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Nathan Beauregard at the Memphis Country Blues Festival, June 1969;
Nathan Beauregard at the Memphis Country Blues Festival, June 1969
source: "Memphis Country Blues Festival" film trailer
Nathan Beauregard
né Nathan Bogard
b. [July 2,] February 1892 [1863/67/69]
in [Colbert or Ashland,] Benton County, Mississippi

d. May [15] 25, 1970 in Memphis, Tennessee
discography
N A T H A N   B E A U R E G A R D; from inner gatefold of Blue Thumb BTS 6000; photographer: Jim Marshall
  source: Inner gatefold of Blue Thumb BTS 6000; photographer: Jim Marshall

#year
of release
title / label / notes
11968The 1968 Memphis Country Blues Festival@ youtube (full album)

Nathan Beauregard
- Highway 61
- Kid Gal Blues
Bukka White
- Hello Central, Give Me 49
- Baby, Please Don't Go
Furry Lewis
- Furry's Blues

Rev. Robert Wilkins
- In Heaven, Sitting Down
- What Do You Think About Jesus?
Joe Callicott
- You Don't Know My Mind
- Great Long Ways From Home
Bukka White
- My Mother Died


rec. July 20, 1968 at the Municipal Shell, Overton Park in Memphis, TN [third annual festival]; Nathan Beauregard, voc, amplified g; M.C.: Jim Crosthwait; prod. by Mike Vernon, exec. producer: Seymour Stein (Sire Records)
front cover photography by Margaret Tucker, back cover photos supplied by Randall Lyon, Lydia Saltzman and Blues Unlimited

notes by Mike Vernon

Blue Horizon 7-63210 (mono) (UK 1968)

notes by Mike Vernon
 
Sire SES 97003 (stereo) (US 1968) (two slightly different labels)

notes by Mike Vernon

= Blue Horizon S 7-63210 (stereo) (UK 1969) (logo on front cover yellow)

notes by Mike Vernon

= Blue Horizon S 7-63210 (stereo) (Germany 1969) (logo on front cover black)


= CBS SBP 473668 (stereo) (Australia 1969)

(=) Blue Horizon CD 82876851232 (2006)

Blue Horizon Records discography
Bukka White discography
Furry Lewis discography
Robert Wilkins discography
Joe Callicott discography

21969Memphis Swamp Jam

LP 1:
Booker White
- Christmas Eve Blues
- Columbus, Miss. Blues
- Sad Day Blues
Piano Red
- Mobile Blues
- Abel Street Stomp


Nathan Beauregard
- Nathan's Bumble Bee Blues (10:30) #   @ youtube
- 'Bout A Spoonful (3:20) #   @ youtube
Sleepy John Estes
- Need More Blues
- President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long


LP 2:
Furry Lewis
- Judge Boushay Blues
- Walking Blues
Fred McDowell
- Shake Em On Down
- Fred's Blues
Napoleon Strickland
- Back Water Rising

- Other's Piece
- Shimmy She Wobble
R.L. Watson & Josiah Jones [John Fahey & Bill Barth]
- Memphis Rag
- St. Louis Blues
- Praying On The Old Campground


# rec. June 9, 1969 at Ardent Recording Studios in Memphis, Tennessee; Nathan Beauregard, voc, el g [right channel]; Mike Stewart, ac g [left channel]; all sessions supervised by Chris Strachwitz; prod. by Chris Strachwitz; assistant producers: John Fahey and Bill Barth

front cover photo of Blue Thumb BTS 6000 / Arhoolie 1084 taken at the Memphis Blues Festival by Jim Marshall

DLP
notes (1969) by Pete Welding
click to read track list !   click to enlarge left page of inner gatefold !click to enlarge right page of inner gatefold and read track list ! click to read first and second column of inner sleeve A !click to read third and fourth column of inner sleeve A ! click to read first column of inner sleeve B !click to read second column of inner sleeve B !click to read third column of inner sleeve B !
Blue Thumb BTS 6000 (US 1969)

= King SR-481 (Jp 1971)

notes (1969) by Pete Welding

(=) Arhoolie 1084 (US 1981) "Kings Of Country Blues Vol. 1" and Arhoolie 1085 (US 1981) "Kings Of Country Blues Vol. 2"


(=) Arhoolie CD 385 (US 1993) "Mississippi Delta Blues Jam In Memphis Vol. 1"


(=) Arhoolie CD 386 (US 1993) "Mississippi Delta Blues Jam In Memphis Vol. 2"

Arhoolie Records discography

31971The Memphis Blues Again   Vol. 1

Nathan Beauregard
- Nobody's Business But My Own (2:47) # *   @ youtube
- Lonesome To Myself (4:59) #   @ youtube
Sam Clark & Dewey Corley and Richard Harney
- Sunnyland Train Blues
Earl Bell & Marshall "Memphis Sonny Boy" Jones
- Catfish Blues
Mose Vinson & Backwards Sam Firk and Dewey Corley
- You Ain't Too Old
Mose Vinson & Backwards Sam Firk
- Bullfrog Blues
Sweet Charlene Peeples & Mose Vinson
- Tin Pan Alley
- Scood Up Be Doop Day

Furry Lewis
- Natural Born Eastman No. 2
Furry Lewis & Willie Morris and Dewey Corley
- New Turn Your Money Green
Joe Dobbins & Backwards Sam Firk
- Basin Street Blues
- Sweet Patricia
Gus Cannon
- Mule Gallop
Dewey Corley & Willie Morris and Furry Lewis
- Dewey's Walkin' Blues
Dewey Corley & Walter Miller
- Step It Up And Go


# rec. October 1969 in Memphis, TN; Nathan Beauregard, voc, g; * Mike Stewart, g; prod. by Gene Rosenthal
Adelphi AD 1009 cover drawing by Dick Bangham

notes by Stephan Michaelson and Steve LaVere with assistance by Nick Perls and Michael Stewart
notes by Stephan Michaelson & Steve LaVere; click to enlarge!Nathan Beauregard; click to enlarge! Furry Lewis, Gus Cannon, Sam Clark; click to enlarge!Dewey Corley, Mose Vinson, Sweet Charlene; click to enlarge! Earl Bell & Memphis Sonny Boy, Joe Dobbing; click to enlarge!notes by Steve LaVere, track list; click to enlarge!   gatefold notes; click to enlarge!    
Adelphi AD 1009 (US 1971)

notes by Stephan Michaelson

= Echo Music 801 (UK 1985) "Blues Anthology Vol. 1" "Memphis Blues"

Adelphi Records discography

41970All Day Thumb Sucker

Southwind - Rootin & Tootin
Sam Lay - Maggie's Farm
Fred McDowell - Shake 'Em On Down [Blue Thumb BTS 6000]
Robbie Basho - Eagle Sails The Blue
Tyrannosaurus Rex - Cat Black
Ike & Tina Turner - Bold Soul Sister

Love - Run To The Top

Nathan Beauregard - 'Bout A Spoonful [Blue Thumb BTS 6000]
Aynsley Dunbar - Sugar On The Line
Albert Collins - Frosty
Earl Hooker - Cross Cut Saw [Blue Thumb BTS 12]
Chicago Bluestars - Comin Home
Bossa Rio - Blackbird


notes by John Mendelsohn

Blue Thumb BTS 8702 (US 1970)

notes by John Mendelsohn

= Blue Thumb BTS 2000 (US 1970)

[Blue Thumb BT3 7002 "All Day Thumb Sucker Revisited" (US 1995) without Nathan Beauregard track]

51981Kings Of Country Blues, Vol. 1

Booker White
- Christmas Eve Blues
- Columbus, Miss. Blues
- Sad Day Blues
Piano Red
- Mobile Blues
- Abel Street Stomp


Nathan Beauregard
- Nathan's Bumble Bee Blues # [Blue Thumb BTS 6000]
- 'Bout A Spoonful # [Blue Thumb BTS 6000]
Sleepy John Estes
- Need More Blues
- President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long


reissue of LP 1 of (DLP) Blue Thumb BTS 6000


Arhoolie 1084 (US 1981)


(=) Arhoolie CD 386 (US 1993) "Mississippi Delta Blues Jam In Memphis Vol. 2"

Arhoolie Records discography

61993Mississippi Delta Blues Jam In Memphis Vol. 2

Sleepy John Estes
- Need More Blues
- Little Laura °°
- Rats °°
- President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long

Nathan Beauregard
- Nathan's Bumble Bee Blues * [Blue Thumb BTS 6000]
- 'Bout A Spoonful * [Blue Thumb BTS 6000]
Booker White
- Christmas Eve Blues
- Columbus, Miss. Blues
- Sad Day Blues
- Stuttgart, Ark °°
- Mixed Water


°° previously unreleased


(=) Arhoolie CD 386 (US 1993) "Mississippi Delta Blues Jam In Memphis Vol. 2"

Arhoolie Records discography

71999Shake 'Em On Down
The Real Country Blues

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

- 'Bout A Spoonful - Nathan Beauregard [Blue Thumb BTS 6000]
- You Call Yourself A Cadillac - Robert Nighthawk
- Keep Your Nose Out Of My Business - Johnny Young & Otis Spann
- Oh Baby - Napeleon Strickland



Arhoolie/Ace CD 527 (US/UK 1999)

Arhoolie Records discography

82006The 1968 Memphis Country Blues Festival
with Bukka White: The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions


disc 1:
Nathan Beauregard
- Highway 61 [Sire SES 97003 / Blue Horizon 7-63210]
- Kid Gal Blues [Sire SES 97003 / Blue Horizon 7-63210]
Bukka White
- Hello Central, Give Me 49
- Baby, Please Don't Go
Furry Lewis
- Furry's Blues
Rev. Robert Wilkins
- In Heaven, Sitting Down
- What Do You Think About Jesus?
Joe Callicott
- You Don't Know My Mind
- Great Long Ways From Home
Bukka White
- My Mother Died


disc 2:
Bukka White
- Bed Spring Blues
- Aberdeen, Mississippi Blues
- Drifting Blues
- (Brand New) Decoration Day
- Baby Please Don't Go
- Give Me An Old, Old Lady
- Got Sick And Tired
- World Boogie
- School Learning
- Old Man Tom
- Gibson Town
- Drifting Blues [master version without reverb]
- Old Man Tom [complete master version without reverb]


reissue (remastered) of 1968 Sire SES 97003 / Blue Horizon 7-63210 "The 1968 Memphis Country Blues Festival" and Blue Horizon 7-63229 "Memphis Hot Shots"

2 CD set

Blue Horizon CD 82876851232 (US 2006)

Blue Horizon Records discography



Additional information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- eBay auctions
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 213-214
- Chris Smith: Trying to make a hundred (99 and a half ain't true).- Blues & Rhythm 217 (2007), p. 25
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Patrice Champarou for drawing my attention to the Chris Smith article ("99 1/2 ain't true")

 

standing: Fred McDowell, Johnny Woods, Booker White; sitting: Nathan Beauregard, Furry Lewis, Sleepy John Estes; source: Front cover of Arhoolie 1084/1085; photographer: Jim Marshall; click to enlarge!
standing: Fred McDowell, Johnny Woods, Booker White
sitting: Nathan Beauregard, Furry Lewis, Sleepy John Estes
source: Front cover of Arhoolie 1084/1085; photographer: Jim Marshall

 

Nathan Beauregard at the 1968 Memphis Country Blues Festival; source: Back cover of Blue Horizon 7-63210; photographer's name not precisely given (Randall Lyon, Lydia Saltzman or 'Blues Unlimited'); click to enlarge!
Nathan Beauregard at the
1968 Memphis Country Blues Festival
source: Back cover of Blue Horizon 7-63210
photographer's name not precisely given
(Randall Lyon, Lydia Saltzman or "Blues Unlimited")
Nathan Beauregard; source: Front cover of Blue Thumb BTS 6000; photographer: Jim Marshall; click to enlarge!
Nathan Beauregard
source: Front cover of Blue Thumb BTS 6000
photographer: Jim Marshall

 

Nathan Beauregard; source: Notes of Adelphi AD 1009; photographer: Steve LaVere; click to enlarge!
Nathan Beauregard
source: Notes of Adelphi AD 1009
photographer: Steve LaVere
Nathan Beauregard at the Memphis Country Blues Festival, June 1969; source: http://www.fotobaron.com/tag/nathan-beauregard/; photographer: Baron Wolman; click to enlarge!
Nathan Beauregard
at the Memphis Country Blues Festival, June 1969
source: http://www.fotobaron.com/tag/nathan-beauregard/
photographer: Baron Wolman

 

Nathan Beauregard; source: Back cover of Arhoolie 1084; photographer: Jim Marshall; click to enlarge!
Nathan Beauregard
source: Back cover of Arhoolie 1084
photographer: Jim Marshall
Nathan Beauregard with helper, nephew Marvin Reeves and Verlina (Mrs. Johnny) Woods at the Memphis Country Blues Festival, June 1969; source: Postcard taken from The Blues - A Book of Postcards (Pomegranate Artbooks) 1989 Stephen C. LaVere - Revised 1993; photographer: Steve LaVere; click to enlarge!
Nathan Beauregard with helper, nephew Marvin Reeves
and Verlina (Mrs. Johnny) Woods at the Memphis Country
Blues Festival, June 1969
source: Postcard taken from The Blues - A Book of Postcards
(Pomegranate Artbooks) 1989, ed. by Stephen C. LaVere - Revised 1993
photographer: Steve LaVere

 

Bill Barth (1995): The Real True Story of How I Found Nathan Beauregard and Got Him to Play Music Again
p. 3 (@ https://web.archive.org)
p. 4 (@ https://web.archive.org)
(repro @ https://www.mtzionmemorialfund.org)

 

 

 

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