Arhoolie F 1005 (1960, 1st pressing) track sequence:
Sam Chatman
A1 - I Have To Paint My Face   @ youtube   @ Spotify
A2 - You Shall Be Free (Nigger Be A Nigger) °°°°   @ youtube
A3 - I Stand And Wonder   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
A4 - Forty-Four Blues °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Jasper Love
A5 - Desert Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Sam Chatmon
A6 - Lay My Burden Down (Glory Hallelujah) °°°°
Kathryn Pitman and group
A7 - Save A Seat For Me °°°°

Wade Walton & R.C. Smith
B1 - Barbershop Rhythm ##   @ youtube   @ Spotify
R.C. Smith
B2 - Going Back To Texas   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Jasper Love & Columbus Jones
B3 - The Slop °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify
R.C. Smith
B4 - Lost Love Blues °°°   @ youtube   @ Spotify
B5 - Lonely Widow [actual title: "Lonely Widower"]   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Wade Walton
B6 - Rooster Blues #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
B7 - Butch's Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify

°°°° omitted from 1969 and 1980 re-releases, not on Arhoolie CD 432
°°° omitted from 1969 and 1980 re-releases, but re-released on Arhoolie CD 432
°°  omitted from 1969 re-release, but added to 1980 re-release and on Arhoolie CD 432

I Have To Paint My Face - A Random Collection of Mississippi Blues

Arhoolie F 1005 (1969, 2nd pressing) track sequence:
Sam Chatman
A1 - I Have To Paint My Face
K.C. Douglas
A2 - Big Road Blues °°   @ Spotify
Sam Chatman
A3 - I Stand And Wonder
Big Joe Williams
A4 - Texas Blues °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Bukka White
A5 - Drifting Blues # °°

Wade Walton & R.C. Smith
B1 - Barbershop Rhythm ##
R.C. Smith
B2 - Going Back To Texas
K.C. Douglas & Sidney Maiden
B3 - Blues And Trouble °°   @ Spotify
R.C. Smith
B4 - Lonely Widow [actual title: "Lonely Widower"]
Wade Walton
B5 - Rooster Blues #
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
B6 - Butch's Blues

°° newly added tracks on 1969 pressing

I Have To Paint My Face - A Random Collection of Mississippi Blues

Arhoolie F 1005 (1980, 3rd pressing) track sequence:
Sam Chatman [sic]
A1 - I Have To Paint My Face
K.C. Douglas
A2 - Big Road Blues
Sam Chatman [sic]
A3 - I Stand And Wonder
Big Joe Williams
A4 - Texas Blues
Bukka White
A5 - Drifting Blues #
Jasper Love & Columbus Jones
A6 - The Slop °°

Wade Walton & R. C. Smith
B1 - Barbershop Rhythm ##
R.C. Smith
B2 - Going Back To Texas
K.C. Douglas & Sidney Maiden
B3 - Blues And ('N') Trouble
R.C. Smith
B4 - Lonely Widow [actual title: "Lonely Widower"]
Wade Walton
B5 - Rooster Blues #
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
B6 - Butch's Blues
B7 - Forty-Four Blues °°

°° 1980 version "bonus tracks", listed on labels, but not on back cover!

I Have To Paint My Face - Mississippi Blues 1960

Arhoolie CD 432 (1995) track sequence:
- I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Big Road Blues - K.C. Douglas [Arhoolie 1005, 2nd. ed.]
- I Stand And Wonder - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Texas Blues - Big Joe Williams [Arhoolie 1005, 2nd. ed.]
- Night Shirt Blues - K.C. Douglas [previously unreleased]   @ Spotify
- Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas/Bruce Bratton [previously unreleased]   @ Spotify
- Hollandale Blues - Sam Chatmon [previously unreleased]   @ Spotify
- The Slop - Jasper Love/Columbus Jones [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Stella Ruth - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- God Don't Like Ugly - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- Rooster Blues - Wade Walton # [Arhoolie 1005, 1st, 2nd & 3rd ed.]
- Barbershop Rhythm - Wade Walton / R.C. Smith ## [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st, 2nd & 3rd ed.]
- Going Back To Texas - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st, 2nd & 3rd ed.]
- Blues And Trouble - K.C. Douglas/Sidney Maiden [Arhoolie 1005, 2nd. ed.]
- Lonely Widower - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st, 2nd & 3rd ed.]
- Lost Love Blues - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st, 2nd & 3rd ed.]
- Married Woman Blues - Big Joe Williams [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- Love's Honeydripper - Jasper Love [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- Desert Blues - Jasper Love [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- One Thin Dime - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- Butch's Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Forty Four Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Chicago Blues - Sidney Maiden/K.C. Douglas [Arhoolie F 1006, 2nd. ed.]

Arhoolie F 1005 (1st pressing) tracks rec. 1960 by Chris A. Strachwitz with assistance from Mr. and Mrs. Paul Oliver
# rec. July 24, 1960 at the "Big 6" Barbershop in Clarksdale, MS; Wade Walton, voc, g
## rec. July 24, 1960 at the "Big 6" Barbershop in Clarksdale, MS; Wade Walton, razor stropping, sp; Robert Curtis Smith, g, sp
Arhoolie F 1005 (1st pressing) front cover artwork by Wayne Pope
Arhoolie F 1005 (2nd/3rd pressing) front cover photo (Fred McDowell at an out door "house party") by Chris Strachwitz
liner photos by Chris Strachwitz

booklet notes (1960) by Mack McCormick   "Arhoolie Records, Berkeley, California"

Arhoolie F 1005 (US 1960, 1st pressing)

notice of first edition's deletion in BU 58 (December 1968), p. 7

new notes (1969) by Chris Strachwitz   "Arhoolie Records, P.O. Box 9195, Berkeley, Calif. 94709"
first few of 2nd pressing on labels titled "Delta House Party", but soon retitled "I Have To Paint My Face"

(=) Arhoolie F 1005 (US 11/1969, 2nd [remastered] pressing) subtitled "A Random Collection of Mississippi Blues"

notes (1969) by Chris Strachwitz   "Arhoolie Records, P.O. Box 9195, Berkeley, Calif. 94709"

Arhoolie F 1005 (US 1980, 3rd pressing) subtitled "A Random Collection of Mississippi Blues"
front and back covers same as 1969 pressing, i.e. track list not updated (two add'l tracks A6 and B7 missing)!

notes by Chris Strachwitz

(=) Arhoolie CD 432 (US 1995) subtitled "Mississippi Blues 1960"

Arhoolie Records discography

- Big Fat Mamma [sic]   @ youtube
- Choo Choo De Shoo Shoo (instr) [] #
- Short Hair Woman
- Forty-Four   @ youtube
- Kansas City Blues

- Rock Me, Mamma [sic]
- Blues, Stay Away From Me (instr) []   @ youtube
- Parchman Farm
- Big Six
- Shake 'Em On Down   @ youtube

rec. 1962 in Bergenfield, NJ by Rudy van Gelder; Wade Walton, voc, g, [] hca; # Memphis Mango (Dave Mangurian), g; prod. by Kenneth S. Goldstein (and [uncredited] Dave Mangurian & Don R. Hill)

notes by Dave Mangurian

Bluesville BVLP 1060 (US 1963)

notes by Dave Mangurian

= Bluesville/Prestige BVLP 1060 (US 19??) - trident label in use 1964-1971

Bluesville Records discography

Boogie Woogie Red - "So Much Good Feeling" Spoken, with own piano
Willie Thomas - "A Little Different" Spoken
James Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - "Kill That Nigger Dead" Cage, vocal and fiddle; Thomas, vocal and guitar
Lil' Son Jackson - "The Onliest Way" Spoken
J. B. Lenoir - "My Father's Style" Guitar solo
J. B. Lenoir - "So It Rocked On" Spoken
J. B. Lenoir - "Move To Kansas City" Vocal and own guitar
Otis Spann - "When She Comes Back" Spoken
Otis Spann - "Poor Country Boy" Vocal, with own piano
Lightnin' Hopkins - "Ain't No Easy Thing" Spoken
Mance Lipscomb - "Evil Heart Blues" Vocal and own piano #
Blind Arvella Gray - "A Roughneck" Spoken
Roosevelt Sykes - "West Helena Blues" Vocal and guitar
Will Shade - "Days Of Nineteen-Hundred" Spoken
Will Shade - "Newport News Blues" Vocal and own guitar
Whistling Alex Moore - "Chock House Days" Spoken
Whistling Alex Moore - "Come and Get Me" Vocal and own piano
Whistling Alex Moore - "Chock House Days" Spoken
Brother John Sellers - "Move Back For What?" Spoken
J. B. Lenoir - "I Been Down So Long" Vocal and own guitar

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

# rec. July 24, 1960 in Clarksdale, Miss. by Chris A. Strachwitz with assistance from Mr. and Mrs. Paul Oliver; Robert Curtis Smith, voc, g; Wade Walton, voc

LP accompanying Paul Oliver's book by the same title

Decca LK 4664

2nd ed. (1997) of book
(with enclosed CD)

Wade Walton
- The Little Red Rooster # (3:31)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Razor Rhythm [] (0:46)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Ernest Roy
- Boogie Children
Big Jack Johnson
- Catfish Blues
Wallace Johnson
- Tommy Dorsey Boogie
- Vicksburg Blues

Eugene Powell
- Hesitation Blues
- See See Rider
Son Thomas
- Shake 'Em On Down
- If I Get Lucky
- Four Women Blues

# rec. August 9, 1978 in Clarksdale, MS by Gianni Marcucci; Wade Walton, voc, g
[] rec. August 10, 1978 in Clarksdale, MS by Gianni Marcucci; Wade Walton, razor stropping
Albatros VPA 8459 front cover photo (James 'Son' Thomas and daughter) by Gianni Marcucci
Albatros ALB 13 front cover photo by Gianni Marcucci

notes by Gianni Marcucci

Albatros VPA 8459 (It 1979)

(=) Albatros ALB 13 "Way Back Yonder... Original Country Blues Volumes 1, 2 & 3" (It 1979)

Albatros Records discography
Eugene Powell discography
James 'Son' Thomas discography

- Catfish Blues
- Shake 'em On Down [mbirafon CD 106]

rec. c. 1978 prob. in Clarksdale, MS by Gianni Marcucci; Wade Walton, voc, g

Albatros unissued

Furry Lewis - Judge Boushay Blues
Memphis Willie B. - Country Girl Blues
K.C. Douglas - Big Road Blues
Big Joe Williams - Levee Camp Blues
Robert Curtis Smith - Catfish Blues
Sidney Maiden - San Quentin Blues
Wade Walton - Big Fat Mama [Bluesville 1060]   @ youtube
Pete Franklin - Grievin' Me

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

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

compiled by Ray Topping

notes (8-pp. booklet) by John H. Cowley

Ace CH 247 (UK 1988)

(=) Ace CDCH 247 (UK 1988)

Bluesville Records discography

Wade Walton - What's Wrong With You? #
Wade Walton - Leaving 4th Street #
Wade Walton & Big Jack Johnson - Close Shave Boogie [] [P-Vine PCD-5291]
Sam Carr & Frank Frost - Guitar Rattle
Sam Carr & Frank Frost - Frank's Tune
Sam Carr - Black Haired Women
Johnnie Billington - Early In The Morning
Johnnie Billington - Possum Trot
C.V. Veel - Down In Mississippi
C.V. Veel - Behind The Sun

Big Jack Johnson - Baby Please Don't Go
Big Jack Johnson - Rudolph Got Drunk Last Night
James "Super Chicken" Johnson - Barnyard Rooster
James "Super Chicken" Johnson - Big Bad Jimmy
Arthneice "Gas Man" Jones - Annie Mae
David "Pecan" Porter - All My Money
Willie "Rip" Butler - You're Gonna Gonna Make Me Cry
Willie "Rip" Butler - Lonely (lonesome) For A Dime
Wesley "Mississippi Junebug" Jefferson - (Hey Theresa!) Don't Throw Your Love On Me So Hard (Strong)
Lorenzo Nicholson - That Evil Child
Tommy Smiley - T.J.'s Blues-O-Rama, vol. 1

Rooster Blues Records in cooperation with the Delta Blues Museum and the National Endowment for the Arts Folk Arts Program

# rec. 1990 in Clarksdale, MS; Wade Walton, voc, g; unknown acc.
[] rec. July 8, 1990 in Clarksdale, MS; Wade Walton, razor stropping/speech; Big Jack Johnson, g
cover painting by Mara Cariff

double length cassette

Rooster R72627 (US 1991)

opposite to what the back cover tells us, this is a cassette only release, "LP and CD" never happened!

Jack Owens
- Leavin' Blues
Eugene Powell
- Blues In Texas
Son Thomas
- Walking Cane
LV Conerly
- Hard Headed Woman
Roosevelt Holts
- Big Road Blues
Arzo Youngblood
- I Don't Want No Woman
Sam Chatmon
- Talkin' Bout My Girl
Wade Walton
- Catfish Blues #
Isaac Youngblood
- Big Road Blues
Mott Willis
- Long Tall Woman

Robert Shaw
- Ma Grinder Pt 2
- Mobile & KC Blues
- The Cows
- Rock Island
Lavada Durst
- Boogie Woogie
Alex Moore
- Henry 6 Mike
Memphis Piano Red
- Mama Likes Good Whiskey
- After Hours
Mose Vinson
- Blues Jumped A Rabbit
- Four O'Clock Blues

# rec. November 6, 1981 in Clarksdale, MS by Michael Hortig; Wade Walton, voc, g
cover drawing (of Robert Shaw) by Bernd Konrad

notes by Michael Hortig

Wolf 120.921 (Austria 1992)

not identical with Wolf CD 120.918 with same title !!!

- I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatmon
- Big Road Blues - K.C. Douglas
- I Stand And Wonder - Sam Chatmon
- Texas Blues - Big Joe Williams
- Night Shirt Blues - K.C. Douglas (previously unreleased)
- Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas/Bruce Bratton (previously unreleased)
- Hollandale Blues - Sam Chatmon (previously unreleased)
- Slop, The - Jasper Love/Columbus Jones
- Stella Ruth - R.C. Smith
- God Don't Like Ugly - Sam Chatmon
- Rooster Blues - Wade Walton [Arhoolie F 1005]
- Barbershop Rhythm - Wade Walton / R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005]
- Going Back To Texas - R.C. Smith
- Blues And Trouble - K.C. Douglas/Sidney Maiden
- Lonely Widower - R.C. Smith
- Lost Love Blues - R.C. Smith
- Married Woman Blues - Big Joe Williams
- Love's Honeydripper - Jasper Love
- Desert Blues - Jasper Love
- One Thin Dime - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas
- Butch's Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas
- Forty Four Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas
- Chicago Blues - Sidney Maiden/K.C. Douglas

Arhoolie CD 432 (US 1995)

Arhoolie Records discography

- Rudolph Got Drunk Last Night
- The Things That I Used To Do (band version)
- Ice Storm Blues (Part 1)
- Ice Storm Blues (Part 2)
- Vampire Woman
- Close Shave Boogie # [Rooster R72627]
- The Spoonful
- Little Piggy
- Corrine, Corrina
- Fightin' Woman
- I'm A Lonely Woman
- Baby Please Don't Go
- Hummin' Blues (Part 1)
- Hummin' Blues (Part 2)
- Jingle Bell Boogie
- The Things That I Used To Do (solo version)

# rec. July 8, 1990 in Clarksdale, MS; Wade Walton, razor stropping/speech; Big Jack Johnson, g

P-Vine PCD-5291

Bluesville Records discography

disc 1:
- San Francisco Bay Blues - Jesse Fuller (previously unreleased)
- Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas
- Shake Shake Mama - Mance Lipscomb
- Cairo Blues - Lil' Son Jackson
- Barbershop Rhythm - Wade Walton / Robert Curtis Smith [Arhoolie F 1005]
- One Thin Dime - Butch Cage / Willie Thomas
- Charmin' Betsy - Hodges Brothers
- Whistlin' Alex Moore's Blues - Alex Moore
- I Am The Black Ace - Black Ace
- Brother James - Big Joe Williams
- Lady Luck - Mercy Dee
- Don't Drive Me Away - R.C. Smith
- Zydeco Introduction - Zydeco Announcer
- Bernadette Chere - Albert Chevalier
- Bald Headed Woman - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Baby Please Don't Go - James Campbell
- Believe On Me - Rev. Louis Overstreet
- Low Down Blues - George Lewis
- The Country Blues - J.E. Mainer
- Crowley Waltz - The Hackberry Ramblers
- She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain - Booker White (previously unreleased)
- Ay, Ai Ai - Clifton Chenier
- Write Me A Few Lines - Fred McDowell
- Charlie James - Mance Lipscomb
- Louisiana Blues - Clifton Chenier

disc 2:
- Cindy - John Jackson
- Little Red Rooster - Big Mama Thornton
- La Betaille - Isom Fontenot
- Calcasieu Waltz - Nathan Abshire
- Almlied - Eibelsberger Duo
- I Wonder Where You Are Tonight - Del McCoury
- In The Breeze - Jerry Hahn Quintet
- Goin' Back To The Country - Juke Boy Bonner
- Sometimes I Cry - Johnny Young
- Two Bugs And A Roach - Earl Hooker
- Dream - John Littlejohn
- Things Gonna Get Better - Bee Houston
- Visions - Sonny Simmons
- I Wish I Could Sing - Bongo Joe
- Boogieing In Strasbourg - Alex Moore
- The Death Of Dr. Martin Luther King - Big Joe Williams
- Please Settle In Vietnam - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Shake 'Em On Down - Fred McDowell / Johnny Woods
- El Desesperado - Los Pinguinos Del Norte
- Creole Belles - New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra
- Finger Lickin' Good - Charlie Musselwhite

disc 3:
- Church Point Breakdown - Austin Pitre
- Gstanzeln Aus Dem Freistriztal - Original Herberstein Trio
- Gibson Creek Shuffle - Charles Ford Band
- Ups And Downs - L.C. Robinson
- You Ain't Got A Chance - Piano Red
- Home Sweet Home - Boisec Ardoin / Canray Fontenot
- Satan's Burning Hell - Bill Neely
- Luzita - Narciso Martinez
- Yo Me Enamore - Trio San Antonio
- Borracho Perdido - Trio San Antonio
- One Of These Mornings (I'm Checkin' Out) - J.C. Burris
- Allons A Grand Coteau - Clifton Chenier
- En Bas Du Chene Vert - Dewey Balfa / Marc Savoy/D.L. Menard
- Besos Y Copas - Chavela Ortiz Y Brown Express
- Fast Santa Fe - Robert Shaw
- I'll See You In C-U-B-A - Any Old Time String Band
- El Balaju - Conjunto Alma Jarocha
- La Gata - Los Caporales De Panuco
- Beym Rebas Sude - The Klezmorim
- J'ai Laisse De La Maison - Cheese Read
- Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio - Don Santiago Jimenez Sr.
- Mi Problema - Lydia Mendoza

disc 4:
- Gritenme Piedras Del Campo - Flaco Jimenez
- Co-Fe - John Delafose
- Single Girl - Rose Maddox
- Bec De La Manche - Canray Fontenot
- Bosco Stomp - Octa Clark / Hector Duhon
- Negra Ausencia - Santiago Jimenez Jr.
- La Chanson De Cinquante Sous - Michael Doucet Dit BeauSoleil (previously unreleased)
- Shake What You Got - Preston Frank
- Little Black Eyes - Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band
- The Chill Of A Saturday Afternoon - Wade Fruge
- Jolie Blonde - Chuck Guillory
- Here To Stay - Rebirth Brass Band
- I Know That's Right - Katie Webster
- I've Been There - Lawrence Ardoin
- Mentiste Cuando Dijiste - Flaco Jimenez
- Aguililla - Los Campesinos De Michoacan
- La Reine De La Salle - Odile Falcon
- Chanson De La Sagesse - Michael Doucet
- Hot Chili Mama - BeauSoleil
- Check Out The Zydeco - C.J. Chenier
- El Canoero - Valerio Longoria
- Corrido Del Mono - Los Gavilanes De Oakland
- San Francisco Can Be Such A Lonely Town - Omar Sharriff

disc 5:
- Mother - Paramount Gospel Singers
- Gumagarugu - Chatuye
- Khandan-E Amaturi III - Aziz Herawi
- A Ti, Colombia - Ivan Cuesta
- Food Stamp Blues - Treme Brass Band
- Ain't It A Shame - Elder Roma Wilson
- J'ai Ete Au Bal - Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band
- La Mal Sentada - Los Cenzontles
- Falling For You - Rose Maddox
- Los Traficantes Del Bravo - Los Palomares Del Bravo (previously unreleased)
- Jesus Will Fix It For You - Sonny Treadway
- Medved Na Lancu - Csokolom
- Jale Griego - Jose Moreno
- El Corrido De Esequiel Hernandez - Santiago Jimenez, Jr.
- What's His Name - Jesus! - The Campbell Brothers
- Just A Closer Walk With Thee - Aubrey Ghent

Compilation producers: Chris Strachwitz & Elijah Wald; digitally remastered by Mike Cogan

5 CD box
66-pp. booklet by Chris Strachwitz, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt & Elijah Wald

Arhoolie CD 491 (US 2000)

Arhoolie Records discography

Pinetop Johnson
- Tommy Dorsey Boogie Woogie (tk 2) (2:24)
- Going Down Slow (2:40)
- See What You Done Done (2:10)
- Forty-Four Blues (3:14)
- The Honeydripper (1:57)
- Rock Me Mama (2:50)
- After Hours (2:24)
- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie (tk 3) (2:43)
- One Room Country Shack (2:57)
- Dust My Broom (1:47)
- Vicksburg Blues (3:23)
- I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man (2:45)
- Strange Things Happening (3:39)
Wade Walton
- The Little Red Rooster (3:37) [Albatros VPA 8459]   @ youtube
- Razor Rhythm (0:58) [Albatros VPA 8459]   @ youtube
- Shake 'em On Down (tk 1) (2:40) [previously unissued]   @ youtube
- Shake 'em On Down (tk 2) (2:46) [previously unissued]   @ youtube
Big Jack Johnson
- Catfish Blues (tk 1) (2:32)
Earnest Roy
- Boogie Children (2:23)

rec. 1978 in Clarksdale, MS by Giambattista 'Gianni' Marcucci; Wallace 'Pinetop' Johnson, Wade Walton, Big Jack Johnson, Earnest Roy

mbirafon CD 106 (It 2013)