Illustrated Sleepy John Estes discography

from the collection of E.D. Nunn 'Sleepy' John Estes
John Adam Estes
b. January 25, 1900¹⁾ presumably at Durhamville near Ripley, Lauderdale County, Tennessee
d. June 5, 1977 at Haywood Park Hospital in Brownsville, Haywood County, Tennessee
buried at Elam Baptist Church Cemetery, 3543 Durhamville Road in Durhamville, Lauderdale County, Tennessee
discography

¹⁾ Eagle & LeBlanc 2013: "He was not born in January 25, 1899 as per his gravestone."]

#	year of release	title / label # / notes
		- Broken Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too (55531-2) rec. Memphis, TN, September 17, 1929; John Estes, voc, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, mand (Three J's Jug Band) Victor unissued
1	1929	John Estes - Diving Duck Blues (55596-2) * - The Girl I Love She Got Long Curly Hair (55581-1) # # rec. Memphis, TN, September 24, 1929; John Estes, voc, g; Johnny Hardge, p; James Rachell, mand * rec. Memphis, TN, September 26, 1929; John Estes, voc, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, mand (Three J's Jug Band) Victor V38549 # = Bluebird B7849 * = Bluebird B7677
2	1929	John Estes - Broken Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too (55531-3) # - Black Mattie Blues (36335-1) * # rec. Memphis, TN, September 26, 1929; John Estes, voc, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, mand (Three J's Jug Band) * rec. Memphis, TN, October 2, 1929; John Estes, voc, g; "Tee", hca; James Rachell, mand Victor V38582
3	1929	John Estes - James Rachel - T-Bone Steak Blues (56336-2) * - Little Sarah (55597-2) # # rec. September 26, 1929 in Memphis, TN; James Rachell, voc, mand; John Estes, g; 'Tee', Jab Jones, p (Three J's Jug Band) * rec. October 2, 1929 in Memphis, TN; James Rachell, voc, mand; John Estes, g; "Tee", hca Victor V38595
4	1930	John Estes - Milk Cow Blues (59918-2) # - Street Car Blues (59919-2) rec. Memphis, TN, May 13, 1930; John Estes, voc, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, mand (Three J's Jug Band) Estes' "Milk Cow Blues" has also been released as "Sloppy Drunk Blues" and "covered" under the title of "Leaving Trunk", e.g. in 1968 by Taj Mahal! Victor V38614 # = Bluebird B7677
5	1930	Noah Lewis - New Minglewood Blues (64737-2) # - Bad Luck's My Buddy (64739-2) * # rec. November 26, 1930 in Memphis, TN; Noah Lewis, voc, hca; John Estes, g; James Rachell, mand; Ham Lewis, j * rec. November 28, 1930 in Memphis, TN; Noah Lewis, voc, hca; John Estes, g; Ham Lewis, j Victor 23266
5a	1930	John Estes - Expressman Blues (59934-2) # - Sweet Mama (62550-2) * # rec. Memphis, TN, May 17, 1930; John Estes, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, voc, mand (Three J's Jug Band) * rec. Memphis, TN, May 30, 1930; John Estes, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, voc, mand (Three J's Jug Band) Victor 23318
5b	1930	Carolina Peanut Boys - Selling The Jelly (64738-2) # - Spider's Nest Blues (62581-2) * # rec. November 26, 1930 in Memphis, TN; Ms. Van Zula Carter Hunt, voc; Noah Lewis, hca; John Estes, g; unknown, mand; Ham Lewis, j * rec. June 5, 1930 in Memphis, TN; (Memphis Jug Band:) Hattie Hart, voc; Will Shade, g; Ben Ramey, kazoo; Charlie Burse, g; Hambone Lewis, j Victor 23319
		- Wadie Green Blues (59935-2) rec. Memphis, TN, May 17, 1930; John Estes, voc, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, mand (Three J's Jug Band) Victor unissued
6	1930	John Estes - Whatcha doin'? (59967-2) - Poor John Blues (59968-2) * rec. Memphis, TN, May 21, 1930; John Estes, voc, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, mand (Three J's Jug Band) Victor 38628
7	1930	John Estes - Stack O' Dollars (62547-2) - My Black Gal Blues (62548-2) rec. Memphis, TN, May 30, 1930; John Estes, voc, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, mand (Three J's Jug Band) Victor 23397
		- Ninety Pound Mama (62549-2) rec. Memphis, TN, May 30, 1930; John Estes, voc, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, voc, mand (Three J's Jug Band) Victor unissued
7a	1934?	The Memphis Jug Band / Noah Lewis and his Jug Band The Memphis Jug Band - Stonewall Blues (62542- ) * @ youtube Noah Lewis and his Jug Band - Ticket Agent Blues (64736-2) # @ youtube # rec. November 26, 1930 in Memphis, TN; Noah Lewis, voc, hca; John Estes, g; James Rachell, mand; Ham Lewis, j * rec. May 29, 1930 in Memphis, TN; Will Shade, voc, g; Ben Ramey, kazoo; Charlie Burse, g; Hambone Lewis, j Bluebird B5675
8	1935	Sleepy John Estes - Down South Blues (90094-A) # - Stop That Thing (90095-A) rec. Chicago, July 9, 1935; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca, # sp Champion 50001 = Decca 7325
9	1935	Sleepy John Estes - Someday Baby Blues (90096-A) - Who's Been Tellin' You Buddy Brown Blues (90097-A) rec. Chicago, July 9, 1935; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca Champion 50068 = Decca 7279
10	1935	Sleepy John Estes - Married Woman Blues (90175-A) @ youtube - Drop Down Mama (90176-A) @ youtube rec. July 17, 1935 in Chicago, IL; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca Champion 50048 (US 1935) = Decca 7289 (US 10/1935) = Brunswick 03562 (UK 9/1944) = Decca 03562 (UK 1945)
11	1937	Sleepy John Estes - I Wanta Tear It All The Time (62462-A) # - Vernita Blues (62463-A) rec. August 2, 1937 in New York City; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca; Charlie Pickett, g; # Lee Brown, kazoo Decca 7342
12	1937	Sleepy John Estes - Airplane Blues (62482) - Hobo Jungle Blues (62481-A) rec. August 3, 1937 in New York City; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca; Charlie Pickett, g Decca 7354
13	1937	Sleepy John Estes - Jack And Jill Blues (62479-A) * - Need More Blues (62466-A) # # rec. August 2, 1937 in New York City; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca; Charlie Pickett, g * rec. August 3, 1937 in New York City; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca; Charlie Pickett, g Decca 7365
14	1937	Sleepy John Estes - Government Money (62461-A) - I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More (62464-A) # rec. August 2, 1937 in New York City; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca; Charlie Pickett, g; # Lee Brown, kazoo Decca 7414
15	1937	Sleepy John Estes - Poor Man's Friend (T Model) (62480-A) * - Floating Bridge (62465-A) # # rec. August 2, 1937 in New York City; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca; Charlie Pickett, g * rec. August 3, 1937 in New York City; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca; Charlie Pickett, g Decca 7442
16	1938	Sleepy John Estes - New Someday Baby (63652-A) - Brownsville Blues (63653-A) # rec. New York City, April 22, 1938; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Son Bonds or Charlie Pickett, g Decca 7473
17	1938	Sleepy John Estes - Liquor Store Blues (63648-A) - Special Agent (Railroad Police Blues) (63654-A) # rec. New York City, April 22, 1938; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Son Bonds or Charlie Pickett, g Decca 7491
18	1938	Sleepy John Estes - Easin' Back To Tennessee (63649-A) - Clean Up At Home (63651-A,-B) # rec. New York City, April 22, 1938; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Son Bonds or Charlie Pickett, g Decca 7516
19	1938	Sleepy John Estes - Everybody Oughta Make A Change (63647-A) - Fire Department Blues (Martha Hardin) (63650-A) rec. April 22, 1938 in New York City; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Son Bonds or Charlie Pickett, g Decca 7571
20	1940	Sleepy John Estes - Drop Down (I Don't Feel Welcome Here) (93009-A) - Tell Me How About It (Mr. Tom's Blues) (93008-A) rec. June 4, 1940 in Chicago, IL; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Robert Lee McCoy, hca; unknown, wb Decca 7766
21	1940	Sleepy John Estes - Mailman Blues (93004-A) # - Time Is Drawing Near (93005-A) rec. June 4, 1940 in Chicago, IL; Sleepy John Estes, voc; Robert Lee McCoy, g, # hca Decca 7789
22	1940	Sleepy John Estes - Mary Come On Home (93006-A) # - Jailhouse Blues (93007-A) * # rec. Chicago, June 4, 1940; Sleepy John Estes, voc, * g; Robert Lee McCoy, # g, * harm Decca 7814
23	19??	John Estes - Milk Cow Blues (59918-2) # - Diving Duck Blues (55596-2) * # rec. May 13, 1930 in Memphis, TN; John Estes, voc, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, mand * rec. September 26, 1929 in Memphis, TN; John Estes, voc, g; Jab Jones, p; James Rachell, mand (* This reissue may use a different take than the original Victor V38549) # Victor V38614 * Victor V38549 Bluebird B7677
24	19??	John Estes / Sonny Boy Nelson - Long Tall Woman (02597-1) * - The Girl I Love She Got Long Curly Hair (55581-1) # # rec. Memphis, TN, September 24, 1929; John Estes, voc, g; Johnny Hardge, p; James Rachell, mand BG&R: "This reissue may use a different take than the original Victor V38549"; according to Helge Thygesen (who does own the Victor and the Bluebird) the same take (tk 1) has been used! * rec. New Orleans, October 15, 1936; Sonny Boy Nelson, voc, g; Willie Harris Jr, g Bluebird B7849
25	1941	The Delta Boys - You Shouldn't Do That (064916-1) [a/k/a "You Shouldn't Say That"] # @ youtube - Black Gal Swing (064918- ) * @ youtube rec. September 24, 1941 in Chicago, IL; Sleepy John Estes, g, # lead voc; Son Bonds, kazoo, * lead voc; Raymond Thomas, imb Each singer joins in choruses on each tune Bluebird B8852
26	1941	"Sleepy" John Estes - Little Laura Blues (064925-A1) @youtube - Lawyer Clark (064924-1) @ youtube rec. September 24, 1941 in Chicago, IL; Sleepy John Estes, g, # lead voc; Son Bonds, kazoo, * lead voc; Raymond Thomas, imb Bluebird B8871
27	1941	The Delta Boys - When The Saints Go Marching In (064917-1) # @ youtube - Every Time My Heart Beats (064920-1) * @ youtube rec. September 24, 1941 in Chicago, IL; Sleepy John Estes, g, # lead voc; Son Bonds, kazoo, * lead voc; Raymond Thomas, imb Each singer joins in choruses on each tune Bluebird B8891
28	1941	The Delta Boys - Don't You Want To Know (064915-1) # @ youtube - Get Up And Go (064919-1) * @ youtube rec. September 24, 1941 in Chicago, IL; Sleepy John Estes, g, # lead voc; Son Bonds, kazoo, * lead voc; Raymond Thomas, imb Each singer joins in choruses on each tune Bluebird B8915
29	1941	"Sleepy" John Estes / Son Bond [sic] "Sleepy" John Estes - Working Man Blues (064926-1) # @ youtube Son Bond - Come Back Home–Blues (064923-1) [a/k/a "Come Back Home, Little Girl"]* # rec. September 24, 1941 in Chicago, IL; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Son Bonds, g, sp; Raymond Thomas, imb * rec. September 24, 1941 in Chicago, IL; Son Bonds, voc, g; Sleepy John Estes, g; Raymond Thomas, imb Bluebird B8950
		John Estes - Harlem Bound # * - Stone Blind # rec. 1948 in Chicago, IL; John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca; unknown, washtub b Ora-Nelle unissued # Barrelhouse BH-004 (US 1974) and P-Vine PLP-6714 (Jp 1998) * St. George STG 1001 (US 1983)

**Sleepy John Estes** 45 rpm / LPs / CDs
#	year of release	title / label # / notes
30	1952	Anthology Of American Folk Music Volume Three: Songs LP 1: - The Coo Coo Bird - Clarence Ashley - East Virginia - Buell Kazee - Minglewood Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers - I Woke Up One Morning In May - Didier Hebert - James Alley Blues - Richard "Rabbit" Brown - Sugar Baby - Dock Boggs - I Wish I Was a Mole In the Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Mountaineer's Courtship - Ernest and Hattie Stoneman - The Spanish Merchant's Daughter - The Stoneman Family - Bob Lee Junior Blues - The Memphis Jug Band - Single Girl, Married Girl - The Carter Family - Le Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme - Clemo Breaux and Joseph Falcon - Rabbit Foot Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Expressman Blues - Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell LP 2: - Poor Boy Blues - Ramblin' Thomas - Feather Bed - Cannon's Jug Stompers - Country Blues - Dock Boggs - 99 Year Blues - Julius Daniels - Prison Cell Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson - C'est Si Triste Sans Lui - Cleoma and Orphy Breaux w/ Joe Falcon - Way Down The Old Plank Road - Uncle Dave Macon - Buddy Won't You Roll Down The Line - Uncle Dave Macon - Spike Driver Blues - Mississippi John Hurt [OKeh 8692] - K.C. Moan - The Memphis Jug Band - Train On The Island - J.P. Nestor - The Lone Star Trail - Ken Manyard - Fishing Blues - Henry Thomas edited by Harry Smith 2 LP set Folkways FP-253 (US 1952) 2 LP set = Folkways FA 2953 (US 19??) 1997 re-released as 6 CD box set by Smithsonian Folkways 2 LP set = Doxy DOY627 (It 2009)
31	1960	Bad Luck Blues A Blues Anthology / une anthologie du blues Lonnie Johnson - Blue Ghost Blues Red Nelson - Crying Mother Blues Kokomo Arnold - Bad Luck Blues Cecil Gant - Playin' Myself The Blues Sleepy John Estes - Someday Baby Blues Lem Johnson - Candy Blues Lightnin' Hopkins - Highway Blues Sleepy John Estes - Jailhouse Blues Pleasant Joe - Bad Luck Blues Kokomo Arnold - Red Beans And Rice Joe Turner - Blues On Central Avenue Peetie Wheatstraw - Road Tramp Blues compiled by Jacques Demêtre cover drawing by R. Saingt notes (French) by Jacques Demêtre Brunswick 87 504 selection (Fr 1960) notes (English) by Nat Henthoff, notes (German) by Dr. Dietrich Schulz-Köhn = Brunswick LPBM 87 504 (Germany) notes (English) by Nat Henthoff, notes (German) by Dr. Dietrich Schulz-Köhn = Fonit LPB. 87504 (It) Lonnie Johnson discography Kokomo Arnold discography Lightnin' Hopkins discography Peetie Wheatstraw discography
32	1956	Guide To Jazz Louis Armstrong - Some Sweet Day Count Basie - One O'Clock Boogie Sidney Bechet - Shake It and Brake It Johnny Dodds - Heah' Me Talkin' "Sleepy" John Estes - Working Man Blues Duke Ellington - Black and Tan Fantasie Lionel Hampton - Don't Be That Way Coleman Hawkins - My Blue Heaven Fletcher Henderson - Sugar Foot Stomp Earl Hines - Grand Terrace Shuffle Ladnier-Mezzrow - Really The Blues Jimmy Lunceford - Swingin' Uptown Jelly Roll Morton - Black Bottom Stomp King Oliver - Sweet Like This "Fats" Waller - Black Raspberry Jam Jimmy Yancey - The Mellow Blues RCA LPM-1393 (Germany 1956) LP accompanying book by Hugues Panassie & Madeleine Gautier: Guide to Jazz.- Houghton-Mifflin, Boston 1956 (translation of "Dictionnaire du Jazz", Robert Laffont 1954)
33	1957	Dictionary Of Jazz Sleepy John Estes - Working Man Blues Jimmy Yancey - The Mellow Blues Jimmy Lunceford - Swingin' Uptown Lionel Hampton - Don't Be That Way Count Basie - One O'Clock Boogie Coleman Hawkins - My Blue Heaven Fats Waller - Black Raspberry Jam Louis Armstrong - Some Day You'll Be Sorry 10 inch LP accompanying book of the same title by Hughues Panassie & Madeleine Gautier RCA RC 24002 (UK 1957)
34	1959	The Country Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson - Matchbox Blues Lonnie Johnson - Careless Love Cannon's Jug Stompers - Walk Right In Peg Leg Howell - Low Down Rounder's Blues Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues Memphis Jug Band - Stealin' Stealin' Blind Willie Johnson - You Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond Leroy Carr - Alabama Woman Sleepy John Estes - Special Agent Big Bill Broonzy - Key To The Highway Bukka White - Fixin' To Die Tommy McClennan - I'm A Guitar King Robert Johnson - Preachin' Blues Washboard Sam - I Been Treated Wrong edited by Samuel B. Charters 8-page booklet by Samuel B. Charters RBF RF 1 (US 1959) = RBF RF 1 (US 1966) RBF discography
35	1960	The Rural Blues A Study of the Vocal and Instrumental Resources LP 1: Will Shade - I Can't Stand It Hambone Willie Newbern - Shelby County Work House Blues Robert Johnson - From Four Until Late Furry Lewis - You Can Leave, Baby Sleepy John Estes - Sloppy Drunk Blues [= "Milk Cow Blues"] L'il Son Jackson - Roberta Blues Lightnin' Hopkins - Bad Luck And Trouble °° Blind Boy Fuller - Thousand Woman [sic!] Blues Arthur Crudup - If I Get Lucky Charlie Pickett - Down The Highway Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues Blind Willie Johnson - Take Your Burden To The Lord Tommy McClennan - New Highway 51 Lightnin' Hopkins - Penitentiary Blues °° Blind Willie McTell - Mama T'ain't Long 'Fo' Day Charlie Burse - Take Your Fingers Off It Charlie Lincoln - My Wife Drove Me From My Door [on back cover: "Drive"] Peg Leg Howell - Skin Game Blues Lightnin' Hopkins - Come Go Home With Me °° Lightnin' Hopkins - Goin' Back To Florida Robert Johnson - Standing At The Crossroads LP 2: Lightnin' Hopkins - One Kind Favor Furry Lewis - John Henry Blind Willie Johnson - Nobody's Fault But Mine Furry Lewis - Warm Up Bukka White - Bukka's Jitterbug Swing Furry Lewis - Casey Jones Peg Leg Howell - Coal Man Blues John Hurt - Frankie Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Mama Papa Charlie Jackson - Airy Man Blues Skip James - Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - New How Long Blues Bert Bilbro - Mohana Blues °° Sonny Terry & Oh Red - Harmonica Stomp Frank Stokes - Shiney Town Blues Virgil Perkins - Trouble In Mind Arthur Crudup- Mean Old Frisco Brownie McGhee- Sportin' Life Blues Virgil Perkins - [Washboard] Solo Charlie Burse - Tippin' Round Ham Gravy - Mama Don't 'Low It Moochie Reeves - Key To The Highway compiled by Samuel B. Charters "The Material is in part from unissued material in the author's collection, in part from material on the author's Folkways releases, and in part from early blues recordings." RF-202 features only extracts of most of the recordings! °° tracks not on RF-202 (X) (1964) Moochie Reeves track rec. July 1954 in Mobile, AL; previously unissued and from Samuel B. Charters' collection 2 LP boxed set notes (8-page booklet) by Samuel B. Charters same front cover as RF-202(X) (1964), but with more reddish lettering notes captioned "RBF RECORDS album No. RF 202 Copyright © 1960" RBF RF-202 (US 1960) (=) RBF RF-202 (X) (1964) RBF discography
35a	196?	Sleepy John Estes - Clean Up At Home - Stop That Thing - Down South Blues - Floating Bridge - Poor Mans Friend - Need More Blues - Jack & Jill Blues - Drop Down Mama - Married Woman Blues - Easing Back To Tennessee Prewar Decca recordings. Maybe pressed in UK in the 60s. "F-B" in the deadwax 10 inch 33 1/3 rpm LP No label, no #
35b	1964	The Rural Blues A Study of the Vocal and Instrumental Resources LP 1: Will Shade - I Can't Stand It (1:20) [RBF 202, Wolf 120.920] @ youtube Hambone Willie Newbern - Shelby County Work House Blues [OKeh 8740] Robert Johnson - From Four Until Late [Vocalion 03623] Furry Lewis - You Can Leave, Baby [rec. October 3, 1959, previously unissued, Wolf 120.920] Sleepy John Estes - Milk Cow Blues [aka "Sloppy Drunk Blues", Victor V38614] L'il Son Jackson - Roberta Blues [Gold Star 638] Blind Boy Fuller - Thousand Woman [sic] Blues [OKeh 05657] Arthur Crudup - If I Get Lucky [Bluebird B8858] Charlie Pickett - Down The Highway [Decca 7707] Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues [Decca 7026] Blind Willie Johnson - Take Your Burden To The Lord [Columbia 14520-D] Tommy McClennan - New Highway 51 [Bluebird B8499] Blind Willie McTell - Mama T'ain't Long 'Fo' Day [Victor 21474] Charlie Burse - Take Your Fingers Off It (0:34) [previously unissued] Charlie Lincoln - My Wife Drove Me From My Door [Columbia 14305-D] Peg Leg Howell - Skin Game Blues [Columbia 14473-D] Lightnin' Hopkins - Goin' Back To Florida [rec. January 16, 1959, Folkways FS 3822] @ youtube (3:17) Robert Johnson - Standing At The Crossroads [aka "Cross Road Blues", Vocalion 03519] LP 2: Lightnin' Hopkins - One Kind Favor (0:57) [rec. January 16, 1959, previously unissued] @ youtube Blind Willie Johnson - Nobody's Fault But Mine [Columbia 14303-D] Furry Lewis - Warm Up [rec. October 3, 1959, previously unissued, Wolf 120.920] Bukka White - Bukka's Jitterbug Swing [OKeh 05625] Peg Leg Howell - Coal Man Blues [Columbia 14194-D] Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Mama [Columbia 14632-D] Papa Charlie Jackson - Airy Man Blues [Paramount 12219] Skip James - Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues [Paramount 13085] Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - New How Long Blues [Vocalion 1435] Sonny Terry & Oh Red - Harmonica Stomp [OKeh 05538] Frank Stokes - Shiney Town Blues [Victor V38589] Virgil Perkins - Trouble In Mind [rec. November 6, 1955, previously unissued] Arthur Crudup - Mean Old Frisco [Bluebird 34-0704] Brownie McGhee - Sportin' Life Blues [Alert 401] Virgil Perkins - [washboard] Solo [rec. November 6, 1955, previously unissued] Charlie Burse - Tippin' Round (1:27) [previously unissued] Ham Gravy (= Washboard Sam) - Mama Don't Love It [aka "Mama Don't Allow, No. 1", Vocalion 03275] Moochie Reeves - Key To The Highway (3:11) [previously unissued] @ youtube compiled by Samuel B. Charters "The Material is in part from unissued material in the author's collection, in part from material on the author's Folkways releases, and in part from early blues recordings." "All original recordings are included in their entirety" (RBF notes), while the previously unissued tracks (Charters' "field recordings") all seem to be cut short, "some without the courtesy of a proper fadeout, some of the cuts occur mid-stanza" (Charles Radcliffe review in Blues Unlimited 30, pp. 20-21) 2 LP boxed set notes (8-pp. booklet) by Samuel B. Charters originally issued with same front and back cover as RF-202 (1960) but with orange lettering RBF RF-202 (X) (US 1964) later issued with addition "All original recordings are included in their entirety" on back cover = RBF RF-202 (X) (US 196?) = RBF RF-202 (X) (US 196?) = RBF RF-202 (X) (US 1966?) 2 LP boxed set (abbreviated) notes by Samuel B. Charters = XTRA 1035 (UK 1966) DLP gatefold notes by Samuel B. Charters = XTRA 1035 (UK 1966?) = Fontana 982.099 2 x CDr notes by Samuel B. Charters = Smithsonian CD RF 202 (US 2012) RBF discography XTRA Records discography
36	19??	Sleepy John Estes and Son Bond [sic] Treasury of Jazz 30 - Lawyer Clark Blues - Little Laura Blues - Working Man Blues - Come Back Home 7 inch 45rpm EP RCA Victor 75.752 S
37	1962	Alexis Korner presents Kings Of The Blues Vol. 3 Joe Williams - Ain't Seen No Whiskey # @ youtube Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - If I Get Lucky Sleepy John Estes - Working Man Blues @ youtube Furry Lewis - Cannon Ball Blues # this is not the musician known as "Big Joe Williams", but rather "Jackson Joe Williams"! notes by Alexis Korner RCA RCX 204 (UK 1962) Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup discography Furry Lewis discography
38	1962	The Legend of Sleepy John Estes - Rats In My Kitchen $ [] @ youtube - Someday Baby # @ youtube - Stop That Thing $ [] @ youtube - Diving Duck Blues $ [] @ youtube - Death Valley Blues # [] @ youtube - Married Woman Blues * [] @ youtube - Down South Blues # [] @ youtube - Who's Been Telling You, Buddy Brown § [] @ youtube - Drop Down Mama * [] @ youtube - You Got To Go * [] @ Spotify - Milk Cow Blues # @ youtube - I'd Been Well Warned * [] @ Spotify # rec. March 24, 1962 at the Women's Club Hall on 815 East Kilbourn Avenue in Milwaukee ~~Saukville~~, WS (according to liner notes!); Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; [] Ed Wilkinson, b * rec. June 3, 1962 at the Women's Club Hall on 815 East Kilbourn Avenue in Milwaukee ~~Saukville~~, WS (according to liner notes!); Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca; [] Ed Wilkinson, b $ rec. June 4, 1962 at the Women's Club Hall on 815 East Kilbourn Avenue in Milwaukee ~~Saukville~~, WS (according to liner notes!); Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca; John 'Knocky' Parker, p; [] Ed Wilkinson, b recording engineer: E.D. (Ewing) Nunn, then residing in Saukville, WS (north of Chicago, IL) front cover photo by Lars Swanberg notes by Robert G. Koester Delmar DL-603 (US 1962) notes by Robert Koester = Esquire 32-195 (UK 1962) notes (1962) by Bob Koester Delmark DL-603 (mono) (US 1968?) notes (1962) by Bob Koester Delmark DS-603 (stereo) = Trio PA-6212 (Jp 1973) = Trio PA-6212 (Jp 1980) = P-Vine PLP-377 (Jp 1988) notes by Bob Koester = Delmark CD DD-603 = P-Vine PCD-1812 (Jp 1990) Delmark Records discography
39	1962	The Great Jug Bands Cannon's Jug Stompers - Heart Breakin' Blues - Goin' To Germany Memphis Minnie and Her Jug Band - Grandpa And Grandma Blues Birmingham Jug Band - Getting Ready For Trial - German Blues Jack Kelly and His South Memphis Jug Band - Cold Iron Bed - Red Ripe Tomatoes Whistler and His Jug Band - The Jug Band Special Memphis Jug Band - Coal Oil Blues - Jug Band Waltz Elder Richard Bryant's Sanctified Singers - Come Over Here Dixieland Jug Blowers - Garden Of Joy Blues Kentucky Jug Band - Walkin' Cane Stomp Noah Lewis's Jug Band - New Minglewood Blues [Victor 23266] - Ticket Agent Blues [Bluebird B5675] Memphis Shieks - He's In The Jailhouse Now notes by Sam Charters Origin Jazz Library OJL 4 (US 1962) notes by Sam Charters Origin Jazz Library OJL 4 (US 196?) notes by Sam Charters Origin Jazz Library OJL 4 (US 19??) OJL Records discography
40	196?	Blues Classics Volume 3 Lonnie Coleman - Old Rock Island Blues Robert Lockwood - Little Boy Blue Wright Holmes - Alley Blues The Delta Boys - You Shouldn't Say That - Black Gal Swing Barbecue Bob - Ease It To Me Blues Walter Roland - 45 Pistol Blues - Every Morning Blues Willie McTell - Kill It Kid Kid Stormy Weather - Short Haired Blues Casey Bill -WPA Blues Harmonika Frank - Tom Cat Blues Memphis Minnie - Bumble Bee Blues Black Boy Shine - Sugarland Blues Son Bond - 80 Highway Willie McTell - Broke Down Engine Blues Classics BC 7 Blues Classics discography
41	196?	The Original Sleepy John Estes with His "Jug Buddy" Hammie Nix & "Father Jazz" Booker T. Washington - Some Day Baby (A) - Sleepy John's Blues (B) rec. c. 1964 in Chicago, IL; (John Estes, voc, g); Hammie Nixon, hca; Booker T. Washington, dr (The above are actually pre-war masters of a 1938 Decca coupling of "New Someday Baby" / "Brownsville Blues" with Nixon and Washington added, probably in late 1964) Ebony 1020
42	196?	Jimmy Oden / Sleepy John Estes with Jimmy Odens Blues Soul Stirrers Jimmy Oden with Jimmy Odens Blues Soul Stirrers - Going Down Slow (A) Sleepy John Estes with Jimmy Odens Blues Soul Stirrers - Some Day Baby (B) # # rec. c. 1964 in Chicago, IL; John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca; Booker T. Washington, dr Ebony 1000
42	1964	Out Came The Blues (1934 - 1939) Lightning Hopkins - Bad Things on My Mind Georgia White - The Blues Ain't Nuthin' But ... Cousin Joe and Sam Price Trio - Beggin' Woman Kokomo Arnold - Wild Water Blues Red Nelson with Cripple Clarence Lofton, Piano - Sweetest Thing Born Memphis Minnie - Chickasaw Train Blues (Low Down Dirty Thing) Oscar Woods (The Lone Wolf) - Lone Wolf Blues Big Joe Turner and the Pete Johnson Trio - Little Bittie Gal's Blues Trixie Smith - Freight Train Blues Johnnie Temple - Louise Louise Blues Scrapper Blackwell - No Good Woman Blues Peetie Wheatstraw (The Devil's Son-in-Law) - Crazy With The Blues Sleepy John Estes - Vernita Blues Rosetta Crawford with Jimmy Johnson's Band - My Man Jumped Salty On Me notes by Stanley Dance & Yannick Bruynoghe Decca DL 4434 (US 1964) notes by Stanley Dance & Yannick Bruynoghe = Ace of Hearts H 0072 (UK 1964) notes by Stanley Dance & Yannick Bruynoghe = Coral CP 58 (UK 1970) = MCA 1352 (US 1982) (Jazz Heritage Series)
44	1964	Sleepy John Estes 1929-1940 1929-1930 - Divin' Duck Blues - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair - Street Car Blues - Milk Cow Blues 1930-1940 - Jack And Jill Blues - New Someday Baby - Floating Bridge - Brownsville Blues - Need More Blues - Jailhouse Blues - Everybody Ought To Make A Change - Working Man Blues Compiled by Samuel Charters notes by Samuel Charters RBF 8 RBF discography
44a	1964	Yank Rachell And His Tennessee Jug Busters: Mandolin Blues Delmark DS/DL 606 track sequence: - Texas Tony - Up And Down The Line * - Shout Baby Shout - Bye Bye Baby * - Stop Knockin On My Door * - Move Your Hand * # - Doorbell Blues * - Lonesome Blues - I'm Gonna Get Up In The Morning - Get Your Morning Exercise * 77 LA12/23 track sequence: - Texas Tony - Shout Baby Shout - Lonesome Blues - I'm Gonna Get Up In The Morning - Up And Down The Line * - Bye Bye Baby * - Stop Knockin On My Door * - Move Your Hand * # - Doorbell Blues * - Get Your Morning Exercise * CD track sequence: - Texas Tony - Girl Of My Dreams - Do The Boogie Mama (take 3) - Starvation In My Kitchen - I'm Gonna Get Up In The Morning - Lonesome Blues - Shout Baby Shout - Rocky Mountain Blues - Do The Boogie Mama (take 2) - Stop Knocking On My Door * - Doorbell Blues * - Move Your Hand * - Get Your Morning Exercise * - When My Baby Comes Back Home * - Up And Down The Line * - Bye Bye Baby * red = previously unissued rec. March 6 & 31, 1963 in private homes in Chicago, IL; Yank Rachell, voc, mand; Hammie Nixon, jug, hca; Sleepy John Estes, g; * Big Joe Williams, 9-str g, # voc; * Mike Bloomfield, g; album production and supervision: Robert G. Koester; cover design by Peter J. Welding notes by Bob Koester = Delmark DL-606 (US mono) 77 Records LA 12/23 notes by Bob Koester = Delmark DS-606 (stereo) = Goody GY 10010 (D 198?) "Super Black Blues Vol. 5" = Delmark CD DD-608 (1995)
45	1964	Sleepy John Estes: Broke And Hungry The Tennessee Jug Busters - Broke And Hungry # [] - Black Mattie # - 3:00 Morning Blues # [] - Beale Street Sugar # [] - Olie Blues # - So Glad I'm Livin' - Freedom Loan # [] - The Girl I Love # - Electric Chair # - Sleepy John's Twist # CD DD 608 bonus tracks: - Everybody Oughta Change # [] [previously unissued] - Al Rawls # [previously unissued] rec. March 3, 1964 in Chicago, IL; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; # Yank Rachell, mand; # Hammie Nixon, hca; [] Mike Bloomfield, g; album production and supervision: Robert G. Koester cover design by Peter J. Welding; front cover photos by Ray Flerlage notes by Bob Koester "Seven West Grand, Chicago, Illinois(60610)" Delmar(k) DL-608 (mono) (US 1964) Delmar(k) DS-9608 (stereo) notes by Bob Koester = 77 LA 12-27 (UK 1964) = Delmark DL-608 (mono) = Delmark DS-9608 (stereo) later Delmark DS-608 = Trio PA-3048 (Jp 1974) = Trio PA-6207 (Jp 1978) notes by Bob Koester = Goody GY 10008 (Germany 198?) "Super Black Blues Vol. 3" = Delmark CD DD-608 (US 1995) Sleepy John Estes discography Yank Rachell discography Hammie Nixon discography 77 Records discography Delmark Records discography
46	1964	Sleepy John Estes: Portraits In Blues Vol. 10 - Needmore Blues # - Who's Been Tellin' You * - Airplane Blues # - Vernita * - Denmark Blues # - I'm A Tearing Little Daddy * [] - You Stayed Away Too Long * - Drop Down Mama * - The Woman I Love, She Got Long Black Curley Hair * - You Oughtn't Do That * [] - Easin' Back To Tennessee # # rec. October 9, 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g * rec. October 24, 1964 in London, UK; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca, [] jug notes by Paul Oliver Storyville SLP 172 (Dk 1964) (1st pressing) notes by Paul Oliver Storyville SLP 172 (Denmark 196?) (2nd pressing) notes by Paul Oliver Storyville SLP 172 (Denmark 196?) (3rd pressing) notes by Paul Oliver = Storyville 671172 (Germany 1968) Delmark DL-611 Storyville Records discography Hammie Nixon discography
47	1964	La storia del Jazz: The Blues Sleepy John Estes - Working Man Blues RCA LPM 10041 (I) = RCA LJ 50013 (I)
48	196?	American Folk Blues Festival '64 Sonnyboy Williamson - I'm Trying To Make London My Home - Dissatisfied Sunnyland Slim - Everytime I Get To Drinkin' Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins - Ain't It A Pity - Baby Please Don't Go Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon - I'm A Tearing Little Daddy # John Henry Barbee - Cotton Pickin' Blues @ youtube Hubert Sumlin / Sunnyland Slim - No Title Boogie Sugar Pie Desanto - Slip In Mules Howlin' Wolf - Dust My Broom rec. October 9, 1964 at the Musikhalle Hamburg, Germany; prod. by Siegfried E. Loch # Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca Philips/Phonogram SFL-7385 track sequence: - Five Long Years - Muddy Waters (AFBF 1963) - Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues - Willie Dixon (AFBF 1963) - Crazy For My Baby - Willie Dixon (AFBF 1963) - Matt's Guitar Boogie - Matthew Murphy (AFBF 1963) - I Don't Know - Sonny Boy Williamson (AFBF 1963) - I'm Trying To Make London My Home - Sonny Boy Williamson (AFBF 1964) - Ain't It A Pity - Lightnin' Hopkins (AFBF 1964) - Baby, Please Don't Go - Lightnin' Hopkins (AFBF 1964) - Everytime I Get To Drinkin' - Sunnyland Slim (AFBF 1964) - No Title Boogie - Hubert Sumlin (AFBF 1964) - Dust My Broom - Howlin Wolf (AFBF 1964) notes by Horst Lippmann & Fritz Rau (introduction), Georges Adins, Joachim E. Berendt, Jacques Demêtre, Bob Koester, Horst Lippmann, Paul Oliver (artists' portraits) Fontana 681 522 TL (mono) (Germany 1964) = Fontana 885 411 TY (stereo) (Germany 1964) notes by Jean Tronchot = Fontana 681 522 TL (mono) (Fr 1964) notes by Jean Tronchot = Fontana 885 411 MY (stereo) (Fr 1964) = Fontana TL 5225 (UK 1964) [not = Amiga 850043 !!!] (=) Philips/Phonogram SFL-7385 (Jp 1969) "American Folk Blues Festival 63-64" notes by Willy Leiser = L+R 42.024 (Germany 1981) = L+R 42.024 (Germany 1982) = Edigsa/L+R 12L0293 (Sp 1982) = Optimism/L+R CD LR-2024 (US 198?) 5 CD box set notes by Bill Dahl (=) Evidence ECD 26100 (US 1995) "American Folk Blues Festival '62-'65" CD 4: "'sixty four" notes by Jerry Gordon (=) Evidence ECD 26087-2 (US 1997) "American Folk Blues Festival '62-'65 - Highlights" Evidence ECD 260101 "American Folk Blues Festival '66 - '72" (as announced in the notes accompanying Evidence ECD 26087-2) obviously never happened! = Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 42024 (Germany 1998) 3 CD set (=) Bellaphon CDLR 726321 (Germany 2002) "1962, 1963, 1964" CD 3: 1964 180 g LP = Pure Pleasure/L+R PPAN LR42024 (UK 2014) American Folk Blues Festival discography Fontana Records discography L+R Records discography
49	6/1965	The Blues at Newport 1964 Part 1 Fred McDowell - Lord I'm Going Down South (3:00) - Highway 61 (3:28) @ youtube - If The River Was Whiskey (2:20) @ youtube Sleepy John Estes - Sleepy John's Twist (2:35) \|\| - Mailman Blues (2:35) \|\| - Drop Down Mama (2:25) \|\| - Clean Up At Home (2:53) \|\| @ youtube Doc Reese - Old Hannah (3:05) - Hey Rattler / Oh My Lord (3:21) Robert Pete Williams - Levee Camp Blues (5:10) [Vanguard VSD 77/78, Vanguard CD 70193-2, Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] - On My Way From Texas (3:43) [Vanguard VSD 25/26, Vanguard VCD 115/16 (US 1991), Vanguard 3VCD 193/95-2] @ youtube - Midnight Boogie (3:13) [Vanguard VSD 77/78, Vanguard CD 70193-2, Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube rec. July 23-26, 1964 live at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, RI # rec. July 25, 1964 (Saturday afternoon, 1:30 p.m. at St. Michael's School); Willie Doss, voc, g; ## hca * rec. July 25, 1964; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g \|\| rec. July 25, 1964; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca, jug; Yank Rachell, mand photos by David Gahr notes by Samuel Charters Vanguard VRS 9180 (mono) (US 6/1965) notes by Samuel Charters = Vanguard VSD 79180 (stereo) (US 6/1965) notes by Samuel Charters = Fontana TFL 6048 (mono) (UK 196?) 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 Yank Rachell discography Hammie Nixon discography Mississippi John Hurt discography Reverend Gary Davis discography Reverend Robert Wilkins discography Skip James discography Robert Pete Williams discography Jesse Fuller discography John P. Hammond discography Dave Van Ronk discography
		- Worry My Mind [Earwig CD 4975] - Shady Lane Blues - Old Twist - So Long, Hate To See You Go # - Low Down Dirty Shame # - Poor John's Lawyer - I Got A Sweet Little Woman - Brownsville Sheriff - How Many More Years # * - Cadillac Baby, Come Pick Me Up * @ soundcloud - Everybody Got To Change Sometime - Things Ain't Going On Right - Lay My Burden Down [Earwig CD 4975] - Spirit Don't Leave Me # [Earwig CD 4975] - Passed So Fast [Earwig CD 4975] rec. c. 1960 in Chicago, IL; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca, # voc; * Eddie Boyd, org Bea & Baby unissued
50	1965	Newport Folk Festival 1964 Evening Concerts Vol. 1 Pete Seeger - Oh Mary Don't You Weep - Never Wed an Old Man Sleepy John Estes (with Hammy Nixon and Yank Rachell) - Corinna @ youtube Buffy Sainte-Marie - Melora - Cod'ine Jose Feliciano - La Bamba - El Pastor - I'm Satisfied With My Babe Rodriguez Brothers - Yo Soy Negro Phil Ochs - The Power and the Glory - Draft Dodger Rag Frank Proffitt - Tom Dooley - Moonshine Still Jim Kweskin and The Jug Band - I'm a Woman - Sadie Green - My Gal rec. live at the Newport Folk Festival July 23-26, 1964 Vanguard VRS-9184 (mono) VSD-79184 (stereo) = Fontana TFL 6050 (UK) = King/Vanguard SH-225 (Jp)
51	1965	Bluebird Blues 1933-46 RCA Victor LPV-518 / RCA RD-7786 track sequence: Blind Willie McTell - Lonesome Day Blues - Searching The Desert For The Blues Tampa Red - Kingfish Blues - Mean Mistreater Blues Big Joe Williams - Wild Cow Blues - Somebody's Been Borrowing That Stuff °° Sonny Boy Williamson - Down South - Moonshine Tommy McClennan - Bluebird Blues °° - Brown Skin Girl Sleepy John Estes - Lawyer Clark Blues °° - Little Laura Blues °° Arthur Crudup - Black Pony Blues - Death Valley Blues Lonnie Johnson - Jersey Belle Blues - Crowing Rooster Blues reissue prod. by Brad McCuen; °° = tracks not on RCA 430.701 RCA 430.701 track sequence: Frank Stokes - It Won't Be Long Now °° Blind Willie McTell - Lonesome Day Blues - Searching The Desert For The Blues Tampa Red - Kingfish Blues - Mean Mistreater Blues Leroy Carr - Ain't It A Shame °° Big Joe Williams - Wild Cow Blues Curtis Jones - Drinking And Thinking Blues °° Curtis Jones - School Mate Blues °° Sonny Boy Williamson - Down South - Moonshine Tommy McClennan - Brown Skin Girl Arthur Crudup and Joe McCoy - Black Pony Blues - Death Valley Blues Lonnie Johnson - Jersey Belle Blues - Crowing Rooster Blues compiled by Bert Bradfield; °° = tracks not on RCA Victor LPV-518 / RCA RD-7786 notes by Lawrence Cohn RCA Victor LPV-518 (1965) notes by Lawrence Cohn = RCA RD-7786 (UK 1965) (not =) RCA 430.701 (Fr 1966) "Blue Bird Blues (1928- 1942)" (Treasury Of Jazz #61)
52	1965	(DS-9611 stereo)(DL-611 mono)(back cover mono & stereo) Sleepy John Estes in Europe - Needmore Blues # - Who's Been Tellin' You * - Airplane Blues # - Vernita * - Denmark Blues # - I'm A Tearing Little Daddy * [] - I Stayed Away Too Long * - Drop Down Mama * - The Woman I Love She Got Long Black Curly Hair * - You Oughtn't Do That * [] - Easin' Back To Tennessee # CD bonus tracks: - I'm A Tearing Little Daddy (alt tk) * [] - Blues For J.F.K. * album production & supervision by Robert G. Koester in cooperation with Dansk Grammophonpladerforlag; invaluable assistance by Paul Oliver & Nat Joseph # rec. October 9, 1964 at Metronome Records in Copenhagen, Denmark; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g * rec. October 24, 1964 at Olympic Sound Studios in London, UK; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca, [] jug Delmark CD DD-611 front cover photo by Greg Roberts (= Bob Koester) Storyville SLP 172 Delmark DL-611(mono) = Delmark DS-9611 (stereo) notes by Bob Koester = Delmark DS-611 (stereo) (US 19??) Delmark CD DD-611 (US 1999)
53	1965	Sleepy John Estes' Brownsville Blues Institutions - The Girl I Love # @ Spotify - City Hall Blues * @ Spotify - Government Money // @ Spotify - Working Man Blues # @ Spotify - Mailman Blues # @ Spotify - Mary Come On Home # @ Spotify People @ Spotify - Pat Mann * @ Spotify - Vassie Williams # @ Spotify - Young Lawyer $ @ Spotify - Al Rawls # @ Spotify - Lawyer Clark # @ Spotify - Martha Hardin $ @ Spotify CD bonus tracks: - 38 Pistol # - Time Is Drawing Near # - God Can Use Me # - I'd Been Well Warned # - Drop Down Mamma # - Rats In My Kitchen # # rec. March 24, 1962 at the Women's Club Hall on 815 East Kilbourn Avenue in Milwaukee ~~Saukville~~, WS (according to liner notes of Delmar(k) 603!); Sleepy John Estes, voc, g * rec. June 3, 1962 at the Women's Club Hall on 815 East Kilbourn Avenue in Milwaukee ~~Saukville~~, WS (according to liner notes of Delmar(k) 603!); Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca; Ed Wilkinson, b $ rec. October 9, 1964 in Copenhagen; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g // rec. February 27, 1965 in Chicago, IL; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Yank Rachell, g; Ransom Knowling, b Delmark LP DS-613 front cover photo by Lars Swanberg Delmark CD DD-613 and P-Vine PCD-20305 front cover photo by Jerry DeMuth notes by Bob Koester Delmark DS-613 (US 1965) = Delmark CD DD-613 (US 1992) = P-Vine PCD-20305 (Jp 2014)
53a	1966	Sleepy John's Got The Blues (on label: "Sleepy John And Friends" - Rats In My Kitchen [Delmark DL-603] - Who's Been Telling You, Buddy Brown [Delmark DL-603] - Diving Duck Blues [Delmark DL-603] - Stop That Thing [Delmark DL-603] front cover photo by Valerie Wilmer 7 inch 45 rpm EP Delmark DJB 3 (UK 1966)
54	1966	Blues Rediscoveries Mississippi John Hurt - Ain't No Tellin' - Avalon Blues Bukka White - Sleepy Man Blues - Aberdeen, Mississippi Blues Henry Townsend - Poor Man Blues John Estes - Poor Man's Friend - Liquor Store Blues Blind Gary Davis - Oh Lord Search My Heart - You Got to Go Down Peg Leg Howell - Doin' Wrong Furry Lewis - Jelly Roll - Sweet Papa Moan Big Joe Williams - Highway 49 - Someday Baby edited by Samuel Charters front cover photo by Ann Charters notes by Samuel Charters RBF 11 (US 1966) RBF discography
55	1966	American Folk Blues Festival '66 Fontana 885 431 BY / L+R 42.069 Roosevelt Sykes - Running The Boogie @ youtube @ Spotify Otis Rush - All Your Love \|\| @ youtube @ Spotify Little Brother Montgomery - I Keep On Drinking @ youtube @ Spotify Sleepy John Estes - You Shouldn't Do It @ youtube @ Spotify Otis Rush - My Own Fault \|\| [actually "Sweet Little Angel"] @ youtube @ Spotify Junior Wells - Checkin' On My Baby \\ @ youtube @ Spotify - A Tribute To Sonny Boy Williamson \\ @ youtube (2:40) @ Spotify Sippie Wallace - Suitcase Blues @ youtube @ Spotify Robert Pete Williams - Louise @ youtube @ Spotify Big Joe Turner - Flip, Flop And Fly // * @ youtube @ Spotify - Roll 'Em Pete // ^ @ youtube @ Spotify rec. October 16, 1966 at the Friedrichstadt-Palast, East-Berlin, GDR (American Folk Blues Festival 1966); prod. by Siegfried E. Loch Roosevelt Sykes, voc, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr \|\| Otis Rush, voc, g; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Little Brother Montgomery, voc, p; Freddie Below, dr Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Yank Rachell, voc, mand \\ Junior Wells, voc, hca; Otis Rush g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Sippie Wallace, voc; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Robert Pete Williams, voc, g // Big Joe Turner, voc; * Little Brother Montgomery, ^ Roosevelt Sykes, p; Otis Rush g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr notes by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos Fontana 885 431 TY (Germany 1966) = Fontana 885 431 BY/MY (Fr 1966) = Fontana TL 5389 (mono) / STL 5389 (stereo) (UK 1966) = Fontana 681.533 TL/IL (Fr 1966?) = Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 42069 (Germany 1990) = Optimism/L+R LR CD-2069 (US 1990) 4-CD-Box original 1966 notes by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos (=) Bellaphon CDLR 726322 (Germany 1998) (45 Tracks, 165:59) American Folk Blues Festival '66 Vol. 1 Vol. 1: Amiga 855114 Roosevelt Sykes - Running The Boogie @ youtube @ Spotify Otis Rush - All Your Love \|\| @ youtube @ Spotify Little Brother Montgomery - I Keep On Drinking @ youtube @ Spotify Sleepy John Estes - You Shouldn't Do It @ youtube @ Spotify Big Joe Turner - Roll 'Em Pete // ^ @ youtube @ Spotify Junior Wells - Sheckin' [sic] On My Baby \\ @ youtube @ Spotify - Vietnam Blues \\ °° @ youtube @ Spotify Sippie Wallace - Suitcase Blues @ youtube @ Spotify Robert Pete Williams - Midnight Boogie °° @ youtube @ Spotify Big Joe Turner - Flip, Flop And Fly // * @ youtube @ Spotify °° not on Fontana 885 431 BY rec. October 16, 1966 at the Friedrichstadt-Palast, East-Berlin, GDR (American Folk Blues Festival 1966); prod. by Siegfried E. Loch Roosevelt Sykes, voc, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr \|\| Otis Rush, voc, g; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Little Brother Montgomery, voc, p; Freddie Below, dr Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Yank Rachell, voc, mand \\ Junior Wells, voc, hca; Otis Rush g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Sippie Wallace, voc; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Robert Pete Williams, voc, g // Big Joe Turner, voc; * Little Brother Montgomery, ^ Roosevelt Sykes, p; Otis Rush g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr notes (1968) by Karlheinz Drechsel Amiga 855114 (GDR 1968) notes (1968) by Karlheinz Drechsel = Amiga 855114 (GDR 1979) (Amiga Jazz series) = Amiga 855114 (GDR 1981-86?) blue label re-release = Amiga CD 82876-63060-2 (Germany 2004) American Folk Blues Festival '66 Vol. 2 Vol. 2: Amiga 850126/855126 Otis Rush - It Takes Time \|\| °° @ youtube @ Spotify Roosevelt Sykes - Night Time Is The Right Time °° @ youtube @ Spotify Otis Rush - My Own Fault \|\| [actually "Sweet Little Angel"] @ youtube @ Spotify Little Brother Montgomery - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie °° @ youtube @ Spotify Sleepy John Estes, g (Yank Rachell, voc, mand!) - Yellow Jam Blues °° @ youtube @ Spotify Junior Wells - Over Yonders Walls \\ °° @ youtube @ Spotify Sippie Wallace - Women Keep Your Mouth Shut °° @ youtube @ Spotify Junior Wells - A Tribute To Sonny Boy Williamson \\ @ youtube (2:40) @ Spotify Robert Pete Williams - Louise @ youtube @ Spotify Big Joe Turner - Feeling Happy // * °° °° not on Fontana 885 431 BY rec. October 16, 1966 at the Friedrichstadt-Palast, East-Berlin, GDR (American Folk Blues Festival 1966); prod. by Siegfried E. Loch Roosevelt Sykes, voc, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr \|\| Otis Rush, voc, g; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Little Brother Montgomery, voc, p; Freddie Below, dr Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Yank Rachell, voc, mand \\ Junior Wells, voc, hca; Otis Rush g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Sippie Wallace, voc; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr Robert Pete Williams, voc, g // Big Joe Turner, voc; * Little Brother Montgomery, ^ Roosevelt Sykes, p; Otis Rush g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr notes (1969) by Karlheinz Drechsel Amiga 850126 (GDR 1969) notes (1969) by Karlheinz Drechsel = Amiga 855126 (GDR 1979) (Amiga Jazz series) = Amiga 855126 (GDR 1981-86?) blue label re-release = Amiga CD 82876-63061-2 (Germany 2004) American Folk Blues Festival discography Fontana Records discography L+R Records discography Roosevelt Sykes discography Otis Rush discography Little Brother Montgomery discography Yank Rachell discography Robert Pete Williams discography
56	1967	The Blues Music from the Documentary Film by Samuel Charters@ youtube (full album) J.D. Short - Introduction @ youtube Memphis Willie B. - Alone In The Evening Blues (instr) @ youtube @ Spotify J.D. Short - Slidin' Delta @ youtube @ Spotify Pink Anderson (with son "Little Pink") - Old Cotton Fields Of Home @ youtube @ Spotify Furry Lewis - John Henry @ youtube @ Spotify Baby Tate - Bad Blues (instr) @ youtube @ Spotify Memphis Willie B. & Gus Cannon - Sitting Here Thinking @ youtube @ Spotify Sleepy John Estes - Lonesome Ground # @ youtube @ Spotify Baby Tate - If I Could Holler Like A Mountain Jack @ youtube @ Spotify - When I First Started Hoboing @ youtube @ Spotify Pink Anderson - Weeping Willow Blues @ youtube @ Spotify rec. in the summer of 1962 by Samuel Barclay Charters with Ann Charters, technical assistant. "The Blues" was finished early in 1963, and was premiered at the University of Chicago Folk Festival in January, 1963. # rec. July 1962 in Memphis, TN; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g photography by Ann Charters notes by Samuel Charters Asch A-101 (US 1967) = Folkways FA AS101 notes by Samuel Charters = Blue Angel BA20011 (Germany 1978/79?) (Zweitausendeins) CDr notes by Samuel Charters = Smithsonian Folkways FW-ASCH101-CCD (US 2007) J.D. Short discography Memphis Willie B. discography Pink Anderson discography Furry Lewis discography Baby Tate discography Gus Cannon discography
57	196?	The Best of The Blues Big Bill Broonzy - Diggin' My Potatoes Speckled Red - Uncle Sam's Blues Memphis Slim - Bertha May Champion Jack Dupree - Christina, Christina Blues Big Joe Williams - Vitamin A Blues Lonnie Johnson - Don't Cry Baby Roosevelt Sykes - The Way I Feel Sleepy John Estes - City Hall Blues John Henry Barbee - Early In The Morning Sunnyland Slim - One Room Country Shack Sonny Boy & M. Slim - Copenhagen Woman Otis Spann - Boots And Shoes Storyville SLP 188 = Storyville 671188 = Teichiku ULS-1819-R (Jp 1975) = Storyville SLP 4023 (1981) Storyville Records discography
58	196?	Sleepy John Estes Volume One - Stop That Thing - Down South Blues - Someday Baby Blues - Who's Been Telling You Buddy Brown Eyes - Married Woman Blues - Drop Down Mama front cover photo by Georges Adins Swaggie JCS series started around 1960! notes by Bill Haesler Swaggie JCS-33782 (Australia 196?) 11" metal copies used as source for the Swaggie microgroove re-issue program back in the 1960s (as offered at eBay 04/2017)
59	196?	Sleepy John Estes Volume Two - Government Money - I Wanto Tear It All The Time - Vernita Blues - I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More - Floating Bridge - Need More Blues notes by Bill Haesler Swaggie JCS-33798 (Australia 196?)
60	196?	Sleepy John Estes Volume Three - Jack And Jill Blues - Poor Man's Friend - Hobo Jungle Blues - Airplane Blues - Everybody Ought To Make A Change - Liquor Store Blues notes by Bill Haesler Swaggie JCS-33799 (Australia 196?)
60a	196?	Sleepy John Estes Volume Four - Easin' Back To Tennessee - Fire Department Blues - Clean Up At Home - New Someday Baby - Brownsville Blues - Special Agent Blues Swaggie JCS-112 (Australia 196?)
60b	196?	Sleepy John Estes Volume Five - Mailman Blues - Time Is Drawing Near - Mary Come On Home - Jailhouse Blues - Tell Me All About It - I Don't Feel Welcome Here Swaggie JCS-113 (Australia 196?)
61	1967	The Blues of Sleepy John Estes, Vol. 1 1934-37 - Stop That Thing - Down South Blues - Someday Baby Blues - Who's Been Tellin' You Buddy Brown Eyes [sic] - Married Woman Blues - Drop Down Mama - Government Money - I Want To Tear It All The Time - Vernita Blues - I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More - Floating Bridge - Need More Blues - Jack And Jill Blues - Poor Man's Friend - Hobo Jungle Blues - Airplane Blues rec. Chicago 1934 & 1937; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca; Son Bonds, g; Charlie Pickett, g, kazoo front cover photo by Georges Adins Swaggie LP series started after the EP (JCS) series notes by Bill Haesler Swaggie 1219 (Australia 1967)
62	1967	The Blues of Sleepy John Estes, Vol. 2 - Easin' Back To Tennessee - Fire Department Blues (Martha Hardin) - Clean It Up At Home - New Someday Baby - Brownsville Blues - Special Agent Blues - Everybody Oughta Make A Change - Mailman Blues - Time Is Drawing Near - Mary Come On Home - Jailhouse Blues - Tell Me How About It - I Don't Feel Welcome Here - Liquor Store Blues notes by Bill Haesler Swaggie 1220 (Australia 1967)
63	1967	John Henry Barbee & Sleepy John Estes: Blues Live Sleepy John Estes - Drop Down Mama - I'd Been Well Warned - Stop That Thing # - Divin' Duck Blues - Vernita Blues - Bottle Up And Go # - Mountain Cat Blues John Henry Barbee - Hey Woman - Backwater Blues - Boll Weevil - Somebody Done Change The Lock On My Door - That's All Right CD bonus tracks: - Tell Me Baby - John Henry - Dust My Broom Estes tracks rec. live October 8, 1964 in Copenhagen; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca, # jug Barbee tracks rec. live October 8, 1964 at the Folk Club of Denmark in Copenhagen; John Henry Barbee, voc, g notes by Paul Oliver Storyville SLP 4074 (Denmark 1967) Storyville STCD 8051 (Denmark 2000) Storyville Records discography
64	1968	The Memphis Area - 1927-1932 Cannon's Jug Stompers - Madison Street Rag - Hollywood Rag Sleepy John Estes - Broken-Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too - Black Mattie Blues Hambone Willie Newbern - Nobody Knows What The Good Deacon Does - Burse & Stephen - Tappin' That Thing "Poor Jab" - Come Along, Little Children Frank Stokes - It Won't Be Long Now - tk. 2 Memphis Minnie - Garage Fire Blues Noah Lewis' Jug Band - Bad Luck's My Buddy Sleepy John Estes - Stack O' Dollars - My Black Gal Blues Hambone Willie Newbern - Roll And Tumble Blues Robert Wilkins - Nashville Stonewall Blues - Poloce Seargeant Blues Memphis Jug Band - Kansas City Blues Roots RL 307 Roots Records discography
65	1969	*Sleepy John Estes: Electric Sleep resp.* On The Chicago Blues Scene** Delmark LP DS-619 / Goody GY 10003 track sequence: - I Ain't Gonna Sell It (2:43) - Everybody's Got To Change Sometime (5:03) - Walking Down Beale Street [] (4:19) - If The River Was Whiskey # (4:19) - Needmore Has Harmed Many A Man (5:43) - May West # (5:10) - Laura Had A Dream [] (4:15) @ youtube - How To Sing These Blues (4:05) @ youtube - Sweet Little Flower # (3:45) - Drop Down Mama, Let Your Papa See (3:48) Delmark CD DD-619 track sequence: - Needmore Has Harmed Many A Man (5:41) - If The River Was Whiskey # (4:19) - Everybody's Got To Change Sometime (5:03) - Walking Down Beale Street [] (2:19) - Laura Had A Dream [] (4:54) - Newport Blues # (5:05) °° - May West # (4:55) - How To Sing These Blues (3:48) - Sweet Little Flower (3:57) - I Ain't Gonna Sell It (3:24) - Easin' Back To Tennessee (3:55) °° - Airplane (4:25) °° - Drop Down Mama - Let Your Papa See (3:48) °° Delmark DD-619 bonus tracks Delmark CD DE-619 track sequence: - I Ain't Gonna Sell It (3:09) - Laura Had A Dream [] (4:03) - Divin' Duck Blues # (4:22) (= "If The River Was Whiskey") - Walking Down Beale Street [] (2:58) - Everybody Oughta Make A Change (5:07) - Need More Blues (5:40) - Drop Down Mama (3:49) - Airplane Blues (4:22) - How To Sing These Blues (3:07) - Sweet Little Flower # (3:43) - May West (4:57) - Easin' Back To Tennessee (3:56) - Newport Blues # (5:05) rec. December 3 & 5, 1968 in Chicago, IL; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Carey Bell, hca, [] b; Sunnyland Slim, p; Jimmy 'Fast Fingers' Dawkins, g; Joe Harper, b; # Earl Hooker, b; Odie Payne Jr., dr notes by Bob Koester Delmark DS-619 (US 1969) notes by Bob Koester Delmark DS-619 (UK 1969) "distributed by ESQUIRE RECORDS TALENT LIMITED" notes by Bob Koester = Goody GY 10003 (Fr 1969) "Electric Blues, Chicago Style Vol. 3" = Goody GY 10003 (Fr 1969) with false title on back cover: "Vol. 4 Jimmy 'Fast Fingers' Dawkins" = Delmark DD-619 (US 1991) = Delmark DE-619 (US 2007) "On The Chicago Blues Scene" Delmark Records discography Earl Hooker discography
66	1969	Memphis Swamp Jam 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 - 'Bout A Spoonful Sleepy John Estes - Need More Blues # - President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long # 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 Watson & Jones [John Fahey & Bill Barth] - Memphis Rag - St. Louis Blues - Praying On The Old Campground # Sleepy John Estes, voc, el g; Tom Gary, hca; Mike Stewart, g DLP notes (1969) by Pete Welding 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"
66a	1969	Up The Country ! Blues People Robert Pete Williams - Don't the Moon Look Lonesome Yank Rachell - Yellow Jam Blues * Sippie Wallace - Up The Country Sleepy John Estes - I'm A Tearing Little Daddy # Magic Sam Blues Band - Back Door Friend Roosevelt Sykes - Boot That Thing Roosevelt Sykes - Night Time Is The Right Time Sippie Wallce - Women Be Wise Magic Sam Blues Band - Feeling Good Joe Turner - Chains Of Love Joe Turner with Otis Rush's Blues Band - Well Oh Well # rec. October 9, 1964 at the Musikhalle, Hamburg, Germany (American Folk Blues Festival '64); Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca * rec. October 16, 1966 at the Friedrichstadt-Palast, East-Berlin; Yank Rachell, voc, mand; Sleepy John Estes, g Scout Sc-3 (Germany 1969) Scout Records discography
66b	1969?	More Of That Jug Band Sound 1927-1939 Memphis Jug Band - Sometimes I Think I Love You Noah Lewis's Carolina Peanut Boys - Selling The Jelly [Victor 23319] Vol Stevens - Baby Got The Rickets, Mama's Got The Mobile Blues Jed Davenport and His Beale Street Jug Band - Beale St. Breakdown - Save Me Some Tommy Bradley - Adam And Eve - Four Days Blue Cincinnati Jug Band - George St. Stomp Jack Kelly - Betty Sue - Man Fooler Blues Memphis Jug Band - Gator Wobble - On The Road Again Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band - Louisville Special Daddy Stovepipe and Mississippi Sarah - Greenville Strut Birmingham Jug Band - Giving It Away Cannon's Jug Stompers - Wolf River Blues notes by Henry Vestine Origin Jazz Library OJL 19 OJL Records discography
67	1969?	The Blues In Memphis 1927-1939 Sleepy John Estes - Drop Down Mama - Married Woman Blues Allen Shaw - I Couldn't Help It Robert Wilkins - New Stock Yard Blues Yank Rachell - Gravel Road Woman Furry Lewis - Falling Down Blues Beale Street Shieks - Mr. Crump Don't Like It Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie - That Will Be Alright - Goin' Back To Texas Vol Stevens - Vol Stevens Blues Minnie Wallace - The Old Folks Started It Cannon's Jug Stompers - Viola Lee Blues Jack Kelly - Flower Blues Will Weldon - Hitch Me To Your Buggy And Drive Me Like A Mule front cover design by Marina Bokelman notes by Dave [sic] Evans Origin Jazz Library OJL-21 OJL Records discography
68	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 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
69	1970	Travellin' This Lonesome Road An Anthology Of The Victor/Bluebird Catalogues Luke Jordan - Church Bells Blues # - Pick Poor Robin Clean # Blind Willie McTell - Mr. McTell's Got The Blues Memphis Jug Band - She Stays Out All Night Long James Rachel - Sweet Mama Clifford Gibson - Jive Me Blues - She Rolls It Slow Cannon's Jug Stompers - Pretty Mama Blues Walter Davis - Travellin' This Lonesome Road - Sad And Lonesome Blues Elijah Jones - Katy Fly - Mean Actin' Mama Joe Williams - Get Your Head Trimmed Down - Peach Orchard Mama Sonny Boy Williamson - Early In The Morning - Project Highway # previously unissued first takes notes by Neil Slaven RCA International (Camden) INT 1175 (UK 1970) = RCA International 731.046 (UK 1970) = RCA 731.046 (Fr 1970) = RCA 731.046
70	1970	Sleepy John Estes: Down South Blues (1935-1940) - Down South Blues - Stop That Thing - Someday Baby Blues - Married Woman Blues - Vernita Blues - Need More Blues - Jack And Jill Blues - Everybody Oughta Make A Change - Fire Department Blues - New Someday Baby - Mailman Blues - Time Is Drawing Near - Jailhouse Blues - Drop Down (I Don't Feel Welcome Here) MCA 1339 ("Jazz Heritage" series) = MCA 510.091 (Fr)
71	1970	Memphis Blues (1927-1939) Vol. 2 Memphis Minnie - Squat It Kansas Joe McCoy - Someday I'll Be In The Clay Jack Kelly's South Memphis Jug Band - Highway 61 Blues - No. 2 Blind Clyde Church - Number Nine Blues - Pneumatic Blues Rosie Mae Moore - Mad Dog Blues Little Buddy Doyle - Hard Scufflin' Blues - Renewed Love Blues Sleepy John Estes & Yank Rachell - Sweet Mama Furry Lewis - Good Looking Girl Blues Will Batts - Country Woman Cannon's Jug Stompers - Money Never Runs Out - Prison Wall Blues Casey Bill Weldon - Blues Everywhere I Go - Somebody's Got To Go The Three Stripped Gears - 1931 Depression Blues Roots RL 329 (Austria 1970) Roots/Saydisc RL 329 (UK) = autogram/Roots RL 329 (Germany) Roots Records discography
72	1970	Kings Of Memphis Town (1927-1930) Furry Lewis - Falling Down Blues - Mean Old Bedbug Blues - Why Don't You Come Home - Furry's Blues - Kassie Jones - pt. 1 - Kassie Jones - pt. 2 Robert Wilkins - Alabama Blues - Long Train Blues Frank Stokes - Downtown Blues - Hunting Blues Sleepy John Estes - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair - Divin' Duck Blues - Milk Cow Blues - Expressman Blues Lonnie McIntorsh - Sleep On Mother, Sleep On - The Lion And The Tribes Of Judah Roots RL 333 (Austria 1970) Roots Records discography
74	1970	Early Folk Blues Vol. 2 Hometown Skiffle Beale Street Sheiks - You Shall Excelsior Quartette - Jelly Roll Blues Mississippi Sheiks - Too Long Napoleon Fletcher - She Showed It All Hokum Boys - I'm Gonna Get It Ol Ced Odom & Lil "Diamonds" Hardaway - Derbytown Paramount All Stars - Hometown Skiffle - part 1 - Hometown Skiffle - part 2 Beale Street Sheiks - It's A Good Thing Excelsior Quartette - Kitchen Mechanic Blues Winston Holmes and Charlie Turner - Skinner Bumble Bee Slim - Slave Man Blues Hokum Boys - Keep Your Mind On It Tampa Red and The Chicago Five - Stop Truckin' And Suzi-Q Yank Rachell - Texas Tommy The Delta Boys - Every Time My Heart Beats Matchbox SDR 206
75	1971	Blues 1920-40 LP track sequence: LP 1 Tommy Johnson - Big Road Blues Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues Ishman Bracey - Trouble-Hearted Blues Blind Willie McTell - Dark Night Blues Blind Willie McTell - Loving Talking Blues Clifford Gibson - Drayman Blues Bukka White - The Panama Ltd. Jim Jackson - I'm Wild About My Loving Furry Lewis - Dry Land Blues Frank Stokes - T'Ain't Nobody's Business Frank Stokes - Frank Stokes' Dream Sleepy John Estes - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair Sleepy John Estes - Lawyer Clark Blues Memphis Minnie - Don't Want No Woman LP 2 Memphis Jug Band - Memphis Jug Blues Memphis Jug Band - Going Back To Memphis Memphis Jug Band - Jug Band Waltz Gus Cannon - Viola Lee Blues Gus Cannon - Going To Germany Gus Cannon - Walk Right In Daddy Stovepipe - The Spasm Tommy McClennan - Whiskey Head Woman Tommy McClennan - De'se My Blues Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go Big Joe Williams - Highway 49 Big Joe Williams - Peach Orchard Mama Robert Petway - Catfish Blues Robert Lockwood - Take A Little Walk With Me LP 3 Leroy Carr - Rocks In My Bed Leroy Carr - - Six Cold Feet In The Ground Peetie Wheatstraw - Devil's Son-In-Law Peetie Wheatstraw - Peetie Wheatstraw Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues - part 3 Big Maceo - Worried Life Blues Joe Pullum - Hard Working Man Blues [Bluebird B6276] Big Bill Broonzy - Friendless Blues Big Bill Broonzy - The Southern Blues Tampa Red - Kingfish Blues Robert Lee McCoy - Tough Luck Sonny Boy Williamson - Good Morning Schoolgirl Sonny Boy Williamson - Early In The Morning Jazz Gillum - Key To The Highway CD track sequence: CD 1 Early Years of Country Blues Tommy Johnson - Road Blues (3:18) Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues (3:37) Ishman Bracey - Trouble-Hearted Blues (3:24) Blind Willie McTell - Dark Night Blues (2:49) Blind Willie McTell - Loving Talking Blues (2:34) Clifford Gibson - Drayman Blues (2:59) Clifford Gibson - She Rolls It Slow (2:44) °° Bukka White - The Panama Ltd. (3:08) Memphis Blues Jim Jackson - I'm Wild About My Loving (3:11) Furry Lewis - Dry Land Blues (3:05) Frank Stokes - 'Taint Nobody's Business (3:11) Frank Stokes - Frank Stokes' Dream (2:52) Sleepy John Estes - The Girl I Love, She Got ... (2:56) Sleepy John Estes - Poor John Blues (2:52) °° Sleepy John Estes - Lawyer Clark Blues (3:09) Son Bonds - A Hard Pill To Swallow (2:58) °° Memphis Minnie - Don't Want No Woman (3:13) Jug Band Memphis Jug Band - Memphis Jug Blues (3:30) Memphis Jug Band - Going Back To Memphis (2:20) Memphis Jug Band - Jug Band Waltz (2:49) Cannon's Jug Stompers - Viola Lee Blues (3:08) Cannon's Jug Stompers - Going To Germany (2:32) Cannon's Jug Stompers - Walk Right In (2:52) Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah - The Spasm (2:54) Washboard Sam & His Washboard Band - Gonna Hit The Highway (3:09) °° CD 2 Mississippi Blues In The 30's Tommy McClennan - Whisky Head Woman (3:00) Tommy McClennan - Des'e My Blues (3:17) Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go (3:21) Big Joe Williams - Highway 49 (3:12) Big Joe Williams - Peach Orchard Mama (2:46) Robert Petway - Catfish Blues (2:52) Robert Lockwood - Take A Little Walk With Me (2:55) Piano Blues Leroy Carr - Rocks In My Bed (3:11) Leroy Carr - Six Cold Feet In The Ground (3:06) Peetie Wheatstraw - Devil's Son-In-Law (3:22) Peetie Wheatstraw - Pete Wheatstraw (3:15) Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues Part 3 (3:07) Big Maceo - Worried Life Blues (2:57) Big Maceo - Detroit Jump (2:47) °° Joe Pullum with Andy Boy - Hard Working Man Blues (3:35) City Blues Big Bill Broonzy - Friendless Blues (3:22) Big Bill Broonzy - The Southern Blues (3:32) Tampa Red - Kingfish Blues (3:11) Robert Lee McCoy - Tough Luck (3:04) Sonny Boy Williamson - Good Morning Schoolgirl (3:01) Sonny Boy Williamson - Elevator Woman (2:38) °° Sonny Boy Williamson - Early In The Morning (2:58) Jazz Gillum - Key To The Highway (2:40) Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - That's All Right (2:54) °° compiled by Yasufumi Higurashi, Toyo Nakamura & Hiroshi Suzuki; manufactured from Master Recordings of RCA corporation °° CD has seven additional tracks! 3 LP folding box with 30-pp. booklet RCA Victor RA-5433/5 (Jp 1971) 3 LP slide-in box with 30-page booklet = RCA Victor RA-9051/3 (Jp 1975) 2 CD set, notes by Hiroshi Suzuki, Toyo Nakamura, Yasufumi Higurashi, Hisamitsu Noguchi & Shoichi Yui = RCA BVCP-8733/4 (Jp 1994) "Blues 1927-46" 2 CD set = RCA BVCM-37530/1 (Jp 2004) "Blues 1927-46"
76	1971	Bluesin Juuret (Blues Roots) Sleepy John Estes - Milk Cow Blues Finnish Blues Society FBS-2
77	1971	The Memphis Blues Again Vol. 2 Bukka White - Fried Chicken Willie Morris, g, voc & Dewey Corley, b - New Stop And Listen Blues Willie Morris - My Good Woman Has Quit Me - Tell Me Mama, Babe, On You Hacksaw Harney & Dewey Corley, b - Hacksaw's Down South Blues - Can Can Walter Miller, voc & Willie Morris, g and Mose Vinson, p - I Don't Care What You Do Memphis Piano Red John Williams - Me And My Pal Sleepy John Estes & Tom Gary, hca - Drop Down Mama Van Hunt & Mose Vinson, p - Jelly Selling Woman Van Hunt & Mose Vinson, p and Dewey Corley, b - Lonesome Road Blues rec. October 1969 in Memphis, TN and June 1970 at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN; prod. by Gene Rosenthal Adelphi AD 1010 cover drawing by Dick Bangham notes by Steve LaVere with assistance by Nick Perls & Michael Stewart Adelphi AD 1010 (US 1971) = Echo Music 802 (UK 1985) "Blues Anthology Vol. 2" "More Memphis Blues" Adelphi Records discography
78	1972	Guitar Evangelists. Vol. II 1927-1941 Blind Willie Johnson - John The Revelator - You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond Blind Willie Harris - Where He Leads Me I Will Follow Kid Prince Moore - Church Bells - Sign Of Judgement Blind Joe Taggart - I've Crossed The Separation Line - Scandalous And A Shame Elders (Lonnie) McIntorsh & Edwards - Since I Laid My Burden Down Rev. Johnnie Blakey - Warmin By The Devil's Fire Rev. Edward W. Clayborn - Let That Lie Alone - Jesus Will Make It All Right Blind Gary Davis - I Am The Light Of The World Blind Willie Davis - I Belive I'll Go Back Home Sleepy John Estes - When The Saints Go Marching In Blind Joe Taggart - There's A Hand Writing On The Wall - Lord Don't Drive Me Away Truth TLP-1003 (Austria 1972) = autogram TLP-1003 (Germany 2009) Truth Records discography
79	1972	The Great Blues Men Vanguard VSD 25/26, LP 1: Homesick James - Set A Date John Lee Hooker - Dusty Road Sleepy John Estes - Corinna °° Muddy Waters - Nineteen Years Old Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues Mance Lipscomb - Blues In G Rev. Gary Davis - If I Had My Way °° Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Key To The Highway Otis Spann - Burning Fire Lightnin' Hopkins - Cotton Field Blues Big Bill Broonzy - Louise, Louise Blues Johnny Young - Tighten Up On It James Cotton - Ain't Nobody's Business Vanguard VSD 25/26, LP 2: Mississippi John Hurt - Moanin' The Blues Junior Wells - Stormy Monday Blues °° Johnny Shines - Dynaflow Blues Son House (+ Al Wilson) - Empire State Blues °° Sonny Terry - Mountain Blues Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - It's All Right, Baby Jimmy Rushing - How Long, How Long Blues Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues J. B. Hutto - Please Help Fred McDowell - Fred's Ramblin' Blues Ida Cox - Four Day Creep °° Robert Pete Williams - On My Way From Texas [Vanguard VRS 9180, Vanguard VCD 115/16 (US 1991) 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, Vanguard 3VCD 193/95-2] @ youtube Otis Rush - I't's A Mean Old World °° not on CD design by Jules Halfant; front cover collage by Eric Von Schmidt Vanguard VCD 25/26: Homesick James - Set A Date (2:44) John Lee Hooker - Dusty Road (3:05) Muddy Waters - Nineteen Years Old (4:55) Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:40) Mance Lipscomb - Blues In G (3:33) Mississippi John Hurt - Moanin' The Blues (3:15) Johnny Shines - Dynaflow Blues (2:35) Sonny Terry - Mountain Blues (3:04) Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - It's All Right, Baby (2:30) Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Key To The Highway (3:38) Otis Spann - Burning Fire (3:15) Lightning Hopkins - Cotton Field Blues (5:36) Big Bill Broonzy - Louise, Louise Blues (2:55) Johnny Young - Tighten Up On It (3:06) James Cotton - Ain't Nobody's Business (3:23) Jimmy Rushing - How Long, How Long Blues (4:45) Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues (4:10) J.B. Hutto - Please Help (2:52) Fred McDowell - Fred's Rambling Blues (2:05) Robert Pete Williams - On My Way From Texas (3:43) Otis Rush - It's A Mean Old World (2:22) gatefold DLP notes Leroy J. Pierson Vanguard VSD 25/26 (US 1972) gatefold DLP notes Leroy J. Pierson = Vanguard VSD 25/26 (Fr 1972) DLP, no gatefold, but 2-page leaflet notes Leroy J. Pierson Vanguard VSD 25/26 (US 1986) notes Leroy J. Pierson (=) Vanguard VCD 25/26 (US 1988) lots of further editions at www.discogs.com
80	1972	Ry Cooder: Boomer's Story - Boomer's Story - Cherry Ball Blues - Crow Black Chicken - Ax Sweet Mama (Estes) - Maria Elena - Dark End Of The Street - Rally 'Round The Flag - Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer - President Kennedy # @ youtube - Good Morning Mr. Railroad Man # rec. c. 1972 in Collierville, TN; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; James Luther Dickinson, p; Ry Cooder, mand Reprise K44224 (US 1972)
81	1973	Sleepy John Estes with Yank Rachell: 1929-30 Sessions - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair - Broken-Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too - Divin' Duck Blues - Little Sarah - Black Mattie Blues - T-Bone Steak Blues - Milk Cow Blues - Street Car Blues - Expressman Blues - Whatcha Doin'? - Poor John Blues - Stack O'dollars - My Black Gal Blues - Sweet Mama Roots RSE 4 (Austria) = Autogram (Monogram) RSE-04 (Germany) Roots Records discography Sleepy John Estes discography Yank Rachell discography
82	1974	Delmark Blues Masterpiece - All Of Your Love - Magic Sam - Indiana Woman Blues - Big Joe Williams - If You Change Your Mind - J.B. Hutto - Little Angel Child - Jimmy Dawkins - All Days Are Good Days - Roosevelt Sykes - Sad Dreams - Carey Bell - Steady Rollin' Man - Robert Jr. Lockwood - Diving Duck Blues - Sleepy John Estes - All Pretty Wimmins - Jo Jo Williams - Coal Black Mare - Arthur Crudup - You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now - Luther Allison - Wilkins Street Stomp - Speckled Red - Early In The Morning - Junior Wells "Special Album" (promotion LP) Delmark/Trio TD6 (Jp 1974)
83	197?	Low Down Memphis Barrelhouse Blues Hattie Hart - I Let My Daddy Do That Will Shade - Better Let That Stuff Alone Robert Wilkins - Alabama Blues South Memphis Jug Band - Policy Rag - Doctor Medicine Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie - Shake Mattie - My Washwoman's Gone Mooch Richardson - T and T Blues John Estes - My Black Gal Blues Jack Kelly - Highway No. 61 Blues Mooch Richardson - Burying Ground Blues Jim Jackson - Bootlegging Blues Memphis Minnie - Reachin' Pete Mooch Richardson - Low Down Barrelhouse Blues pt. 1 rec. 1928 - 1935 notes by Michael Stewart and Don Kent Mamlish S-3803 (US 197?) Mamlish Records discography
84	197?	Old Original Tennessee Blues Furry Lewis - Good Morning, Baby - Hello, Judge - Old Original Furry Lewis Blues - Brownsville Blues - Glory, Hallelujah Sleepy John Estes (rec. Memphis, 1967) - Floating Bridge - Mr. Pat - Rats In My Kitchen - Special Agent Will Shade - Newport News - I'll get A Break rec. 1963 & 1967 in Memphis, TN by George Mitchell Revival RVS 1008 (UK 197?) Revival Records discography
85	1974	Chicago Boogie! Barrelhouse BH-004 track sequence: Jimmy Rogers & Little Walter - I Just Keep Loving Her, take 1 # - I Just Keep Loving Her, take 2 Othum Brown & Little Walter - Ora Nelle Blues, take 1 # - Ora Nelle Blues, take 2 Johnny Young - Money Takin Woman, take 1 * - Money Takin Woman, take 2 Johnny Williams & Johnny Young - Worried Man Blues * Jimmy Rogers & Little Walter - Little Store Blues, take 1 - Little Store Blues, take 2 Boll Weevil - Christmas Time Blues - Thinkin' Blues Sleepy John Estes - Harlem Bound - Stone Blind Johnny Temple - Olds "98" Blues St. George STG-1001 track sequence: Jimmy Rogers & Little Walter - I Just Keep Loving Her, take 1 # Othum Brown & Little Walter - Ora Nelle Blues, take 1 # Jimmy Rogers & Little Walter - Little Store Blues, take 1 Johnny Young - Money Takin Woman, take 1 * Boll Weevil - Christmas Time Blues Johnny Temple - Olds 98 Blues Sleepy John Estes - Stone Blind Johnny Williams & Johnny Young - Worried Man Blues * Boll Weevil - Thinkin' Blues Johnny Young - Money Takin Woman, take 2 Othum Brown & Little Walter - Ora Nelle Blues, take 2 Jimmy Rogers & Little Walter - Little Store Blues, take 1 Jimmy Rogers & Little Walter - I Just Keep Loving Her, take 2 Sleepy John Estes - Harlem Bound rec. 1947/48 in Bernard and Red Abrams' Maxwell Street record shop for the Ora Nelle label # previously issued as Ora Nelle 711 (= Chance 1116) * previously issued as Ora Nelle 712 all other tracks previously unissued artwork / design by George Paulus notes by George Paulus Barrelhouse BH-004 (US 1974) = St. George STG-1001 (US 1983) "Chicago Boogie! 1947" [improved sound!] notes by Kiyoshi Nagata and George Paulus = P-Vine PCD-1888 (Jp 1993) = P-Vine PLP-6714 (Jp 1993?) Barrelhouse Records discography St. George Records discography
86	1974	Il Blues Rurale - Country Blues Richard Rabbit Brown - James Alley Blues Blind Boy Fuller, - Three Ball Blues Willie Baker - Sweet Patunia Willie Reed - Leaving Home Leadbelly - See See Rider Blind Lemon Jefferson - Pneumonia Blues Texas Alexander - Water Bound Blues Black Ace - Christmas Time Blues Furry Lewis - Pearlee Blues Bessie Tucker - Penitentiary Sleepy John Estes - Diving Duck Blues Charley Patton - High Water Everywhere Robert Wilkins - National Stonewall Blues Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues Robert Johnson - Hellhound On My Trail Big Joe Williams - Rooting Ground Hog Albatros VPA 8187 = Albatros VC 0775 (cassette) (=) Albatros ALB 8 3LP = VPA 8187/88/89 "Il Blues Rurale/Jazzistico/ Urbano" Albatros Records discography
87	1974	Blues Oggi Booker T. Washington White - I'm Getting Ready @ youtube Dewey Corley - I Feel So Bad @ youtube Laura Dukes - Laura's Blues @ youtube Mose Vinson - Vicksburg Blues // @ youtube Hammie Nixon - I Told You Baby Long Time Ago @ youtube Dewey Corley - Yes, My Baby's Just Like A Dresser @youtube Sleepy John Estes - Corrina, Corrina # @ youtube Laura Dukes - Got To Get Myself Somebody To Love @ youtube Sleepy John Estes - I Got A Pretty Little Flower * @ youtube John "Piano Red" Williams - Baby I Need Your Love So Bad @ youtube Sleepy John Estes - I'll Be Glad When You Dead (You Rascal You) § @ youtube John "Piano Red" Williams - Red Boogie @ youtube Booker T. Washington White - Brownsville, Tennessee @ youtube # rec. December 23, 1972 in Brownsville, TN; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, voc, kazoo * rec. c. December 22, 1972 in Memphis, TN; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; John 'Memphis Piano Red' Williams, p § rec. December 1972 poss. in Brownsville, TN; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, voc, kazoo // rec. December 27, 1972 in Memphis, TN; Mose Vinson, voc, p; Dewey Corley, bull-fiddle ed. by Franco Coggiola photos by Gianni Marcucci (on front cover: Dewey Corley at the piano, two of Sleepy John Estes' children: son Charles & daughter Lucy; liner photo: Sleepy John Estes' children, daughters Lucy, Mae (with child), Virginia (Hammie Nixon's [future] wife), and son Charles) notes (24 pages booklet) by Gianni Marcucci and Lucio Maniscalchi I Dischi Del Sole DS 526/28 (Italy 1974) = Ala Bianca CD 128553718 (Italy 1996)
88	1975	Blues In The Thirties The Mississippi Mudder (Joe & Charlie McCoy) - Going Back Home Blues [Decca 7087] Memphis Minnie - Dirty Mother For You [Decca 7048] Kokomo Arnold - Old Black Cat Blues (Jinx Blues) [Decca 7050] Blind Willie McTell - Hillbilly Willie's Blues [Decca 7117] Frankie Black (Scrapper Blackwell) & Dot Rice - No Good Woman Blues [Champion 50049] Sleepy John Estes - Someday Baby Blues [Champion 50068] The Honey Dripper (Roosevelt Sykes) & Kokomo Arnold - The Honey Dripper [Decca 7050] Jesse James - Lonesome Day Blues [Decca 7213] Bumble Bee Slim - Green Country Gal (No More To Say) [Decca 7440] Johnny Temple - Louise Louise Blues [Decca 7254] Alex Moore - Bull Cow Blues [Decca 7552] Andrew Hogg - Family Trouble Blues [Decca 7303] Blind Boy Fuller - Some Day You're Gonna Be Sorry [Decca 7892] Peetie Wheatstraw & Lonnie Johnson - What More Can A Man Do? [Decca 7429] MCA-3526 (Jp 1975)
89	1975	The Harmonica Blues of Sonny Terry, Doctor Ross, Hammie Nixon, Sonny Boy Williamson Sonny Terry, Copenhagen, 1971 - The Sweetest Girl I Know Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Copenhagen, 1971 - Blues With A Whoop - I Woke Up With The Blues Doctor Ross, no date, London - Mother Before This Time Another Year - Going Down Slow Hammie Nixon with Sleepy John Estes, Copenhagen, 1964 - I'm Going Home - Minnie's Blues Sonny Boy Williamson with Matt Murphy, Copenhagen, 1963 - Down And Out (take 1) - Down And Out (take 2) Sonny Boy Williamson with Matt Murphy & Memphis Slim, Copenhagen, 1963 - Early One Morning Storyville SLP 4008 = Storyville ST 21021 Storyville Records discography
90	1975	Bluebird Blues Sleepy John Estes - Poor John Blues - Little Laura Blues - When The Saints Go Marching In Son Bonds - A Hard Pill To Swallow Blind Willie McTell - Searching The Desert For The Blues - Mr. McTell Got The Blues Big Joe Williams - Somebody's Been Borrowing That Stuff - Wild Cow Blues Tommy McClennan - Bottle It Up And Go - Brown Skin Girl - Bluebird Blues Clifford Gibson - She Rolls It Slow Sonny Boy Williamson - Down South - Moonshine - Elevator Woman Washboard Sam & His Washboard Band - Gonna Hit The Highway Big Maceo - Texas Blues - Detroit Jump Arthur "Big Boy"Crudup - That's All Right - Mean Old Frisco - Rock Me Mama Doctor Clayton - Copper Colored Mama Doctor Clayton's Buddy - Nappy Head Woman - Walking With The Blues 2 LP set RCA RVC RA-9054/55 (Jp 1975)
91	1975	Sleepy John Estes 1935-37 - Down South Blues - Stop That Thing - Who's Been Tellin' You Buddy Brown Blues - Married Woman Blues - Drop Down Mama - Goverment Money - I Wanta Tear It All The Time - Vernita Blues - Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More - Floating Bridge - Jack And Jill Blues - Poor Man's Friends - Hobo Jungle Blues - Airplane Blues MCA / Victor MCA-3517 (Jp 1975)
92	1975	Sleepy John Estes 1938-40 - Everybody Oughta Make A Change - Liquor Store Blues - Easin' Back To Tennessee - Fire Department Blues (Martha Hardin) - Clean Up At Home - New Someday Baby - Brownsville Blues - Special Agent (Railroad Police Blues) - Mailman Blues - Time Is Drawing Near - Mary Come On Home - Jailhouse Blues - Tell Me How About It (Mr. Tom's Blues) - Drop Down (I Don't Feel Welcome Here) MCA / Victor MCA-3518 (Jp 1975)
93	1975	Sleepy John Estes: Broken Hearted - Broken Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair - Diving Duck Blues - Milk Cow Blues - Street Car Blues - Expresman Blues - Whatch Doin'? - Sweet Mama - Don't You Want To Know - You Shouldn't Do That - Black Gal Swing - Get Up And Go - Every Time My Heart Beats - Lawyer Clark Blues - Working Man Blues RCA / RVC RA-5704 (Jp 1975)
94	1975	Blues, Boogie And Beat LP 1: Country Blues - Don't Ease Me In - Henry Thomas - Need More Blues - Sleepy John Estes - Prison Bound Blues - Leroy Carr - Cold Winter Day - Blind Willie McTell - Chickasaw Train Blues - Memphis Minnie - Shack Bully Stomp - Peetie Wheatstraw - Bad Things On My Mind - Lightnin' Hopkins Gospel - The Storm Is Passing Over - Blind Joe Taggart - Chariot's Coming Down - Rev. J.C.Burnett - Didn't It Rain - Norfork Jubilee Singers - Take My Hand, Precious Lord - Selah Jubilee Singers - God's Gonna Separate - Mahalia Jackson - I Feel My Time Ain't Long - Blue Jay Singers - Motherless Children Had Hard Times - Dixie Hummingbirds LP 2: Boogie Woogie - Pinetop's Boogie - Pinetop Smith - Boogie Woogie Stomp - Albert Ammons - Death Ray Boogie - Pete Johnson - Boogie Woogie Cocktail - Andy Kirk - Hamp's Boogie Woogie - Lionel Hampton - Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - Louis Jordan - I'm Wild About You, Baby - Lightnin' Hopkins R & B to Rock - Hey Ba-Ba-Re-Bop - Lionel Hampton - Let The Good Times Roll - Louis Jordan - Treat Your Daddy Well - T-Bone Walker - Talkin' All Out My Head - Little Esther - The Ladder Of Love - The Flamingos - Shake, Rattle And Roll - Joe Turner - Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley compiled by Toyo Nakamura gatefold DLP notes by Toyo Nakamura MCA-3521/22 (Jp 1975) gatefold DLP notes by Toyo Nakamura = MCA VIM-4636/37 (Jp 1981)
95	1976	Great Bluesmen Newport Robert Pete Williams - Midnight Boogie (3:13) [Vanguard VRS 9180 / VSD 79180] @ youtube - Levee Camp Blues (5:16) [Vanguard VRS 9180 / VSD 79180] Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee - My Baby Done Changed The Lock On The Door John Lee Hooker with Bill Lee on bass - Tupelo - Bus Station Blues Son House - Son's Blues (6:18) [aka "Preaching Blues"] [Vanguard VSD 79225] - Death Letter Blues (2:50) °° [Vanguard VSD 79225] - Pony Blues (2:30) [previously unissued] (with Mance Lipscomb, 2nd g) Sleepy John Estes - Mailman Blues [Vanguard VRS 9180 / VSD 79180] - Clean Up At Home [Vanguard VRS 9180 / VSD 79180] @ youtube Doc Reese - Hey Rattler / Oh My Lord [Vanguard VRS 9180 / VSD 79180] Mississippi John Hurt - Sliding Delta [Vanguard VRS-9145 / VSD-79145] - Trouble, I've Had It All My Day [Vanguard VRS-9145 / VSD-79145] Skip James - Hard Times Killing Floor Blues [previously unissued] - Cherry Ball Blues °° [Vanguard VRS-9181 / VSD-79181] - Illinois Blues [previously unissued] The Reverend Gary Davis - Death Don't Have No Mercy [Vanguard SRV-73008] Willie Doss - Catfish Blues [Vanguard VRS-9182 / VSD-79182] @ youtube - I Had A Woman [Vanguard VRS-9181 / VSD-79181] Mississippi Fred McDowell - Lord, I'm Going Down South - If The River Was Whiskey Lightnin' Hopkins with Samuel Lay - Cotten Fields Blues - Shake That Thing front cover drawing by Eric Von Schmidt °° note on CD 77/78: "due to compact disc time restrictions some songs on the original album are not included in this package" DLP notes by Maynard Solomon Vanguard VSD-77/78 (US 1976) DLP notes by Maynard Solomon = Vanguard VSD-77/78 (Fr 1976) = King/Vanguard LAX-155 (Jp 1976) notes (December 1988) by Samuel Charters (=) Vanguard CD 77/78 (US 1989) (2 LPs on 1 CD) °° "Great Bluesmen At Newport 1959-1965"
96	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 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 Policy Wheel PW 459-1 Policy Wheel Records discography
97	1976	Blues Live! Sleepy & Hammie Meet Japanese People - Corinna # // § - Broke And Hungry // - You Shouldn't Do That # // - Tin Pan Alley // - Holy Spirit, Don't You Leave Me # // - You Rascal You # * § - Stop That Thing // * - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair // - Diving Duck Blues // - When Your Mother Is Gone # // - When The Saints Go Marching In # // rec. November 27 & 28, 1974 live at 1. Blues Festival, Yubin Chokin Hall, Tokyo, Japan; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, # voc, // hca, * jug, § kazoo bonus record (TD-8, 7 inch 45rpm) - Corina Corina - President Kennedy rec. November 27 & 28, 1974 live at 1. Blues Festival, Yubin Chokin Hall, Tokyo, Japan; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, # voc, // hca, * jug, § kazoo Trio PA 6059 (Jp 1976) (=) P-Vine PCD-24342 (Jp 2014) Delmark 835 (US 2014) Trio Records discography
98	1976	'Sleepy' John A. Estes Tennessee Blues Vol. 4 Albatros VPA 8285 track sequence: - Lord Have Mercy * @ youtube - Clean That Home * @ youtube - When You Loose [sic] Your Eyesight * @ youtube - I Wanna Tear It All The Time * @ youtube - Poor Man's Friend (T Model) * °° - I'm Twist * @ youtube - Broke And Hungry * @ youtube - She Was A Dreamer * @ youtube - Someday Baby Blues @ youtube - Mailman @ youtube - Kansas City Blues ## @ youtube - Need More # @ youtube - President Kennedy °° - I Came For To Do It (voc duet) * @ youtube - John & Hammie's Blues (instr) ### @ youtube - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair * @ youtube °° not included on Albatros CD DAF 102 Albatros CD DAF 102 track sequence: Hammie Nixon - You're So Fine (2:12) - Nix's Boogie (2:28) - Sweet Old Kokomo (3:16) - My Babe (3:18) - But Someday Baby (3:18) - Yeller Yams (2:49) - Yeller Yams (# 2) (3:01) - You Know I Don't Want No Woman (2:48) - Somebody Done Changed That Little Lock On My Door (2:07) - Sweet Old Kokomo (# 2) (3:22) - Sugar Mama (4:06) - So Long (2:22) - She Keeps Me Worried And Bothered All The Time (3:19) - Holy Spirit Don't Leave Me (3:17) @ youtube Sleepy John Estes - Lord Have Mercy (3:00) - Clean That Home (1:03) - When You Lose Your Eyesight (2:44) - I Wanna Tear It All The Time (2:02) - I'm Twist (1:45) - Broke And Hungry (2:45) - She Was A Dreamer (2:20) - Someday Baby Blues (2:22) - Mailman (2:00) - Kansas City Blues (1:37) - Need More (1:57) - I Came For To Do It (2:29) - John & Hammie's Blues (0:48) - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair (3:37) # rec. December 23, 1972 in Brownsville, TN by ~~Lucio Maniscalchi &~~ Gianni Marcucci; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, ## kazoo, ### hca; ## Gianni Marcucci, hca * rec. December 31, 1972 in Brownsville, TN by ~~Lucio Maniscalchi &~~ Gianni Marcucci; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca, * voc, kazoo notes by Diego Carpitella Albatros VPA 8285 (It 1976) = Albatros VC 0766 (cassette) reissued (along with VPA 8277) by Dom disques Fr 1997 as Albatros CD DAF 102 "Tennessee Blues Vol. 2" Albatros Records discography
98a	1977	The Blues Volume 1: Country and City Blues - Working Man Blues - Sleepy John Estes - I'se Just A Bad Luck Man - Casey Bill Weldon - Friendless Blues - Big Bill Broonzy - Vitamin A - Big Joe Williams - Mozelle Blues - Tommy McClennan - Big Woman Blues - Johnny Temple - When You Feel Down - Lonny Johnson - If I Get Lucky - Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - For B.B. King - T-Bone Walker - Mercy Mama - Tampa Red - Devil's Son-In-Law - Peetie Wheatstraw - Black Spider Blues - Robert Lockwood Jr. - What Have I Done - Lil Green - My Black Name Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson - She's Making A Fool Out Of Me - Washboard Sam - You Got To Run Me Down - William 'Jazz' Gillum Volume 2: Blues Pianists, Boogie Woogie and Blues Shouters - Winter Time Blues - Big Maceo - Sunny Road - Roosevelt Sykes - Just One More Time - Walter Davis - Rocks In My Bed - Leroy Carr - Caught The Old Coon At Last - Memphis Slim - Jivin' The Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson - Eddie's Blues - Eddie Boyd - Chicago Breakdown - Big Maceo - Slow And Easy Blues - Jimmy Yancey - Cuttin' The Boogie - Pete Johnson & Albert Ammons - Bye Bye Baby - Jimmy Rushing - How Long How Long Blues - Big Joe Turner - Cleanhead Blues - Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - Hootie Blues - Jimmy Witherspoon - Thirsty Mama Blues - Hot Lips Page - Moaning The Blues - Victoria Spivey Volume 3: When The Jazzmen Play The Blues - Back O'Town Blues - Louis Armstrong - Winnin' [sic] Boy Blues - Jelly Roll Morton - Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This Morning - Sidney Bechet - If You See Me Comin' - Mezzrow Ladnier Quintet - Across The Track Blues - Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra - House Rent Boogie - Count Basie & His Orchestra - After Hours - Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra - Ride My Blues Away - Harlan Leonard & His Rockets - That's The Blues Old Man - Johnny Hodges & His Orchestra - Mobile Bay - Rex Stewart - Rangoon - Cootie Williams - A Tiny Bit Of Blues - Big Maceo - Fats Waller's Original E Flat Blues - Fats Waller - Low Bottom n^o 2 - Wild Bill Davis - Hey Ba-Ba Re-Bop / Hamp's Boogie Woogie - Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra prod. by Jean-Paul Guitier photography by Jean-Pierre Leloir boxed set of 3 LPs notes by Michael Walter (translated by Don Waterhouse) RCA PM 42039 (Fr 1977)
98b	197?	Real Bluesmen & Folksingers LP 1: - Dog Me Around - Howlin' Wolf - Lonesome Bedroom Blues - Curtis Jones - Red River - Sonny Terry - See See Rider - Lightnin' Hopkins - Texas Tony - Yank Rachell - Bad Boy - John Lee Hooker - In The Wee Wee Hours - Junior Wells - Nobody Knows Chicago Like I Do - Big Joe Williams - The Gallis Pole - Leadbelly - Pretty Boy Floyd - Woody Guthrie - Dust My Blues - Elmore James LP 2: - Prison Blues Come Down On Me - Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby, Please Lend Me Your Love - Otis Spann, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Crying At Daybreak - Howlin' Wolf - The House Carpenter - Pete Seeger - Buffalo Skinners - Woody Guthrie - Rambling On My Mind - 'Big Boy' Crudup - Gonna Boogie - John Lee Hooker - So Glad I'm Livin' - Sleepy John Estes - Looky, Looky Younder - Leadbelly - Johnny Hard - Cisco Houston gatefold DLP BYG 20 A (Fr 197?)
99	1977	Sun - The Roots of Rock, Vol. 1: Catalyst Howlin' Wolf - Highway Man Sleepy John Estes - Registration Day # Rosco Gordon - T-Model Boogie Junior Parker - Mystery Train Jimmy DeBerry - Take A Little Chance Smokey Joe Baugh - The Signifying Monkey Jerry Lee Lewis - Hello Hello Baby Billy Adams - Reconsider Baby Johnny Cash - Give My Love To Rose Carl Perkins - I'm Sorry I'm Not Sorry Billy Lee Riley - Rock With Me Baby Jack Earls - Crawdad Hole Roy Orbison - You're My Baby Ray Smith & Charlie Rich - Sail Away Charlie Rich - Closed For Repair # rec. Memphis, TN, April 24, 1952 Charly CR 30101 (UK 1977)
100	1977	Sleepy John Estes, Hammie Nixon with Yuka Dan: Blues Is A-Live - Mary, Come On Home * - Rats In My Kitchen * - Potato Digging Man // * - Fox Chase * - Sleepy John's Twist # § * - Careless Love # * - I've Been Well Warned # - 80 Highway # - Going To Brownsville # * - Jesus On The Mainline # // * rec. December 16, 1976 live at Nippon Seinenkan Hall, Tokyo, Japan & December 24, 1976 live at Circus, Tokyo, Japan; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca, // voc, § jug; # with Yuka Dan (Japanese Acoustic Blues Band): Hidekatsu Kimura, Kantarou Uchida, g; Kenji Hanaoka, b; Kazuo Shimada, dr; prod. by Steve Tomaskofsky Trio 3A-2025 (Jp 1977) = TDK TDCD 1073 (Jp) = Trio SWAX-107 (Jp 1999) "Showboat" "Art Union" * Delmark 835 Trio Records discography
101	1979	The Memphis Development Foundation Presents Beale Street Saturday Night Sid Selvidge - Walkin' Down Beale Street Fred Ford - Hernando Horn Grandma Dixie Davis - Beale Street Blues Sleepy John Estes - Big Fat Mama / Liquor Store Prince Gabe - Ol' Beale Street Blues Furry Lewis - Furry's Blues Teenie Hodges - Rock Me Baby Alex [Teal] - Rock Me Baby Thomas Pinkston - "Ben Griffin Was Killed In The Monarch ..." (narration) Johnny Woods - Frisco Blow Mud Boy & the Neutrons - On The Road Again Thomas Pinkston - "W. C. Handy Told Me 50 Years Ago ..." (narration) Furry Lewis - Chicken Ain't Nothing But A Bird Grandma Dixie Davis - Roll On, Mississippi rec. October 1, 1978 at "The Tennessee Waltz", Orpheum Theater, Memphis, TN; mixed at Sam Phillips Recording Studio & Ardent Sudios; prod. by James Luther Dickinson notes by Stanley Booth cover photograph by William Eggleston Orpheum O-101 (US 1979) = Omnivore CD 0816651016754 (US 2015)
101a	197?	Sleepy John Estes Masters of the Blues Vol. 3 - Down South Blues (2:41) - Stop That Thing (3:06) - Someday Baby Blues (2:58) - Who's Been Telling You (Buddy Brown Blues) (3:19) - Married Woman Blues (3:12) - Drop Down Mama (3:14) - Government Money (3:10) - I Wanta Tear It All The Time (2:58) - Vernite Blues (3:06) - I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More (3:03) - Floating Bridge (3:08) - Need More Blues (2:51) - Jack And Jill Blues (2:36) - Poor Man's Friend (3:05) - Hobo Jingle Blues (2:54) - Airplane Blues (2:50) Collector's Classics CC 24 (Dk 197?)
102	1982	Sleepy John Estes 1935-37 - Down South Blues - Stop That Thing - Someday Baby Blues - Married Woman Blues - Vernita Blues - Need More Blues - Jack And Jill Blues - Poor Man's Friend - Everybody Ought To Make A Change - Fire Department Blues - New Someday Baby - Mail Man Blues - Time Is Drawing Near - Jail House Blues - Drop Down (I Don't Feel Welcome Here) with Hammie Nixon and Robert Lee McCoy MCA 1339
103	1983	Chicago Boogie 1947 Little Walter - Just Keep Loving Her (take 1) Othum Brown - Ora-Nelle Blues (take 1) Jimmy Rogers - Little Store Blues (take 1) Johnny Young - Money Takin' Woman (take 1) Boll Weevil - Christmas Time Blues Johnnie "Geechie" Temple - Old "98" Blues Sleepy John Estes - Stone Blind Blues Johnnie Williams - Worried Man Blues Boll Weevil - Thinkin' Blues Johnny Young - Money Takin' Woman (take 2) Othum Brown - Ora-Nelle Blues (take 2) Jimmy Rogers - Little Store Blues (take 2) Little Walter - I Just Keep Loving Her (take 2) Sleepy John Estes - Harlem Bound # # rec. 1948 in Chicago, IL; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca; unk washtub b (originally rec. for Ora-Nelle Records) 3 LP set St. George STG 1001 St. George Records discography
104	1983	Movin' On Up - The Story Of Afro-American Music side 1: From Africa to America - Ntjilo Ntjilo - Miriam Makeba - Hail The Soundz - Guy Warren - Afrincomon "Nanigo" - Katherine Dunham - Mi Padrino Me Manda - Cuarteto Carney - Stacker Lee - Furry Lewis - My Four Reasons - Ikey Robinson - The Black Diamond Express To Hell - Rev. A.W. Nix side 2: Sprituals, Blues & Boogie - Jonah In The Belly Of The Whale - The Norfolk Jubilee Quartet - Then We'll Need That True Religion - Rev. Edward W. Clayton - It's Tight Like That - Tampa Red & Georgia Tom - Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues Part 1 - Jim Jackson - How Long, How Long Blues No. 2 - Leroy Carr - Trouble In Mind - Berta "Chippie" Hill - Boogie Woogie - Honey Hill - Answer To The Boogie - Pete Johnson - Stompin' 'em Down - Alex Hill side 3: Jazz and Blues in the 1920s-30s - Static Strut - Louis Armstrong - Sweet Mumtaz - Louis Russell - Shake That Jelly Roll - Junie C. Cobb - The Mooche - Duke Ellington - The Peanut Vendor - Duke Ellington - Little Sally Water - Al Cooper & His Savoy Sultans - Oh! Red - The Harlem Hamfats - Old Black Cat Blues - Kokomo Arnold - Floating Bridge - Sleepy John Estes side 4: The 1940s - Era of Diversity - Hootie Blues - Jay Mcshann - Salt Peanuts - Auld/Hawkins/Webster - Mop! Mop! - Louis Jordan - Flying Home - Lionel Hampton - Nague - Miguelito Valdes - That's All - Sister Rosetta Tharpe - To Each His Own - The Ink Spots - Rich Man's Blues - Dinah Washington - Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker - We'Re Gonna Rock - Gunter Lee Carr side 5: Jazz and Blues in the 1950s-60s side 6: The Soulful Seventies MCA / Victor VIM-5/7 (Jp 1983)
105	1983	The Blues Classics Sleepy John Estes - Someday Baby Blues - I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More 3 LP set MCA / Victor VIM-20/2 (Jp 1983) = MCA CD (1996) (3 CD set)
105a	1983	Memphis Harmonica Kings 1929-30 The Complete Recordings in Chronological Order of Noah Lewis and Jed Davenport Noah Lewis - Chickasaw Special (56337-2) - Devil In The Woodpile (56338-2) - Like I Want To Be (64734-2) - Ticket Agent Blues (64736) - New Minglewood Blues (64737-2) - Selling The Jelly (64738) - Bad Luck's My Buddy (64739-2) Jed Davenport - Selling The Jelly (C-6438) - Talkin' Bout My Buddy (C-64739-2) - How Long How Long Blues (m-197) - Cow Cow Blues (M-198) - Beale Street Breakdown (Mem-734) - You Ought To Move Out Of Town (Mem-735) - The Dirty Dozen (Mem-763) - Jug Blues (Mem-764) - Save Me Some (Mem-774) - Piccolo Blues (Mem-775) Matchbox MSE-213 Matchbox Records discography
106	1985	Sun Records - The Blues Years 1950-1956 record one: side 1 - Boogie In The Park Lost John Hunter & The Blind Bats - Cool Down Mama - School Boy Charlie Burse - Shorty The Barber Joe Hill Louis - Boogie In The Park - Gotta Let You Go Sleepy John Estes - Registration Day Blues # - Policy Man # - Rats In My Kitchen # - Runnin' Around # side 2 - Highway Man Howlin' Wolf - Highway Man - My Troubles And Me - Everybody's In The Mood - Decoration Day Blues - Bluebird Blues - Well That's Alright - My Baby Walked Off - Come Back Home # rec. April 24, 1952 in Memphis, TN 9 LP box set Charly Sun Box 105 Sun Bluesbox discography
107	1985	Tennessee Legends Sleepy John Estes - Floating Bridge - Special Agent - Mr. Pat - Rats In My Kitchen Furry Lewis - Brownsville Blues - Mistreatin' Woman - Fare-Thee-Well Blues Will Shade - Kansas City Blues Will Shade & Furry Lewis - The Train Gus Cannon - Boll Weevil Blues Will Shade - Wine-Headed Man Furry Lewis & Will Shade - Furry Lewis Rag Charlie Burse & Will Shade - Beale Street Shuffle Jennie Mae Clayton & Will Shade - What Must I Do? Will Shade - Jump And Jive rec. 1962-63 in Memphis, TN by George Mitchell & Roger Brown notes by Roger S. Brown Southland SLP-14 (US 1985) = Fat Possum FP 1092-2 "Tennessee Recordings: The George Mitchell Collection" BR220,36 Southland Records discography
108	198?	Sleepy John Estes recorded live featuring James 'Yank' Rachel [sic] and Hammie Nixon 1966/1974 - Blues For Johnny * - Mailman Blues * - Three Little Flowers * § - You Shouldn't Say That * - You Don't Mean Me No Good * § - I've Been Well-Warned * - Divin' Duck Blues * - Clean Up At Home * - I'll Be Glad When You're Dead # - Rats In My Kitchen # [] - Sleepy John's Twist # - Diving Duck Blues # - Stop That Thing # - I Wanta Tear It All The Time # - Corinne, Corinna # - Holy Spirit Don't Leave Me # * rec. October 1966 at Johnny's [Johnny Parth] in Hinterbrühl, Austria; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Yank Rachell, mand, § voc # rec. March 10, 1974 live at Webster College, St. Louis, MI; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, [] Sam Chatmon, voc, g Wolf 120.913 (Austria 198?)
109	1988	Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon / Sonny Boy Nelson: Southern Blues Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon @ youtube (side A) - You Rascal You / - I Ain't Gonna Sell It - Someday Baby You Ain't Gonna Worry My Life Anymore - The Death Of President Kennedy - Tear It Down (Tearing Little Daddy) - Mama Don't Allow Me To Stay Out All Night Long - 80 Highway - Mama Won't You Do That Thing Sonny Boy Nelson** (Eugene Powell) #@ youtube (side B) - "44" Blues - Pony Blues - Don't Cry Baby - M&O Blues - Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue - G Rag - My Gal's Got A Heart Like A Rock Cast In The Sea - I Just Keep On Working - Blues On My Mind * rec. 1974 live at El Mocombo, Toronto, Ca; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, hca, kazoo, * voc # rec. 1985 in Greenville, MS; Sonny Boy Nelson, voc, g Wolf 120.916 (Austria 1988)
110	1987	Memphis Country Blues In The 50's Sleepy John Estes - Rats In My Kitchen - Registration Day Blues - Runnin' Around - Police Man D.A. Hunt - Greyhound Blues - Lonesome Ol' Jail William Stewart - They Call Me Talkin' Boy - 44 William Stewart - Rattlesnakin' Mama - Country Farm Blues Willie Carr - Outside Friends Jimmy DeBerry - Before Long - Party Line Blues - Take A Little Chance - Time Has Made A Change Sun / P-Vine PLP-347 (Jp 1987)
111	1988	DXCV1 Down Home Delta Experimental Projects Compilation Vol. 1: The Blues - Baby Please (unknown) - Roll Me Over Slow (Alex Teal, Chopping Wood) - Old Hucklebuck (Johnny Woods, Lee Baker) - I'm Black (Furry Lewis) - Jes' Like A Monkey (Johnny Woods) - Holy Spirit # - Dozens (Thomas Pinkston) - Ol' Man Mose (Johnny Woods, Verlina Woods, Bobby Ray Watson, Lee Baker, Jimmy Crosthwait, James Luther Dickinson) - Same Man All The Time (Thomas Pinkston) - Policy Talk (Thomas Pinkston) - Blind Man In The Tear Gas * - Not Now (Furry Lewis) - Blue Moon (Johnny Woods) rec. and comp. by James Luther Dickinson # rec. c. 1972 in Collierville, TN; Hammy [sic] Nixon, voc, hca; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; East Memphis Slim [James Luther Dickinson], p; Ry Cooder, mand, prob. backgr voc; Lee Baker, g; Bobby Ray Watson, backgr voc * rec. c. 1972 in Collierville, TN; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; James Luther Dickinson, p; Ry Cooder, mand Fan Club FC 044 (Fr 1988) [New Rose subsidiary] more info (=) Fan Club FC064cd (Fr 1990) "Delta Experimental Projects Compilation Vol 1 & 2"
112	1988	Country Blues Live! Mississippi John Hurt - I Shall Not Be Moved # [never re-released] @ youtube - Avalon Blues # [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down # [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - Payday # [never re-released] @ youtube - Casey Jones # [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - Spanish Flang Dang # [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - Welcome (Address) # [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube Robert Pete Williams - I'm So Worried \|\| [never re-released] @ youtube John Jackson - John Henry * [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - Poor Boy * [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - Buck Dancer's Choice * [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - Tell Me Pretty Mama * [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube Sleepy John Estes & Yank Rachell - I'm A Tearing Little Daddy § [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - 80 Highway § [never re-released] @ youtube - Mailman Blues § [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube # rec. 1960s at Joel Jacobson's in Washington, D.C. \|\| rec. October 1966 at Johnny [Parth]'s in Hinterbrühl, Austria * rec. prob. 1966 at the Washington Folk Festival in Washington, DC; John Jackson, voc, g § rec. October 1966 at a TV show in Vienna, Austria Document DLP 525 Limited Edition Document DOCD-5697 (UK 2013) Document Records discography
113	1988	The Delta Boys 1934-1941 Complete Recordings in Chronological Order Son Bonds with Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon Brownsville Son Bonds - All Night Long - She Walks Like My Woman - Weary Worried Blues - Back And Side Blues Brother Son Bonds - I Want To Live So God Can Use Me - Ain't That News ? - Give Me That Old Time Religion - I My Father's House Hammie And Son - Trouble Trouble Blues - Tennessee Worried Blues Son Bonds - I'll Work Up To You Someday - Old Bachelor Blues The Delta Boys - Don't You Want To Know - You Shouldn't Do That - When The Saints Go Marching In - Black Gal Swing - Get Up And Go - Every Time My Heart Beats Son Bonds - 80 Highway Blues - A Hard Pill To Swallow notes by Paul Oliver Wolf WSE 129 (Austria 1988) (=) Wolf WBCD-003 (Austria1991) "Son Bonds & Charlie Pickett: Brownsville Blues"
114	1989	Tommy Johnson / Sleepy John Estes 1928-1930 Tommy Johnson - Cool Drink Of Water - Big Road Blues - Bye-bye Blues - Maggie Campbell Blues - Canned Heat Blues - Lonesome Home Blues take 1 - Lonesome Home Blues take 2 - Big Fat Mama Blues Sleepy John Estes - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair - Broken-Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too - Divin' Duck Blues - Milk Cow Blues - Street Car Blues - Whatcha Doin'? - Poor John Blues - Sweet Mama notes by Ricardo Reccioni [= Alan Balfour] Bluetime BT 2010 (Denmark/It)
115	1989	Sleepy John Estes - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair - Broken-Hearted, Raged And Dirty Too - Diving Duck Blues - Little Sarah - Black Mattie Blues - T-Bone Steak Blues - Milk Cow Blues - Street Car Blues - Expressman Blues - Whatcha Doin'? - Poor John Blues - Stack O' Dollars - My Black Gal Blues - Sweet Mama - Come Back Home, Little Girl] - Lawyer Clark Blues - Little Laura Blues - Working Man Blues with Yank Rachell and Son Bonds Document DLP 564 (Austria 1989) Document Records discography
116	1990	Sleepy John Estes Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Vol. 1: 1927 - 1937 - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair - Broken-Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too - Divin' Duck Blues - Little Sarah (Yank Rachell, voc) - Black Mattie Blues - T-Bone Steak Blues (Yank Rachell, voc) - Milk Cow Blues - Street Car Blues - Expressman Blues (Yank Rachell, voc) - Whatcha Doin'? - Poor John Blues - Stack O' Dollars - My Black Gal Blues - Sweet Mama (Yank Rachell, voc) - Down South Blues - Stop That Thing - Someday Baby Blues - Who's Been Telling You Buddy Brown Blues - Married Woman Blues - Drop Down Mama - Government Money - I Wanta Tear It All The Time notes by Chris Smith Document DOCD 5015
117	1990	Sleepy John Estes Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Vol. 2: 1937 - 1941 - Floating Bridge - Need More Blues - Jack And Jill Blues - Poor Man's Friend (T Model) - Hobo Jungle Blues - Airplane Blues - Everybody Oughta Make A Change - Liquor Store Blues - Easin' Back To Tennessee - Fire Department Blues (Martha Hardin) - Clean Up At Home New Someday Baby - Brownsville Blues - Special Agent (Railroad Police Blues) - Mailman Blues - Time Is Drawing Near - Mary Come On Home - Jailhouse Blues - Tell Me How About It (Mr. Tom's Blues) - Drop Down (I Don't Feel Welcome Here) - Don`t You Want To Know (The Delta Boys) - You Shouldn`t Do That (The Delta Boys) - When The Saints Go Marching In (The Delta Boys) - Lawyer Clark Blues - Little Laura Blue - Working Man Blues notes by Chris Smith Document DOCD 5016
117a	1990	Gus Cannon & Noah Lewis: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Volume 2 (12 September 1929 to 28 November 1930) Cannon And Woods (The Beale Street Boys) - Last Chance Blues - Fourth And Beal Cannon's Jug Stompers - Last Chance Blues - Tired Chicken Blues - Going To Germany - Walk Right In Noah Lewis - Chickasaw Special - Devil In The Woodpile Cannon's Jug Stompers - Mule Get Up In The Alley - The Rooster's Crowing Blues - Jonestown Blues - Pretty Mama Blues - Bring It With You When You Come - Wolf River Blue Noah Lewis - Like I Want To Be Noah Lewis' Jug Band - Ticket Agent Blues - New Minglewood Blues - Selling The Jelly - Bad Luck's My Buddy Cannon's Jug Stompers - Money Never - Prison Wall Blues notes by Chris Smith Document DOCD 5033
118	1991	Blues At Newport Recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival 1959-64 Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man - Coffee Blues - Stagolee Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Long Gone - Key To The Highway Reverend Gary Davis - Samson And Delilah - I Won't Be Back No More Reverend Robert Wilkins - The Prodigal Son - (I Wish I Was In) Heaven Sitting Down Skip James - Devil Got My Woman Sleepy John Estes, Yank Rachel [sic] & Hammy [sic] Nixon - Clean Up At Home Robert Pete Williams - On My Way From Texas - Bulldog Blues Jesse Fuller - I Double Double Do Love You - San Francisco Bay Blues John Hammond - Me And The Devil John Lee Hooker - Sometimes You Make Me Feel So Bad - Hobo Blues Dave Van Ronk - That Will Never Happen No More compilation prod. by Sam Charters notes by Sam Charters Vanguard VCD 115/16 (US 1991) Newport Folk Festival discography Mississippi John Hurt discography Reverend Gary Davis discography Reverend Robert Wilkins discography Skip James discography Yank Rachell discography Hammie Nixon discography Robert Pete Williams discography Jesse Fuller discography John P. Hammond discography Dave Van Ronk discography
119	1991	Sleepy John Estes: I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More, 1929-1941 - Milk Cow Blues - The Girl I Love She Got Long Curly Hair - Someday Baby Blues - Little Laura Blues - Black Mattie Blues - Special Agent (Railroad Police Blues) - Broken-Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too - Drop Down Mama - Street Car Blues - Lawyer Clark Blues - Whatcha Doin'? - Who's Been Tellin' You Buddy Brown Blues - Everybody Ought To Make A Change - Poor John Blues - Fire Department Blues (Martha Hardin) - I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More - Diving Duck Blues - Down South Blues - Clean Up At Home - Floating Bridge notes by Don Kent Yazoo CD 2004 Yazoo Records discography
119a	1991	Sleepy John Estes 1935-1938 - Down South Blues (3:07) - Stop That Thing (2:41) - Someday Baby Blues (2:59) - Who's Telling You Buddy Brown Blues (3:19) - Married Woman Blues (3:12) - Drop Down Mama (3:09) - Government Money (3:11) - Vernita Blues (3:07) - Need More Blues (2:52) - Jack And Jill Blues (2:38) - Poor Man's Blues (3:06) - Hobo Jungle Blues (2:55) - Air Plane Blues (2:51) - Everybody Oughta Make A Change (2:47) - Liquor Store Blues (2:26) - Easin' Back To Tennessee (2:41) - Fire Department Blues (Martha Hardin) (3:05) - Clean Up At Home (2:35) - New Someday Baby (2:48) - Brownsville Blues (3:06) - Special Agent (Railroad Police Blues) (2:49) compiled by Jacques Morgantini notes by Jacques Morgantini Black & Blue CD 59.254-2 (Fr 1991) (Blues for Ever series)
119b	1993	Delmark 40th Anniversary Blues Junior Wells - Snatch It Back And Hold It Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go Jimmie Lee Robinson - Lonely Traveller Big Time Sarah - I Make Love Dave Specter, Barkin' Bill Smith - Things I'd Do For You Robert Lockwood Jr. - Rambling On My Mind Sleepy John Estes - I'd Been Well Warned Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - That's All Right Otis Rush - You're Breakin' My Heart (alt tk) J.B. Hutto - Slidewinder Roosevelt Sykes - Eagle Rock Me Baby Jimmy Johnson - Easy Money Curtis Jones - Highway 51 Blues Edith Wilson - Mistreatin' Blues Speckled Red - The Dirty Dozen Yank Rachell - Let Me Tangle In Your Vines Jesse Fortune - Fortune Tellin' Man Willie Kent - Memory Of You Magic Sam - I Need You So Bad Delmark DX-2 (US 1993) Delmark Records discography
120	1994	Sleepy John Estes: First Recordings - Broken Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair - Divin' Duck Blues - Little Sarah - Black Mattie Blues - T-Bone Steak Blues - Chickasaw Special - Devil I The Woodpile - Milk Cow Blues - Street Car Blues - Expressman Blues - Watcha Doin'? - Poor John Blues - Stack O'Dollars - My Black Gal Blues - Sweet Mama - Like I Want To Be - Ticket Agent Blues - New Minglewood - Selling The Jelly - Bad Luck's My Buddy JSP CD 601 notes by Keith Briggs = JSP CD 3406 (2002) 2 CD set along with "Gus Cannon & His Jug Stompers" (JSP 610; 1994) remastered by John R.T. Davies
121	1994	Memphis Blues Caravan, Vol. 1 Sam Chatmon - Forgive Me Too Big Sam Clark - I Fell in Love With This Woman Sonny Boy Nelson - Pony Blues Earl Bell - Travelin' Blues Sleepy John Estes / Hammie Nixon - President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long - Yellow Yam Blues Bukka White - Bed Springs Blues Furry Lewis - Mary Tell-Blues/Mother Story Harmonica Frank - Goin' Away Happy Houston Stackhouse - Crying Won't Help You Joe Willie Wilkins & His King Biscuit Boys - Me And The Devil Blues notes by Steve LaVere Memphis Archives CD 7008 (US 1994)
121a	1994	Lost Blues Tapes Vol. 1 American Folk Blues Festival 1963-65 - Della Mae - John Lee Hooker - Hound Dog - Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton - Captain Captain - Muddy Waters - I Got To Cut Out - Sonny Boy Williamson - Blues Harp Shuffle - 'Big' Walter Horton - Strong Brain Broad Mind - Willie Dixon - Big Leg Woman - Willie Dixon - You Got Me Runnin' - Sugar Pie Desanto - South Side Jump - Buddy Guy - If I Get Lucky - J. B. Lenoir - Got A Letter This Morning - 'Mississippi' Fred McDowell - Sail On - Roosevelt Sykes - Memphis Boogie - Memphis Slim - Your Best Friend's Gone - John Estes & Hammie Nixon # - Farewell Baby - Dr. Isaiah Ross - Della Mae - John Lee Hooker # rec. October 9, 1964 at the Musikhalle, Hamburg, Germany; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Hammie Nixon, jug ACT CD 9204
122	1995	Sleepy John Estes: Drop Down Mama The Blues Collection - Someday Baby Blues - Everybody Ought To Make A Change - Stop That Thing - Drop Down Mama - Married Woman Blues - I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More - Working Man Blues - Special Agent - Down South Blues - Clean Up At Home - Milk Cow Blues - Diving Duck Blues - Street Car Blues - The Girl I Love, She's Got Long Curly Hair - Broken Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too - Watcha Doin�? BLU NC 053
123	1996	Sleepy John Estes: Someday Baby - The Girl I Love, She's Got Long Curly Hair - Broken Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too - Divin' Duck Blues - Milk Cow Blues - Poor John Blues - Stack O' Dollars - Stop That Thing - Someday Baby Blues - Married Woman Blues - Drop Down Mama - I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More - Floating Bridge - Jack And Jill Blues - Everybody Oughta Make A Change - Liquor Store Blues - New Someday Baby - Brownsville Blues - Special Agent (Railroad Police Blues) - Time Is Drawing Near - Tell Me How About It (Mr. Tom's Blues) - You Shouldn't Do That - Lawyer Clark Blues - Working Man Blues notes by Les Fancourt Indigo IGOCD 2041 (UK 1996)
124	1996	Sun Records - The Blues Years 1950-1958 Sleepy John Estes - Registration Day Blues - Policy Man (Burial Insurance Blues) - Rats In My Kitchen - Runnin' Around rec. Memphis, TN, April 24, 1952 8 CD box set Charly CDSUNBOX 7 (UK 1996)
125	1996	Blues Classics Sleepy John Estes - Floating Bridge 3 CD set MCA 11441
126	1996	Sun - 60 Originals Authentic Blues, Rockabilly, Rock and Roll Sleepy John Estes - Registration Day Blues 3 CD box set Hallmark
127	1998	Bukka White / Sleppy John Estes: Tennessee Blues Bukka White - The New Frisco Train - Pinebluff, Arkansas - Shake 'Em On Down - Sic 'Em Dogs On - Po' Boy - Parchman Farm Blues - High Fever Blues - Fixin' to Die Blues - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues - Bukka's Jitterbug Swing Sleepy John Estes - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair - Broken Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too - Milk Cow Blues - My Black Gal Blues - Down South Blues - Someday Baby Blues - Married Woman Blues - Drop Down Mama - Airplane Blues - Liquor Store Blues - Brownsville Blues - Mailman Blues - Jailhouse Blues - Working Man Blues Wolf CD WBJ 015 (Austria 1998)
127a	1997	Mandolin Blues Yank Rachell - Dig My Buddy, Joe @ youtube - Smokey Joe @ youtube - Rainy Day Blues # @ youtube - My Baby's Gonna Jump And Shout # @ youtube Carl Martin - Every Day I Have The Blues @ youtube - Grave Digger Blues @ youtube Willie Hatcher (with John Lee Granderson, g) - Garbage Man Blues @ youtube - Crawdad @ youtube - Waiting Just For You @ youtube Ted Bogan - Mary, Run To The Window § @ youtube Johnny Young - Highway 61 @ youtube - Jumpin' On Eight (instr) @ youtube - Stealin' @ youtube - Mandolin Rock (instr) @ youtube - I Tried To Get You Off My Mind @ youtube - Bumble Bee [] @ youtube - Crawling King Snake \|\| @ youtube Yank Rachell tracks rec. February 12, 1967 in Chicago, IL; Yank Rachell, voc, mand, g; Taj Mahal, g, # hca; Sleepy John Estes, g Carl Martin tracks rec. ~~June 6, 1966~~ [actually May 31, 1966] in Chicago, IL; Carl Martin, voc, fiddle, g, mand; Johnny Young, g Willie Hatcher tracks rec. prob. mid-1960s in Chicago, IL; Will(ie) Hatcher, voc, mand; John Lee Granderson, g Ted Bogan track rec. prob. December 20, 1965 in Chicago, IL; Ted Bogan, voc, g; John Lee Henley, hca; Johnny Young, mand Johnny Young tracks rec. 1963-1964 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, mand; John Wrencher, hca; John Lee Granderson, g [] rec. May 9, 1964 live at the University of Chicago; Johnny Young, voc, mand, g; Little Walter, hca; Jimmy Walker, p \|\| rec. 1963-1964 in Chicago, IL ; Johnny Young, voc, mand, g; Little Walter, hca; Jimmy Walker, p notes by Frank Scott Testament TCD 6004 (US 1997) Testament Records discography
128	1998	Sleepy John Estes: Goin' To Brownsville - Bring Me My 38 Pistol - Bye And Bye When The Morning Comes - Divin' Duck Blues - Floating Bridge - Freedom Loan - Goin' To Brownsville - I'm Goin' Home - In My Father's House - It Was A Dream - Lost My Eyesight - Married Woman Blues - Rats In My Kitchen - Run Around - Sleepy John Estes interviewed by Pete Welding - Sloppy Drunk Blues - Someday Baby Blues - Stop That Thing - Street Car Blues - Sweet Sugar Mama - Try Him And See - Vernita Blues - Working Man Blues rec. April 19 & 22, 1962 in Chicago, IL; Sleepy John Estes, voc, g notes by Frank Scott Testament TCD-6008 (US 1998) Testament Records discography
129	1999	Sleepy John Estes: The Man Who Cried The Blues Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon 1929-1941 - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair - Black Mattie Blues - Milk Cow Blues - Street Car Blues - Expressman Blues - Watcha Doin'? - Down South Blues - Stop That Thing - Someday Baby Blues - Drop Down Mama - Government Money - Vernita Blues - Jack And Jill Blues - Everybody Oughta Make A Change - Liquor Store Blues - Brownsville Blues - Time Is Drawing Near - Jailhouse Blues - You Shouldn't Do That - Black Gal Swing - Come Back Little Girl - Little Laura Blues EPM Musique 159402 (Fr 1999)
130	1999	Sleepy John Estes: Stone Blind Blues - Broken Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too - Floating Bridge - Lawyer Clark Blues - Harlem Bound - Divin' Duck Blues - Liquor Store Blues - Watcha Doin' - Working Man Blues - Someday Baby Blues - The Girl I Love She Got Long Curly Hair - Special Agent Blues - Easin' Back To Tennessee - Stone Blind Blues - Milk Cow Blues - Clean Up At Home - Tell Me How About It - I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More - Jack And Jill Blues - You Shouldn't Do That - Stop That Thing - Hobo Jungle Blues - Brownsville Blues - Drop Down - Everybody Oughta Make A Change - Time Is Drawing Near Catfish CD 117 (UK 1999) Catfish Records (UK) discography
131	1999	Sleepy John Estes: Brownsville Blues Wolf BC 003 (Austria 1999)
132	2000	Blind Willie McTell / Sleepy John Estes: Jailhouse Blues disc 1: Blind Willie McTell - Georgia Rag - Rough Alley Blues - Low Riders Blues - Painful Blues - Experience Blues - Low Down Blues - Lonesome Day Blues (Ruby Glaze/Hot Shot Willie) - Mama, Let Me Scoop For You (Ruby Glaze/Hot Shot Willie) - Rollin Mama Blues (Ruby Glaze/Hot Shot Willie) - Searching The Desert For The Blues (Ruby Glaze/Hot Shot Willie) - It's Your Time To Worry - Warm It Up To Me - You Was Born To Die - Don't You See How This World Made A Change - It's A Good Little Thing - Savannah Mama - Lord Have Mercy If You Please - My Baby's Gone - Broke Down Engine - Broke Down Engine No. 2 - Love-makin Mama - Death Room Blues - Death Cell Blues - Lord, Send Me An Angel disc 2: Sleepy John Estes - Jack And Jill Blues - Poor Man's Friend (T Model) - Hobo Jungle Blues - Airplane Blues - Floating Bridge - Need More Blues - Fire Department Blues (Martha Hardin) - New Someday Blues - Liquor Store Blues - Brownsville Blues - Everybody Outta Make A Change - Easin' Back To Tennessee - Clean Up At Home - Special Agent (Railroad Police Blues) - Drop Down (I Don't Feel Welcome Here) - Jailhouse Blues - Time Is Drawing Near - Tell Me How About It (Mr. Tom's Blues) - Mailman Blues - Mary Come On Home - Working Man Blues - Don't You Want To Know (The Delta Boys) - Lawyer Clark Blues - You Should'nt Do That (The Delta Boys) - Little Laura Blues - When The Saints Go Marching In (The Delta Boys) 2 CD set History CD 20.1942-HI (Germany 2000) (Nothing But The Blues series)
133	2001	The Essential Sleepy John Estes - Special Agent - Milk Cow Blues - Someday Baby Blues - Watcha Doin'? - Down South Blues - Everybody Oughta Make A Change - Liquor Store - Drop Down Mama - Vernila Blues - Mary Come On Home - Floating Bridge - Black Gal Swing (The Delta Boys) - Working Man Blues - Mailman Blues - Lawyer Clark Blues - You Shouldn't Do That (The Delta Boys) - Airplane Blues - Stop That Thing - Street Car Blues - Expressman Blues (with Yank Rachell) - New Someday Baby - Government Money - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair - Sweet Mama (with Yank Rachell) - I Wanta Tear It All The Time - Fire Department Blues (with Martha Hardin) - Every Time My Heart Beats (The Delta Boys) - Jack And Jill Blues - Hobo Jungle Blues - Easin` Back To Tennessee - Clean Up At Home - Jailhouse Blues - Time Is Drawing Near - I Ain`t Gonna Be Worried No More - Who`s Been Telling You Buddy Brown Blues - Little Laura Blues 2 CD set notes by Gary Atkinson Document CBL 200009 (UK 2001)
134	2001	Newport Folk Festival Best of the Blues 1959-68 disc 1: Mississippi John Hurt - Sliding Delta - Candy Man - Coffee Blues - Stagger Lee - Here I Am Lord Send Me - Pallet On Your Floor Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (3:23) - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues Son House - Preaching Blues - Death Letter Blues - Empire State Express - Son Blues Bukka White - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues Mississippi Fred McDowell - Louise - If The River Was Whiskey Muddy Waters (solo) - Walkin' Blues [Vanguard VCD2-77005] - I Can't Be Satisfied [Vanguard VCD2-77005] disc 2: Robert Pete Williams - Levee Camp Blues - Midnight Boogie - On My Way From Texas Mance Lipscomb - Freddie - So Different Blues - God Moves On The Water (The Sinking Of The Titanic) Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues - Double Double Do Love You Rev. Gary Davis - Samson And Delilah - I Won't Be Back No More Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Intro/The Train Is Leaving °° - Drink Muddy Water °° - Long Gone - Key To The Highway - My Baby Done Changed The Lock On The Door Sleepy John Estes - Clean Up At Home disc 3: Lightnin' Hopkins - Woman I'm Lovin' She's Taken My Appetite - Baby Please Don't Go Lightnin' Hopkins & Samuel Lay - Shake That Thing John Lee Hooker & Bill Lee - Tupelo - Bus Station Blues - Let's Make It °° - Great Fire Of Natchez °° - Boom Boom °° - I Can't Quit You Baby / Stop Now Baby Memphis Slim - How Long °° - Black Cat Crossed My Path °° - Harlem Bound °° - Piano Instrumental °° Muddy Waters & Otis Spann - Blow Wind Blow °° @ youtube - Flood (= "Clouds In My Heart") °° @ youtube Chambers Brothers - CC Rider The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Blues With A Feeling - Born In Chicago °° compilation prod. by Tom Vickers front cover painting by Meredith Steele °° 12 previously unreleased tracks 3 CD set notes by John Milward Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2 (US 2001)
135	2002	Sleepy John Estes: Newport Blues - Intro - Special Agent - Wadie Green Blues - Airplane Blues - Up & Down - Need More Blues - Newport Blues - B K Blues - 80 Highway - Mary Come On Home - NYC Breakdown - City Hall Blues - Worried Mind Blues - I Wanta Tear It All The Time - Government Money - Poor Mother's Child - New Doorbell Blues Never before released 1964 session with Yank Rachell (mandolin, guitar, piano and one vocal) and Hammie Nixon (harmonica, jug and two vocals) Delmark DE 639
136	2002	Sleepy John Estes: The Blues - From Memphis To Chicago 1929-1941 - Broken Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too - The Girl I Love She Got Long Curly Hair - Divin' Duck Blues - Milk Cow Blues - Poor John Blues - Stack O' Dollars - My Black Gal Blues - Down South Blues - Stop That Thing - Someday Baby Blues - Who's Telling You Buddy Brown? - Married Woman Blues - Drop Down Mama - Government Money - Vernita Blues - Floating Bridge - Need More Blues - Jack And Jill Blues - Poor Man's Friend - Hobo Jungle Blues - Airplane Blues - Everybody Ought To Make A Change - Liquor Store Blues - Easin' Back To Tennessee - Fire Department Blues - Clean It Up At Home - New Someday Baby - Brownsville Blues - Special Agent - Mailman Blues - Time Is Drawing Near - Jailhouse Blues - Tell Me How About It - Drop Down - Lawyer Clark Blues - Working Man Blues 2 CD set Fremeaux CD 258
137	200?	Sleepy John Estes: Working Man Blues - The Girl I Love She Got Long Curly Hair - Broken Hearted Raggedy And Dirty Too - Divin' Duck Blues - Black Mattie Blues - Milk Cow Blues - Expressman Blues - Whatcha Doin' - Poor John Blues - My Black Gal Blues - Sweet Mama - Down South Blues - Who's Been Tellin You Buddy Brown Blues - Jack And Jill Blues - Poor Man's Friend (T-Model) - Hobo Jungle Blues - Everybody Oughta Make A Change - Liquor Store Blues - Easin' Back To Tennessee - Fire Department Blues - New Someday Baby - Brownsville Blues - Mailman Blues - Lawyer Clark Blues - Little Laura Blues - Working Man Blues Fabulous CD 112
138	2003	Jim Dickinson Field Recordings: Delta Experimental Project Vol. 3 Otha Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band - My Babe Mose Vinson - Old Blue Jumped A Rabbit Furry Lewis - Furry's Blues Sleepy John Estes - Broke & Hungry Alec Teal & Butter Biscuit - Roll Me Over Slow Johnny Woods - So Many Cold Mornings Furry Lewis - Turkey In The Straw Sleepy John Estes - Floating Bridge Johnny Woods - Lonesome Feelin' Mose Vinson - Barrel House Blues - Cryin' Won't Make Me Stay Sleepy John Estes & Hammy Nixon - Race That You Don't Run Tate County Singers - Jesus Is On The Mainline Birdman BMR 047
138a	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)
139	2004	Sleepy John Estes: Someday Baby - Broken-Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too - Floating Bridge - Lawyer Clark Blues - Harlem Bound - Divin' Duck Blues - Liquor Store Blues - Watcha Doin' - Working Man Blues - Someday Baby Blues - The Girl I Love She Got Long Curly Hair - Special Agent Blues - Easin' Back To Tennessee - Stone Blind Blues - Milk Cow Blues - Clean Up At Home - Tell Me How About It - I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More - Jack And Jill Blues - You Shouldn't Do That - Stop That Thing - Hobo Jungle Blues - Brownsville Blues - Drop Down Mama - Everybody Oughta Make A Change - Time Is Drawing Near Snapper SBLUECD028
140	2006	The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of disc 1 Freeny's Barn Dance Band: Croquet Habits Son House: Mississippi County Farm Blues Georgia Pot Lickers: Up Jumped The Rabbit Memphis Minnie & Joe McCoy: I'm Going Back Home Wilmer Watts & The Lonely Eagles: Fightin' In The War With Spain John Byrd: Old Timbrook Blues Ernest Phipps And His Holiness Singers: A Little Talk With Jesus Tommy Johnson: Slidin' Delta The Three Striped Gears: Alabama Blues Jack Gowdlock: Rollin Dough Blues Kentucky Ramblers: Ginseng Blues Ollis Martin: Police And High Sheriff Come Ridin' Down Roy Harvey & Jess Johnston And The West Virginia Ramblers: John Hardy Blues Long "Cleeve" Reed & Little Harvey Hull - The Down Home Boys: Original Stack O' Lee Blues Amedie Ardoin & Dennis McGee: Two Step De La Prairie Soileau Andrew & Jim Baxter: Operator Blues J.D. Harris: The Grey Eagle Memphis Jug Band: Jim Strainer Blues Grayson County Railsplitters: Ain't That Trouble In Mind (unissued) Dock Boggs: Old Rub Alcohol Blues Jaybird Coleman: Mistreatin' Mama Henry Whitter: It's A Rough Road To Georgia (unissued) Rev. B.L. Wightman with Lottie Kimbrough & Congregation: Live The Life disc 2 Yank Rachel with Sleepy John Estes & Jab Jones: Sweet Mama Crowder Brothers: We All Love Mother (unissued) Son House: Clarksdale Moan Ashley & Foster: Bull Dog Sal (unissued) Jesse "Babyface" Thomas: Down In Texas Blues Georgia Pot Lickers: Chicken Don't Roost Too High William Harris: I'm Leavin' Town (But I Sho' Don't Wanna Go) Asa Martin & Roy Hobbs: Wild Cat Rag King Solomon Hill: Whoopee Blues (Alternate Take) Chubby Parker: Davey Crockett Geeshie Wiley: Skinny Leg Blues Sweet Brothers: I'm Gonna Marry That Pretty Little Girl Blind Roosevelt Graves & Varoy Graves: I Shall Not Be Moved Smith & Irvine: Lonesome Road Blues Luke Jordon: If I Call You Mama Grayson & Whitter: My Mind Is To Marry (unissued) Osey Helton: Green River Lottie Kimbrough: Don't Speak To Me Wade Ward: Married Man's Blues (unissued) Ken Maynard: Sweet Betsey From Pike (unissued) Jaybird Coleman: Boll Weevil Bill Shepherd with Hayes Shepherd & Ed Webb: Bound Steel Blues Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1: Bells Of Love double CD Yazoo YAZ CD 2202 (US 2006)
140a	2006	Memphis Blues Important Postwar Blues disc 1: - Gotta Let You Go - Joe Hill Louis - Boogie in the Park - Joe Hill Louis - That Ain't Right (tk 1) - Henry Hill - Little Soldier Boy (tk 2) - Doctor Ross - Country Clown (tk 1) - Doctor Ross - County Farm Blues - William Stewart - They Call Me Talkin' Boy - William Stewart - Easy - Jimmy & Walter - Before Long - Jimmy & Walter - Lonesome Ol' Jail - D.A. Hunt - Greyhound Blues - D.A. Hunt - Registration Day Blues - Sleepy John Estes - Rats in My Kitchen - Sleepy John Estes - Rattlesnake Mama - William Stewart - Forty Four Blues - William Stewart - I Feel Like a Million - Joe Hill Louis - Heartache Baby - Joe Hill Louis - Shorty the Barber - Charlie Burse - Last Time, The - Woodrow Wilson Adams - Train Is Comin' - Woodrow Wilson Adams - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Pinetop Perkins - Wolf Call Boogie - Sleepy John Estes - Harmonica Jam - Coy "Hot Shot" Love - Policy Man Blues (tk 1) - Coy "Hot Shot" Love - Take a Little Chance - Jimmy DeBerry - Tailor Made - Doctor Ross - Boogie Disease, The - Doctor Ross disc 2: - Moanin' at Midnight - Howlin' Wolf - Bluebird - Howlin' Wolf - Move on Down the Line - Earl Hooker - Hucklebuck, The - Earl Hooker - Walter's Instrumental - Walter Horton - Grandmother Got Grandfather Told - Walter Horton - Midnight Showers of Rain - Willie Nix - Prison Bound Blues - Willie Nix - Bear Cat - Rufus Thomas - Married Woman - Rufus Thomas - Roscoe's Boogie - Rosco Gordon - City Women - Rosco Gordon - Baby, Baby - Earl Forest - Rock the Bottle - Earl Forest - Bad Women, Bad Whiskey - Little Parker, Jr. - You're My Angel - Little Parker, Jr. - Good Lovin' - Bobby "Blue" Bland - Drifting from Town to Town - Bobby "Blue" Bland - My Baby - James Anthony Cotton - Straighten Up Baby - James Anthony Cotton - Work with Her Boy - Shy Guy Douglas - Detroit Arrow Blues - Shy Guy Douglas - Carry My Business On (tk 1) - Houston Boines - Crying in the Courthouse (tk 1) - Houston Boines - Walked All Night - Charley Booker - Baby I'm Coming Home - Charley Booker - I'm Gonna Murder My Baby - Pat Hare - Bonus Pay - Pat Hare disc 3: - T Model Boogie - Rosco Gordon - Saddled the Cow (And Milked the Horse) - Rosco Gordon - Seems Like a Million Years (tk 1) - Willie Nix - Riding in the Moonlight - Willie Nix - Can't Love Me and My Money Too - L.B. Lawson - Flypaper Boogie - L.B. Lawson - Somebody Told Me - Little Milton - If You Love Me Baby - Little Milton - Feelin' Good - Little Junior - Fussin' and Fightin' Blues - Little Junior - Hart's Bread Boogie - Billy Love - Blues Leave Me Alone - Billy Love - She Comes to See Me Sometime (tk 1) - Joe Hill Louis - We All Gotta Go Sometime - Joe Hill Louis - Sweet Home Chicago (tk 1) - David Honeyboy Edwards - Mistreating Boogie - Mose Vinson - Worry You Off My Mind - Mose Vinson - Lucy Done Moved - L.C. Hubert - Don't Dog Me Around - Eddie Snow - Skin and Bone (tk 1) - Eddie Snow - Dead Letter Blues (tk 1) - Johnny O'Neal - Ugly Woman (tk 3) - Johnny O'Neal - You'll Be Sorry - Houston Stokes - Blue and Lonesome - Houston Stokes - Long Gone Raymond - Raymond Hill - I'm Back Pretty Baby - Raymond Hill - Blue Man (tk 1) - Kenneth Banks - High (tk 1) - Kenneth Banks disc 4: - Tiger Man - Rufus Thomas - Save That Money - Rufus Thomas - Lookin' for My Baby - Little Milton - Homesick for My Baby - Little Milton - Feel So Worried - Sammy Lewis/Willie Johnson - So Long Baby Goodbye - Sammy Lewis/Willie Johnson - Cotton Crop Blues - James Anthony Cotton - Hold Me in Your Arms - James Anthony Cotton - Come Back Home (tk 1) - Howlin' Wolf - Chocolate Drop - Howlin' Wolf - Blue Guitar - Earl Hooker - Believe I'll Settle Down - Boyd Gilmore - We All Gotta Go Sometime - Walter Horton - Off the Wall - Walter Horton - Love My Baby - Little Junior - Mystery Train - Junior Parker - Dry Up Baby - Bobby "Blue" Bland - Crying All Night Long - Bobby "Blue" Bland - Way After Midnight (tk 1) - Billy Love - Hey Now (tk 1) - Billy Love - I Wronged a Woman - Earl Forest - I Can't Forgive You - Earl Forest - Midnight Hours Journey - Johnny Ace - My Baby Left Me - Raymond Hill - You're Driving Me Insane - Ike Turner - Trouble and Heartaches - Ike Turner - When It Rains It Pours - Billy "The Kid" Emerson - Move Baby Move - Billy "The Kid" Emerson 4 CD set JSP JSPCD 7777 (UK 2006)
141	2007	Sleepy John Estes: Legendary Country Blues Artists also featuring Yank Rachell, 'Brownsville' Son Bonds, Charlie Pickett disc 1: Sleepy John Estes - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair - Broken-Hearted, Ragged and Dirty Too - Divin' Duck Blues - Little Sarah - Black Mattie Blues - T-Bone Steak Blues - Milk Cow Blues - Street Car Blues - Expressman Blues - Whatcha Doin? - Poor John Blues - Stack O' Dollars - My Black Gal Blues - Sweet Mama - Down South Blues - Stop That Thing - Someday Baby Blues - Who's Been Telling You Buddy Brown Blues - Married Woman Blues - Drop Down Mama - Government Money - I Wanna Tear It All the Time - Vernita Blues - I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More - Floating Bridge disc 2: - Need More Blues - Jack and Jill Blues - Poor Man's Friend (T Model) - Hobo Jungle Blues - Airplane Blues - Everybody Oughta Make a Change - Liquor Store Blues - Easin' Back to Tennessee - Fire Department Blues (Martha Hardin) - Clean Up at Home - New Someday Baby - Brownsville Blues - Special Agent (Railroad Police Blues) - Mailman Blues - Time Is Drawing Near - Mary Come on Home - Jailhouse Blues - Tell Me How About It (Mr Tom's Blues) - Drop Down (I Don't Feel Welcome Here) - Don't You Want to Know - You Shouldn't Do That - When the Saints Go Marching In - Lawyer Clark Blues - Little Laura Blues - Working Man Blues - Harlem Bound - Stone Blind disc 3: Yank Rachell - Blue and Worried Woman - Sugar Farm Blues - Stack O' Dollars Blues - Night Latch Blues - Squeaky Work Bench Blues - Gravel Road Woman - J.L. Dairy Blues - Rachel Blues - Lake Michigan Blues - I'm Wild and Crazy as Can Be - When You Feel Down and Out - Texas Tommy - It's All Over - My Mind Got Bad - Hobo Blues - It Seems Like a Dream - Army Man Blues - 38 Pistol Blues - Worried Blues - Biscuit Baking Woman - Insurance Man Blues - Up North Blues - Yellow Yam Blues - Tappin' That Thing - Rainy Day Blues - Peach Tree Blues disc 4: - She Loves Who She Please - Bye-Bye Blues - Loudella Blues - Katy Lee Blues 'Brownsville' Son Bonds - All Night Long - She Walks Like My Woman - Weary Worried Blues - Back and Side Blues - I Want to Live So God Can Use Me - Ain't That News? - Give Me That Old Time Religion - In My Father's House - Trouble Trouble Blues - Tennessee Worried Blues - I'll Work Up to You Someday - Old Bachelor Blues - Black Gal Swing - Get Up and Go - Every Time My Heart Beats - 80 Highway Blues - Hard Pill to Swallow, A - Come Back Home, Little Girl - Crazy 'Bout My Black Gal - Trembling Blues - Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon - Down the Highway 4 CD set notes by Neil Slaven JSP JSPCD 7779 (UK 2007)
142	2008	Sleepy John Estes On 80 Highway with Hammie Nixon - Love Grows In Your Heart - Potato Diggin' Man - Talk - I'll Be Glad When You're Dead - Holy Spirit - 80 Highway - When The Saints Go Marching In - Corrine Corrina - President Kennedy (take 14) - IGA (Independent Grocers Alliance) - T Model Ford - Do Lord Remember Me - Vernita Blues - Mary Comes On Home - President Kennedy (take 13) - Talk - Brownsville Blues rec. July 19, 1974 Delmark DE 797 (US 2008)
143	2013	The Blues Revival Volume 1 (1963-1969) Sleepy John Estes - Mailman Blues - I'm A Tearing Little Daddy Brownie McGhee - Everything Gonna Be Alright Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues - I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller) - Bye Bye Bird - Work With Me John Jackson - Buck Dancer's Choice - John Henry Sippie Wallace - Suitcase Blues Big Walter Horton (Shakey Horton) - Mysterious Blues - Baby I Need Your Love Mississippi John Hurt - Casey Jones - Spanish Flang Dang - Welcome Address Sippie Wallace - You Don't Know My Mind Brownie McGhee - Stop Using Me Big Walter Horton (Shakey Horton) - Medley: a) When I Lost My Baby b) St. Louis Blues c) Careless Love d) John Henry - Shakey's Boogie John Jackson - Tell Me Pretty Mama - Poor Boy Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee - Harmonica Piece Document DLP 525 16 page booklet by Gary Atkinson Document DOCD-5697 (UK 2013)
144	9/2013	Live At Caffè Lena: Music From America's Legendary Coffeehouse, 1967-2013 disc one: Intro by Lena Spencer / Guy Carawan - Cripple Creek (1970) Hedy West - Shady Grove (1968) Intro by Lena Spencer / Sleepy John Estes - Holy Spirit (1974) Frank Wakefield and Friends - Will The Circle Be Unbroken (1971) Jean Ritchie - West Virginia Mine Disaster (1969) Billy Faier - Hunt The Wren (1967) Greenbriar Boys - Hit Parade of Love (1968) Mike Seeger - O Death (1971) Jacqui and Bridie - Hello Friend (1974) Tom Paxton - Morning Again (1968) David Amram - Little Mama (1974) Patrick Sky - Reality Is Bad Enough (1971) Rosalie Sorrels - Travelin' Lady (1974) Smoke Dawson - Devil's Dream (1968) Utah Phillips - The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia (1974) Michael Cooney - Thyme It Is A Precious Thing (1974) Kate McGarrigle and Roma Baran - Caffè Lena (1972) disc two: Intro by Lena Spencer / Dave Van Ronk - Gaslight Rag (1974) Jerry Jeff Walker - Mr. Bojangles (1968) Barbara Dane - Mama Yancey's Advice / Love With a Feeling (1968) Roy Book Binder - Ain't Nobody Home But Me (1974) Intro by Lena Spencer / David Bromberg - The Holdup (1972) Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Pretty Boy Floyd (1992) Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans (2010) Aztec Two Step - The Persecution and Restoration of Dean Moriarty (1989) Happy And Artie Traum - Trials Of Jonathan (1974) Rick Danko - It Makes No Difference (1988) Paul Geremia - Something's Gotta Be Arranged (1989) Robin and Linda Williams - -S-A-V-E-D (1987) John Herald - Ramblin' Jack Elliott (1991) Pete Seeger - Somos El Barco (We Are the Boat) (1985) disc three: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion - Folksong (2013) Anais Mitchell - Wedding Song (2013) Bill Morrissey - The Last Day Of The Furlough (1990) Patty Larkin - Island Of Time (1992) Greg Brown - Flat Stuff (1989) Mary Gauthier - I Drink (2013) Sean Rowe - Old Black Dodge (2013) Tom Chapin - Cats In The Cradle (1987) Intro by Lena Spencer / Christine Lavin - It's A Good Thing He Can't Read My Mind (1987) Bill Staines - Sweet Wyoming Home (1990) Bucky and John Pizzarelli - I Like Jersey Best (1989) Rory Block - That's No Way To Get Along (1989) Chris Smither - Killing The Blues (1989) Tift Merritt - Traveling Alone (2013) John Gorka - Down In The Milltown (1990) Lena Spencer - Dear Little Cafe (1972) unreleased performances 3 CD box set Tompkins Square TSQ 2967 (US 9/2013)
145	3/2014	Sleepy John Estes Live in Japan with Hammie Nixon - Corrina Corinna (3:53) [Trio PA 6059] - Broke And Hungry (4:36) [Trio PA 6059] - You Shouldn't Say That (3:38) [Trio PA 6059] - Tin Pan Alley (6:06) [Trio PA 6059] - Holy Spirit, Don't You Leave Me (1:26) [Trio PA 6059] - I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascall You (4:04) [Trio PA 6059] - Stop That Thing (3:30) [Trio PA 6059] - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair (4:08) [Trio PA 6059] - Divin' Duck Blues (4:18) [Trio PA 6059] [Trio PA 6059] - When Your Mother Is Gone (2:12) [Trio PA 6059] - When The Saints Go Marching In (2:10) [Trio PA 6059] - Introduction (0:21) - Mary Come On Home (5:40) [Trio 3A-2025] - Rats In My Kitchen (5:11) [Trio 3A-2025] - Potato Diggin' Man (2:43) [Trio 3A-2025] - Fox Chase (1:40) [Trio 3A-2025] - Sleepy John's Twist (3:07) [Trio 3A-2025] - Welcome (0:20) - Love Grows In Your Heart (aka "Careless Love") (6:28) [Trio 3A-2025] - Brownsville Blues (6:02) [Trio 3A-2025] - Jesus Is On The Mainline (1:43) [Trio 3A-2025] rec. November 27 & 28, 1974 and December 16 & 24, 1976 at concerts in Tokyo, Japan Trio PA 6059 (Jp 1976) / Trio 3A-2025 (Jp 1977) notes by Steve Tomashefsky Delmark DE 835 (US 3/2014)
145a	2014	The Roots Of It All: Acoustic Blues - The Definitive Collection, Vol. 3 disc 1: The 1960s Mance Lipscomb - Shake, Shake, Mama (2:50) John Lee Hooker - Tupelo (3:19) Rev. Gary Davis - Samson And Delilah (4:05) Robert Pete Williams - I've Grown So Ugly (2:48) Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand (3:03) Lonnie Johnson - Moaning Blues (4:01) Smoky Babe - Hottest Brand Goin' (4:06) Herman E. Johnson - I Just Keeps On Wanting You (2:45) Scrapper Blackwell - Shady Lane (5:27) Pink Anderson - I Got Mine (3:07) Pete Franklin - Prison Bound (4:21) Shirley Griffith - Bye Bye Blues (4:11) R.C. Smith - Please Don't Drive Me Away (2:25) Memphis Willie B. - Wine Drinking Woman (3:36) Baby Tate - What Have I Done To You (2:42) Leroy Dallas - She Caught The M & O (3:43) Sleepy John Estes - Vernita's Blues (2:19) J.D. Short - I'm Just Wastin' My Time (5:25) Muddy Waters - Feel Like Going Home (3:52) Buddy Moss - Amy (2:42) Johnny Young - Want My Lovin' (3:30) Arvella Gray - Corrine, Corrina (2:13) Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man (2:53) Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis - Alberta (2:56) disc 2: The 1970s Son House - Empire State Express (3:41) Mississippi Fred McDowell - Frisco Lines (3:59) J.B. Lenoir - If I Get Lucky (2:59) Skip James - Sickbed Blues (4:06) R.L. Burnside - Long Haired Doney (2:45) Furry Lewis - Old Original Furry Lewis Blues (3:46) Joe Callicott - Lonesome Katy Blues (3:04) John Jackson - Rocks And Gravel (3:15) Babe Stovall - Worried Blues (3:33) Howlin' Wolf - Ain't Goin' Down That Dirt Road #2 (4:20) Larry Johnson - Four Women Blues (2:33) Jack Owens - I Love My Baby (4:50) Johnny Shines - Your Troubles Can't Be Like Mine (4:18) Brownie McGhee - My Last Suit (3:53) Juke Boy Bonner - Tired Of The Greyhound Bus (2:26) Tarheel Slim - So Sweet, So Sweet (3:19) Tom Shaw - Baby Be A Boy Child Named Him After Me (5:44) Eddie Taylor - Bullcow Blues (3:10) Bill Williams - Salty Dog (4:37) Guitar Shorty - Jessie Jones (3:58) Rev. Pearly Brown - It's A Mean Old World To Try To Live In (2:24) Louisiana Red - Dead Stray Dog (3:56) David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Big Fat Mama (2:56) Henry Townsend - Can't You See (3:18) front cover photo (of Big Joe Williams) by Axel Küstner 112-pp. booklet notes by Bill Dahl Bear Family BCD 17231 (Germany 2014)
146	2017	American Epic: The Collection disc 1: - The Coo Coo Bird (The Cuckoo) - Clarence Ashley - On the Road Again - Memphis Jug Band - The Panama Limited - Bukka White - Indian War Whoop - Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers - 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do, Pt. 1 - Frank Stokes - K.C. Railroad Blues - Andrew & Jim Baxter - I Am Bound for the Promised Land - Alfred G. Karnes - Cottonfield Blues, Pt. 2 - Garfield Akers - I Wish I Was a Mole In the Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Down On Penny's Farm - Bentley Boys - Foldin' Bed - Whistler's Jug Band - Greenback Dollar - Weems String Band - Tallahatchie River Blues - Mattie Delaney - Walk Right In - Cannon's Jug Stompers - Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow - The Carter Family - Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson - Bayou Teche - Columbus Fruge - Cool Drink of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson - Train On the Island - J.P. Nestor disc 2: - My Heart Keeps Singing - Elder J.E. Burch - Ninety-Nine Year Blues - Julius Daniels - I Get My Whiskey From Rockingham - Earl Johnson and his Clodhoppers - Death's Black Train Is Coming - Rev. J. M. Gates - Waiting for a Train - Jimmie Rodgers - Darling, Where Have You Been So Long? - Tenneva Ramblers - Rocky Road - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Ma Blond Est Partie - Amadie Breaux, Ophey Breaux & Cleoma Breaux - Peg and Awl - Carolina Tar Heels - Chocolate to the Bone - Barbecue Bob - Down On Me - Eddie Head and Family - Prenez Courage - Cleoma Breaux with Joseph Falcon and Ophy Breaux - Pickin' Off Peanuts - Dilly and his Dill Pickles - Just Because - Nelstone's Hawaiians - Dupree Blues - Willie Walker - Ladies On the Steamboat - Burnett & Rutherford - Mamma, 'Tain't Long Fo' Day - Blind Willie McTell disc 3: - Cecilia - Cuarteto Flores - La Coquetera - Los Borinquenos - Coconito - Guty Cárdenas Y Lencho - Lovesick Blues - Emmett Miller - Long Tall Mama - Big Bill Broonzy - John Henry Blues - Two Poor Boys - Mr. Tom Hughes' Town - Lead Belly - Louis Collins - Mississippi John Hurt - I Am The Light of the World - Blind Gary Davis - Fifty Miles of Elbow Room - Rev. F.W. McGee - Chant of the Eagle Dance - Hopi Indian Chanters - Hilo Hula - Mike Hanapi & The Ilima Islanders - If The River Was Whiskey - Charlie Poole - Stackalee - Frank Hutchison - The Wreck of the '97 - Ernest Stoneman - Faded Coat of Blue - Buell Kazee - Country Blues - Dock Boggs - Sail Away Ladies - Uncle Dave Macon and His Fruit-Jar Drinkers - Sail Away Lady - Uncle Bunt Stephens - Sally Gooden - Eck Robertson - Arkansas Traveller - Don Richardson disc 4: - Hard Time Blues - Lane Hardin - Down the Dirt Road Blues - Charley Patton - Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home - Banjo Joe - Hastings Street - Blind Blake & Charlie Spand - See That My Grave's Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Gonna Have 'Lasses In the Morning - Golden Melody Boys - New Orleans Stop Time - Memphis Minnie & Bumblebee Slim - Prove It On Me Blues - Ma Rainey - Gonne Die with My Hammer in My Hand - Williamson Brothers & Curry - Last Kind Words Blues - Geeshie Wiley - Banjoreno - Dixieland Jug Blowers - It's a Good Thing - Beale Street Sheiks - Trust In God and Do the Right - Blind Willie Davis - Someday Baby Blues - Sleepy John Estes - Lonesome Road Blues - Sam Collins - Future Blues - Willie Brown - Bull Doze Blues - Henry Thomas - Brown Skin Gal (Down the Lane) - Massey Family - Henry Lee aka Young Hunting - Dick Justice - Old Country Rock - William Moore - La Danseuse - Delma Lachney & Blind Uncle Gaspard - My Black Mama, Pt. 1 & 2 - Son House - Cypress Grove Blues - Skip James disc 5: - Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson - Mal Hombre - Lydia Mendoza - Sunshine Special - Frenchy's String Band - Old Jim Canan's - Robert Wilkins - Les Blues De Voyage - Amédé Ardoin & Dennis McGee - The Lost Child - Stripling Brothers - I'm Gonna Cross the River Jordan Some of These Days - Jaybird Coleman - Tomi Tomi - Sol K. Bright with The Aloha Serenaders - Sittin' On Top of the World - Mississippi Sheiks - James Alley Blues - Richard Rabbit Brown - The Indian Tom Tom - Big Chief Henry's Indian String Band - Blues In a Bottle - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers - Je Me Suis En Alle - Bartmont Montet & Joswell Dupuis - Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson - E Mama Ea - Sol Hoopii & His Novelty Quartette - Ghost Dance - Truett & George - Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind On Jesus) - Roosevelt Graves & Brother - Allons A Lafayette - Joseph Falcon - Corrido De Joaquin Murrieta, Pt. 1 & 2 - Los Madrugadores - Denomination Blues (Part 1 & 2) - Washington Phillips "American Epic: The Collection gathers 100 of these original recordings from the 1920s and 1930s in one five-disc set, restored to unprecedented levels of sonic fidelity. For this box set, compiled by Director Bernard MacMahon, engineer Nicholas Bergh refined a transfer process using a mix of both modern and vintage equipment in order to extract the remarkable resolution from the records that is often missed." 5 CD set American Epic AMPC451 (US 2017)
147	7/2019	Earwig Music Company presents Cadillac Baby's Bea & Baby Records The Definitive Collection disc 1: - I'm Commin' Home - Eddie Boyd - Thank You Baby - Eddie Boyd - Nitwit - L.C. McKinley - Sharpest Man In Town - L.C. McKinley - Mad House Jump - The Daylighters - You're Breaking My Heart - The Daylighters - I Need Him To Love Me - 11 Year Old Faith Taylor and the Sweet Teens - I Love You Darling - 11 Year Old Faith Taylor and the Sweet Teens - Trying To Make A Living - Bobby Saxton - Dynamite - Earl Hooker - The Legend Of Cadillac Baby - Cadillac Baby - Blue Monday Blues - Eddie Boyd - The Blues Is Here To Stay - Eddie Boyd - Come Home! - Eddie Boyd - You Got To Reap! - Eddie Boyd - Times Are Getting Tougher - Little Mac - Don't Come Back - Little Mac - Little Lu-Lu Frog - T. Valentine - Teen-Age Jump - T. Valentine - How Detroit Junior Got Famous - Cadillac Baby - Money Tree - Detroit Junior - So Unhappy - Detroit Junior - Come On Home - Eddie Boyd & the Daylighters - Reap What You Sow - Eddie Boyd & the Daylighters disc 2: - Welcome To Cadillac Baby's Show Lounge - Cadillac Baby - My Baby Is Coming Home - Hound Dog Taylor - Take Five - Hound Dog Taylor - You Mistreated Me - St. Louis Mac - Broken Heart - St. Louis Mac - It's So Hard - Phil Sampson - Sampson - Singing Sam Featuring Phil Sampson - My Story - Singing Sam - Calvins Reserve - Singing Sam - Worried About My Baby - Sunnyland Slim - Drinkin' And Clownin' - Sunnyland Slim - All The Way - Eddie Boyd - Where You Belong - Eddie Boyd - Cadillac Baby Gets Into The Record Business - Cadillac Baby - Please Baby - Lee Jackson - Juanita - Lee Jackson - Please Give Me A Chance - Andre Williams - I Still Love You - Andre Williams - I'm Your Fool - Little Mac - Let Hootenanny Blues (Out Of Jail) - Little Mac - One More Mile - James Cotton - There Must Be A Panic On - James Cotton - Your Love - Kirk Taylor and the Velvets - This World - Kirk Taylor and the Velvets - Joe's House Rent Party Part I - Tall Paul Hankins and the Hudson Brothers - Joe's House Rent Party Part II - Tall Paul Hankins and the Hudson Brothers - It's You I'm Going To Miss - Willie Hudson with Tall Paul Hankins on organ - Red Lips - Willie Hudson - Tall Paul Hankins disc 3: - The Christmas Song - Santa Came Home Drunk - One More Chance - It Takes More Than Love Alone - Mother-In-Law - Woman, Help Me - The Sky Is Crying - I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man - Trouble No More - I'm Tore Down - I Love My Man - Hello Baby - House Rock - She Got That Jive - Little Girl - Too Late To Pray - I Done You Wrong - My Baby's Gone - My Kind Of Woman - Homesick Sunnyland Special - Lost In the Jungle - Special Agent - Lost In the Jungle - Special Agent - Worried All The Time - Potato Diggin' Man disc 4: - Somebody Changed The Lock - Willie Williams - 38 Woman Blues - Willie Williams - Raise Your Window Baby - Unknown blues band and vocalist - Jump This Morning - Unknown blues band and vocalist - 7402 - 3D (Richard Davenport) - Here We Go Chi-Town - 3D (Richard Davenport) - Just In Case That You Got a Case - possibly Clyde Lasley - I Bet I Don't Die Tired - unknown actors - The Preacher, A Deacon & A Razor - unknown actors Cadillac Baby - Passed So Fast - Sleepy John Estes and Hammy Nixon - Worry My Mind - Sleepy John Estes and Hammy Nixon - Spirit Don't Leave Me - Sleepy John Estes and Hammy Nixon - Lay My Burden Down - Sleepy John Estes and Hammy Nixon - I Did A Lot Of Spiritual Records - Cadillac Baby - Search Me Lord - The Glory-Airs - Now Lord Don't Drive Me Away - The Glory-Airs - Holy Place - Eddie Dean & the Biblical Aires - God Has Prepared - Eddie Dean & the Biblical-Aires - He's A God - The Norfolk Singers - Testimonial - The Norfolk Singers - Witness There Too - The Pilgrim Harmonizers - Over The Hill - The Pilgrim Harmonizers - Climbing High Mountains - Samuel Patterson - Judgment Day - Samuel Patterson - Blues Is My Soul - Cadillac Baby prod. by Michael Robert Frank, CEO of Earwig Music Company 101-track 4 CD set packaged in a 128-pp. book notes by Jim O'Neal, artist notes by Bill Dahl, gospel notes by Robert M. Marovich and producer notes by Michael Robert Frank Earwig CD 4975 (7/2019)
Additional information appreciated !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- Robert M.W. Dixon & John Godrich: Blues & Gospel Records 1902 - 1943, 3rd ed. 1982, pp. 226-228
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 240
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver 2006, pp. 147-148
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, pp. 345-348
- Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 2011, pp. 149-150
- Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- pp. 176-178
- Mike Leadbitter & Neil Slaven: Blues Records 1943 to 1970, Vol. 1: A to K.- London 1987, pp. 396-399
- http://sunsite.kth.se/feastlib/mrf/yinyue/pw/ESTJOH.HTM
- http://home.t-online.de/home/mueller.lorenz/yankdisc.htm
- http://www.ne.jp/asahi/ko-1/crossroads/blues/s/sleepy.htm
- http://www.ne.jp/asahi/ko-1/crossroads/label/bluetime/bluetime.htm
- http://www.ne.jp/asahi/ko-1/crossroads/label/document/document4.htm
- http://www.ne.jp/asahi/ko-1/crossroads/label/stgeorge/stgeorge.htm
- http://www.ne.jp/asahi/ko-1/crossroads/label/wolf/wolf2.htm
- JFK Assassination Song: "President Kennedy" by Sleepy John Estes
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources
- own record collection
thanks to Alan Balfour, Phil Hawkins, Lex Jansen, Mark Sinclair Harris, Benoît Billot, Ray Templeton, Jim Clay, Hank Moore, Paul Duvivie, Helge Thygesen, Andries van den Berg, Rob Ford, Howard Rye, Bob Eagle, Benoît Brière, Max Hoeffner, Ken Brooks, Jonny Meister and Mike Gann for additional info / scans

source: Front cover of Delmark DL-603
photographer: Lars Swanberg

source: Front cover of Delmark DS-613
photographer: Lars Swanberg

John Estes 1962 with one of his children
source: Rhythm & Blues Panorama #23 (2-1963), p. 48 (back cover)
photographer: Georges Adins

John Estes 1962 with wife Olie and one of their children
source: Charly Sun Box 105 booklet; photographer: Georges Adins

Ola B. "Olie" Estes, Sleepy John's wife (since 1948) and mother of their five (Virginia, Mae, Charles, Lucy - or were it even six?) children, 1962
source: Ann Charters and Samuel Charters: Blues Faces - A Portrait of the Blues.- Boston (David R. Godine Publisher) 2000, p. 37; photographer: Ann Charters

John Estes 1964 at airport 'Charles-de-Gaulle' in Paris, France
source: Les Génies du Blues, Volume 4.- Paris (Editions Atlas) 1993, p. 19
photographer: Jean-Pierre Leloir; mirror-inverted by Stefan Wirz

Jerry DeMuth: Sleepy John Estes - Legend In A Shack
Down Beat 39, # 19 (November 11, 1971), pp. 10, 29

John Estes on the front porch of his home in Brownsville, TN, c. 1966
photo first published (on the magazine's front cover) accompanying Jerry DeMuth's article "Sleepy John Estes
- Legend In A Shack" in Down Beat 39, # 19 (November 11, 1971), pp. 10, 29; photographer: Jerry DeMuth
this photo taken from the front cover of Delmark CD DD-613

John Estes at his home in Brownsville, TN, playing his Silvertone 1448 guitar, c. 1966
source: Photo (on p. 10) accompanying Jerry DeMuth's article "Sleepy John Estes - Legend In A Shack"
in Down Beat 39, # 19 (November 11, 1971), pp. 10, 29; photographer: Jerry DeMuth

Sleepy John Estes biography