Illustrated Elizabeth Cotten discography

Elizabeth Cotten at Newport Folk Festival 1968
photo by Diana Davies Elizabeth Cotten
a/k/a "Libba" Cotten
b. Januar 5, 1893 near Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina
d. Juni 29, 1987 at Crouse Irving Memorial Hospital in Syracuse, New York
Cremated
discography
source: Front cover of Arhoolie LP 1089
photo by Richard Arindell

#	year of release	title / label / notes
1	1958	Elizabeth Cotten: Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar@ youtube (full album) - Wilson Rag (1:40) - Freight Train (2:46) - Going Down The Road Feeling Bad (2:12) - I Don't Love Nobody (1:14) - Ain't Got No Honey Baby Now (0:57) - Graduation March (2:33) - Honey Babe Your Papa Cares For You (2:15) - Vastopol (2:11) - Here Old Rattler Here / Sent For My Fiddle Sent For My Bow / George Buck (3:48) - Run......Run / Mama Your Son Done Gone (2:19) - Sweet Bye And Bye / What A Friend We Have In Jesus (3:02) - Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie (4:43) - Spanish Flang Dang (2:51) - When I Get Home (2:23) rec. late 1957 and early 1958 at Cotten's home in Washington by Michael Seeger; Elizabeth Cotten, voc, g Elizabeth Cotten photo by David Gahr notes by Michael Seeger "Folkways Records, 117 W. 46 St., N.Y.C." "Custom molded by Plastilyte" Folkways FG 3526 (US 1958) "Negro Folk Songs And Tunes played by Elizabeth Cotten with banjo, guitar" [on labels: "Cotton"] notes by Michael Seeger "Folkways Records, 117 W. 46 St., N.Y.C." / "Folkways Records, 121 W. 47 St., N.Y.C." "Custom molded by Plastilyte" = Folkways FG 3526 (US 1958) "Elizabeth Cotton [sic]: Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar" [on labels: "Cotton"] notes by Michael Seeger "Folkways Records, 701 Seventh Ave., N.Y.C." / "Folkways Records, 165 W. 46. St., N.Y.C." = Folkways FG 3526 (US 1958) "Elizabeth Cotten: Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar" [on labels: "Cotton"] notes by Michael Seeger Folkways Records, 701 Seventh Ave., N.Y.C. / "Folkways Records, 165 W. 46. St., N.Y.C." = Folkways FG 3526 (US 1958) "Elizabeth Cotten: Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar" [on labels: "Cotton"] notes by Michael Seeger Folkways Records, 701 7th Ave., N.Y.C. = Folkways FG 3526 (US 1958) "Elizabeth Cotten: Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar" [on labels: "Cotton"] notes (updated 1989) by Michael Seeger "Nationally distributed by Rounder Records" = Smithsonian/Folkways SF 40009 (US 1989) "Elizabeth Cotten: Freight Train and other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes" notes (updated 1989) by Michael Seeger = Smithsonian/Folkways CD SF 40009 (US 1989) mini LP replica with OBI & Japanese insert notes by Michael Seeger = NalyD NACD-3211 (Jp August 25, 2003) notes by Michael Seeger = Smithsonian Folkways FG 3526 (US September 4, 2012) notes by Michael Seeger = Smithsonian Folkways FG 3526 (US 2018)
1a	1965	Blues at Newport 1964 - Part 2 Mississippi John Hurt - Sliding Delta - Bye And Bye I Will See Jesus - Talking Casey Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (3:23) # - Cherry Ball Blues # - Sick Bed Blues # - Cypress Grove Blues # Rev. Robert Wilkins - The Prodigal Son Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train - Oh Baby It Ain't No Lie Willie Doss - Coal Black Mare - I Had A Woman - Hobo Blues King/Vanguard KICP 2118/9 / Vanguard CD 662247 track sequence: CD 1 - Part 1: Fred McDowell - Lord, I'm Going Down South (3:11) - Highway 61 (3:36) - If The River Was Wiskey (2:39) Sleepy John Estes - Sleepy John's Twist (2:47) \|\| - Mailman Blues (2:44) \|\| - Drop Down Mama (2:43) \|\| - Clean Up At Home (3:01) \|\| Doc Reese - Oh Hannah (4:10) - Hey Rattler (2:19) - Oh My Lord (1:08) Robert Pete Williams - Levee Camp Blues (5:26) * - On My Way From Texas (3:48) * - Midnight Boogie (3:36) * CD 2 - Part 2: Mississippi John Hurt - Sliding Delta (3:34) - Bye And Bye I Will See Jesus (3:09) - Talking Casey (4:08) Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (3:34) - Cherry Ball Blues (3:07) - Sick Bed Blues (2:03) - Cypress Grove Blues (4:24) Robert Wilkins - The Prodigal Son (9:40) Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (3:08) - Oh Baby It Ain't No Lie (1:57) Willie Doss - Coal Black Mare (2:42) # - I Had A Woman (2:28) ## - Hobo Blues (2:22) # rec. July 23-26, 1964 live at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, RI Vanguard VRS 9181 (mono) (US 1965) = VSD 79181 (stereo) 2 CD set (=) King/Vanguard KICP 2118/9 (Jp 1991) "The Blues at Newport 1964 part 1 and 2" 2 CD set (=) Vanguard CD 662247 (Fr 1993) "The Blues at Newport 1964 - Complete edition" Newport Folk Festival discography Mississippi John Hurt discography Reverend Gary Davis discography Reverend Robert Wilkins discography Skip James discography Sleepy John Estes discography Yank Rachell discography Hammie Nixon discography Robert Pete Williams discography Jesse Fuller discography John P. Hammond discography Dave Van Ronk discography
2	1967	Elizabeth Cotten Vol. 2: Shake Sugaree@ youtube (full album and more) - Shake Sugaree (5:03) (Brenda Evans, voc) - Washington Blues (3:33) - I'm Going Away (3:25) - Fox Chase (3:42) - Ontario Blues (3:44) - Mamma, Nobody's Here But The Baby (1:35) - Look And Live, My Brother (1:50) - Jesus Lifted Me (2:04) (Brenda Evans, voc) - 'Til We Meet Again (1:46) - Jesus Is Tenderly Calling (1:38) - Buck Dance (1:50) - Ruben (2:14) - Oh, Miss Lulie Gal (1:28) - Shoot That Buffalo (1:36) - Boatman Dance (1:42) - Ball The Jack (2:48) Folkways FTS 31003 (US 1967)
2a	1978	The New Lost City Ramblers: 20th Anniversary Concert with Special Guests: Highwood String Band, Pete Seeger & Elizabeth Cotten - Old Joe Clark (NLCR) - Hot Corn, Cold Corn (NLCR) - Barbara Allen (Pete Seeger) - Freight Train (Libba Cotten) - Wreck Of The Old '97 (Libba Cotten & NLCR) - C And NW Railroad Blues (Highwoods Stringband) - Did You Ever See the Devil, Uncle Joe? (Highwoods Stringband) - Keep On The Sunny Side (NLCR) - Soldier And The Lady (NLCR: Mike Seeger) - Cold Bottom Strut (NLCR: John Cohen) - Cassine Special (NLCR: Tracy Schwarz) - Give The Fiddler A Dram (NLCR) - Well May The World Go (Pete Seeger & NLCR) - Medley: Sourwood Mountain / Kitchen Girl / Sheep Shell Corn (all patricipants) Flying Fish FF 090 (US 1978) = Rounder CD FLY 90 New Lost City Ramblers discography
3	1979	Elizabeth Cotten Volume 3: When I'm Gone@ youtube (full album) - New Year's Eve (3:15) - Praying Time Will Soon Be Over (3:10) - Time To Stop Your Idling (2:30) - Gaslight Blues (4:45) - Jenny (2:40) - Street Blues (2:10) - Home Sweet Home (2:20) - Freight Train (3:10) - Casey Jones (1:45) - Willie (5:05) - Boddie's Song (2:15) - Wilson Rag (4:50) - When I'm Gone (4:40) Folkways FA 3537 (US 1979)
4	1983	Elizabeth Cotten Live! - Freight Train - Washington Blues - Jumpin' Jack - Sugaree - Sugaree / Banjo Story, Rattler - Vastopol - Guitar Story - Babe, It Ain't No Lie - Elizabeth Story, et al. Honey Babe, Your Papa Cares For You - Spanish Flangdang - 'Til We Meet Again rec. & ed. by John Overton, with the facilities of Authentic Sound, Sausalito, CA photography by Richard Arindell notes by John Overton Arhoolie 1089 (US 1983) = Arhoolie CD 477 (US 1998)
5	1993	Blues With A Feeling Recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival disc 1: - Introduction Son House - Preachin' Blues - Death Letter - Empire State Express Mance Lipscomb - God Moves On The Water (The Sinking Of The Titanic) Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (4:52) # @ youtube Bukka White - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues Robert Pete Williams - Levee Camp Blues °° Mississippi Fred McDowell - Louise Louise Rev. Robert Wilkins - Don't Let Nobody Turn You 'round Rev. Pearly Brown & Mrs. Christine Brown - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning Mississippi Fred McDowell & Rev. Robert Wilkins - What Do You Think About Jesus Lightnin' Hopkins - The Woman I'm Loving, She's Taken My Appetite (Monkey Faced Woman) - Come On Baby - Baby Please Don't Go Mance Lipscomb - Freddie - So Different Blues disc 2: Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train Mississippi John Hurt - Here I Am Lord, Send Me - Make Me A Pallet On The Floor Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues °° The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Born In Chicago John Lee Hooker - I Can't Quit You Now Blues Muddy Waters - Walkin' Blues - I Can't Be Satisfied Willie Dixon & Eddie Boyd - Five Long Years Willie Dixon & Lafayette Leake - Wrinkles Dave Van Ronk - Cocaine John Hammond - Drop Down Mama Eric Von Schmidt - Grizzly Bear John Koerner - Traveling Blues The Chambers Brothers - See See Rider Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Blues With A Feeling - Look Over Yonders Wall "all tracks previously unreleased except" °° # rec. July 25, 1964 live at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI; Skip James, voc, g [longer (4:52) version from afternoon "Blues Workshop"; not the shorter, several times previously released "Evening Concert" version!] 2 CD set notes (May 1993) by Mary Katherine Aldin Vanguard VCD2-77005 (US/Germany 1993) (=) Vanguard VCD 73133-2 (US 1997) "part one" (=) Vanguard VCD 73134-2 (US 1997) "part two"
6	2002	Roots of Folk disc 1: Roots of Folk Paul Robeson - Joe Hill (2:56) Leon Bibb - Irene (3:21) The Weavers - Kumbaya (2:52) Cisco Houston - This Land Is Your Land (2:42) Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Roll On Buddy (2:02) Odetta - Another Man Done Gone (2:33) Judy Collins - Turn, Turn, Turn (4:10) The Weavers - If I Had A Hammer (2:18) Joan Baez - Donna Donna (3:15) Jimmie Driftwood - Battle Of New Orleans (2:59) Clarence Ashley & Doc Watson - Amazing Grace (3:52) [previously unissued] Mother Maybelle Carter - It Takes A Worried Man (3:10) Sandy Bull - Little Maggie (4:10) Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (4:02) Doc Watson - Tom Dooley (3:14) disc 2: Singers & Songwriters Saint-Marie, Buffy - Universal Soldier (2:20) Eric Anderson - Violets Of Dawn (3:49) The Kingston Trio - M.T.A. (3:37) Rooftop Singers - Walk Right In (2:36) Donovan with Joan Baez - Catch The Wind (2:16) [previously unissued] Richard Fariña / Richard & Mimi Fariña - Pack Up Your Sorrows (3:00) Joan Baez / Bob Dylan - It Ain't Me Babe (3:35) The Chambers Brothers - People Get Ready (3:29) Phil Ochs - I Ain't Marchin' Anymore (2:38) Tom Paxton - Ramblin' Boy (3:29) Jerry Jeff Walker - Mr. Bojangles (3:53) Patrick Sky - Many A Mile (3:18) Ian & Sylvia - Early Morning Rain (3:58) Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band / Geoff Muldaur - Jug Band Music (3:00) Country Joe & the Fish - Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag (3:44) disc 3: Folk Blues Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man (2:56) Skip James - I'm So Glad (1:56) John Hammond, Jr. - Seventh Son (2:31) Odetta - Rambling Round Your City (4:05) Rev. Gary Davis - Samson And Delilah (3:40) Dave Van Ronk - Cocaine (3:50) Son House - Empire State Express (4:07) Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:53) Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby Please Don't Go (2:45) The Chambers Brothers - See See Rider (3:11) Muddy Waters - Walkin' Blues (4:06) Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Drink Muddy Water (2:57) John Lee Hooker - Great Fire Of Natchez (4:33) Willie Dixon / Lafayette Leake / Pete Seeger - Midnight Special (2:56) The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Blues With A Feeling (3:56) compiled by Tom Vickers cover design by Gina R. Binkley 3-CD Set Vanguard 3VCD203/05 (US) notes by Tom Vickers = Ace 3VCD203/05 (UK 2002) = ZYX 3VCD203/05 (Germany 2002)
7	2003	Roots Of The Blues disc 1 "Folk Blues": Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:47) The Chambers Brothers - See See Rider (3:08) John Hammond - Statesboro Blues (3:39) Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (3:53) Dave Van Ronk - Cocaine (3:46) Buffy Sainte-Marie - You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond (2:51) °° Spider John Koerner - Traveling Blues (4:44) Bill Monroe - Blue Yodel # 4 (2:43) Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Maria Muldaur - Richland Woman (4:19) Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Geoff & Maria Muldaur - Chevrolet (3:51) Sam & Kirk McGee - Milk Cow Blues (2:31) °° Tony Glover - I Dont Need No Whiskey (4:30) °° Josh White - What You Gonna Do When Your Meat Gives Out (1:49) °° Eric Von Schmidt - Grizzly Bear (4:34) Mance Lipscomb - Keep On Truckin' Mama (1:35) °° disc 2 "Delta & Country Blues": Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man (2:53) Rev. Gary Davis - You Got To Move (5:50) Skip James - I'm So Glad (1:53) Son House - Empire State Express (3:50) Bukka White - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (4:45) Mississippi Fred McDowell - If The River Was Whiskey (2:34) Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied (2:53) Odetta - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (2:13) Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Key To The Highway (3:37) Sleepy John Estes - Clean Up At Home (2:59) Mance Lipscomb - Freddie (1:50) Memphis Slim - How Long (2:59) Robert Pete Williams - Midnight Boogie (3:25) [Vanguard VRS 9180, Vanguard VSD 77/78, Vanguard CD 70193-2, Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube Eddie Boyd & Willie Dixon - Five Long Years (2:22) Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (5:12) disc 3 "Urban Blues": Junior Wells - Messin' With The Kid (2:21) Otis Rush - I Can't Quit You Baby (3:14) J.B. Hutto & The Hawks - Going Ahead (2:03) Otis Spann - Marie (2:28) James Cotton - Rocket 88 (2:03) Homesick James And His Dusters - Dust My Broom (3:17) Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band - One More Time (2:26) The Johnny Shines Blues Band - If I Get Lucky (3:23) Buddy Guy - One Room Country Shack (5:30) Muddy Waters with Otis Spann - Blow Wind Blow (3:09) Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby Please Don't Go (2:37) Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Blues With A Feeling (3:55) Charlie Musselwhite - Juke (4:18) Big Mama Thornton - Ball And Chain (6:48) John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom (3:01) compilation prod. by Tom Vickers; cover design by Ann Smalley; photography by David Gahr °° previously unreleased tracks 3-CD Set notes by Ed Ward Vanguard 3VCD 208-10 (Germany 2002) = Vanguard CD 79715 (US 2003)
Will be completed and expanded with further details !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 278
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources