Illustrated Luke Jordan discography

only known photo of L U K E J O R D A N; from 78 Quarterly 7 (1992), p. 72
Luke Jordan in the 1940s, only known photo; photographer: Henry Smith
source: 78 Quarterly 7 (1992), p. 72
Luke Jordan
b. January 28, 1892 in Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia
d. June 25, 1952 in Lynchburg, Lynchburg City, Virginia
buried at Forest Hill Burial Park in Lynchburg, Lynchburg City, Virginia
discography

#	year of release	title / label / notes
*10 inch 78 rpm*
		- Church Bells Blues (39819-1) @ Spotify - Pick Poor Robin Clean (39820-1) @ Spotify rec. August 16, 1927 in Charlotte, NC; Luke Jordan, voc, g Victor unissued RCA INT 1175 (1970)
1	1/1928	Luke Jordan - Pick Poor Robin Clean (39820-2) @ youtube @ Spotify - Traveling Coon (39822-1) @ youtube @ Spotify rec. August 16, 1927 in Charlotte, NC; Luke Jordan, voc, g Number Sold: 5973 Victor 20957
2	2/1928	Luke Jordan - Church Bells Blues (39819-2) @ youtube @ Spotify - Cocaine Blues (39821-2) @ youtube @ Spotify rec. August 16, 1927 in Charlotte, NC; Luke Jordan, voc, g Number Sold: 10137 Victor 21076
3	1930	Luke Jordan - Won't You Be Kind? (57704-3) @ youtube @ Spotify - My Gal's Done Quit Me (57703-1) @ youtube @ Spotify rec. November 18, 1929 in New York City; Luke Jordan, voc, g Number Sold: 1966 Victor V-38500 series running from April 1929 to October 1930 (V-38631) Victor V-38564
4	7/1933	Luke Jordan - If I Call You Mama (57705- ) @ youtube @ Spotify - Tom Brown Sits In His Prison Cell (57707- ) @ youtube @ Spotify rec. November 19, 1929 in New York City; Luke Jordan, voc, g only one known copy (used for all (?) existing re-releases: In the 1990s John R T Davies had access to the EMI archives at Hayes) Victor 23400
		- Look Up, Look Down (57706-2) - That's A Plenty (57708-2) rec. November 19, 1929 in New York City; Luke Jordan, voc, g Victor unissued
*LP / CD compilations*
5	1964	The Country Blues Volume Two Texas Alexander - Levee Camp Moan Peg Leg Howell - Tishamingo Blues Henry Townsend - Mistreated Blues Eddie Kelly's Washboard Band - Poole County Blues Papa Charlie Jackson - Papa's Lawdy Lawdy Blues "Georgia Bill" - Scarey Day Blues Luke Jordan - Church Bells Blues Bo Carter - I'm An Old Bumble Bee Charlie Lincoln - Jealous Hearted Blues Bukka White - Strange Place Blues Blind Boy Fuller with Sonny Terry - Bye Bye Baby Blues Charlie Pickett - Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon Brownsville Son Bonds - Weary Worried Big Maceo with Tampa Red - Maceo's 32 - 20 Compiled and edited by Samuel Charters RBF 9 (US 1964) RBF discography
6	1968	The East Coast States (1927-1940) Georgia - Carolinas - Virginia Peg Leg Howell - Ball And Chain Blues - Away From Home Kokomo Arnold - A Salty Dog Lonnie Coleman - Wild About My Loving Sylvester Weaver & Walter Beasley - St. Louis Blues - Bottleneck Blues Will Bennett - Railroad Bill Buddy Moss - Gravy Server Andrew & Jim Baxter - Bamalong Blues Lil McClintock - Don't Think I'm Santa Claus Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - Gonna Tip Out Tonight Blind Boy Fuller - Crooked Woman Blues - Somebody's Been Talkin' Luke Jordan - My Gal's Done Quit Me William Moore - Ragtime Crazy Roots RL 318 (Austria 1968) Roots Records discography
7	196?	The East Coast States Vol. 2 (1924-1938) Georgia - Carolinas - Virginia Sylvester Weaver - I'm Busy And You Can't Come In - Guitar Rag Curley Weaver - Oh Lawdy Mama - Fried Pie Blues Blind Willie McTell - Hillbilly Willie's Blues Julius Daniels & Bubba Lee Torrence - I'm Gonna Tell God How You Doin' - My Mamma Was A Sailor Willie Baker - Bad Luck Moan Joe Linthecome - Pretty Mama Blues Virgil Childers - Travellin' Man - Preacher And The Bear Barbecue Bob - Poor Boy A Long Way From Home Andrew & Jim Baxter - K. C. Railroad Blues Luke Jordan - Traveling Coon - Pick Poor Robin Clean - Cocaine Blues Roots RL 326 (Austria 196?) Roots Records discography
8	1970	Travellin' This Lonesome Road An Anthology Of The Victor/Bluebird Catalogues Luke Jordan - Church Bells Blues (tk 1) [previously unissued] - Pick Poor Robin Clean (tk 1) [previously unissued] 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 notes by Neil Slaven RCA International (Camden) INT 1175 = RCA 731.046
9	1978	Virginia Traditions - Western Piedmont Blues Clayton Horsley - My Little Woman John Tinsley - Penitentiary Blues James Lowry - Tampa Blues Marvin Foddrell - Who's Been Fooling You Luke Jordan - Won't You Be Kind Lewis "Rabbit" Muse - Jailhouse Blues Richard Wright - Peakesville Boogie Turner Foddrell - Slow Drag James Lowry - Karo Street Blues Luke Jordan - My Gal's Done Quit Me Turner Foddrell - Going Up To The Country Lewis "Rabbit" Muse - Rabbit Stomp Marvin Foddrell - Looking For My Woman John Tinsley - Red River Blues Clayton Horsley - Don't The Moon Look Pretty James Lowry - Early Morning Blues Herbert Richardson/William Richardson - Tell Me Baby 18-pp. notes by Kip Lornell with Brett Sutton, Dell Upton & Mike Mayo Blue Ridge Institute BRI 003 (US 1978) = Global Village C 1003 (cassette) (US 1993) = Global Village CD 1003 (US 1995)
10	1979	Reefer Madness - Weed - Bea Foote - Cocaine - Dick Justice - Willie The Chimney Sweeper - Ernest Rodgers - Reefer Head Woman - Jazz Gillum & His Jazz Boys - The Mess Is Here - Cow Cow Davenport - Pipe Dream Blues - Josie Miles - Willie The Weeper - Frankie 'Half Pint' Jackson - Cocaine Blues - Luke Jordan - Save The Roach For Me - Buck Washington - Muggles - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra - Kokey Joe - Mills Blue Rhythm Band - Sendin' The Vipers - Mezz Mezzrow & His Orchestra - Viper's Drag - Fats Waller - Viper's Dream - Quintette of the Hot Club of France - Chant Of The Weed - Don Redman & His Orchestra - Blue Reefer Blues - Richard Jones & His Jazz Wizards prod. by Bernard Brightman notes (April 1979) by Larry Sloman Stash ST 119 (US 1979) Stash discography
11	1984	Songsters & Saints Vocal Traditions on Race Records Vol. 2 LP 1: Medicine Show Songsters Papa Charlie Jackson - I'm Alabama Bound - Long Gone Lost John Cannon's Jug Stompers - My Money Never Runs Out Banjo Joe (Gus Cannon) - Can You Blame The Colored Man Jim Jackson - Bye, Bye, Policeman - My Monday Woman Blues - Old Dog Blue Beale Street Sheiks (Stokes and Sane) - Mr. Crump Don't Like It - Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon Songsters East and West Stovepipe No. 1 and David Crockett - A Chicken Can Waltz The Gravy Around - A Woman Get's Tired Of The Same Man All The Time Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas" - Old Country Stomp - Bob McKinney - Arkansas Luke Jordan - Traveling Coon - Cocaine Blues Blind Blake - He's In The Jail House Now - West Coast Blues / Dry Bone Shuffle [?] LP 2: The Straining Preachers Rev. J.C. Burnett - The Donfall Of Nebuchadnezzar - The Gambler's Doom Rev. J.M. Gates - Yonder Comes My Lord With A Bible In His Hand - God's Wrath In The St. Louis Cyclone - The Eagle Stirs Her Nest Rev. F.W. McGee - The Half Ain't Never Been Told - Jonah In The Belly Of The Whale Rev. D.C. Rice - Come And See - We Got The Same Kind Of Power Over Here Saints of Church and Street Arizona Dranes - It's All Right Now - Just Look Blind Joe Taggart - God's Gonna Separate The Wheat From Tares - There's A Hand Writing On The Wall Blind Willie Johnson - If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down - God Moves On The Water - The Rain Don't Fall On Me Elders McIntosh and Edwards - The Latter Rain Is Fall Memphis Sanctified Singers - He Got Better Things For You gatefold DLP notes by Paul Oliver Matchbox MSEX 2003/2004 (UK 1984) This DLP set was issued to complement Paul Oliver's book "Songsters & Saints: Vocal Traditions On Race Records".- Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 1984: Matchbox Records discography
12	1990	The Songster Tradition Papa Harvey Hull & 'Long Cleve' Reed - Gang Of Brown Skin Women - Hey! Lawdy Mama - The France Blues - Two Little Tommie Blues - Don't You Leave Me Here - Mama You Don't Know How - Original Stack O'lee Blue - Quill Blues - Goin' To Leave You Blues William & Versey Smith - I Believe I'll Go Back Home - When That Great Ship Went Down - Everybody Help The Boys Come Home - Sinner You'll Need King Jesus Luke Jordan - Church Bells Blues (tk 1) ("unissued") # - Church Bells Blues (tk 2) - Pick Poor Robin Clean (tk 1) ("unissued") # - Pick Poor Robin Clean (tk 2) - Cocaine Blues - Travelin' Coon - My Gal's Done Quit Me - Won't You Be Kind Eli Framer - Framer's Blues - God Didn't Make Me No Monkey Man Louie Lasky - How You Want Your Rollin' Done - Teasin' Brown Blues - Caroline # actually "unissued" on 78 rpm, but previously issued on RCA International INT 1175 !!! Document DOCD 5045 (Austria 1990)
13	1996	The Blues Collection Vol. 84 - East Coast Blues Bobbie Leecan's Need-More Band - Wash-Board Cut Out Julius Daniels - Ninety-Nine Year Blues Blind Blake - Southern Rag Luke Jordan - If I Call You Mama [Victor 23400] Jack Gowdlock - Poor Jane Blues Peg Leg Howell & Eddie Anthony - Turkey Buzzard Blues Luke Jordan - Pick Poor Robin Clean Jack Gowdlock - Rollin' Dough Blues Julius Daniels & Bubba Lee Torrence - Slippin' And Slidin' Up The Golden Street Luke Jordan - Tom Brown Sits In His Prison Cell [Victor 23400] Blind Blake - Depression's Gone From Me Blues Blind Boy Fuller - Walking And Looking Blues Boy Green - Play My Juke Box Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Carolina Blues Gabriel Brown - Down In The Bottom Skoodle Dum Doo & Sheffield Seth Richard(s) - Gas Ration Blues Marylin Scott - I Got What My Daddy Likes Boy Green - A And B Blues Sunny Jones - Don't Want Pretty Women Skoodle Dum Doo & Sheffield Seth Richard(s) - Tampa Blues prod. by Tony Russell; remastered by John R T Davis Orbis BLU NC084
14	1996	Before The Blues Vol. 3 - The Early American Black Music Scene Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s - Frisco Town - Memphis Minnie - Spike Driver Blues - Mississippi John Hurt - Feather Bed - Cannon's Jug Stompers - Fox And The Hounds - Henry Thomas - A Lazy Farmer Boy - Buster Carter / Preston Young - Pick Poor Robin Clean - Luke Jordan - Nappy Head Blues - Bobby Grant - Sourwood Mountain - Taylor's Kentucky Boys - Levee Camp Moan Blues - Alger "Texas" Alexander - John Henry Blues - Joe Evans / Arthur McClain - Coming To Christ - Biddleville Quintette - House Carpenter - Clarence Ashley - Furniture Man - Lil McClintock - Alabama Strut - Charles 'Cow Cow' Davenport - Kassie Jones, Pt. 1 - Furry Lewis - Thousand Woman Blues - Blind Boy Fuller - Champaign Charlie Is My Name - Blind Blake - Molly Man - Moses Mason - Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon - Frank Stokes - Little Birdie - John Hammond - Black Skunk Blues - Barbecue Bob - Drunkard's Special - Coley Jones - Easy Winner - Blue Boys Yazoo CD 2017 (US 1996) Yazoo Records discography
15	1996	The Roots Of Rap Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s Blind Willie Johnson - If I Had My Way I'd Tear This Building Down Luke Jordan - Cocaine Blues Allen Brothers - Bow Wow Blues Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon - Jive Man Blues Henry Thomas - Jonah In The Wilderness Willie Walker - South Carolina Rag Memphis Jug Band - Whitewash Station Red Henderson - Automobile Ride Through Alabama Speckled Red - The Dirty Dozen No. 2 Butterbeans & Susie - 'Tain't None O' Your Business Beale Street Sheiks - It's A Good Thing Jimmie Davis - She's A Hum Dum Dinger Leroy Carr - Papa's On The House Top Rev. Edward W. Clayborn - Let That Liar Alone Frank Hutchinson - Back In My Home Town T.C.I. Section Crew - Track Linin Blind Willie McTell - Atlanta Strut Lonnie Glosson - Arkansas Hard Luck Blues Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom - How Can You Have The Blues? Seven Foot Dilly & His Dill Pickles - Pickin' Off Peanuts Pine Top Smith - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out Dixieland Jug Blowers - When I Stopped Running I Was At Home Memphis Minnie - Frankie Jean prod. by Don Kent & Richard Nevins; remastered (directly from original 78s) by Richard Nevins notes by Don Kent Yazoo CD 2018 (US 1996) Yazoo Records discography
16	1997	Raggin' The Blues - East Coast Blues Luke Jordan - Church Bell Blues - Pick Poor Robin Clean - Cocaine Blues Indigo IGOCD 2044 (UK 1997)
17	1998	Too Late, Too Late Vol. 8 - Who Broke Lock - Unique Quartette - Those Worrying Blues - Unknown Female Singer - Mama Goes Where Papa Goes - Unknown Female Singer - Ain't Trustin' Nobody No More - Billy Higgins & Alberta Perkins - Nobody Else Can Take Your Place - Billy Higgins & Alberta Perkins - Say Mister! Have You Met Rosie's Sister! - Missouri-Pacific Diamond Jubilee Quartette - Medley OF Southern Songs - Missouri-Pacific Diamond Jubilee Quartette - Curious Blues - Dorothy & Hezekiah Jenkins - Miserable Blues - Dorothy & Hezekiah Jenkins - Southern Shout (Take 2) - Dixieland Jug Blowers - Jail Break Blues - Texas Tommy - Trinity River Bottom Blues - Texas Tommy - If I Call You Mama [Victor 23400] - Luke Jordan # - Tom Brown Sits In His Prison Cell [Victor 23400] - Luke Jordan # - Stand By Me - Sister Clara Hudmon - I Want To See Jesus - Sister Clara Hudmon - Poor Jane Blues - Jack Gowdlock - Rollin' Dough Blues - Jack Gowdlock - Early In The Morning - Jazz Gillum - Harmonica Stomp - Jazz Gillum - Gone Dry Blues - Joshua White - I See My Great MisTake (tk 2) - Memphis Slim - Lend Me Your Love (tk 2) - Memphis Slim - Cross Cut Saw Blues (tk 2) - Tommy McClennan - Bluebird Blues (tk 2) - Tommy McClennan # most likely taken from Orbis BLU NC084 Document DOCD 5574 (Austria 1998)
18	1999	Broke, Black And Blue An Anthology Of Blues Classics And Rarities disc 1: Up Country Blues - Barrel House Blues - Ed Andrews - Georgia Stockade Blues - Tom Delaney - Sun Brimmers Blues - Memphis Jug Band - Goin' To Leave You Blues - Big Boy Cleveland - Dry Bone Shuffle - Blind Blake - Up Country Blues - DeFord Bailey - Dead Drunk Blues - Sippie Wallace - Original Stack O'Lee Blues - Long 'Cleve' Reed - Easy Rider Don't You Deny My Name - Barbecue Bob - Bo Lita - Kid Brown - Everybody Help The Boys Come Home - William & Versey Smith - Church Bells Blues - Luke Jordan - Two Ways To Texas - Emery Glen - It Won't Be Long Now - Barbecue Bob & Laughing Charley - Bottleneck Blues - Weaver & Beasley - Rock Island Blues - Lewis Black - Midnight Blues - Bill Moore - Fare Thee Blues - Johnnie Head - My Monday Woman Blues - Jim Jackson - What's The Matter Blues - Frank Stokes - School Girl Blues - Rosie Mae Moore - Cool Drink Of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson - Left Alone Blues - Ishman Bracey - T And T Blues - Mooch Richardson - TC Johnson Blues - T. C. Johnson disc 2: Broke & Hungry Blues - Ham Hound Crave - Rube Lacey - No More Women Blues - Alger "Texas" Alexander - How Long, How Long Blues - Willie Jackson - Unknown Blues - Tarter & Gay - Chicken Wilson Blues - Chicken Wilson - Stack O' Lee Blues - Mississippi John Hurt - Broke And Hungry Blues - Peg Leg Howell - Funny Feathers - Victoria Spivey - Pitchin' Boogie - William Ezell - Mr- Devil Blues - Jed Davenport - Mississippi Bottom Blues - Kid Bailey - Weary Heart Blues - James Wiggins - Poor Man Blues - Henry Townsend - Framer's Blues - Eli Framer - Trinity River Blues - T-Bone Walker - Heavy Suitcase Blues - Charley Taylor - Traveling Mama Blues - Joe Calicott - Jumpin' And Shoutin' Blues - Garfield Akers - Bedside Blues - Jim Thompkins - Walking Blues - Son House - Future Blues - Willie Brown - Long Ways from Home - Louise Johnson - Frisco Blues - Bayless Rose - Good Boy Blues - Arthur Petties - No Special Rider Blues - Little Brother Montgomery disc 3: Good Whiskey Blues - Married Man Blues - Blind Willie Reynolds - Dupree Blues - Willie Walker - 22-20 Blues - Skip James - Lonesome Road Blues - Sam Collins - Midnight Hour Blues - Leroy Carr - Fat Mama Blues - Jabo Williams - Never Mind Blues - Georgia Boyd - Twelves (Dirty Dozens) - Kokomo Arnold - Little Leg Woman - Big Joe Williams - That's What My Baby Likes - Bessie Jackson - Good Whiskey Blues - Peetie Wheatstraw - Strut That Thing - Cripple Clarence Lofton - Teasin' Brown Blues - Louie Lasky - Cold Blooded Murder, No.2 - Bumble Bee Slim - Baby You Gotta Change Your Mind - Blind Boy Fuller - Ashes In My Whiskey - Walter Davis - It's Cold in China Blues - The Mississippi Moaner - Jockey Blues - Jazz Gillum - Prisoner Blues - George Clarke - Back Door Blues - Casey Bill Weldon - Don't Sell It (Don't Give It Away) - Buddy Woods - Booker T. Blues - Washboard Sam - Hard Scufflin' Blues - Little Buddy Doyle - Jersey Belle Blues - Lonnie Johnson - Baby, Please Don't Tell On Me - Tommy McClennan disc 4: Jumpin' At The Club Blue Flame - East St.Louis Blues - Faber Smith, Jimmy Yancey - Bukka's Jitterbug Swing - Bukka White - Can't You Read - Big Maceo Merriweather - Life Is Like That - Memphis Slim - Memory Of Sonny Boy - Forrest City Joe - Horse Shoe Boogie - Lee Brown - Ruby Moore Blues - Lee Brown - Low Land Blues - Lee Brown - Round The World Blues - Lee Brown - Rock That Boogie - Jimmie Gordon - Fast Life - Jimmie Gordon - Mistreated Blues - Jimmie Gordon - I Ain't Like That No More - Jimmie Gordon - Chain Gang Blues - Johnny Temple - Yum, Yum, Yum - Johnny Temple - My Baby's Acting Funny - Jimmie Gordon - It's Time To Go - Jimmie Gordon - That Woman's A Pearl Diver - Jimmie Gordon - Jumpin' At The Club Blue Flame - Jimmie Gordon - I Believe I'll Go Downtown Again - Johnny Temple - Something In The Moon That Gives Me A Thrill - Johnny Temple - Dixie Flyer - Johnny Temple - Believe My Sins Have Found Me Out - Johnny Temple - Rhythm Mama - Johnny Temple - New Little Girl, Little Girl - Lee Brown 4 CD set 40-pp. booklet by Joop Visser Proper CDBOX 7 (UK 1999)
19	200?	The Songsters Tradition Before The Blues Dick Justice - Cocaine Luke Jordan - Pick Poor Robin Clean Saga CD 11
20	2001	East Coast Blues disc 1: - Crow Jane - Julius Daniels - My Mamma Was A Sailor - Julius Daniels - Georgia Stomp - Andrew And Jim Baxter - Shake That Shimmy - Blind Boy Fuller - Poor And Ain't Got A Dime - Floyd Council - Blood Red River Blues - Josh White - Gonna Tip Out Tonight - Pink Anderson - Won't You Be Kind - Luke Jordan - Long And Tall - Kokomo Arnold - Georgia Rag - Blind Willie McTell - Waycross Georgia Blues - Barbecue Bob - Next Door Man - Georgia Browns - Tricks Ain't Walkin' No More - Curley Weaver - You Got To Give Me Some Of It - Buddy Moss/Josh White - Daddy Don't Care - Buddy Moss - Me And My Dog Blues - Brownie McGhee - Let's Have A New Deal - Carl Martin - Champagne Charlie Is My Name - Blind Blake - Please Ma'am - Peg Leg Howell - Ball And Chain Blues - Peg Leg Howell - Georgia Crawl - Henry Williams/Eddie Anthony - Ragtime Millionaire - William Moore - Barbershop Rag - William Moore disc 2: - South Carolina Rag - Willie Walker - Dupree Blues - Willie Walker - Poor Jane Blues - Jack Gowdlock - Rollin' Dough Blues - Jack Gowdlock - Royal Palm Special Blues - Sloppy Henry - Long, Tall Disconnected Mama - Sloppy Henry - Decatur Street Drag - Guy Lumpkin - Chain Gang Trouble - Charlie Lincoln - Jealous Hearted Blues - Charlie Lincoln - Rag Baby - Willie Baker - Rolling Mama - Fred McMullen - Poor Stranger Blues - Fred McMullen - Hot Jelly Roll - George Carter - Ghost Woman Blues - George Carter - Come On In Here Mama - Richard And Welly Trice - Trembling Bed Spring Blues - Richard And Welly Trice - Harmonica And Washboard Breakdown - Sonny Terry - Georgia Skin - Walter Beasley - Southern Man Blues - Walter Beasley - Unknown Blues - Tarter And Gay - Brownie Blues - Tarter And Gay - Mama, You Gotta Get It Fixed - Troy Ferguson - Tampa Blues - Skoodle Dum Doo And Sheffield 2 CD set notes by Keith Briggs Catfish KATCD 178 (UK 2001) Catfish Records (UK) discography
21	2001	Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey Luke Jordan - Church Bell Blues Document DOCD-32-20-02 (UK 2001)
22	2002	Country Blues - the essential CD 1: - Weeping Willow - Blind Boy Fuller - Little Rock Blues - Pearl Dickson - Weak-Minded Woman - Willie Baker - Saturday Blues - Ishman Bracey - Rolling Log Blues - Lottie Kimborough - Starvation Farm Blues - Bob Campbell - California Desert Blues - Lane Hardin - Fence Breakin' Blues - Shreveport Home Wreckers - Mississippi Jailhouse Groan - Rube Lacey - Charming Betsy - Henry Thomas - Mamlish Blues - Barefoot Bill - Easy Rider Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Davidson County Blues - De Ford Baily - Kentucky Blues - Little Hat Jones - Cocaine Blues - Luke Jordan - Mama, You Gotta Get It Fixed - Troy Ferguson - One Way Gal - William Moore - Two Time Blues - Arthur Petties CD 2: - Hambone Willie's Dreamy-Eyed Woman's Blues - Hambone Willie Newbern - Police Sargeant Blues - Robert Wilkins - Penal Farm Blues - Scrapper Blackwell - Ghost Woman Blues - George Carter - Indian Squaw Blues - Freezone - Unknown Blues - Tarter & Gay - Nehi Mamma Blues - Frank Stokes - I Ain't Givin' Nobody None - Mae Glover - Happy Blues - Tom Dickson - Cairo Blues - Henry Spaulding - C.C. & O Blues - Pink Anderson and Simmy Dooley - I Will Turn Your Money Green - Furry Lewis - John Henry Blues - Evans & McClain - Jealous Hearted Blues - Charlie Lincoln - Last Kind Words Blues - Geeshie Wiley - Devil In The Woodpile - Noah Lewis - Bye Bye Mama - Buddy Moss - Jailhouse Fire Blues - Walter 'Buddy Boy' Hawkins 2 CD set notes by Gary Atkinson Document CBL-200008 (UK 2002)
23	2005	Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice Blues, Ballads, Rags and Gospel in the Songster Tradition disc 1: Richard 'Rabbit' Brown - James Alley - Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice - I'm Not Jealous - Mystery Of The Dunbar's Child - Sinking Of The Titanic Papa Harvey Hull - Gang Of Brown Skin Women - Hey! Lawdy Mama (The France Blues) - Two Little Tommie Blues - Don't You Leave Me Here Big Boy Cleveland - Quill Blues - Goin' To Leave You Blues - I Believe I'll Go Back Home - Original Stack O' Lee Blues William Smith - I Believe I'll Go Back Home - When That Great Ship Went Down - Everybody Help The Boys Come Home - Sinner, You'll Need King Jesus Luke Jordan - Church Bells Blues (tk 1) - Church Bells Blues (tk 2) - Pick Poor Robin Clean (tk 1) - Pick Poor Robin Clean (tk 2) - Cocaine Blues - Traveling Coon - My Gal's Done Quit Me - Won't You Be Kind? disc 2: Luke Jordan - If I Call You Mama - Tom Brown Sits In His Prison Cell Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie - Nobody's Dirty Business - Ain't No Tellin' - Louis Collins - Avalon Blues - Big Leg Blues - Stack O' Lee Blues - Candy Man Blues - Got The Blues Can't Be Satisfied - Blessed Be The Name - Praying On The Old Camp Ground - Blue Harvest Blues - Spike Driver Blues Hambone Willie Newbern - She Could Toodle-Oo - Nobody Knows (What The Good Deacon Does) - Shelby County Workhouse - Way Down In Arkansas - Hambone Willie's Dreamy Eyed Woman's Blues - Roll And Tumble Blues Eli Framer - Framer's Blues - God Didn't Make No Monkey Man Louie Lasky - How You Want Your Rollin' Done - Teasin' Brown Blues - Caroline disc 3: Cedar Creek Sheik - Ford V-8 - Watch The Fords Go By - Mary Had A Little Lamb - She's Totin' Something Good - What A Pity - I Believe Somebody's Ridin' My Mule - Don't Use That Stuff - Buy It From The Poultry Man - Don't Credit My Stuff - Jimmy Shut His Store Doors Robert Hill - I Had A Gal For The Last Fifteen Years - Tell Me What's Wrong With You - You Gonna Look Like A Monkey When You Get Old - G Blues - Just Smilin' - Pal, How I Miss You Tonight - Lumber-Yard Blues - I'm Going To Write And Tell My Mother - It Is So Good - Hill's Hot Sauce Virgil Childers - Dago Blues - Red River Blues - Who's That Knockin' At My Door - Somebody Stole My Jane - Travelin' Man - Preacher And The Bear Document DOCD-5678 (UK 2005)
24	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 [Victor 23400] 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 "Remastered from original recordings by Richard Nevins. Records used were from the collections of Richard Nevins, Pete Whelan, Frank Mare, Dave Freeman, Joe Bussard, Chris King, Mark Blaesing, John Coffee, John Tefteller, Richards Spottswood, Don Kent." double CD Yazoo YAZ CD 2202 (US 2006) Yazoo Records discography
25	8/2014	Charlotte Blues Luke Jordan - Church Bells Blues The Georgia Yellow Hammers - G Rag Hambone - Beans Beans Peg Leg Abney - Ev'rything I Got Belongs To You Jack Gowdlock - Poor Jane Roosevelt Antrim - Complaint To Make Scottie Nesbitt - Troubled And Blue Luke Jordan - Pick Poor Robin Clean Cedar Creek Sheik - Ford V-8 Curtis Henry - County Jail Blues Eddie Kelly's Washboard Band - Poole County Blues Andrew & Jim Baxter - Bamalong Blues Roosevelt Antrim - I Guess You're Satisfied Peg Leg Abney - Dirty Double Crosser Luke Jordan - Cocaine Blues Virgil Childers - Travellin' Man Eddie Kelly's Washboard Band - Goin' Back To Alabama Jack Gowdlock - Rollin' Dough Blues Scottie Nesbitt - Sundown Blues Cedar Creek Sheik - Jimmy Shut His Store Doors Andrew & Jim Baxter - K.C. Railroad Blues Beans Hambone - Tippin' Out Luke Jordan - Travelling Coon Virgil Childers - Preacher And The Bear Curtis Henry - The Worried Blues Andrew & Jim Baxter - The Moore Girl Nehi NEH 06

Other artist's **Covers of Luke Jordan songs**
#	year of release	Artist: Record Title - featured Luke Jordan song	label # / notes
1	1929	Dick Justice - Cocaine (C3516) - Old Black Dog (C3513) rec. in Chicago, Illinois, May 20, 1929 10 inch 78 rpm Brunswick 395 Brunswick 100 series
2	1931	Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas - Pick Poor Robin Clean - Eagles On A Half rec. in Grafton, Wisconsin, c. march 1931 10 inch 78 rpm Paramount 13074
3	1961?	Ralph Willis: Alabama Blues - Lazy Woman Blues - Goodbye Blues - Church Bell Blues - Tell Me Pretty Baby Esquire EP 241
4	1964	The Country Girls! 1927 - 1935 Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas - Last Kind Words - Motherless Child Blues - Pick Poor Robin Clean Origin Jazz Library OJL-6 OJL Records discography
5	1970	54 King Street, New York, N.Y. 10014 245 Waverly Place, New York, N.Y. 10014 Larry Johnson: Fast & Funky@ youtube (full album playlist) - Keep It Clean @ youtube - Charley Stone @ youtube - Four Women Blues @ youtube - Nobody's Business If I Do @ youtube - Pick Poor Robin Clean @ youtube - Up North Blues @ youtube - The Beat From Rampart Street @ youtube - Spoonful Blues @ youtube - Two White Horses @ youtube - Ragged And Dirty @ youtube - Cookbook @ youtube - Frisco Blues @ youtube - My Game Blues # @ youtube - Lordy Good Lord @ youtube rec. April 10, 1970 in New York, NY by Nick Perls; Larry Johnson, voc, g; # Nick Perls, 2nd g Blue Goose 2001 front cover photo by Peter Vogel Larry Johnson discography notes by Stephen Calt Blue Goose 2001 (US 1970) Blue Goose 2001 (US 1974) Blue Goose Records discography = Baltimore Blues Society no # (US 1996)
6	197?	Ralph Willis: Carolina Blues with Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry - So Many Days - That Gal's No Good - I Will Never Love Again - Goin' To Chatanooga - Church Bells - Cold Chills - Mama Mama Blues - Amen Blues - Good Bye Blues - Salty Dog - Blues Blues Blues - Cool That Thing - Every Day I Weep And Moan - Income Tax Blues rec. 1946 - 1952 Blues Classics BC 22 Blues Classics discography
7	1972	John Miller: First Degree Blues - Church Bell Blues - I Never Cried - Policy Blues - First Degree Blues - Sue Cow - Doing A Stretch - Spanish Breakdown - Mistake In Life - Shady Lane - Dirty Deeds - Who's Been Here - Rope Strechting Blues - Titanic - Policy Blues - Chester County Blue Goose 2007 (US 1972) 2002 reissued on CD by Air Mail Recordings (Jp) AIRAC-1021 Blue Goose discography John Millerdiscography
8	1974	David Bromberg: Wanted Dead or Alive - The Holdup - Someone Else's Blues - Danger Man - The Main Street Moan - Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair - Statesboro Blues / Church Bell Blues - Wallflower - Kansas City - The New Lee Highway Blues Columbia 32717 David Bromberg discography
9	1977	Bob Baxter's Guitar Workshop - Stridin' Blues - Candyman - Church Bell Blues - Winding Boy - Rake And Garden Hoe - Military March - Wilson Rag - Railroad Blues - Early Morning Blues - Blue Smoke - Weeping Willow Blues - Freight Train - Diddie Wa Diddie Kicking Mule KM 136 (US 1977) Kicking Mule discography
10	1978	David Bromberg: My Own House - My Own House (Medley) My Own House (Me Ain Hoose) Hangman's Reel - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down (Medley) Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Roanoke Possum Up A Gum Stump Mississippi Sawyer - Early This Morning - Sheebeg And Sheemore - Cocaine Blues - To Know Her Is To Love Her - Georgia On My Mind - Chump Man Blues - Kitchen Girl - Spanish Johnny - Black And Tan - Lower Left Hand Corner Of The Night Fantasy 9572 re-released on CD: Fantasy CD 24752 David Bromberg discography
11	1979	Roy Bookbinder: Goin' Back To Tampa - Goin' Back To Tampa - Hunkie Tunkie - Church Bell Blues - Biscuits - Scandalous And A Shame - Oh Glory, How Happy I Am - Keep It Clean - Kentucky Blues - Travelin' Man - Cocaine Habit - Every Day Of The Week - Friend Of Mine Flying Fish FF-098 available on cassette Roy Book Binder discography
12	19??	Roy Book Binder: The Tampa Sessions 1979 (with Knocky Parker) - Keep It Clean - Every Day Of The Week - David Travis Rag - Church Bell Blues - Biscuits - Scandalous And A Shame - Friend Of Mine - Travelin' Man - Kentucky Blues - Hunkie Tunke Blues - Goin' Back To Tampa - Babe I Want You To Know - The Cocaine Habit - Oh Glory, How Happy I Am PegLeg CD 7001-2 more info CD available at the Book Store Roy Book Binder discography
12a	1986	Viper Mad Blues 16 Songs of Dope and Depravity - Kickin' The Gong Around - Cab Calloway & His Cotton Club Orchestra - Dope Head Blues - Victoria Spivey - Cocaine Habit Blues - The Memphis Jug Band - Pipe Dream Blues - Hazel Meyers - Smoking Reefers - Larry Adler - Take A Whiff On Me - Leadbelly - Killin' Jive - The Cats & The Fiddle - You'se A Viper - Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys - The Stuff Is Here And It's Mellow - Cleo Brown - Reefer Man - Baron Lee & The Blue Rhythm Band - The Onyx Hop - Frankie Newton & His Uptown Serenaders - Knockin' Myself Out - Lil Green - Junker's Blues - Champion Jack Dupree - Reefer Hound Blues - Curtis Jones - The Reefer Song - Fats Waller - I'm Feeling High And Happy - Gene Krupa & His Orchestra CD bonus tracks: - When I Get Low, I Get High - Chick Webb & His Orchestra - Ol' Man River (Smoke A Little Tea) - Cootie Williams & His Rug Cutter - Blue Reefer Blues - Richard M. Jones & His Jazz Wizards - Cocaine - Dick Justice - Reefer Head Woman - Jazz Gillum & His Jazz Boys - Willie The Weeper - Frankie 'Halfpint' Jaxon - Cocaine Blues - Luke Jordan - Blue Drag - Freddy Taylor & His Swing Men From Harlem - A Viper's Moan - Willie Bryant & His Orchestra Jass 4 = Jass CD 4 "25 songs ..." = Mojo MOJ 306 (1996)
12b	1987	Luke Jordan - Church Bell Blues - Church Bell Blues - Pick Poor Robin Clean - Pick Poor Robin Clean - Cocaine Blues - Traveling Coon - My Gal's Done Quit Me - Won't You Be Kind? Eli Framer - God Didn't Make Me No Monkey Man Eli Framer - Framer's Blues Will Bennett - Railroad Bill - Real Estate Blues Lonnie McIntorsh - Sleep On, Mother Sleep On - The Lion And The Tribes Of Judah - Arise And Shine - How Much I Owe Blind Willie Harris - Does Jesus Care? - Where He Leads Me I Will Follow RST Blues Documents BD-2007
13	1988	Mississippi Girls (1928-1931) Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas - Last Kind Words - Skinny Leg Blues - Motherless Child Blues - Over To My House - Pick Poor Robin Clean - Eagles On A Half RST Blues Documents BD-2018 = Story Of Blues CD SB 3515 (1991)
14	1992	Roy Book Binder: The Hillbilly Blues Cats (with Rock Bottom and Billy Ochoa) - She Did You A Favor - Babe, I Want You To Know - Anywhere You Go - Tired Of Bein' Mistreated - Over To My House - One Meatball - T-Man Blues #2 - Talks All Over Town - Statesboro Blues - Won't You Be Kind - I Got Mine - Mississippi John Rounder CD 3121 more info CD available at the Book Store Roy Book Binder discography
15	1994	Ralph Willis: Complete Works Vol. 2 - Blues, Blues, Blues - I Got A Letter - Income Tax Blues - Bed Tick - Church Bell Blues - Tell Me Pretty Baby - Tell Me Pretty Baby - Goodbye Blues - Lazy Woman Blues - Old Home Blues - Salty Dog - Cold Chills - Amen - Gonna Hop On Down The Line - Do Right - Door Bell Blues - Why'd You Do It - I'm Down Now But I Won't Be Down Always - Jump Little Children Jump - Good Morning Blues - I'm Going Away - Your Sweet Man's Blues - Baby Please Don't Go Back To New Orleans - Sweet Man Blues - She Caught the M & O Document DOCD 5257 Ralph Willis discography
16	1994	Mississippi Blues: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1 Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas - Last Kind Words - Skinny Leg Blues - Pick Poor Robin Clean - Eagles On A Half Document DOCD 5157
17	1994	Mississippi Masters Early American Blues Classics 1927 - 35 Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas - Last Kind Words - Pick Poor Robin Clean Yazoo CD 2007
18	1995	Andy Cohen & David Rice: Grinnin' In Your Face - Davidson County Blues - Jelly Roll - Crow Jane - Come Let Us March - High Society - Coffee Blues - Pea Vine - Freeman Stowers - Grinnin' In Your Face - Riley & Spencer - Till The Last Train - Comes Along - Keep The Statesboro Church Bell Blues Clean - None Of Yer Bizness - Carroll County Blues - West Coast Blues - Mussel Shoals Blues - Johnny Booker - Silver Bells - Cool Iron Bed - Pick Poor Robin Clean - I Had A Good Mother And Father - - Last Chance Blues Marimac (cassette) 8008 Andy Cohen discography
18a	1995	Crumb (the soundtrack album) Craig Ventresco, guitar - Cocaine "(Dick Justice)" Rykodisc RCD 10322
19	11/96	Koerner, Ray & Glover: One Foot In The Groove - Black Jack Davy - Shout Sister Shout - Shenandoah - Terra Mae - Shortnin' Bread - With Body and Soul - Deliah's Gone - France Blues - Dodger - Way Back Down Home - Power Tool - Pick Poor Robin Clean - Boys Were Shooting It Out - You Got to Move - I Ain't Blue Tim/Kerr Records TK 96CD137 Koerner, Ray & Glover discography
20	199?	My Rough & Rowdy Ways Vol. 2 Dick Justice - Cocaine Yazoo CD 2040
21	1997	Old-Time Music from West Virginia (1927-1929) The Williamson Brothers - Cumberland Gap - Warfield - Fun's All Over - Lonesome Road Blues - Old Arm Chair The Williamson Brothers & Curry - Gonna Die With My Hammer in My Hand Dick Justice - Old Black Dog - Little Lulie - Brown Skin Blues - Cocaine - Guian Valley Waltz - Poor Girl's Waltz - Poca River Blues - Muskrat Rag - Henry Lee - One Cold December Day Frank Hutchison - Chevrolet Six - Cumberland Gap - Deal - Railroad Bill - Johnny and Jane, Pt. 1 - Johnny and Jane, Pt. 1 - Cannon Ball Blues - K.C. Blues rec. in Chicago, May 20, 1929 for Brunswick [that's two years after Luke Jordan recorded] notes by Tony Russell Document DOCD 8004
22	1998	Franklin & Harpe: Doin' The Dozens - Pick Poor Robin Clean Rick Franklin & Neil Harpe Patuxent CD HB 1001
23	2000	Old-Time Music of West Virginia Vol. 2 Ballads, Blues and Breakdowns Dick Justice - Black Dog - Cocaine County CD 3519
24	2000	Elijah Wald: Street Corner Cowboys - Pick Poor Robin Clean FOLKWALD 111111 = Black Rose CD 1022
25	2000	Little Rock Blues: The Essential Recordings of Country Girls Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas - Last Kind Words - Pick Poor Robin Clean - Eagle On A Half - Skinny Leg Blues Indigo CD 2124
26	2001	Nick Drake: Time Has Told Me - Cocaine Blues (Luke Jordan) 2 CD set
27	200?	The Songsters Tradition Before The Blues Dick Justice - Cocaine Luke Jordan - Pick Poor Robin Clean Saga CD 11
28	2001	Neil Harpe - Pick Poor Robin Clean Neil Harpe website
29	2002	Robert McCoy: Bye Bye Baby - Bye Bye Baby - Let's Get Together - Pratt City Special - Goin' Down Slow - Church Bell Blues - Gone Mother Blues - Jump Steady Blues - Straight Alky Blues - Washington Heights - Rockin' With Red - Louise Louise Blues - You Got To Reap What You Sow - Call The Wagon - All In All Baby - There'll Be Some Changes Made - Lonesome And Blue - Mr. Freddie Blues - Love Hides All Faults - Sent for You Yesterday - Almighty Rambling - Let's Go Get Stoned previously on two early 1960s Vulcan LPs (Pat Cather's label) Delmark DE-759
30	2002	Erin Harpe: Blues Roots - Chauffer Blues (Memphis Minnie) - Alligatoe Blues (Bessie Smith) - One Thing I lIke About That Man of Mine (William Moore) - Bye Bye Blues (Tommy Johnson) - Big Bad Bill (Yellen/Ager) - In My Girlish Days (Memphis Minnie) - M & O Blues (Lucille Bogan) - You Gonna Quit Me Blues (Blind Blake) - Big Road Blues (Tommy Johnson) - Pick Poor Robin Clean (Geechie Wiley) - Future Blues (Willie Brown) - Stop and Listen Blues (Eleanor Ellis) Juicy Juju Records www.cdbaby.com
31	2002	Billy Goodman: Blues - Church Bell Blues - Kind Hearted Woman - Jitterburg Swing - Pallet On The Floor - When You Got A Good Friend - Easy Rider Blues - Hesitation Blues - Going Home - Stones In My Passway - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning - Hellhound On My Trail - Weststadt Bells www.billygoodman.com
32	2003	Jim Suhler: Dirt Road - Swamp Call - Holly Ridge - Country Girl - Walking On Water - Texas Easy Street - Church Bell Blues - Shake Hands With The Blues - Dallas - Spanish Flagdang - My Morning Prayer - Out On The Western Plain - High Cotton - Tryin' To Get Back Home - Lauri - Dust Devil
Additional information appreciated !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- http://www.unca.edu/~sinclair/piedmontblues/jordan.html
- Don Kent: On the Trail of Luke Jordan.- Blues Unlimited 66 (October 1969), p. 4-6
- Kip Lornell: Virginia's Blues, Country & Gospel Records, 1902-1943: An Annotated Discography. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1989
- Don Kent: First and last days in Lynchburg (A last look at Lynchburg Luke).- 78 Quarterly 5 (1992), p. 71 - 78 (Luke Jordan photo and label scans taken from that publication)
- http://victor.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/talent/detail/10945/Jordan_Luke_vocalist
- http://www.deadbluesguys.com/dbgtour/jordan_luke.htm
source of left column picture: front cover of RCA INT 1175
thanks to 'Southside Bucky', 'Slack' , Montgomery Cleft, Alan Balfour, Snežana Lazarević and Helge Thygesen for additional info / scans

Southeast Blues further reading

Bastin, Bruce: Crying for the Carolines.- London (Studio Vista) 1971

Bastin, Bruce: Red River Blues - The Blues Tradition in the Southeast.- Chicago (University of Illinois Press) 1986

Bastin, Bruce: Truckin' My Blues Away - East Coast Piedmont Styles.- in: Cohn, Lawrence: Nothing But The Blues - The Music and the Musicians.- New York, London, Paris (Abbeville Press) 1993, p. 205 - 231