Illustrated Lane Hardin discography

source: Blues & Rhythm No. 261, p. 21
("Photos courtesy of Joel Slotnikoff")
photoshopped by Stefan Wirz There is no photo of this artist known to exist

Lane Hardin
b. most likely June 7, 1896 in Cerro Gordo, Tennessee ¹⁾
d. May 23, 1975 in Los Angeles, California ¹⁾
discography

¹⁾ following the research results of Tony Russell (Blues & Rhythm No. 261 (August 2011), pp. 21-25)

source: Blues & Rhythm No. 261, p. 21
("Photos courtesy of Joel Slotnikoff")
photoshopped by Stefan Wirz

#	year of release	title / label / notes
*10 inch 78 rpm*
1	1/29/1936	Lane Hardin - California Desert Blues (L. Hardin) (91450-1) @ youtube - Hard Time Blues (L. Hardin) (91449-1) @ youtube (3:11) rec. July 28, 1935 in Chicago, Ill.; Lane Hardin, voc, g Bluebird B6242 (US January 29, 1936)
2	194?/195?	HARDEN LANE - Cartey Blues (Lane) # - The Blues (Don Tempo) [*not* an instrumental track!] # rec. late 1940s/early 1950s; Lane Hardin, voc, g; unknown, sb Pacific P-100 # Blues Images Vol. 9 (US 2011)
		- 13 Highway # * @ youtube - Bluebird Blues * rec. c. 1952 prob. in Los Angeles ~~Arkansas~~; "Leroy Simpson" [name invented by the record company], voc, g; Lane Hardin, g Modern unissued # Kent KST-9004 (US 1969) * Ace CDCHD 1057 (UK 2005)
		- Keep Em Down # @ youtube - I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You * @ youtube rec. c. 1952 prob. in Los Angeles ~~Atlanta~~; "Arkansas Johnny Todd" [name invented by the record company; actually Lane Hardin], voc, g Modern unissued # Kent KST-9004 (US 1969) * Ace CDCHD 813 (UK 2001)
*LP / CD compilations*
3	1969	Up And Down The Mississippi (1926-1940) Richard (Rabbit) Brown - Mystery Of The Dunbar's Child - I'm Not Jealous Roots Buddy Boy Hawkins - Jailhouse Fire Blues - Shaggy Dog Blues Bo Weavil Jackson (Sam Butler) - You Can't Keep No Brown Mae Glover & John Byrd - Pig Meat Papa Jim Thompkins - Bedside Blues Bertha Lee & Charley Patton - Mind Reader Blues Robert Lee McCoy - Friar's Point Blues Mississippi Bracey - You Scolded Me And Drove Me From Your Door - I'll Overcome Someday Will Weldon - Hitch Me To Your Buggy Little Buddy Doyle - Grief Will Kill Me - Bad In Mind Blues Lane Hardin - California Desert Blues [Bluebird B6242] Henry Townsend - Henry's Worry Blues Roots RL 319 (Austria 1969) = autogram/Roots RL 319 (Germany 2009) Roots Records discography
4	1969	Blues From The Deep South Anthology of the Blues - Archive series Volume Four Kent/United/Musidisc LPs track sequence: Pinetop Slim - John Henry @ youtube - Applejack Boogie (alt tk) (2:26) @ youtube - Fast Life @ Spotify Dixie Blues Boys - Monte Carlo @ youtube - My Baby Left Town @ youtube Leroy Simpson (+ Lane Hardin) - 13 Highway @ youtube Big Bill Dotson - Sitting Down Thinking @ youtube - Dark Old World @ youtube Arkansas Johnny Todd [Lane Hardin] - Keep Em Down @ youtube Johnny Harris - Miss Darlene @ youtube Pinetop Slim - Poor Boy @ Spotify - I'm Gonna Carry On @ youtube P-Vine PCD-3038 track sequence: Pinetop Slim - John Henry - Applejack Boogie - Fast Life - Poor Boy - I'm Gonna Carry On Dixie Blues Boys - Monte Carlo - My Baby Left Town Leroy Simpson (+ Lane Hardin) - 13 Highway Big Bill Dotson - Sittin Down Thinkin - Dark Old World Arkansas Johnny Todd [Lane Hardin] - Keep Em Down Johnny Harris - Miss Darlene Woodrow Adams - Wine Head Woman @ youtube - Baby, You Just Don't Know @ youtube Elmore James - Hawaiian Boogie @ youtube - Please Find My Baby @ youtube notes (December 1969) by Frank Scott Kent KST-9004 (1st release, gatefold cover) (US 1969) "The names on the album were invented [by Frank Scott and Bruce Bromberg] because Joe Bihari would not issue an album with "unknown artist" listed on it." "Joe Bihari was so certain that [Leroy] Simpson were John Lee Hooker, that Hooker's name appears on the front cover [...]. The reissue team prevailed in at least giving a fictional name to the artist in the track listing on the back cover." (from Jim O'Neal's notes to Ace CD 2310) Kent KST-9004 (2nd release, no gatefold) (US 1969/70?) = United Superior US-7781 (US 197?) notes by Frank Scott = Musidisc 30 AB 5604 (Fr 1976) (=) P-Vine PCD-3038 (Jp 1994) "Anthology of the Blues Vol. 3" Anthology ... discography Woodrow Adams discography Elmore James discography
5	197?	Hard Time Blues - St. Louis 1933-1945 Lane Hardin - Hard Time Blues (1935) [Bluebird B6242] Aaron "Pinetop" Sparks - Workhouse Blues (1935) Mary Harris - Happy New Year Blues (1935) Roosevelt Sykes - Drunken Gambler (1937) Henry Townsend - Don't Love That Woman (1934) Charly Jordan - Tight Time Blues (1934) Walter Davis - Just Thinking (1940) Blind Teddy Darby - Pitty Pat Blues (1933) Peetie Wheatstraw - Third Streets Going Down (1937) Alice Moore - Blue Black and Evil Blues (1935) Charlie McFadden - Times Are So Tight (1933) Leroy Henderson - Good Scuffler Blues (1935) Milton Sparks - Grinder Blues (1935) Lane Hardin - California Desert Blues (1935) [Bluebird B6242] notes by Michael Stewart and Don Kent Mamlish S-3806 (US 197?) Mamlish Records discography
6	1987	Mississippi Blues 1927-1937 Mose Andrews - Ten Pound Hammer - Young Heifer Blues Lane Hardin - Hard Time Blues [Bluebird B6242] - California Desert Blues [Bluebird B6242] Robert Johnson - Me And The Devil Blues (DAL-398-1) - Milkcow's Calf Blues (DAL-403-2) Louie Lasky - How You Want Your Rollin' Done - Teasin' Brown Blues - Caroline Uncle Bud Walker - Look Here Mama Blues - Stand Up Suitcase Blues Big Joe Williams - Little Leg Woman - My Grey Pony Sam Collins - The Jail House Blues - Dark Cloudy Blues - Pork Chop Blues - Lonesome Road Blues (I'm Going Down That Lonesome Road) - Signifying Blues - My Road Is Rough And Rocky (Toenail Flang Dang) HK Records HK 4001 (Austria 1987) HK Records discography
7	1990?	The Greatest in Country Blues (1927-1956) LP 1 - High Water Everywhere - Charlie Patton - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Cotton Field Blues Part 2 - Garfield Akers - James Alley Blues - Richard "Rabbit" Brown - Had A Good Father And Mother - Washington Phillips - Travelin' Blues - Blind Willie McTell - Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson - Minglewood Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers - Nappy Head Blues - Bobby Grant - Third Street Woman Blues - Blind Willie Reynolds - My Black Momma Part I - Son House - Bull-Doze Blues - Henry Thomas - Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground - Blind Willie Johnson - Trouble Hearted Blues - Ishman Bracey - Honey In The Rock - Blind Mamie Forehand - Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt - Man Trouble Blues - Jaybird Coleman - How Long - Frank Stokes - Future Blues - Willie Brown - Voice Throwin' Blues - Walter "Buddy Boy" Hawkins LP 2 - Devil Got The Woman - Skip James - When That Great Ship Went Down - William And Versey Smith - The Jail House Blues - Sam Collins - Touch Me Light Momma - George "Bullet" Williams - Mothers Love - Blind Joe Taggart - Skin Man Blues - "Hi" Henry Brown - Lost Lover Blues - Lottie Kimbrough - Levee Camp Moan Blues - Texas Alexander - K.C. Moan - Memphis Jug Band - Paddlin' Madeline Blues - Gitfiddle Jim - Preachin' Blues - Robert Johnson - Billy Lyons And Stack O'Lee - Furry Lewis - Fryin' Pan Skillet Blues - Bessie Tucker - Dallas Rag - Dallas String Band - Crazy Cryin' Blues - Memphis Minnie - Woke Up This Morning - Roosevelt Graves - That's No Way To Get Along - Robert Wilkins - McAbee Railroad Piece - Palmer McAbee - The Gone Dead Train - King Soloman Hill - Hastings St. - Blind Blake And Charlie Spand LP 3 - Shorty George - Smith Casey - Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down - Bozie Sturdivant - I Be's Troubled - Muddy Waters - How You Want It Done? - Big Bill Broonzy - She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day - The Georgia Cotton Pickers - Sic 'Em Dogs On - Bukka White - California Desert Blues - Lane Hardin - Lonesome Day Blues - Jesse James - Moanin' The Blues - Allen Shaw - Midnight Hour Blues - Leroy Carr - Jack O'Diamonds - Pete Harris - Dust My Broom - Elmore James - Rowdy Blues - Kid Bailey - Rollin' And Tumblin' - Baby Face Leroy - Penitentiary Blues (Pt. 1 & 2) - Smokey Hogg - Baby How Long - Dan Pickett - Mighty Long Time - Sonny Boy Williamson - River Blues (Pt. 2) - Lowell Fulson - Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins compiled by Johnny Parth 3 LP set with 24-pp. booklet notes (English and German) by Paul Oliver RST Blues Documents BD-01 (Austria 1990) 3 CD set notes by Paul Oliver Vol. 1: 1927-1930 Vol. 2: 1927-1936 Vol. 3: 1929-1956 = Story Of Blues/Da Music 3521/3522/3523 (Austria 1992) = Century Media SOB 3521-2/3522-2/3523-2 (1994) 3 CD set = 1201 Music 7002-2 (US 1999)
8	1991	Backwoods Blues (1926-1935) The Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order of Sam Butler, Bobby Grant, King Solomon Hill, Lane Hardin Sam Butler (Bo Weavil Jackson) - Pistol Blues - Some Scream High Yellow - You Can't Keep No Brown - When The Saints Come Marching Home - I'm On My Way To The Kingdom Land - Why Do You Moan? - Devil And My Brown Blues - Poor Boy Blues - Jefferson County Blues - Jefferson County Blues (alt tk) - You Can't Keep No Brown - Christians Fight On, Your Time Ain't Long - Heaven Is My View Bobby Grant - Nappy Head Blues - Lonesome Atlanta Blues King Solomon Hill - Whoopee Blues (tk 1) - Whoopee Blues (tk 2) - Down On My Bended Knee (tk 1) - Down On My Bended Knee (tk 2) - The Gone Dead Train - Tell Me Baby Lane Hardin - Hard Time Blues [Bluebird B6242] - California Desert Blues [Bluebird B6242] notes by Paul Oliver Document DOCD-5036 (Austria 1991)
9	1998	Hard Times Come Again No More Vol. 1 Rural Songs of Hard Times and Hardships Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s The Bentley Boys - Down On Penny's Farm Blind Alfred Reed - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live Lane Hardin - Hard Time Blues [Bluebird B6242] Ernest Stoneman - All I Got's Gone Slim Smith - Bread Line Blues Alec Johnson - Miss Meal Cramp Blues Kelly Harrell - My Name Is John Johanna Dave McCarn - Serves 'em Fine J.D. Short - It's Hard Time Uncle Dave Macon - All In Down And Out Rutherford & Foster - Richmond Blues Elder Curry & His Congregation - Hard Times Cofer Brothers - Georgia Hobo Blind Lemon Jefferson - One Dime Blues Fiddlin' John Carson - Dixie Boll Weevil Chubby Parker - See The Black Clouds A'Breakin' Over Yonder Scrapper Blackwell - Down And Out Blues Edward L. Crain - Starving To Death On A Government Claim Barbecue Bob - We Sure Got Hard Times Samantha Bumgarner - Georgia Blues Mississippi John Hurt - Blue Harvest Blues Dixon Brothers - Weaver's Life Graham Brothers - Hard Times Come Again No More notes by Don Kent Yazoo CD 2036 (US 1998) Yazoo Records discography
10	2001	The Traveling Record Man Historic Down South Recording Trips Of Joe Bihari & Ike Turner - Blue Serenade - Baby Face Turner - My Sweet Woman - Driftin' Slim - No Ridin' Blues - Charlie Booker - Numbered Days (previously unreleased) - Big Charlie Bradix - Riding In The Moonlight - Howlin' Wolf - I'm Gonna Find Your Trick - Smokey Hogg - Baby Please Don't Go - Pinetop Slim - Cairo Blues - Lil' Son Jackson - Good Morning Little Angel - Joe Hill Louis - Tiny's Down Home - Tiny Webb - Tomorrow I May Be Gone - Jesse Thomas - Please Send My Baby Back Home aka Step Back Baby - Sunny Blair - If I Lose You Woman - Alexander Moore - My Little Machine - Driftin' Slim - My Baby's Gone - Elmore James - Rock House - Calvin Frazier - She Broke Up My Life (She Got Me Walking) - Joe Hill Louis - Keep Away From Me Baby - Joe Hill Louis - Lonesome Bedroom Blues - Willie Nix - Talking Boogie - Lil' Son Jackson - Long Tall Woman - Elmore James - I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You - "Arkansas Johnny Todd" [Modern; previously unissued] - Ramblin' On My Mind - Boyd Gilmore Ace CDCHD 813 (UK 2001)
10a	2003	Poor Man's Heaven When The Sun Goes Down Vol. 6 'The Secret History of Rock & Roll' series - Eddie Cantor's Tips On The Stock Market - Eddie Cantor - A Tale Of The Ticker - Frank Crumit - Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? - Leo Reisman - Remember My Forgotten Man - George Hall Gold Diggers - It Must Be Swell To Be Laying Out Dead - Alex Bartha - Raisin' The Rent - Roy Bargy - Sittin' On A Rubbish Can - Julia Gerity - Ten Cents A Dance - High Hatters Simple Simon - Poor Man's Heaven - Bud Billings - The Rich Man And The Poor Man - Bobby Miller - Hallelujah, I'm A Bum - Harry McClintock - All In, Down And Out Blues - Uncle Dave Macon - Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Them All - Fiddlin' John Carson - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? - Blind Alfred Reed - The Farmer Relief Song - Vernon Dalhart - Dusty Old Dust (So Long It's Been Good To Know Yuh) - Woody Guthrie - 35 Depression - Daddy Stovepipe - California Desert Blues - Lane Hardin [Bluebird B6242] - It's Hard Time - Joe Stone - President Roosevelt Is Everybody's Friend - Reverend J.M. Gates - C.W.A. Blues - Joe Pullum [Bluebird B5534] - Jimmy Shut His Store Doors - Cedar Creek Sheik - Welfare Store Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson [II] - Poor But Ambitious - Wilmoth Houdini RCA/BMG 82876-50958-2
11	2005	The Modern Down Home Blues Sessions Vol. 4 Southern Country Blues Guitarists 1948-1952 Alexander Moore with Smokey Hogg - Neglected Woman - Carolina - Lillie Mae Boogie - If I Lose You Woman Jesse Thomas - Meet Me Tonight Along The Avenue - Gonna Write You A Letter Pine Top Slim and His Guitar - Applejack Boogie - I'm Gonna Carry On - John Henry - Baby Please Don't Go Leroy Simpson with Lane Hardin - 13 Highway [Kent KST 9004] - Bluebird Blues [Modern; previously unissued] Lane Hardin aka Arkansas Johnny Todd - Keep Em Down [Kent KST 9004] - I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You [Ace CDCHD 813] Big Bill Dotson - Dark Old World - Thinking Life Over aka Sittin' Down Thinkin' Pine Top Slim and His Guitar - Fast Life - Mean Old Frisco - Poor Boy - Applejack Boogie Little Son Jackson - Milford Blues - Talkin' Boogie Jesse Thomas - Night Time Anytime aka Tomorrow I May Be Gone - Texas Blues Big Charley Bradix - Numbered Days - Wee Wee Hours - Dollar Diggin' Woman Boogie - Like You Wanna notes by Jim O'Neal Ace CDCHD 1057 (UK 2005)
12	2011	Classic Blues Artwork from the 1920s Volume 9 2012 Calendar with free CD CD and Calendar contents: - Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here, Version 1 - Tampa Red and Georgia Tom - Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here, Version 2 - Tampa Red and His Hokum Jug Band with Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxson (voc) - Big Chief Blues - Furry Lewis - Jinx Blues - Ora Brown - Jesus Is A Dying Bed Maker - Charley Patton - Rope Stretchin' Blues - Parts I & II - Blind Blake - Fence Breakin' Yellin' Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Fogyism - Ida Cox - Come On In (Ain't Nobody Here) - The Harum Scarums - Evil Woman Spell - Charley Spand - Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues - Teddy Darby - Papa Don't Tear Your Pants - Papa Charlie Jackson - In That Pearly White City Above - Blind Joel Taggart Supplementary CD tracks: - Precious Lord - Blind Joel Taggart - Little Black Train - Blind Joel Taggart - Hard Time Blues - Lane Hardin [Bluebird B6242] - California Desert Blues - Lane Hardin [Bluebird B6242] - Cartey Blues - Lane Hardin [Pacific P-100] - Mr. Postman Blues - Jenny Pope - Rent Man Blues - Jenny Pope restored by Richard Nevins Blues Images Calendar Vol. 9 (rel. 2011, for 2012) Blues Images CD BIM-109 (US 2011) accompanying Blues Images Calendar Vol. 9 (for 2012) Blues Calendar discography
13	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)
Additional information appreciated !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943, 4th ed. 1997, p. 350
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver 2006, p. 192, 487
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, p. 411
- Tony Russell: Searching The Desert For The Blues - Locating Lane Hardin.- Blues & Rhythm No. 261 (August 2011), pp. 21-25
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources
thanks to Tony Russell, Michael Duer and Wilson Fabian Ruales Villalva for additional info /scans