Arhoolie F 1005 (1960, 1st pressing) track sequence:
Sam Chatman
A1 - I Have To Paint My Face   @ youtube   @ Spotify
A2 - You Shall Be Free (Nigger Be A Nigger) °°°°   @ youtube
A3 - I Stand And Wonder   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
A4 - Forty-Four Blues ## °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Jasper Love
A5 - Desert Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Sam Chatmon
A6 - Lay My Burden Down (Glory Hallelujah) °°°°
Kathryn Pitman and group
A7 - Save A Seat For Me °°°°

Wade Walton & R.C. Smith
B1 - Barbershop Rhythm   @ youtube   @ Spotify
R.C. Smith
B2 - Going Back To Texas   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Jasper Love & Columbus Jones
B3 - The Slop °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify
R.C. Smith
B4 - Lost Love Blues °°°   @ youtube   @ Spotify
B5 - Lonely Widow [actual title: "Lonely Widower"]   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Wade Walton
B6 - Rooster Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
B7 - Butch's Blues #   @ youtube   @ Spotify

°°°° omitted from 1969 and 1980 re-releases, not on Arhoolie CD 432
°°° omitted from 1969 and 1980 re-releases, but re-released on Arhoolie CD 432
°°  omitted from 1969 re-release, but added to 1980 re-release and on Arhoolie CD 432

I Have To Paint My Face - A Random Collection of Mississippi Blues

Arhoolie F 1005 (1969, 2nd pressing) track sequence:
Sam Chatman
A1 - I Have To Paint My Face
K.C. Douglas
A2 - Big Road Blues °°   @ Spotify
Sam Chatman
A3 - I Stand And Wonder
Big Joe Williams
A4 - Texas Blues °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Bukka White
A5 - Drifting Blues °°

Wade Walton & R.C. Smith
B1 - Barbershop Rhythm
R.C. Smith
B2 - Going Back To Texas
K.C. Douglas & Sidney Maiden
B3 - Blues And Trouble °°   @ Spotify
R.C. Smith
B4 - Lonely Widow [actual title: "Lonely Widower"]
Wade Walton
B5 - Rooster Blues
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
B6 - Butch's Blues #

°° newly added tracks on 1969 pressing

I Have To Paint My Face - A Random Collection of Mississippi Blues

Arhoolie F 1005 (1980, 3rd pressing) track sequence:
Sam Chatman [sic]
A1 - I Have To Paint My Face
K.C. Douglas
A2 - Big Road Blues
Sam Chatman [sic]
A3 - I Stand And Wonder
Big Joe Williams
A4 - Texas Blues
Bukka White
A5 - Drifting Blues
Jasper Love & Columbus Jones
A6 - The Slop °°

Wade Walton & R. C. Smith
B1 - Barbershop Rhythm
R.C. Smith
B2 - Going Back To Texas
K.C. Douglas & Sidney Maiden
B3 - Blues And ('N') Trouble
R.C. Smith
B4 - Lonely Widow [actual title: "Lonely Widower"]
Wade Walton
B5 - Rooster Blues
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
B6 - Butch's Blues #
B7 - Forty-Four Blues ## °°

°° 1980 version "bonus tracks", listed on labels, but not on back cover!

I Have To Paint My Face - Mississippi Blues 1960

Arhoolie CD 432 (1995) track sequence:
- I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Big Road Blues - K.C. Douglas [Arhoolie 1005, 2nd. ed.]
- I Stand And Wonder - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie 1005, 1st ed.]
- Texas Blues - Big Joe Williams [Arhoolie 1005, 2nd. ed.]
- Night Shirt Blues - K.C. Douglas [previously unreleased]   @ Spotify
- Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas/Bruce Bratton [previously unreleased]   @ Spotify
- Hollandale Blues - Sam Chatmon [previously unreleased]   @ Spotify
- The Slop - Jasper Love/Columbus Jones [Arhoolie 1005, 1st ed.]
- Stella Ruth - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- God Don't Like Ugly - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- Rooster Blues - Wade Walton [Arhoolie 1005, 1st ed.]
- Barbershop Rhythm - Wade Walton / R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st ed.]
- Going Back To Texas - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st ed.]
- Blues And Trouble - K.C. Douglas/Sidney Maiden [Arhoolie 1005, 2nd ed.]
- Lonely Widower - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st ed.]
- Lost Love Blues - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st ed.]
- Married Woman Blues - Big Joe Williams [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- Love's Honeydripper - Jasper Love [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- Desert Blues - Jasper Love [Arhoolie 1005, 1st ed.]
- One Thin Dime - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas # [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]   @ youtube
- Butch's Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas # [Arhoolie 1005, 1st, 2nd & 3rd ed.]
- Forty Four Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas ## [Arhoolie 1005, 1st & 3rd ed.]
- Chicago Blues - Sidney Maiden/K.C. Douglas [Arhoolie F 1006, 2nd ed.]

Arhoolie F 1005 (1st pressing) tracks rec. 1960 by Chris A. Strachwitz with assistance from Mr. and Mrs. Paul Oliver
# rec. August 7, 1960 in Zachary, LA; Butch Cage, voc, vl; Willie Thomas, voc, g; ## Martha Thomas [Willie's wife], dr
Arhoolie F 1005 (1st pressing) front cover artwork by Wayne Pope
Arhoolie F 1005 (2nd/3rd pressing) front cover photo (Fred McDowell at an out door "house party") by Chris Strachwitz
liner photos by Chris Strachwitz

booklet notes (1960) by Mack McCormick   "Arhoolie Records, Berkeley, California"

Arhoolie F 1005 (US 1960, 1st pressing)

notice of first edition's deletion in BU 58 (December 1968), p. 7

new notes (1969) by Chris Strachwitz   "Arhoolie Records, P.O. Box 9195, Berkeley, Calif. 94709"
first few of 2nd pressing on labels titled "Delta House Party", but soon retitled "I Have To Paint My Face"

(=) Arhoolie F 1005 (US 11/1969, 2nd [remastered] pressing) subtitled "A Random Collection of Mississippi Blues"

notes (1969) by Chris Strachwitz   "Arhoolie Records, P.O. Box 9195, Berkeley, Calif. 94709"

Arhoolie F 1005 (US 1980, 3rd pressing) subtitled "A Random Collection of Mississippi Blues"
front and back covers same as 1969 pressing, i.e. track list not updated (two add'l tracks A6 and B7 missing)!

notes by Chris Strachwitz

(=) Arhoolie CD 432 (US 1995) subtitled "Mississippi Blues 1960"

Arhoolie Records discography

Arhoolie FS 101 / F 1006 (1961 + 197?) track sequence:
Big Joe Williams - Married Woman Blues   @ youtube
Lil' Son Jackson - Johnny Mae   @ youtube
Lowell Fulson - Good Woman Blues   @ youtube
Mance Lipscomb - Back Water Blues   @ youtube
Jasper Love - Love's Honeydripper   @ youtube
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - One Thin Dime   @ youtube

Sam Chatman - God Don't Like Ugly   @ youtube
"Whistling" Alex Moore - Wake Up Old Lady   @ youtube
Black Ace - Hitchhiking Woman   @ youtube
Robert Curtis Smith - Stella Ruth   @ youtube
Mercy Dee - I Been A Fool [Arhoolie CD 369]   @ youtube

Arhoolie F 1006 (1980) track sequence:
Big Joe Williams - Married Woman Blues
Lil' Son Jackson - Johnny Mae
Lowell Fulson - Good Woman Blues
Mance Lipscomb - Back Water Blues
Jasper Love - Love's Honeydripper
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - One Thin Dime
Sidney Maiden - Chicago Blues °°   @ youtube

Black Ace - Hitchhiking Woman
Sam Chatman - God Don't Like Ugly
"Whistling" Alex Moore - Wake Up Old Lady
Black Ace - Ace's Guitar Blues °°   @ youtube
Robert Curtis Smith - Stella Ruth
Fat Boy Hayes [aka 'Jelly Belly'] - Goin' Back South [aka "Down South Blues"] °°
Mercy Dee - I Been A Fool [Arhoolie CD 369]

°° 1980 version "bonus tracks", listed on labels, but not on back cover!

Black Ace rec. September 19, 1960 in Ft. Worth, TX by Chris Strachwitz
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas rec. 1960 in Zachary, LA by Chris Strachwitz
Sam Chatman rec. July 25, 1960 in Hollandale, MS by Chris Strachwitz
Lowell Fulson rec. c. 1949 in Oakland, CA by Bob Geddins
Fat Boy Hayes [aka 'Jelly Belly'] rec. 1947 in New York, NY
Lil' Son Jackson rec. July 1960 in Dallas, TX by Chris Strachwitz
Mance Lipscomb rec. August 13, 1960 in Navasota, TX by Chris Strachwitz
Jasper Love rec. July 23, 1960 in Clarksdale, MS by Chris Strachwitz
Sidney Maiden rec. February 5, 1961 in Stockton, CA by Chris Strachwitz
Mercy Dee Walton rec. February 5, 1961 in Stockton, CA by Chris Strachwitz; Mercy Dee, voc, p
"Whistling" Alex Moore rec. summer 1960 in Dallas, TX by Chris Strachwitz
Robert Curtis Smith rec. July 24, 1960 at the "Big 6" Barbershop in Clarksdale, MS by Chris Strachwitz
Big Joe Williams rec. October 6, 1960 in Los Gatos, CA by Chris Strachwitz

Arhoolie FS101 front cover lay-out by Clair Moxley
Arhoolie F1006 front cover design by Wayne Pope
photos by Chris Strachwitz (except Black Ace, courtesy B.K. Turner)

I Have To Paint My Face - Mississippi Blues 1960

Arhoolie CD 432 (1995) track sequence:
- I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Big Road Blues - K.C. Douglas [Arhoolie 1005, 2nd. ed.]
- I Stand And Wonder - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Texas Blues - Big Joe Williams [Arhoolie 1005, 2nd. ed.]
- Night Shirt Blues - K.C. Douglas [previously unreleased]   @ Spotify
- Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas/Bruce Bratton [previously unreleased]   @ Spotify
- Hollandale Blues - Sam Chatmon [previously unreleased]   @ Spotify
- The Slop - Jasper Love/Columbus Jones [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Stella Ruth - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- God Don't Like Ugly - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- Rooster Blues - Wade Walton [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Barbershop Rhythm - Wade Walton / R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st ed.]
- Going Back To Texas - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Blues And Trouble - K.C. Douglas/Sidney Maiden [Arhoolie 1005, 2nd. ed.]
- Lonely Widower - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Lost Love Blues - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Married Woman Blues - Big Joe Williams [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- Love's Honeydripper - Jasper Love [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- Desert Blues - Jasper Love [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- One Thin Dime - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- Butch's Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Forty Four Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Chicago Blues - Sidney Maiden/K.C. Douglas [Arhoolie F 1006, 2nd. ed.]

notes (on 4-pp. leaflet, December 1961) by Chris Strachwitz   "P.O. Box 671 - Los Gatos, Calif."

Arhoolie FS101 (US 1961)

notes (on 4-pp. leaflet, December 1961) by Chris Strachwitz   "P.O. Box 671 - Los Gatos, Calif."

= Arhoolie F 1006 (196?)

notes (on back cover, 1961) by Chris Strachwitz   "P.O. Box 5073, Berkeley, California"
   
= Arhoolie F 1006 (197?)

notes (on back cover, 1961) by Chris Strachwitz   "Box 9195, Berkeley, CA. 94709"

(=) Arhoolie F 1006 (US 1980)   1980 release uses same front and back covers as 197? release, but actually has slightly different content - as printed on the labels!

notes by Chris Strachwitz

partly reissued on Arhoolie CD 432 (US 1995) subtitled "Mississippi Blues 1960"

Arhoolie Records discography

Willie Thomas & Butch Cage
- The 44 Blues (4:11) @ www.pastemagazine.com/
- The Hard Achin' Blues (4:14) @ www.pastemagazine.com/
- Pick Up The Slack And Hew The Line (1:54) @ www.pastemagazine.com/
- Hen Cackle (2:38) @ www.pastemagazine.com/
- He's Got The Whole In His Hand (3:16) @ www.pastemagazine.com/
- Trying To Get The Children Out Of Pharoah's Hand (2:33) @ www.pastemagazine.com/
- Mean Mistreater (8:45) @ www.pastemagazine.com/ (with Muddy Waters Band, Betty Jeanette, Jimmy Rushing, voc)

rec. July 3, 1960 (Sunday afternoon program) at Freebody Park, the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island; Butch Cage, voc, vl; Willie B. Thomas, voc, g; [] Lafayette Thomas, g; Muddy Waters, voc, g; James Cotton, hca; Otis Spann, p; Pat Hare, g; Andrew Stephens, b; Francis Clay, dr; [] Jimmy Rushing, voc

originally unissued

Muddy Waters discography

- I Got My Brand On You (4:32)   @ youtube
- (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man (3:00)   @ youtube
- Baby, Please Don't Go (3:01)   @ Spotify
- Soon Forgotten (4:22)   @ Spotify
- Tiger In Your Tank (4:30)   @ youtube

- I Feel So Good (2:55)   @ youtube
- Got My Mojo Working (4:30)   @ youtube
- Got My Mojo Working pt. 2 (10544) (2:48) [Chess 1774]   @ youtube
- Goodbye Newport Blues [] (4:50)   @ youtube

2001 / 2007 CD bonus tracks:
- I Got My Brand On You # (2:22) [Chess PLP 6040-51 (Jp)]   @ Spotify
- Soon Forgotten # (2:41) [Chess PLP 6040-51 (Jp)]   @ Spotify
- Tiger In Your Tank # (2:17) [Chess 1765]   @ youtube
- Meanest Woman # (2:18) [Chess 1765]   @ youtube

rec. July 3, 1960 at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island; Muddy Waters, voc, g; James Cotton, hca, Otis Spann, p; Pat Hare ["Tat Harris" on back cover], g; Andrew Stephens ["Andrew Stevenson" on back cover], b; Francis Clay, dr; [] Butch Cage, voc, vl; Willie B. Thomas, voc, g; [] Lafayette Thomas, g

# rec. June 1960 in Chicago, IL

the archtop on the cover picture is John Lee Hooker's guitar; photographer: Burt Goldblatt

notes by Jack Tracy

Chess LPS/LP 1449

= Barclay 84.093 (Fr 1964)

= Chess CRL 4513 (UK 1965)

notes by Jack Tracy

= Marble Arch MAL 661 (UK 1967)

notes by Mike Leadbitter

= Checker 6467 306 (UK 1973)

notes by Jack Tracy (italian)

= Carosello/Chess BRP
2026 (It 1982)

= P-Vine/Chess PLP-814 (Jp 1983)

= Chess/Vogue 515039 (Fr 19??)

= Chess/Green Line GCH-
8022 (It 1986)

= MCA/Chess CH-9198
(mastered by Steve Hoffman) (US 1986)

= MCA/Chess CHD-31269
(mastered by Steve Hoffman) (US 1986)

= MCA 6704024
(Brazil 1987)

notes by Jack Tracy

= MCA/Chess CD 1011
(1989)

(=) Beat Goes On BGOCD
314 (UK 1996)
"... in Newport / Live"

notes by Mary Katherine
Aldin and Jack Tracy

(=) MCA/Chess
088112515-2 (US 2001)

(=) Chess/Victor SJET 8237
(mini LP CD Jp 2007)

= Speakers Corner 180g LP
/ Chess 1449 (mastered by
Ray Staff, AIR-Studios,
London

Muddy Waters discography

O. J. Abbott
- On The Banks Of The Don
O. J. Abbott & Pete Seeger
- Barley Grain
Willie Thomas & Butch Cage
- I'm A Stranger Here (3:04)   @ youtube
- 44 Blues (4:15)   @ youtube
Pat Clancy
- Bonnie Bunch O' Roses-O
Mike Seeger
- Fair Ellender

Pete Seeger
- Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase
Alan Mills
- Citadel Hill
- Cod Liver Oil
Frank Hamilton
- I'm A Stranger Here
- I'm A Pilgrim

rec. June 25, 1959 in Newport, RI by Moses Asch; Butch Cage, voc, fiddle; Willie B. Thomas, voc, g
cover photo by David Gahr

Butch Cage & Willie Thomas at Newport
source: Notes of Folkways FA 2431
Polaroid Land Photo by W. Field

notes by Irwin Silber

Folkways FA 2431

= Discoplay DP 54.9167 (Spain 1983)

Newport Folk Festival discography

Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, Butch Cage
- Mean Old Frisco
Smoky Babe
- Boogy
Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, Butch Cage
- Miss Sadie May
Smoky Babe
- I Went Down 61 Highway
Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, Butch Cage
- Stagalee
Smoky Babe & Sally Dotson
- Black Ghost
Lemon Nash & Henry Thomas [= Lazy Lester]
- New Orleans Blues

Smoky Babe
- Regular Blues
Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, Butch Cage
- I Can't Quit You Baby
Hilary Blunt
- A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, Butch Cage
- This Is My Life
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- Bugle Call Blues
Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, Butch Cage
- Goin' Back To New Orleans
Smoky Babe
- Talkin' Baby

rec. at informal sessions in the homes of Butch Cage & Mabel Lee Williams near Baton Rouge, Louisiana by Harry Oster

Dr. Harry Oster discographySmoky Babe discography

notes by Harry Oster

Storyville SLP 129

Storyville Records discography

= Teichiku ULS-1825-R (Jp 1975)

Snooks Eaglin
- Down By The Riverside
Butch Cage, Willie Thomas & crowd
- When I See The Blood
Della Williams
- Motherless Children
New Orleans Street Gospel Singers
- I Will Be Your God
Otis Webster
- In My Saviours Care
Charles Henderson, Butch Cage, Willie Thomas & crowd
- Jesus On The Main Line

Rev. Pearly Brown
- If I Never See You Anymore
Andy Mosely, George Williams & Hogman Maxey
- I Know I Got Religion
Otis Webster
- This Little Light Of Mine
Angola Quartet
- Be With Me Jesus
Robert Pete Williams
- I'm Glad My Mother Teached Me How To Pray
Rev. Pearly Brown
- Nobody's Fault But Mine
Butch Cage, Willie Thomas & crowd
- If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again   @ youtube

rec. by Harry Oster

notes by Harry Oster

Storyville SLP 135
(Dk 1964)

Storyville Records discography

LP tracks:   @ youtube
Boogie Woogie Red - So Much Good Feeling (spoken, with own piano)
Willie Thomas - A Little Different spoken   @ youtube
James Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - Kill That Nigger Dead (Cage, voc & fiddle; Thomas, voc and guitar) spoken   @ youtube
Lil' Son Jackson - The Onliest Way (spoken)
J. B. Lenoir - My Father's Style (guitar solo)
J. B. Lenoir - So It Rocked On (spoken)
J. B. Lenoir - Move To Kansas City (vocal and own guitar)
Otis Spann - When She Comes Back (spoken)
Otis Spann - Poor Country Boy (vocal, with own piano)
Lightnin' Hopkins - Ain't No Easy Thing (spoken)
Mance Lipscomb - Evil Heart Blues (vocal and own piano)
Blind Arvella Gray - A Roughneck (spoken) #
Roosevelt Sykes - West Helena Blues (vocal and guitar)
Will Shade - Days Of Nineteen-Hundred (spoken)
Will Shade - Newport News Blues (vocal and own guitar)
Whistling Alex Moore - Chock House Days (spoken)
Whistling Alex Moore - Come and Get Me (vocal and own piano)
Brother John Sellers - Move Back For What? (spoken)
J. B. Lenoir - I Been Down So Long (vocal and own guitar)

Jasper Love - Santa Fé Blues (vocal and piano)
John Lee Hooker - Somewhere Down The Line (spoken)
Robert Curtis Smith - I Hope One Day My Luck Will Change (vocal and own guitar)
Otis Spann - Only Places They Can Go (spoken)
Otis Spann - People Calls Me Lucky (vocal and own piano)
Henry Townsend - What Have I Committed (spoken)
James Butch Cage - Tween Midnight And Day (vocal and own guitar) spoken   @ youtube
Little Brother Montgomery - Walking Basses (spoken)
Little Brother Montgomery - Dud Low Joe (piano solo)
Little Brother Montgomery - It's A Barrelhouse Blues (spoken) []
Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues (vocal with piano)
Little Brother Montgomery - They Beat Me To Chicago (spoken) []
Roosevelt Sykes - They All Called Him 'Pork Chops' (spoken)
Roosevelt Sykes - Forty-Four Blues (vocal and own piano)
Robert Junior Lockwood & Sunnyland Slim - Doctor Clayton And Me (spoken) []
Robert Junior Lockwood & Sunnyland Slim - Take A Little Walk With Me (vocal with own electric guitar, with Sunnyland Slim, piano) []
Edwin Buster Pickens - To Have The Blues Within (spoken)
Mance Lipscomb - Blues In The Bottle (vocal and own guitar)

CD tracks:
- So Much Good Feeling - Boogie Woogie Red
- A Little Different - Willie Thomas
- Kill That Nigger Dead - James "Butch" Cage & Willie Thomas
- The Onliest Way - Lil Son Jackson
- My Father's Style / So It Rocked On / Move To Kansas City - J.B. Lenoir
- When She Come Back / Poor Country Boy - Otis Spann
- Ain't No Easy Thing - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Evil Heart Blues - Mance Lipscomb
- A Roughneck - Blind Arvella Gray #
- West Helena Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
- Days of 1900 / Newport News Blues - Will Shade
- Chock House Days / Come and Get Me - Whistling Alex Moore
- Move Back! For What? - Brother John Sellers
- Been Down So Long - J.B. Lenoir
- A Place They Call Boots' - James "Stump" Johnson []
- Henry Brown Blues - Henry Brown []
- They Called Us Gandy Dancers / Work Songs / John Henry - Blind Arvella Gray with Blind James Brewer # []
- Santa Fe Train - Edwin "Buster" Pickens
- Most Reason I Sing - Robert Curtis Smith
- Santa Fe Blues - Jasper Love
- Somewhere Down The Line - John Lee Hooker
- I Hope One Day My Luck Will Change - Robert Curtis Smith
- Only Places They Can Go / People Call Me Lucky - Otis Spann
- What Have I Committed? - Henry Townsend
- 'Tween Midnight And Day - James "Butch" Cage
- Walking Basses / Dud Low Joe / The First Vicksburg Blues - Little Brother Montgomery
- They Call Him "Pork Chops" / Forty-Four Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
- Blues In The Bottle - Mance Lipscomb
- To Have The Blues Within - Edward "Buster" Pickens
- Colorado Springs Blues - Edwin "Buster" Pickens []

All tracks recorded between June 26 and August 28, 1960
# rec. August 7, 1960 in Zachary, LA

LP and CD have slightly different tracks: [] = not on LP resp. CD !!!

notes (plus 6-pp. insert) by Paul Oliver    Decca LK 4664 insert (1 sheet folded to 6 pp.)
 
Decca LK 4664 (UK 1965)

notes by Paul Oliver

= Decca LK 4664 (Germany 1965)

 

LP resp. CD accompanying Paul Oliver's book by the same title:


London (Cassell) (1st UK ed. 1965)   xv, 217 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm

 
New York (Horizon Press) (1st US ed. 1965)   xix, 217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

 
London ("Jazz Book Club") JBC 64 (2nd UK ed. 1967)

Cambridge (University Press) 0 521 59181 3 (revised edition of the original 1965 book with enclosed CD) (2nd US ed. 1997)

Doyosha LLC (1st Jp ed. 2016) ISBN 978-4-907511-25-8 (190 × 129 × 21,8 mm | 336 pages (incl. 48 photos) | weight: 9,5 pound; price: 1.850 JPY equals 14,84 EUR)   translated by Yasufumi Higurashi

When life is big...
- Take This Hammer - Lead Belly (1:38)
- Field Call - Annie Grace Horn Dodson (1:18)
- Children's Call - Annie Grace Horn Dodson (0:47)
- Complaint Call - Enoch Brown (0:44)
- Water On The Wheel - Annie Dodson (0:47)
- Railroad 1 - Rich Amerson (1:26)
- Move Members Move - Rosie Hibler and Family (1:57)
Go pray ye
- Go Pray Ye - Annie Dodson (2:32)
- The Day Is Past - Dorothy Melton (1:56)
- Prayer Song - Dock Reed and Vera Hall Ward (2:37)
- King David - Rich Amerson and Earthy Anne Coleman (4:30)

- Rockin' Jerusalem - Fisk Jubilee Singers (2:13)
- Just Got Over At Last - Little Brother Montgomery (2:23)
When life is young
- Mama's Goin' To Buy Him A Little Lap Dog - Vera Hall Ward (0:48)
- Brother Hawk, Brother Buzzard and Brother Rabbit - Rich Amerson (1:59)
- I'm Goin' Up North Satisfied - Children of East York School (1:25)
Work songs
- Railroad 2 - Rich Amerson (1:53)
- Lost John - Sonny Terry (3:08)
- Lost John - Prison Farm Work Group (4:55)


Blues
- I'm Goin' To Pack Up My Things And Back Down That Sunny Road I'm Goin' - Mozelle Moore (3:13)
- Careless Love - Brownie McGhee (3:18)
- Let Me Go Home, Whiskey - Snooks Eaglin (2:54)
- You're My Man - Slick Chick Blues - Victoria Spivey (4:36)
- I Wonder When I'll Get To Be Called A Man - Big Bill Broonzy (2:20)
- Mule Ridin', Talking Blues - Big Bill Broonzy (3:43)
- Black Woman - Rich Amerson (4:55)

Instrumental sounds
- Old John Booker - You Call That Gone - Gus Cannon (1:45)
- John Henry - Furry Lewis (4:48)
- Take Your Fingers Off It - Gus Cannon, Charlie Burse, and Will Shade (2:53)
- 44 Blues - Willie Thomas & Butch Cage (4:08) [Folkways FA 2431]   @ youtube
- Sonny's Jump - Sonny Terry's Washboard Band (3:08)
Two songs of Alabama
- Birmingham Jail - Lead Belly (2:30)
- I'm So Glad - Montgomery Gospel Trio (2:34)

ed. by Charles Edward Smith
cover design by Ronald Clyne; illustration by Philip Evergood

review at record-fiend.blogspot.de

DLP     notes
by Charles Edward Smith

Folkways FA 2691

custom CD from
www.folkways.si.edu
[notes (mis)credit: Willie Thomas,
voc, fiddle; Butch Cage, voc, g]

Blind Teddy Darby
- Meat And Bread Blues (Relief Blues)
Ladzekpo And Ewe Drum Orchestra
- Agbekor
Mamprusi Tribesmen
- Ring Dance
The Como Drum Band
- Oh Baby
Orchstra Of Bour Fodé Diouf
- Wong (war chant)
George 'Bongo Joe' Coleman
- Eloise
Hassan Danlado Griots
- Bako
Elder Richard Bryant's Sanctified Singers
- Lord, Lord, He Sure Is Good To Me

Kunaal and Sosira
- Praise Song
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- Forty-Four Blues [Arhoolie F 1005]
Thiam Sy Griots
- Halam Improvisation
Lonnie Coleman
- Wild About My Loving
Lanyare and Lobi Tribesmen
- Sabere (festival for harvest)
Walter Roland
- Jookit Jookit
Maïkaï
- Babaï
Robert Johnson
- Stop Breakin' Down

notes by Paul Oliver

CBS M 52799 (UK 1970)

album has been issued in association with the book "Savannah Syncopators - African Retentions in the Blues" by Paul Oliver, published by November Books Limited, 1970

Gus Cannon
- My Money Never Runs Out
J.B. Lenoir
- It Hurts Me So Bad (Someday Baby)
Willie Thomas, James 'Butch' Cage & Grandson
- Little Red Rooster
Little Brother Montgomery
- Trembling Blues
J.B. Lenoir
- I Feel Like Playing My Box
Sunnyland Slim & Robert Lockwood
- Take a Little Walk With Me
Wade Walton & R.C. Smith
- Barbershop Rhythm
J.B. Lenoir
- I Been Don So Long [from Decca 4664]
Otis Spann
- People Call Me Lucky
Willie Thomas & James 'Butch' Cage
- Penitentiary Blues
Sunnyland Slim & Robert Lockwood Jr.
- Prison Bound
J.B. Lenoir
- I Don't Care What Nobody Say (Stand By Me)
Willie Thomas & James 'Butch' Cage
- Kill That Nigger Dead
J.B. Lenoir
- It Hurts Me So Bad (Someday Baby)
Robert Curtis Smith
- Blues

Kay 014 KJ (1979)
(30 minutes)

= Rhapsody 8022 (1986)

(=) Vestapol DVD 13003
(2003 "bonus track")
"Legends of Country
Blues Guitar Vol. 1"

Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- Gamblin' Man

Metronome MLP 1000

Mattie, Marthie, and Minnie
- You Can't Live With ‘Em (And You Can't Live Without ‘Em)
Wilmoth Houdini
- Don't Do That To Me
Dutch Coleman
- Granny Get Your Hair Cut
John McGhee
- Well World Doggone
Bumble Bee Slim
- Hard Rocks In My Bed
Jerry McCain And His Upstarts
- My Next Door Neighbour
Ewgen Zukowsky
- Wujko politykan

David McCarn
- Poor Man, Rich Man
Gabriel Brown
- I'm Gonna Take It Easy
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- Kill That Nigger Dead #
J.B. Lenoir
- Mississippi Road
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
- Over The Hills To The Poorhouse
Bessie Tucker
- Key To The Bushes Blues
Walter Roland
- Collector Man Blues
The Tiger
- Workers' Appeal

# rec. Zachary, La. Aug. 7, 1960

collection ed. by Richard K. Spottswood for The Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture

Library of Congress LBC7

Butch Cage with Willie Thomas
Butch Cage with Willie Thomas - Mean Old Frisco
Robert 'Pete' Williams with Butch Cage - Black Cat Bone #   @ youtube
Clarence Edwards - Awful Blue
Butch Cage with Willie Thomas - If I Had My Way
Charles Henderson - She Was A Woman Didn't Mean No Man No Good
Clarence Edwards - Come On Baby, Don't You Want To Go
Butch Cage with Willie Thomas - Tomorrow Gonna Be My Trying Day
Butch Cage with Willie Thomas - Raise A Ruckus Tonight

Butch Cage with Willie Thomas - Let Your Light Shine On Me
Charles Henderson - Rock Island Blues
Clarence Edwards - I Got A Coal Black Mare
Charles Henderson - Corrine, Corrina
Butch Cage with Willie Thomas - I Shall Not Be Moved
Robert 'Pete' Williams with Butch Cage - Hoodoo Blues #   @ youtube
Clarence Edwards - Can't Stand To Be Your Dog
Butch Cage with Willie Thomas - I Take The Blues When It Rains

field recordings made in Zachary, Louisiana in 1960 and 1961 by Harry Oster
# rec. June 12, 1961 in Zachary, LA; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g, Butch Cage, vl

notes (July 1978 and insert with track details) by Bruce Bastin

Flyright LP 545 (UK 1979)

Flyright Records discography
Robert 'Pete' Williams discography

- 44 Blues ° - Butch Cage/Willie B. Thomas [Folk Lyric 111]
- Mississippi Heavy Water Blues - Robert Pete Williams/Robert "Guitar" J. Welch [Folk Lyric 111]
- Smokestack Lightning ° - Clarence Edwards/Cornelius Edwards/Butch Cage [Folk Lyric 111]
- Who Broke The Lock ° - Butch Cage/Willie B. Thomas [Folk Lyric 111]
- You Don't Love Me ° - Clarence Edwards/Cornelius Edwards/Butch Cage [Folk Lyric 111]
- It's The Sign Of The Judgement ° - Butch Cage/Willie B. Thomas [Folk Lyric 111]
- Foxhunt - Ben Douglas (pseudonym) [Folk Lyric 111]
- Your Dice Won't Pass - Sally Dotson/Smoky Babe/Hillary Blunt [Folk Lyric 111]
- Jelly Roll ° - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage [Folk Lyric 111]
- I've Got Religion - Rebecca Smith/Tom Miller/Ruth Miller [Folk Lyric FL 111]
- Going Downtown Boogie - Smoky Babe [Folk Lyric 111]
- Stack O'Dollars ° - Clarence Edwards/Cornelius Edwards/Butch Cage [Folk Lyric 111]
- Brown Skin Woman ° - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage/Martha Thomas [Folk Lyric 111]
- I Won't Be Your Low-Down Dog No More - Leon Strickland/Lucius Bridges/Leslie Anders [Folk Lyric 111]
- The Piano Blues [= "Alcoholic Blues" (1920s pop song)] ° - Butch Cage/Willie B. Thomas [previously unreleased]
- Cotton Field Blues - Smoky Babe [previously unreleased]
- The Farm Blues - Otis Webster [previously unreleased]
- The Boss Man Blues - Otis Webster [previously unreleased]
- Whoa Mule! - Butch Cage/Willie B. Thomas °° [previously unreleased]
- Boll Weevil Blues - Otis Webster [previously unreleased]
- Thousand Miles From Nowhere (= "One Room Country Shack") ° - Clarence Edwards/Cornelius Edwards/Butch Cage [previously unreleased]
- Dead And Gone - Butch Cage/Willie B. Thomas °° [previously unreleased]
- Called For You Yesterday - Butch Cage/Willie B. Thomas °° [previously unreleased]
- Me & My Chauffeur - Butch Cage/Willie B. Thomas °° [previously unreleased]
- Baby Please Don't Go - Butch Cage/Willie B. Thomas °° [previously unreleased]

rec. 1959, 1960 & 1962 in southwest Louisiana by Harry Oster
° rec. 1959, 1960 & 1962 at the home of Butch Cage in Zachary, Louisiana by Harry Oster
°° rec. 1960 at the home of Butch Cage in Zachary, Louisiana by Chris Strachwitz & Paul Oliver
cover photo of Butch Cage and Willie Thomas with their wives by Harry Oster

Folk-Lyric FL 111 (1960)
= Arhoolie R 2018 (1970)
= Trio PA-6028 (Jp 1974)

notes by Chris Strachwitz

Arhoolie CD 372 (US 1993)

Harry Oster discography
Arhoolie Records discography

- I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatmon [lyrics]
- Big Road Blues - K.C. Douglas
- I Stand And Wonder - Sam Chatmon
- Texas Blues - Big Joe Williams
- Night Shirt Blues - K.C. Douglas (previously unreleased)
- Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas/Bruce Bratton (previously unreleased)
- Hollandale Blues - Sam Chatmon (previously unreleased)
- The Slop - Jasper Love/Columbus Jones
- Stella Ruth - R.C. Smith
- God Don't Like Ugly - Sam Chatmon
- Rooster Blues - Wade Walton
- Barbershop Rhythm - Wade Walton/R.C. Smith
- Going Back To Texas - R.C. Smith
- Blues And Trouble - K.C. Douglas/Sidney Maiden
- Lonely Widower - R.C. Smith
- Lost Love Blues - R.C. Smith
- Married Woman Blues - Big Joe Williams
- Love's Honeydripper - Jasper Love
- Desert Blues - Jasper Love
- One Thin Dime - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas [Arhoolie F 1006]
- Butch's Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas [Arhoolie F 1005]
- Forty Four Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas [Arhoolie F 1005]
- Chicago Blues - Sidney Maiden/K.C. Douglas

Arhoolie F 1005 (1960)
Arhoolie F 1006 (1960)

notes by Chris Strachwitz

Arhoolie CD 432 (US 1995) subtitled "Mississippi Blues 1960"

Arhoolie Records discography

disc A:
- San Francisco Bay Blues - Jesse Fuller (previously unreleased)
- Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas
- Shake Shake Mama - Mance Lipscomb
- Cairo Blues - Lil' Son Jackson
- Barbershop Rhythm - Wade Walton / Robert Curtis Smith
- One Thin Dime - Butch Cage / Willie Thomas
- Charmin' Betsy - Hodges Brothers
- Whistlin' Alex Moore's Blues - Alex Moore
- I Am The Black Ace - Black Ace
- Brother James - Big Joe Williams
- Lady Luck - Mercy Dee
- Don't Drive Me Away - R.C. Smith
- Zydeco Introduction - Zydeco Announcer
- Bernadette Chere - Albert Chevalier
- Bald Headed Woman - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Baby Please Don't Go - James Campbell
- Believe On Me - Rev. Louis Overstreet
- Low Down Blues - George Lewis
- The Country Blues - J.E. Mainer
- Crowley Waltz - The Hackberry Ramblers
- She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain - Booker White (previously unreleased)
- Ay, Ai Ai - Clifton Chenier
- Write Me A Few Lines - Fred McDowell
- Charlie James - Mance Lipscomb
- Louisiana Blues - Clifton Chenier

disc B:
- Cindy - John Jackson
- Little Red Rooster - Big Mama Thornton
- La Betaille - Isom Fontenot
- Calcasieu Waltz - Nathan Abshire
- Almlied - Eibelsberger Duo
- I Wonder Where You Are Tonight - Del McCoury
- In The Breeze - Jerry Hahn Quintet
- Goin' Back To The Country - Juke Boy Bonner
- Sometimes I Cry - Johnny Young
- Two Bugs And A Roach - Earl Hooker
- Dream - John Littlejohn
- Things Gonna Get Better - Bee Houston
- Visions - Sonny Simmons
- I Wish I Could Sing - Bongo Joe
- Boogieing In Strasbourg - Alex Moore
- The Death Of Dr. Martin Luther King - Big Joe Williams
- Please Settle In Vietnam - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Shake 'Em On Down - Fred McDowell / Johnny Woods
- El Desesperado - Los Pinguinos Del Norte
- Creole Belles - New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra
- Finger Lickin' Good - Charlie Musselwhite

disc C:
- Church Point Breakdown - Austin Pitre
- Gstanzeln Aus Dem Freistriztal - Original Herberstein Trio
- Gibson Creek Shuffle - Charles Ford Band
- Ups And Downs - L.C. Robinson
- You Ain't Got A Chance - Piano Red
- Home Sweet Home - Boisec Ardoin / Canray Fontenot
- Satan's Burning Hell - Bill Neely
- Luzita - Narciso Martinez
- Yo Me Enamore - Trio San Antonio
- Borracho Perdido - Trio San Antonio
- One Of These Mornings (I'm Checkin' Out) - J.C. Burris
- Allons A Grand Coteau - Clifton Chenier
- En Bas Du Chene Vert - Dewey Balfa / Marc Savoy/D.L. Menard
- Besos Y Copas - Chavela Ortiz Y Brown Express
- Fast Santa Fe - Robert Shaw
- I'll See You In C-U-B-A - Any Old Time String Band
- El Balaju - Conjunto Alma Jarocha
- La Gata - Los Caporales De Panuco
- Beym Rebas Sude - The Klezmorim
- J'ai Laisse De La Maison - Cheese Read
- Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio - Don Santiago Jimenez Sr.
- Mi Problema - Lydia Mendoza

disc D:
- Gritenme Piedras Del Campo - Flaco Jimenez
- Co-Fe - John Delafose
- Single Girl - Rose Maddox
- Bec De La Manche - Canray Fontenot
- Bosco Stomp - Octa Clark / Hector Duhon
- Negra Ausencia - Santiago Jimenez Jr.
- La Chanson De Cinquante Sous - Michael Doucet Dit BeauSoleil (previously unreleased)
- Shake What You Got - Preston Frank
- Little Black Eyes - Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band
- The Chill Of A Saturday Afternoon - Wade Fruge
- Jolie Blonde - Chuck Guillory
- Here To Stay - Rebirth Brass Band
- I Know That's Right - Katie Webster
- I've Been There - Lawrence Ardoin
- Mentiste Cuando Dijiste - Flaco Jimenez
- Aguililla - Los Campesinos De Michoacan
- La Reine De La Salle - Odile Falcon
- Chanson De La Sagesse - Michael Doucet
- Hot Chili Mama - BeauSoleil
- Check Out The Zydeco - C.J. Chenier
- El Canoero - Valerio Longoria
- Corrido Del Mono - Los Gavilanes De Oakland
- San Francisco Can Be Such A Lonely Town - Omar Sharriff

disc E:
- Mother - Paramount Gospel Singers
- Gumagarugu - Chatuye
- Khandan-E Amaturi III - Aziz Herawi
- A Ti, Colombia - Ivan Cuesta
- Food Stamp Blues - Treme Brass Band
- Ain't It A Shame - Elder Roma Wilson
- J'ai Ete Au Bal - Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band
- La Mal Sentada - Los Cenzontles
- Falling For You - Rose Maddox
- Los Traficantes Del Bravo - Los Palomares Del Bravo (previously unreleased)
- Jesus Will Fix It For You - Sonny Treadway
- Medved Na Lancu - Csokolom
- Jale Griego - Jose Moreno
- El Corrido De Esequiel Hernandez - Santiago Jimenez, Jr.
- What's His Name - Jesus! - The Campbell Brothers
- Just A Closer Walk With Thee - Aubrey Ghent

Compilation producers: Chris Strachwitz & Elijah Wald; 66-page booklet by Chris Strachwitz, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt & Elijah Wald; digitally remastered by Mike Cogan

5 CD box
66-pp. booklet by Chris Strachwitz, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt & Elijah Wald

Arhoolie CD 491 (US 2000)

Arhoolie Records discography

- Bugle Call Blues
- Some Day Baby
- Mean Old Frisco
- The Piano Blues °° [Arhoolie CD 372]
- The Hen Cackle
- The Dirty Dozen
- Rock Me Mama
- It Ain't Gonna Rain No More
- Easy Rider Blues
- Whoa Mule
- I Had A Dream Last Night (All I Had Was Gone) #
- Careless Love Blues
- Sneaky Ways
- Since I Layed My Burden Down *
- You've Gotta Move *

rec. in the 1960s by Harry Oster; Butch Cage, voc, fiddle; Willie B. Thomas, voc, g; # Robert Jenkins, voc, g; * Rosalie Wilkerson, lead voc
"all but one [°°] previously unissued"

Arhoolie CD 9045

Arhoolie Records discography

CD 1:
Slim Harpo - Blues Hang-Over [Excello 2184]
Butch Cage & Willie B. Thomas - Who Broke The Lock [Folk-Lyric FL 111]
Lightnin' Slim - Bad Luck [Feature 3006]
Lightnin' Slim - Bugger Bugger Boy [Feature 3012]
Schoolboy Cleve - Strange Letter Blues [Feature 3013]
Clarence Edwards - Smokestack Lightning [Folk-Lyric FL 111]
Robert Pete Williams - Angola Special [Folk Lyric FL 109, 77 LA 12/17, Arhoolie CD 394]
Butch Cage & Willie B. Thomas - Jelly Roll [Folk-Lyric FL 111]
Slim Harpo - I'm A King Bee [Excello 2113]
Lonesome Sundown - My Home Is A Prison [Excello 2102]
Lightnin' Slim - Mean 'Ol Lonesome Train [Excello 2106]
Clarence Edwards - Stack O' Dollars [Folk Lyric FL 111]
Robert Pete Williams - Come Here Baby [Folk Lyric FL 109, 77 LA 12/17, Arhoolie R 2015, CD 394]
Sally Dotson & Smoky Babe - Your Dice Won't Pass [Folk-Lyric FL 111, Arhoolie R 2018, CD 372]
Lazy Lester - They Call Me Lazy [Excello 2107]
Jimmy Dotson - Looking For My Baby [Zynn 511]
Raful Neal - Crying Hard [Peacock 1686]
Lazy Lester - I'm A Lover Not A Fighter [Excello 2143]
Lightnin' Slim - Lightnin's Troubles [Excello 2160]
Slim Harpo - One More Day [Excello 2162]
Lightnin' Slim - Rooster Blues [Excello 2169]
Lightnin' Slim & Lazy Lester - Trip To Chicago (alt tk) [Ace CDCHD 1403]
Slim Harpo - What A Dream [Excello 2184]
Smoky Babe, Clyde Causey - Black Gal [Folk-Lyric FL 111, 77 LA 12-12, Arhoolie CD 440]
Smoky Babe & Lazy Lester - Mississippi River So Deep And Wide [Folk-Lyric FL 111, 77 LA 12-12, Arhoolie R 2019, CD 440]
Herman E. Johnson - Depression Blues [Arhoolie 1060, CD 440]

CD 2:
Slim Harpo - Rainin' In My Heart [Excello 2194]
Lightnin' Slim - I'm Tired Waitin' Baby [Excello 2203]
Tabby Thomas - Hoodoo Party [Excello 2212]
Lonesome Sundown - My Home Ain't Here [Excello 45-2213]
Jimmy Anderson - Naggin' [Excello 2220]
Silas Hogan - Trouble At Home Blues [Excello 2221]
Lightnin' Slim - Winter Time Blues [Excello 2224]
Jimmy Anderson - Going Through The Park [Excello 2227]
Lightnin' Slim - I'm Evil [Excello 2228]
The Nitehawks - Boogie Chillun [Montel 913]
Moses "Whispering" Smith - Mean Woman Blues [Excello 22]
Silas Hogan - I'm Goin In The Valley [Excello 2241]
Silas Hogan - Dark Clouds Rollin' [Excello 2251]
Lightnin' Slim - Can't Live This Life No More [Excello 2267]
Isaiah Chattman - Cold In Hand [Flyright FLY 512]
Slim Harpo - Baby, Scratch My Back [Excello 2273]
Slim Harpo - I'm Gonna Miss You (Like The Devil) [Excello 2173]
Silas Hogan - Hoo Doo Blues [Excello LPS-8015/16]
Henry Gray - Showers Of Rain [Excello LPS-8015/16]
Arthur Kelley - Number Ten At The Station (And Number 12 Is On The Road) [Excello LPS-8015/16]
Arthur Kelley - How Can I Stay (When All I Have Is Gone) [Excello LPS-8015/16]
Moses "Whispering" Smith - Baton Rouge Breakdown [Excello LPS-8015/16]
Silas Hogan - Honey Bee Blues [Excello LPS-8015/16]
Silas Hogan - I Didn't Tell Her To Leave [Excello LPS-8015/16]
Slim Harpo - The Music's Hot [Excello LPS-8013]
Robert Pete Williams - Goodbye Slim Harpo [Ahura Mazda AMS 2002, 45-AMS-101, Fat Possum CD 80349]
Slim Harpo - Talking Blues [Flyright 558]

reissue prod. by Martin Hawkins

2 CD set
notes by Martin Hawkins

Bear Family Records BCD 17512 (Germany 2019)

Excello Records discography
Slim Harpo discography
Lightnin' Slim discography
Robert Pete Williams discography
Lonesome Sundown discography
Smoky Babe discography
Lazy Lester discography
Herman E. Johnson discography
Silas Hogan discography
Moses "Whispering" Smith discography
Arthur "Guitar" Kelley discography