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source: Front cover of Big Legal Mess MLM0507
Jimmy Lee Williams
James Williams   (uncle of famed harp player Buster Brown)
b. July 25, 1925 near Poulan, Worth County, Georgia
d. November 24, 1999 in Poulan, Worth County, Georgia

discography

source: Front cover of Swingmaster 2115
photographer: George Mitchell

11981Georgia Blues Today

William Robertson (Cecil Barfield)
- Love Blues   @ youtube
- Baby Please Don't Go   @ youtube
James Davis
- Old Country Rock
John Lee Ziegler
- Poor Boy
- John Henry

Jimmy Lee Williams
- Hoot Your Belly And Give Your Backbone Ease # (2:45)   @ youtube
- Shortening Bread # (2:28)   @ youtube

John Lee Ziegler
- Used To Be Mine But Look Who Got Her Now
James Davis
- James' Boogie
William Robertson (Cecil Barfield)
- My Babe   @ youtube
- Hoochie Coochie Wagon
John Lee Ziegler
- If I Lose Let Me Lose
James Davis
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl


# rec. 1977 in Poulan, Worth County, GA by George Mitchell; Jimmy Lee Williams, voc, el g
photo (James Davis at the Jazz Inn in Elko, GA, 1978) by Valerie Wilmer

notes by George Mitchell and Bruce Bastin

Flyright FLY 576 (UK 1981)


= Fat Possum FP 1080 (US 2007) "The George Mitchell Collection - Georgia Blues Today"

Flyright Records discography
Cecil Barfield discography
John Lee Ziegler discography

21988Jimmy Lee Williams: Rock On Away From Here

- Hoot Your Belly, Give Your Backbone Ease # (2:47)   @ youtube
- Pretty Baby * [] (2:55)   @ youtube
- What Make My Grandpa Love My Grandma So # (3:58)   @ youtube
- Rock On Away From Here * (3:03)   @ youtube
- When You Hear Me Howling * (3:09)   @ youtube
- See Here, Woman * (2:00)   @ youtube

- Have You Ever Seen Peaches Grow On A Sweet Potato Vine? * (4:16)   @ youtube
- I Got To Know * (2:05)   @ youtube
- Baby, Baby, Please Don't You Leave Me Now * (3:10) °°   @ youtube
- Whiskey Headed Woman * (3:28)   @ youtube
- Little Boy Blue * (2:02)   @ youtube
- What Make My Grandpa Love My Grandma So * (2:00) °°   @ youtube

# rec. 1977 in Poulan, GA by George Mitchell; Jimmy Lee Williams, voc, el g
* rec. December 11/12, 1982 in Poulan, GA by George Mitchell; Jimmy Lee Williams, voc, el g; [] Willie C. Williams, voc
photo by George Mitchell

°° not re-released on Fat Possum FP1009-2

notes (as told by) Jimmy Lee Williams

Swingmaster 2115 (NL 1988)

32003Jimmy Lee Williams: Hoot Your Belly

- What Make Grandpa Love My Grandma So [Swingmaster 2115]
- Hoot Your Belly [Swingmaster 2115]
- See Here Woman [Swingmaster 2115]
- Have You Ever Seen Peaches [Swingmaster 2115]
- Jimmy Lee's Frolic [previously unissued]   @ youtube
- Rock On Away From Here [Swingmaster 2115]
- When You Hear Me Howling [Swingmaster 2115]

- Pretty Baby [Swingmaster 2115]
- Little Boy Blue [Swingmaster 2115]
- Step It Up And Go [previously unissued]   @ youtube
- I Got To Know [Swingmaster 2115]
- Whiskey Headed Woman [Swingmaster 2115]
- You Got My Money [previously unissued]   @ youtube

rec. 1977 & 1982 in Poulan, GA by George Mitchell, Jimmy Lee Williams, voc, el g

notes by Jimmy Lee Williams

Fat Possum FP1009-2 (US 2003)

notes by Sam Sweet

= Big Legal Mess BLM0507 (US 2015)

42004Not The Same Old Blues Crap   3

Charles Caldwell - Hadn't I Been Good To You (4:10)
The Black Keys - Set You Free (2:46)
Nathaniel Mayer - I Found Out (4:04)
Iggy and The Stooges - You Better Run (3:37)
Little Freddie King - Crack Head Joe (4:05)
R.L. Burnside - Goin' Down South (3:11)
Thee Shams - You Want It (2:57)
Kenny Brown - Cocaine Bill (2:37)
Bob Log III - Boob Scotch (2:53)
Grandpa Boy - Vampires And Failures (3:31)
T-Model Ford - Bad Man (3:32)
Robert Belfour - Pushin' My Luck (4:33)
Joe Callicott - Frankie And Albert (2:44)
R.L. Burnside - Just Like A Bird Without A Feather (3:09)
Fred McDowell - Mama Says I'm Crazy (3:55)
Furry Lewis - Good Morning Judge (5:31)

Jimmy Lee Williams - Hoot Your Belly (2:51) [Swingmaster 2115]
Robert Pete Williams - Goodbye Slim Harpo (5:23)


Fat Possum FP-1015-2 (US 2004)

52007George Mitchell Collection Volumes 1 - 45

disc 1
- Lucy Mae Blues - Cecil Barfield
- I Woke Up Crying - Cecil Barfield
- Love Blues - Cecil Barfield
- I Told You Not To Do That - Cecil Barfield
- In the Evening - Buddy Moss
- Hey Lawdy Mama - Buddy Moss
- Thousand Woman Blues - Buddy Moss
- Blue Shadow Falling - Buddy Moss
- Cold Rainy Day - Buddy Moss
- Amy - Buddy Moss
- Motherless Child - Leon Pinson
- Hush, Somebody is Calling My Name - Leon Pinson
- What God Can Do - Leon Pinson
- He'll Understand and Say Well Done - Leon Pinson
- Big Road Blues - Houston Stackhouse
- Cool Water Blues - Houston Stackhouse
- Big Fat Mama Blues - Houston Stackhouse
- Take a Little Walk With Me - Houston Stackhouse
- Everyone Got a Woman - Big Joe Williams
- What She Need With a Rooster - Big Joe Williams
- Sink or Swim - Big Joe Williams
- Prison Bound - Big Joe Williams
- Who's Gonna Be Your Man - John Lee Zeigler
- If I Lose Let Me Lose - John Lee Zeigler
- Black Woman - Othar Turner
- Bumble Bee - Othar Turner


disc 2
- Rabbit On A Log - Lonzie Thomas
- Raise a Ruckus Tonight - Lonzie Thomas
- My Three Women - Lonzie Thomas
- Red Cross Store - Lonzie Thomas
- Rats In the Kitchen - Sleepy John Estes
- Special Agent - Sleepy John Estes
- Trying To See - Sleepy John Estes
- Mail Man Blues - Sleepy John Estes
- Down Home Blues - Teddy Williams
- Catfish Blues - Teddy Williams
- Black Mattie - Teddy Williams
- Sun Don't Shine - Teddy Williams
- Trouble Brought Me Down - Green Paschal
- My Lord - Green Paschal
- Mother is Dead - Green Paschal
- Lay My Burden Down - Green Paschal
- Your Close Friend - Green Paschal
- I'm Going To Leave It In the Hands of the Lord - Green Paschal
- Hard Time Blues - Do-Boy Diamond
- Just Want To Talk To You - Do-Boy Diamond
- Just a Dream I Got On My Mind - Dewey Corley / Walter Miller
- Memphis is a Wonderful City - Dewey Corey / Walter Miller
- Down To Arkansas - Dewey Corey / Walter Miller
- Rock Me Mama - Bud Grant
- Freight Train Blues - Bud Grant
- So Sweet - Bud Grant
- Bud Grant's Grunt - Bud Grant


disc 3
- Go Ahead On - Bud White
- You've Been Gone So Long - Bud White
- White Horses - Bud White
- When I'm Sober I'm Drunk Blues - George Henry Bussey
- Mean Mistreater - George Henry Bussey
- Blues Around My Bed - George Henry Bussey
- Looking For My Woman - George Henry Bussey
- Old Red #2 - Jim Bunkley
- Jack of Diamonds - Jim Bunkley
- Them Greasy Greens - Jim Bunkley
- Rocking Chair - Jim Bunkley
- Old Breakdown - Tom Turner
- Drop Down Mama # 1 - Tom Turner
- Search Me Lord - James Shorter
- My Mother Died and Left Me - James Shorter
- Consolation - James Shorter
- Home Going - James Shorter
- Better Than Myself - Abe McNeil
- Steady Rollin' Man - Abe McNeil
- Drink Drink Drink - Abe McNeil
- Country Blues - Joe Callicott
- River Blues - Joe Callicott
- 3 O'Clock In the Morning - Johnny Woods
- I's Be Troubled - Johnny Woods


disc 4
- Someday Baby - Robert Diggs
- Racehorse Charleston - Robert Diggs
- Done Lost My Health - Robert Diggs
- Drive Your Car - Robert Diggs
- Woke Up This Morning - Cliff Scott
- Long Wavy Hair - Cliff Scott
- Please Come Home - Cliff Scott
- Pole Pattin' - Cliff Scott
- I Wanna Ramble - Jimmie Lee Harris
- Sitting Here Looking 1000 Miles Away - Jimmie Lee Harris
- Just Like A Bird Without A Feather - R.L. Burnside
- Skinny Woman - R.L. Burnside
- Goin' Down South - R.L. Burnside
- Poor Black Mattie - R.L. Burnside
- Hold My Body Down - Robert Johnson
- Trying To Make It Home - Robert Johnson
- Precious Lord - Robert Johnson
- He'll Make a Way - Robert Johnson
- Sugar Mama - Robert Longstreet
- Black Gal - Robert Longstreet
- Sloppy Drunk - Robert Longstreet
- Decoration Day - Robert Longstreet
- Shake Em' On Down - Fred McDowell
- Mama Says I'm Crazy - Fred McDowell


disc 5
- That Ain't It - John Henry Barbee
- Gonna Lose Your Mind - John Henry Barbee
- Flat Foot Boogie - Albert Macon / Robert Thomas
- Mama Can I Lay It Down - Albert Macon / Robert Thomas
- How Can You Do It - Albert Macon / Robert Thomas
- John Henry - Jessie Clarence Gorman
- Goin' Up To the Country # 1 - Jessie Clarence Gorman
- Goin' Up To the Country # 2 - Jessie Clarence Gorman
- Dirty Dozens - Will Shade
- Won't You Send Me John - Will Shade
- Wine Headed Man - Will Shade
- K.C. Blues - Will Shade / Charlie Burse
- Every Time I Come Around - Georgia Fife & Drum Band
- J.W.'S Special - Georgia Fife & Drum Band
- Old Hen Cackle - Georgia Fife & Drum Band
- Buck Dance - Georgia Fife & Drum Band
- Hey Freddie - Como Fife & Drum Band
- Late In the Evening - Como Fife & Drum Band
- Punky Tony - Como Fife & Drum Band
- Shimmy She Wa - Como Fife & Drum Band
- You Got Reap What You Sow - Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis
- Everything's Gonna Be Alright - Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis
- That's the Way the Good Thing Go - Precious Bryant
- Georgia Buck - Precious Bryant
- When the Saints Go Marching In - Precious Bryant
- Pork & Beans - Rosa Lee Hill
- Count the Days I'm Gone - Rosa Lee Hill
- Roll & Tumble - Rosa Lee Hill
- Bullying Well - Rosa Lee Hill


disc 6
- Good Morning Judge - Furry Lewis
- Furry Lewis' Careless Love - Furry Lewis

- What Make Grandpa Love Grandma So - Jimmy Lee Williams [Swingmaster 2115]
- Have You Ever Seen Peaches - Jimmy Lee Williams [Swingmaster 2115]
- Hoboing Into Hollywood - J.W. Warren
- Sundown Blues - J.W. Warren
- Rabbit On a Log - J.W. Warren
- You're Gonna Miss Me - J.W. Warren
- House On the Hill - Eddie Harris
- I Have To Love Somebody - Eddie Harris
- Old Country Rock # 1 - James Davis
- Instrumental # 1 - James Davis
- Who Stole the Lock Off the Henhouse Door? - James Davis
- Instrumental # 4 - James Davis
- Canned Heat - Robert Nighthawk
- Nighthawk Boogie - Robert Nighthawk
- Down By the Woodshed - Robert Nighthawk
- Home Going - Jessie Mae Hemphill
- I Want To Be Ready - Jessie Mae Hemphill
- Interview - Jessie Mae Hemphill


disc 7 (bonus CD - tracks not on 45s set!)
- Miss Maybelle - Jessie Lee Vortis
- When My Baby Got On Board - Jessie Lee Vortis
- Them Greasy Greens # 1 - George Hollis
- Rock and Roll To Midgetville - George Hollis
- Black Rat Swing - Willie Rockomo
- Tease Me Baby # 2 - Bruce Upshaw / Willie Rockomo
- Someday Baby # 1 - Bruce Upshaw
- Wonder Why My Baby Treat Me So Bad - Bruce Upshaw
- Rosa Lee - Bruce Upshaw
- I Got a Woman - Buddy Hubbard
- So Sweet - Buddy Hubbard
- You're Gonna Miss Me - Ira "Tiny" Coney
- Mamie - Ira "Tiny" Coney
- I'm So Lonesome - Ira "Tiny" Coney
- Blood Red River - Eddie Hodge
- Sitting On Top of the World - Eddie Hodge
- Glory Hallelujah - Eddie Hodge
- Jesus is Coming Back To Me - Pettis Sisters
- Bound For Zion - Pettis Sisters
- You Told Me Baby - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall
- Sweet As an Apple On a Tree - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall
- Juke # 2 - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall
- Woke Up This Morning - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall
- Tell Me You Love Me - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall


7 CD set (with 24-pp. booklet)

or forty-five 45s [without 7th bonus CD!]
notes by Sam Sweet with George Mitchell

Fat Possum FP 1114 (US 2007)

62007Jimmy Lee Williams
The George Mitchell Collection   Vol. 40

- What Make Grandpa Love Grandma So [Swingmaster 2115]
- Have You Ever Seen Peaches [Swingmaster 2115]

7 inch 45 rpm

Fat Possum 1099-7 (US 2007)

= Big Legal Mess Publishing blm 040 (US 4/2008)

7200?Wrong Time To Be Right
Tape Series Vol. 8

Elizabeth Cotten - Reuben
Scott & Rosie Dunbar - Easy Rider
Charlie Feathers & R.L. Burnside - Feel Good Again
John Ziegler - Who's Gonna Be Your Man
Robert Pete WIlliams - Grown So Ugly
Blind Willie McTell - Dyin' Crap Shooters Blues
Malvina Reynolds - What's Going On Down There?
Furry Lewis - On The Road Again


Jimmy Lee Williams - Hoot Your Belly, Give Your Backbone Ease [Swingmaster 2115]
Unknown Artist - (Unidentified)
William Robertson - Frolicking
Cast King - Wrong Time To Be Right
Joseph Spence - Sloop John B
John Hurt - Spanish Fandang
Watson Family - Your Long Journey
Michael Hurley - Lonsome Graveyard
Rocky Erickson - Right Track Now



Mississippi MRC-008 (cassette) (US 200?)

82010Been Here All My Days

- Who's Gonna Be Your Man - John Lee Ziegler
- Bullying Well - Rosa Lee Hill
- Shake 'Em On Down - Fred McDowell

- What Makes Grandma Love Grandpa - Jimmy Lee Williams [Swingmaster 2115]
- Old Country Rock #1 - James Davis
- Big Road Blues - Houston Stackhouse
- Search Me Lord - James Shorter

- Home Going - Jessie Mae Hemphill
- Georgia Buck - Precious Bryant
- Country Blues - Joe Callicott
- Rabbit On A Log - Lonzie Thomas
- Trouble Brought Me Down - Green Paschal
- Good Morning Judge - Furry Lewis
- Hold My Body Down - Robert Johnson


"selections from the George Mitchell archive"


Mississippi MR-064 (US 2010)

John Lee Ziegler discography
Fred McDowell discography
Jessie Mae Hemphill discography
Joe Callicott discography
Furry Lewis discography

92012Sticks Over My Shoulder

John Lee Ziegler - Used To Be Mine But Now Look Who Got Her Now
William Robertson (Cecil Barfield) - Love Blues
Jim Bunkley - Old Red #2
John Lee Ziegler - Poor Boy

Jimmy Lee Williams - Hoot Your Belly Give Your Backbone Ease [Swingmaster 2115]
James Davis - James Boogie

Jimmy Lee Williams - Have You Ever Seen Peaches Grow On A Sweet Potato Vine [Swingmaster 2115]
William Robertson (Cecil Barfield) - Hoochie Coochie Wagon
John Lee Ziegler - If I Lose Let Me Lose

Jimmy Lee Williams - Baby Please Don't Go
James Davis - Good Morning Little School Girl
Jim Bunkley - The Howlin' Wolf


notes (1980) by George Mitchell

Mississippi MRP-023 (US 2012)

John Lee Ziegler discography
Cecil Barfield discography



Additional information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Timothy Duffy: Jimmy Lee Williams.- Music Makers (Athens, Hill Street, 2002), pp. 178-179
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 104
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, p. 1050
- Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 2011, pp. 496-497
- Valerie Wilmer: Still Got The Blues - Jimmy Lee Williams, 53.- Blues Unlimited 133 (Jan/Feb 1979), pp. 18-20
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Wilson Fabian Ruales Villalva and Gaile Welker for additional info / scans

 


Jimmy Lee Williams 1978
source: Valerie Wilmer: Still Got The Blues - Jimmy Lee Williams, 53.- Blues Unlimited 133 (Jan/Feb 1979), p. 19
photographer: Valerie Wilmer

 

Jimmy Lee Williams 1980s/90s (?); source: Music Maker Relief Foundation; photographer: Tim Duffy; screen capture from youtube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG5eo0FTZUI
Jimmy Lee Williams 1980s/90s (?)
source: Music Maker Relief Foundation; photographer: Tim Duffy
screen capture from youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG5eo0FTZUI

 


Jimmy Lee Williams' Draft Registration Card (D.S.S. Form 1)
source: Posted at facebook by Gaile Welker

 

 

 

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