Illustrated William 'Do Boy' Diamond discography

W I L L I A M 'D O - B O Y' D I A M O N D; source: Back cover of Revival RVS 1009
source: Back cover of Revival RVS 1009; photographer: George Mitchell William 'Do Boy' Diamond
William [DuBois?] Diamond
b. March 12, 1913 in Canton, Madison County, Mississippi
d. January 1982, last residence: Canton, Madison County, Mississippi
discography W I L L I A M 'D O - B O Y' D I A M O N D; source: Arhoolie CD 401 booklet; photographer: George Mitchell
source: Arhoolie CD 401 booklet; photographer: George Mitchell

#	year of release	title / label / notes
1	1969	Mississippi Delta Blues - Vol. 1 Napoleon Strickland - Oh Baby Do Boy Diamond - Long Haired Doney # Johnny Woods & Fred McDowell - Three O'Clock In The Morning Walter Miller - Stuttgart, Ark Tom Turner - Gonna Bring Her Right Back Home Furry Lewis - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean Robert Diggs - Drink, Drink, Drink Do Boy Diamond - Going Away Blues # Dewey Corley - Fishing In The Dark Teddy Williams - Down Home Blues Houston Stackhouse - Canned Heat Peck Curtis - The Death Of Sonny Boy Williamson # rec. August 1967 in Canton, MS by George Mitchell; William "Do-Boy" Diamond, voc, g all photographs by George Mitchell notes (adapted from "Blow my Blues away") by George Mitchell Arhoolie 1041 (US 1969) (=) Arhoolie CD 401 (US 1994) Arhoolie Records discography Johnny Woods discography Fred McDowell discography Walter Miller discography Furry Lewis discography Dewey Corley discography
		- Big-Legged Woman [= The Shaggy Hound ???] rec. August 1967 in Canton, MS by George Mitchell; William "Do-Boy" Diamond, voc, g Arhoolie unissued [???]
2	1971	Hard Time Mississippi Robert Diggs (rec. Friars Point, Ms., Aug. 1967) - Chick Neal Blues - Done Lost All My Health Jesse Lee Vortis - When My Baby Got On Board Carey "Ditty" Mason - Don't Know What Mercy Means Tom Turner - 44 Blues Do-Boy Diamond - Shaggy Hound # R.L. Burnside - Rolling And Tumbling - Sat Down On My Bed And Cried Teddy Williams - Hard Time Blues - Catfish Blues Houston Stovall - Juke # rec. August 1967 in Canton, MS by George Mitchell; William "Do-Boy" Diamond, voc, g Revival RVS 1009 (UK 1971) Revival Records discography
3	1979	Way Back Yonder ... Original Country Blues Volume 3 Flora, Canton, Bentonia, Crystal Springs, Mississippi & Bogalusa, Louisiana (1978) - Sound Of The Yazoo river (0:55) @ Spotify Mott Willis - Baby Please Don't Go (2:10) @ Spotify William Diamond - Black Mattie (2:31) # @ youtube @ Spotify - Shaggy Hound (2:35) # @ youtube @ Spotify Jack Owens - Cherry Ball Blues no. 2 (3:42) @ Spotify Jacob Stuckey - Devil Got My Woman (1:57) @ Spotify Lonzo Burkes - Train I Ride (2:36) @ Spotify - Back Door Friend (2:31) @ Spotify - Smokestack Lightning (2:16) @ Spotify Roosevelt Holts - Big Road Blues (2:30) @ Spotify - Look-A-Here Little Woman (3:41) @ Spotify # rec. August 17, 1978 in Canton, MS by Gianni Marcucci; William Diamond, voc, g depicted on the front cover is Charley Taylor (not mentioned in credits!) notes by Gianni Marcucci Albatros VPA 8460 = Albatros VC4965 (It 1979) (=) Albatros ALB 13 "Way Back Yonder... Original Country Blues Volumes 1, 2 & 3" (It 1979) Albatros Records discography Mott Willis discography Jack Owens discography Roosevelt Holts discography
4	1979	I Got The Blues This Morning Charley Sangster - Dreamed Eyes Woman - Kokomo Blues Lum Guffin - Louise - Baby Please Don't Go John Williams - Mr. Freddy Blues Charley Taylor - The Blues So Bad Eugene Powell - Greenville Boogie - I Got The Blues And I Can't Be Satisfied James Thomas - Mama Don't Allow - Bumble Bee Blues Lonzo Burkes - Louisiana Blues Eugene Powell - Big Fat Mama William Diamond - Stop Your Crying (1:33) @ youtube Sam Chatmon - Falling Out Eddie Cusic [name misspelled "Eddie Quesie"] - You Better Stop Arguing Over Me Wallace Johnson - After Hours Van Hunt - Mississippi River Blues Clay Pittman - I Got The Blues This Morning Asie Payton - Blind Man notes by Gianni Marcucci Albatros VPA 8461 (It 1979) Albatros Records discography
5	1994	Mississippi Delta Blues: Blow My Blues Away Vol. 1 - Oh Baby - Napoleon Strickland - Como Breakdown - Napoleon Strickland - Three O'Clock In The Morning - Johnny Woods & Fred McDowell - My Jack Don't Need No Water (Long Haired Doney) - Johnny Woods & Fred McDowell - Catfish Blues - Teddy Williams - Down Home Blues - Teddy Williams - Long Haired Doney (My Jack Don't Need No Water) - Do-Boy Diamond # - Hard Time Blues - Do-Boy Diamond # - The Shaggy Hound - Do-Boy Diamond # - Going Away Blues - Do-Boy Diamond # - Stuttgart, Arkansas - Walter Miller - Vicksburg Blues - Walter Miller - Mississippi Goin' To Be My Home - Robert Diggs - Dangerous Slim - Robert Diggs - Drink, Drink, Drink - Robert Diggs - Pork & Beans - Rosa Lee Hill - Fishing in the Dark - Dewey Corley - Tri-State Bus - Dewey Corley - Gonna Bring Her Right Back Home - Tom Turner - The Death of Sonny Boy Williamson - Peck Curtis - Nighthawk Boogie - Robert Nighthawk - You Call Yourself A Cadillac - Robert Nighthawk - Blues Before Midnight - Robert Nighthawk # rec. August 1967 in Canton, MS by George Mitchell; William "Do-Boy" Diamond, voc, g notes (adapted from "Blow my Blues away") by George Mitchell Arhoolie CD 401 (US 1994) Arhoolie Records discography
6	2006	William "Do-Boy" Diamond George Mitchell collection Vol. 12 - Hard Time Blues - Just Want To Talk To You [alt. tk. of Going Away Blues] 7 inch 33 1/3 rpm Fat Possum BLM1056 (US 2006)
7	2007	George Mitchell Collection Volumes 1 - 45 disc 1: - Lucy Mae Blues - Cecil Barfield - I Woke Up Crying - Cecil Barfield - Love Blues - Cecil Barfield - I Told You Not To Do That - Cecil Barfield - In the Evening - Buddy Moss - Hey Lawdy Mama - Buddy Moss - Thousand Woman Blues - Buddy Moss - Blue Shadow Falling - Buddy Moss - Cold Rainy Day - Buddy Moss - Amy - Buddy Moss - Motherless Child - Leon Pinson - Hush, Somebody is Calling My Name - Leon Pinson - What God Can Do - Leon Pinson - He'll Understand and Say Well Done - Leon Pinson - Big Road Blues - Houston Stackhouse - Cool Water Blues - Houston Stackhouse - Big Fat Mama Blues - Houston Stackhouse - Take a Little Walk With Me - Houston Stackhouse - Everyone Got a Woman - Big Joe Williams - What She Need With a Rooster - Big Joe Williams - Sink or Swim - Big Joe Williams - Prison Bound - Big Joe Williams - Who's Gonna Be Your Man - John Lee Zeigler - If I Lose Let Me Lose - John Lee Zeigler - Black Woman - Othar Turner - Bumble Bee - Othar Turner disc 2: - Rabbit On a Log - Lonzie Thomas - Raise a Ruckus Tonight - Lonzie Thomas - My Three Women - Lonzie Thomas - Red Cross Store - Lonzie Thomas - Rats In the Kitchen - Sleepy John Estes - Special Agent - Sleepy John Estes - Trying To See - Sleepy John Estes - Mail Man Blues - Sleepy John Estes - Down Home Blues - Teddy Williams - Catfish Blues - Teddy Williams - Black Mattie - Teddy Williams - Sun Don't Shine - Teddy Williams - Trouble Brought Me Down - Green Paschal - My Lord - Green Paschal - Mother is Dead - Green Paschal - Lay My Burden Down - Green Paschal - Your Close Friend - Green Paschal - I'm Going To Leave It In the Hands of the Lord - Green Paschal - Hard Time Blues - Do-Boy Diamond - Just Want To Talk To You [alt. tk. of Going Away Blues] - Do-Boy Diamond - Just a Dream I Got On My Mind - Dewey Corley / Walter Miller - Memphis is a Wonderful City - Dewey Corey / Walter Miller - Down To Arkansas - Dewey Corey / Walter Miller - Rock Me Mama - Bud Grant - Freight Train Blues - Bud Grant - So Sweet - Bud Grant - Bud Grant's Grunt - Bud Grant disc 3: - Go Ahead On - Bud White - You've Been Gone So Long - Bud White - White Horses - Bud White - When I'm Sober I'm Drunk Blues - George Henry Bussey - Mean Mistreater - George Henry Bussey - Blues Around My Bed - George Henry Bussey - Looking For My Woman - George Henry Bussey - Old Red #2 - Jim Bunkley - Jack of Diamonds - Jim Bunkley - Them Greasy Greens - Jim Bunkley - Rocking Chair - Jim Bunkley - Old Breakdown - Tom Turner - Drop Down Mama #1 - Tom Turner - Search Me Lord - James Shorter - My Mother Died and Left Me - James Shorter - Consolation - James Shorter - Home Going - James Shorter - Better Than Myself - Abe McNeil - Steady Rollin' Man - Abe McNeil - Drink Drink Drink - Abe McNeil - Country Blues - Joe Callicott - River Blues - Joe Callicott - 3 O'Clock In the Morning - Johnny Woods - I's Be Troubled - Johnny Woods disc 4: - Someday Baby - Robert Diggs - Racehorse Charleston - Robert Diggs - Done Lost My Health - Robert Diggs - Drive Your Car - Robert Diggs - Woke Up This Morning - Cliff Scott - Long Wavy Hair - Cliff Scott - Please Come Home - Cliff Scott - Pole Pattin' - Cliff Scott - I Wanna Ramble - Jimmie Lee Harris - Sitting Here Looking 1000 Miles Away - Jimmie Lee Harris - Just Like A Bird Without A Feather - R.L. Burnside - Skinny Woman - R.L. Burnside - Goin' Down South - R.L. Burnsid - Poor Black Mattie - R.L. Burnside - Hold My Body Down - Robert Johnson - Trying To Make It Home - Robert Johnson - Precious Lord - Robert Johnson - He'll Make a Way - Robert Johnson - Sugar Mama - Robert Longstreet - Black Gal - Robert Longstreet - Sloppy Drunk - Robert Longstreet - Decoration Day - Robert Longstreet - Shake Em' On Down - Fred McDowell - Mama Says I'm Crazy - Fred McDowell disc 5: - That Ain't It - John Henry Barbee - Gonna Lose Your Mind - John Henry Barbee - Flat Foot Boogie - Albert Macon /Robert Thomas - Mama Can I Lay It Down - Albert Macon / Robert Thomas - How Can You Do It - Albert Macon / Robert Thomas - John Henry - Jessie Clarence Gorman - Goin' Up To the Country #1 - Jessie Clarence Gorman - Goin' Up To the Country #2 - Jessie Clarence Gorman - Dirty Dozens - Will Shade - Won't You Send Me John - Will Shade - Wine Headed Man - Will Shade - K.C. Blues - Will Shade/Charlie Burse - Every Time I Come Around - Georgia Fife & Drum Band - J.W.'S Special - Georgia Fife & Drum Band - Old Hen Cackle - Georgia Fife & Drum Band - Buck Dance - Georgia Fife & Drum Band - Hey Freddie - Como Fife & Drum Band - Late In the Evening - Como Fife & Drum Band - Punky Tony - Como Fife & Drum Band - Shimmy She Wa - Como Fife & Drum Band - You Got Reap What You Sow - Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis - Everything's Gonna Be Alright - Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis - That's the Way the Good Thing Go - Precious Bryant - Georgia Buck - Precious Bryant - When the Saints Go Marching In - Precious Bryant - Pork & Beans - Rosa Lee Hill - Count the Days I'm Gone - Rosa Lee Hill - Roll & Tumble - Rosa Lee Hill - Bullying Well - Rosa Lee Hill disc 6: - Good Morning Judge - Furry Lewis - Furry Lewis' Careless Love - Furry Lewis - What Make Grandpa Love Grandma So - Jimmy Lee Williams - Have You Ever Seen Peaches - Jimmy Lee Williams - Hoboing Into Hollywood - J.W. Warren - Sundown Blues - J.W. Warren - Rabbit On a Log - J.W. Warren - You're Gonna Miss Me - J.W. Warren - House On the Hill - Eddie Harris - I Have To Love Somebody - Eddie Harris - Old Country Rock #1 - James Davis - Instrumental #1 - James Davis - Who Stole the Lock Off the Henhouse Door? - James Davis - Instrumental #4 - James Davis - Canned Heat - Robert Nighthawk - Nighthawk Boogie - Robert Nighthawk - Down By the Woodshed - Robert Nighthawk - Home Going - Jessie Mae Hemphill - I Want To Be Ready - Jessie Mae Hemphill - Interview - Jessie Mae Hemphill disc 7 (bonus CD - tracks not on 45s set!) - Miss Maybelle - Jessie Lee Vortis - When My Baby Got On Board - Jessie Lee Vortis - Them Greasy Greens #1 - George Hollis - Rock and Roll To Midgetville - George Hollis - Black Rat Swing - Willie Rockomo - Tease Me Baby #2 - Bruce Upshaw/Willie Rockomo - Someday Baby #1 - Bruce Upshaw - Wonder Why My Baby Treat Me So Bad - Bruce Upshaw - Rosa Lee - Bruce Upshaw - I Got a Woman - Buddy Hubbard - So Sweet - Buddy Hubbard - You're Gonna Miss Me - Ira "Tiny" Coney - Mamie - Ira "Tiny" Coney - I'm So Lonesome - Ira "Tiny" Coney - Blood Red River - Eddie Hodge - Sitting On Top of the World - Eddie Hodge - Glory Hallelujah - Eddie Hodge - Jesus is Coming Back To Me - Pettis Sisters - Bound For Zion - Pettis Sisters - You Told Me Baby - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall - Sweet As an Apple On a Tree - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall - Juke #2 - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall - Woke Up This Morning - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall - Tell Me You Love Me - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall 7 CD set [with 24 page booklet!] or forty-five 45s [without 7th bonus CD!] notes by Sam Sweet with George Mitchell Fat Possum FP 1114 (US 2007)
8	10/2013	Mott Willis & Others: Blues at home 13 recorded in Tennessee, Mississippi & Louisiana (1978-1982) William "Do-Boy" Diamond - Mississippi Flat (1:33) # [previously unissued] William "Do-Boy" Diamond - Black Mattie (tk 3) (2:08) # [previously unissued] Jacob Stuckey - It Must Have Been The Devil (tk 2) (1:13) Jacob Stuckey - It Must Have Been The Devil (tk 3) (2:03) Asie Payton - Catfish Blues No. 3 (tk 2) (3:48) Lum Guffin - Train I Ride 18 Coaches Long (2:00) Lum Guffin - Baby Please Don't Go, No. 2 (tk 1) (1:15) William "Do-Boy" Diamond - My Babe (1:20) # [previously unissued] Roosevelt Holts - Maggie Campbell (2:24) [previously unissued] William "Do-Boy" Diamond - Shaggy Hound Blues (tk 2) (1:58) # [previously unissued] Lum Guffin - Louise Blues (2:24) Asie Payton - Blind Man (3:50) Memphis Willie Borum - 61 Highway Blues (2:47) # [Albatros VPA 8458] Mager Johnson - Catfish Blues No. 2 (3:04) Lum Guffin - Baby Please Don't Go, No. 2 (tk 2) (2:11) Charlie Taylor - Untitled Blues (3:21) Walter Cooper - Baby Please Don't Go No. 3 (feat. Hammie Nixon) (2:27) Asie Payton - My Babe No. 2 (1:43) Lum Guffin - Rolling And Tumbling (4:36) Mott Willis - Baby Please Don't Go (2:13) [Albatros VPA 8460] Memphis Willie Borum - Army Blues (1:58) # [previously unissued] Lum Guffin - Catfish Blues (2:42) Mager Johnson - Traveling Man Blues (2:09) Lum Guffin - Casey Jones (3:06) Charlie Taylor - I Got The Blues So Bad (1:46) Asie Payton - Dust My Broom (1:37) Jacob Stuckey - It Must Have Been The Devil (tk 4) (1:49) Roosevelt Holts - Let's Talk It All Over Again (3:00) [previously unissued] Roosevelt Holts - Big Road Blues (2:34) [Albatros VPA 8460] Roosevelt Holts - Little Bitty Woman (3:45) [previously unissued] Clay Pittman - I Got The Blues This Morning (1:23) Walter Cooper - Peach Tree Blues (feat. Hammie Nixon) (3:35) all tracks rec., ed. and prod. by Giambattista ('Gianni') Marcucci # rec. August 17, 1978 in Canton, MS by Gianni Marcucci; William "Do-Boy" Diamond, voc, g front cover photo by Giambattista Marcucci: Mott Willis on his porch, Crystal Springs, Mississippi, 1978 notes by Giambattista Marcucci Mbirafon 113 (It 2013) www.cdbaby.com

Other artist's **Covers of William 'Do Boy' Diamond songs**
#	year of release	Artist: Record Title - featured William 'Do Boy' Diamond song / label # / notes
1	1987	The Otis Brothers: Land Of Corn & Wine - I'll Go On - Poor Black Mattie - On Our Turpentine Farm - Shorty George - Jack Ain't Had No Water (J. Owens) - Certainly, Lord - Jimi Bell - Two Hoboes - Stamp Blues - Boogie Woogie Dance - When A Gal Cross The Bottom - Grasshoppers In My Pillow - Illinois Blues - House Done Built Without Hands - Sow Good Seeds - Tell Me - Pigmeat Papa - Poor President Kennedy - Delia Bob Guida, voc, 3-string Church Bass; Pat Conte, g cassette Marimac 8002 (US 1987) Otis Brothers discography
2	6/1993	Ray & Glover: Picture Has Faded - Tell Me Mama - Jimmy Bell - Can't See Your Face - Downtown Blues - Sitting On Top Of The World - Long-Haired Doney - Ice Blue - Going Away Blues - Afraid To Trust Them - Mellow Chick Swing - Saturday Blues - New Buddy Brown - If It Looks Like Jelly - As The Years Go Passing By EP bonus tracks: - I Had To Give Up Gym - Big Road - What's Going On Wrong - Temple's Cure The LP release contains a 45 EP bonus record with additional four tunes Tim/Kerr Records 92LP036 + 92EP036 Tim/Kerr Records 92CD036 Koerner, Ray & Glover discography
3	1997	Catfish Keith: Twist It, Babe! - What Fun We're Havin' In Illinois - Eagle Bird - Walk Across The Ocean - Brownskin Gal - One Kind Favor - Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me - Long-Haired Doney - Jack, I'm Mellow - Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground - Twist It, Babe! - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning - Back In Nagasaki FTRCD005 www.cdbaby.com
4	2002	Richard Johnston: Foot Hill Stomp - Miss Maebelle - Do The Romp - Coal Black Mattie - Catfish Blues / I Feel Good Little Girl - Work Me Baby - Come On In - That's No Way To Get Along - The Shaggy Hound - Chicken And Gravy Tornado CD
5	2003	Ben Prestage: Beale Street - Jitterbug Swing - The Giver - Stuttgart Arkansas - Preachin' Blues - Memphis - Back To The Country - 5 Letter 4 Word Blues - Dough-Boy's Blues - Big Fat Mama (live) - Mexican Whorehouse (live) www.cdbaby.com
6	2005	Someday Baby: Backbone Move - She Caught The Katy & Left Me A Mule To Ride - Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor - Give Me One Reason - Fishing Blues - The Duck Yas Yas - Long Haired Doney - Runnin' To The Judgment - Skinny Woman - Please Baby - Louisiana Blues - Keep It Clean - Shake �Em On Down - Dry Spell Blues - Casey Jones - Don't Let The Devil Ride - Charmin' Betsy - She Caught The Katy (Pilu Classic Mix) János Mazura, tuba Prospero (Hu) = Flamingcheese (Ca 2006) www.cdbaby.com
	200?	Pat Conte - Hard Time Blues
	200?	Pat Conte & Bob Guida: Otis Brothers for Do Boy Diamond - Doin' The Master's Will

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver 2006, p. 125
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970 (2nd edition).- Vancouver 2012, p. 152
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography.- 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, p. 311
- George Mitchell: Blow My Blues Away.- 2nd Edition, New York (Da Capo Press) 1984, pp. 153-171
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Patrice Champarou, Jim O'Neal and Chris Smith for additional info

source: George Mitchell 1984, p. 157; photographer: George Mitchell

source: George Mitchell 1984, p. 167; photographer: George Mitchell