Saints: Vocal Traditions On Race Records".- Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 1984:

Matchbox Records discography

431987Memphis Blues (1927 - 1937)

Ollie Rupert
- I Raised My Window And Looked At The Rising Sun
- Ain't Goin' To Be Your Low Down Dog
Big Boy Cleveland
- Quill Blues
- Goin' To Leave You Blues
Walter Rhodes
- The Crowing Rooster
- Leaving Home Blues

Frank Stokes
- Downtown Blues
Tom Dickson
- Death Bell Blues
- Worry Blues

Tom Dickson
- Happy Blues
- Labor Blues
Robert Wilkins
- Rolling Stone - Part 2 (take 1 [?]) [Victor 21741]
Sam Townsend
- I'm Missing That
- Lily Kimball Blues
Allen Shaw
- I Coundn't Help It
- Moanin' The Blues
George Torey
- Married Woman Blues
- Lonesome Man Blues



HK Records HK 4002 (Austria 1987)

HK Records discography

441990The Deep South (1927-1937)

Al Miller's String Band
- Saturday Night Hymn

Beale Street Sheiks
- You Shall
Bessie Tucker
- My Man Has Quit Me
Edward Thompson
- Up On The Hill Blues
- When You Dream Of Muddy Water
Tommy Johnson
- Ridin' Horse
- Alcohol And Jake Blues

Tommy Settlers
- Low Down Blues Moon - part 1
- Low Down Blues Moon - part 2
- Shaking Weed Blues
- Big Bed Bug (Bed Bug Blues)
- Pearlie Mae Blues
- Don't Want You No More
- You Don't Mean No Good
- Blaze Face Blues



Document DLP 600 (Austria 1990)

Document Records discography

451990The Greatest in Country Blues   (1927-1956)

LP 1
- High Water Everywhere - Charlie Patton
- See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Cotton Field Blues Part 2 - Garfield Akers
- James Alley Blues - Richard "Rabbit" Brown
- Had A Good Father And Mother - Washington Phillips
- Travelin' Blues - Blind Willie McTell
- Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Minglewood Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Nappy Head Blues - Bobby Grant
- Third Street Woman Blues - Blind Willie Reynolds
- My Black Momma Part I - Son House
- Bull-Doze Blues - Henry Thomas
- Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground - Blind Willie Johnson
- Trouble Hearted Blues - Ishman Bracey
- Honey In The Rock - Blind Mamie Forehand
- Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt
- Man Trouble Blues - Jaybird Coleman

- How Long - Frank Stokes
- Future Blues - Willie Brown
- Voice Throwin' Blues - Walter "Buddy Boy" Hawkins


LP 2
- Devil Got The Woman - Skip James
- When That Great Ship Went Down - William And Versey Smith
- The Jail House Blues - Sam Collins
- Touch Me Light Momma - George "Bullet" Williams
- Mothers Love - Blind Joe Taggart
- Skin Man Blues - "Hi" Henry Brown
- Lost Lover Blues - Lottie Kimbrough
- Levee Camp Moan Blues - Texas Alexander
- K.C. Moan - Memphis Jug Band
- Paddlin' Madeline Blues - Gitfiddle Jim
- Preachin' Blues - Robert Johnson
- Billy Lyons And Stack O'Lee - Furry Lewis
- Fryin' Pan Skillet Blues - Bessie Tucker
- Dallas Rag - Dallas String Band
- Crazy Cryin' Blues - Memphis Minnie
- Woke Up This Morning - Roosevelt Graves
- That's No Way To Get Along - Robert Wilkins
- McAbee Railroad Piece - Palmer McAbee
- The Gone Dead Train - King Soloman Hill
- Hastings St. - Blind Blake and Charlie Spand


LP 3
- Shorty George - Smith Casey
- Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down - Bozie Sturdivant
- I Be's Troubled - Muddy Waters
- How You Want It Done? - Big Bill Broonzy
- She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day - The Georgia Cotton Pickers
- Sic 'Em Dogs On - Bukka White
- California Desert Blues - Lane Hardin
- Lonesome Day Blues - Jesse James
- Moanin' The Blues - Allen Shaw
- Midnight Hour Blues - Leroy Carr
- Jack O'Diamonds - Pete Harris
- Dust My Broom - Elmore James
- Rowdy Blues - Kid Bailey
- Rollin' And Tumblin' - Baby Face Leroy
- Penitentiary Blues (Pt. 1 & 2) - Smokey Hogg
- Baby How Long - Dan Pickett
- Mighty Long Time - Sonny Boy Williamson
- River Blues (Pt. 2) - Lowell Fulson
- Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf
- Moanin' Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins


compiled by Johnny Parth

3 LP set with 24-pp. booklet notes (English and German) by Paul Oliver

RST Blues Documents BD-01 (Austria 1990)

3 CD set
notes by Paul Oliver

Vol. 1: 1927-1930


Vol. 2: 1927-1936


Vol. 3: 1929-1956
= Story Of Blues/Da Music 3521/3522/3523 (Austria 1992)

= Century Media SOB 3521-2/3522-2/3523-2 (1994)

3 CD set

= 1201 Music 7002-2 (US 1999)

461991Wild About My Lovin'
Beale Street Blues 1928-1930

The Memphis Jug Band
- Overseas Stomp
- Stealin' Stealin'
- K. C. Moan
- On The Road Again
- Jug Band Waltz
Jim Jackson
- My Monday Woman Blues
- I'm Wild About My Lovin'
- When I Woke Up This Morning She Was Gone
- I Heard The Voice Of A Pork Chop
Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Walk Right In
- Viola Lee Blues
- Bring It With You When You Come
- Going To Germany
- Prison Wall Blues

Frank Stokes
- Downtown Blues
- Taint Nobody's Business
- Taint Nobody's Business (Part II)
- Take Me Back

compiled by Billy Altman; digitally remastered by Joe Lopes
remastered from the original source recordings

notes by Billy Altman

RCA 2461-4 (RCA heritage series)

471992The Beale Street Sheiks (Frank Stokes & Dan Sane) (1927-1929)
In Chronological Order

- You Shall (4771)
- It's A Good Thing (4772)
- Sweet To Mama
- Half Cup Of Tea
- Beale Town Bound
- Last Go Round
- Jazzin' The Blues
- You Shall (20043)
- It's A Good Thing (20044)
- Mr. Crump Don't Like It
- Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon
- Blues In D
- Ain't Goin' To Do Like I Used To Do
- Hunting Blues
- Rockin' On The Hill Blues
- Fillin' In Blues - Part 1
- Fillin' In Blues - Part 2
- Wasn't That Doggin' Me
- Jumpin' On The Hill

notes by Chris Smith

Document DOCD-5012 (Austria 1992)

481992Frank Stokes: The Victor Recordings In Chronological Order (1928-1929)

- Downtown Blues
- Downtown Blues
- Bedtime Blues
- What's The Matter Blues
- Mistreatin' Blues
- It Won't Be Long
- It Won't Be Long
- Nehi Mamma Blues
- I Got Mine
- Stomp That Thing
- 'Taint Nobody's Business
- 'Taint Nobody's Business
- 'Taint Nobody's Business
- Take Me Back
- How Long
- South Memphis Blues
- Bunker Hill Blues
- Right Now Blues
- Shiney Town Blues
- Frank Stokes' Dream
- Memphis Rounders Blues

notes by Chris Smith

Document DOCD-5013 (Austria 1992)

= Document DOCD-5013 (Austria 2000)

491994Memphis 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

501994Memphis 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 (US 1994)

511995Furry Lewis & Frank Stokes: Beale Street Blues
The Blues Collection No. 61

Furry Lewis
- I Will Turn Your Money Green (3:10)
- Judge Harsh Blues (2:59)
- Mistreatin' Mamma (3:05)
- Kassie Jones - Part 1 (3:04)
- Kassie Jones - Part 2 (3:01)
- Cannon-Ball Blues (3:11)
- Furry's Blues (3:12)
- Dry Land Blues (3:04)

Frank Stokes
- Downtown Blues (3:19)
- Nehi Mamma Blues (3:08)
- I Got Mine (3:03)
- Stomp That Thing (3:20)
- 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Part 2 (3:18)
- How Long (3:14)
- Bunker Hill Blues (3:02)
- Right Now Blues (3:12)
- Frank Stokes Dream (3:04)
- Memphis Rounders Blues (2:57)

ed. by Tony Russell; remastered by John R.T. Davies


Orbis BLU NC 061

521995The Essential Recordings of
Memphis Blues

- My Money Never Runs Out - Gus Cannon
- Mr Crump Don't Like It - Beale Street Sheiks
- Twelve Pound Daddy - Pearl Dickson

- Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Frank Stokes
- Happy Blues - Tom Dickson
- I Will Turn Your Money Green - Furry Lewis
- Judge Harsh Blues - Furry Lewis
- Rollin' Stone (part 1 & 2) - Robert Wilkins
- That's No Way To Get Along - Robert Wilkins
- Walk Right In - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- KC Moan - Memphis Jug Band
- Cocaine Habit Blues - Memphis Jug Band
- Travelling Mama Blues - Joe Callicott
- Bedside Blues - Jim Thompkins
- Ticket Agent Blues - Noah Lewis Jug Band
- Hesitation Blues - Jim Jackson
- Can I Do It For You (part 1) - Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe
- Granpa And Grandma Blues - Memphis Minnie Jug Band
- Highway No 61 Blues - Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band
- Moanin' The Blues - Allen Shaw
- Sugar Farm Blues - Yank Rachell
- Need More Blues - 'Sleepy' John Estes
- Renewed Love Blues - Little Buddy Doyle



Indigo IGOCD 2038 (UK 1995)

531996Before The Blues   Vol. 2
The Early American Black Music Scene

Dallas String Band - Dallas Rag
Frank Stokes - How Long
Peg Leg Howell - Skin Game Blues
Memphis Jug Band - K.C. Moan
Charley Jordan - Just A Spoonful
Hattie Hudson - Doggone My Good Luck Soul
Eck Robertson - There's A Brown Skin Girl Down The Road Somewhere
Lulu Jackson - You're Going To Leave The Old Home Jim!
Tommy McClennan - Deep Blue Sea Blues
South Street Trio - Cold Morning Shout
Blind Joe Taggart - Been Listening All The Day
Charley Patton - Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues
Golden P- Harris - I'll Lead A Christian Life
Minnie Wallace - The Old Folks Started It
Tennessee Chocolate Drops - Vine Street Drag
Blind Willie Johnson - It's Nobody's Fault But Mine
Geeshie Wiley - Last Kind Words Blues
Roland & Scott - Guitar Stomp
Blind Lemond Jefferson - Jack O'diamond Blues
Emry Arthur - Reuben Oh Reuben
Blue Boys - Memphis Stomp
Louise Johnson - On The Wall
Frank Jenkins - Roving Cowboy


notes by Don Kent and Richard Nevins

Yazoo CD 2016 (US 1996)

Yazoo Records discography

541996Before The Blues   Vol. 3
The Early American Black Music Scene

- Frisco Town - Memphis Minnie
- Spike Driver Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
- Feather Bed - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Fox And The Hounds - Henry Thomas
- A Lazy Farmer Boy - Buster Carter / Preston Young
- Pick Poor Robin Clean - Luke Jordan
- Nappy Head Blues - Bobby Grant
- Sourwood Mountain - Taylor's Kentucky Boys
- Levee Camp Moan Blues - Alger "Texas" Alexander
- John Henry Blues - Joe Evans / Arthur McClain
- Coming To Christ - Biddleville Quintette
- House Carpenter - Clarence Ashley
- Furniture Man - Lil McClintock
- Alabama Strut - Charles 'Cow Cow' Davenport
- Kassie Jones, Pt. 1 - Furry Lewis
- Thousand Woman Blues - Blind Boy Fuller
- Champaign Charlie Is My Name - Blind Blake
- Molly Man - Moses Mason

- Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon - Frank Stokes
- Little Birdie - John Hammond
- Black Skunk Blues - Barbecue Bob
- Drunkard's Special - Coley Jones
- Easy Winner - Blue Boys



Yazoo CD 2017 (US 1996)

Yazoo Records discography

54a1996The Roots Of Rap
Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s

Blind Willie Johnson - If I Had My Way I'd Tear This Building Down
Luke Jordan - Cocaine Blues
Allen Brothers - Bow Wow Blues
Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon - Jive Man Blues
Henry Thomas - Jonah In The Wilderness
Willie Walker - South Carolina Rag
Memphis Jug Band - Whitewash Station
Red Henderson - Automobile Ride Through Alabama
Speckled Red - The Dirty Dozen No. 2
Butterbeans & Susie - 'Tain't None O' Your Business

Beale Street Sheiks - It's A Good Thing
Jimmie Davis - She's A Hum Dum Dinger
Leroy Carr - Papa's On The House Top
Rev. Edward W. Clayborn - Let That Liar Alone
Frank Hutchinson - Back In My Home Town
T.C.I. Section Crew - Track Linin
Blind Willie McTell - Atlanta Strut
Lonnie Glosson - Arkansas Hard Luck Blues
Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom - How Can You Have The Blues?
Seven Foot Dilly & His Dill Pickles - Pickin' Off Peanuts
Pine Top Smith - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
Dixieland Jug Blowers - When I Stopped Running I Was At Home
Memphis Minnie - Frankie Jean


Yazoo CD 2018 (US 1996)

Yazoo Records discography

551997Southern Country Blues Vol. 1: Down In Boogie Alley

disc 1: Memphis & The Mississippi Delta
Frank Stokes - 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Part II
Cannon's Jug Stompers - Walk Right In
Jim Jackson - Old Dog Blue
Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe - Pickin' The Blues
Memphis Jug Band - Stealin' Stealin'
Furry Lewis - Big Chief Blues
Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues
Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues
Charley Patton - High Sheriff Blues
Son House - My Black Mama - Part II
Robert Johnson - Crossroads Blues
Big Joe Williams & Sonny Boy Williamson - Break 'Em On Down
Bo Carter - Banana In Your Fruit Basket
The Mississippi Sheiks - Sitting On Top Of The World
Tommy Johnson - Big Road Blues
Muddy Waters - Country Blues (No. 1)


disc 2: Alabama & The Eastern States
Ed Bell - Bad Boy
Jaybird Coleman - Man Trouble Blues
Lucille Bogan & Walter Roland - Down In Boogie Alley
Papa Charlie Jackson - Papa's Lawdy Lawdy Blues
Blind Blake - Hey Hey Daddy Blues
Ma Rainey & Tampa Red & Georgia Tom Dorsey - Black Eye Peas
Peg Leg Howell - Coal Man Blues
Georgia Cotton Pickers - Diddle-Da-Diddle
Andrew Baxter & Jim Baxter - Georgia Stomp
Blind Willie McTell - Love Changing Blues
Josh White - Silicosis Is Killin' Me
Rev. Gary Davis - Cross And Evil Woman Blues
Blind Boy Fuller & Sonny Terry - You Got To Have Your Dollar
Luke Jordan - Cocaine Blues


disc 3: South & The Mid-Western States
Texas
Henry Thomas - Old Country Stomp
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Matchbox Blues
Blind Willie Johnson - God Moves On The Water
Hattie Hudson - Doggone My Good Luck Soul
Texas Alexander & Willie Reed - Easy Rider Blues
J. T. "Funny Paper" Smith - Howling Wolf Blues - No. 1
Leadbelly - Four Day Worry Blues
Arkansas
3-8. Buddy Boy Hawkins - A Rag
Louisiana
King Solomon Hill - Down On My Bended Knee (tk 2)
Amédé Ardoin - Blues De Basile
Oscar Woods - Don't Sell It - Don't Give It Away
Kansas
Lottie Kimbrough - Going Away Blues
Missouri
Henry Townsend - Henry's Worry Blues
Lonnie Johnson - Woke Up With The Blues In My Fingers
Mary Johnson & Henry Brown & Ike Rodgers - Room Rent Blues
Charley Jordan - Keep It Clean
Roosevelt Sykes - Poor Boy Blues
Sparks Brothers - "4-11-44"


compiled by Johnny Parth; licensed from Document Records; remastered

3 CD set
20-pp. booklet by Steven C. Tracy

Starsounds 3712-2

= 1201 Music (2001) "Southern Country Blues Vol. 2: Down In Boogie Alley" [sic]

561997Paramount Blues   Hometown Skiffle
From the Paramount collection of Gayle Dean Wardlow

Blind Roosevelt Graves
- Bustin' The Jug
- Crazy About My Baby
Buddy Boy Hawkins
- A Rag Blues
- Snatch It And Grab It
"The Paramount All Stars" featuring Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake, Will Ezell, Charlie Spand, The Hokum Boys, Papa Charlie Jackson
- Hometown Skiffle - Part 1
- Hometown Skiffle - Part 2

Beale Street Sheiks
- Mr. Crump Don't Like It
- Jazzin' The Blues
Tampa Red
- Through Train Blues
Charlie Spand
- Fetch Your Water
- Soon This Morning
Dad Nelson
- Cleveland Stomp
Blind Blake
- He's In The Jailhouse Now
- Blind Arthur's Breakdown
Johnnie Head
- Fare Thee Blues Part 1
Papa Charlie Jackson
- Forgotten Blues
Blind Blake
- Southern Rag
Blind Roosevelt Graves
- Guitar Boogie
- New York Blues
Will Ezell
- Just Can't Stay Here



Black Swan HCD-30

57199?Too Late, Too Late Vol. 5 (1927-64)

Sister Morgan (1927)
- Hurry Down, Sunshine, And See What Tomorrow Brings
Lonnie Johnson (1927)
- Handfull O' Keys
- Searchin' For Flats
Cow Cow Davenport (1928)
- Cow Cow Blues (tk B)
Elizabeth Johnson (1928)
- Be My Kid Blues
- Sobbin' Woman Blues
Leroy Carr (1928)
- Box Car Blues

Frank Stokes (1929)
- I'm Going Away Blues
- Old Sometime Blues
Henry Townsend (1931)
- Doctor, Oh Doctor
- Jack Of Diamonds Georgia Rub
Blind Wille McTell (1933)
- Broke Down Engine No. 2 (tk 1)
- Love Makin' Mama (tk 2)
John (Big Nig) Bray (1934)
- Trench Blues. Leadbelly (1940)
- Didn't Ol' John Cross The Water?
Sonny Terry (1944/45)
- I Have Had My Fun
- Keys To The Highway
Leadbelly (1945)
- Eagle Rock Rag (alt tk)
James 'Jack Of All Trades' McCain (1945)
- Good Mr. Roosevelt
Montana Taylor (1946)
- Lowdown Bugle (tk B)
- Detroit Rocks
Big Maceo (c.1950)
- Eloise, Don't Play Me For A Fool
Scrapper Blackwell (1959)
- How Long No. 2
Rev. Lonnie Farris (1964)
- Peace In The Valley (Proverb 1001)


notes by Dr. Guido van Rijn

Document DOCD 5411 (Austria 199?)

581998Memphis Blues Singers, Volume 1

Frank Stokes
- Downtown Blues
- Bedtime Blues
- What's The Matter Blues
Rosie Mae Moore
- Staggering Blues
- Ha-Ha Blues
- School Girl Blues
- Stranger Blues
Tommy Johnson
- Cool Drink Of Water Blues
- Big Road Blues
- Bye Bye Blues
- Maggie Campbell Blues
Ishman Bracey
- Saturday Blues
- Left Alone Blues

Frank Stokes
- Mistreatin' Blues
- It Won't Be Long Now
- Nehi Mamma Blues
- I Got Mine
- Stomp That Thing
- 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do, Pt. 1
- 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do, Pt. 2
- Take Me Back
- How Long

remastered by John R.T. Davies


Frog CD 21 (UK 1998)

591999Broke, Black And Blue
An Anthology Of Blues Classics And Rarities

disc 1:
Up Country Blues
- Barrel House Blues - Ed Andrews
- Georgia Stockade Blues - Tom Delaney
- Sun Brimmers Blues - Memphis Jug Band
- Goin' To Leave You Blues - Big Boy Cleveland
- Dry Bone Shuffle - Blind Blake
- Up Country Blues - DeFord Bailey
- Dead Drunk Blues - Sippie Wallace
- Original Stack O'Lee Blues - Long 'Cleve' Reed
- Easy Rider Don't You Deny My Name - Barbecue Bob
- Bo Lita - Kid Brown
- Everybody Help The Boys Come Home - William & Versey Smith
- Church Bells Blues - Luke Jordan
- Two Ways To Texas - Emery Glen
- It Won't Be Long Now - Barbecue Bob & Laughing Charley
- Bottleneck Blues - Weaver & Beasley
- Rock Island Blues - Lewis Black
- Midnight Blues - Bill Moore
- Fare Thee Blues - Johnnie Head
- My Monday Woman Blues - Jim Jackson

- What's The Matter Blues - Frank Stokes
- School Girl Blues - Rosie Mae Moore
- Cool Drink Of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Left Alone Blues - Ishman Bracey
- T And T Blues - Mooch Richardson
- TC Johnson Blues - T. C. Johnson


disc 2:
Broke & Hungry Blues
- Ham Hound Crave - Rube Lacey
- No More Women Blues - Alger "Texas" Alexander
- How Long, How Long Blues - Willie Jackson
- Unknown Blues - Tarter & Gay
- Chicken Wilson Blues - Chicken Wilson
- Stack O' Lee Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
- Broke And Hungry Blues - Peg Leg Howell
- Funny Feathers - Victoria Spivey
- Pitchin' Boogie - William Ezell
- Mr- Devil Blues - Jed Davenport
- Mississippi Bottom Blues - Kid Bailey
- Weary Heart Blues - James Wiggins
- Poor Man Blues - Henry Townsend
- Framer's Blues - Eli Framer
- Trinity River Blues - T-Bone Walker
- Heavy Suitcase Blues - Charley Taylor
- Traveling Mama Blues - Joe Calicott
- Jumpin' And Shoutin' Blues - Garfield Akers
- Bedside Blues - Jim Thompkins
- Walking Blues - Son House
- Future Blues - Willie Brown
- Long Ways from Home - Louise Johnson
- Frisco Blues - Bayless Rose
- Good Boy Blues - Arthur Petties
- No Special Rider Blues - Little Brother Montgomery


disc 3:
Good Whiskey Blues
- Married Man Blues - Blind Willie Reynolds
- Dupree Blues - Willie Walker
- 22-20 Blues - Skip James
- Lonesome Road Blues - Sam Collins
- Midnight Hour Blues - Leroy Carr
- Fat Mama Blues - Jabo Williams
- Never Mind Blues - Georgia Boyd
- Twelves (Dirty Dozens) - Kokomo Arnold
- Little Leg Woman - Big Joe Williams
- That's What My Baby Likes - Bessie Jackson
- Good Whiskey Blues - Peetie Wheatstraw
- Strut That Thing - Cripple Clarence Lofton
- Teasin' Brown Blues - Louie Lasky
- Cold Blooded Murder, No.2 - Bumble Bee Slim
- Baby You Gotta Change Your Mind - Blind Boy Fuller
- Ashes In My Whiskey - Walter Davis
- It's Cold in China Blues - The Mississippi Moaner
- Jockey Blues - Jazz Gillum
- Prisoner Blues - George Clarke
- Back Door Blues - Casey Bill Weldon
- Don't Sell It (Don't Give It Away) - Buddy Woods
- Booker T. Blues - Washboard Sam
- Hard Scufflin' Blues - Little Buddy Doyle
- Jersey Belle Blues - Lonnie Johnson
- Baby, Please Don't Tell On Me - Tommy McClennan


disc 4:
Jumpin' At The Club Blue Flame
- East St.Louis Blues - Faber Smith, Jimmy Yancey
- Bukka's Jitterbug Swing - Bukka White
- Can't You Read - Big Maceo Merriweather
- Life Is Like That - Memphis Slim
- Memory Of Sonny Boy - Forrest City Joe
- Horse Shoe Boogie - Lee Brown
- Ruby Moore Blues - Lee Brown
- Low Land Blues - Lee Brown
- Round The World Blues - Lee Brown
- Rock That Boogie - Jimmie Gordon
- Fast Life - Jimmie Gordon
- Mistreated Blues - Jimmie Gordon
- I Ain't Like That No More - Jimmie Gordon
- Chain Gang Blues - Johnny Temple
- Yum, Yum, Yum - Johnny Temple
- My Baby's Acting Funny - Jimmie Gordon
- It's Time To Go - Jimmie Gordon
- That Woman's A Pearl Diver - Jimmie Gordon
- Jumpin' At The Club Blue Flame - Jimmie Gordon
- I Believe I'll Go Downtown Again - Johnny Temple
- Something In The Moon That Gives Me A Thrill - Johnny Temple
- Dixie Flyer - Johnny Temple
- Believe My Sins Have Found Me Out - Johnny Temple
- Rhythm Mama - Johnny Temple
- New Little Girl, Little Girl - Lee Brown


4 CD set
40-pp. booklet by Joop Visser

Proper CDBOX 7 (UK 1999)

601999Violin, Sing The Blues For Me
African-American Fiddlers   1926 - 1947

- Violin Blues - Johnson Boys
- K.C. Railroad Blues - Andrew & Jim Baxter
- Beaver Slide Rag - Peg Leg Howell
- Alma Waltz - Mississippi Mud Steppers
- Window Pane Blues - Tommie Bradley
- Travelin' Railroad Man Blues - Alabama Sheiks
- Pig Meat Blues - Whistler & His Jug Band

- Right Now Blues - Frank Stokes
- East Jackson Blues - Bo Chatmon
- Memphis Blues - Mobile Strugglers
- Vine Street Drag - Tennessee Chocolate Drops
- Broken Bed Blues - Kansas City Blues Strummers
- Lonesome Blues - Eddie Anthony / Henry "Rubberlegs" Williams
- Memphis Shakedown - Memphis Jug Band
- Adam And Eve - Tommie Bradley
- Tell Me Man Blues - Henry "Son" Sims
- Blue Coat Blues - Tom Nelson
- Salty Dog - Booker Orchestra
- Baby, Please Don't Go - Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers
- Stop And Listen Blues No. 2 - Mississippi Sheiks
- Stealin' Blues - Cow Cow Davenport
- The Moore Girl - Andrew & Jim Baxter
- Highway 61 Blues - Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band
- Ted's Stomp - Louie Bluie


notes by Marshall Wyatt

Old Hat CD-1002 (US 1999)

611999The Cornshuckers Frolic   Vol. 2
Downhome Music and Entertainment from the American Countryside

- The Grape Vine Twist - Steve & His Hot Shots
- They Don't Roost Too High For Me - Earl Johnson
- Mule Get Up in the Alley - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Leather Britches - The Leake County Revelers
- Possum Trot School Exhibition (Pt. 2) - Stoneman's Blue Ridge Cornshuckers
- Beaver Slide Rag - Eddie Anthony / Peg Leg Howell
- Kitty Hill - Bill Chitwood & His Georgia Mountaineers
- Practice Night at Chicken Bristle (Pt. 2) - Bob Miller & His Hinky Dinkers
- Georgia Stomp - Andrew & Jim Baxter
- A Fiddler's Tryout in Georgia (Pt. 1) - Joe Brown / John Dilleshaw / Seven Foot Dilly / A.A. Gray
- A Fiddler's Tryout in Georgia (Pt. 2) - Joe Brown / John Dilleshaw / Seven Foot Dilly / A.A. Gray
- Charmin' Betsy - Henry Thomas
- Durang's Hornpipe - The Massey Family
- Rock That Cradle Lucy - The Cofer Brothers
- Blind Arthur's Breakdown - Blind Blake
- Darneo - The Blue Ridge Highballers
- Lynchburg - Uncle Jimmy Thompson
- Memphis Shakedown - Memphis Jug Band
- Old Molly Hare - Fiddlin' Powers & Family
- John Brown's Dream - Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters
- Hot Dogs - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Old Fashioned Square Dance - Billy Milton

- You Shall - Dan Sane / Frank Stokes


Yazoo CD 2046 (US 1999)

Yazoo Records discography

622001"Folks, He Sure Do Pull Some Bow!"
Fiddle Music   1927-35

- Rukus Juice And Chittlin' - Memphis Jug Band
- The Jazz Fiddler - Lonnie Carter / Walter Jacobs
- Moanin' And Groanin' Blues - Peg Leg Howell
- Dance Hall Shuffle - Clifford Hayes
- My Four Reasons - Ikey Robinson & His Band
- Wild Cow Blues - Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers
- Knox County Stomp - Tennessee Chocolate Drops
- Rustlin' Man - State Street Boys
- Sister Maud Mule - Alec Johnson
- G Rag - Georgia Yellow Hammers
- Throw Me In The Alley - Peetie Wheatstraw
- If You Can't Make It Easy, Sweet Mama - The Dixieland Jug Blowers

- Bunker Hill Blues - Frank Stokes
- I Got A Gal - James Cole String Band
- Sweet To Mama - State Street Boys
- Doctor Medicine - Memphis Jug Band
- Cabo Verdranos Peca Nove - Abrew's Portuguese Instrumental Trio
- Worried Man Blues - Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers
- Georgia Crawl - Eddie Anthony / Henry "Rubberlegs" Williams
- Good Old Turnip Greens - Bo Chatmon
- Memphis Stomp - The Blue Boys
- Get Up Off That Jazzophone - Bubbling Over Five
- Rukus Juice Shuffle - Alabama Rascals
- Lazy Lazy River - Mississippi Sheiks


compiled by Marshall Wyatt

notes by Marshall Wyatt

Old Hat CD-1003 (US 2001)

632002Country Blues - the essential

CD 1:
- Weeping Willow - Blind Boy Fuller
- Little Rock Blues - Pearl Dickson
- Weak-Minded Woman - Willie Baker
- Saturday Blues - Ishman Bracey
- Rolling Log Blues - Lottie Kimborough
- Starvation Farm Blues - Bob Campbell
- California Desert Blues - Lane Hardin
- Fence Breakin' Blues - Shreveport Home Wreckers
- Mississippi Jailhouse Groan - Rube Lacey
- Charming Betsy - Henry Thomas
- Mamlish Blues - Barefoot Bill
- Easy Rider Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Davidson County Blues - De Ford Baily
- Kentucky Blues - Little Hat Jones
- Cocaine Blues - Luke Jordan
- Mama, You Gotta Get It Fixed - Troy Ferguson
- One Way Gal - William Moore
- Two Time Blues - Arthur Petties


CD 2:
- Hambone Willie's Dreamy-Eyed Woman's Blues - Hambone Willie Newbern
- Police Sargeant Blues - Robert Wilkins
- Penal Farm Blues - Scrapper Blackwell
- Ghost Woman Blues - George Carter
- Indian Squaw Blues - Freezone
- Unknown Blues - Tarter & Gay

- Nehi Mamma Blues - Frank Stokes
- I Ain't Givin' Nobody None - Mae Glover
- Happy Blues - Tom Dickson
- Cairo Blues - Henry Spaulding
- C.C. & O Blues - Pink Anderson and Simmy Dooley
- I Will Turn Your Money Green - Furry Lewis
- John Henry Blues - Evans & McClain
- Jealous Hearted Blues - Charlie Lincoln
- Last Kind Words Blues - Geeshie Wiley
- Devil In The Woodpile - Noah Lewis
- Bye Bye Mama - Buddy Moss
- Jailhouse Fire Blues - Walter 'Buddy Boy' Hawkins


2 CD set
notes by Gary Atkinson

Document CBL-200008 (UK 2002)

642002When The Sun Goes Down Vol. 2: The First Time I Met the Blues
'The Secret History of Rock & Roll' series

Victoria Spivey - Telephoning The Blues
Cannon's Jug Stompers - Viola Lee Blues
Genevieve Davis - Haven't Got A Dollar To Pay Your House Rent Man
Ishman Bracey - Saturday Blues
Jim Jackson - When I Woke Up This Morning She Was Gone
Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues
Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues
Memphis Jug Band - Stealin', Stealin'
Furry Lewis - Judge Harsh Blues
Edna Winston - Rent Man Blues
Harris And Harris - I Don't Care What You Say
Lizzie Miles With Jelly Roll Morton - I Hate A Man Like You

Frank Stokes - "Taint Nobody's Business If I Do-Part I
Sippie Wallace - I'm A Mighty Tight Woman
Jimmy Rogers - Blue Yodel #9
Sleepy John Estes - The Girl I Love, She Got Long, Curly Hair
Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe - Don't Want No Woman (Have T' Give My Money To)
Memphis Jug Band - Cocaine Habit Blues
Blind Willie Reynolds - Married Woman Blues
Jimmie Davis - Red Nightgown Blues
Mississippi Matilda - Hardworking Woman
Bo Carter - Doubled In A Knot
Daddy Stovepipe and Mississippi Sarah - If You Want Me Baby
Little Brother Montgomery - The First Time I Met The Blues
Mississippi Sheiks with Bo Carter - Sales Tax

notes by David Evans and Colin Escott

RCA Victor 63987

652003The Best There Ever Was
The Legendary Early Blues Performers Classic Recordings From the 1920s & 30s

Garfield Akers - Dough Roller Blues
Tommy Johnson - Big Road Blues
Son House - My Black Mamma - part 1
Mississippi John Hurt - Ain't No Tellin
Skip James - Cypress Grove
Blind Willie Johnson - I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole
Blind Willie McTell - Mama Tain't Long Fo' Day
Jaydee Short - Barefoot Blues
Robert Wilkins - I'll Go With Her Blues
Ed Bell - Squabblin Blues
Charlie Patton - It Won't Be Long

Frank Stokes - What's The Matter Blues
Geeshie Wiley - Last Kind Word Blues
William Harris - Bullfrog Blues
Blind Blake - You Gonna Quit Me Blues
King Solomon Hill - The Gone Dead Train
Memphis Minnie - Outdoor Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Prison Cell Blues
Sam Collins - Graveyard Digger's Blues
Furry Lewis - Big Chief Blues



Yazoo CD 3002 (US 2003)

Yazoo Records discography

662003Classic Blues Artwork from the 1920s Volume 1
2004 Calendar with free CD

CD and Calendar contents:
- He's In The Jailhouse Now - Blind Blake
- No Job Blues - Ramblin' Thomas
- 22-20 Blues - Skip James
- Rising High Water Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Down The Dirt Road Blues - Charley Patton
- Death Cell Blues - Blind Willie McTell
- Rough Rugged Road - Bumble Bee Slim
- Dry Spell Blues - Son House
- Bad Feeling Blues - Blind Blake

- Beale Town Bound - The Beale Street Sheiks
- Black Snake Dream - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Dead Drunk Blues - Ma Rainey

Supplementary CD tracks:
- I Want Someone To Love Me - Tommy Johnson
- Cold Woman Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds
- Times Has Done Got Hard - King Solomon Hill


restored by Richard Nevins


Blues Images Calendar Vol. 1 (rel. 2003, for 2004)


Blues Images CD BIM-101 (US 2003) accompanying Blues Images Calendar Vol. 1 (for 2004)

Blues Images calendar discography

672004Masters Of Memphis Blues

disc A: Furry Lewis
Furry Lewis
- Everybody's Blues (2:56)
- Mr. Furry's Blues (2:35)
- Sweet Papa Moan (2:12)
- Rock Island Blues (2:49)
- Jelly Roll (2:39)
- Billy Lyons And Stack O'Lee (2:34)
- Good Looking Girl Blues (2:52)
- Why Don't You Come Home Blues (2:46)
- Falling Down Blues (2:51)
- Big Chief Blues (2:52)
- Mean Old Bed Bug Blues (2:45)
- Furry's Blues (3:16)
- I Will Turn Your Money Green (tk 1) (3:13)
- I Will Turn Your Money Green (tk 2) (3:11)
- Mistreatin' Mama (3:09)
- Dry Land Blues (3:07)
- Cannon Ball Blues (3:06)
- Kassie Jones - Part 1 (3:06)
- Kassie Jones - Part 2 (3:04)
- Judge Harsh Blues (tk 1) (3:06)
- Judge Harsh Blues (tk 2) (3:04)
- John Henry (The Steel Driving Man) (tk 1) (2:54)
- John Henry (The Steel Driving Man) (tk 2) (3:21)
- Black Gypsy Blues (2:50)
- Creeper's Blues (2:41)


disc B: Beale St. Sheiks / Banjo Joe
The Beale Street Sheiks (Stokes & Sane)
- You Shall (2:50)
- It's A Good Thing (2:56)
- Sweet To Mama (2:55)
- Half Cup Of Tea (2:51)
- Beale Town Bound (2:53)
- Last Go Round (2:56)
- Jazzin' The Blues (2:49)
- You Shall (2:43)
- It's A Good Thing (2:59)
- Mr. Crump Don't Like It (2:59)
- Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon (3:06)
- Blues In D (2:44)
- Ain't Goin' To Do Like I Used To Do (2:56)
- Hunting Blues (3:06)
- Rockin' On The Hill Blues (3:12)
- Fillin' In Blues - Part 1 (3:09)
- Fillin' In Blues - Part 2 (3:15)
- Wasn't That Doggin' Me (3:09)
- Jumpin' On The Hill (3:06)
Banjo Joe (Gus Cannon)
- Jonestown Blues (3:11)
- Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home (3:12)
- Madison Street Rag (2:57)
- Jazz Gypsy Blues (2:58)
- Can You Blame The Colored Man (2:45)
- My Money Never Runs Out (2:51)


disc C: Frank Stokes / Allen Shaw
Frank Stokes
- Downtown Blues (tk 1) (3:10)
- Downtown Blues (tk 2) (3:15)
- Bedtime Blues (2:58)
- What's The Matter Blues (3:01)
- Mistreatin' Blues (3:15)
- It Won't Be Long (tk 1) (3:03)
- It Won't Be Long (tk 2) (3:25)
- Nehi Mamma Blues (3:06)
- Got Mine (3:01)
- Stomp That Thing (3:18)
- 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Part 1 (3:11)
- 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Part 2 (tk 1) (3:18)
- 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Part 2 (tk 2) (3:16)
- Take Me Back (3:11)
- How Long (3:12)
- South Memphis Blues (2:56)
- Bunker Hill Blues (2:55)
- Right Now Blues (3:07)
- Shiney Town Blues (3:07)
- I'm Going Away Blues (2:47)
- Old Sometime Blues (2:47)
- Frank Stokes' Dream (2:54)
- Memphis Rounders Blues (2:49)
- I Couldn't Help It (3:06)
- Moanin' The Blues (3:02)

disc D: Robert Wilkins / Little Buddy Doyle
Robert Wilkins
- Rolling Stone - Part 1 (2:55)
- Rolling Stone - Part 2 (3:31)
- Jail House Blues (3:33)
- I Do Blues (3:39)
- That's No Way To Get Along (2:55)
- Alabama Blues (2:39)
- Long Train Blues (3:07)
- Falling Down Blues (2:39)
- Nashville Stonewall Blues (3:25)
- Police Sergeant Blues (3:04)
- Get Away Blues (3:33)
- I'll Go With Her Blues (3:07)
- Dirty Deal Blues (3:16)
- Black Rat Blues (2:53)
- New Stock Yard Blues (2:58)
- Old Jim Canaan's (2:54)
- Losin' Out Blues (3:12)
Little Buddy Doyle
- Hard Scufflin' Blues (2:40)
- Grief Will Kill You (2:37)
- Slick Capers Blues (2:38)
- Renewed Love Blues (2:32)
- Bad In Mind Blues (2:35)
- Three-Sixty-Nine Blues (2:53)
- She's Got Good Dry Goods (2:36)
- Lost Baby Blues (2:42)
- Sweet Man Blues (2:40)


4 CD box set
notes by Neil Slaven

JSP JSPCD 7725 (UK 2004)

682004Classic Blues Artwork from the 1920s Volume 2
2005 Calendar with free CD

CD and Calendar contents:
- Drunken Spree - Skip James
- My Black Mama Parts 1 & 2 - Son House
- Blues, Oh Blues - Ma Rainey
- Jungle Man Blues - Papa Charlie Jackson
- Mamlish Blues - Ed Bell
- Sitting On Top Of The World - Mississippi Sheiks
- Pony Blues - Charley Patton
- Lonesome Swamp Rattlesnake - Jaydee Short
- Depressions Gone From Me Blues - Blind Blake
- Midnight Hour Blues - Ida Cox

- Half Cup Of Tea - Beale Street Sheiks
- Christmas Eve Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson

Supplementary CD tracks:
- My Buddy, Blind Papa Lemon - King Solomon Hill
- Ninety Nine Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds
- You Gotta Have That Thing - Memphis Jug Band
- Bottle It Up And Go - Memphis Jug Band


restored by Richard Nevins


Blues Images Calendar Vol. 2 (rel. 2004, for 2005)


Blues Images CD BIM-102 (US 2004) accompanying Blues Images Calendar Vol. 2 (for 2005)

Blues Images calendar discography

692005The Best Of Frank Stokes

- Take Me Back
- Mistreatin' Blues
- You Shall
- What's The Matter Blues
- I'm Going Away Blues
- Memphis Rounders Blues
- It Won't Be Long Now
- It's a Good Thing (tk 1)
- Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do, Pt. 2 (tk 1)
- Old Sometime Blues
- I Got Mine
- Sweet To Mama
- Nehi Mama
- Downtown Blues
- How Long
- South Memphis Blues
- Frank Stokes' Dream
- Mr. Crump Don't Like It
- Bedtime Blues
- Jumpin' On The Hill
- Blues In "D"
- Right Now Blues

notes by Don Kent

Yazoo CD 2072 (US 2005)

Yazoo Records discography

702005Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926 - 1937

disc 1:
- The Spasm - Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah
- Tanner's Boarding House - Gid Tanner & Riley Puckett
- Don't Think I'm Santa Claus - Lil McClintock
- Hokum Blues - Dallas String Band with Coley Jones [Columbia 14389-D]
- Jimbo Jambo Land - Shorty Godwin
- Gonna Swing On The Golden Gate - Fiddlin' John Carson & His Virginia Reelers
- Papa's 'Bout To Get Mad - Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley
- The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was A Married Man - Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright
- Bye, Bye, Policeman - Jim Jackson
- The Bald-Headed End Of A Broom - Walter Smith
- Bow Wow Blues - Allen Brothers
- Beans - Beans Hambone & El Morrow
- A Chicken Can Waltz The Gravy Around - Stovepipe # 1 and David Crockett
- Tell It To Me - Grant Brothers & Their Music
- Ain't No Use Working So Hard - Carolina Tar Heels
- Mama Keep Your Yes Ma'am Clean - Walter Cole
- C-H-I-C-K-E-N Spells Chicken - Kirk McGee & Blythe Poteet
- My Money Never Runs Out - Banjo Joe
- Railroadin' Some - Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas"
- Traveling Man - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
- G. Burns Is Gonna Rise Again - Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop
- Baby All Night Long - Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers
- Born In Hard Luck - Chris Bouchillon
- He's In The Jailhouse Now - Memphis Sheiks


disc 2:
- Gonna Tip Out Tonight - Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley
- Chevrolet Car - Sam McGee
- It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' - Gid Tanner & His Skillet-Lickers
- Bring It With You When You Come - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Atlanta Strut - Blind Sammie
- Go Along Mule - Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers
- Casey Bill - Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band

- I Got Mine - Frank Stokes
- Hannah - Chris Bouchillon
- Adam & Eve In The Garden - Bogus Ben Covington
- Mysterious Coon - Alec Johnson & His Band
- Her Name Was Hula Lou - Carolina Tar Heels
- Reno Blues - Three Tobacco Tags
- Scoodle Um Skoo - Papa Charlie Jackson
- Stackalee - Frank Hutchison
- The Cat's Got The Measles, The Dog's Got The Whooping Cough - Walter Smith
- Shout You Cats - Hezekiah Jenkins
- Nobody's Business If I Do - Tommie Bradley
- Sweet Sixteen - Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
- Ticklish Reuben - Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright
- I Heard The Voice Of A Porkchop - Jim Jackson>
- Shine - Dallas String Band with Coley Jones [Columbia 14574-D]
- The Gypsy - Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers
- Kiss Me Cindy - J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers


2 CD set
notes by Marshall Wyatt & Bengt Olsson

Old Hat CD 1005 (US 2005)

712006Classic Blues Artwork from the 1920s Volume 4
2007 Calendar with free CD

CD and Calendar contents:
- Dope Head Blues - Victoria Spivey
- Cocaine Habit Blues - Memphis Jug Band
- Gonna Move To Alabama - Charley Patton
- Texas Blues - Marshall Owens
- 'fore Day Creep - Ida Cox
- Black Snake Moan No. 2 - Blind Lemon Jefferson

- Jazzin' The Blues - Beale Street Sheiks
- Back To The Woods Blues - Charlie Spand
- Chain Gang Bound - Bumble Bee Slim
- Don't Wake It Up - Mississippi Sheiks
- Blues The World Forgot - parts I & II - Ma Rainey
- Lonesome Christmas Blues - Blind Blake

Supplementary CD tracks:
- Try Me One More Time - Marshall Owens
- Stingaree Man Blues - Chocolate Brown
- Mississippi County Farm Blues - Son House
- Clarksdale Moan - Son House


restored by Richard Nevins


Blues Images Calendar Vol. 4 (rel. 2006, for 2007)


Blues Images CD BIM-104 (US 2006) accompanying Blues Images Calendar Vol. 4 (for 2007)

Blues Images calendar discography

71a2006Broadcasting The Blues: Black Blues In The Segregation Era

CD 1:
(Big) Joe Williams - Baby, Please Don't Go
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Match Box Blues
Ma Rainey - Yonder Come The Blues
Bessie Smith - Yellow Dog Blues
Robert Johnson - Walkin' Blues
Mamprusi Tribesmen - Ring Dance
Austin Coleman - My Soul Is A Witness
Clyde Hill - Long Hot Summer Days
Ed Lewis - Lucky Holler
Texas Alexander - Penitentiary Moan
Henry Thomas - Old Country Stomp
Blind Blake - Dry Bone Shuffle
Alec Johnson - Mysterious Coon
William Moore - Ragtime Millionaire

Beale Street Sheiks - You Shall
Gus Cannon - Interview
Jim Jackson - I Heard The Voice Of A Pork Chop
Mississippi John Hurt - Spike Driver Blues
Furry Lewis - Kassie Jones - Part 1
Joe Callicott - Fare Thee Well Blues
Gus Cannon - Poor Boy Long Ways From Home
Blind Willie McTell - Travelin' Blues

CD 1:
Barbecue Bob - Chocolate To The Bone
Norfolk Jazz Quartette - Sad Blues
Jimmie Strothers - Tennessee Dog
Muddy Waters - Country Blues
Bobbie Leecan's Need-More Band - Washboard Cut-Out
Washboard Sam - Flying Crows Blues
Edith Wilson - Rules And Regulations 'Signed Razor Jim'
Gladys Bentley - Ground Hog Blues
Peg Leg Howell - Broke And Hungry Blues
John Lee Hooker - Wednesday Evening She Left Me
Jesse James Blues - Lonesome Day Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson - Win The War Blues
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Fox Hunt
Big Bill Broonzy - Black, Brown And White
Bertha "Chippie" Hill - Pratt City Blues
Leroy Carr - Blues Before Sunrise
Tommy McClennan - Blues Trip Me This Morning
Henry Townsend - Poor Man Blues
Henry Townsend - Interview
Son House - My Black Mama - Part 1
Robert Petway - Cotton Pickin' Blues
Wade Walton - Interview
Wesley Wallace - Number 29
- Cow Cow Davenport - Jim Crow Blues

CD 2:
Memphis Jug Band - Aunt Caroline Dyer Blues
Willie Shade - Interview
Bumble Bee Slim - Policy Dream Blues
Memphis Minnie - North Memphis Blues
Stump Johnson - Interview
Lucille Bogan - They Ain't Walkin' No More
Whistlin' Alex Moore - Ice Pick Blues
Lonnie Johnson - Interview
Bukka White - Parchman Farm Blues
Hambone Willie Newbern - Shelby County Workhouse Blues
Peetie Wheatstraw - Working On The Project
Black Ace - Interview
Carl Martin - Let's Have A New Deal
Mattie Delaney - Tallahatchie River Blues
Lonnie Johnson - St. Louis Cyclone Blues
John Lee Hooker - Interview
Sleepy John Estes - Fire Department Blues
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Give Me A 32-20
Rayford Logan - Interview
Mr. Honey - Build A Cave
Red Nelson - Crying Mother Blues
Speckled Red - Interview
Speckled Red - The Dirty Dozen
Blind Boy Fuller - Three Ball Blues
Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues
Tommy Johnson - Cool Drink Of Water Blues
Charley Patton - Some Summer Day
Mama Yancey - Make Me A Pallet On The Floor
Papa Charlie Jackson - Long Gone Lost John
Meade "Lux" Lewis - Spirit Of The Boogie-Woogie
Rev. F.W. McGee - Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room


compiled by Paul Oliver

3 CD set

Document DOCD-32-20-10 (UK 2006)

722007Memphis - That's All Right - From Blues To Rock'n'Roll

Part 1 - Old School
Frank Stokes - Memphis Rounders Blues (1929)
Cannon's Jug Stompers - Bring It With You When You Come (1930)
Joe Hill Louis - Heartache Baby (1950)
McCoy & Johnson - Don't Want No Woman (1930)
D.A. Hunt - Lonesome Old Jail (1953)
Little Buddy Doyle - Grief Will Kill You (1939)
Sleepy John Estes - Divin' Duck Blues (1929)
Howlin' Wolf - I Asked For Water (1956)
Memphis Jug Band - Kansas City Blues (1927)
Doctor Ross - Doctor Ross Boogie (1951)
Furry Lewis - Black Gypsy Blues (1929)
Robert Wilkins - Falling Down Blues (1929)


Part 2 - New Wave
Bobby Bland - It's My Life Baby (1955)
Minnie Thomas - I Know What You Need (1956)
Johnny Ace - So Lonely (1954)
Jackie Brenston - Rocket 88 (1951)
Little Junior's Blue Flames - Mystery Train (1953)
Elvis Presley - That's All Right (1954)
Rufus Thomas - Bear Cat (1953)
The Del Rios with The Bear Cats - Alone On A Rainy Nite (1956)
Rosco Gordon - Booted (1951)
Little Milton - Homesick For My Baby (1954)
James Cotton - Straighten Up Baby (1953)
B.B. King - Everyday I Have The Blues (1955)



Saga SARL 37

732010Frank Stokes: Downtown Blues

- Downtown Blues
- Bedtime Blues
- What's The Matter Blues
- Mistreatin' Blues
- It Won't Be Long Now
- Nehi Mamma Blues
- I Got Mine
- Stomp That Thing
- 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do
- Take Me Back
- How Long
- South Memphis Blues
- Bunker Hill Blues
- Right Now Blues
- Shiney Town Blues
- Frank Stokes' Dream
- Memphis Rounders Blues


Monk mk 316 (It 2010)

742010Beale Street Sheiks: Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon

- You Shall (2:46)
- It's A Good Thing (2:52)
- Sweet To Mama (2:52)
- Half Cup Of Tea (2:50)
- Beale Town Bound (2:50)
- Last Go Round (2:53)
- Jazzin' The Blues (2:45)
- You Shall (2:40)
- It's A Good Thing (2:55)
- Mr. Crump Don't Like It (2:36)

- Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon (3:03)
- Blues In "D" (2:40)
- Ain't Goin' To Do Like I Used To Do (2:50)
- Hunting Blues (3:03)
- Rockin' On The Hill Blues (3:08)
- Fillin' In Blues Pt.1 (3:05)
- Fillin' In Blues Pt.2 (3:12)
- Wasn't That Doggin' Me (3:06)
- Jumpin' On The Hill (3:03)


Monk mk 323 (It 2010)

752012Cluck Old Hen

J.O. Albert LaMadeleine - Chicken Reel
Casey Bill - Rooster Blues
Riley Puckett - Riley's Hen-House Door
John McClung - Chicken
George Edgin's Corn Dodgers - Corn Dodger No. 1 Special
Walter Rhodes - The Crowing Rooster
Peg Leg Howell & Eddie Anthony - Turkey Buzzard Blues
Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band - Under The Chicken Tree
Cliff Carlisle - It Takes The Old Hen To Deliver The Goods
Grayson & Whitter - Cluck Old Hen
Sweet Papa Stovepipe - All Birds Look Like Chicken To Me
Dixieland Jug Blowers - Hen Party Blues
The Leake County Revelers - Crow Black Chicken
Gene Autry - Stay Away From My Chicken House
Georgia Browns - Who Stole De Lock?
Teddy Bunn & Spencer Williams - The Chicken And The Worm
Six Jumping Jacks - There's A Trick In Pickin' A Chick-Chick-Chicken
Carolina Ramblers String Band - Barnyard Frolic
Utica Institute Jubilee Singers - Chicken

Beale Street Sheiks - Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon
Mustard And Gravy - Rooster On The Limb
Honeyboy & Sassafras - The Chicken Sermon
The Tune Wranglers - Chicken Reel Stomp
Binkley Brothers' Dixie Clodhoppers - I'll Rise When The Rooster Crows



Old Hat CD-1009 (US 2012)

762013The Rise And Fall Of Paramount Records 1917-1927, Volume 2

Beale Street Sheiks - You Shall

6xLP, Album, Comp, Bur + M/Stick + 800xFile, MP3


Third Man TMR 203

772014The Rise And Fall Of Paramount Records 1928-1932, Volume 2

The Beale Street Sheiks - Ain't Goin' To Do Like I Used To Do

6xLP, Comp, Etch, RM, Lab + M/Stick + 800xFile, MP


Third Man TMR 204

782015Memphis Rounders Blues
Blues Singers Recorded in Memphis 1928 & 1929

Jim Jackson, voc, g
- I'm Wild About My Lovin'
- This Morning She Was Gone [previously unissued]
- This Ain't No Place For Me [previously unissued]
- I'm Gonna Move To Louisiana - Pt. 1 [previously unissued]
- I'm Gonna Move To Louisiana - Pt. 2 [previously unissued]

Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g
- 'Tain't Nobody's Business [If I Do] - Part 1 [previously unissued]
- 'Tain't Nobody's Business [If I Do] - Part 2 [previously unissued]
Tommy Johnson, voc, g
- Lonesome Home Blues
- Lonesome Home Blues [previously unissued]
Charlie Kyle, voc, g
- Kyle's Worried Blues
- Monkey-Man Blues
Will Shade, voc, g; Jab Jones, p
- Better Leave That Stuff Alone
- Better Leave That Stuff Alone [previously unissued]
- She Stabbed Me With An Ice-Pick [previously unissued]
Minnie Wallace, voc; acc. prob.: Will Shade, g -1 / hca -2; Milton Roby, vn; Jab Jones, p -1 / jug -2; Charlie Burse, g -2
- Dirty Butter -1
- The Old Folks Started It -2 [previously unissued]

Frank Stokes, voc, g; Will Batts, vn
- South Memphis Blues
- Bunker Hill Blues
Hattie Hart, voc; prob.: Will Shade, g; Milton Roby, vn; Johnny Hardge, p
- Won't You Be Kind To Me?

Frank Stokes, voc, g; Will Batts, vn -1
- Right Now Blues -1
- Shiney Town Blues -1
- I'm Going Away Blues -1
- Old Sometime Blues -1
- Frank Stokes' Dream
- Memphis Rounders Blues

including alternate takes, rare tests, & previously unissued tracks
all transfers by Nick Dellow, from rare originals

notes by Paul Swinton

Frog CD DGF 80 (UK 2015)

www.frog-records.co.uk/

792017American Epic: The Collection

disc 1:
- The Coo Coo Bird (The Cuckoo) - Clarence Ashley
- On the Road Again - Memphis Jug Band
- The Panama Limited - Bukka White
- Indian War Whoop - Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers

- 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do, Pt. 1 - Frank Stokes
- K.C. Railroad Blues - Andrew & Jim Baxter
- I Am Bound for the Promised Land - Alfred G. Karnes
- Cottonfield Blues, Pt. 2 - Garfield Akers
- I Wish I Was a Mole In the Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
- Down On Penny's Farm - Bentley Boys
- Foldin' Bed - Whistler's Jug Band
- Greenback Dollar - Weems String Band
- Tallahatchie River Blues - Mattie Delaney
- Walk Right In - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow - The Carter Family
- Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson
- Bayou Teche - Columbus Fruge
- Cool Drink of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Train On the Island - J.P. Nestor

disc 2:
- My Heart Keeps Singing - Elder J.E. Burch
- Ninety-Nine Year Blues - Julius Daniels
- I Get My Whiskey From Rockingham - Earl Johnson and his Clodhoppers
- Death's Black Train Is Coming - Rev. J. M. Gates
- Waiting for a Train - Jimmie Rodgers
- Darling, Where Have You Been So Long? - Tenneva Ramblers
- Rocky Road - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
- Ma Blond Est Partie - Amadie Breaux, Ophey Breaux & Cleoma Breaux
- Peg and Awl - Carolina Tar Heels
- Chocolate to the Bone - Barbecue Bob
- Down On Me - Eddie Head and Family
- Prenez Courage - Cleoma Breaux with Joseph Falcon and Ophy Breaux
- Pickin' Off Peanuts - Dilly and his Dill Pickles
- Just Because - Nelstone's Hawaiians
- Dupree Blues - Willie Walker
- Ladies On the Steamboat - Burnett & Rutherford
- Mamma, 'Tain't Long Fo' Day - Blind Willie McTell

disc 3:
- Cecilia - Cuarteto Flores
- La Coquetera - Los Borinquenos
- Coconito - Guty Cárdenas Y Lencho
- Lovesick Blues - Emmett Miller
- Long Tall Mama - Big Bill Broonzy
- John Henry Blues - Two Poor Boys
- Mr. Tom Hughes' Town - Lead Belly
- Louis Collins - Mississippi John Hurt
- I Am The Light of the World - Blind Gary Davis
- Fifty Miles of Elbow Room - Rev. F.W. McGee
- Chant of the Eagle Dance - Hopi Indian Chanters
- Hilo Hula - Mike Hanapi & The Ilima Islanders
- If The River Was Whiskey - Charlie Poole
- Stackalee - Frank Hutchison
- The Wreck of the '97 - Ernest Stoneman
- Faded Coat of Blue - Buell Kazee
- Country Blues - Dock Boggs
- Sail Away Ladies - Uncle Dave Macon and His Fruit-Jar Drinkers
- Sail Away Lady - Uncle Bunt Stephens
- Sally Gooden - Eck Robertson
- Arkansas Traveller - Don Richardson

disc 4:
- Hard Time Blues - Lane Hardin
- Down the Dirt Road Blues - Charley Patton
- Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home - Banjo Joe
- Hastings Street - Blind Blake & Charlie Spand
- See That My Grave's Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Gonna Have 'Lasses In the Morning - Golden Melody Boys
- New Orleans Stop Time - Memphis Minnie & Bumblebee Slim
- Prove It On Me Blues - Ma Rainey
- Gonne Die with My Hammer in My Hand - Williamson Brothers & Curry
- Last Kind Words Blues - Geeshie Wiley
- Banjoreno - Dixieland Jug Blowers
- It's a Good Thing - Beale Street Sheiks
- Trust In God and Do the Right - Blind Willie Davis
- Someday Baby Blues - Sleepy John Estes
- Lonesome Road Blues - Sam Collins
- Future Blues - Willie Brown
- Bull Doze Blues - Henry Thomas
- Brown Skin Gal (Down the Lane) - Massey Family
- Henry Lee aka Young Hunting - Dick Justice
- Old Country Rock - William Moore
- La Danseuse - Delma Lachney & Blind Uncle Gaspard
- My Black Mama, Pt. 1 & 2 - Son House
- Cypress Grove Blues - Skip James

disc 5:
- Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson
- Mal Hombre - Lydia Mendoza
- Sunshine Special - Frenchy's String Band
- Old Jim Canan's - Robert Wilkins
- Les Blues De Voyage - Amédé Ardoin & Dennis McGee
- The Lost Child - Stripling Brothers
- I'm Gonna Cross the River Jordan Some of These Days - Jaybird Coleman
- Tomi Tomi - Sol K. Bright with The Aloha Serenaders
- Sittin' On Top of the World - Mississippi Sheiks
- James Alley Blues - Richard Rabbit Brown
- The Indian Tom Tom - Big Chief Henry's Indian String Band
- Blues In a Bottle - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
- Je Me Suis En Alle - Bartmont Montet & Joswell Dupuis
- Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson
- E Mama Ea - Sol Hoopii & His Novelty Quartette
- Ghost Dance - Truett & George
- Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind On Jesus) - Roosevelt Graves & Brother
- Allons A Lafayette - Joseph Falcon
- Corrido De Joaquin Murrieta, Pt. 1 & 2 - Los Madrugadores
- Denomination Blues (Part 1 & 2) - Washington Phillips


"American Epic: The Collection gathers 100 of these original recordings from the 1920s and 1930s in one five-disc set, restored to unprecedented levels of sonic fidelity. For this box set, compiled by Director Bernard MacMahon, engineer Nicholas Bergh refined a transfer process using a mix of both modern and vintage equipment in order to extract the remarkable resolution from the records that is often missed."

5 CD set
 
American Epic AMPC451 (US 2017)



Additional information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Jean-Claude Arnaudon: Dictionnaire du Blues.- Paris, France (Filipacci) 1977, pp. 237-238
- Karel Bogaert: Blues Lexicon.- Antwerpen (Standaard) 1972, p. 357
- Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943.- Oxford (Clarendon), 4th ed. 1997, pp. 865-866
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 238
- Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- New York (Da Capo Press) 1987, pp. 485-486
- John Tefteller and Blues Images Collection - used with permission
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Jim Clay, Gerard Herzhaft, Russell Shor, Ray Templeton, David J Costa, Eric Simkin, Donovan Weaver, Helge Thygesen, Izumi Kinoshita, Devon Níall Flaherty, T. DeWayne Moore and Alex van der Tuuk for additional info / scans

 

Mr. Crump did like it!
Life magazine Vol. 8, No. 13 (March 25, 1940); click to enlarge!   'A Negro jug band' 'on their trip home to Memphis' and thereby playing for 'Boss Crump', who 'strolls with accompanying minstrels through cars of his special train'; on 1st, 2nd and 3rd photo: Charlie Burse with guitar; on 2nd photo: Will Shade with jug; source: Life magazine Vol. 8, No. 13 (March 25, 1940), p. 20; jug band photos reprinted in Blues & Rhythm #62 (1991); click to enlarge!   Blues & Rhythm #62 (1991)
"A Negro jug band" "on their trip home to Memphis" and thereby playing for "Boss Crump",
who "strolls with accompanying minstrels through cars of his special train"
on 1st, 2nd and 3rd photo: Charlie Burse with guitar; on 2nd photo: Will Shade with jug

source: Life magazine Vol. 8, No. 13 (March 25, 1940), p. 20; jug band photos reprinted in Blues & Rhythm #62 (1991)

 

 

 

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