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Appendix 2: Discography

-BILLY BOY ARNOLD (1955-57): [1]  

-I Wish You Would/ I Was Fooled/ My Heart Is Crying/ Prisoner’s Plea/ You Got Me Wrong (Buddah BDS 7511).

 

-Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings (Columbia/ Legacy 64916). Two-CD set, includes all twenty-nine of his individual recorded compositions, along with the twelve alternate takes - song, and every take, presented in the order of its recording-.[2]

 

-(Robert Johnson) King of the Delta Blues (Columbia/ Legacy 65211).

-The Roots of Robert Johnson (Yazoo 1073).

 


-BIG MACEO (1941-49):
[3]

-Chicago Breakdown/ I Got the Blues/ County Jail Blues / Why Should I Hang Around / Texas Stomp / Anytime For You/ Maceo’s 32-30/ Since You Been Gone/ Worried Life Blues / Winter Time Blues / Big Road Blues / Broke And Hungry Blues / Detroit Jump / I Lost My Little Woman / Texas Blues/ Tuff Luck Blues (RCA 730.577).

-Big City Blues (Blues Classics BC- 12).

             -Just Tell Me Baby (Specialty SNTF5OI5).

-BLUE SCM ITTY (1952): [4] 

-Crying/Sad Story (Chess LP4 II).

-EDDIE BOYD (1952-53): [5] 

-Twenty Four flours/Third Degree (Chess LP1446).

-Five Long Years (Blues Classics BC-8).

-JOHN BRIM (1950-56): [6]

-Gary Stomp/Drinking Woman/Going Down The Line/Mean Man (Boogie Disease BD1O1/2).

-Humming Blues/Trouble In The Worning (Muskadine LPIOO).

             -Ice Cream Wan/You Got Me/Rattlesnake/Be Careful/Tough Times (Chess LP1537).

-BIG BILL BROONZY (1932 53): [7] 

-Big Bill’s Blues/You Do Me Any Old Way/ Trucking Little Woman/Bull Cow Blues/Southern Flood Blues/New Shake ‘En: On Down/Night Time Is Tue Right Time/Trouble And Lying Woman/ Baby I Done Got Wise/Just A Dream/Oh Yes/Medicine Man Blues/ Looking Up At Down/When I Been Drinking/ All By Myself/ Night Watchman Blues (Epic EE220 17, CBS-Realm 52648).

-Jacqueline/ Little City Woman /Lonesome/Romance Without Finance (Chess 6641 047).

-OTHUM BROWN (1948): [8] 

-Ora Nelle Blues (Muskadine LP 100).


-MOJO BUFORD (1963):
[9] 

-Mojo Woman/Steal My Chickens/Standing On The Corner/Somebody Knockin’/ Tell Me Whatcha Gonna Do/ Twin City Blues/Chicago Four Blues/Mob Woman No, 2 (Vernon VS 19).

-DOCTOR CLAYTON (1942-46): [10] 

-My Own Blues/Moonshine Women Blues/ Pearl Harbour Blues/ Ain’t No Business We Can Do/ I Need My Baby/ Ain’t Gonna Drink No More/ Root Doctor Blues/ Copper Colored Mania (RCA-lnternational INT l 176).

 

-BIG BOY CRUDUP (1941-54): [11] 

If I Get Lucky/ Mean Old ‘Frisco Blues/ Rock Me Mamma/Keep Your Arms Around Me/ Cool Disposition/She’s Gone/So Glad You’re Mine/Ethel Woe/ That’s All Right/Lonesome World To Me/Shout Sister Shout/My Baby Left Me/ I’m Gonna Dig Myself A Hole/Mr So And So/Keep On Drinkin’/ If You Ever Been To Georgia (RCA LPV-573, RD-8224).

 

-WALTER DAVIS (1930-40): [12] 

M&O Blues/ Ashes In My Whiskey/ Think You Need A Shot/ Sweet Sixteen/ Moonlight Is My Spread/ Don’t You Want To Go/ L&N Blues/ The Only Woman/That Stuff You Sell Ain’t No Good/ Root Man Blues/ Just Want To Talk A while/Minute Man Blues/ New Come Back Baby/ Let die In Your Saddle/howling Wind Blues (RCA-International INT 1085).

Why Should I Be Blue/ Santa Claus/ Jacksonville-Part 2/ Call Your Name Please Don’t Mistreat Me /  I Can Tell By The Way You Smell/ Can ‘t See Your Face (Yazoo L 1025).

 

-FORREST CI’IY JOE (1948): [13] 

Memory Of Sonnv Boy/ Sawdust Bottom (Chess 6641 047).

 
-BABY FACE LEROY FOSTER (1948-50):
[14] 

-Locked Out Boogie/  Shady Grove Blues (Chess 6641 047).

-Boll Weevil/Rollin’ And Tumblin’ Parts I and 2 (Blues Classics 13C-8).

-Red Headed Woman (Muskadine LPIOO).

-Take A Little Walk With Me (Boogie Disease BD 101/2).

 
-LITTLE WILLIE FOSTER (1953-57):
[15] 

-Falling Rain Blues (Blues Classics BC’S).
-Little Girl/Crying The Blues
(Boogie Disease BD 101/2).

 

-JAZZ GILLUM (1938-42): [16] 

You’re Laughing Now/ I’m Gonna Get It/ Let Her Go/ She Won’t Treat Me Kind/ I’ll Get Along Somehow/ Got To Reap What You Sow/ Key Hole Blues/ Riley Springs Blues/ I Got Somebody Else/ It Looks Bad For You/ Me And My Buddy/ It’s All Over Now/ One Letter Home You Drink Too Much Whiskey/ Outskirts Of Town/ Woke Up Cold In Hand (RCA-International INT l 177).

 
-BUDDY GUY (1960-64):
[17]

-Watch Yourself/ Stone Crazy/ I Found A True Love/ First Time I Met The Blues/ Let Me Love You Baby/ No Lie/ I Got A Strange Feeling/ My Time After A while/ Ten Years Ago/ Broken Hearted Blues (Chess LP409).

 
-JOHN LEE HENLEY (1952):
[18] 

-Knockin’ On Lula Mae’s Door/ Rhythm Rockin’ Boogie (Boogie Disease BD 101/2).

 

-EARL HOOKER (1953-69): [19] 

-Chicken/ Wild Moments (Blue Flame BLP 101).

-Tanya Blues In D Natural/ Blue Guitar (Red Lightnin’ RL 005).

-The hook/ New Sweet Black Angel/ Going On Down The Line/ Original Sweet Black Angel/ Guitar Rag/ Earl’s Boogie-Woogie/ Improvisations On Dust My Broom/ Improvisations On Frosty (Arhoolie 1066).

-BIG WALTER HORTON (1951-54): [20] 

-Hard Hearted Woman (Blues Classics BC-8).

-Cotton Patch Hotfoot/  Blues In The Morning/ Little Boy Blue/  Walter’s Blues/ Black Gal/ Hard Hearted Woman/ Jumpin’ Blues/ So Long Woman (Polydor 2383 200).

 

-SON HOUSE: [21]  Delta Blues (Biograph 118). These are the original 1941—42 recordings House did for Alan Lornax and the Library of Congress when Lomax was researching the tradition of Robert Johnson. On three of the selections House is backed by a driving little band that includes Leroy Williams on harmonica, Willie Brown on second guitar, and Fiddlin’ Joe Martin on mandolin.

-Masters of the Delta Blues (Yazoo 2002).

-Mississippi Masters (Yazoo 2007).

-Lonesome Road Blues (Yazoo 1038).

-Mississippi Moaners (Yazoo 1009).

- Jackson Blues (Yazoo 1007).

-Skip James: 1931 (Yazoo 2009).

 

ALBERTA HUNTER: [22]

Young Alberta Hunter/ Jass (CD6).

Amtrak Blues/ Columbia (PC 36430).

With Lovie Austin and Her Blues Serenaders/ Original Blues Classic (510).

The Blues, 1923 to 1933 (Various Artists)/ ABC (836 046-2).

 

-HOWLIN’ WOLF (1951-61): [23] 

-Passine’ By Blues/ I’m The Wolf/ The Sun Is Rising/ My Friends (Kent KST9002).

-Riding In The Moonlight/ Dog Me Around/ Worried A bout My Baby/ Brownskin Woman/ Crying At Daybreak/ House Rockin’ Boogie / Moanin’ At Midnight/ Backslide Boogie/  Twistin’ And Turnin ‘/ K eep What You Got (United 717, Ember EMB3370).

-Forty Four/Evil/Smokestack Lightning/ Somebody In My House / How Many More Years/ I’m Leaving You/ All Night Long/Moanin’ For My Baby/Baby How Long/No Place To Go/ I Asked For Water/ Moanin’ At Midnight (Chess LPI45O).

-Shake For Me/ The Red Rooster/ You’ll Be Mine/ Who’s Been Talkin ‘/Wang-Dang-Doodle/ Little Baby / Spoonful/ Going Down Slow/ Down In The Bottom/ Back Door Man / Howlin: For My Baby/ Tell Me (Chess LP1469).

-Just My Kind/I’ve Got A Woman/ Work For Your Money/ I’ll Be Around/You Can’t Be Beat/ You Gonna Wreck My Life/ I Love My Baby/  Neighbors/ I’m The Wolf/ Rocking Daddy/ Who Will Be Next?/  Have A Little Girl (Chess LP1 512).

 
-J.B. HUTTO (1954):
[24]

-Dim Lights/ Things Are So Slow (Blues Classics BC-8).

-Lovin’ You/ Pet Cream Man/ Now She’s Gone (Muskadine LPIOO).

-Combination Boogie (Boogie Disease BD1O1/2).

 
-ELMORE JAMES (1951-62):
[25] 

-Dus’t My Broom (Blues Classics BC-6).

-Whose Muddy Shoes/ Madison Blues/ I See My Baby/ My Best Friend/ The Sun Is Shining/ Talk To Me Baby/ Dust My Broom/ Tool Bag Boogie/ Call It Stormy Monday (Chess LP1537).

-Coming Home/ Take Me Where You Go/ Cry For Me Baby/ Elmore’s Contribution To Jazz/ Knocking At Your Door/ It Hurts Me Too/ The 12 Year Old Boy (Cobblestone LP9001).

-It Hurts Me Too/ Everyday I Have The Blues/ Dust My Broom/ Shake Your Moneymaker/ Bleeding Heart/ Pickin’ The Blues/ She’s Got To Go/ Talk To Me Baby/ I Believe/ Sunnyland Train/ Stranger Blues/ 12 Year Old Boy/ My Baby’s Gone/ Find My Kinda Woman/ Up Jumped Elmore/ Anna Lee/ I’ve Got A Right To Love My Baby/ Mean Mistreatin’ Mama/ Look On Yonder Wall (Trip LP8007).

-‘Let’s Cut It”: The Very Best of Elmore James (Flair 86257).[26]

 



-FLOYD JONES (1947-54): [27] 

-Dark Road/ Stockyard Blues (Blues Classics BC-8).

-On The Road Again/ Keep What You Got (Muskadine LP100).

-Skinny Woman/ Big World/ Floyds Blues/ Any Old Lonesome Day (Boogie Disease BD1O1/2).

-Playhouse/You Can’t Live Long/ Dark Road (Chess LP4 11).

-Ain’t Times hard/Schooldays On My Mind/ Any Old Lonesome Day (Buddah BDS7S 11).

 
-LITTLE JOHNNIE JONES (1949-54):
[28]

-Big Town Playboy/ Shelby County Blues (Chess 6641 047).

-Chicago Blues/ Hoy, Hoy, Hoy/ Wait Baby/ Up The Line (Doin The Best I Can) (Atlantic SD7227, WEA-Atlantic K40404).


-J.B. LENOIR (195 1-56):
[29] 

-Natural Man/ Don’t Dog Your Woman/ Let Me Die With The One I Love/ Carrie Lee/ Mama What About Your Daughter/ If I Give My Love To You/ Five Years/ Don’t Touch My head/ I’ve Been Down So Long/ What Have I Done/ Eisenhower Blues/ Korea Blues/ Everybody Wants To Know/ I’m In Korea (Chess LP4IO).

 
-LITTLE WALTER (1947-61):
[30] 

-I Just Keep Loving Her/ Moonshine Baby/ Bad Acting Woman (Muskadine LP100).

-Blue Baby (Boogie Disease BDIO1/2).

-Muskadine (Blues Classics BC-8).

-My Babe/ Sad Hours/ You’re So Fine/ Last Night/ Blues With A Feeling/ Can’t Hold Out Much Longer/ Juke/ Mean Old World/ Off The Wall/You Better Watch Yourself/ Blue Lights/ Tell Me Mamma (Chess LP 1428).

-Nobody But You/ My Baby’s Sweeter/ Roller Coaster/ As Lone As I Have You/ Oh Baby/ Take Me Back/ Everything’s Going To Be Alright/ Mellows Down Easy/ I Hate To See You Go/ I Got To Find My Baby/ Everybody Needs Somebody/ Blue Midnight/ I Had My Fun/ Key To The Highway/ Blue And Lonesome (Chess LP1S3S).


-JOHNNY LITTLEJOHN (1968):
[31] 

-What in The World You Goin’ To Do/ Treat Me Wrong/ Catfish Blues/ Kiddeo/ Slidin’ Home/ Dream/ Reelin’ And Rockin’/ Been Around The World/ Shake Your Moneymaker (Arhoolie F 1043).

 
-LAZY BILL LUCAS (1954):
[32]

-She Got Me Walkin’/I Had A Dream (Boogie Disease BD1O1/2).

-MAGIC SAM (1957-58): [33] 

-Everything Gonna Be Alright/ Look Whatcha Done/ All My Whole Life/ Love Me With A Feeling/ All Your Love/ Call Me If You Need Me/ Roll Your Money Maker/ Easy Baby/ Magic Rocker/ Love Me This Way/ 21 Days In Jail/ All Night Long (Blue Horizon 7-63223).


-MEMPHIS MINNIE (1950-54):
[34] 

-Down Home Girl/ Night Watchman Blues/ Why Did I Make You Cry/Kid Man Blues (Biograph BLP12035).

-Broken Heart/ Me And My Chauffeur (Chess 6641 047).

-Kissing In The Dark/ World Of Trouble (Boogie Disease BD 101/2).

 

-RICK MILLER (SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON NO. 2”) (1951-60): [35]

-Do It if You Wanna/ Cool Cool Blues/ Come On Back Home/ Stop Crying/ Eyesight To The Blind/ West Memphis Blues/ I Cross My heart Crazy About You Baby/ Nine Below Zero/ Mighty long Time/ Site Brought Life Back To The Dead/ Stop Now/ Mr. Down Child/ Sonny Boy’s Christmas Blues/ Pontiac Blues/ Too Close Together (Blues Classics BC 9).

-Don’t Start Me To Talkin’/ I Don’t Know/ All My Lose In Vain/ The Key/ Keep It To Yourself/ Dissatisfied/  Fattening Frogs For Snakes/  Wake Up Baby/ Your Funeral And My Trial/ Ninety Nine  /Cross My Heart Let Me Explain (Chess LP1437); She Got Next To Me Santa Claus/ Little Village/  Lonesome Cabi  / I Can’t Do Without You/ Temperature 110 /  Unseen Eye / Keep Your Hands Out Of My Pocket/ Open Road/ This Old Life (Chess LP 1536).

 

-MUDDY WATERS (1946-5 3): [36] 

-Hard Day Blues / Jitterbug Blues / Burying Ground Blues (Testament T -2207).

-Gypsy Woman/ Little Anita Mae /  I can’t  Be Satisfied /  I Feel Like Going Home/ You’re Gonna Miss Me / Rollin’ Stone / Louisiana Blues/ Evans Shuffle/ Long Distance Call/ Honey Bee /  Howlin’ Wolf /  She Moves Me/ My Fault/ Still A Fool/ They Call Me Muddy Waters/ All Night Long /  Please Have Mercy/ Who’s Gonna Be Your Sweet Man (Chess 6641 04).

-Sad Letter/ Gonna Need My Help/ Whiskey Blues/ Down South Blues/ Train Fare Blues/ Kind-hearted Woman/ Appealing Blues/ Early Morning Blues/ Too Young To Know/ She’s All Right/ My Life Is Ruined/ Honey Bee (Chess LP1511).

Muddy Waters (1941-42) Library of Congress recordings: Testament T-22 10.

-The Aristocrat of the Blues (Chess 9387).[37]

 

-ROBERT NIGHTHAWK (1949-53): [38]

Sweet Black Angel/ Anna Lee/ Return Mail Blues/ Jackson Town Gal (Chess 6641 047).

Kansas City Blues (Blues Classics BC-8).

I Feel So Bad (Boogie Disease BD 101/2).

Crying Won’t Help You/ The Moon Is Rising (Red Lightnin’ RL005).

 
-WILLIE NIX (1951-53).
[39]

-Lonesome Bedroom Blues (Kent KST9002).

-Nervous Wreck/ All By Yourself/ No More Love/ Just Can’t Stay (Boogie Disease BD 101/2).

 

-CHARLEY PATTON:

-Founder of the Delta Blues; King of the Delta Blues (Yazoo 2010, 2001).[40]


-SNOOKY PRYOR (1948-63):
[41]

-Boogie/ Telephone Blues / Boogy Fool/ Raisin’ Sand/ I’m Getting Tired/ Going Back On The Road/ Crosstown Blues/ I Want You For Myself/ Cryin’ Shame/ Eighty Nine Ten/ Someone To Love Me/ Judgement Day/ Uncle Sam Don’t Take My Man/ Boogie Twist (Flyright LP100).

 

 

-MA RAINEY: [42]

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom/ Yazoo (1071)

The Immortal Ma Rainey/ Milestone (2001)


-JIMMY ROGERS (1950-56):
[43]

-Ludella (Biograph BLP12035).

-That’s All Right/ Ludella/ Goin’ Away Baby/ I Used To Have A Woman/Money Marbles And Chalk/Back Door Friend/The Last Time/Out On The Road/Act Like You Love Me/ Blues All Day Long/ Chicago Bound/   Sloppy Drunk/ You’re The One/ Walking By Myself (Chess 6641 047).

 
-OTIS RUSH (1957-60):
[44]

-Double Trouble/ Jump Sister Bessie/ She’s A Good ‘Un (two take s)/ Checking On My Baby/ Sit Down Baby! Love That Woman/ Keep On Loving Me Baby (two takes) / My Baby Is A Good ‘Un/ If You Were Mine/ I Can’t
Quit You Baby/ All Your Love/ Groaning The Blues/ It Takes Time/ Violent Love/ Three Times A Fool/ My Love Will Never Die
(Blue Horizon 7-63222).

-I Can’t Stop/ I’m Satisfied/ All Your Love/ So Close/ You Know My Love/ So Many Roads (Chess UP 1538).

 
-JOHNNY SHINES (1946-53):
[45]

-Delta Pine Blues/ Ride, Ride Mama/ Evil Hearted Woman Blues/ Tennessee Blues (Testament T-2207).

-So Glad I Found You/ Joliet Blues (Chess LP411).

- Ramblin - (Blues Classics BC-6).

-Evening Sun/ Brutal Hearted Woman (Muskadine LP100).

-Living In The White House (Boogie Disease BD 101/2).

.
-LITTLE MACK SIMMONS (1959-60):
[46]

-Come Back/ My Walking Blues (Blue Flame BLP 101).

-Times Are Getting Tougher/ Don’t Come Back/ Sky’s Crying/ Hootchie Kootchie Man (Bea & Baby CB-I01).

 

 

BESSIE SMITH: [47]

The complete Recordings of Bessieth Smith, Vol 1/ Columbia (C2K 47091).

The complete Recordings of Bessieth Smith, Vol 2/ Columbia (C2K 47471).

The complete Recordings of Bessieth Smith, Vol 3/ Columbia (C2K 47474).

The complete Recordings of Bessieth Smith, Vol 4/ Columbia (C2K 52838).

 

 

 
-OTIS SPANN (1960):
[48]

-The Hard Way/ Take A Walk With Me/ Otis In The Dark/ Little Boy Blue/ Country Boy/ Beat Up Team / My Daily Wish/ Great Northern Stomp/ I Got Ramblin’ On My Mind No. 2/ Worried Life Blues (Barnaby KZ30246).

-It Must Have Been The Devil/ Otis’ Blues/ Going Down Slow/ Half Ain ‘t Been Told/ Monkey Face Woman/ This Is The Blues/ Evil Ways/ Come Day Go Day/ Walking The Blues/ Bad Condition/ My Home is On The Delta (Barnaby KZ31290).

 

-BIG BOY SPIRES (1952-53): [49]

-One Of These Days/ Murmur Low (Chess UP 411).

-Which Woman Do I Love (Blues Classics BC-23).

 

-SUNNYLAND SLIM (1947-60): [50]

-Farewell Little Girl/ Broke And Hungry/ Illinois Central/ Nappy Head Woman/ Across The Hall Blues/ Walking With The Blues/ Sweet Lucy Blues//s/a Whiskey Blues (RCA-International INJ 1176).

-Johnson Machine Gun/ Fly Right Little Girl (Chess 6641 047).

-Going Back To Memphis (Blues Classics BC-15).

- Recession Blues/ Everything’s Gonna Be Alright (Delmark DS624).

 -Too Late To Pray/House Rock (Bea & Baby CB-101).

 

-HURRY DOWN SUNSHINE: [51]

 -The Essential Recordings of Leroy Carr (Indigo 2016).

 -Leroy Carr 1930—1935 (Magpie 07).

-This Old World’s in a Tangle: Calvin Frazier (Laurie 700I).

 

-The Complete Plantation Recordings: Muddy Waters (Chess 9344).1941-42 Library of Congress recordings, from the same Alan Lomax field trip that unearthed Son House.[52]

 

-JOHNNY SHINES AND ROBERT JUNIOR LOCKWOOD: [53]

-Dust My Broom: Johnny Shines and Robert Jr. Lockwood (Paula 14).

-Chicago Blues/Today! Vol III (Vanguard 79218).

-Masters of Modern Blues Vol. 1, Testament 5002),

-Sire/Blue Horizon (Last Nights Dream, Sire 45285),

-High Tone/Advent (Johnny Shines. High Tone 8028),

-Rounder (Hey Ba-Ba-Re-Bop!, Rounder 2020).

-Contrasts and Does 12: Robert Jr. Lockwood (Tri 3307 and 3317).[54]

-Mississippi Blues (Wolf WBCD 005).[55]

 

-EDDIE TAYLOR (1954-64): [56]

-You’ll Always Have A Home/ Do You Want Me To Cry/ Big Town Playboy/ Ride ‘Em On Down/ Bad Boy / I’m Sitting Here/ Don tKnock At My Door (Cobblestone LP9001).

-I’m Gonna Love You/ Looking For Trouble (Buddah BDS7511).

 

-HOUND DOG TAYLOR (1962): [57]

-Christine/ Alley Music (Blue Flame BLP101). (Also a 1971 LP: Alligator LP4701).

-WASHBOARD SAM (1935-53): [58]

-Mama Don’t Allow/ Jesse James Blues/ Mama Don’t Allow No. 2/ Big Woman/ We Gonna Move/ Back Door/ Lowland Blues/ Out With The Wrong Woman/ Save It For Me/ I’m The Wrong Woman/ Save It For Me/ I’m On My Way/ Levee Camp Blues/ Low Down Woman/ I’m Going To St Louis/ Lover’s Lane Blues/ Flying Crow Blues/ Digging My Potatoes (Blues Classics BC-10).

-Life Is Just A Book/I’m Feeling Lou Down/ Brown And Yellow Woman Blues/ Flying Crow Blues/ I’m Not The Lad/ Levee Camp Blues/ She Belongs To The Devil/ My Feet Jumped Salty/ I’ve Been Treated Wrong/ Let Me Play Your Vendor / Gonna Hit The Highway/ Evil Blues/ You Stole My Love/ Get Down Brother/ I Get The Blues At Bedtime/ I Laid
My Cards On The Table
(RCA LPV 577, RD-8274).

-Shirt Tail/ Diggin’ My Potatoes/ Minding My Own Business/ Horseshoe Over My Door/ By Myself /  I’m A Lonely Man (Chess 6641 047).

 

ETHEL WATERS: [59]

Ethel Waters, 1938-40/ Rosetta (1314).

Ethel Waters, 1924-28/ Wolf (WJS 1009).

 

Ethel Waters, 1938-40/ Rosetta (1314).

Ethel Waters, 1924-28/ Wolf (WJS 1009).

 

-JUNIOR WELLS (1953 60): [60]

-Hoodoo Man (Blues Classics BC-8).

-Tomorrow Night (Boogie Disease BD 101/2).

-Calling All Blues (Buddah BDS75l1). (Also a c. 1970: LP: Delmark DS628).

 

-BIG JOE WILLIAMS (1935-47): [61] 

-Stepfather Blues/ Baby Please Don’t Go/ Wild Cow Blues/ I Know You Gonna Miss Me/ Rootin’ Ground Hog/ Brother James/ Won’t Be In Hard Luck No More/ Crawlin’ King Snake/ I’m Gettin’ Wild About Her/ Peach Orchard Mama/ Meet Me Around The Corner/ Please Don’t Go/ Highway 49/ Someday Baby/ Break ‘Em On Down (RCA-International INT 1087).

-King Biscuit Stomp/ I’m A Highwayman/ Don ‘t You Leave Me Here/ Banta Rooster Blues/ P Vine Blues/ Mellow Apples/ House Lady Blues/ Baby Please Don’t Go/ Stack Of Dollars/ Break ‘Em On Down/ Wild Cow Moan/ Rootin’ Ground Hog/ Somebody’s Been Borrowing/ I Won’t Be In Hard Luck (Blues Classic- BC 21).

 

-JO JO WILLIAMS (1959): [62]

-All Pretty Women/ Rock And Roll Can Save Your Soul (Delmark DL624).

-HOMESICK JAMES WILLIAMSON (1953-62): [63]

-Homesick (Blues Classics BC-8).

-The Woman I Love (Boogie Disease BD 101/2).

-Set A Date (Blue Flame BLP 101).

 
-(John Lee) SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON (1937-46):
[64]

-Groundhog Blues/ Collector Man/ Until My Love Come Down/ You Give An Account/ Western Union Man/ Shotgun Blues/ Welfare Store/ She Don’t Love Me That Way/ Black Panther Blues/ Bad Luck Blues/ My Black Name/ Jivin’ The Blues/ My Little Machine/ Joe Louis And John Henry/ Sloppy Drunk Blues/ Check Up On My Baby (Blues
Classics BC-3).

-Skinny Woman/ TB. Blues/ Train Fare Blues/ She Was A Dreamer/ Big Apple Blues/ You Got To Step Back/ Shady Grove Blues/ My Baby’s Made A Change/ Broken Heart Blues/ Stop Breaking Down/ GM&O Blues/ Shake The Boogie/ Hoodoo Hoodoo / Mean Old Highway (Blues Classics BC-20).

-Honey Bee Blues/ Whiskey Headed Blues/ Lord Oh Lord Blues/ Shannon Street Blues / You’ve Been Foolin’ Around Downtown/ Deep Down In The Ground/ Number 5 Blues/ Christmas Morning Blues/ Susie Q/ Bluebird Blues Part 2/ Little Girl Blues Low Down Ways/ Goodbye Red/ The Right Kind of Life/ Insurance Man Blues / Rainy Day Blues (RCA-International INT 1088).

-JOHNNY YOUNG (1947-48): [65]

-Money Taking Woman (Blues Classics BC-8).

-Let Me Ride Your Mule/ My Baby Walked Out (Boogie Disease BD101/2).

 

Foot Notes:

[1] Mike Rowe. Chicago Blues: The City & The Music. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1986), 219.

[2] Peter Guralnick. Searching for Robert Johnson. Produced by Toby Byron/ Multiprises. (New York: Penguin Group, 1998), 74.

[3] Mike Rowe. Chicago Blues: The City & The Music. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1986), 219.

[4] Ibid., 219.

[5] Ibid., 219.

[6] Ibid., 219.

[7]  Ibid., 219.

[8]  Ibid., 219.

[9] Ibid., 219.

[10] Ibid., 219.

[11] Ibid., 219.

[12] Ibid., 219.

[13] Ibid., 219.

[14] Ibid., 219.

[15] Ibid., 219.

[16] Ibid., 219.

[17] Ibid., 219.

[18] Ibid., 219.

[19] Ibid., 219.

[20] Ibid., 219-220.

[21] Peter Guralnick. Searching for Robert Johnson. Produced by Toby Byron/ Multiprises. (New York: Penguin Group, 1998), 76.

[22] Robert Santelli. The Big Book of Blues: The Essential Guide to the Great Blues Artists and Their Music. (New York: Penguin Books, 2001), 191.

[23] Mike Rowe. Chicago Blues: The City & The Music. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1986), 220.

[24] Ibid., 220.

[25] Ibid., 220.

[26] Peter Guralnick. Searching for Robert Johnson. Produced by Toby Byron/ Multiprises. (New York: Penguin Group, 1998), 83.

[27] Mike Rowe. Chicago Blues: The City & The Music. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1986), 220.

[28] Ibid., 220.

[29] Ibid., 220.

[30] Ibid., 220.

[31] Ibid., 220.

[32] Ibid., 220.

[33] Ibid., 220.

[34] Ibid., 220.

[35] Ibid., 221.

[36] Ibid., 221.

[37] Peter Guralnick. Searching for Robert Johnson. Produced by Toby Byron/ Multiprises. (New York: Penguin Group, 1998), 82.

[38] Mike Rowe. Chicago Blues: The City & The Music. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1986), 221.

[39] Ibid., 221.

[40] Peter Guralnick. Searching for Robert Johnson. Produced by Toby Byron/ Multiprises. (New York: Penguin Group, 1998), 75.

[41] Mike Rowe. Chicago Blues: The City & The Music. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1986), 221.

[42] Robert Santelli. The Big Book of Blues: The Essential Guide to the Great Blues Artists and Their Music. (New York: Penguin Books, 2001), 387.

[43] Ibid., 221.

[44] Ibid., 221.

[45] Ibid., 221.

[46] Ibid., 221.

[47] Robert Santelli. The Big Book of Blues: The Essential Guide to the Great Blues Artists and Their Music. (New York: Penguin Books, 2001), 425.

[48] Mike Rowe. Chicago Blues: The City & The Music. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1986), 221.

[49] Ibid., 221.

[50] Ibid., 221.

[51] Peter Guralnick. Searching for Robert Johnson. Produced by Toby Byron/ Multiprises. (New York: Penguin Group, 1998), 78.

[52] Ibid., 80

[53] Ibid., 80.

[54] Peter Guralnick. Searching for Robert Johnson. Produced by Toby Byron/ Multiprises. (New York: Penguin Group, 1998), 81.

[55] Ibid., 82

[56] Mike Rowe. Chicago Blues: The City & The Music. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1986), 221.

[57] Ibid., 221.

[58] Ibid., 221.

[59] Robert Santelli. The Big Book of Blues: The Essential Guide to the Great Blues Artists and Their Music. (New York: Penguin Books, 2001), 387.

[60] Mike Rowe. Chicago Blues: The City & The Music. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1986), 222.

[61] Ibid., 222.

[62] Ibid., 222.

[63] Ibid., 222.

[64] Ibid., 222.

[65] Ibid., 222.

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