Illustrated Willie Baker discography

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Willie Baker
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discography

#	year of release	title / label / notes
*10 inch 78 rpm* Since this ain't no museum, my aim is not to depict actually existing specimen of 78 rpm records, but to show the labels as pristine as workmanlike possible even if this - in some cases - takes a whole lot of my time to photoshop process the initial data
		- Weak-Minded Blues (14668-) # @ youtube @ Spotify - Sweet Patunia (14669-) rec. January 10, 1929 in Richmond, IN; Willie Baker, voc, g Gennett unissued # Document DOCD-5150
1	1929	Willie Baker - Sweet Patunie Blues (14897) @ Spotify - Weak-Minded Woman (14896) @ youtube @ Spotify rec. March 11, 1929 in Richmond, IN; Willie Baker, voc, g Gennett 6751
2	1929	Willie Baker - Mamma, Don't Rush Me Blues (14666-A or -B) # @ Spotify - No No Blues (14667) * @ youtube @ Spotify # rec. January 9, 1929 in Richmond, IN; Willie Baker, voc, g * rec. January 10, 1929 in Richmond, IN; Willie Baker, voc, g Gennett 6766
3	1929	Willie Baker - Bad Luck Moan (14892) @ youtube @ Spotify - Ain't It A Good Thing? (14893-A) @ Spotify rec. March 11, 1929 in Richmond, IN; Willie Baker, voc, g Gennett 6812
4	1929	Willie Baker - Crooked Woman Blues (14894-B) @ Spotify - Rag Baby (14895-B) @ youtube @ Spotify rec. March 11, 1929 in Richmond, IN; Willie Baker, voc, g Gennett 6846
Some of the Gennett recordings were later reissued on subsidiary labels like Challenge, Champion, Conqueror, Silvertone, Superior, Supertone, Bell and Buddy - often using a pseudonym for the artist or group to avoid paying the musicians royalties (source: http://www.starrgennett.org/stories/history/4.htm)
5	19??	Steamboat Bill And His Guitar - No No Blues (14667) - Sweet Petunie Blues [sic] (14897) Champion 15674
6	19??	Steamboat Bill And His Guitar - Mamma, Don't Rush Me Blues (14666-) - Weak-Minded Blues (14896-) Champion 15694
7	19??	Steamboat Bill And His Guitar - Bad Luck Moan (14892) - Crooked Woman Blues (14894-B) Champion 15716
8	19??	Steamboat Bill And His Guitar - Ain't It A Good Thing? (14893-A) - Rag Baby (14895-B) Champion 15735
9	19??	Willie Jones and His Guitar - Mamma, Don't Rush Me Blues (14666-A or -B) # - Sweet Patunie Blues (14897) * # rec. January 9, 1929 in Richmond,IN; Willie Baker, voc, g * rec. March 11, 1929 in Richmond,IN; Willie Baker, voc, g Supertone 9366
10	19??	Willie Jones and His Guitar - Weak Minded Woman (14896-) - No, No, Blues (14667-A) Supertone 9427
11	19??	Willie Jones and His Guitar - Ain't It A Good Thing (14893-A) - Crooked Woman Blues (14894-B) Supertone 9434
12	19??	Willie Jones and His Guitar - Bad Luck Moan (14892) - Rag Baby (14895-B) Supertone 9435
13	1934	HANDY ARCHIE - Miss Handy Hanks (19107- ) * @ youtube - No No Blues [Gennett 6766] * rec. March 30, 1933 in Richmond, IN; Archie Lewis, voc, g Varsity 6069
*EP / LP / CD compilations*
14	1960	the country blues: volume two Big Boy Cleveland - Going To Leave You Willie Baker - No No Blues Teddy Darby - Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues (Double M Blues) Bayless Rose - Black Dog Blues EP notes by Tony Standish Heritage RE-105 Heritage Records discography
15	1963	Kings Of The Twelve String Blind Willie McTell - Dark Night Blues [Victor V38032] - Mama, Let Me Scoop For You [Victor 23328] - Ain't It Grand To Be A Christian [Decca 7130] - Loving Talking Blues [Victor V38032] Seth Richard - Skoodeldum Doo - Lonely Seth Blues Willie Baker - No No Blues Barbecue Bob - How Long Pretty Mama - Barbecue Blues George Carter - Ghost Woman Blues - Weeping Willow Woman [real title: Weeping Willow Blues] Charlie Turner ["Winston Holmes & Charlie Turner"] - Kansas City Dog Walk Charlie Lincoln [real name: Charlie Hicks] - Depot Blues - Mama Don't Rush Me cover illustration of Piedmont PLP 13159 by Anne H. Spottswood Flyright 101 "presented by Robin L. Gosden, Simon A. Napier and Bruce Bastin" In case anybody wonders why the 1978 edition of the Flyright LP has "℗ 1973" on its labels: The "need for putting '℗ 1973' on the label comes about because of the passage of the amending 1978 US copyright act" (Bob Eagle): § 303. Duration of copyright: Works created but not published or copyrighted before January 1, 1978 (a) Copyright in a work created before January 1, 1978, but not theretofore in the public domain or copyrighted, subsists from January 1, 1978, and endures for the term provided by section 302. In no case, however, shall the term of copyright in such a work expire before December 31, 2002; and, if the work is published on or before December 31, 2002, the term of copyright shall not expire before December 31, 2047. 12 page booklet Piedmont PLP 13159 (1963) 12 page booklet = Gryphon GLP 13159 (on cover), Chesapeake CLP 13159 (on label), Richland (on notes) (1964) [Dick Spottswood labels founded soon after he "left" Piedmont Records]Piedmont Records discography = Flyright LP 101 (UK 1973) = Flyright LP 101 (UK 1978) Flyright Records discography
16	1965	Country Blues Classics Vol. 1 Willie Baker - No No Blues Fred McMullen - De Kalb Chain Gang Curley Weaver - Ticket Agent Cripple Clarence Lofton - Brown Skin Girls Black Ivory King - Flying Crow John Lee - Blind's Blues Munroe Moe Jackson - Go Away From My Door Elmo James - Dust My Broom Joe McCoy - Evil Devil Woman Jim Jackson - I Heard The Voice Of A Porkchop Black Ivory King - Southern Casey Jones Tim Wilkins - Dirty Deal Blues Tommie Bradley & Cole - Window Pane Blues Frank Stokes - Downtown Blues - T'aint Nobody's Business Tony Hollins - Stamp Blues Blues Classics BC 5 (US 1965) Blues Classics discography
17	1968	The Georgia Blues 1927-1933 Yazoo LP L-1012 track sequence: Fred McMullen - Wait And Listen Gitfiddle Jim [Kokomo Arnold] - Paddlin' Blues George Carter - Rising River Blues George Carter - Hot Jelly Roll Blues Gitfiddle Jim [Kokomo Arnold] - Rainy Night Blues Peg Leg Howell - Rolling Mill Blues Willie Baker - Weak-Minded Blues Blind Blake - Police Dog Blues Blind Blake - That'll Never Happen No More Bumble Bee Slim - No Woman No Nickel Charlie Lincoln [Charley Lincoln] - Doodle Hole Blues Barbecue Bob - Unnamed Blues Willie Baker - Crooked Woman Blues Sylvester Weaver - Can't Be Trusted Blues Yazoo CD 1012 YAZ / Vivid VSCD-1156 track sequence: Fred McMullen - Wait And Listen Peg Leg Howell - Rolling Mill Blues Blind Blake - Police Dog Blues Bumble Bee Slim - No Woman No Nickel Willie Baker - Weak-Minded Blues Barbecue Bob - Unnamed Blues Charlie Lincoln - Doodle Hole Blues Sylvester Weaver - Can't Be Trusted Blues Blind Blake - That'll Never Happen No More George Carter - Rising River Blues Gitfiddle Jim - Rainy Night Blues George Carter - Hot Jelly Roll Blues Willie Baker - Crooked Woman Blues Gitfiddle Jim - Paddlin' Blues notes by Stephen Calt, Nick Perls & Michael Stewart Yazoo L-1012 (US 1968) "STEREO" on back cover black label: "390 East 8th Street, NY 10009" red/orange label: "54 King Street, NY 10014" notes by Stephen Calt, Nick Perls & Michael Stewart = Yazoo L-1012 (US 197?) "STEREO" on back cover "Waverly Place, NY 10014" notes by Stephen Calt, Nick Perls & Michael Stewart = Yazoo L-1012 (US 198?) "STEREO" on back cover "P.O. Box 810, Newton, New Jersey 07860" = Yazoo 1012 cassette (US 1989) = Yazoo CD 1012 YAZ (US 1991) = Vivid VSCD-1156 (Jp) Yazoo Records discography
18	1968	They Sang The Blues 1927 - 1934 Jelly Roll Anderson - Free Women Blues Robert Wilkins - Nashville Stonewall Blues - Police Sergeant Blues - Alabama Blues - Long Train Blues Skip James - 22-20 Blues Big Boy Cleveland - Goin' To Leave You Blues - Quill Blues Willie Baker - Sweet Patunia Furry Lewis - Why Don't You Come Home - Mean Old Bedbug Blues Pinewood Tom (Joshua White) - Welfare Blues - Stormy Weather Blues Historical ASC-22 = ASC-5829-22 Historical Records discography
19	1969?	The East Coast States Vol. 2 (1924-1938) Georgia - Carolinas - Virginia Sylvester Weaver - I'm Busy And You Can't Come In - Guitar Rag Curley Weaver - Oh Lawdy Mama - Fried Pie Blues Blind Willie McTell - Hillbilly Willie's Blues Julius Daniels & Bubba Lee Torrence - I'm Gonna Tell God How You Doin' - My Mamma Was A Sailor Willie Baker - Bad Luck Moan Joe Linthecome - Pretty Mama Blues Virgil Childers - Travellin' Man - Preacher And The Bear Barbecue Bob - Poor Boy A Long Way From Home Andrew & Jim Baxter - K. C. Railroad Blues Luke Jordan - Traveling Coon - Pick Poor Robin Clean - Cocaine Blues Roots RL 326 (Austria 1969?) Roots Records discography
20	1972	Bukka White sings Sic 'em Dogs on Me 1927 to 1939 Elizabeth Johnson - Be My Kid Blues (1928) - Sobbin' Woman Blues (1928) Mae Glover - I Ain't Givin' Nobody None (1929) Washington (Barrelhouse) White - Po' Boy (1939) - Sic 'Em Dogs On Me (1939) Ishman Bracey - Suitcase Full Of Blues (1930) Rosie Mae Moore - Ha Ha Blues (1928) De Ford Bailey - John Henry Blues (1928) D.H. Bilbro - Chester Blues (1931) Louie Lasky - How You Want Your Rollin' Done (1935) - Teasin' Brown Blues (1935) Willie Baker - Weak Minded Blues (1929) - Rag Baby (1929) Long "Cleve" Reed & The Downhome Boys - Mama You Don't Know How (1927) - Original Stack O'Lee Blues (1927) Mississipi John Hurt - Stack O'Lee Blues (1928) Furry Lewis - John Henry Blues - part 1 (1929) Charley Patton - Heart Like Railroad Steel (1929) notes by Bernard Klatzko Herwin H 201 Herwin Records discography
21	1974	Il Blues Rurale - Country Blues Richard Rabbit Brown - James Alley Blues Blind Boy Fuller, - Three Ball Blues Willie Baker - Sweet Patunia Willie Reed - Leaving Home Leadbelly - See See Rider Blind Lemon Jefferson - Pneumonia Blues Texas Alexander - Water Bound Blues Black Ace - Christmas Time Blues Furry Lewis - Pearlee Blues Bessie Tucker - Penitentiary Sleepy John Estes - Diving Duck Blues Charley Patton - High Water Everywhere Robert Wilkins - National Stonewall Blues Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues Robert Johnson - Hellhound On My Trail Big Joe Williams - Rooting Ground Hog Albatros VPA 8187 Albatros VC 0775 (cass) (=) Albatros ALB 8 3LP = VPA 8187/88/89 "Il Blues Rurale/Jazzistico/Urbano"
22	1988	Georgia Blues Guitars Willie Baker - Mama, Don't Rush Me Blues - No No Blues - Weak-Minded Blues - Bad Luck Moan - Ain't It A Good Thing - Crooked Woman Blues - Rag Baby - Weak-Minded Woman - Sweet Patunia Blues Seth Richard - Lonely Seth Blues - Skoodeldum Doo Fred McMullen - Wait And Listen - Rolling Mama - Just Can't Stand It - I'm Still Sloppy Drunk (Ruth Willis, voc) - Man Of My Own (Ruth Willis, voc) - Poor Stranger Blues - De Kalb Chain Gang RST BD-2015 (Austria 1988)
23	199?	Too Late, Too Late Blues Vol. 1 Newly Discovered Titles & Alternative Takes Blind Blake - Early Morning Blues (3057-2) Blind Lemon Jefferson - Lock Step Blues (20750) - Hangman's Blues (20751-2) George 'Bullet' Williams - Frisco Leaving Birmingham (tk 3) Bessie Tucker - My Man Has Quit Me (tk 2) Memphis Jug Band - Stealin', Stealin' (tk 3) Willie Baker - Weak-Minded Woman (14782 - Test) Rev. D C Rice - Will They Welcome Me There? Charlie Spand - Levee Camp Man (-6) (breakdown) - Mississippi Blues (-v6) Robert Peeples - Worry Blues Charley Patton - I Shall Not Be Moved (tk 2) Big Bill Broonzy - Bow Leg Baby Frank Brasswell - Mountain Girl Blues (16575) Memphis Minnie - Memphis Minnie-Jitis Blues (tk. B) Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom - Do It Some More Kansas City Kitty - Knife Man Blues Bo Carter (Bo Chatman) - New Auto Blues Big Bill Broonzy - Worried In Mind Blues 'Kansas Joe' McCoy - Meat Cutter Blues (alt tk) - What's The Matter With You? Memphis Minnie - Reachin' Pete (tk. B) Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues No. 5 Memphis Minnie - Running And Dodging Blues (tk. 2 - Test) Little Buddy Doyle - Slick Capers Blues Lonnie Johnson - The Victim Of Love notes by Roger Misiewicz Document DOCD 5150 (Austria 199?)
24	1992	Charley Lincoln and Willie Baker: Atlanta Blues Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order (1927-1930) Charley Lincoln - Jealous Hearted Blues - Hard Luck Blues - Mojoe Blues - My Wife Drove Me From My Door - Country Breakdown - Chain Gang Trouble - If It Looks Like Jelly Shakes Like Jelly It Must Be Gelatine - Ugly Papa - Depot Blues - Gamblin' Charley - Doodle Hole Blues - Mama Don't Rush Me Willie Baker - Mama Don't Rush Me Blues - No No Blues - Weak-Minded Blues - Bad Luck Moan - Ain't It A Good Thing? - Crooked Woman Blues - Rag Baby - Weak-Minded Woman - Sweet Petunia Blues RST Blues Documents BDCD-6027 (Austria 1992)
25	1996	Sweet Petunia - Essential Recordings Of Georgia Blues - Skin Game Blues - Peg Leg Howell - Lonesome Blues - Eddie Anthony, Henry "Rubberlegs" Williams - Broke and Hungry Blues - Peg Leg Howell - Georgia Crawl - Eddie Anthony, Henry "Rubberlegs" Williams - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues - Barbecue Bob - Motherless Chile Blues - Barbecue Bob - Goin' up the Country - Barbecue Bob - Ease It to Me Blues - Barbecue Bob - No No Blues - Curley Weaver - Sweet Petunia - Curley Weaver - Mama Don't Rush Me Blues - Willie Baker - Ball and Chain Blues - Peg Leg Howell - She Looks So Good - Georgia Cotton Pickers - She's Coming Back Some Day - Georgia Cotton Pickers - De Kalb Chain Gang - Fred McMullen - Daddy Don't Care - Buddy Moss - Hard Road Blues - Buddy Moss - Tampa Strut - The Georgia Browns - Decatur Street 81 - The Georgia Browns - It's a Good Little Thing - Blind Willie McTell - B & O Blues, No. 2 - Blind Willie McTell - Undertaker Blues - Buddy Moss - Milk Cow Blues - Kokomo Arnold - Twelves (Dirty Dozens) - Kokomo Arnold Indigo CD 2045 (UK 1996)
26	2000	Classic Slide Guitar Blues, Vol. 2 - Somebody's Changed The Lock On My Door - Casey Bill Weldon - East Texas Rag - Smith Casey - Bedside Blues - Jim Thompkins - Last Time Blues - Charlie McCoy - Country Farm Blues - Son House - Busy Bootin' - Kokomo Arnold - Whoopee Blues - King Solomon Hill - Early One Mornin' - Dan Pickett - Fence Breakin' Blues - Shreveport Home Wreckers - Moanin' The Blues - Allen Shaw - Weak Minded Blues - Willie Baker - Rollin' And Tumblin' (parts 1 and 2) - Babyface Leroy & Muddy Waters - Down At The Depot - John Lee - Nappy Head Blues - Bobby Grant - Married Man Blues - 'Blind' Joe Reynolds - Shake It Gal - Ramblin' Thomas - Black Hearted Blues - Tampa Red - Mississippi Boweavil Blues - Charley Patton - Yellow Dog Blues - Sam Collins - Jacksonville Blues - Nellie Florence> Catfish KATCD 157 (UK 2000) Catfish Records (UK) discography
27	2001	East Coast Blues disc 1: - Crow Jane - Julius Daniels - My Mamma Was A Sailor - Julius Daniels - Georgia Stomp - Andrew And Jim Baxter - Shake That Shimmy - Blind Boy Fuller - Poor And Ain't Got A Dime - Floyd Council - Blood Red River Blues - Josh White - Gonna Tip Out Tonight - Pink Anderson - Won't You Be Kind - Luke Jordan - Long And Tall - Kokomo Arnold - Georgia Rag - Blind Willie McTell - Waycross Georgia Blues - Barbecue Bob - Next Door Man - Georgia Browns - Tricks Ain't Walkin' No More - Curley Weaver - You Got To Give Me Some Of It - Buddy Moss/Josh White - Daddy Don't Care - Buddy Moss - Me And My Dog Blues - Brownie McGhee - Let's Have A New Deal - Carl Martin - Champagne Charlie Is My Name - Blind Blake - Please Ma'am - Peg Leg Howell - Ball And Chain Blues - Peg Leg Howell - Georgia Crawl - Henry Williams/Eddie Anthony - Ragtime Millionaire - William Moore - Barbershop Rag - William Moore disc 2: - South Carolina Rag - Willie Walker - Dupree Blues - Willie Walker - Poor Jane Blues - Jack Gowdlock - Rollin' Dough Blues - Jack Gowdlock - Royal Palm Special Blues - Sloppy Henry - Long, Tall Disconnected Mama - Sloppy Henry - Decatur Street Drag - Guy Lumpkin - Chain Gang Trouble - Charlie Lincoln - Jealous Hearted Blues - Charlie Lincoln - Rag Baby - Willie Baker - Rolling Mama - Fred McMullen - Poor Stranger Blues - Fred McMullen - Hot Jelly Roll - George Carter - Ghost Woman Blues - George Carter - Come On In Here Mama - Richard And Welly Trice - Trembling Bed Spring Blues - Richard And Welly Trice - Harmonica And Washboard Breakdown - Sonny Terry - Georgia Skin - Walter Beasley - Southern Man Blues - Walter Beasley - Unknown Blues - Tarter And Gay - Brownie Blues - Tarter And Gay - Mama, You Gotta Get It Fixed - Troy Ferguson - Tampa Blues - Skoodle Dum Doo And Sheffield 2 CD set notes by Keith Briggs Catfish KATCD 178 (UK 2001) Catfish Records (UK) discography
28	2002	Country Blues - the essential CD 1: - Weeping Willow - Blind Boy Fuller - Little Rock Blues - Pearl Dickson - Weak-Minded Woman - Willie Baker - Saturday Blues - Ishman Bracey - Rolling Log Blues - Lottie Kimborough - Starvation Farm Blues - Bob Campbell - California Desert Blues - Lane Hardin - Fence Breakin' Blues - Shreveport Home Wreckers - Mississippi Jailhouse Groan - Rube Lacey - Charming Betsy - Henry Thomas - Mamlish Blues - Barefoot Bill - Easy Rider Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Davidson County Blues - De Ford Baily - Kentucky Blues - Little Hat Jones - Cocaine Blues - Luke Jordan - Mama, You Gotta Get It Fixed - Troy Ferguson - One Way Gal - William Moore - Two Time Blues - Arthur Petties CD 2: - Hambone Willie's Dreamy-Eyed Woman's Blues - Hambone Willie Newbern - Police Sargeant Blues - Robert Wilkins - Penal Farm Blues - Scrapper Blackwell - Ghost Woman Blues - George Carter - Indian Squaw Blues - Freezone - Unknown Blues - Tarter & Gay - Nehi Mamma Blues - Frank Stokes - I Ain't Givin' Nobody None - Mae Glover - Happy Blues - Tom Dickson - Cairo Blues - Henry Spaulding - C.C. & O Blues - Pink Anderson and Simmy Dooley - I Will Turn Your Money Green - Furry Lewis - John Henry Blues - Evans & McClain - Jealous Hearted Blues - Charlie Lincoln - Last Kind Words Blues - Geeshie Wiley - Devil In The Woodpile - Noah Lewis - Bye Bye Mama - Buddy Moss - Jailhouse Fire Blues - Walter 'Buddy Boy' Hawkins 2 CD set notes by Gary Atkinson Document CBL-200008 (UK 2002)
29	2009	I Woke Up One Morning In May Cryin' Sam Collins - Lonesome Road Lottie Kimbrough (The Kansas City Butterball) - Lost Lover Blues Henry Spaulding - Cairo Blues Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy - Can't I Do It For You? Buster Johnson - Undertaker Blues Elvie Thomas - Motherless Child Blues Little Hat Jones - Bye Bye Baby Blues Robert Wilkins - I'll Go With Her Willie Baker - Rag Baby Blind Blake - Rope Stretchin' Blues Louie Lasky - How You Want Your Rolling Done? Charlie McCoy - Keep It Clean Lottie Kimbrough - Wayward Girl Blues Joe Callicott - Fare Thee Well Blues Mississippi MR 033 8us "==)9
Additional information appreciated !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943, 4th ed. 1997, p. 37-38,
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources
thanks to Helge Thygesen and Eric Simkin for additional info / label scans