Illustrated Tom Dickson discography

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Tom Dickson
date and location of birth unknown (likely from Oxford, MS)
date and location of death unknown
discography

#	year of release	title / label / notes
*10 inch 78 rpm* Since this ain't no museum, my aim is not to depict actually existing specimen of 78 rpm records, but to show the labels as pristine as workmanlike possible even if this - in some cases - takes a whole lot of my time to photoshop process the initial data
1	1928	TOM DICKSON - Worry Blues (400356-B) @ youtube - Labor Blues (400360-A) @ youtube rec. February 27, 1928 in Memphis, TN; Tom Dickson, voc, g OKeh 8570
2	1928	TOM DICKSON - Death Bell Blues (400355-B) @ youtube - Happy Blues (400359-B) @ youtube rec. February 27, 1928 in Memphis, TN; Tom Dickson, voc, g OKeh 8590
		- Doggone Blues (400357-B) - Railroad Blues (400358-B) rec. February 27, 1928 in Memphis, TN; Tom Dickson, voc, g OKeh unissued
*LP / CD compilations*
3	1968	10 Years In Memphis 1927-1937 Furry Lewis - Billy Lyons And Stack O 'Lee Furry Lewis - Big Chief Blues Frank Stokes - What's The Matter Blues Frank Stokes - Jazzin' The Blues Tom Dickson - Happy Blues [OKeh 8590] Tom Dickson - Death Bell Blues [OKeh 8590] Kansas Joe - Pile Drivin' Blues George Torey - Married Woman Blues George Torey - Lonesome Man Blues Gus Cannon - Poor Boy Allen Shaw - Moanin' The Blues Robert Wilkins - Jailhouse Blues Robert Wilkins - Falling Down Blues Big Boy Cleveland - Goin' To Leave You Blues notes by Don Kent 390 East 8th Street New York, New York 10009 back cover has side 1 and side 2 tracks interchanged! Belzona L-1002 (US 1968) notes by Don Kent 390 East 8th Street New York, N.Y. 10009 = Yazoo L-1002 (US 1968) notes by Don Kent 54 King Street New York, N.Y. 10014 = Yazoo L-1002 (US 19??) notes by Don Kent 245 Waverley Place New York, N.Y. 10014 = Yazoo L-1002 (US 19??) notes by Steve Calt [!] = Yazoo L-1002 (US 19??) Yazoo Records discography
4	1968	Frank Stokes' Dream 1927-1931 Tom Dickson - Labor Blues [OKeh 8570] Frank Stokes - Frank Stokes' Dream - Take Me Back Pearl Dickson - Twelve Pound Daddy Furry Lewis - Black Gypsy Blues - Creeper's Blues Noah Lewis - Devil In The Woodpile Will Weldon - Turpentine Blues Furry Lewis - I Will Turn Your Money Green - Judge Harsh Blues Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe - 'Frisco Town - I Don't Want That Junk Outta You Cannon's Jug Stompers - Noah's Blues Frank Stokes - Last Go Round notes by Fritz Peterson Yazoo L-1008 = Yazoo CD 1008 YAZ (US 1992?) Yazoo Records discography
5	1969	Memphis Blues Johnson Boys - Prater Blues Frank Stokes - 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - part 1 Ollie Rupert - I Raised My Window - Ain't Gonna Be Your Low Down Dog Hambone Willie Newbern - She Could Toodle William & Versey Smith - Everybody Help The Boys Come Home Furry Lewis - Mr. Furry's Blues - Mistreatin' Mama Allen Shaw - I Couldn't Help It Tom Dickson - "Worry Blues" [actually Labor Blues!] Sleepy John Estes - Poor John Blues - Whatcha Doin'? Rosie Mae Moore - School Girl Blues Jim Jackson - Bootlegging Blues Memphis Jug Band - You Got Me Rollin' Washboard Rhythm Kings - Shoot 'Em Roots RL 323 (Austria 1969) = Roots/Saydisc RL 323 (UK 1969) [differing from Roots RL-323 only by sticker on front cover top left!] = autogram/Roots RL 323 (Germany) Roots Records discography
6	1976	Jumping On The Hill The Beale Street Sheiks - Jumping On The Hill Memphis Jug Band - My Love Is Cold Furry Lewis - Cannon Ball Blues Kaiser Clifton - She'll Be Back Some Day The Delta Boys - Don't You Want To Know? Jim Jackson - Old Dog Blues Memphis Jug Band - Little Green Slippers Too Tight Henry - Squinch Owl Moan Tom Dickson - Worry Blues [OKeh 8570] Memphis Jug Band - Fishin' In The Dark Little Buddy Doyle - She's Got Good Dry Goods Kaiser Clifton - Teach Me Right From Wrong Hattie Hart - Won't You Be Kind To Me? Jim Jackson - Santa Fe Blues Memphis Jug Band - Jug Band Quartette Too Tight Henry - The Way I Do notes by Chris Smith Policy Wheel PW 459-1 (UK 1976) Policy Wheel Records discography
7	1987	Memphis Blues (1927 - 1937) Ollie Rupert - I Raised My Window And Looked At The Rising Sun - Ain't Goin' To Be Your Low Down Dog Big Boy Cleveland - Quill Blues - Goin' To Leave You Blues Walter Rhodes - The Crowing Rooster - Leaving Home Blues Frank Stokes - Downtown Blues Tom Dickson - Death Bell Blues [OKeh 8590] - Worry Blues [OKeh 8590] Tom Dickson - Happy Blues [OKeh 8570] - Labor Blues [OKeh 8570] Robert Wilkins - Rolling Stone - Part 2 (take 1 [?]) Sam Townsend - I'm Missing That - Lily Kimball Blues Allen Shaw - I Coundn't Help It - Moanin' The Blues George Torey - Married Woman Blues - Lonesome Man Blues HK Records HK 4002 (Austria 1987) HK Records discography
8	1991	Robert Wilkins - Tom Dickson - Allen Shaw: Memphis Blues (1928 - 1935) Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Robert Wilkins (1928 - 1935) - Rolling Stone - Part 1 [Victor 21741] - Rolling Stone - Part 2 [Victor 21741] - Jail House Blues [Victor 23369] - I Do Blues [Victor 23369] - That's No Way To Get Along [Brunswick 7125] - Alabama Blues [Brunswick 7205] - Long Train Blues [Brunswick 7205] - Falling Down Blues [Brunswick 7125] - Nashville Stonewall Blues [Brunswick 7168] - Police Sergeant Blues [Brunswick 7168] - Get Away Blues [Brunswick 7158] - I'll Go With Her Blues [Brunswick 7158] - Dirty Deal Blues [Vocalion 03223] - Black Rat Blues [Vocalion 03176] - New Stock Yard Blues [Vocalion 03223] - Old Jim Canan's [Vocalion unissued; test pressing] - Losin' Out Blues [Vocalion 03176] Tom Dickson (1928) - Death Bell Blues [OKeh 8590] - Worry Blues [OKeh 8590] - Happy Blues [OKeh 8570] - Labor Blues [OKeh 8570] Allen Shaw (1934) - I Couldn't Help It - Moanin' The Blues notes by Alan Balfour Document DOCD-5014 (Austria 1991) = Document DOCD-5014 (UK 2003) "Memphis Blues Vol. 1" = Document DOCD-5014 (UK 20??) "Memphis Blues Volume 1" Robert Wilkins discography
9	1994	Memphis Masters Early American Blues Classics 1927-1934 - Country Woman - Will Batts - Death Bell Blues - Tom Dickson - Billy Lyons and Stackolee - Furry Lewis - Pile Driver Blues - Joe McCoy - I'm Going Away Blues - Frank Stokes - Little Rock Blues - Pearl Dickson - Beale Street Breakdown - Jed Davenport - Where Is My Good Man At? - Memphis Minnie - Doctor Medicine - South Memphis Jug Band - Poor Boy A Long Way From Home - Gus Cannon - Red Ripe Tomatoes - Jack Kelly - Downtown Blues - Frank Stokes - Last Chance Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers - Better Leave That Stuff Alone - Will Shade - Won't You Be Kind? - Hattie Hart - Cadillac Baby - Will Batts - Bob Lee Junior Blues - Memphis Jug Band - T And T Blues - Mooch Richardson - I Let My Daddy Do That - Hattie Hart - Old Sometime Blues - Frank Stokes remastered by Richard Nevins notes by Don Kent Yazoo CD 2008 (US 1994) Yazoo Records discography
10	2000	The Great Race Record Labels Vol. 3: Okeh - I Am Calling Blues - Texas Alexander - Sorry Feeling Blues - Bo Carter - Gamblin' Man Blues - Jack Dupree - Life Saver Blues - Lonnie Johnson - Kentucky Blues - Little Hat Jones - You Gonna Need Me - Charlie McCoy - Born For Bad Luck - Brownie McGhee - She's A Bad Girl - Mississippi Sheiks - Struggle Buggie - Buddy Moss - Shelby County Workhouse Blues - Hambone Willie Newbern - Crazy Blues - Mamie Smith - Way Back Down Home - Freddie Spruell - Caldonia Blues - Sippie Wallace - Chitlin' Rag Blues - Sylvester Weaver - Roaming Gambler - Doc Clayton - The Jive Blues - Memphis Slim - Sweet Man Blues - Frank Edwards - Money Green - Alfried Fields - Lost Lover Blues - Blind Boy Fuller - Married Woman Blues - Tony Hollins - Worry Blues - Tom Dickson - Insane Crazy Blues - Memphis Jug Band - Me & My Chauffeur Blues - Memphis Minnie Catfish KATCD 167 (UK 2000) Catfish Records (UK) discography
11	2002	Country Blues - the essential CD 1: - Weeping Willow - Blind Boy Fuller - Little Rock Blues - Pearl Dickson - Weak-Minded Woman - Willie Baker - Saturday Blues - Ishman Bracey - Rolling Log Blues - Lottie Kimborough - Starvation Farm Blues - Bob Campbell - California Desert Blues - Lane Hardin - Fence Breakin' Blues - Shreveport Home Wreckers - Mississippi Jailhouse Groan - Rube Lacey - Charming Betsy - Henry Thomas - Mamlish Blues - Barefoot Bill - Easy Rider Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Davidson County Blues - De Ford Baily - Kentucky Blues - Little Hat Jones - Cocaine Blues - Luke Jordan - Mama, You Gotta Get It Fixed - Troy Ferguson - One Way Gal - William Moore - Two Time Blues - Arthur Petties CD 2: - Hambone Willie's Dreamy-Eyed Woman's Blues - Hambone Willie Newbern - Police Sergeant Blues - Robert Wilkins [Brunswick 7168] - Penal Farm Blues - Scrapper Blackwell - Ghost Woman Blues - George Carter - Indian Squaw Blues - Freezone - Unknown Blues - Tarter & Gay - Nehi Mamma Blues - Frank Stokes - I Ain't Givin' Nobody None - Mae Glover - Happy Blues - Tom Dickson [OKeh 8590] - Cairo Blues - Henry Spaulding - C.C. & O Blues - Pink Anderson and Simmy Dooley - I Will Turn Your Money Green - Furry Lewis - John Henry Blues - Evans & McClain - Jealous Hearted Blues - Charlie Lincoln - Last Kind Words Blues - Geeshie Wiley - Devil In The Woodpile - Noah Lewis - Bye Bye Mama - Buddy Moss - Jailhouse Fire Blues - Walter 'Buddy Boy' Hawkins 2 CD set notes by Gary Atkinson Document CBL-200008 (UK 2002)
12	2007	A Richer Tradition - Country Blues & String Band Music 1923 - 1942 disc 1: - Guitar Blues - Sylvester Weaver - Time Ain't Gonna Make Me Stay - Ed Andrews - Sundown Blues - Daddy Stovepipe - Salt Lake City Blues - Papa Charlie Jackson - Whiskey And Gin Blues - South Street Trio - James Alley Blues - Richard "Rabbit" Brown - Goin' To Leave You Blues - Big Boy Cleveland - Hey Lawdy Mama - The France Blues - Papa Harvey Hull/Long "Cleve" Reed - A Chicken Can Waltz the Gravy Around - Stovepipe No-1/David Crockett - Bamalong Blues - Andrew & Jim Baxter - Man Trouble Blues - Jaybird Coleman - Blue Coat Blues - "Blue Coat" Tom Nelson - Frisco Whistle Blues - Ed Bell - Two Ways To Texas - Emery Glen - Gravel Camp Blues - Lewis Black - T And T Blues - Mooch Richardson - Death Bell Blues - Tom Dickson - C.C. & O. Blues - Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - Middlin' Blues - George "Bullet" Williams - Rolling Log Blues - Lottie Kimbrough - Kyle's Worried Blues - Charlie Kyle - Bull Frog Blues - William Harris - Sobbin' Woman Blues - Elizabeth Johnson - Miss Meal Cramp Blues - Alec Johnson - Unknown Blues - Tarter & Gay disc 2: - Jail House Blues - Whistler & His Jug Band - Blues, Just Blues, That's All - Old Southern Jug Band - String Band Blues - Kansas City Blues Strummers - Black Cat Blues - Old Pal Smoke Shop Four - Dirty Guitar Blues - Leecan & Cooksey - Boodle-Am-Shake - Dixieland Jug Blowers - Quill Blues - Big Boy Cleveland - Jug Band Special, The - Whistler & His Jug Band - Cold Morning Shout - South Street Trio - Violin Blues - Johnson Boys - Easy Winner - The Blue Boys - G- Burns Is Gonna Rise Again - Johnson/Nelson/Porkchop - I Got a Gal - James Cole's String Band . Jazz Fiddler, The - Walter Jacobs/Lonnie Carter - Knox Couty Stomp - Tennessee Chocolate Drops - Adam And Eve - Tommie Bradley - Runnin' Wild - James Cole's Washboard Four - Giving It Away - Birmingham Jug Band - Jackson Stomp - Mississippi Mud Steppers - Old Hen Cackle - Coleman & Harper - Travelin' Railroad Man Blues - Alabama Sheiks - Old Hen Cackle - Coleman & Harper - Ted's Stomp - Louie Blue/Ted Bogan - Dusting the Frets - Dallas Jamboree Jug Band - Arkansas Traveller - Nashville Washboard Band disc 3: - Original Stack O'Lee Blues - "Long Cleve" Reed/Little Harvey Hull - Tuxedo Blues - Whistlin' Pete & Daddy Stovepipe - Mean Conductor Blues - Ed Bell - Back Door Blues - Emery Glen - Spanish Blues - Lewis Black - Helena Blues - Mooch Richardson - I Heard the Voice Of a Pork Chop - Bogus Ben Covington - Rising River Blues - George Carter - She Could Toodle-Oo - Hambone Willie Newbern - Weak Minded Woman - Willie Baker - Old Rock Island Blues - Lonnie Coleman - Cairo Blues - Henry Spaulding - I Ain't Givin' Nobody None - Mae Glover - Showers Of Rain Blues - Edward Thompson - Framer's Blues - Eli Framer - If I Call You Mama - Luke Jordan - Never Drive a Stranger From Your Door - Willie Harris - Mississippi Swamp Moan - Alfred Lewis - Paddlin' Madeline Blues - Gitfiddle Jim - Shaking Weed Blues - Tommy Settlers - South Carolina Rag - Willie Walker - Beans - El Morrow/Beans Hambone - Poor Jane Blues - Jack Gowdlock - Window Pane Blues - Tommie Bradley - Hot Jelly Roll Blues - George Carter disc 4: - Labor Blues - Tom Dickson - Goin' Away Blues - Lottie Kimbrough - No Baby - Charlie Kyle - Early Mornin' Blues - William Harris - Dreaming Blues - Willie Reed - Weeping Willow Blues - George Carter - Way Down In Arkansas - Hambone Willie Newbern - Wild About My Loving - Lonnie Coleman - Indian Squaw Blues - Freezone - Florida Bound - Edward Thompson - God Didn't Make No Monkey Man - Eli Framer - Tallahatchie River Blues - Mattie Delaney - Diamond Ring Blues - Jim Jam (Walter Taylor) - Bedside Blues - Jim Thompkins - Lonesome Midnight Dream - Willie Harris - Billy Goat Blues - John Byrd - That Won't Do - Arthur Pettis - Ghost Woman Blues - George Carter - 'Toby' Woman Blues - Gene Campbell - Rollin' Dough Blues - Jack Gowdlock - Starvation Farm Blues - Bob Campbell - Farewell To You Baby - Carl Martin - Teasin' Brown Blues - Louie Lasky - Married Woman Blues - George Torey - Dago Blues - Virgil Childers compiled by Neil Slaven 4 CD box booklet by Neil Slaven JSP JSPCD 7798 (UK 2007)
13	2010	Classic Blues Artwork from the 1920s Volume 8 2011 Calendar with free CD January to December artwork: - Sissy Man Blues - Kokomo Arnold - Pea Vine Blues - Charley Patton - Billy Lyons And Stack O'Lee - Furry Lewis - Rabbit Foot Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Labor Blues - Tom Dickson - Dentist Chair Blues - Parts 1 & 2 - Hattie McDaniel and Charlie Jackson - Cherry Ball Blues - Skip James - Hey! Lawdy Mama - The France Blues - Papa Harvey Hull and Long Cleve Reed (The Down Home Boys) - I'll Be Gone, Long Gone - Mississippi Sheiks - Black Cat Hoot Owl Blues - Ma Rainey - Ko Ko Mo Blues - Parts 1 & 2 - Jabo Williams - Will The Coffin Be Your Santa Claus? - Reverend J. M. Gates bonus tracks (artwork doesn't exist for these songs): - Tom Rushen Blues - Charley Patton - Cannon Ball Blues (alt tk, previously unissued) - Furry Lewis - Dry Land Blues - Furry Lewis - Lonesome Home Blues (test, previously unissued) - Tommy Johnson - Save Your Money - Let These Women Go - Rabbits Foot Williams - Mistreatin' Mama - Rabbits Foot Williams Blues Images no 8 Blues Images
Additional information appreciated !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943.- Oxford (Clarendon), 4th ed. 1997, p. 215
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013 --- Tom Dickson not enclosed!
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, p. 311
- John Tefteller and Blues Images Collection - used with permission
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources