#	year of release	title / label / notes
1	1976	Frank Hovington: Lonesome Road Blues - Mean Old Frisco   @ youtube - Gone With The Wind   @ youtube - Lonesome Road Blues   @ youtube - 90 Going North (instr)   @ youtube - Got No Lovin' Baby Now - C.C. Blues []   @ youtube - Sing Sing Blues - Who's Been Foolin' You - I'm Talking 'Bout You   @ youtube - John Henry - Where Could I Go But To The Lord   @ youtube - Blood Red River   @ youtube rec. July 5 & 6, 1975 by Bruce Bastin and Dick Spottswood; Frank Hovington, voc, g, [] banjo photos (Flyright 522 and Rounder 2017) by Bengt Olsson notes (March 1976) by Bruce Bastin Flyright FLYLP 522 (UK 1976) notes by Bruce Bastin = Rounder 2017 (US 1979) Flyright FLYCD 66 Flyright Records discography Rounder Records discography
2	1977	Songs Of Migration And Immigration Folk music in America Vol. 6 - Steamboat Whistle Blues - Roy Acuff - Marching To Utah - Rose Thompson - Railroad Bill - Frank Hovington #   @ youtube - The Moore Girl - A. and J. Baxter - Jim Crow Blues - Cow Cow Davenport - Rambling Lover - Dick Reinhart - Down In The Bottom - Gabriel Brown - Dear Okie - Doye O'Dell - Zrobil Góral Krzyz Na Czole - Zespól Gírali Giewont - Barney McCoy - Uncle Alec Dunford and Fields Ward - Emigrantsvisa - Otto Magnusson - Hay Nazanem Yarer - Reuben J. Baboyan - Dzieci w Krateczki - Wladyslaw Polak - Poor But Ambitious - The Bamboo Orchestra, featuring Wilmoth Houdini - O Gero Amerikanos - D. Perdicopoulos - Pesni o Dovbushe - Artistic Village Troup album ed. by Richard K. Spottswood # rec. July 5, 1975 by Bruce Bastin and Dick Spottswood; Frank Hovington, voc, g Library of Congress LBC 6 more info # Flyright FLYCD 66
3	1978	Songs Of Childhood Folk Music in America Vol. 13 - I Am Just What I Am - Homer Brierhopper - Jimmy Jenkins - George and Ethel McCoy - The Coon And The Bear - George and Ethel McCoy - Rocky Bye Baby - George and Ethel McCoy - Dr. Ginger Blue - Arthur Tanner & His Corn Shuckers - The Old Grey Goose - Carolina Tar Heels - Sardines, Pork And Beans - Jennie Johnson and group - Tra-Le-La-La - Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers - Papier d'Épingles - Edius Nacquin - The Dirty Dozen - Speckled Red - Circus Parade - Mustard and Gravy - Don't The Moon Look Pretty - Curtis Harton and Group - Les Haricots Sont Pas Salés - unknown singers - Three Men Went A-Hunting - Byrd Moore and His Hot Shots - Two Papago Songs - Juanita Xavier - Rip Van Winkle Blues - Uncle Bud Landress - Poor Little Bennie - Bela Lam and His Greene County Singers - At the First Fall Of Snow - Molly O'Day and the Cumberland Mountain Folks - The Two Little Orphans - Ernest Stoneman and the Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers - Old Blue - Frank Hovington # album ed. by Richard K. Spottswood and Rick Ulman # rec. July 6, 1975 by Bruce Bastin and Dick Spottswood; Frank Hovington, voc, g Library of Congress LBC 13 more info Flyright FLYCD 66
4	1980	Living Country Blues USA The Introduction@ youtube (full double album) LP 1: Guitar Frank - Lonesome Road Blues   @ youtube Memphis Piano Red - The Train Is Coming   @ youtube Flora Molton & The Truth Band - What's The Matter Now   @ youtube Flora Molton & The Truth Band - The Titanic   @ youtube Lottie Murell - Trouble Late Last Night (4:13) #   @ youtube Sam Chatmon - Sittin' On Top Of The World   @ youtube James "Son" Thomas - Rock Me Mama   @ youtube Hammie Nixon - Corinna, Corinna   @ youtube Cora Fluker & Ola Mae Bell - Talkin' 'Bout Jesus   @ youtube Walter Brown - So Hard To See   @ youtube Archie Edwards - Bear Cat Mama Blues   @ youtube LP 2: Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins - Reno Factory   @ youtube Lonnie Pitchford - My Babe   @ youtube Sam "Stretch" Fields - Bluebird Blues   @ youtube Joe Savage - Mean Ol' Frisco   @ youtube Arzo Youngblood - I Can't Be Successful   @ youtube CeDell "Big G" Davis - I Don't Know Why   @ youtube Othar Turner & the Rising Star Five & Drum Band - Tango Twist   @ youtube Guitar Slim - Come On In My Kitchen (voc, g)   @ youtube Guitar Slim - Lula's Back In Town (voc, p)   @ youtube Boyd Rivers - You Got To Move   @ youtube Boogie Bill Webb - Big Road Blues   @ youtube rec. October/November 1980 by Siegfried Christmann photos by Axel Küstner "none of the takes included in this double album will re-appear in further releases" = on Evidence 3 CD set (US 1999) DLP notes by Axel Küstner L+R 42.030 (Germany 1980) 3 CD set 48-pp. booklet with notes by Jerry Gordon, Axel Küstner & Brett Bonner some tracks reissued on Evidence ECD 26105-2 (US 1999) "Living Country Blues - An Anthology" 2 CD set notes by Axel Küstner [CD notes do *not* contain liner photos that were part of the original LP release!] = Bellaphon CDLR 711921 (Germany 2008) = Bellaphon LR 713014 (Germany 2014) (180 g DLP) (includes download code) L+R Records discography Flora Molton discography Lattie Murrell discography Sam Chatmon discography Son Thomas discography Hammie Nixon discography Archie Edwards discography Lonnie Pitchford discography Guitar Slim discography Boyd Rivers discography
5	1982	Living Country Blues USA Vol. 8 Lonesome Home Blues Guitar Slim (Stephens) - Jazz Boogie Guitar Frank (Hovington) - Fly Right Baby   @ Spotify Guitar Slim (Stephens) - Lookout Blues - I'm Feelin' Lonesome Guitar Frank (Hovington) - Chimney Hill Breakdown (instr)   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Railroad Bill   @ Spotify Guitar Frank (Hovington) - Jelly Roll Baker   @ Spotify - Freight Train   @ Spotify Guitar Slim (Stephens) - Lonesome Home Blues Guitar Frank (Hovington) - Diggin' My Potatoes   @ Spotify Guitar Slim (Stephens) - Bad Luck Blues - Got To Find Me A Woman Guitar Frank (Hovington) tracks rec. October 11, 1980 in Frederica, DE by Siegfried Christmann Guitar Slim (Stephens) tracks rec. October 13, 1980 in Greensboro, NC by Siegfried Christmann photos by Axel Küstner = on Evidence 3 CD set (US 1999) notes by Axel Küstner L+R 42.038 (Germany 1982) 3 CD set 48-pp. booklet with notes by Jerry Gordon, Axel Küstner & Brett Bonner some tracks reissued on Evidence ECD 26105-2 (US 1999) "Living Country Blues - An Anthology" = L+R LRCD 712423 (Germany 2008) L+R Records discography "Guitar Slim" Stephens discography
6	1982	Living Country Blues USA Vol. 11 Country Gospel Roots L+R 42.041 track sequence: Boyd Rivers - You Gonna Take Sick And Die   @ youtube - When The World Seems Cold   @ youtube - Jesus On The Mainline   @ youtube - I'm Wrapped Up   @ youtube - O Lord I Wanna Be Your Child   @ youtube - Precious Lord   @ youtube Guitar Frank (Hovington) - Go Down Moses   @ youtube Cora Fluker - The World, She's Winding Up   @ youtube - Yonder Comes Jesus   @ youtube Walter Brown - Mother Bowed   @ youtube Guitar Slim (Stephens) - What A Friend We Have In Jesus   @ youtube Othar Turner - When I Lay My Burden Down   @ youtube Flora Molton - When The War Is Over   @ youtube L+R LRCD 712126 track sequence: Boyd Rivers - You Gonna Take Sick And Die   @ youtube Guitar Frank (Hovington) - Go Down Moses   @ youtube Cora Fluker - The World, She's Winding Up   @ youtube Boyd Rivers - When The World Seems Cold   @ youtube Walter Brown - Mother Bowed   @ youtube Boyd Rivers - Jesus On The Mainline   @ youtube Guitar Slim (Stephens) - What A Friend We Have In Jesus   @ youtube Boyd Rivers - I'm Wrapped Up   @ youtube Othar Turner - When I Lay My Burden Down   @ youtube Cora Fluker - Yonder Comes Jesus   @ youtube Boyd Rivers - O Lord I Wanna Be Your Child   @ youtube Boyd Rivers - Precious Lord   @ youtube Flora Molton - When The War Is Over   @ youtube = on Evidence 3 CD set (US 1999) rec. October/November 1980 by Siegfried A. Christmann photos by Axel Küstner notes by Axel Küstner L+R 42.041 (Germany 1982) 3 CD set 48-pp. booklet with notes by Jerry Gordon, Axel Küstner & Brett Bonner some tracks reissued on Evidence ECD 26105-2 (US 1999) "Living Country Blues - An Anthology" = L+R LRCD 712126 (Germany 2008) L+R Records discography Boyd Rivers discography Guitar Slim Stephens discography Flora Molton discography
7	1982	Living Country Blues USA Vol. 12 East Coast Blues Bowling Green John Cephas - Reno Factory Guitar Slim (Stephens) - Lula's Back In Town Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins - Louise Archie Edwards - Three Times Seven Guitar Frank (Hovington) - 90 Goin' North   @ Spotify Archie Edwards - Everybody's Blues Guitar Frank (Hovington) - Trouble In Mind   @ Spotify Archie Edwards - East Virginia John Henry - Sittin' On Top Of The World Guitar Slim (Stephens) - Won't You Spread Some Flowers On My Grave Guitar Frank (Hovington) - Mama Don't Allow   @ Spotify - Key To The Highway   @ Spotify rec. 1980 by Siegfried Christmann and Axel Küstner notes by Axel Küstner L+R 42042 (Germany 1982) = L+R LRCD 712027 (Germany 2008) L+R Records discography Guitar Slim Stephens discography Archie Edwards discography
8	1995	Deep Blue 25 Years of Blues on Rounder Record disc 1: - Mr. Bell's Shuffle - Robert Nighthawk and His Flames of Rhythm - Jealous Hearted Woman - J.B. Hutto - Left Me With A Broken Heart - Jimmy Rogers with Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters - Mean Old Frisco - Frank Hovington [Flyright FLYLP 522 / Rounder 2017] - Blues with a Feeling - Booker T. Laury - Lonesome Whistle - Robert Jr. Lockwood & Johnny Shines - Ain't Treating Me Right - Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson - I Feel So Good - Tracy Nelson - Peace And Happiness - Ted Hawkins - Up Above My Head - The Holmes Brothers Sometimes I Slip - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Full Court Press - Magic Dick & Jay Geils - Since You Been Gone - Rory Block - 501 Boogie - Professor Longhair - Give Me Flowers While I'm Livin' - Champion Jack Dupree disc 2: - Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen - Charles Brown - Texas Flood - Roomful Of Blues - Green Light - Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters - Help The Poor - Larry Davis with the Memphis Horns - Gimme A Break - Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom - My Jug And I - The Persuasions - Red Beans - Marcia Ball - You're My Brand - The Smokin' Joe Kubek Band featuring Bnois King - Full Time Lover - Ann Peebles - I Wanna Do It To You baby - Smokey Wilson - You Got What It Takes - Michelle Willson with Sugar Ray Norcia - Tomorrow - Jimmy McCracklin & Irma Thomas - Beale St. Boogaloo - Preston Shannon - What A Way To Go - Johnny Nocturne Band - Love Is The Bottom Line - Lowell Fulson 2 CD set Rounder CDROUNAN20
9	1995	The Real Music Box Rounder Records 25th Anniversary disc 5: - Mr. Bell's Shuffle - Robert Nighthawk - Jealous Hearted Woman - J.B. Hutto - Left Me With A Broken Heart - Jimmy Rogers/Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters - Mean Old Frisco - Frank Hovington [Flyright FLYLP 522 / Rounder 2017] - Blues With A Feeling - Booker T. Laury - Lonesome Whistle - Johnny Shines/Robert Lockwood Jr. - Ain't Treating Me Right - Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson - I Feel So Good - Tracy Nelson - Peace And Happiness - Ted Hawkins - Up Above My Head - The Holmes Brothers - Sometimes I Slip - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Full Court Press - Bluestime - Since You Been Gone - Rory Block - 501 Boogie - Professor Longhair - Give Me The Flowers While I'm Livin' - Champion Jack Dupree 9 CD set Rounder CDROUNAN25
10	1997	Country Blues Guitar - Done Left Here - Mississippi Fred McDowell - Walkin' Blues - Rory Block - Honeymoon Blues - John Hammond & The Nighthawks - Blues For Tampa Red - Paul Rishell - Broke Down Engine - Paul Geremia - Going To The River - Johnny Shines - Mean Old Frisco - Frank Hovington [Flyright FLYLP 522 / Rounder 2017] - Long Tall Mama - David Bromberg - John Henry - Kristina Olsen - Reno Factory - "Bowling Green" John Cephas - Mississippi Blues - Roy Book Binder - One-Dime Blues - Etta Baker Easydisc CD 7051
11	1999	Living Country Blues: An Anthology disc 1:   Mississippi Moan - Catfish Blues - James Thomas - Bye Bye Blues - Arzo Youngblood - Gonna Cut You Loose - Eddie Cusic - You Gonna Take Sick And Die - Boyd Rivers - Maggie Campbell Blues - Bill Webb - Sittin' on Top Of The World - Sam Chatmon - Move Daniel - Cora Fluker - My Babe - Othar Turner - Boogie Chillen - Lonnie Pitchford - Bull Cow Blues - James Thomas - Stop And Listen Blues - Sam Chatmon - Swing, Swing - Arzo Youngblood - Jazz Boogie Woogie - Stonewall Mays - Jesus On The Mainline - Boyd Rivers - Shake Your Money Makeer - Lonnie Pitchford - Rock Me Mama - James Thomas / Cleveland Jones - Big Road Blues - Bill Webb - My Daddy Was A Jockey - Sam Chatmon - That's The Boogie - Napoleon Strickland - Vicksburg Blues - Sam Chatmon - Mississippi Moan - Walter Brown - When I Lay Down My Burden - Othar Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band disc 2:   Lonesome Road Blues (East Coast) - Lonesome Road Blues - Guitar Frank (Hovington) - Baby Please Give Me A Break - Archie Edwards - Road Is Rough And Rocky - Archie Edwards - Come On In My Kitchen - Guitar Slim - Bye And Bye, I'm Going To See The King - Flora Molton & The Truth Band - Chimney Hill Breakdown - Guitar Frank (Hovington) - Railroad Bill - Guitar Frank (Hovington) - Chicken Can't Roost Too High For Me - John Cephas - Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad - John Cephas, / Phil Wiggins - Do Lord Remember Me - Archie Edwards - Jelly Roll Baker - Guitar Frank (Hovington) - I'm Feelin' Lonesome - Guitar Slim - My Old Schoolmates - Archie Edwards - Lonesome Home Blues - Guitar Slim - T For Texas - Archie Edwards - Diggin' My Potatoes - Guitar Frank (Hovington) disc 3:   You Got To Move (Tennessee, Arkansas & More) - Vacation In Heaven - Flora Molton & The Truth Band - Granny, Will Your Dog Bite? - Othar Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band - I Laid And I Wondered - James Thomas / Cleveland Jones - I Can't Stand It - Flora Molton & The Truth Band - Mr. Freddie Blues - Memphis Piano Red - Corine, Corrina - Hammie Nixon - Rollin' And Tumblin' - Lottie Murrell - She's Tailor Made - Charlie Sangster - Hounds - Sam Shields - You Got To Move - Boyd Rivers - Let Me Play With Your Poodle - CeDell Davis - Viola Lee Blues - Hammie NIxon - Joe's Prison Camp Holler - Joe Savage - When The Saints Go Marchin' In - Othar Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band - Spoonful - Lottie Murrell, - You Got To Do The Boogie Woogie - CeDell Davis - Trouble Late Last Night - Lottie Murrell - Dry Bones In The Valley - Cora Fluker - I Got a Gal 'Cross The Bottom - Lottie Murrell - Soon One Mornin' - Hammie Nixon - Levee Camp Holler - Walter Brown - Precious Lord - Boyd Rivers photos by Axel Küstner 3 CD set 48-pp. booklet by Brett Bonner and Axel Küstner Evidence ECD 26105-2 Guitar Frank profile by Brett Bonner
12	2000	Frank Hovington: Gone With The Wind - Gone With The Wind [Flyright FLYLP 522]   @ youtube - Lonesome Road Blues [Flyright FLYLP 522]   @ youtube - Digging My Potatoes / Who's Been Fooling You [previously unissued] - 90 Going North (instr) [Flyright FLYLP 522]   @ youtube - Nobody's Darling But Mine [previously unissued] - Got No Lovin' Baby Now [Flyright FLYLP 522] - John Henry [Flyright FLYLP 522] - Mean Old Frisco [Flyright FLYLP 522]   @ youtube - Railroad Bill [Library of Congress LBC 6] - Trouble In Mind [previously unissued] - Where Could I Go But To The Lord [Flyright FLYLP 522]   @ youtube - This Heart Of Mine [previously unissued]   @ youtube - Blood Red River [Flyright FLYLP 522]   @ youtube - Sing Sing Blues [Flyright FLYLP 522] - I'm Talking 'Bout You [Flyright FLYLP 522] - C.C. Blues (instr) [] [Flyright FLYLP 522]   @ youtube - You Rascal You [] [previously unissued]   @ youtube - Old Blue [Library of Congress LBC 13] - Who's Been Foolin' You [Flyright FLYLP 522] Frank Hovington, voc, g, [] banjo notes (3/1976 & 6/2000) by Bruce Bastin 2000 notes by Dick Spottswood 2000 notes by Bruce Bastin Flyright FLYCD 66 review by John Miller
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Sources / Further reading: - own record collection - Bruce Bastin: Red River Blues - The Blues Tradition in the Southeast.- Chicago (University of Illinois Press) 1986, p. 311-312 - Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 330 - Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- p. 250 - "Frank Hovington".- Living Blues 53 (1982), p. 48 - "Frank Hovington: Lonesome Road Blues".- Sing Out! 28 (1980), no. 6, p.22-23 - https://blogs.lib.unc.edu/sfc/index.php/tag/frank-hovington/ - eBay auctions - diverse internet resources   "The nearest small town to the Hovington home (and its postal address) was Felton but Frank always spoke of his family as living in the Frederica community" (from Bruce Bastin's 2000 notes to Flyright FLYCD 66).   Frank Hovington, voc, g; -1 guitar solo Frederica, Del. (at Frank Hovington's home near Felton), July 5, 1975   - Gone With The Wind Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66   - Lonesome Road Blues Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66   - Digging My Potatoes / Who's Been Fooling You Flyright CD 66   - 90 Going North -1 Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66   - Nobody's Darling But Mine Flyright CD 66   - Got No Lovin' Baby Now Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66   - John Henry Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66   - Mean Old Frisco Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66, Rounder ROUNAN20, Rounder ROUNAN25, Easydisc 7051   - Railroad Bill LoC LBC 6,   Flyright CD 66   - Trouble In Mind Flyright CD 66   - Where Could I Go But To The Lord Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66   - This Heart Of Mine Flyright CD 66   Frank Hovington, voc, g; -1 banjo solo, -2 voc, banjo   Frederica, Del. (at Frank Hovington's home near Felton), July 6 1975   - Blood Red River Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66   - Sing Sing Blues Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66 - I'm Talking 'Bout You Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66   - C.C. Blues -1 Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66   - You Rascal You -2 Flyright CD 66   - Old Blue LoC LBC 13, Flyright CD 66   - Who's Been Foolin' You Flyright 522, Flyright CD 66   Frank Hovington, voc, g; -1 guitar solo   Frederica, Del. (on the front porch of his mother's home), October 11, 1980   - Lonesome Road Blues L+R 42.030, Evidence 26105-2, L+R LRCD 711921   - Fly Right Baby L+R 42.038,L+R LRCD 712423   - Chimney Hill Breakdown -1 L+R 42.038, Evidence 26105-2, L+R LRCD 712423   - Railroad Bill L+R 42.038, Evidence 26105-2, L+R LRCD 712423   - Jelly Roll Baker L+R 42.038, Evidence 26105-2, L+R LRCD 712423   - Freight Train L+R 42.038,L+R LRCD 712423   - Diggin' My Potatoes L+R 42.038, Evidence 26105-2, L+R LRCD 712423   - Go Down Moses L+R 42.041,L+R LRCD 712126 - 90 Goin' North -1 L+R 42.042,L+R LRCD 712027 - Trouble In Mind L+R 42.042,L+R LRCD 712027   - Mama Don't Allow L+R 42.042,L+R LRCD 712027   - Key To The Highway L+R 42.042,L+R LRCD 712027   Frank Hovington 1971 source: LoC LBC 6 notes photographer: Bengt Olsson