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J O H N N Y   Y O U N G; source: Russell 1997, p. 195; photographer(s): Marc de Jonghe / Robert Vanderschueren; photographer(s): Marc de Jonghe / Robert Vanderschueren; (credits from a very similar photo published in Blues Unlimited #119 (May/June 1976), p. 32 and another very similar photo published in Juke #3 (December 1985), p. 24)
Johnny Young, Antwerp, October 1972
source: Russell 1997, p. 195; photographer(s): Marc de Jonghe / Robert Vanderschueren
(credits from a very similar photo published in Blues Unlimited #119 (May/June 1976), p. 32
and another very similar photo published in Juke #3 (December 1985), p. 24)
J O H N N Y   Y O U N G, early 1960s; source: Film '... And This Is Free'; www.historicfilms.com
Johnny Young, early 1960s
source: Film "... And This Is Free" www.historicfilms.com (1:08:24-1:09:04)

 

Johnny Young
John Oliver Young   a/k/a "Man" Young
b. January 1, 1918 1917 in Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi
d. April 18, 1974 dead on arrival at Osteopathic Hospital in Chicago, Illinois

buried at Lincoln Cemetery in Urbana, Illinois
discography

J O H N N Y   Y O U N G, 1950s; source: Blues Unlimited 137/138, p. 17
Johnny Young, 1950s
source: Blues Unlimited 137/138, p. 17
("courtesy Pete Welding")
ferrotype/tintype photo (producing reversed
images
), hence the upside down guitar

#year
of release
title / label / notes

10 inch 78 rpm
11947Johnny Young and His Mandolin

Johnny Young and His Mandolin - Vocal: Johnny William [sic]
- Worried Man Blues (A) *   @ youtube
Johnny Young and His Mandolin
- Money Taking Woman (B) #   @ youtube



originally unissued track from same session:
- Money Taking Woman (tk 2) # [Barrelhouse BH 04]



rec. 1947 at Isaac Abrahams' Maxwell Radio and Record Company in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, mand, # voc; Johnny Williams, * voc, # sp


Ora Nelle 712 [Bernard Isaac Abrahams' (of Maxwell Radio Record Co.) label]

21948MAN YOUNG

- My Baby Walked Out On Me (PL 103)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Let Me Ride Your Mule (PL 104)   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. c. December 1948 in Chicago, IL by Chester Scales; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Snooky Pryor, hca; Johnny Williams, g


Planet 103/104 (US 1948) [Chester Scales' label?]


= Old Swing-Master 19 (US May 1949) [Egmont Sonderling's label]

   

- Blues And Trouble
- One More Time

rec. 19?? in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, mand; ???

J.O.B. unissued

31956Snooky Pryor

- Someone To Love Me (56-500)   @ youtube
- Judgment Day [sic] (56-502)   @ youtube



originally unissued tracks from same session:
- A Date With My Baby (56-499)
- Someone To Love Me (alt tk) [Charly CRB 1042]
- You Tried To Ruin Me Baby (56-501) [Charly CRB 1042]
- Judgement Day (alt tk) [Charly CRB 1042]



rec. July 17, 1956 in Chicago, IL; Snooky Pryor, voc, hca; Johnny Young, Floyd Jones, g; Earl Phillips, dr

 
Vee-Jay VJ 215 (US 1956)


Vee-Jay VJ 215 (Disc Jockey Advanced Sample)

Snooky Pryor discography
Floyd Jones discography


45 rpm / LP / CD compilations
41963/64JOHNNIE YOUNG [sic]

- All I Want For Breakfast   @ youtube
- Humpty Dumpty [Testament T 2226]   @ youtube   @ Spotify



originally unissued tracks from same session:
- Mean Old Train (3:03) # [Testament CD 6001]   @ youtube
- My Baby Walked Out In 1954 [Testament LP 2203]   @ youtube
- You Make Me Feel So Good # [Testament LP 2203]   @ youtube
- Bad Blood [Testament LP 2203]   @ youtube
- Let Me Ride Your Mule [Testament LP 2203]   @ youtube
- Prison Bound [Testament LP 2226]   @ youtube
- Sugar Farm Blues [Testament LP 2226]   @ youtube



rec. November 17, 1963 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, g, # mand; Otis Spann, p; Slim Willis, hca; Robert Whitehead, dr


USA 768 (US 1963/64)

Otis Spann discography

   

- I Tried Not To Cry (4:49) [Testament LP S01]
- Tribute To J.F.K. [Testament CD 5007]   @ youtube
- Money Takin' Woman [Testament LP 2203]   @ youtube
- Tired Of You Smiling [Testament LP 2203]   @ youtube

rec. 1963-1964 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Otis Spann, p; Slim Willis, hca

Testament unreleased

Otis Spann discography

   

- Pony Blues [Storyville SLP 180]  @ youtube
- My Home Ain't Here [Testament LP 2226]   @ youtube
- Want My Lovin' [Testament CD 5003]   @ youtube
- Back To Chicago # [Testament LP 2203]   @ youtube

rec. 1963-1964 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, g; # Jimmy Walker, p

Testament unreleased

   

- My Baby Left Me (2:55) # [Testament CD 6001]   @ youtube
- Canadian Sunset (instr) (2:50) [Testament CD 6011]   @ youtube

rec. May 19, 1964 in Chicago, IL; Charles 'Slim' Willis, hca, # voc; Otis Spann, p; Johnny Young, g; Robert Whitehead, dr

Testament unreleased

Otis Spann discography

   

- I Believe You Need A Shot *
- Want My Baby (Step By, Baby) #
- Why Did You Break My Heart #
- Better Cut That Out *

from Olle Helander's 1964 radio broadcasts

rec. May 23, 1964 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, # mand, * g; Slim Willis, hca; Otis Spann, p; Robert Whitehead, dr

Python PLP-KM 10 (UK 1969)
Jefferson Records SBACD 12653/4 (1999)
Jefferson Records SBACD 12658/9 (2004)

Otis Spann discography

61964Can't Keep From Crying
Topical Blues on the Death of President Kennedy

Big Joe Williams - A Man Amongst Men   @ youtube
James & Fannie Brewer - I Want To Know Why
John Lee Granderson - A Man For The Nation   @ youtube
Otis Spann - Sad Day In Texas   @ youtube
Mary Ross - President Kennedy Gave His Life
Bill Jackson - The 22nd Day Of November

James Brewer - Why Did He Have To Go?

Johnny Young - I Tried Not To Cry (4:49)
Avery Brady - Poor Kennedy   @ youtube
Fannie Brewer - When We Got The Message
Jimmy Brown - He Was Loved By All The People   @ youtube


CD bonus tracks:
Johnny Young - Tribute To J.F.K.   @ youtube
Avery Brady - Poor Kennedy no. 2

rec. in Chicago, IL in the weeks immediately following JFK's death on November 22, 1963 by Norman Dayron and Peter J. Welding; prod. by Peter J. Welding

cover photo of Big Joe Williams by Lars Swanberg

printed on LP's back cover: "TESTAMENT RECORDS, P.O. Box 1813, Chicago, Illinois 60690"
later additionally stamped "New address: 577 Levering, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024"

notes by Peter J. Welding     "5851 Blackstone Avenue/Chicago 37, Illinois"

    "577 Levering Avenue/Los Angeles, Calif./90024"

Testament S-01 (US 1964 ff.)
BU 62 (May 1969), p. 26

notes by Peter J. Welding

= Bounty BY 6035 (UK 1967)

notes by Peter J. Welding

(=) Testament TCD-5007 (US 1994)

Testament Records discography

71964Modern Chicago Blues

Johnny Young - My Baby Walked Out In 1954 #*   @ youtube
Wilbert Jenkins - Married Woman Blues   @ youtube
Johnny Young - You Make Me Feel So Good ##*   @ youtube
Maxwell St. Jimmy - Crying Won't Make Me Stay ||   @ youtube
Big Walter Horton - Everybody's Fishing //   @ youtube
Johnny Young - Money Taking Woman ##   @ youtube
Robert Nighthawk - Blues Before Sunrise §   @ youtube
Johnny Young - Back To Chicago   @ youtube
John Lee Granderson - Bumble Bee \\ °°   @ youtube
Maxwell Street Jimmy - I've Got My Eyes on You || °°   @ youtube


Johnny Young - Bad Blood #*   @ youtube
John Wrencher - I'm Going To Detroit []   @ youtube
Maxwell St. Jimmy - Hanging Around My Door ||   @ youtube
Johnny Young - Tired Of You Smiling ##   @ youtube
Wilbert Jenkins - Crawling King Snake   @ youtube
Johnny Young - Let Me Ride Your Mule #*   @ youtube
Big Walter Horton - Hard-Hearted Woman //   @ youtube
John Lee Granderson - I Don't Feel Good \\   @ youtube
Maxwell Street Jimmy - Long Haired Doney || °°   @ youtube
John Lee Granderson - That's All Right \\ °°   @ youtube
William Mack - Hideaway °°   @ youtube


°° CD bonus tracks

rec. by Norman Dayron, Norman Goodis, or Peter J. Welding
# rec. November 17, 1963 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, g, ## mand; Otis Spann, p; Slim Willis, hca; * Robert Whitehead, dr
|| rec. 1963 at the Fickle Pickle, Chicago, IL by Norman Dayron; Maxwell Street Jimmy, voc, g
// rec. July 1, 1962 in Chicago, IL; Walter Horton, voc, hca; Jimmy Walker, p; Johnny Young, g
\\ rec. poss. September 30, 1962; John Lee Granderson, voc, g; Prez Thomas, hca; Jimmy Walker, p; William Mack, g
§ rec. October 14, 1964 in Chicago, IL; Robert Nighthawk, voc, g; Big John Wrencher, hca; Johnny Young, g
[] rec. 1964 in Chicago, IL; Big John Wrencher, voc, hca; Johnny Young, mand; John Lee Granderson, g

Testament LP/CD front cover drawing by George Roth; Bounty/Polydor LPs front cover photo by Ray Flerlage; back liner photos by Peter J. Welding

notes by Peter J. Welding     "P.O. Box 1813/Chicago, Illinois, 60690"


    "577 Levering Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024"


    "Los Angeles, Calif."

Testament T-2203 (US 1964 ff.)
BU 25 (September 1965), p. 23


= Testament T-2203 (special re-release by OJL)


= Bounty BY 6025 (UK 1966)


= Polydor 545 031 (UK 1966)


(=) Testament TCD-5008 (US 1994)


= P-Vine PCD-5566 (Jp 1999)

Testament Records discography
Big Walter Horton discography
John Lee Granderson discography
Maxwell Street Jimmy discography
John Wrencher discography

8c.1965Mississippi Blues
Blues Scene USA   Vol. 4

Bert Logan, Russ Logan, Big Joe Williams
- Four O'Clock In The Morning
Roosevelt Charles
- Bye Bye Baby Blues
Big Joe Williams, Coot Venson
- Sugar Mama
Avery Brady
- I Don't Want You No More
Big Joe Williams, Willie Lee Harris
- I Can Seen My Baby In My Dreams
Jimmy Brewer
- Big Road Blues

Arthur Weston, Big Joe Williams, George Robertson
- Someday Baby
Big Joe Williams, Coot Venson
- Long Road Blues

Johnny Young
- Pony Blues [Testament unissued]   @ youtube
Big Joe Williams, Ruby McCoy
- Rising Sun Blues

Johnny Young & Big Boy Spires [sic]
- 21 Below Zero [Testament unissued]
Jimmy Brown, Big Joe Williams, Willie Lee Harris
- Goin' Back Home
Big John Henry Miller, Jimmy Lee Miller
- Down Here By Myself


rec. 1964/65 in Chicago by Pete Welding
cover photos of Leon Strickland (with guitar) by Harry Oster

notes by Pete Welding

Storyville SLP 180 (Denmark c. 1965)

notes by Pete Welding

= Storyville 670180 (Germany 196?)


= Teichiku ULS-1815-R (Jp)

notes by Pete Welding

= Poljazz PSJ 246 (Poland 1981)

= Storyville 2400291 (Portugal 19??)

notes by Pete Welding

= Storyville SLP 4035 "Blues Roots Vol. 1"

Storyville Records discography

91964Blues All Around My Bed
Blues Scene USA Vol. 3

Carl Hodges - Blues All Around My Bed   @ youtube
Big Joe Williams - Hellhound On My Trail   @ youtube
John Lee Granderson - Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl ## [Takoma TAK 7071]   @ youtube

Johnny Young & John Wrencher & John Lee Granderson - Green Door Blues #   @ youtube
James Robinson - Standing In My Backk Door Crying   @ youtube
W.B. 'Piano Bill' Bryson - Sometimes I Rate   @ youtube

Connie Williams - One Thin Dime   @ youtube
Leroy "Country" Dallas - Sweet Man Blues (4:22)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Doug Quattlebaum - Good Woman Blues   @ youtube
Bill Jackson - Trouble In Mind   @ youtube
Avery Brady - Gonna Let You Down   @ youtube
Arthur Weston & Big Joe Williams & George Robertson - Roll Me Over Slow   @ youtube


# rec. 1964 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Big John Wrencher, hca; John Lee Granderson, g

front cover photos by Harry Oster (the photo of Leon Strickland is laterally reversed; Strickland was not left handed!)

notes by Pete Welding

Storyville SLP 181 (Denmark 1964)

notes by Pete Welding

= Storyville 670181 (Germany 196?)

= Storyville SLP 842 (Denmark 1979)

notes by Pete Welding

= Storyville PSLP-842 (Portugal 4/1983)

notes by Pete Welding

= Poljazz PSJ 248 (Poland 1983)

notes by Pete Welding

= Storyville SLP 4036 (Switzerland 1985) "Blues Roots Vol. 2"

Storyville Records discography
Big Joe Williams discography
Big John Wrencher discography
John Lee Granderson discography
Blind Connie Williams discography
Leroy Dallas discography
Doug Quattlebaum discography

101965Chicago
the post-war blues volume 1

Johnny Shines
- Brutal Hearted Woman
- Evening Sun
Willie Nix & His Combo
- Just Can't Stay
- All By Yourself
"Little" Willie Foster
- Falling Rain Blues
- Four Day Jump
J B. Hutto & His Hawks
- Pet Cream Man
- Lovin' You

Othum Brown
- Ora-Nelle Blues
Little Walter
- I Just Keep Loving Her

Johnny William(s)
- Worried Man Blues [Ora Nelle 712]
Johnny Young
- Money Taking Woman [Ora Nelle 712]
John Lee
- Knocking On Lula Mae's Door
- Rythm Rockin' Boogie [sic]
Junior Wells & His Eagle Rockers
- Hodo Man [sic]
- Junior's Wail


notes by Charles Radcliffe

post-war blues pwb 1 (UK 1965)

pwb discography

111965Chicago Blues - The Early 1950s

Homesick James
- Homesick
Baby Face Leroy
- Boll Weevil
- Rollin' & Tumblin' - pt. 1
Little Walter
- Muskadine
J. B. Hutto
- Dim Lights
- Things Are So Slow
Eddie Boyd
- Five Long Years
Baby Face Leroy
- Rollin' & Tumblin' - pt. 2

Junior Wells
- Hoodoo Man
Little Willie Foster
- Falling Rain Blues
Snooky & Moody
- Stockyard Blues

Johnny Young
- Money Taking Woman [Ora Nelle 712]
Floyd Jones
- Dark Road
Big Walter
- Hard Hearted Woman
Robert Nighthawk
- Kansas City Blues
John Brim
- Tough Times


notes by Chris A. Strachwitz

Blues Classics BC 8 (US 1965)

Blues Classics discography

121966Ramblin' On My Mind
Classic Train and Travel Blues

Johnny Young with Little Walter Jacobs, Jimmy Walker
- Hear That Whistle Blow #   @ youtube
Carl Hodges
- Standing At The Greyhound Bus Station   @ youtube
Leroy 'Country' Dallas
- She Caught The M&O   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Jimmy Brewer
- Pea Vine Whistle   @ youtube
Honeyboy Edwards
- Highway 61   @ youtube
Big Joe Williams
- Ramblin' On My Mind   @ youtube

Blind Connie Williams
- Key To The Highway   @ youtube
Dr. Isaiah Ross
- Hobo Blues   @ youtube
John Lee Grandison
- My Home Ain't Here   @ youtube
Bill Jackson
- Freight Train Blues   @ youtube
Elijah Brown
- Cryin' Won't Make Me Stay   @ youtube
W.B. 'Piano Bill' Bryson
- Mean Old Train   @ youtube


# rec. 1963 or 1964 in Chicago, IL by Pete Welding and Norman Dayron; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Little Walter Jacobs, hca; Jimmy Walker, p; prod. by Pete Welding
cover photograph (Railroad Station, Edwards, Mississippi, 1936) by Walker Evans

notes by Pete Welding   "Milestone Records Inc., 22 West 48th Street, New York, N. Y. 10036"
   
Milestone MLP-3002 (mono) (US 1966 ff.)

notes by Pete Welding   "Milestone Records are distributed by Fantasy Records, 10th and Parker, Berkeley, California 94710"

= Milestone MLP-3002 (mono) (US 1972?)

Milestone MSP-93002 (stereo) most likely never happened, 'cause all musical content only existed in mono!

notes by Pete Welding   "Made in France by Pathé Marconi"

= Milestone 2C 062-94300 M (Fr 1973)

Milestone Records discography

   

- Twenty-One Below Zero #
- Evening Sun
- What Did It
- What About You
- Stormy Night Blues
- 51 Highway Blues
- Right Away
- Water Coast Blues

rec. October 9, 1965 in Chicago by Pete Welding; Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires, voc, g; Johnny Young, g

Testament unissued

# Storyville SLP 180

Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires discography

131966Johnny Young And His Chicago Blues Band

Arhoolie F 1029 track sequence:
- Wild, Wild Woman [Arhoolie 45-515]   @ youtube
- Keep Your Nose Out Of My Business   @ youtube
- I'm Having A Ball   @ youtube
- My Trainfare Out Of Town   @ youtube
- I'm Doing All Right   @ youtube
- Stealin'   @ youtube

- Keep On Drinking   @ youtube
- Hot Dog!   @ youtube
- Come Early In The Morning   @ youtube
- Moaning And Groaning   @ youtube
- Crosscut Saw   @ youtube
- Slam Hammer (instr) [Arhoolie 45-515]   @ youtube

rec. November 11 [22 on back cover], 1965 at Sound Studios in Chicago, IL by Pete Welding; Johnny Young, voc, g, mand; Otis Spann, p; James Cotton, hca; Jimmy Lee Morris, b; S.P. Leary, dr; prod. by Chris Strachwitz
Arhoolie F 1029, etc. cover photo by Pete Welding
Arhoolie CD 325 cover photo by Chris Strachwitz



Arhoolie CD 325 / P-Vine PCD-2504 track sequence:
- Wild, Wild Woman
- Keep Your Nose Out Of My Business
- I'm Having A Ball
- My Trainfare Out Of Town
- I'm Doing All Right
- Stealin'
- Keep On Drinking
- Hot Dog!
- Come Early In The Morning
- Moaning And Groaning
- Cross-Cut Saw
- Slam Hammer
- Strange Girl
- Ring Around My Heart
- Sometimes I Cry
- Don't You Lie To Me
- On The Road Again
- Walter's Boogie
- Stockyard Blues
- Drinking Straight Whiskey

additional tracks on P-Vine PCD-2504:
- Sleeping With The Devil
- Fumbling Around

notes (1966) by Pete Welding   Arhoolie Records, P.O. Box 5073, Berkeley 5, Calif.

Arhoolie F 1029 (US 1966)

notes by Pete Welding

= Fontana 688 809 ZL (UK 1967?)

notes by Pete Welding   Arhoolie Records, Box 9195, Berkeley, Ca. 94709

Arhoolie AR 19023 (Fr 1972)

notes by Pete Welding   Arhoolie Records, 10341 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito, CA 94530

Arhoolie F 1029 (US 1987)

notes (1966 & 1968) by Pete Welding

(=) Arhoolie CD 325 (US 1990) (along with most of Arhoolie F 1037)


= P-Vine PCD-24106 (Jp 2002)


(=) P-Vine PCD-2504 (Jp 20??) (along with all of Arhoolie F 1037)

Arhoolie Records discography
Fontana Records discography
Otis Spann discography

141966Johnny Young

- Slam Hammer (instr) [Arhoolie F 1029]
- Wild, Wild Woman [Arhoolie F 1029]


Arhoolie 45-515 (US 1966)

151966Blues Southside Chicago

Shakey Horton
- Can't Help Myself
Johnny Young
- One More Time #
Sunnyland Slim
- Everytime I Get To Drinking
Poor Bob
- I Won't Be Happy
Eddie Boyd
- Where You Belong

Robert Nighthawk
- Merry Christmas []
Homesick James
- Crutch And Cane


Johnny Young
- Little Girl *   @ youtube
Poor Bob
- The Sun Is Rising
Homesick James
- Got To Move
Sunnyland Slim
- I Got To Get To My Baby
Ronda Mitchell & Mrs. Lovell
- J.F. Kennedy's Reservation

Robert Nighthawk
- Lula Mae []
Eddie Boyd
- Losing Hand


rec. in Chicago, IL by Willie Dixon

Decca LK 4748 cover photo of Robert Nighthawk by Frank Scott
Flyright LP 521 cover photo: Chicago 1941 by Russell Lee (courtesy of Library of Congress)

notes by Mike Leadbitter

Decca LK 4748 (UK 1966)

original notes by Mike Leadbitter

= Flyright LP 521 (UK 1976)

notes by Mike Leadbitter

= Decca TAB 63 (UK 1983) (Rock Echoes series)

Flyright Records discography

161966Chicago / The Blues / Today!   Vol. 3

Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band
- One More Time #   @ youtube
- Kid Man Blues #   @ youtube
- My Black Mare #   @ youtube
- Stealin' Back *   @ youtube
- I Got Mine In Time *   @ youtube
- Tighten Up On It #   @ youtube

Johnny Shines Blues Band
- Dynaflo Blues   @ youtube
- Black Spider Blues   @ youtube
- Layin' Down My Shoes And Clothes   @ youtube
- If I Get Lucky   @ youtube
Big Walter Horton's Blues Harp Band
- Rockin' My Boogie #   @ youtube
Johnny Shines Blues Band
- Mr. Bo Weevil   @ youtube
- Hey, Hey   @ youtube


side A (Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band) rec. December 1965 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, # g, * mand; # Walter Horton, hca; Hayes Ware, b; Elga Edmonds, dr

side B (Johnny Shines Blues Band) rec. 1965 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Shines, voc, g with Walter Horton, hca; # Charlie Musselwhite, 2nd hca; Floyd Jones, b, Frank Kirkland, dr

notes by Sam Charters

Vanguard VRS 9218 (US 1966)

notes by Sam Charters

= Fontana TFL 6070 (UK 12/1966)


= Vanguard VMD 79218 (US 1989)

add'l releases @ discogs

3 CD set
notes by Ed Ward

(=) Vanguard 3VCD 172/74-2 (1999)

3xLP box set

Vanguard VSD-79216/7/8 (180 g; remastered) (UK 2009)

add'l releases @ discogs

Fontana Records discography
Johnny Shines discography

171966Otis Spann's Chicago Blues / Nobody Knows My Troubles

- Get Your Hands Out Of My Pocket #   @ youtube
- Nobody Knows My Troubles #   @ youtube
- Sarah Street #   @ youtube
- Worried Life Blues   @ Spotify
- You Can't Hide   @ Spotify

- Jack-Knife (instr) # []   @ Spotify
- What's On Your Worried Mind?   @ youtube

- Vicksburg Blues §   @ Spotify

- Who's Out There? #   @ youtube
- Spann's Boogie Woogie (instr)   @ youtube
- See See Rider   @ youtube

- Lovin' You # []   @ youtube
- One-Room Country Shack   @ Spotify
- Mr. Jelly-Roll Baker   @ Spotify


CD bonus track:
- G.B. Blues (instr) * [Testament T-2217]   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. 1965 in Chicago, IL by Pete Welding; Otis Spann, voc, p; § Robert Whitehead, dr
# rec. November 22, 1965 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, voc, p, [] org; James Cotton, hca; Johnny Young, g; Jimmy Lee Morris, b; S.P. Leary, dr
* rec. 1966 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, p; Walter Horton, hca; Johnny Shines, g; Lee Jackson, b; Fred Below, dr
cover photo by Pete Welding

notes by Pete Welding
 
Testament T-2211 (US 1966) "Otis Spann's Chicago Blues"

notes by Pete Welding

Testament T-2211 (US 19??) "Nobody Knows My Troubles"

notes by Pete Welding

= Bounty BY-6037 (UK 1967) "Nobody Knows My Troubles"

notes by Pete Welding

= Polydor 545 030 (UK 1969) "Nobody Knows My Troubles"

notes by Pete Welding
 
Testament T-2211 (Special re-release by OJL) (US 198?) "Otis Spann's Chicago Blues"

notes by Pete Welding

(=) Testament TCD 5005 (US 1994) "Otis Spann's Chicago Blues"

Testament Records discography
Otis Spann discography
Johnny Shines discography
Walter Horton discography

181967J.B. Hutto & The Hawks
Masters of Modern Blues Volume 2

- Dust My Broom
- Mistake In Life
- Goin' Down Slow
- Lulubelle's Here
- She's So Sweet

- My Kind Of Woman
- Pet Cream Man
- Blues Stay Away From Me
- The Girl I Love
- Sloppy Drunk

CD bonus tracks:
- Wild Wild Woman
- Bluebird

J. B. Hutto & The Hawks with Johnny Young, Big Walter Horton, Lee Jackson, Fred Below


Testament T-2213 (US 1967)


= Testament TCD 5020 (US 1995)

Testament Records discography

191968Robert Nighthawk / Houston Stackhouse
Masters of Modern Blues Volume 4

Robert Nighthawk
- Black Angel Blues #
- Maggie Campbell #
- Crowing Rooster Blues #
- I'm Getting Tired #
- Bricks In My Pillow #
- Merry Christmas Baby #

Robert Nighthawk
- Crying Won't Help You #
- Kansas City Blues *
- Kidman Blues °°
- Bricks In My Pillow (alt tk) # °°
Houston Stackhouse with Robert Nighthawk
- Big Road Blues
- Cool Water Blues
- Big Fat Mama Blues
- Take A Little Walk With Me
- Bye Bye Blues °°
- Mean Old World °°
- The Wrong Man °°
- Kansas City Blues °°


°° CD bonus tracks

# rec. October 14, 1964 in Chicago, IL; Robert Nighthawk, voc, g; Big John Wrencher, hca; Johnny Young, # mand, * g

notes by Pete Welding

Testament T-2215 (US 1968)


= Testament TCD 5010 (US 1994)


= P-Vine PCD-5363 (Jp)

Testament Records discography

201968Johnny Young & Big Walter: Chicago Blues

Arhoolie F 1037 track sequence:
- Strange Girl   @ youtube
- Ring Around My Heart   @ youtube
- Sometimes I Cry   @ youtube
- Don't You Lie To Me   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- On The Road Again   @ youtube

- Drinking Straight Whiskey   @ youtube
- Walter's Boogie   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Stockyard Blues   @ youtube
- Sleeping With The Devil °°   @ youtube
- Fumbling Around °°   @ youtube



originally unissued tracks from same session:
- Why Did You Break My Heart
- North Side
- Nobody Knows Chicago
- Running Around
- Travelling Man
- Rocks And Gravel (only b, dr accompanying)
- 44 Blues (only b, dr accompanying)

°° not reissued on Arhoolie CD 325

rec. November 27, 1967 at Stereosonic Studios in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, g; Walter Horton, hca; Lafayette Leake, p; Jimmy Dawkins, lead g; Ernest Gatewood, b; Lester Dorsie, dr; prod. by Chris Strachwitz and Willie Dixon
cover photo by Chris Strachwitz



Arhoolie CD 325 / P-Vine PCD-2504 track sequence:
- Wild, Wild Woman
- Keep Your Nose Out Of My Business
- I'm Having A Ball
- My Trainfare Out Of Town
- I'm Doing All Right
- Stealin'
- Keep On Drinking
- Hot Dog!
- Come Early In The Morning
- Moaning And Groaning
- Cross-Cut Saw
- Slam Hammer
- Strange Girl
- Ring Around My Heart
- Sometimes I Cry
- Don't You Lie To Me
- On The Road Again
- Walter's Boogie
- Stockyard Blues
- Drinking Straight Whiskey

additional tracks on P-Vine PCD-2504:
- Sleeping With The Devil
- Fumbling Around

notes (April 1968) by Pete Welding

Arhoolie F 1037 (US 1968)

notes (1966 & 1968) by Pete Welding

(=) Arhoolie CD 325 (US 1990) (along with most of Arhoolie F 1037)


= P-Vine PCD-24106 (Jp 2002)


(=) P-Vine PCD-2504 (Jp) (all of Arhoolie F 1029 and Arhoolie F 1037)

Arhoolie Records discography

211968The Roots Of America's Music

LP 1: Country Blues
Fred McDowell - Shake 'Em On Down
Mance Lipscomb - Sugar Babe
Black Ace - New Triflin' Woman
Alex Moore - July Boogie
Big Joe Williams - Greystone Blues
Lil Son Jackson - Roberta
John Jackson - Going Down In Georgia On A Horn
Guitar Slim & Jelly Belly - No More Hard Times
Lowell Fulson - River Blues

City Blues
Mercy Dee - Walked Down So Many Turnrows
Juke Boy Bonner - Going Back To The Country
Lightning Hopkins - Tom Moore Blues
Big Mama Thornton - Unlucky Girl
Clifton Chenier - Louisiana Blues
Larry Williams - I Know You Hear Me Calling

Johnny Young - Wild Wild Woman


LP 2: Gospel & Jazz
Bukka White - Jesus Died On The Cross To Save The World
Jesse Fuller - Amazing Grace
Rev. Overstreet - I'm A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord
Robert Shaw - The Ma Grinder
Kid Thomas - Eh La Bas
Joe Turner - Old Piney Brown's Gone
Luna - Nisaba In The Grass

Country, Cajun & Folk
J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers - Run Mountain
Del McCoury - Dreams
The Hodges Brothers - Carroll County Blues
Luderin Darbone - Crowley Waltz
Nathan Abshire - Cajun Two Step
Alice Stuart - Once I Had A Sweetheart
Crabgrass - Charles Giteau
James Campbell - Baby Please Don't Go


compilation of tracks previously on Arhoolie LPs; ed. & prod. by Chris Strachwitz
no previously unissued tracks!

2-disc package
notes by Pete Welding

Arhoolie R2001/2002 (US 1968)


= Stateside SR-9323B (Jp 1972)

Arhoolie Records discography

21a1969Southside Chicago

Big Walter Horton
- We're Gonna Have A Good Time
- Shakey Boogie
- I'd Be The Same Way If I Could
Sunnyland Slim
- Country Shack
- You Know It's You Babe

Johnny Young with The Chicago Blues Band
- I Believe You Need A Shot # \\
- Want My Baby (Step By, Baby) # //
- Why Did You Break My Heart # //
- Better Cut That Out # \\
Eddie Boyd
- Look On Yonder Wall
Willie Mabon
- Goin' Back To New Orleans
St. Louis Jimmy
- The Woman I'm Loving


from Olle Helander's 1964 radio broadcasts

# rec. May 23, 1964 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, // mand, \\ g; Slim Willis, hca; Otis Spann, p; Robert Whitehead, dr


Python PLP-KM 10 (UK 1969)

Jefferson Records SBACD 12653/4 (1999)
Jefferson Records SBACD 12658/9 (2004)

Python Records discography
Otis Spann discography

221969Goin' To Chicago

Sam Lay Blues Band   @ youtube (all three tracks)
- Tell Me, Mama *
- Walking By Myself *
- I Can't Be Satisfied *
Billy Boy Arnold Band
- I Left My Happy Home # [Testament TCD-5018]   @ youtube
- Billy Boy's Jump # [Testament TCD-5018]   @ youtube
- Crying And Pleading # [Testament TCD-5018]   @ youtube


J.B. Hutto & The Hawks
- Wild, Wild Woman § [Testament TCD-5020]   @ youtube
- Bluebird § [Testament TCD-5020]   @ youtube
Floyd Jones - Eddie Taylor Band
- Playhouse Blues || [Testament TCD-5001]   @ youtube
- I Feel So Bad || [Testament TCD-5001]   @ youtube
- Sweet Talkin' Woman || [Testament TCD-5001]   @ youtube


* rec. June 1966 in Chicago, IL; Sam Lay, voc; Jeff Carp, hca; Boots Hamilton, p; Paul Asbell, g; Chester 'Geno' Skaggs, b; Billy Davenport, dr
# rec. June 1966 in Chicago, IL; Billy Boy Arnold, voc, hca; Mighty Joe Young, Ted Mosley or Jody Williams, g; Jerome Arnold, b; Clifton James or Reynolds Howard, dr

§ rec. June 1966 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Hutto, voc, g; Walter Horton, hca; Johnny Young, g; Lee Jackson, b; Fred Below, dr
|| rec. 1966 in Chicago, IL; Floyd Jones, voc, g; Walter Horton, hca; Otis Spann, p; Eddie Taylor, b-g; Fred Below, dr
cover photo by Curt Burkhardt; back liner photo by Raeburn Flerlage


Testament T-2218 (US 1969)


= Testament T-2218 (Special Re-Release by OJL) (US 19??)

Testament Records discography

231969Johnny Young: Blues Masters Vol. 9 / Fat Mandolin

Blue Horizon BM 4609 / Blue Horizon 7-63852 track sequence:
- Moaning And Groaning (SBH 10597) (3:10)   @ youtube
- Heard My Doorbell Ring (SBH 10598) (4:43)   @ youtube
- My Trainfare Out Of Town (SBH 10599) (3:45)   @ youtube
- Lula Mae (SBH 10600) (2:20)   @ youtube
- Jackson Bound (SBH 10601) (3:24)
- Walking Slow (SBH 10602) (5:15)   @ youtube

- Deal The Cards (SBH 10603) (3:44)
- Lend Me Your Love (SBH 10604) (4:55)
- Lorraine (SBH 10605) (2:51)   @ youtube
- Prison Bound (SBH 10606) (3:38)
- Little Girl (SBH 10607) (2:57)   @ youtube
- Mean Black Snake (SBH 10608) (6:10)



Sony/Blue Horizon CD track sequence:
- Moaning And Groaning (SBH 10597) (3:10) / (3:10)
- Heard My Doorbell Ring (SBH 10598) (4:46) / (4:46)
- My Trainfare Out Of Town (SBH 10599) (3:45) / (3:45)
- Lula Mae (SBH 10600) (2:23) / (2:23)
- Jackson Bound (tk 1, SBH 10601) [tk 1: false start/previously unreleased plus tk 2: master version/remix] (4:31) / (4:16)   @ youtube
- Walking Slow (SBH 10602) [master version/remix] (5:46) / (5:20)
- Deal The Cards (tk 1) [tk 1: previously unreleased] (4:40) / (4:17)
- Deal The Cards (tk 2, SBH 10603) [tk 2: false start/previously unreleased plus tk 3: master version/remix] (5:38) / (5:12)   @ youtube
- Lend Me Your Love (tk 1/2/3, SBH 10604) [tks 1, 2 & 3: false starts/previously unreleased plus tk 4: master version/remix] (7:23) / (6:48)   @ youtube
- Lorraine (SBH 10605) (2:55) / (2:55)
- Prison Bound [tks 1 & 2: false starts/previously unreleased plus tk 3: master version/remix] (5:36) / (5:12)   @ youtube
- Little Girl (SBH 10607) (3:00) / (3:00)
- Mean Black Snake (SBH 10608) [master version/remix] (6:44) / (6:16)   @ youtube
- Stealin' (SBH 10610) [previously unreleased] (2:26) / (2:26)
- Go Ahead On (With That Funky Broadway Sound) (SBH 10609 tks 1/2) [tk 1: false start plus tk 2/previously unreleased] (5:46) / (5:21)   @ youtube
- Johnny's Mess Around (SBH 10611) [previously unreleased] (4:12) / (3:53)   @ youtube

rec. April 6, 1969 at the O.D.O. Studios in New York City; Johnny Young, voc, g, mand; Paul Osher, hca; Otis Spann, p; Sammy Lawhorn, g, b; S.P. Leary, dr. prod. by Bart Friedman and Otis Spann

sleeve design of Blue Horizon 7-63852 ("Fat Mandolin") by Terence Ibbott

notes by Top Topham
   
Blue Horizon BM 4609 (US 1969) "Blues Masters Vol. 9"

notes (January 1970) by Top Topham

= Blue Horizon 7-63852 (UK 1970) "Fat Mandolin"

notes by Michael Vernon

(=) Blue Horizon / Columbia 88697079152 (UK 2007) "The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions"
[on the 2007 release half the tracks were remixed a half-step too slow !!!]

notes by Michael Vernon

(=) Blue Horizon / Columbia 88697379322 (US 2008) "The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions"
["Thanks to Gerry Hundt, [...] for being the first person to alert us to a certain 'pitch' problem - now fully rectified."]

241969The Everlasting Blues vs. Otis Spann
with Otis Spann, Johnny Young, Luther Johnson, Peter Malick, SP Leary

- I'm A Bad Boy * §
- You're Going To Miss Me When I'm Gone *
- Let Me Ride Your Mule #
- Number 12 And 10 Train #

- You Know You Don't Love Me Baby
- Why Don't You Leave Me Alone *
- Where Is My Wife? * []
- Going Back Home * §

# rec. April 1969 in New York City; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Otis Spann, p; S.P. Leary, dr

* rec. April 1969 in New York City; Otis Spann, voc, p; [] Victoria Spivey, voc; Peter Malick, § Luther Johnson, g; Johnny Young, mand; S.P. Leary, dr

notes by Len Kunstadt

Spivey 1013

Spivey Records discography

   

- Returning Home (SBH 10640)
- Look What You Done Done (SBH 10641)
- Don't You Do It (SBH 10642)
- Mr. Dough (SBH 10643)
- I'm Mad (SBH 10644)
- Don't You Let Me Down (SBH 10645)
- Spivey, Spann and spivious (SBH 10646)
- I'm Crazy (SBH 10647)
- Hand Clapping (SBH 10648)
- Tired And Sick (SBH 10649)
- Last Song (SBH 10650)

rec. May 5, 1969; Victoria Spivey, voc; Paul Oscher, hca, Otis Spann, p; Johnny Young, G; Sammy Lawhorne, b; S.P. Leary, dr

Blue Horizon unissued

251969Blues Roots

LP 1:
- Frisco Lines - Fred McDowell
- Fare You Well Baby Blues - Joe Callicott
- Long Haired Doney - R.L. Burnside
- Mean Stepfather - Big Joe Williams
- Bald Eagle Train - Bukka White and "Washboard Willie" [= Wayne Pope!]   @ youtube
- Don't Drive Me Away - R.C. Smith

- Long Tall Girl - Mance Lipscomb
- Red River Blues - Lil' Son Jackson
- I Am The Black Ace - Black Ace
- Whistling Alex Moore Blues - Alex Moore
- Texas Blues - Lowell Fulson and Martin Fulson, rhythm g
- The Ma Grinder - Robert Shaw
- Take A Walk - Lightnin' Hopkins


- Bear Cat Blues - John Jackson
- Snowing And Raining Blues - Guitar Slim & Jelly Belly
- Got A Date At Half Past Eight - Jesse Fuller
- You Got Another Man - Lightnin' Hopkins and Barbara Dane
- Struggle Here In Houston - Juke Boy Bonner and Alvin J. Simon, dr
- Listen At That Bull - G. Coleman
- Trouble Blues - Big Joe Turner

- Dream - John Littlejohn
- Sugar Daddy - Mercy Dee Walton
- I'm Feeling Alright - Big Mama Thorton

- Sometimes I Cry - Johnny Young
- Black Snake Blues - Clifton Chenier
- Two Bugs - Earl Hooker


"The selections from this album have been comprised from the catalog of Arhoolie Records ... Except where otherwise indicated, all selections produced and recorded by Chris Strachwitz"

gatefold DLP

Poppy PYS-60.003 (US 1969)
= RCA Victor 740 069 (France 1969)


= RCA Victor SHP-6124/25 (Jp)

= Tomato TOM-2-7006 (US 1978)

gatefold DLP

= Tomato DLP 2696181 (Germany 1989)

2 CD set
notes by Bill Dahl

= Tomato CD TOM-3001 (US 2002)

271970The Chicago String Band
Carl Martin, Johnny Young, John Lee Granderson, John Wrencher

Testament T-2220 track sequence:
- The Sun Is Sinking Low #   @ youtube
- Trouble On Your Hands *   @ youtube
- Weeping And Moaning ||
- You Know I Do []
- Hoodoo Blues *
- You Got Good Business ||


- I Got To Find That Woman #
- Clean Cut Mama ||
- Railroad Blues *   @ youtube
- Don't Sic Your Dog On Me []
- John Henry
- Memphis, Tenn., 1939 Blues ||

Testament TCD 5006 track sequence:
- The Sun Is Sinking Low
- Trouble On Your Hands
- Weeping And Moaning
- You Know I Do []
- Hoodoo Blues
- You Got Good Business

- Take It Easy Baby # °°
- I Got To Find That Woman
- Clean Cut Mama
- Railroad Blues
- Don't Sic Your Dog On Me []
- John Henry
- Memphis, Tenn., 1939 Blues
- Bye Bye Pete || § °°

°° CD bonus tracks

rec. June 18, 1966 in Chicago, IL; Big John Wrencher, hca, [] voc; John Lee Granderson, g, # voc; Carl Martin, vl, mand, * voc; Johnny Young, mand, || voc; § Bill Foster, g

notes by Pete Welding

Testament T-2220 (US 1970)
BW 36 (November 1970), p. 14
BU 79 (January 1971), p. 27


= Testament T-2220 (Special Re-Release by OJL) (US 198?)


= Testament TCD-5006 (US 1994)


= P-Vine PCD-5580 (Jp)

Testament Records discography
John Lee Granderson discography
Carl Martin discography
Big John Wrencher discography
Johnny Young discography

27a1970The Best Of The Chicago Blues

Jimmy Cotton - Love Me Or Leave Me
Jimmy Cotton - Next Time You See Me
Junior Wells - Vietcong Blues
Otis Spann - Spann's Stomp
Buddy Guy - One Room Country Shack
J.B. Hutto - That's The Truth

Homesick James - Somebody Been Talkin' [Vanguard VRS 9217]
Buddy Guy - I Had A Dream Last Night
Junior Wells - When My Baby Left Me
Otis Spann - Twisted Snake
Buddy Guy - Sweet Little Angel
Jimmy Cotton - Rocket 88



Otis Spann - Mule Kicking In My Stall
Jimmy Cotton - The Blues Keep Falling
Big Walter Horton - Rockin' My Boogie
Otis Spann - Blues Is A Botheration
Otis Spann - S.P. Blues
Junior Wells - Five Long Years

Junior Wells - Checking On My Baby
Otis Spann - Some Day
Buddy Guy - Money (That's What I Want)

Johnny Young - Stealin' Back
Junior Wells - Tobacco Road

DLP

Vanguard VSD-1/2 (US 1970)


(=) Vanguard VMS-73125 (US 1986) "The Best Of The Chicago Blues   Vol. 1"

281970How Blue Can We Get?

Fleetwood Mac
- Watch Out
Jellybread
- Don't Pay Them No Mind
Top Topham
- Mini-Minor-Mo
Duster Bennett
- What A Dream
Bacon Fat
- Boom, Boom (Out Goes The Lights)
Chicken Shack
- Evelyn

Christine Perfect
- And That's Saying A Lot
Bacon Fat
- Small's On 53rd
Fleetwood Mac
- I'm Worried
Chicken Shack
- The Way It Is
Jellybread
- No Brag, Just Facts (parts 1 and 2)
Fleetwood Mac
- Rambling Pony


Elmore James
- Hand In Hand
Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
- That's Alright
Magic Sam
- All Your Love
Larry Johnson
- Catfish Blues
Otis Spann
- My Love Depends On You
Furry Lewis
- Casey Jones
Champion Jack Dupree
- Grandma (You're A Bit Too Slow)

George Smith
- No Time For Jive

Johnny Young
- Deal The Cards
Roosevelt Holts
- Little Bitty Woman
Bukka White
- Bed Spring Blues
Mississippi Joe Callicott
- On My Last Go Round
Otis Rush
- Jump Sister Bessie

DLP

Blue Horizon SPR 45/46

291971Nothing But The Blues
The record companion to Hanover Publications' book "Nothing But The Blues" compiled by the Editors of Blues Unlimited

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

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


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

Lightnin' Slim - Greyhound Blues [Excello 2252]
Slim Harpo - Loving You (The Way I Do) [Excello 2282]
Otis Spann - Can't Do Me No Good [Blue Horizon 57-3142]
Sunnyland Slim - Midnight Jump [Blue Horizon 7-63213]

Johnny Young - Moaning And Groaning [Blue Horizon 7-63852]
George Smith - Telephone Blues [Blue Horizon7-63858]

compiled by Mike Leadbitter & Mike Vernon

2 LP set
notes by Mike Leadbitter

CBS 66278 (UK 1971)

DLP accompanying the book by the same title:

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

301971JOHNNY YOUNG plays and sings the blues
with his gut-bucket mandolin


- Trompin' At The Ballroom
- Blues Before Sunrise
- Bad Blood
- Little Girl, Little Girl
- I'm Goin', I'm Goin'
- Mandolin Boogie

- No. 12 Is At The Station
- Mary Lou
- My Baby Walked Out
- Why Did You Break My Heart
- Nobody's Business

rec. 1971 at Stu Black's Sound Studio in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Chicago Blues Band: Little Mack Simmons, Jerry Portnoy, hca; Bob Riedy, p; Louis Myers, g; Dave Myers, b; Fred Below, dr; prod. by Al Smith

[that album obviously had pressing problems which caused its withdrawal soon after release]

notes by Al Smith

Blues on Blues BOB 10005

Blues on Blues discography

311972Take A Little Walk With Me
The Blues in Chicago 1948-1957

J.B. Hutto
- Combination Boogie
Willie Nix
- All By Yourself
Floyd Jones
- Any Old Lonesome Day
Eddie Taylor
- Big Town Playboy
Little Willie Foster
- Little Girl
John Lee Henley
- Knockin' On Lula Mae's Door
Robert Nighthawk
- My Sweet Lovin' Woman
John Brim
- Gary Stomp [Parrot 799]

Lazy Bill Lucas
- She Got Me Walkin'
Willie Nix
- Nervous Wreck
Floyd Jones
- Skinny Woman
Grace Brim
- Going Down The Line [Random 202]

Johnny Young
- My Baby Walked Out
Little Walter
- Blue Baby
Jimmy Rogers
- Ludella No. 2
Baby Face Leroy
- Take A Little Walk With Me


Grace Brim
- Mean Man Blues [Fortune 801]
Robert Nighthawk
- Feel So Bad
Homesick James
- The Woman I Love
Lazy Bill Lucas
- I Had A Dream
Willie Nix
- No More Love
Floyd Jones
- Floyd's Blues
John Lee Henley
- Rhythm Rockin' Boogie
Memphis Minnie
- World Of Trouble


Johnny Young
- Let Me Ride Your Mule
Floyd Jones
- Big World
John Brim
- Drinking Woman [J.O.B. 1011]
Memphis Minnie
- Kissing In The Dark
Willie Nix
- Just Can't Stay
Junior Wells
- Tomorrow Night
Little Willie Foster
- Crying The Blues
Johnny Shines
- Living In The White House


compiled, annotated and produced by Leroy Pierson

DLP
notes by Leroy J. Pierson

Boogie Disease BD 101/2 [Leroy Pierson's first (one record) label, 500 copies only]

321972The Great Blues Men

Vanguard VSD 25/26, LP 1:
Homesick James - Set A Date
John Lee Hooker - Dusty Road
Sleepy John Estes - Corinna °°
Muddy Waters - Nineteen Years Old
Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues
Mance Lipscomb - Blues In G
Rev. Gary Davis - If I Had My Way °°

Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Key To The Highway
Otis Spann - Burning Fire
Lightnin' Hopkins - Cotton Field Blues
Big Bill Broonzy - Louise, Louise Blues

Johnny Young - Tighten Up On It
James Cotton - Ain't Nobody's Business

Vanguard VSD 25/26, LP 2:
Mississippi John Hurt - Moanin' The Blues
Junior Wells - Stormy Monday Blues °°
Johnny Shines - Dynaflow Blues
Son House (+ Al Wilson) - Empire State Blues °°
Sonny Terry - Mountain Blues
Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - It's All Right, Baby

Jimmy Rushing - How Long, How Long Blues
Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues
J. B. Hutto - Please Help
Fred McDowell - Fred's Ramblin' Blues
Ida Cox - Four Day Creep °°
Robert Pete Williams - On My Way From Texas [Vanguard VRS 9180, Vanguard VCD 115/16 (US 1991)

Newport Folk Festival discography
Mississippi John Hurt discography
Reverend Gary Davis discography
Reverend Robert Wilkins discography
Skip James discography
Sleepy John Estes discography
Yank Rachell discography
Hammie Nixon discography
Robert Pete Williams discography
Jesse Fuller discography
John P. Hammond discography
Dave Van Ronk discography, Vanguard 3VCD 193/95-2]   @ youtube
Otis Rush - I't's A Mean Old World


°° not on CD

design by Jules Halfant; front cover collage by Eric Von Schmidt

Vanguard VCD 25/26:
Homesick James - Set A Date (2:44)
John Lee Hooker - Dusty Road (3:05)
Muddy Waters - Nineteen Years Old (4:55)
Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:40)
Mance Lipscomb - Blues In G (3:33)
Mississippi John Hurt - Moanin' The Blues (3:15)
Johnny Shines - Dynaflow Blues (2:35)
Sonny Terry - Mountain Blues (3:04)
Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - It's All Right, Baby (2:30)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Key To The Highway (3:38)
Otis Spann - Burning Fire (3:15)
Lightning Hopkins - Cotton Field Blues (5:36)
Big Bill Broonzy - Louise, Louise Blues (2:55)

Johnny Young - Tighten Up On It (3:06)
James Cotton - Ain't Nobody's Business (3:23)
Jimmy Rushing - How Long, How Long Blues (4:45)
Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues (4:10)
J.B. Hutto - Please Help (2:52)
Fred McDowell - Fred's Rambling Blues (2:05)
Robert Pete Williams - On My Way From Texas (3:43)
Otis Rush - It's A Mean Old World (2:22)


gatefold DLP
notes Leroy J. Pierson

Vanguard VSD 25/26 (US 1972)

gatefold DLP
notes Leroy J. Pierson

= Vanguard VSD 25/26 (Fr 1972)

DLP, no gatefold, but 2-page leaflet
notes Leroy J. Pierson

Vanguard VSD 25/26 (US 1986)

notes Leroy J. Pierson

(=) Vanguard VCD 25/26 (US 1988)

lots of further editions at www.discogs.com

331973American Folk Blues Festival '72

LP 1:
Bukka White
- I'm Gettin' Ready *   @ youtube
- World Boogie (1:25) * °°   @ youtube
- Aberdeen Blues *   @ youtube
Big Joe Williams
- My Baby Is Gone #   @ youtube
- My Boots & Shoes #   @ youtube
- Louise (1:28) # °°   @ youtube
Robert Pete Williams
- Look Here Woman #   @ youtube

Roosevelt Sykes
- Drivin' Wheel (2:40) *   @ youtube
- Sweet Home Chicago (2:10) *   @ youtube
- Boot That Thing (2:10) * °°   @ youtube
Memphis Slim
- Baby Please Come Home # °°   @ youtube
- Lonesome Traveller #   @ youtube
- Boogin' And Bluesin' #   @ youtube

Johnny Young, W.D. Kent, Billy Davenport
- Instrumental Boogie §   @ youtube


LP 2:
Big Mama Thornton
- Tell Me Baby #   @ youtube
- Ball In [sic] Chain #   @ youtube
T-Bone Walker
- Shake It Baby #   @ youtube
- Goin' Back To Church #   @ youtube

Jimmy Rogers & Whispering Smith
- Chicago Bound (3:10) * °°   @ youtube
- Tricky Woman *   @ youtube
Lightnin' Slim & Whispering Smith
- Winter Time Blues *   @ youtube
Jimmy Dawkins Chicago Blues Band
- Don't Ever Leave Me *   @ youtube
- Got My Mojo Workin' *   @ youtube


°° not on CD

# rec. March 16, 1972 at Hilpert Theatre, Lünen, Germany: Memphis Slim, voc, p; Big Mama Thornton, voc, hca; Big Joe Williams, voc, g; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g; T-Bone Walker, voc, g, p; Hartley Severns, ts, bs, ss, vn; Edward Taylor, ts; Paul Lenart, g; Phillip Morrison, b; Vinton Johnson, dr

* rec. October 26, 1972 at Circus-Krone-Bau, München, Germany: Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Roosevelt Sykes, voc, p; Bukka White, voc, g; Lightnin' Slim, voc, g; Whispering Smith, voc, hca; Jimmy Dawkins, voc, g; Big Voice Odom, voc; Jesse Williams, g; W.D. Kent, b; Billy Davenport, dr

§ rec. October 26, 1972 at Circus-Krone-Bau, München, Germany: Johnny Young, mand; W.D. (Willie) Kent, b; Billy Davenport, dr

gatefold DLP
notes (German & English) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos
click to read notes !click to read notes ! click to enlarge! click to enlarge! click to enlarge! click to enlarge!   l; click to enlarge!
Atlantic 60036 (Germany, Austria, Switzerland 1973) "The 10th American Folk Blues Festival - 'Blues Giants - Rock Creators'"

gatefold DLP
notes (English only) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos

= L+R 42.018 (Germany 1980) "American Folk Blues Festival '72"
= L+R LRC-2018 (cassette) (Germany 1980)

= Edigsa/L+R 12A0272 (Sp 1981)

notes (English only) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos

(=) Optimism/L+R LR CD-2018 (US 1991?)

notes (English only) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos

(=) Bellaphon/L+R CDLS 42018 (Germany 1998?)

American Folk Blues Festival discography
L+R Records discography
Bukka White discography
Big Joe Williams discography
Robert Pete Williams discography
Roosevelt Sykes discography
Jimmy Rogers discography
Whispering Smith discography
Lightnin' Slim discography
Jimmy Dawkins discography

341973The Bob Riedy Chicago Blues Band: Lake Michigan Ain't No River
Chicago Ain't No Hilly Town

- My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble   @ youtube
- House Rock   @ youtube
- Walking By Myself   @ youtube
- Slick Chick   @ youtube
- Sloppy Drunk Blues   @ youtube
- Keep On Looking # //   @ youtube
- Have You Ever //   @ youtube

- Dust My Broom # []   @ youtube
- Reconsider Baby # []   @ youtube
- I Don't Know Why # []   @ youtube
- Chicken Shack (instr)   @ youtube

- Mandolin Boogie (instr) *   @ youtube
- Why Did You Break My Heart *   @ youtube
- Johnnie's Jump   @ youtube       Includes the title of the LP/CD in the lyrics: "Lake Michigan Ain't No River, Chicago Ain't No Hilly Town"
- Pig Ear Rag (instr)   @ youtube

rec. 1972 at Sound Studios in Chicago, IL
# Bob Riedy, p; Chris Mason, ts; John Littlejohn, g; [] voc; Bob Falvey, b; Richard "Hubcap" Robinson, dr, // voc
* Johnny Young, voc, mand; Chris Mason, sax; Bob Riedy, p; Frank Capek, g; Jim Wydra, b; Sam Lay, dr


Rounder 2005 (US 1973)


= Dargil 2005 (Portugal 1979)

notes (in German) by Anonymous

= Pläne PL 88128 (Germany 1979)


= Chicago Sound Recordings SCR 2005 [Bob Riedy's label]
www.chicagosoundrecords.com

Rounder Records discography
John Littlejohn discography
Jimmy Rogers discography

351974Johnny Young: I Can't Keep My Foot From Jumping@ youtube (full album playlist)

- Stop Breaking Down   @ youtube
- I Gotta Find My Baby   @ youtube
- Deal The Cards   @ youtube
- My Trainfare Out Of Town   @ youtube
- I Know She's Kinda Slick   @ youtube
- Tried Not To Cry   @ youtube

- Keep On Drinking   @ youtube
- Kid Mama Blues   @ youtube
- Lend Me Your Love   @ youtube
- Sweet Mama   @ youtube
- No. 12 Is At The Station   @ youtube
- I Can't Keep My Foot From Jumping   @ youtube

rec. 1973 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, g; p; Louis Myers, g; Richard Evans, b; Bill Warren, dr; prod. by Al Smith

notes by Al Smith

Bluesway BLS 6075 (US 1974)

361974Chicago Boogie!

Barrelhouse BH-004 track sequence:
Jimmy Rogers & Little Walter
- I Just Keep Loving Her (tk 1) [Ora Nelle 711]
- I Just Keep Loving Her (tk 2)
Othum Brown & Little Walter
- Ora Nelle Blues (tk 1) [Ora Nelle 711]
- Ora Nelle Blues (tk 2)

Johnny Young
- Money Taking Woman (tk 1) [Ora Nelle 712]
- Money Taking Woman (tk 2) [previously unissued]
Johnny Williams & Johnny Young
- Worried Man Blues [Ora Nelle 712]

Jimmy Rogers & Little Walter
- Little Store Blues (tk 1)
- Little Store Blues (tk 2)
Boll Weevil
- Christmas Time Blues
- Thinkin' Blues
Sleepy John Estes
- Harlem Bound
- Stone Blind
Johnny Temple
- Olds "98" Blues

St. George STG-1001 track sequence:
Jimmy Rogers & Little Walter
- I Just Keep Loving Her (tk 1) [Ora Nelle 711]
Othum Brown & Little Walter
- Ora Nelle Blues (tk 1) [Ora Nelle 711]

Jimmy Rogers & Little Walter
- Little Store Blues (tk 1)
Johnny Young
- Money Taking Woman (tk 1) [Ora Nelle 712]
Boll Weevil
- Christmas Time Blues
Johnny Temple
- Olds 98 Blues
Sleepy John Estes
- Stone Blind


Johnny Williams & Johnny Young
- Worried Man Blues [Ora Nelle 712]
Boll Weevil
- Thinkin' Blues

Johnny Young
- Money Taking Woman (tk 2) [Barrelhouse BH-004]
Othum Brown & Little Walter
- Ora Nelle Blues (tk 2)
Jimmy Rogers & Little Walter
- Little Store Blues (tk 1)
Jimmy Rogers & Little Walter
- I Just Keep Loving Her (tk 2)
Sleepy John Estes
- Harlem Bound


rec. 1947/48 in Bernard and Red Abrams' Maxwell Street record shop for the Ora Nelle label
all tracks (except where noted) previously unissued

artwork / design by George Paulus

notes by George Paulus

Barrelhouse BH-004 (US 1974)


= St. George STG-1001 (1983) "Chicago Boogie! 1947"
improved sound

notes by Kiyoshi Nagata and George Paulus

= P-Vine PCD-1888 (Jp 1993)


= P-Vine PLP-6714 (Jp 1998)

Barrelhouse Records discography
St. George Records discography

371975Johnny Young and His Friends

LP track sequence:
- Prison Bound   @ youtube
- Sugar Farm Blues #   @ youtube
- All My Money Gone   @ youtube
- My Home Ain't Here
- Did You Get That Letter?
- I'm Leaving Baby
- I Got It   @ youtube

- Meet Me In The Bottom *
- You Made Me Feel So Good
- Blues And Trouble
- Kid Man Blues #   @ youtube
- Humpty Dumpty
- Forty-Four Blues
- Whoop It Up

CD track sequence:
- Prison Bound
- Sugar Farm Blues #
- All My Money Gone
- My Home Ain't Here
- Blues For Big Time # °°   @ youtube
- Did You Get That Letter?
- I'm Leaving Baby
- I Got It
- Bumble Bee # °°   @ youtube
- Meet Me In The Bottom *
- You Made Me Feel So Good
- Want My Lovin' °°
- Blues And Trouble
- Kid Man Blues #
- Humpty Dumpty
- Instrumental # °°   @ youtube
- Forty-Four Blues
- Whoop It Up

°° CD bonus tracks, previously unissued

# rec. 1964 in Chicago, IL by Pete Welding & Norman Dayron; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Big John Wrencher, hca; John Lee Granderson, g
* rec. 1964 in Chicago, IL by Pete Welding & Norman Dayron; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Big John Wrencher, hca; Robert Nighthawk, g
photos by Pete Welding

notes by Pete Welding

Testament T-2226 (US 1975)

notes by Pete Welding

= Testament T-2226 (Special Re-Release by OJL) (US 19??)


= Testament TCD 5003 (US 1994)


= P-Vine PCD-5564 (Jp)

Testament Records discography
Big John Wrencher discography
John Lee Granderson discography

381979Blues Roots: Give Me The Blues
The Living Tradition

LP 1:
Smoky Babe - Boogy
Avery Brady - I Don't Want You No More
Doug Quattlebaum - Good Woman Blues
Huddie Ledbetter - Frankie And Albert, parts 1 + 2
[Jimmy Brewer - Big Road Blues
Even though shown on the cover as well as on the label track listing and even though there's a picture and a short bio of Jim Brewer in the liner notes, this Jim Brewer track is actually / erroneously? not included; instead there's the following Arthur Weston track !!!]

Arthur Weston - Someday Baby
Big Joe Williams - Long Road Blues
Big Bill Broonzy - You Better Mind

Clarence Edwards - Mean Old Frisco
Bert Logan, Russ Logan, Big Joe Williams - Four O'Clock In The Morning
Big Joe John Henry Miller, Jimmy Lee Miller - Down Here By Myself
Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires - 21 Below Zero

Johnny Young - Green Door Blues [Storyville SLP 181]
Arthur Weston - Roll Me Over Slow


LP 2:
Champion Jack Dupree - Back Door Special
Roosevelt Sykes - Southern Style Piano
Henry Brown - Low Down Drag
Memphis Slim - Funky Blues
Jimmy Yancey - Yancey Special
Sunnyland Slim - Sunnyland's Boogie

Speckled Red - Cow Cow Blues
Otis Spann - The Skies Are Blue
Memphis Slim - A Letter Home
Otis Spann - Boots And Shoes
Memphis Slim - Rebecca Blues
Willie Mabon - I'm The Fixer
Champion Jack Dupree - I Just Want To Be Free

compiled by Manfred Miller
front cover lino-cut by Hartmut Heumann


accompanying flyer

gatefold DLP
notes by Manfred Miller   (English translation by Christa M. Gowing)

Storyville 6.28470 (Germany 1979)
to read liner notes click on pictures of covers: G = German / E = English   text has been black/white reversed to improve readability


= PGP RTB 2LP 3220044 (Yugoslavia 1981)

Storyville Records discography

391979Vivian & Jimmy's Blues Showcase

Willie Cobbs
- You Don't Love Me [Vee Jay 411]
- You're So Hard To Please [Vee Jay 411]
- Lonely Boy [Pure Gold 302, remastered by Vee Jay]
Christine Kittrell
- Sittin' & Drinkin' [Vee Jay 399]
- I'm A Woman [Vee Jay 444]
- It's Nobody's Fault [Vee Jay 444]
J. B. Lenoir
- Do What I Say [Vee Jay 352]

J. B. Lenoir
- Oh Baby [Vee Jay 352]

Snooky Pryor
- Someone To Love Me [Vee Jay 215] #   @ youtube
- You Tried To Ruin Me [Vee Jay unissued] #   @ youtube
- Judgment Day [Vee Jay 215] #   @ youtube
Floyd Jones
- Schooldays (On My Mind) [Vee Jay 111]
- Ain't Times Hard [Vee Jay 111]
- Any Old Lonesome Day [Vee Jay 126]


# with Johnny Young, g

 
Teichiku ULS-1913-JY (Jp 1979)

J.B. Lenoir discography
Snooky Pryor discography
Floyd Jones discography

401980Chicago Slickers Vol. 2 1948-55

Little Walter
- Blue Baby

Man Young
- Let Me Ride Your Mule
- My Baby Walked Out
Robert Nighthawk
- My Sweet Lovin' Woman
Grace Brim
- Goin Down The Line
Johnny Shines
- Living In The White House
Willie Nix
- No More Love
- Nervous Wreck

Willie Nix
- Just Can't Stay
- All By Yourself
Floyd Jones
- Skinny Woman
John Brim
- Drinking Woman
Lazy Bill
- I Had A Dream
J. B. Hutto
- Combination Boogie
Floyd Jones
- Any Old Lonesome Day
- Floyd's Blue


notes by Leroy Pierson

Nighthawk 107 (US 1980)

Nighthawk Records discography

411982Combination Blues
Chicago Bluesmasters Vol. 1

J.B. Hutto & His Hawks
- Combination Boogie
- Now She's Gone
- Pet Cream Man
- Lovin' You
- Price Of Love
- Things Are So Slow
- Dim Lights


Snooky Pryor
- Judgement Day (alt tk) [Vee-Jay unissued] #
- Someone To Love Me (alt tk) [Vee-Jay unissued] #
- You Tried To Ruin Me Baby [Vee-Jay unissued] #
Willie Nix And His Combo
- Nervous Wreck
- No More Love
- Just Can't Stay
- All By Myself


# with Johnny Young, g

notes by Bez Turner

Charly CRB 1042 (UK 1982)

42198519 Tracks From The Film Chicago Blues

Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
- We're Ready
- First Time I Met The Blues
- Country Girl
- Hoodoo Man

Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
- We're Ready
- In My Younger Days

Johnny Young
- Driving Wheel #
- Walking Groundhog #


Muddy Waters
- She's 19 Years Old
- Hoochie Coochie Man
- I Got My Mojo Working
Mighty Joe Young
- Why You Want To Hurt Me
Koko Taylor
- Wang Dang Doodle

J.B. Hutto
- Speak My Mind
- Come On Back Home
Johnny Lewis
- Your Gonna Miss Me
- Uncle Sam
- Hobo Blues
- I Hear You Knocking


first broadcast in the UK in late 1970
# rec. December 1969 live in Chicago, IL by Harley Cokliss for the film "Chicago Blues"; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Lefty Dizz (Walter Williams), g; b; dr

notes by Mike Rowe

Red Lightnin' RL 0055 (UK 1985)


= P-Vine PCD-5332 (Jp 1998) "Muddy Waters, Junior Wells & Buddy Guy ..."

Red Lightnin' Records discography

431990Snooky Pryor

- Fine Boogie
- I'm Getting Tired
- Rough Treatment (two takes)
- Why Should I Worry?
- Going Back On The Road
- Real Fine Boogie
- Hold Me In Your Arms
- Uncle Sam Don't Take My Man
- Boogie Twist
- Keep What You Got
- Stockyard Blues
- Boogie
- Telephone Blues

- Let Me Ride Your Mule #
- My Baby Walked Out On Me #
- Harp Instrumental
- Stop The Train Conductor
- Walking Boogie
- My Head Is Turning Grey


# Johnny "Man" Young, voc, mand

notes by Klaus Kilian

Flyright FLYCD 20


= Paula PCD-11 (1991 US)

Flyright Records discography
Snooky Pryor discography

441995Bottleneck Blues

Napoleon Strickland
- Key To The Bushes
Big Joe Williams
- Talking About Bottleneck
- Traveling Blues

Robert Night Hawk
- Crying Won't Help You (alt tk) §
Mississippi Fred McDowell
- Six White Horses
Mott Willis
- Knife Instrumental
Robert Lee Granderson
- Flora Blues
J.B. Hutto & The Hawks
- Wild Wild Woman
Blind Connie Williams
- St. Louis Blues
David Honeyboy Edwards
- Worryin' Woman Blues
Robert Johnson
- I'm Coming, Lord, Please Don't Drive Me Away

Chicago Blues Band [actually "The Chicago String Band"]
- Verna Lee Blues []
Mississippi Fred McDowell
- Wouldn't Mind Dying
John Littlejohn
- Dust My Broom
Blind Connie Williams
- Trouble In Mind
Big Joe Williams
- How Do You Want Your Rollin' Done
Mott Willis
- M & O Blues
Johnny Shines
- Crucial Moment
Jack Owens
- Train Time
Robert Johnson
- I Don't Know When Death Is Gonna Call Me
Herb Quinn
- Casey, You Can't Ride This Train
Napoleon Strickland
- Skake 'Em Down


§ rec. October 14, 1964 in Chicago, IL; Robert Nighthawk, voc, g; Big John Wrencher, hca; Johnny Young, mand
[] rec. June 18, 1966 in Chicago, IL; The Chicago String Band: John Lee Granderson, voc, g; Big John Wrencher, hca; Carl Martin, voc, vl, mand; Johnny Young, voc, mand

(Testament 2216
announced, but not issued)


Testament TCD 5021 (US 1995)

= P-Vine PCD-5576 (Jp)

Testament Records discography

451995Johnny Young: Back To Chicago

- Little Girl [Decca LK 4748]
- One More Time [Decca LK 4748]
- Humpty Dumpty [Testament T-2226]
- I Got It [Testament T-2226]
- Whoop It Up [Testament T-2226]
- All My Money Gone [Testament T-2226]
- Prison Bound [Testament T-2226]
- Bad Blood [Testament T-2226]
- Let Me Ride Your Mule [Testament T-2226]
- Meet Me In The Bottom [Testament T-2226]
- Money Taking Woman [Testament T-2203]
- I Got To Find That Woman [Testament T-2220]
- You Got Your [sic - actually Good] Business [Testament T-2220]
- I'm Leaving Baby [Testament T-2226]
- My Baby Walked Out In 1954 [Testament T-2203]
- You Make Me Feel So Good [Testament T-2203]
- Back To Chicago [Testament T-2203]
- Tired Of You Smiling [Testament T-2203]
- Moaning And Groaning [Blue Horizon BH 7-63852]
- Heard My Doorbell Ring [Blue Horizon BH 7-63852]
- My Trainfare Out Of Town [Blue Horizon BH 7-63852]
- Lula Mae [Blue Horizon BH 7-63852]
- Jackson Bound [Blue Horizon BH 7-63852]
- Walking Slow [Blue Horizon BH 7-63852]


Delta DCD-1874 (US 1995)

461996Let's Have A Blues Ball!
The Music if the Juke Joints

- I'm Having A Ball - Johnny Young
- Dream - John Littlejohn
- Swing It On Home - Big Mama Thornton
- Anna Lee - Earl Hooker
- Going Back To The Country - Juke Boy Bonner
- It's Hard - Clifton Chenier
- Come On Baby - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Nine Below Zero - Sonny Boy Williamson
- Gambling Blues - Juke Boy Bonner
- Pontiac Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson
- I'm In The Big City - Juke Boy Bonner
- Meet You At The Chicken Shack - Ligtnin Hopkins
- Rag Around Your Head - John Delafose
- The Blues (Won't Let Me Take My Rest) - Henry Gray
- Shake You Moneymaker - John Littlejohn
- If Trouble Was Money - Charlie Musslewhite

- Wild, Wild Woman - Johnny Young
- Gimme A Penny - Big Mama Thornton
- On The Road Again - Johnny Young
- Mojo In My Hand - L.C. Robinson


Arhoolie CD 590 (US 1996)

= Ace CDCHD 590 (UK 1996)

47199615 Urban Blues Classics

- Pontiac Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson
- Big Mama's Bumble Bee - Big Mama Thornton
- Cincinnati Stomp - Big Joe Duskin
- Anna Lee - Earl Hooker
- Up & Down The Avenue - Charlie Musselwhite
- Been Around The World - John Littlejohn
- Wine-O-Baby Boogie - Joe Turner/Pete Johnson
- I Know That's Right - Katie Webster
- Raven, The - Omar Sharriff
- You Think I'm Your Good Thing - Bee Houston
- Going Back To The Country - Juke Boy Bonner
- Ups & Downs - L.C. "Good Rockin'" Robinson
- Atlanta Bounce - Piano Red

- Wild, Wild, Woman - Johnny Young
- Gibson Creek Shuffle - The Charles Ford Band


Arhoolie CD 102 (UK 1996)

48199715 Piano Blues & Boogie Classics

- Dollar Bill Boogie - Big Joe Duskin
- Have You Ever Been Out In The Country - Mercy Dee
- Whistling Alex Moore's Blue - Whistling Alex Moore

- Moaning And Groaning - Johnny Young/Otis Spann
- Katie's Boogie Woogie - Katie Webster
- Cruel Hearted Woman - Thunder Smith
- Ma Grinder, The - Robert Shaw
- Why Did You Go Last Night - Clifton Chenier/Elmore Nixon
- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - L.C. "Good Rockin" Robinson/Pinetop Perkins
- San Francisco Can Be Such A Lonely Town - Omar Sharriff
- Rocket Boogie "88" - Pete Johnson
- Sugar Hill - Bukka White
- You Ain't Got A Chance - Piano Red
- Cold Chills - Henry Gray
- On The Spot Boogie - Charlie Musselwhite/Lafayette Leake



Arhoolie CD 108 (US 1997)

491997Otis Spann with Muddy Waters and his Band: Live The Life

- Been A Long, Long Time (4:23) # *
- Look Under My Bed (4:26) # *
- Tribute To Martin Luther King (4:40) # *
- Sarah Street (6:24) # *
- Worried Life Blues (4:00) # *
- Kansas City (4:11) || #
- Tin Pan Alley (7:29) || #
- 5 Long Years (7:32) ||
- Live The Life I Love ||(3:21)
- I Wanna Go Home (5:59) || §
- Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had (3:37) || *
- High Rising (instr) (4:36) ||
- Everything's Gonna Be Alright (2:09) # *
- What's On Your Worried Mind (2:27) # *

- Mean Old Train (3:03) \\   @ youtube
- My Baby Left Me (2:55) //   @ youtube

rec. c. 1968 live, unknown location; Otis Spann, p, # lead voc; Muddy Waters, || voc, * g; prob. Paul Oscher, hca; prob. Sammy Lawhorn, Pee Wee Madison, g; Sonny Wimberley, b; S.P. Leary. dr; § Charles Morganfield & others, chorus
\\ rec. November 17, 1963 (?) in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Slim Willis, hca; Otis Spann, p; Robert Whitehead, dr
// rec. May 1964 in Chicago, IL; Slim Willis, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; Johnny Young, g; Robert Whitehead, dr

notes by Dick Shurman

Testament TCD 6001 (US 1997)

Otis Spann discography

501997Carl Martin: Crow Jane Blues

- Crow Jane Blues   @ youtube
- Corrina, Corrina *   @ youtube
- Trouble On Your Hand No. 2 #   @ youtube
- State Street Pimp No. 2 *   @ youtube
- Gravedigger Blues * [Testament CD 6004]   @ youtube
- Worried All The Time []   @ youtube
- Liza Jane *   @ youtube
- Good Morning Judge   @ youtube

- John Henry *   @ youtube
- West Virginia Blues []   @ youtube
- Trouble On Your Hand No. 1 #   @ youtube
- Everyday I Have The Blues * [Testament CD 6004]   @ youtube
- Frankie & Johnny *   @ youtube
- State Street Pimp No. 1 *   @ youtube
- Railroad Blues || [Testament LP 2220, CD 4001, CD 5006]   @ youtube
- You Can't Beat The Syndicate (Carl Martin interviewed by Pete Welding)   @ youtube



unissued tracks from same session:
- Mistreatin' Blues
- Goin' Back Home




rec. May 31, 1966 in Chicago, IL; Carl Martin, voc, g
# rec. May 31, 1966 in Chicago, IL; Carl Martin, voc, g; Johnny Young, mand
* rec. May 31, 1966 in Chicago, IL; Carl Martin, voc, mand; Johnny Young, g
|| rec. June 6, 1966 in Chicago, IL; Carl Martin, voc, fiddle; Johnny Young, g; John Lee Granderson, g
[] rec. December 20, 1965 in Chicago, IL; Ted Bogan, voc, g; John Lee Henley, hca; Johnny Young, mand

All tracks previously unreleased (except where noted)

notes (September 1997) by Frank Scott

Testament TCD 6006 (US 1997)

Testament Records discography
Carl Martin discography
John Lee Henley discography
John Lee Granderson discography

511997Mandolin Blues

Yank Rachell
- Dig My Buddy, Joe   @ youtube
- Smokey Joe   @ youtube
- Rainy Day Blues #   @ youtube
- My Baby's Gonna Jump And Shout #   @ youtube

Carl Martin
- Every Day I Have The Blues   @ youtube
- Grave Digger Blues   @ youtube
Willie Hatcher (with John Lee Granderson, g)
- Garbage Man Blues   @ youtube
- Crawdad   @ youtube
- Waiting Just For You   @ youtube

Ted Bogan
- Mary, Run To The Window §   @ youtube
Johnny Young
- Highway 61   @ youtube
- Jumpin' On Eight (instr)   @ youtube
- Stealin'   @ youtube
- Mandolin Rock (instr)   @ youtube
- I Tried To Get You Off My Mind   @ youtube
- Bumble Bee []   @ youtube
- Crawling King Snake ||   @ youtube

Yank Rachell tracks rec. February 12, 1967 in Chicago, IL; Yank Rachell, voc, mand, g; Taj Mahal, g, # hca; Sleepy John Estes, g

Carl Martin tracks rec. June 6, 1966 [actually May 31, 1966] in Chicago, IL; Carl Martin, voc, fiddle, g, mand; Johnny Young, g

Willie Hatcher tracks rec. prob. mid-1960s in Chicago, IL; Will(ie) Hatcher, voc, mand; John Lee Granderson, g

Ted Bogan track rec. prob. December 20, 1965 in Chicago, IL; Ted Bogan, voc, g; John Lee Henley, hca; Johnny Young, mand

Johnny Young tracks rec. 1963-1964 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, mand; John Wrencher, hca; John Lee Granderson, g
[] rec. May 9, 1964 live at the University of Chicago; Johnny Young, voc, mand, g; Little Walter, hca; Jimmy Walker, p
|| rec. 1963-1964 in Chicago, IL ; Johnny Young, voc, mand, g; Little Walter, hca; Jimmy Walker, p

notes by Frank Scott

Testament TCD 6004 (US 1997)

Testament Records discography
Yank Rachell discography
John Lee Henley discography
Carl Martin discography
Big John Wrencher discography
Little Walter discography

521998John Lee Granderson: Hard Luck John

- Minglewood Blues #   @ youtube
- Hard Luck John §   @ youtube
- Flora Blues §   @ youtube

- Please Come Back To Me *   @ youtube
- Death Valley Blues //   @ youtube
- Texas Blues \\   @ youtube
- Rock Me All Night Long #   @ youtube

- Cold Dark Evening *   @ youtube
- County Farm Blues §   @ youtube
- Decoration Day ||   @ youtube
- Aching Pain Blues §   @ youtube
- This Is Your Last Chance #   @ youtube
- That's Doggin' Me $   @ youtube

- Watch Out, Girl []   @ youtube
- Got To Bend You Over, Baby $   @ youtube
- One Kind Favor #   @ youtube


prod. and rec. by Pete Welding
# rec. c. 1964 in Chicago, IL; John Lee Granderson, voc, el & Dobro g
* rec. April 4, 1964 in Chicago, IL; John Lee Granderson, voc, g; Johnny Young, mand; Jimmy Walker, p
§ rec. May 2, 1966 in Chicago, IL; John Lee Granderson, voc, g; Bill Foster, g
|| rec. July 24, 1963 in Chicago, IL; John Lee Granderson, voc, g; Pezs Thomas, hca; Jimmy Walker, p

[] rec. June 18, 1966 in Chicago, IL; John Lee Granderson, voc, g; Carl Martin, violin; Johnny Young, mand
// rec. September 30, 1962 in Chicago, IL; John Lee Granderson, voc, g; William Mack, g; Pezs Thomas, hca; Jimmy Walker, p
\\ rec. October 21, 1962 in Chicago, IL; John Lee Granderson, voc, g
$ rec. ca. mid-1960s in Chicago, IL; John Lee Granderson, voc, g; Bill Foster, g

notes (March 1998) by Frank Scott

Testament TCD 5031 (US 1998)

Testament Records discography
John Lee Granderson discography
Carl Martin discography

531998Down Home Harp

- Blue Mood - Big Walter Horton
- We All Got To Go - Billy Boy Arnold
- Billy Boy's Jump - Billy Boy Arnold
- Borrow Love And Go - James 'Bat' Robinson

- You Know I Love You - Big John Wrencher #
- Thinkin' About Your Apples - Coot Venson
- Sweet Woman Blues - George Robertson

- Canadian Sunset (instr) - Harmonica Slim Willis Quartet {}
- Last Night Blues - Andrew Cauthen
- Blue As I Can Be - Willie Lee Harris
- Fox Chase - Snake Hippin' - Careless Love - John Lee Henley
- Sweet Little Woman - Robert Nighthawk With Little Walter
- Slow Train Through Arkansas - Elmon 'Driftin' Slim' Mickle
- T-Model And The Train - Elmon 'Driftin' Slim' Mickle
- Morning Rock - Coot Venson
- Blues For Illinois - Dr. Ross
- Mattie Mae - Billy Boy Arnold
- Where The Southern Crosses The Dog - Coot Venson
- Goin' Down To The Station - Andrew Cauthen

- Walter's Boogie - Big Walter Horton
- John Henry - James 'Bat' Robinson
- Baby, You Don't Have To Go - Johnny Young with Little Walter []

# rec. June 18, 1966 in Chicago, IL; Big John Wrencher, voc, hca; John Lee Granderson, g; Carl Martin, voc, mand; Johnny Young, mand

[] rec. May 9, 1964 live at the University of Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, mand, g; Little Walter, hca; Jimmy Walker, p

{} rec. May 19 or 23, 1964 in Chicago, IL; Charles 'Harmonica Slim' Willis, hca; Otis Spann, p; Johnny Young, g; Robert Whitehead, dr

notes by Frank Scott

Testament TCD 6011 (US 1998)

= P-Vine PCD-5575 (Jp)

Testament Records discography
Big John Wrencher discography
Carl Martin discography
Little Walter discography
Little Walter discography

541999Shake 'Em On Down
The Real Country Blues

- Shake 'Em On Down - Fred McDowell
- Sloppy Drunk Blues - Big Joe Williams
- Alabama Blues - Bukka White
- Need More Blues - Sleepy Joe Estes
- Judge Boushay Blues - Furry Lewis
- Pardon Denied Again - Robert Pete Williams
- Rabbit Blues - Smoky Babe
- Take Me Out Of The Bottom - Big Joe Williams
- Fred's Worried Life Blues - Fred McDowell
- Poor Black Mattie - R.L. Burnside
- Come Home To Me Baby - Joe Callicott
- Smokestack Lightning - Clarence Edwards
- Write Me A Few Lines - Fred McDowell
- Mississippi River - Smoky Babe
- Just Tippin' It - Robert Pete Williams
- She Left Me A Mule To Ride - Big Joe Williams
- Canned Heat - Houston Stackhouse
- Three O'Clock In The Morning - Johnny Woods
- 'Bout A Spoonful - Nathan Beauregard
- You Call Yourself A Cadillac - Robert Nighthawk

- Keep Your Nose Out Of My Business - Johnny Young & Otis Spann
- Oh Baby - Napeleon Strickland


Arhoolie/Ace CD 527 (UK 1999)

551999I Blueskvarter Chicago 1964, Volume One

CD One:
Willie Mabon
- Michelle   @ Spotify
- I'm Hungry   @ Spotify
- I Don't Know   @ Spotify
- New Orleans Blues   @ Spotify
- I'm The Fixer   @ Spotify
James Brewer
- I Know A Woman, She Lives Up The Hill   @ Spotify
- Big Road Blues   @ Spotify
- Blues In The Morning, Blues Every Turn Around   @ Spotify
- Poor Kelly Blues   @ Spotify
- I Don't No Woman, She Got Hair Like Drops Of Rain   @ Spotify
Eddie Boyd (+ Mike Bloomfield)
- Five Long Years   @ Spotify
- Her Picture In The Frame   @ Spotify - Early Grave   @ Spotify
- The Big Question   @ Spotify
- Look Over Younder Wall   @ Spotify
Yank Rachell
- Going To Pack Up My Things And Go   @ Spotify
- Every Night And Day, I Hear My Baby Call My Name   @ Spotify
- My Baby Rocks Me   @ Spotify
- My Baby's Gone, Soon I'll Be Gone Myself   @ Spotify



CD Two:
Johnny Young (+ Slim Willis, Otis Spann, Robert Whitehead)
- Why Did You Break My Heart (= "Broken Hearted Blues")   @ Spotify
- Better Cut It Out (= "You Better Cut That Out")   @ Spotify
- My Baby Walked Out And Left   @ Spotify
- Step By, Baby (= "Want My Baby")   @ Spotify
- Monkey-Face Woman   @ Spotify
Sunnyland Slim (+ Mike Bloomfield)
- Brownskin Woman   @ Spotify - It's You Baby   @ Spotify
- One Room Country Shack   @ Spotify
- Sunnyland's Jump   @ Spotify
- Rock Me   @ Spotify
Big Walter Horton (+ Robert Nighthawk)
- Let's Have A Good Time   @ Spotify
- Mean Mistreater   @ Spotify
- I'm In The Mood   @ Spotify
- Louise, Louise   @ Spotify
- You Don't Mistreat Me   @ Spotify
- Trouble In Mind
  @ Spotify
Interviews (& Olle Helander)
Willie Mabon   @ Spotify
James Brewer   @ Spotify
Eddie Boyd   @ Spotify
Yank Rachell   @ Spotify




unissued tracks from same session:
Yank Rachell
- Texas Tony (takes 1 to 3)
- Bye Bye Baby
- Sometimes I Believe My Baby Treats Me Wrong
- My Rock Is My Steady Pistol




CD 1 tracks all rec. May 16, 1964 in Chicago, IL
Willie Mabon, voc, p
James Brewer, voc, g
Eddie Boyd, voc, p; Mike Bloomfield, g
Yank Rachell, voc, mand, g; Mike Bloomfield, p; John Lee Granderson, g


CD 2 tracks all rec. May 1964 in Chicago, IL
Johnny Young rec. May 23, 1964; Johnny Young, voc, g; Slim Willis, hca; Otis Spann, p; Robert Whitehead, dr
Sunnyland Slim rec. May 19, 1964; Sunnyland Slim, voc, p
Walter Horton rec. May 23, 1964; Walter Horton, voc, hca; Robert Nighthawk, g

all interviews rec. May 16, 1964

2 CD set
notes by Scott Barretta, Björn Helander, Peps Persson, Sven Zetterberg & Louise Hoffsten

Jefferson Records SBACD 12653/4 (Sweden 1999)

561999Chicago Blues Hard Times

- I Just Keep Loving Her - Little Walter
- Telephone Blues - Snooky Pryor / Moody Jones
- Snooky & Moody's Boogie - Moody Jones / Snooky Pryor

- My Baby Walked Out On Me - Johnny Young
- Keep What You Got - Floyd Jones
- Ore Nellie Blues: (That's Alright) - Othum Brown
- Stockyard Blues - Floyd Jones
- Blues Baby - Little Walter
- I Want My Baby - Little Walter
- Roll Tumble And Slip: (I Cried) - Sunnyland Slim
- Train Time: (Four O' Clock Blues) - Sunnyland Slim
- Johnson Machine Gun - Sunnyland Slim
- Fly Right Little Girl - Sunnyland Slim
- Gypsy Woman - Muddy Waters
- Little Anna Mae - Muddy Waters
- I Can't Be Satisfied - Muddy Waters
- I Feel Like Going Home - Muddy Waters
- Hard Times - Floyd Jones

- Let Me Ride Your Mule - Johnny Young
- School Days - Floyd Jones
- Money Takin' Woman - Johnny Young [Ora Nelle 712]
- Worried Man Blues - Johnny Williams [Ora Nelle 712]


Indigo IGOCD 2095 (UK 1999)

571999And This Is Maxwell Street

CD One
- The Sun Is Shining- Johnny Young #
- Can't Hold Out Much Longer - Big John Wrencher
- Juke Medley - Carey Bell
- That's All Right - Robert Night Hawk
- Red Top/Ornithology - Little Arthur King
- Maxwell Street Jam - Carey Bell
- Lucille - Big John Wrencher
- Corinna, Corinna - Arvella Gray
- Power To Live Right - Carrie Robinson
- Cheating And Lying Blues - Robert Night Hawk
- Honky Tonk - Robert Night Hawk
- Dust My Broom - Robert Night Hawk
- Peter Gunn Jam - Robert Night Hawk
- I Need Love So Bad - Robert Night Hawk

- All I Want For My Breakfast - Johnny Young #
- Take It Easy, Baby - Robert Night Hawk
- Long Gone John - Unknown Harpist



CD Two
- Mama, Talk To Your Daughter - Big Mojo Elem
- I'm Ready - Carey Bell
- Carey'n On - Carey Bell
- When The Saints Go Marching In - James Brewer Group
- Back Off Jam - Robert Night Hawk
- John Henry - Arvella Gray
- Anna Lee/Sweet Black Angel - Robert Night Hawk

- Love You Tonight - Big John Wrencher
- The Time Have Come - Robert Night Hawk
- Cruisin' In A Cadillac - Carey Bell
- Honey Hush - Robert Night Hawk
- I'll Fly Away - James Brewer Gospel Group
- I Shall Overcome - Fannie Brewer


CD Three [P-Vine & Catfish versions only]
Michael Bloomfield interviews Robert Night Hawk
- Musical Introduction
- Reel 2
- Reel 3
- Reel 4
- Reel 1


Street recordings made for 1964 documentary film 'And This Is Free'; compiled by Ian Talcroft

# rec. September 20, 1964 live on Maxwell Street in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, g; Robert Nighthawk, Mike Bloomfield, g; dr

2 CD set
with 62-pp. booklet

P-Vine PCD-5527/28 (Jp 1999)

3 CD set
notes by Colin Talcroft with Allan Murphy

(=) Rooster CD ROO2641 (US 2000)

3 CD set

(=) Catfish KAT3D1 (UK 2000)

Catfish Records (UK) discography

582000The Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Box Set

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
- 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)

592001Snooky Pryor and Friends: Pitch A Boogie Woogie If It Takes Me All Night Long
Seminal Post-War Chicago Blues

Floyd Jones
- Keep What You Got
- Stockyard Blues
Moody Jones
- Rough Treatment
- Rough Treatment (alt tk)
- Why Should I Worry
Snooky Pryor
- Big Guns (Uncle Sam Don't Take My Man) (undubbed version)
- Boogie Twist
- Boogy Fool
- Can't We Get This Straight
- Cryin' Shame
- Eighty Nine Ten
- Fine Boogie
- (Real) Fine Boogie
- Going Back On The Road
- Harp Instrumental
- Hold Me In Your Arms
- I Can't Feel Good No More
- I Can't Feel Good No More (alt tk)
- I'm Getting Tired
- Raisin' Sand
- Stop The Train Conductor (tk 1)
- Stop The Train Conductor (tk 2)
- Uncle Sam Don't Take My Man
- Walking Boogie
Snooky & Moody
- Snooky & Moody's Boogie
- Telephone Blues

Johnny Young
- Let Me Ride Your Mule
- My Baby Walked Out


Westside WESA 869 (UK 2001)

Snooky Pryor discography

59a2003Roots Of The Blues

disc 1 "Folk Blues":
Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:47)
The Chambers Brothers - See See Rider (3:08)
John Hammond - Statesboro Blues (3:39)
Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (3:53)
Dave Van Ronk - Cocaine (3:46)
Buffy Sainte-Marie - You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond (2:51) °°
Spider John Koerner - Traveling Blues (4:44)
Bill Monroe - Blue Yodel # 4 (2:43)
Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Maria Muldaur - Richland Woman (4:19)
Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Geoff & Maria Muldaur - Chevrolet (3:51)
Sam & Kirk McGee - Milk Cow Blues (2:31) °°
Tony Glover - I Dont Need No Whiskey (4:30) °°
Josh White - What You Gonna Do When Your Meat Gives Out (1:49) °°
Eric Von Schmidt - Grizzly Bear (4:34)
Mance Lipscomb - Keep On Truckin' Mama (1:35) °°


disc 2 "Delta & Country Blues":
Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man (2:53)
Rev. Gary Davis - You Got To Move (5:50)
Skip James - I'm So Glad (1:53)
Son House - Empire State Express (3:50)
Bukka White - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (4:45)
Mississippi Fred McDowell - If The River Was Whiskey (2:34)
Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied (2:53)
Odetta - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (2:13)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Key To The Highway (3:37)
Sleepy John Estes - Clean Up At Home (2:59)
Mance Lipscomb - Freddie (1:50)
Memphis Slim - How Long (2:59)
Robert Pete Williams - Midnight Boogie (3:25) [Vanguard VRS 9180, Vanguard VSD 77/78, Vanguard CD 70193-2, Vanguard 3VCD 208-10]   @ youtube
Eddie Boyd & Willie Dixon - Five Long Years (2:22)
Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (5:12)


disc 3 "Urban Blues":
Junior Wells - Messin' With The Kid (2:21)
Otis Rush - I Can't Quit You Baby (3:14)
J.B. Hutto & The Hawks - Going Ahead (2:03)
Otis Spann - Marie (2:28)
James Cotton - Rocket 88 (2:03)
Homesick James And His Dusters - Dust My Broom (3:17)

Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band - One More Time (2:26)
The Johnny Shines Blues Band - If I Get Lucky (3:23)
Buddy Guy - One Room Country Shack (5:30)
Muddy Waters with Otis Spann - Blow Wind Blow (3:09)
Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby Please Don't Go (2:37)
Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Blues With A Feeling (3:55)
Charlie Musselwhite - Juke (4:18)
Big Mama Thornton - Ball And Chain (6:48)
John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom (3:01)


compilation prod. by Tom Vickers; cover design by Ann Smalley; photography by David Gahr

°° previously unreleased tracks

3-CD Set
notes by Ed Ward

Vanguard 3VCD 208-10 (Germany 2002)
= Vanguard CD 79715 (US 2003)

602004I Blueskvarter Chicago 1964, Volume Three

CD One:
Snooks Eaglin
- Yours Truly   @ Spotify
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie   @ Spotify
- My Babe   @ Spotify
- Let Me Go Home, Whiskey   @ Spotify
- Careless Love   @ Spotify
- Rock Island Line   @ Spotify
- C.C. Rider   @ Spotify
- I'm Looking For A Woman   @ Spotify
- Hello Dolly   @ Spotify
- Lonesome Road   @ Spotify
Babe Stovall
- Good Morning Blues   @ Spotify
- Candy Man   @ Spotify
- Fo' Day Blues   @ Spotify
- Gonna Move To Kansas City   @ Spotify
Johnny Moment
- Keep Our Business To Yourself   @ Spotify
- You Got To Mind How To Treat Someone Else   @ Spotify
Will Shade
- I Got The Blues So Bad   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- I Can't Stand It   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Furry Lewis
- Baby, I Know You Don't Love Me   @ Spotify
Earl Bell
- Travellin' Man   @ Spotify
- Terraplane Blues   @ Spotify
Moose Williams
- Mother Keep Your Light Burning High In The Window
  @ Spotify


CD Two:
Willie Mabon
- Somebody's Got To Pay   @ Spotify
Big Walter Horton
- West Side Blues   @ Spotify
- Tin Pan Alley   @ Spotify
- This Is It   @ Spotify
Sunnyland Slim
- Prison Bound   @ Spotify
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
- Hot Potatoes   @ Spotify
- One Room Country Shack   @ Spotify
Little Brother Montgomery
- Vicksburg Blues   @ Spotify

Johnny Young
- You Got Bad Blood, I Think You Need A Shot (= "I Believe You Need A Shot")   @ Spotify
Washboard Sam
- Mama Don't Allow   @ Spotify
Big Joe Williams
- Rootin' Groundhog   @ Spotify
- Southern Blues   @ Spotify
- King's Highway Blues   @ Spotify
Champion Jack Dupree
- Improvisations and Interview 1   @ Spotify
- Drive 'em Down Special   @ Spotify
- Improvisations and Interview 2   @ Spotify
- I Feel Like A Millionaire   @ Spotify
- Improvisations and Interview 3   @ Spotify
- Barrelhouse Woman   @ Spotify
- Improvisations and Interview 4   @ Spotify


Snooks Eaglin tracks rec. June 2, 1964 in New Orleans, LA
Babe Stovall tracks rec. June 2, 1964 at the Art Gallery, St. Peter Street, New Orleans, LA
Johnny Moment, Will Shade, Furry Lewis, Earl Bell, and Moose Williams rec. May 26, 1964 at Will Shade's apartment, Memphis, TN

CD 2 tracks rec. May 1964 at Southerland Lounge, Chicago, IL
Johnny Young track rec. May 23, 1964 at Southerland Lounge, Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, g; Slim Willis, hca; Otis Spann, p; Robert Whitehead, dr
except
Big Joe Williams tracks rec. May 18, 1961 at Willie Dixon's home in Chicago,IL
Champion Jack Dupree tracks rec. January 26, 1964 at Sveriges Radio, Karlaplansstudion in Stockholm, Sweden

2 CD set
notes writer's name not given, most likely Leif Gäverth

Jefferson Records SBACD 12658/9 (Sweden 2004)

612005Blues With A Message

- I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatman
- John Henry - John Jackson [Arhoolie 1025 1970]
- Walked Down So Many Turn Rows - Mercy Dee
- Tom Moore's Farm (live) - Mance Lipscomb (3:40) [Arhoolie 1077]
- Tom Moore Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
- River Blues - Lowell Fulson
- Levee Camp Blues - Fred McDowell
- The 1919 Influenza Blues - Essie Jenkins
- Why I Like Roosevelt - Willie Eason
- Little Soldier Boy - Doctor Ross
- Prisoner's Talking Blues - Robert Pete Williams
- I Got To Climb A High Mountain - Johnie Lewis
- Depression Blues - Herman E. Johnson

- Stockyard Blues - Johnny Young/Big Walter Horton
- What Will I Tell The Children - Juke Boy Bonner
- It's Enough - Juke Boy Bonner
- Things Gonna Get Better - Bee Houston
- Back Home Blues - Big Joe Williams


ed. by Chris Strachwitz & Paul Oliver

notes by Paul Oliver

Arhoolie CD 510 (US 2005)

on front cover: Sleepy John Estes' hands cropped from a 1962 photo by Georges Adins

Arhoolie Records discography

6220??Johnny Young: I Got It

- Humpty Dumpty
- I Got It
- Whoop It Up
- All My Money Gone
- Prison Bound
- Bad Blood

- Let Me Ride Your Mule
- Meet Me In The Bottom
- Money Taking Woman
- I Got To Find That Woman (instr)
- You Got Your Business
- I'm Leaving, Baby


Rockin Blues LP_RB 19922

62a2014The Roots Of It All: Acoustic Blues - The Definitive Collection, Vol. 3

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

Johnny Young - Want My Lovin' (3:30)
Arvella Gray - Corrine, Corrina (2:13)
Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man (2:53)
Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis - Alberta (2:56)


disc 2: The 1970s
Son House - Empire State Express (3:41)
Mississippi Fred McDowell - Frisco Lines (3:59)
J.B. Lenoir - If I Get Lucky (2:59)
Skip James - Sickbed Blues (4:06)
R.L. Burnside - Long Haired Doney (2:45)
Furry Lewis - Old Original Furry Lewis Blues (3:46)
Joe Callicott - Lonesome Katy Blues (3:04)
John Jackson - Rocks And Gravel (3:15)
Babe Stovall - Worried Blues (3:33)
Howlin' Wolf - Ain't Goin' Down That Dirt Road #2 (4:20)
Larry Johnson - Four Women Blues (2:33)
Jack Owens - I Love My Baby (4:50)
Johnny Shines - Your Troubles Can't Be Like Mine (4:18)
Brownie McGhee - My Last Suit (3:53)
Juke Boy Bonner - Tired Of The Greyhound Bus (2:26)
Tarheel Slim - So Sweet, So Sweet (3:19)
Tom Shaw - Baby Be A Boy Child Named Him After Me (5:44)
Eddie Taylor - Bullcow Blues (3:10)
Bill Williams - Salty Dog (4:37)
Guitar Shorty - Jessie Jones (3:58)
Rev. Pearly Brown - It's A Mean Old World To Try To Live In (2:24)
Louisiana Red - Dead Stray Dog (3:56)
David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Big Fat Mama (2:56)
Henry Townsend - Can't You See (3:18)


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

112-pp. booklet notes by Bill Dahl

Bear Family BCD 17231 (Germany 2014)

632017Down Home Blues - Chicago - Fine Boogie

CD 1:
James McCain - I Got To Check Up On My Baby(3:32)
James McCain - Good Morning Mr. Roosevelt (2:40)
Bluesboy Bill - Come On Babe (2:28)
Johnny Shines - Tennessee Woman Blues (2:51)
Muddy Waters - Jitterbug Blues (2:52)
Muddy Waters - Burying Ground Blues (2:45)
Muddy Waters - Hard Day Blues (2:50)
John Sellers - Let Me Be Your Sidetrack (2:47)
Willie "Long Time" Smith - My Buddy Doctor Clayton (3:04)
Willie "Long Time" Smith - I Love You Baby Boogie (3:09)
Little Walter with Othum Brown - Ora Nelle Blues (2:37)
Little Walter - I Just Keep Loving Her (2:29)
Jimmy Rogers - Little Store Blues (2:37)

Johnny Young - Money Taking Woman (2:35)
Johnny Temple - Old '98' Blues (2:25)
Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied (2:43)
St. Louis Jimmy - Florida Hurricane (2:57)
Delta Joe aka Sunnyland Slim - Train Time (3:19)
Delta Joe aka Sunnyland Slim - Roll Tumble And Slip (3:25)
Floyd Jones - Stockyard Blues (2:54)
Floyd Jones - Keep What You Got (2:22)
Little Walter - Blue Baby (2:17)
Little Walter - I Want My Baby (2:48)
Robert Nighthawk with Ethel Mae Brown - Down The Line (2:50)
The Nighthawks - She Knows How To Love A Woman (3:09
Big Maceo - One Sunday Morning (2:52)
Big Maceo - Just Tell Me Baby (2:29)


CD 2:
Pete Franklin - Down Behind The Rise (3:12)
Pete Franklin - Casey Brown Blues (3:15)
Mildred White - Kind Hearted Woman (2:52)
Mildred White - Cutting Out On Me (2:57)
Muddy Waters - Last Time I Fool Around With You (2:39)
Muddy Waters - You Gonna Need my Help (3:04)
Baby Face Leroy - My Head Can't Rest Anymore (3:16)
Baby Face Leroy - Take A Little Walk With Me (3:10)
Gray Haired Bill - Gertrude (2:38)
Gray Haired Bill - I'm A Hard Working Man (2:59)
The Nighthawks - Black Angel Blues (3:05)
Jimmy Rogers - Ludella (2:42)
Muddy Waters - Rollin' Stone (3:03)
Floyd Jones - Dark Road (3:15)
Floyd Jones - Overseas (2:13)
Floyd Jones - Playhouse (2:45)
Muddy Waters - Long Distance Call (2:41)
Muddy Waters - All Night Long (3:50)
J.B. Lenoir - Let's Roll (2:52)
Howlin' Wolf - Howling Wolf Boogie (2:40)
Johnny Shines - Ramblin' (2:32)
Johnny Shines - Ain't Doin' No Good (2:36)
Snooky Pryor - Fine Boogie (3:04)
Memphis Minnie - Conjur Man (2:59)
Little Walter - Juke (3:00)
Little Walter - Can't Hold Out Much Longer (2:55)


CD 3:
Elmore James - She Just Won't Do Right (3:04)
Elmore James - My Best Friend (3:22)
Elmore James - Whose Muddy Shoes (3:17)
Baby Face Leroy - Blues Is Killin' Me (3:04)
Baby Face Leroy - Late Hours At Midnight (3:11)
Blue Smitty - Crying (3:03)
Blue Smitty - Date Bait (2:37)
Jimmy Rogers - Mistreated Baby (3:30)
Jimmy Rogers - What's The Matter (3:17)
Homesick James - Whiskey Headed Woman (2:48)
Little Walter - Blue Midnight (3:04)
Johnny Williams - Silver Haired Woman (2:47)
Johnny Williams - Fat Mouth (2:39)
Jimmy Reed - You Don't Have To Go (3:06)
Jimmy Rogers - Act Like You Love Me (3:03)
Homesick James - Homesick (3:08)
Homesick James - Late Hours At Midnight (2:52)
Billy Boy Arnold - Hello Stranger (2:53)
Billy Boy Arnold - I Ain't Got No Money (2:31)
Johnny Shines - Evening Shuffle (2:16)
J.B. Lenoir - The Mojo (2:53)
J.B. Lenoir - Slow Down Woman (3:24)
Howlin' Wolf - You Gonna Wreck My Life (2:37)
Big Boy Spires - Someday little Darling (3:11)
Big Boy Spires - Rhythm Rock Boogie (2:38)
Memphis Minnie - Kissing In The Dark (2:32)


CD 4:
Sonny Boy Williamson - Work With Me (2:56)
Sonny Boy Williamson - You Killing Me (3:24)
Sonny Boy Williamson - Don't Start Me Talkin' (2:36)
John Brim - Ice Cream Man (2:49)
John Brim - Life Time Baby (3:06)
Lazy Bill - My Baby's Gone (2:45)
Lazy Bill - I Can't Sleep, I Can't Eat (2:50)
Albert King - Little Boy Blue (2:45)
Albert King - Sweet Woman (2:59)
Sunnyland Slim - Trouble Of My Own (3:04)
Sunnyland Slim - Worried About My Baby (3:01)
Henry Gray - I Declare That Ain't Right (3:09)
Henry Gray - Matchbox Blues (3:25)
J.B. Hutto - Price Of Love (3:02)
Big Boy Spires - Tired Of Being Mistreated (2:30)
Sunnyland Slim - I Done You Wrong (3:04)
Sunnyland Slim - Be My Baby (2:55)
Little Walter - Got To Find My Baby (3:09)
J.B. Lenoir - Eisenhower Blues (2:32)
Dusty Brown - Yes She's Gone (2:41)
Dusty Brown - He Don't Love You (3:15)
Dusty Brown - Rusty Dusty (2:47)
Jimmy Rogers - You're The One (2:37)
Billy Boy Arnold - Sweet On You Baby (2:36)
Billy Boy Arnold - You Got To Love Me (2:29)
Jimmy Reed - You Upset My Mind (2:53)
Jimmy Reed - Come On Baby (2:40)


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


88-pp. book by Mike Rowe

5 CD set

Wienerworld WNRCD5100 (US/EU 2017)



Additional information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Karel Bogaert: Blues Lexicon.- Antwerpen (Standaard) 1972, pp. 418-419
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 223
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver (Eyeball Productions) 2006, , pp. 43, 94, 177, 234-235, 249, 273, 356, 421, 452, 500-501, 503, 595, 603, 608-609
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970 (2nd edition).- Vancouver (Eyeball Productions) 2012, pp. 700-702

- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970 (3rd edition).- Vancouver (Eyeball Productions) 2019, pp. 706, 721-722
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, pp. 1087-1088
- Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 2011, pp. 379, 504, 513
- Mike Leadbitter & Neil Slaven: Blues Records 1943 to 1966 - A complete guide to 20 years of recorded blues.- London/New York (Oak Publications), 1968.- pp. 367-368
- Mike Leadbitter & Neil Slaven: Blues Records 1943 to 1970 - A selective discography, Vol. one, A to K.- London (Record Information Services), 1987.- p. 477
- Mike Leadbitter, Leslie Fancourt & Paul Pelletier: Blues Records 1943 to 1970 - A selective discography, Vol. two, L to Z.- London (Record Information Services), 1994, pp. 804-807

- Tony Russell: The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray.- New York (Schirmer Books) 1997
- http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/oldswing.html
- http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/planetmarvel.html
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Jean-Pierre Urbain, Joe Louis, Alan Balfour, Scott Dirks, Mark Sinclair Harris, Benoît Billot, Charlie Musselwhite, Tom Morris, Kari Kempas, Jan Sjöström, Drew Hines and Don Deering for additional info / scans

 

The Chicago String Band: Carl Martin, John Wrencher, Johnny Young, John Lee Granderson; source: front cover of Testament T-2220; photographer: Pete Welding; click to enlarge!
The Chicago String Band: Carl Martin, John Wrencher, Johnny Young, John Lee Granderson
source: front cover of Testament T-2220; photographer: Pete Welding

 

J O H N N Y   Y O U N G & Big John Wrencher, Chicago, 1966; source: Booklet accompanying Jefferson Records SABCD 12653/4 (Sweden 1999) 'I Blueskvarter, Chicago, 1964, Volume One', no pagination; photographer: Clas Ahlstrand
Johnny Young & Big John Wrencher, Chicago, 1966
source: Booklet accompanying Jefferson Records SABCD 12653/4 (Sweden 1999)
"I Blueskvarter, Chicago, 1964, Volume One", no pagination; photographer: Clas Ahlstrand

 

'Huston Phillip''s drum, J O H N N Y   Y O U N G, Big John Wrencher & Carey Bell at the corner of 14th and Newberry St., Chicago, IL; source: Back cover of Testament T-2203 (re-release by OJL 19??) 'Modern Chicago Blues'; photographer: Peter J. Welding
"Huston Phillip"'s drum, Johnny Young, Big John Wrencher & Carey Bell
at the corner of 14th and Newberry St., Chicago, IL
source: Back cover of Testament T-2203 (re-release by OJL 19??) "Modern Chicago Blues"
photographer: Peter J. Welding

 


Johnny Young 30/10/1972 at Salle Pleyel Paris
(American Folk Blues Festival '72)

 

Tony Russell & Chris Smith with Neil Slaven, Ricky Russell & Joe Faulkner: The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings.- London/New York/Toronto (Penguin Books), 2006   Johnny Young entry by Tony Russel in Tony Russell & Chris Smith with Neil Slaven, Ricky Russell & Joe Faulkner: The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings.- London/New York/Toronto (Penguin Books), 2006, p. 734
Johnny Young entry by Tony Russell
in Tony Russell & Chris Smith with Neil Slaven, Ricky Russell & Joe Faulkner: The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings.- London/New York/Toronto (Penguin Books), 2006, p. 734

 

 

 

 

 

 

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