Illustrated Barbecue Bob discography

B A R B E C U E B O B; source: Front cover of RBF 15
source: Front cover of RBF 15 Barbecue Bob
real name: Robert Hicks
brother of Charles Hicks a/k/a Laughing Charley Lincoln
b. September 11, 1902, possibly in Newton County, although reportedly in Walnut Grove, Walton County, Georgia
d. October 21, 1931 in Lithonia, DeKalb County, Georgia
buried at Walnut Grove, Walton County, Georgia
discography
Barbecue Bob in chef's apron (Columbia publicity photo)
source: Jas Obrecht: The Atlanta Bluesmen: Barbecue Bob and Laughing Charley.- http://jasobrecht.com/atlanta-bluesmen-barbecue-bob-laughing-charley-lincoln/

#	year of release	title / label / notes
*10 inch 78 rpm*
1	5/1927	BARBECUE BOB - Barbecue Blues (143757-1) @ youtube - Cloudy Sky Blues (143758-2) @ youtube rec. March 25, 1927 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g 850 copies pressed Columbia 14205-D (US 5/1927) "Jazz Shop" ad, June 4, 1927 (source: pinterest.fr) Columbia Records ad, Chicago Defender, May 21, 1927 (source: Titon, p. 106)
2	7/1927	BARBECUE BOB - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues (144277-1) @ youtube - Mamma / Mama You Don't Suit Me! (144278-1) @ youtube rec. June 15, 1927 in New York City; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14222-D (US 7/1927)
3	1927	ROBERT HICKS - Jesus' Blood Can Make Me Whole (144283-3) @ youtube - When The Saints Go Marching In (144282-2) @ youtube rec. June 16, 1927 in New York City; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14231-D (US 1927)
4	10/1927	BARBECUE BOB - Honey You Don't Know My Mind (144280-2) # @ youtube - Poor Boy A Long Ways From Home (144281-2) * @ youtube # rec. June 15, 1927 in New York City; Robert Hicks, voc, g * rec. June 16, 1927 in New York City; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14246-D (US 10/1927)
5	11/1927	BARBECUE BOB - Brown-Skin Gal (144279-2) # @ youtube - Easy Rider Don't You Deny My Name (144284-3) * @ youtube # rec. June 15, 1927 in New York City; Robert Hicks, voc, g * rec. June 16, 1927 in New York City; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14257-D (US 11/1927)
6	12/1927	BARBECUE BOB and LAUGHING CHARLEY - It Won't Be Long Now - Part 1 (145192-2) # @ youtube - It Won't Be Long Now - Part 2 (145193-2) @ youtube rec. November 9, 1927 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks (Barbecue Bob), voc, sp, g; Charlie Hicks (Charley Lincoln), sp, g, # voc with two pressings, this record sold 16,750 copies Columbia 14268-D (US 12/1927) Charley Lincoln discography
7	1/1928	BARBECUE BOB - Crooked Woman Blues (145198-1) @ youtube - 'Fo Day Creep (145199-1) @ youtube rec. November 10, 1927 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14280-D (US 1/1928)
8	4/1928	BARBECUE BOB - Thinkin' Funny Blues (145132-2) @ youtube - Motherless Chile Blues (145134-1) @ youtube rec. November 5, 1927 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14299-D (US 4/1928)
9	5/1928	BARBECUE BOB - Goin' Up The Country (146052-2) @ youtube - Mississippi Low-Levee Blues (146172-4) @ youtube unissued track from same session: - Wild Geese Blues (146053-2) rec. April 13, 1928 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14316-D (US 5/1928)
10	1928	BARBECUE BOB - Waycross Georgia Blues (146051-1) @ youtube - Chocolate To The Bone (146054-1 or -2) @ youtube rec. April 13, 1928 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14331-D (US 1928)
10a	1928	NELLIE FLORENCE - Jacksonville Blues (146174-1) @ youtube - Midnight Weeping Blues (146175-2) @ youtube rec. April 21, 1928 in Atlanta, GA; Nellie Florence, voc; prob. Charlie Hicks (Laughing Charley Lincoln) or poss. Robert Hicks (Barbecue Bob), g, laughing, sp Columbia 14342-D (US 1928)
11	1928	BARBECUE BOB - My Mistake Blues (145133-1) @ youtube - How Long Pretty Mama (145135-2) @ youtube rec. November 5, 1927 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14350-D (US 1928)
12	11/1928	BARBECUE BOB - Blind Pig Blues (146050-1) @ youtube - Hurry And Bring It Back Home (146055-2) @ youtube rec. April 13, 1928 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14372-D (US 11/1928)
13	1928/29	BARBECUE BOB - Cold Wave Blues (147307-2) # @ youtube - Beggin' For Love (147320-2) @ youtube # rec. October 26, 1928 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g * rec. October 27, 1928 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14383-D (US 1928/29)
14	4/1929	BARBECUE BOB - Meat Man Pete (147385-2) @ youtube - Dollar Down Blues (147386-2) @ youtube rec. November 2, 1928 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14412-D (US 4/1929)
15	1929	BARBECUE BOB - It's Just Too Bad (148252-2) @ youtube - It Just Won't Hay (148251-2) @ youtube rec. April 11, 1929 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14424-D (US 1929)
16	7/1929	BARBECUE BOB - Honey Your [sic] Going Too Fast (148342-2) # @ youtube - It's A Funny Little Thing (148359-2) * @ youtube # rec. April 17, 1929 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g * rec. April 18, 1929 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14436-D (US 7/1929)the "alternatively" typeset B-side has a normally typeset A-side
17	1929	BARBECUE BOB - Good Time Rounder (148253-2) # @ youtube - Red Hot Mama - Papa's Going To Cool You Off (148343-2) * @ youtube # rec. April 11, 1929 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g * rec. April 17, 1929 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14449-D (US 1929)
18	1929	BARBECUE BOB - She's Gone Blues (147306-1) # @ youtube - Bad Time Blues (147321-2) * @ youtube # rec. October 26, 1928 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g * rec. October 27, 1928 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14461-D (US 1929)
19	1929	BARBECUE BOB - Yo Yo Blues (149321-2) # @ youtube - Trouble Done Bore Me Down (149344-1) * @ youtube unissued track from October 30, 1929 session: - Ain't It The Truth (149320-2) # # rec. October 30, 1929 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g * rec. November 3, 1929 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14479-D (US 1929)
20	1929	BARBECUE BOB - Freeze To Me Mama (149345-2) @ youtube - Me And My Whiskey (149346-2) @ youtube originally unissued track from same session: - "Unnamed Blues" (149347-1) [Yazoo L1012] @ youtube rec. November 3, 1929 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14507-D (US 1929)
21	1930	BARBECUE BOB - Yo-Yo Blues No. 2 (150269-2) # @ youtube - Monkey And The Baboon (150364-2) * @ youtube originally unissued track from April 17, 1930 session: - She Shook Her Gin (150270-2 / 194932-2) # [Mamlish S3808] @ youtube # rec. April 17, 1930 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g * rec. April 23, 1930 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14523-D (US 1930)
22	1930	ROBERT and CHARLIE HICKS - Darktown Gamblin' - Part 1 (The Crap Game) (150374-1) @ youtube - Darktown Gamblin' - Part 2 (The Skin Game) (150374-1) # @ youtube rec. April 23, 1930 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, sp, g; Charlie Hicks, sp, # unknown white man, sp Columbia 14531-D (US 1930) Charley Lincoln discography
23	1930	BARBECUE BOB - She Moves It Just Right (149397-2) @ youtube - Tellin' It To You (149398-2) @ youtube rec. November 6, 1929 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14546-D (US 1930)
24	1930	BARBECUE BOB - We Sure Got Hard Times (150273-1) # @ youtube - Spider And The Fly (150365-2) * @ youtube originally unissued track from April 18, 1930 session: - Twistin' That Stuff (150274- / 194945-2) # [Mamlish S3808] @ youtube # rec. April 18, 1930 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g * rec. April 23, 1930 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14558-D (US 1930)
25	1930	BARBECUE BOB - California Blues (148358-2) @ youtube - Black Skunk Blues (148360-2) @ youtube rec. April 18, 1929 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14573-D (US 1930)
26	1930	GEORGIA COTTON PICKERS - Diddle-Da-Diddle (151087-2) * @ youtube - She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day (151106-2) # @ youtube # rec. December 7, 1930 in Atlanta, Ga.; Curley Weaver, voc, g; prob. Robert Hicks (Barbecue Bob), voc, g; Buddy Moss, hca * rec. December 8, 1930 in Atlanta, Ga.; Curley Weaver, voc, g; prob. Robert Hicks (Barbecue Bob), voc, g; Buddy Moss, hca Columbia 14577-D (US 1930) Curley Weaver discography Buddy Moss discography
27	1930	BARBECUE BOB - Jambooger Blues (151051-1) @ youtube - New Mojo Blues (151055-2) @ youtube unissued track from same session: - You've Got To Reap What You Sow (151053-2) rec. December 5, 1930 at the Campbell Hotel in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14581-D (US 1930)
28	1930	BARBECUE BOB - Atlanta Moan (151054-2) @ youtube - Doin' The Scraunch (151056-2) @ youtube rec. December 5, 1930 at the Campbell Hotel in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14591-D (US 1930)
29	1930	GEORGIA COTTON PICKERS - I'm On My Way Down Home (151086-2) # @ youtube - She Looks So Good (151105-2) * @ youtube # rec. December 7, 1930 in Atlanta, Ga.; Curley Weaver, voc, g; prob. Robert Hicks (Barbecue Bob), voc, g; Buddy Moss, hca * rec. December 8, 1930 in Atlanta, Ga.; Curley Weaver, voc, g; prob. Robert Hicks (Barbecue Bob), voc, g; Buddy Moss, hca Columbia 14594-D (US 1930) Curley Weaver discography Buddy Moss discography
30	1930	BARBECUE BOB - Ease It To Me Blues (146173-2) # @ youtube - It Just Won't Quit (151052-2) * @ youtube # rec. April 21, 1928 in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g * rec. December 5, 1930 at the Campbell Hotel in Atlanta, GA; Robert Hicks, voc, g Columbia 14614-D (US 1930)
*LP / CD compilations*
31	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-pp. booklet Piedmont PLP 13159 (US 1963) 12-pp. 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] = Flyright LP 101 (UK 1973) = Flyright LP 101 (UK 1978) Piedmont Records discography Flyright Records discography
32	1965	Barbecue Bob The Great Country Blues Singers - Blind Pig Blues (tk 1) - Hurry And Bring It Home (tk 2) - We Sure Got Hard Times Now (tk 1) - The Spider And The Fly (tk 2) 7 inch 45 rpm EP Pirate Records / Swedish Blues Society sbs ep 1
33	1966	The Atlanta Blues Barbecue Bob - Motherless Child Blues - She's Gone Blues - Easy Rider Don't You Deny My Name Lonnie Coleman - Old Rock Island Blues Tampa Red - Boogie Woogie Dance Blind Willie McTell - Death Cell Blues - Broke Down Engine Charlie Lincoln - Country Breakdown - Mojoe Blues Peg Leg Howell - Please Ma'am Peg Leg Howell And His Gang - Beaver Slide Rag Alec Johnson - Sundown Blues Buddy Moss - Hard Road Blues - Daddy Don't Care compiled by Samuel Charters notes by Samuel Charters RBF 15 (US 1966) RBF Records discography
33a	1966	Blues Classics Volume 3 Lonnie Coleman - Old Rock Island Blues Robert Lockwood - Little Boy Blue Wright Holmes - Alley Blues The Delta Boys - You Shouldn't Say That - Black Gal Swing Barbecue Bob - Ease It To Me Blues Walter Roland - 45 Pistol Blues - Every Morning Blues Willie McTell - Kill It Kid [Atlantic 891] Kid Stormy Weather - Short Haired Blues Casey Bill -WPA Blues Harmonika Frank - Tom Cat Blues Memphis Minnie - Bumble Bee Blues Black Boy Shine - Sugarland Blues Son Bond - 80 Highway Willie McTell - Broke Down Engine [Atlantic 891] Blues Classics BC 7 (US 1966) Blues Classics discography
34	1967	A Blues Potpourri Peg Leg Howell - Banjo Blues - Turkey Buzzard Blues Texas Alexander - The Risin' Sun - Tell Me Woman Blues Barbecue Bob - Honey You're Goin' Too Fast - Mama You Don't Suit Me Curley Weaver - No No Blues - Sweet Petunia Lil McClintock - Sow Good Seeds - Mother Called Her Child To Her Dying Bed Barbecue Bob - Thinkin' Funny Blues - My Mistake Blues Texas Alexander - Polo Blues - Prairie Dog Hole Blues Peg Leg Howell - Moanin' And Groanin' Blues - Beaver Slide Rag Kokomo K-1001 (UK 1967) Kokomo Records discography
34a	1967	Barbecue Bob with Charlie Hicks: Georgia Blues Vol. 1 - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues - Brown Skin Gal - Waycross Georgia Blues - Goin' Up The Country - Mississippi Low-Levee Blues - Bad Time Blues - Meat Man Pete - Dollar Down Blues - Red Hot Mama - Pap'as Going To Cool You Off - It's A Funny Little Thing - The Monkey And The Baboon - Darktown Gamblin' - The Crap Game - Darktown Gamblin' - The Skin Game - Jambooger Blues - I Just Won't Quit - New Mojo Blues Kokomo K-1002 (UK 1967) Kokomo Records discography
34b	1968	Nearer My God To Thee Sanctified Singers, Preachers & Congregations (1926-1942) Richard Rabbit Brown - Sinking Of The Titanic Sister Mary Nelson - The Royal Telephone Joe & Emma Taggart - Mother's Love Rev. F.W. McGee - Jonah In The Belly Of The Whale Washington Phillips - Lift Him Up That's All Mississippi John Hurt - Praying On The Old Camp Ground Arizona Dranes - Sweet Heaven Is My Home Blind Willie Johnson - You'll Need Somebody On Your Bond Bozie Sturdivant - Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down Mississippi John Hurt - Blessed Be The Mama Rev. F.W. McGee - With His Stripes We Are Healed Arizona Dranes - It's All Right Now Blind Joe Taggart - Religion Is Something Within You Blind Lemon Jefferson - He Arose From The Dead Skip James - Be Ready When He Comes Barbecue Bob - When The Saints Go Marching In compiled and produced by Evelyn Parth (resp. Evelyn Sperker) Roots RL-304 (Austria 1968) autogram/Roots RL-304 (Germany ????) Roots Records discography
35	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
36	1969	Georgia Guitar 1927-38 Kokomo Arnold - Going Down In Galilee (Swing Along With Me) - Something's Hot Barbecue Bob - It Just Won't Hay - It's Just Too Bad Fred McMullen - Poor Stranger Blues Blind Willie McTell - It's A Good Little Thing Buddy Moss - Cold Country Blues - My Baby Don't Pay Me No Mind - Stop Hanging Around Tampa Red - Sugar Mama Blues no. 2 - Black Angel Blues Curley Weaver - No No Blues Sylvester Weaver - Penitentiary Bound Blues - Devil Blues - Black Spider Blues "Kokomo Records produced by Ted Griffiths & Trev Huyton" Kokomo K-1004 (UK 1969) Kokomo Records discography
37	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
38	1970	Recording The Blues Lucille Bogan - Skin Game Blues Bertha 'Chippie' Hill (with Louis Armstrong) - Kid Man Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson - Rabbit Foot Blues Whistlin' Alex Moore - Blue Bloomer Blues Barbecue Bob - Crooked Woman Blues Georgia Cotton Pickers - She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day Rev. J. M. Gates - Death's Black Train Is Coming Mississippi Sheiks - Loose Like That Blind Willie Johnson - When The War Was On Allan Shaw - I Couldn't Help It Tim Wilkins - New Stock Yard Blues Bumble Bee Slim - Bricks In My Pillow Big Bill - Detroit Special Lil Johnson - Press My Button (Ring My Bell) Peetie Wheatstraw - Ain't It A Pity And A Shame Pinetop Burks - Fannie Mae Blues notes by Robert W.M. Dixon and John Godrich CBS M 52797 (UK 1970) = Epic ECPJ-23 (Jp 1970) album illustrates the book "Recording The Blues" in the Blues Paperback Series, produced by November Books Ltd., and published in 1970 by Studio Vista Ltd.
39	1972	Bottleneck Blues Guitar Classics 1926-37 King Solomon Hill - Whoopie Blues Barbecue Bob - Atlanta Moan Shreveport Home Wreckers - Fence Breakin' Blues Robert Johnson - Milkcow's Calf Blues Take 2 Black Ace - Black Ace Ruth Willis - Man Of My Own Jim & Bob - St. Louis Blues Bo Weavil Jackson - You Can't Keep No Brown Weaver & Beasley - Bottleneck Blues Ramblin' Thomas - So Lonesome Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie - My Wash Woman's Gone Oscar Woods - Evil Hearted Woman Blues Bukka White - The Panama Limited Irene Scruggs - My Back To The Wall the person holding a National guitar lap style depicted on the LP's front cover is Peter Anderson, a New York photographer and friend of Nick Perls (info from Eddie Lang at facebook) notes by Stephen Calt, Nick Perls, Mike Stewart Yazoo L-1026 (US 1972) notes by Mike Stewart & Stephen Calt Yazoo CD 1026 (US 1991) Yazoo Records discography
39a	1974	Please Warm My Weiner Old Time Hokum Blues Whistling Bob Howe & Franke Griggs - The Coldest Stuff In Town [actually "The Hottest Stuff In Town"] Tommie Bradley & James Cole - Adam And Eve Buddie Burton - Ham Fatchet Blues Part 1 Georgia Tom & Tampa Red - The Alley Crap Game Rufus & Ben Quillian - Satisfaction Blues [Columbia 14616-D] Hokum Boys - I Had To Give Up Gym Papa Charlie Jackson - You Put It In, I'll Take It Out Butterbeans & Susie - Elevator Papa, Switchboard Mama Robert & Charlie Hicks - Darktown Gambling - The Crap Game The Yazoo All Stars [actually "The Paramount All Stars"] - Hometown Skiffle Part 1 - Hometown Skiffle Part 2 Memphis Minnie - Banana Man Blues Leola B & Kid Wesley Wilson - Uncle Joe Bo Carter - Please Warm My Weiner cover art by Robert Crumb notes by Stephen Calt Yazoo L-1043 (US 1974) = Yazoo CD 1043 YAZ (US 1992) Yazoo Records discography
40	1975	The Voice Of The Blues Bottleneck Guitar Masterpieces Barbecue Bob - Goin' Up The Country The Georgia Browns - Decatur Street 81 Ramblin' Thomas - Ground Hog Blues Tampa Kid - Keep On Trying The Hokum Boys - Selling That Stuff The Too Bad Boys - Corrine Corrine Blues Sister O. M. Terrell - I Want You To Lead Me On Sam Butler - Jefferson County Blues Oscar "Buddy" Woods - Come On Over To My House Baby Roy Smeck - Laughing Rag Irene Scruggs - The Voice Of The Blues Jimmie Davis - She's A Hum Dum Dinger From Dingersville Blind Willie Davis - When The Saints Go Marching In Georgia Cotton Pickers - She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy notes by Stephen Calt Yazoo 1046 (US 1975) Yazoo CD 1046 (US 1992) Yazoo Records discography
40a	197?	Barbecue Bob Masters of the Blues Vol. 10 - Barbecue Blues (3:07) - Cloudy Sky Blues (3:06) - How Long Pretty Mama? (3:21) - Crooked Woman Blues (2:50) - 'Fo Day Creep (3:02) - Blind Pig Blues (3:12) - Chocolate To The Bone (2:52) - Hurry And Bring It Back Home (3:04) - California Blues (3:07) - Black Skunk Blues (3:09) - Freeze To Me Mama (2:54) - Me And My Whisky (3:06) - We Sure Got Hard Times Now (3:24) - The Spider And The Fly (3:32) - Atlanta Moan (2:30) - Doin' The Scraunch (2:54) Collector's Classics CC36 (Denmark 197?) notes by Peter Eden = Blue Planet BPLP 1005 (UK) = Blue Planet BPCD 1005 (UK) Collector's Classics Records discography
41	1978	Barbecue Bob: Chocolate To The Bone - Barbecue Blues - Cloudy Sky Blues - Chocolate To The Bone - Black Skunk Blues - It's Just Too Bad - Beggin' For Love - She Shook Her Gin - Tellin' It To You - Motherless Chile Blues - Twisting That Stuff - Dollar Down Blues - Yo Yo Blues - Waycross Georgia Blues - California Blues Mamlish S-3808 design by Borden Elniff notes by Stephen Calt Mamlish S-3808 (US 1978) Mamlish Records discography
42	1978	Barbecue Bob: Brown-Skin Gal - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues (3:03) - Mamma You Don't Suit Me! (3:06) - Brown-Skin Gal (3:00) - Honey You Don't Know My Mind (3:07) - Poor Boy A Long Ways From Home (3:00) - Thinkin' Funny Blues (3:20) - My Mistake Blues (3:18) - Mississippi Low-Levee Blues (3:05) - Bad Times Blues (3:12) - Meat Man Pete (3:14) - It Just Won't Hay (3:02) - Honey Your Going Too Fast (2:59) - It's A Funny Little Thing (2:52) - Monkey And The Baboon (3:00) - Darktown Gamblin' - Part 2 (The Skin Game) (3:03) - Jambooger Blues (3:14) - It Just Won't Quit (3:16) - New Mojo Blues (3:25) accompanying book by Dave Moore: "Brown Skin Girl" on Barbecue Bob and the Atlanta musicians surrounding him notes by Guido van Rijn Agram AB 2001 (NL 1978)
42a	1986	Barbecue Bob (Robert Hicks) 1927-30 - When The Saints Go Marching In (144282-2) - Jesus' Blood Can Make Me Whole (144283-3) - Easy Rider Don't You Deny My Name (144284-3) - It Won't Be Long Now - part 1 (145192-2) - It Won't Be Long Now - part 2 (145193-2) - Goin' Up The Country (146052-2) - Ease It To Me Blues (146173-2) - She's Gone Blues (147306-1) - Cold Wave Blues (147307-2) - Good Time Rounder (148253-2) - Red Hot Mama Papa's Going To Cool You Off (148343-2) - Trouble Done Bore Me Down (149344-1) - Unnamed Title (149347-1) - She Moves It Just Right (149397-2) - Yo Yo Blues No.2 (150269-2) - Darktown Gamblin' - Part 1 (The Crap Game) (150374-1) notes by Paul Oliver Matchbox MSE 1009 (UK 1986) Matchbox Records discography
43	1990	The Slide Guitar: Bottles, Knives & Steel [Vol. 1] - Bottleneck Blues - Weaver & Beasley - untitled - Barbecue Bob - God Don't Never Change - Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night (Cold Was the Ground) - Blind Willie Johnson - St. Louis Blues - Weaver & Beasley - Experience Blues - Blind Willie McTell, Ruth Mary Willis - Guitar Rag - Sylvester Weaver - You Can't Get That Stuff No More - Tampa Red - High Sheriff Blues - Charley Patton - Homesick And Lonesome Blues - Blind Boy Fuller - Packin' Trunk Blues - Leadbelly - I Believe I'll Make A Change - Casey Bill Weldon - Don't Sell It (Don't Give It Away) - Buddy Woods - Muscat Hill Blues - Buddy Woods - Traveling Riverside Blues - Robert Johnson - Bukka's Jitterbug Swing - Bukka White - Special Streamline - Bukka White - Swing Low, Chariot - Sister O.M. Terrell - Pearline - Son House SPV CD 42492 bonus tracks: - Black Snake Moan - Leadbelly - Death Letter Blues - Son House series prod. by Lawrence Cohn cover photo by Steve Prezant notes by Richard Spottswood CBS LP C 46218 (US 1990) = CBS LP 268.064 (UK 1990) (Roots n' Blues series) notes by Richard Spottswood = CBS CD CK46218 (US 1990) = CBS CD 467251 (EU 1990) (Roots n' Blues series) = CBS/Sony CSCS 5327 (Jp 1990) = Columbia WCK 46218 (Ca 1990) = Columbia 493345 2 (UK 1998) notes by Neil Slaven = SPV GmbH/Blue Label CD SPV 42492 (Germany 2008) (Roots n' Blues series) 20 CD box set, CD 8 notes by Dean Rudland (=) Sony Music 88875043322 (US 2014) (Roots n' Blues series)
43a	1991	Legends Of The Blues - Volume Two - Henry Ford Blues - Roosevelt Sykes - Ninety-Eight Degree Blues - Alger "Texas" Alexander - Trinity River Blues - T-Bone Walker - She Shook Her Gin - Barbecue Bob - Turpentine Blues - Tampa Red - No No Blues - Curley Weaver - Bo-Easy Blues - Bessie Jackson - School Boy Blues - Walter Roland - Cold Blooded Murder No. 2 - Bumble Bee Slim - My Baby Won't Pay Me No Mind - Buddy Moss - Old Jim Canan's - Robert Wilkins - Take It Easy Greasy - Lil Johnson - Two Timin' Woman - Casey Bill Weldon - Down Hill Pull - Victoria Spivey - Down In The Slums - Curtis Jones - Separation Blues - Merline Johnson - Soon This Morning No. 2 - Charlie Spand - Is That A Monkey You Got? - Jazz Gillum - Hurry Down Sunshine - Champion Jack Dupree - Goodbye Now Brownie - Brownie McGhee prod. by Lawrence Cohn booklet notes by Pete Welding Columbia CD CK-/CT-47467 (US 1991) (Roots n' Blues series) = Columbia/Legacy COL 468770 2 (US / Australia 1991) (Roots n' Blues series) = SPV GmbH SPV 42722 CD (Germany 2008) (Roots n' Blues series) 20 CD box set, CD 6 notes by Dean Rudland (=) Sony Music 88875043322 (US 2014) (Roots n' Blues series)
44	1991	Barbecue Bob: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Vol. 1 25 March 1927 to 13 April 1928 Barbecue Bob - Barbecue Blues (3:09) - Cloudy Sky Blues (3:07) - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues (3:05) - Mamma You Don't Suit Me! (3:07) - Brown Skin Gal (3:02) - Honey You Don't Know My Mind (3:08) - Poor Boy A Long Ways From Home (3:00) - When The Saints Go Marching In (3:06) - Jesus' Blood Can Make Me Whole (3:03) - Easy Rider Don't You Deny My Name (2:54) - Thinkin' Funny Blues (3:22) - My Mistake Blues (3:18) - Motherless Chile Blues (3:10) - How Long Pretty Mama (3:20) Barbecue Bob And Laughing Charley - It Won't Be Long Now - Part 1 (3:29) - It Won't Be Long Now - Part 2 (3:23) Barbecue Bob - Crooked Woman Blues (2:48) - 'Fo Day Creep (3:02) - Blind Pig Blues (3:12) - Waycross Georgia Blues (3:06) - Going Up The Country (3:10) - Chocolate To The Bone (2:49) - Hurry And Bring It Back Home (3:03) notes by Chris Smith Document DOCD-5046 (Austria 1991) CDr remastered = Document DOCD-5046 (Austria 199?)
45	1991	Barbecue Bob: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Vol. 2 21 April 1927 to 3 November 1929 Barbecue Bob - Mississippi Low-Levee Blues (3:09) - Ease It To Me Blues (2:56) Nellie Florence - Jacksonville Blues (2:55) - Midnight Weeping Blues (2:55) Barbecue Bob - She's Gone Blues (3:24) - Cold Wave Blues (3:28) - Beggin' For Love (3:18) - Bad Time Blues (3:15) - Meat Man Pete (3:12) - Dollar Down Blues (3:20) - It Just Won't Hay (3:05) - It's Just Too Bad (3:11) - Good Time Rounder (3:07) - Honey Your Going Too Fast (2:59) - Red Hot Mama Pap's Going To Cool You Off (2:55) - California Blues (2:57) - It's A Funny Little Thing (2:52) - Black Skunk Blues (2:58) - Yo Yo Blues (2:54) - Trouble Done Bore Me Down (3:02) - Freeze To Me Mama (2:53) - Me And My Whiskey (3:06) - Unnamed Blues (3:05) notes by Chris Smith Document DOCD-5047 (Austria 1991)
46	1991	Barbecue Bob: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Vol. 3 6 November 1929 to 8 December 1930 Barbecue Bob - She Moves It Just Right (2:54) - Tellin' It To You (3:11) - Yo-Yo Blues, No. 2 (3:10) - She Shook Her Gin (3:08) - We Sure Got Hard Times (3:24) - Twistin' That Stuff (3:07) - Monkey And The Baboon (3:03) - Spider And The Fly (3:32) Robert And Charlie Hicks - Darktown Gamblin' - Part 1 (The Crap Game) (3:02) - Darktown Gamblin' - Part 2 (The Skin Game) (3:06) Barbecue Bob - Jambooger Blues (3:14) - It Just Won't Quit (3:14) - Atlanta Moan (3:02) - New Mojo Blues (3:25) - Doin' The Scraunch (2:54) Georgia Cotton Pickers - I'm On My Way Down Home (3:11) - Diddle-Da-Diddle (3:00) - She Looks So Good (2:57) - She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day (3:00) notes by Chris Smith Document DOCD-5048 (Austria 1991)
47	1992	Barbecue Bob: Chocolate To The Bone - Motherless Child Blues - Spider And The Fly - Yo Yo Blues - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues - California Blues - She's Coming - Barbecue Blues - When The Saints Go Marching In - Ease It To Me Blues - Poor Boy A Long Ways From Home - Diddle-Da-Diddle - Going Up The Country - Atlanta Moan - Good Time Rounder - It's Just Too Bad - Twistin' Your Stuff - Chocolate To The Bone - Black Skunk Blues - Jacksonville Blues - She Shook Her Gin = Yazoo CD 2005 (US 1992) Yazoo Records discography
47a	1992	Roots N' Blues - The Retrospective (1925-1950) disc 1: Charlie Poole with The North Carolina Ramblers - Whitehouse Blues Aiken County String Band - High Sheriff Frank Hutchison - The Last Scene Of The Titanic Hersal Thomas - Suitcase Blues Reverend J.M. Gates - Death's Black Train Is Coming Dora Carr - Cow-Cow Blues Vance's Tennessee Breakdowners - Washington County Fox Chase Fiddlin' John Carson - I'm Going To Take The Train To Charlotte Ernest V. Stoneman's Trio - Untitled Whistler And His Jug Band - Low Down Blues Washington Phillips - Paul & Silas In Jail Barbecue Bob - Blind Pig Blues Austin & Lee Allen - Chattanooga Blues Sherman Tedder - Untitled Dallas String Band with Coley Jones - Hokum Blues Gladys Bentley - Worried Blues Elizabeth Johnson - Empty Bed Blues Part 1 Elizabeth Johnson - Empty Bed Blues Part 2 South Georgia Highballers - Blue Grass Twist Charlie Bowman And His Brothers - Moonshiner And His Money Clarence Green - Johnson City Blues Reverend Johnny Blakey assisted by The Sanctified Singers - Warming By The Devil's Fire Papa Too Sweet & Harry Jones - (Honey) It's Tight Like That Mississippi John Hurt - Big Leg Blues Daniels-Deason Sacred Harp Singers - Hallelujah disc 2: Hershel Brown and His Happy Five - Liberty Mamie Smith - My Sportin' Man Blues Birdhead - Mean Low Blues Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - C.C. & O. Blues The Okeh Atlanta Sacred Harp Singers - Ortonville Slim Doucet - Dear Black Eyes (Chere Yeux Noirs) Roosevelt Sykes - Roosevelt Blues The Hokum Boys - Gin Mill Blues Joe Falcon acc. by Clemo Breaux & Ophy Breaux - Osson W.T. Narmour & S.W. Smith - Sweet Milk And Peaches (Breakdown) Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers With Riley Puckett & Clayton McMichen - Soldier's Joy Whistlin' Alex Moore - They May Not Be My Toes Mississippi Sheiks - The Jazz Fiddler Lonnie Johnson - I Have To Do My Time Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton - Lonesome Frisco Line Roy Harvey & Leonard Copeland - Back To The Blue Ridge Buster Carter & Preston Young - Darn Good Girl Bo Carter - West Jackson Blues Lonnie Johnson & Violet Green - You Had Too Much Silver Leaf Quartet - Oh! Glory Glory Freeny's Barn Dance Band - Don't You Remember The Time Pelican Wildcats - Walkin' Georgia Rose Peetie Wheatstraw - Police Station Blues Tindley Quaker City Gospel Singers - Hallelujah Side Will Batts - Highway # 61 Blues disc 3: W. Lee O'Daniel & Lightcrust Doughboys - Doughboys Theme Song # 1 W. Lee O'Daniel And His Hillbilly Boys - Ida (Sweet As Apple Cider) W. Lee O'Daniel & Lightcrust Doughboys - Doughboys Theme Song # 2 Blind Willie (McTell) - Bell Street Lightnin' Charlie Patton - Jersey Bull Blues Walter Roland - Every Morning Blues Blue Ridge Ramblers - D Blues Breaux Freres - La Valse Des Yeux Bleus Bessie Jackson - Skin Game Blues Leroy Carr with Scrapper Blackwell - Good Woman Blues Pinewood Tom (Josh White) - Sissy Man The Rhythm Wreckers - Blue Yodel # 2 (My Lovin' Gal Lucille) The Anglin Twins - Just Inside The Pearly Gates Bumble Bee Slim - Hard Rocks In My Bed The Two Charlies - Tired Feelin' Blues Eldon Baker And His Brown County Revelers - One Eyed Sam A'nt Idy Harper And The Coon Creek Girls - Poor Naomi Wise Kid Prince Moore - South Bound Blues Big Bill Broonzy - C & A Blues George Curry - My Last Five Dollars The Nite Owls - Memphis Blues The Alley Boys Of Abbeville - Pourquoi tu m'aime pas Reverend Benny Campbell - Have Mercy On Me Albert Ammons - Shout For Joy Jack Kelly - Flower Blues Bob Clifford - Onion Eating Mama Callahan Bros. - Brown's Ferry Blues # 2 Little Buddy Doyle - Slick Capers Blues [previously unissued] Bill McKinley (Jazz Gillum) - Poor Boy Blues disc 4: Frank Edwards - We Got To Get Together Sweet Violet Boys - You Got To See Mama Every Night (Or You Can't See Mama At All) The Humbard Family - I'll Fly Away Tony Hollins - Cross Cut Saw Blues Peter Cleighton (Clayton) - Black Snake Blues Black Cats And The Kitten - Step It Up And Go Bob And Randall Atcher - Papa's Going Crazy, Mama's Going Mad Adolf Hofner And His San Antonians - Cotton-Eyed Joe Poor Boy Burke - Old Vets Blues Little Son Joe - Black Rat Swing Big Maceo Merriweather - Maceo Special The Light Crust Doughboys with J.B. Brinkley - It's Funny What Love Will Make You Do Hank Penny And His Radio Cowboys - Army Blues James "Beal Street" Clark - Who But You Homer Harris - Tomorrow May Be Too Late McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) - Burying Ground Blues Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys - Goodbye Old Pal Gene Autry - Dixie Cannonball Bill Landford & The Landfordaires - Run On For A Long Time (Big) Joe Williams - Baby, Please Don't Go Sister Myrtle Fields acc. by The Austin McCoy Trio - I'm Toiling Willie "Boodle It" Right - Two By Four Blues Bailes Bros. - You Can't Go Halfway (And Get In) Molly O'Day & The Cumberland Mountain Folks - Heaven's Radio Rosetta Howard - Plow Hand Blues Memphis Seven - Grunt Meat Blues Deep South Boys - Until I Found The Lord Brother Porter & Brother Cook - I Know My Jesus Won't Deny Me compiled by Lawrence Cohn 4 disc set notes by Lawrence Cohn and Pete Welding Columbia Legacy 47911/47912-15 (US 1992) 20 CD box set (=) Sony Music 88875043322 (US 2014)
48	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 IGOCD 2045 (UK 1996)
48a	1996	Booze & The Blues State Street Swingers - You Drink Too Much (3:13) Charley Jordan - Cherry Wine Woman (2:50) Memphis Minnie - Drunken Barrel House Blues (2:49) Mississippi Sheiks - Bootlegger's Blues (3:31) Barbecue Bob as Robert Hicks - Me And My Whiskey (3:06) Kid Prince Moore - Bug Juice Blues (2:38) Charlie Spand - Rock And Rye (2:36) Charlie Burse & Memphis Jug Band - Rukus Juice And Chittlin' (2:51) Merline Johnson as The Yas Yas Girl - Bad Whiskey Blues (2:35) Amos Easton as Bumble Bee Slim - I Keep On Drinking (To Drive My Blues Away) - Part 1 (3:04) Amos Easton as Bumble Bee Slim - I Keep On Drinking (To Drive My Blues Away) - Part 2 (3:09) Little Big Gaither - Moonshine By The Keg (2:44) Lucille Bogan as Bessie Jackson - Drinking Blues (2:54) Peetie Wheatstraw - More Good Whiskey Blues (2:59) Joshua White as Pinewood Tom - Pigmeat And Whiskey Blues (3:01) Casey Bill Weldon - Give Me Another Shot (2:42) Lewis Black - Corn Liquor Blues (2:55) Sloppy Henry - Canned Heat Blues (2:53) The Big Three Trio & Rosetta Howard - When I Been Drinking (3:15) Big Bill Broonzy - When I Been Drinking (2:50) Jack Newman - Blackberry Wine (2:46) Rev. W.M. Mosley - Drinking Shine (3:04) SPV GmbH SPV 91 732 CD bonus tracks: Leadbelly - Honey, I'm All Out And Down (3:13) Robert Johnson - Drunken Hearted Man (2:24) Roots n' Blues series prod. by Lawrence Cohn notes by Mark A. Humphrey Columbia/Legacy CK 67002 (US 1996) (Roots n' Blues series) notes by Mark A. Humphrey Columbia/Legacy COL 483586 2 (EU 1996) (Roots n' Blues series) notes by Neil Slaven = SPV GmbH SPV 91 732 CD (Germany 2008) (Roots n' Blues series) 20 CD box set, CD 14 notes by Dean Rudland (=) Sony Music 88875043322 (US 2014) (Roots n' Blues series)
49	1998	Barbecue Bob: Barbecue Blues - Barbecue Blues (3:09) - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues (3:05) - Honey You Don't Know My Mind (3:08) - Poor Boy A Long Ways From Home (3:00) - Jesus' Blood Can Make Me Whole (3:03) - Motherless Chile Blues (3:10) - How Long Pretty Mama (3:20) - 'Fo Day Creep (3:00) - Blind Pig Blues (3:12) - Goin' Up The Country (3:10) - Chocolate To The Bone (2:49) - Midnight Weeping Blues (2:55) (NELLIE FLORENCE with BARBECUE BOB) - Cold Wave Blues (3:28) - It's Just Too Bad (3:11) - Good Time Rounder (3:07) - California Blues (2:57) - Black Skunk Blues (2:58) - Yo Yo Blues (2:54) - She Shook Her Gin (3:08) - We Sure Got Hard Times (3:24) - Twistin' Your Stuff (3:07) - It Won't Be Long Now - Part 1 (3:29) - She Looks So Good (2:57) (GEORGIA COTTON PICKERS) - She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day (3:00) (GEORGIA COTTON PICKERS) P-Vine PCD-5766 (Jp 1998) = P-Vine PCD-20075 (Jp 3/2011)
49a	1998	Hard Times Come Again No More Vol. 1 Rural Songs of Hard Times and Hardships Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s The Bentley Boys - Down On Penny's Farm Blind Alfred Reed - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live Lane Hardin - Hard Time Blues Ernest Stoneman - All I Got's Gone Slim Smith - Bread Line Blues Alec Johnson - Miss Meal Cramp Blues Kelly Harrell - My Name Is John Johanna Dave McCarn - Serves 'em Fine J.D. Short - It's Hard Time Uncle Dave Macon - All In Down And Out Rutherford & Foster - Richmond Blues Elder Curry & His Congregation - Hard Times Cofer Brothers - Georgia Hobo Blind Lemon Jefferson - One Dime Blues Fiddlin' John Carson - Dixie Boll Weevil Chubby Parker - See The Black Clouds A'Breakin' Over Yonder Scrapper Blackwell - Down And Out Blues Edward L. Crain - Starving To Death On A Government Claim Barbecue Bob - We Sure Got Hard Times Samantha Bumgarner - Georgia Blues Mississippi John Hurt - Blue Harvest Blues Dixon Brothers - Weaver's Life Graham Brothers - Hard Times Come Again No More notes by Don Kent Yazoo CD 2036 (US 1998) Yazoo Records discography
50	1999	Barbecue Bob & Charley Lincoln - Hicks Brothers - Barbecue Blues - My Wife Drove Me From My Door - Yo Yo Blues - It Won't Be Long Now, Pt. 1 - It's Just Too Bad - Black Skunk Blues - Jealous Hearted Blues - Goin' Up The Country - Motherless Chile Blues - If It Looks Like Jelly Shakes Like Jelly It Must Be Gelatine - California Blues - Poor Boy A Long Ways From Home - Darktown Gambling, Pt. 1: The Crap Game - Gamblin' Charlie - Atlanta Moan - I'm On My Way Down Home - She's Coming Back Some Rainy Day - Doddle Hole Blues - Mama Don't Rush Me Blues - How Long Pretty Mama - Chain Gang Trouble - We Sure Got Hard Times Catfish KATCD 120 (UK 1999) Catfish Records (UK) discography
51	1999	Blues Guitar Pioneers - Handful Of Riffs - Match Box Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Rock Island Blues - Furry Lewis - Motherless Chile Blues - Barbecue Bob - Nobody's Fault But Mine - Blind Willie Johnson - Big Road Blues - Tommy Johnson - Stack O' Lee Blues - Mississippi John Hurt - It's Tight Like That - Tampa Red - Handful Of Riffs - Lonnie Johnson - Pony Blues - Charley Patton - Diddie Wa Diddie - Blind Blake - Travelin' Blues - Blind Willie McTell - My Black Mama - Son House - Devil Got My Woman - Skip James - Mistreatin' Mama - Big Bill Broonzy - Twelves, The (Dirty Dozens) - Kokomo Arnold - Terraplane Blues - Robert Johnson - Black Ace - Black Ace - Floating Bridge - Sleepy John Estes - Shake 'Em On Down - Bukka White - Jitterbug Rag - Blind Boy Fuller - Catfish Blues - Robert Petway - Cross Cut Saw Blues - Tommy McClennan - Mean Old Frisco - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup Catfish KATCD 123 (UK 1999) Catfish Records (UK) discography
52	2000	Classic Slide Guitar Blues - Never Drive A Stranger From Your Door - Willie Harris - Mamma, Tain't Long Fo' Day - Blind Willie McTell - Gospel Train Is Coming, The - The Guitar Evangelist - It's Nobody's Fault But Mine - Blind Willie Johnson - Mama You Gonin' To Quit Me Good As I Been To You - Allison Mathis - Good Gin Blues - Bukka White - My Wash Woman's Gone - Kansas Joe - No No Blues - Curley Weaver - Jambooger Blues - Barbecue Bob - Lonesome Atlanta Blues - Bobby Grant - Good Time Blues - Jelly Roll Anderson - Ground Hog Blues No. 2 - Rambling Thomas - Gone Dead Train, The - King Solomon Hill - Evil Hearted Woman Blues - Oscar Woods - Whiskey And Women - Black Ace - Boogie Woogie Dance - Tampa Red - Borrowed Love - Irene Scruggs - Little Boy Blue - Robert Lockwood Jr. - Matchbox Blues - Leadbelly - Falling Down Blues - Furry Lewis - Prayer Of Death: Part 1 - Charley Patton - Prayer Of Death: Part 2 - Charley Patton Catfish KATCD 139 (UK 2000) Catfish Records (UK) discography
53	2000	The Roots of Taj Mahal - Milk Cow Blues - Sleepy John Estes - Come on in My Kitchen - Robert Johnson - Sugar Mama - Sonny Boy Williamson - Statesboro Blues - Blind Willie McTell - John the Revelator - Blind Willie Johnson - Linin' Track - Leadbelly - Corinna Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Everybody Ought to Make a Change - Sleepy John Estes - Stack O'Lee Blues - Mississippi John Hurt - Sweet Home Chicago - Robert Johnson - Sophisticated Mama - Washboard Sam - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Sonny Boy Williamson - Fishing Blues - Henry Thomas - Keep Your Hands Off Her - Leadbelly - You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond - Blind Willie Johnson - Railroad Bill - Will Bennett - Divin' Duck Blues - Sleepy John Estes - Dust My Broom - Robert Johnson - Motherless Child - Barbecue Bob - Sittin' on Top of the World - Mississippi Sheiks - Walkin' Blues - Son House - Frankie and Albert - Mississippi John Hurt - Piccolo Rag - Blind Boy Fuller Catfish KATCD 141 (UK 2000) Catfish Records (UK) discography
54	2000	The Country Blues Roots of Eric Clapton Under The Influence Vol. 1 - Outside Woman Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds - A Spoonful Blues - Charley Patton - Walkin' Blues - Son House - Ramblin' On My Mind - Robert Johnson - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out - Bessie Smith - Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson - I'm So Glad - Skip James - Sittin' On Top Of The World - Mississippi Sheiks - Key To The Highway - Big Bill Broonzy - Mean Ol' Frisco - Arthur Crudup - Worried Life Blues - Big Maceo - Blues Before Sunrise - Leroy Carr - Motherless Chile - Barbecue Bob - Floating Bridge - Sleepy John Estes - Cross Cut Saw - Tommy Mcclennan - Alberta Blues - Mississippi Sheiks - Going Down Slow - St. Louis Jimmy Oden - Jesus Is Coming Soon - Blind Willie Johnson - Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker - It Hurts Me Too - Tampa Red artwork by "Slim" Hugh Harwood notes by Pat Harrison Catfish KATCD 159 (UK 2000) Catfish Records (UK) discography
55	2000	The Great Race Record Labels Vol. 2 (Columbia Records) - Every Day In The Week Blues - Pink Anderson - She Looks So Good - Georgia Cotton Pickers - Goin' Up The Country - Barbecue Bob - Denomination Blues, Pt. 1 - George Washington Phillips - Denomination Blues, Pt. 2 - George Washington Phillips - New Prison Blues - Peg Leg Howell - I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole - Blind Willie Johnson - Razor Ball - Blind Willie McTell - Country Breakdown - Charley Lincoln - Sweet Petunia - Curley Weaver - Trinity River Blues - Oak Cliff T-Bone - Henry's Worry Blues - Henry Townsend - Dreaming Blues - Willie Reed - Backwater Blues - Bessie Smith - Lonely Billy Blues - Billy Anderson - Barefoot Bill's Hard Luck Blues - Ed Bell - Spanish Blues - Lewis Black - Old Rock Island Blues - Lonnie Coleman - Black Snake Blues - Martha Copeland - Sundown Blues - Alec Johnson - Traveling Man - Coley Jones - I Want That - Kansas Joe - Ice Pick Blues - Whistlin' Alex Moore Catfish KATCD 162 (UK 2000) Catfish Records (UK) discography
56	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
56a	2001	The Essential Barbecue Bob disc 1: - Barbecue Blues - Honey You Don't Know My Mind - Black Skunk Blues - Goin' Up The Country - California Blues - Poor Boy A Long Ways From Home - Yo Yo Blues - How Long Pretty Mama - Doin' The Scraunch - Diddle-Da-Diddle (with The Georgia Cotton Pickers) - She's Gone Blues - My Mistake Blues - Hurry And Bring It Back Home - Chocolate To The Bone - I'm On My Way Down Home - It Won't Be Long Now - Part 1 - It Won't Be Long Now - Part 2 - Cold Wave Blues disc 2: - Twistin' That Stuff - Motherless Chile Blues - Ease It To Me Blues - Crooked Woman Blues - It Just Won't Hay - Jacksonville Blues (with Nellie Florence) - Good Time Rounder - Atlanta Moan - She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day (with The Georgia Cotton Pickers) - She Looks So Good (with The Georgia Cotton Pickers) - Tellin' It To You - 'Fo Day Creep - It's Just Too Bad - Waycross Georgia Blues - She Shook Her Gin - Midnight Weeping Blues - Jambooger Blues - We Sure Got Hard Times 2 CD set Classic Blues CBL 200026 (US 2001)
57	2015	Barbecue Bob: Reborn and Remastered The Rough Guide To Blues Legends - Poor Boy A Long Ways From Home (3:01) °° - Barbecue Blues (3:09) °° - Honey Your Going Too Fast (2:59) °° - Motherless Chile Blues (3:12) °° - She Looks So Good (2:58) °° - Thinkin' Funny Blues (3:22) - Honey You Don't Know My Mind (3:08) °° - Going Up The Country (3:11) °° - Atlanta Moa n(3:03) °° - It Just Won't Hay (3:05) °° - Chocolate To The Bone (2:49) - When The Saints Go Marching In (3:07) °° - She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day (3:01) °° - Spider And The Fly (3:33) - It Just Won't Quit (3:13) - Yo Yo Blues (2:54) - Brown-Skin Gal (3:03) - Jesus' Blood Can Make Me Whole (3:03) - She Moves It Just Right (2:55) - Midnight Weeping Blues (2:55) - It Won't Be Long Now - Part 1 (3:29) - It's Just Too Bad (3:12) - Doin' The Scraunch (2:54) - How Long Pretty Mama (3:21) compiled by Phil Stanton and Neil Record °° on vinyl LP includes a free MP3 download card of all the tracks from the LP as well as bonus tracks (as released on the CD version) notes by Neil Record World Music Network/Music Rough Guides RGNET1328CD (EU 2015) notes by Neil Record = World Music Network/Music Rough Guides RGNET1328LP (EU 2015)
58	2015	20 Classic Blues Songs from the 1920s Volume 13 2016 Calendar with free CD CD and Calendar contents: - My Monday Blues - Jim Jackson - When The War Was On - Blind Willie Johnson - Walking Blues - Charlie Kyle - Atlanta Moan - Barbecue Bob - Boogie Woogie - Papa Charlie McCoy - Some Cold Rainy Day - Curly Weaver and Ruth Willis - Wabash Rag - Blind Blake - 'Lectric Chair Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Beale Street Breakdown - Jed Davenport and His Beale Street Jug Band - Vampire Women - Spark Plug Smith - Georgia Cake Walk - Ma Rainey - The High Cost Of Sin - Black Billy Sunday Supplementary CD tracks: - Will You Spend Eternity In Hell - Black Billy Sunday - Special Question Blues - Hattie Hyde - T & N O Blues - Hattie Hyde - No Baby - Charlie Kyle - Country Guy Blues - Papa Charlie McCoy - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Tar Road Blues - Jaydee Short - Flaggin' It To Georgia - Jaydee Short restored by the AMERICAN EPIC sound team Blues Images Calendar Vol. 13 (rel. 2015, for 2016) Blues Images CD BIM-113 (US 2015) accompanying Blues Images Calendar Vol. 13 (for 2016) Blues Images calendars discography
59	2017	American Epic: The Collection disc 1: - The Coo Coo Bird (The Cuckoo) - Clarence Ashley - On the Road Again - Memphis Jug Band - The Panama Limited - Bukka White - Indian War Whoop - Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers - 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do, Pt. 1 - Frank Stokes - K.C. Railroad Blues - Andrew & Jim Baxter - I Am Bound for the Promised Land - Alfred G. Karnes - Cottonfield Blues, Pt. 2 - Garfield Akers - I Wish I Was a Mole In the Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Down On Penny's Farm - Bentley Boys - Foldin' Bed - Whistler's Jug Band - Greenback Dollar - Weems String Band - Tallahatchie River Blues - Mattie Delaney - Walk Right In - Cannon's Jug Stompers - Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow - The Carter Family - Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson - Bayou Teche - Columbus Fruge - Cool Drink of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson - Train On the Island - J.P. Nestor disc 2: - My Heart Keeps Singing - Elder J.E. Burch - Ninety-Nine Year Blues - Julius Daniels - I Get My Whiskey From Rockingham - Earl Johnson and his Clodhoppers - Death's Black Train Is Coming - Rev. J. M. Gates - Waiting for a Train - Jimmie Rodgers - Darling, Where Have You Been So Long? - Tenneva Ramblers - Rocky Road - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Ma Blond Est Partie - Amadie Breaux, Ophey Breaux & Cleoma Breaux - Peg and Awl - Carolina Tar Heels - Chocolate to the Bone - Barbecue Bob - Down On Me - Eddie Head and Family - Prenez Courage - Cleoma Breaux with Joseph Falcon and Ophy Breaux - Pickin' Off Peanuts - Dilly and his Dill Pickles - Just Because - Nelstone's Hawaiians - Dupree Blues - Willie Walker - Ladies On the Steamboat - Burnett & Rutherford - Mamma, 'Tain't Long Fo' Day - Blind Willie McTell disc 3: - Cecilia - Cuarteto Flores - La Coquetera - Los Borinquenos - Coconito - Guty Cárdenas Y Lencho - Lovesick Blues - Emmett Miller - Long Tall Mama - Big Bill Broonzy - John Henry Blues - Two Poor Boys - Mr. Tom Hughes' Town - Lead Belly - Louis Collins - Mississippi John Hurt - I Am The Light of the World - Blind Gary Davis - Fifty Miles of Elbow Room - Rev. F.W. McGee - Chant of the Eagle Dance - Hopi Indian Chanters - Hilo Hula - Mike Hanapi & The Ilima Islanders - If The River Was Whiskey - Charlie Poole - Stackalee - Frank Hutchison - The Wreck of the '97 - Ernest Stoneman - Faded Coat of Blue - Buell Kazee - Country Blues - Dock Boggs - Sail Away Ladies - Uncle Dave Macon and His Fruit-Jar Drinkers - Sail Away Lady - Uncle Bunt Stephens - Sally Gooden - Eck Robertson - Arkansas Traveller - Don Richardson disc 4: - Hard Time Blues - Lane Hardin - Down the Dirt Road Blues - Charley Patton - Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home - Banjo Joe - Hastings Street - Blind Blake & Charlie Spand - See That My Grave's Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Gonna Have 'Lasses In the Morning - Golden Melody Boys - New Orleans Stop Time - Memphis Minnie & Bumblebee Slim - Prove It On Me Blues - Ma Rainey - Gonne Die with My Hammer in My Hand - Williamson Brothers & Curry - Last Kind Words Blues - Geeshie Wiley - Banjoreno - Dixieland Jug Blowers - It's a Good Thing - Beale Street Sheiks - Trust In God and Do the Right - Blind Willie Davis - Someday Baby Blues - Sleepy John Estes - Lonesome Road Blues - Sam Collins - Future Blues - Willie Brown - Bull Doze Blues - Henry Thomas - Brown Skin Gal (Down the Lane) - Massey Family - Henry Lee aka Young Hunting - Dick Justice - Old Country Rock - William Moore - La Danseuse - Delma Lachney & Blind Uncle Gaspard - My Black Mama, Pt. 1 & 2 - Son House - Cypress Grove Blues - Skip James disc 5: - Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson - Mal Hombre - Lydia Mendoza - Sunshine Special - Frenchy's String Band - Old Jim Canan's - Robert Wilkins - Les Blues De Voyage - Amédé Ardoin & Dennis McGee - The Lost Child - Stripling Brothers - I'm Gonna Cross the River Jordan Some of These Days - Jaybird Coleman - Tomi Tomi - Sol K. Bright with The Aloha Serenaders - Sittin' On Top of the World - Mississippi Sheiks - James Alley Blues - Richard Rabbit Brown - The Indian Tom Tom - Big Chief Henry's Indian String Band - Blues In a Bottle - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers - Je Me Suis En Alle - Bartmont Montet & Joswell Dupuis - Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson - E Mama Ea - Sol Hoopii & His Novelty Quartette - Ghost Dance - Truett & George - Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind On Jesus) - Roosevelt Graves & Brother - Allons A Lafayette - Joseph Falcon - Corrido De Joaquin Murrieta, Pt. 1 & 2 - Los Madrugadores - Denomination Blues (Part 1 & 2) - Washington Phillips "American Epic: The Collection gathers 100 of these original recordings from the 1920s and 1930s in one five-disc set, restored to unprecedented levels of sonic fidelity. For this box set, compiled by Director Bernard MacMahon, engineer Nicholas Bergh refined a transfer process using a mix of both modern and vintage equipment in order to extract the remarkable resolution from the records that is often missed." 5 CD set American Epic AMPC451 (US 2017)
60	2019	It's The Best Stuff Yet disc 1: Piedmont Come Down To Atlanta Ruth Willis (with Blind Willie McTell) - Talkin' to You Wimmin' About The Blues Ruth Willis - Merciful Blues Blind Willie McTell - Mamma T'aint Long Fo' Day Curley Weaver & Eddie Mapp - It's The Best Stuff Yet Prince Moore - Mississippi Water #2 Prince Moore - Market Street Rag #1 Ruth Willis - I'm Still Sloppy Drunk Buddy Moss - Red River Blues #2 Buddy Moss - Hard Time Blues #1 Gitfiddle Jim - Rainy Night Blues Gitfiddle Jim - Paddlin' Blues Barbecue Bob - Jambooger Blues Barbecue Bob - Black Skunk Blues Curley Weaver - Dirty Deal Blues Georgia Boyd - Never Mind Blues Sam Montgomery - Mercy Mercy Blues #2 Allison Mathis - You Done Quit Me Good As I Been To You Blind Willie McTell - Delia Blind Blake - West Coast Blues #1 Blind Boy Fuller - Rag Mama Rag #1 Joshua White - John Henry John Jackson - A Blind Blake Rag John Jackson - Too Tight Unkown Artists - Squeeze My Lemon Ed Bush - My Husband Just Now Left Josh White - Darktown Strutters disc 2: The COMPLETE 1956 Blind Willie McTell 'Ed Rhodes Final Session' - Warm Up - Baby It Must Be Love - talk about "Dyin' Crapshooter's" - Dyin' Crapshooter's Blues - talk about Early Life - Pal Of Mine - more about Life - Don't Forget It - talk about "Kill It Kid" - Kill It Kid - talk about "That Will Never Happen No More" - That Will Never Happen No More - a request for "My Blue Heaven" - My Blue Heaven - some talk "About Drinking" - Beedle Um Bum - talk about "Salty Dog" - A Married Man's A Fool - talk about "A To Z" - A To Z Blues - talk about "New Orleans" - Goodbye Blues - Basin Street Blues - talk about "People In Room" - Salty Dog - talks about "Train Songs" - Wabash Cannonball - talks about "St James" & asks to 'Snooze' - St. James Infirmary - asks for Prison Songs - talk and If I Had The Wings - Length and Leadbelly - Instrumental (medley): - Kill It Kid (instr) - Weeping Willow (instr) - Wreck Of The Old 97 (with vocal) - bonus interview edits: - Ed Rhodes remembers Willie McTell in conversation with Larry Cohn - part 1 - part 2 Note: Final Session Track Listing Is As Listed by Samuel B. Charters from the original tape master sheet and reproduced in Record Research Magazine (August 1961) 2 CDs and DVD size 32-pp. colour booklet in a DVD size case Frog Records DGF88 (UK 2019)
Additional information appreciated !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Jean-Claude Arnaudon: Dictionnaire du Blues.- Paris, France (Filipacci) 1977, pp. 40-41
- Karel Bogaert: Blues Lexicon.- Antwerpen (Standaard) 1972, p. 28
- Robert M.W. Dixon & John Godrich: Blues & Gospel Records 1902 - 1942.- Chigwell (Storyville Publications), fully revised 3rd ed. 1982, pp. 237, 329-331
- Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943, 4th ed. 1997, pp. 264, 391-393
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, pp. 269-270
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, pp. 114-115
- Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- New York 1987, pp. 228-229
- Jas Obrecht: The Atlanta Bluesmen: Barbecue Bob and Laughing Charley.- http://jasobrecht.com/atlanta-bluesmen-barbecue-bob-laughing-charley-lincoln/ (via the Internet Archive wayback machine)
- John Tefteller and Blues Images Collection - used with permission
- BARBECUE BOB 12 String Guitar
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

Robert Crumb's 'Heroes Of The Blues' card # 28: Barbecue Bob
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