 Rev Rubin Lacey and wife source: Harris' Blues Who's Who, p. 315; photographer: David Evans | Rube Lacey b. January 2, 1901 in Pelahatchie, Rankin County, Mississippi d. November 14, 1969 (dead on arrival) at Corcoran District Hospital in Corcoran, California1) buried at Union Cemetery in Bakersfield, California discography
1) not in Pelahatchie, MS, as claimed on a "Mississippi Blues Trail" marker installed in February 2009 at 716 Second St. in downtown Pelahatchie! |  Rube Lacey by Robert Crumb |
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 - Black Dog Blues (145347-2) - Long Lonesome Blues (145348-3) - Railroad Blues (145349-2) - Red River Blues (145350-2) rec. December 9, 1927 in Memphis, TN; Rubin Lacey, voc, g Columbia unissued | |||
| 1 | 1928 | Rube Lacy [sic] - Mississippi Jail House Groan (20419-2) @ youtube - Ham Hound Crave (20420-3) * [Ham Hound Gravy] @ youtube rec. March 1928 at Lamar Life Insurance Building, Chicago, IL; Rube Lacey, voc, g; * Ralph Lembo, spoken interjection
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| 2 | 1965 | Country Blues Encores 1927-1935 Ishman Bracey - Saturday Blues Blind Joe Reynolds - Outside Woman Blues Tommy Johnson - Cool Drink Of Water Blues Henry Sims - Farrell Blues Rube Lacey - Mississippi Jailhouse Groan Jaybird Coleman - Man Trouble Blues John Byrd - Old Timbrook Blues Skip James - I'm So Glad Red Hot Old Man Mose - Molly Man Garfield Akers - Jumpin And Shoutin Blues Charlie Jordan - Keep It Clean Bill Wilber - My Babe, My Babe The Mississippi Moaner - It's Cold In China Blues Big Bill and Thomps - House Rent Stomp Sunny Boy and His Pals - Don't You Leave Me Here Bill Moore - One Way Gal
OJL Records discography | |
| 3 | 1968 | Mississippi Moaners 1927-1942 Mississippi John Hurt - Big Leg Blues Washington White - The New 'Frisco Train Mattie Delaney - Down The Big Road Blues Rube Lacey - Ham Hound Crave Skip James - Cherry Ball Blues Uncle Bud Walker - Stand Up Suitcase Blues Charley Patton - Devil Sent The Rain Blues Son House - Special Rider Blues Bobby Grant - Lonesome Atlanta Blues Mae Glover - Gas Man Blues Papa Harvey Hull - Two Little Tommies Blues Joe Calicot [sic] - Traveling Mama Blues [Brunswick 7166] The Mississippi Moaner - Mississippi Moan Blind Willie Reynolds - Married Man Blues
notes by Brad Sweet (= Stephen Calt) "Yazoo Records, 390 East 8th Street, New York, N.Y. 10009" notes by Steve Calt "Yazoo Records, 54 King Street – New York, N.Y. 10014" notes by Steve Calt "Yazoo Records, 54 King Street – New York, N.Y. 10014" notes by Steve Calt "Yazoo Records, 245 Waverly Place, New York, N.Y. 10014" notes by Steve Calt "Yazoo Records, P.O Box 810, Newton, New Jersey 07860" notes by Steve Calt notes by Stephen Calt Yazoo Records discography | |
| 4 | 1975 | Sorrow, Come Pass Me Around A Survey Of Rural Black Religious Music Ephram Carter and his Fife & Drum Band - Sorrow, Come Pass Me Around Willard Artis 'Blind Pete' Burrell - Do Remember Me Babe Stovall - The Ship Is At The Landing Annie Lee & Oscar Crawford - You Don't Know What The Lord Has Done For Me Rev. Rubin Lacey - Talk About A Child That Do Love Jesus #  Robert 'Nighthawk' Johnson - Can't No Grave Hold My Body Down Dorothy Lee, Norma Jean & Shirley Marie Johnson - You Got To Give An Account Katie Mae Young - By The Grace Of My Lord, I've Come A Long Way Eddie Lee 'Mustright' Jones - My Sun Don't Never Go Down Robert 'Nighthawk' Johnson - Climbing High Mountains Chester Davis and Congregation (with Rev. Rubin Lacey, voc) - Glory, Glory Hallelujah Compton Jones & Group - Glory, Glory Hallelujah Furry Lewis - Glory, Glory Hallelujah Willard Artis 'Blind Pete' Burrell - A Little Talk With Jesus Makes It Right Pattie Rosemon - I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say Babe Stovall - When The Circle Be Unbroken Napoleon Strickland - Motherless Children Willard Artis 'Blind Pete' Burrell - I Shall Not Be Moved # rec. February 15, 1966 in Ridgecrest, CA by David Evans "Among my more treasured possessions is a general survey of black rural religious singing, which he produced several years before the disc under consideration. It is called Sorrow Come Pass Me Around, and in terms of superb it is completely off the scale. If nobody has had the foresight to re-issue that LP, and you happen to see it in some expensive second-hand vinyl catalogue, do not pause to worry about how you are going to raise the asking price. Once you have the disc home and on your turntable, all qualms about the bank you so rashly decided to stick up, will be utterly dissipated."
notes (November 1974, 12-pp. brochure) by David Evans
16-pp. booklet by David Evans 32-pp. booklet by David Evans Advent Records discography | |
| 5 | 1985 | Giants Of Country Blues Vol. 1 (1927-32) Wolf WSE 116 tracks: Willie Brown - Future Blues - M & O Blues Bobby Grant - Lonesome Atlanta Blues - Nappy Head Blues King Solomon Hill - Down On Bended Knee - take 1 - Down On Bended Knee - take 2 - Gone Dead Train - Tell Me Baby - Whoopee Blues - take 1 - Whoopee Blues - take 2 Son House - Dry Spell Blues-part 1 - Dry Spell Blues - part 2 - My Black Mama - part 1 - My Black Mama - part 2 - Preachin' The Blues - part 1 - Preachin' The Blues - part 2 Rube Lacy - Ham Hound Crave - Mississippi Jail House Groan
Wolf WSE CD 107 tracks:
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| 6 | 1990 | 1990 | Son House And The Great Delta Blues Singers (1928-1930) Son House - My Black Mama - part 1 - My Black Mama - part 2 - Preachin' The Blues - part 1 - Preachin' The Blues - part 2 - Dry Spell Blues - part 1 - Dry Spell Blues - part 2 - Walking Blues Willie Brown - M&O Blues - Future Blues Kid Bailey - Mississippi Bottom Blues - Rowdy Blues Garfield Akers - Cottonfield Blues - part 1 - Cottonfield Blues - part 2 - Dough Roller Blues - Jumpin' And Shoutin' Blues Joe Callicott - Fare Thee Well Blues - Traveling Mama Blues Jim Thompkins - Bedside Blues Blind Joe (Willie) Reynolds - Outside Woman Blues - Nehi Blues - Married Man Blues - Third Street Woman Blue Rube Lacy - Mississippi Jail House Blues - Ham Hound Crave
notes by Bob Groom notes by Bob Groom notes by Bob Groom |
| 6a | 1996 | Before The Blues The Early American Black Music Scene - Bamalong Blues - Andrew And Jim Baxter - Run Mollie Run - Henry Thomas - Lonesome Road Blues - Sam Collins - Jackson Stomp - Missippi Mud Steppers - On Jordan's Stormy Banks We Stand - Seventh Day Adventist Choir - Mississippi Jail House Groan - Rube Lacy - Forked Deer - Taylor's Kentucky Boys - Bye Bye Baby Blues - Little Hat Jones - Pretty Polly - B.F. Shelton - Soft Steel Piston - Weaver & Beasley - Two White Horses In A Line - Evans & McClain - Jamestown Exhibition - Bayless Rose - Dupree Blues - Willie Walker - France Blues - Papa Harvey Hull - Dying Mother And Her Child - Rev. Gates & Congregation - John Hardy - Buell Kazee - Wayward Girl Blues - Lottie Kimbrough - Newport Blues - Cincinnati Jug Band - Tom Sherman's Barroom - Dick Devall - Stack O'Lee Blues - Mississippi John Hurt - Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues - Teddy Darby - I'll Go With Her Blues - Robert Wilkins - Christian Soldier - Denson Quartet
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| 7 | 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 | |
| 19a | 2001 | Screamin' and Hollerin' The Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton disc 6: Charley's Orbit - Songs - Booze And Blues - Ma Rainey - The Crowing Rooster - Walter Rhodes - I Will Turn Your Money Green - Furry Lewis - Ham Hound Crave - Rube Lacy - Bye Bye Blues - Tommy Johnson - Maggie Campbell - Tommy Johnson - Big Road Blues - Tommy Johnson - Kansas City Blues - William Harris - Rowdy Blues - Kid Bailey - Mississippi Bottom Blues - Kid Bailey - Cold Woman Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds - Sitting On Top Of The World - Mississippi Sheiks - Just A Spoonful - Charley Jordan - Banty Rooster - Blind Pete And George Ryan - My Grey Pony - Big Joe Williams - Dark Road Blues - Willie Lofton Trio - Blues - Unknown Convict - Sic 'Em Dogs On - Bukka White - Po' Boy - Bukka White - Make Me A Pallet on the Floor - Willie Brown - County Farm Blues - Son House - Saddle My Pony - The Howlin' Wolf - Forty Four - The Howlin' Wolf - Too Close - Roebuck "Pops" Staples & Staple Singers 7-CD album | |
| 20 | 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 | |
| 21 | 2007 | Classic Blues Artwork from the 1920s Volume 5 2008 Calendar with free CD CD and Calendar contents: - Range In My Kitchen Blues - Texas Alexander - One Dime Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Mississippi Jail House Groan - Rube Lacey - Nehi Mama Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds - Deep Moaning Blues - Ma Rainey - Jail House Blues - Crying Sam Collins - Madison Street Rag - Banjo Joe (Gus Cannon) - Seaboard Stomp - Blind Blake - The New Shake That Thing - Mississippi Sheiks - Low Down Jail House - Blind Blake - Cold And Blue - Ida Cox - The Santa Claus Crave - Elzadie Robinson Supplementary CD tracks: - Ain't Gonna Do That No More - Blind Blake - Talkin' To You Wimmin' About The Blues - Blind Willie McTell & Mary Willis - Merciful Blues - Blind Willie McTell & Mary Willis - Outside Woman Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds remastered by Richard Nevins
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Sources / Further reading: - own record collection - Görgen Antonsson discographies - Robert M.W. Dixon & John Godrich: Blues & Gospel Records 1902 - 1943, 3rd ed. 1982, p. 430 - Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 111 - Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- p. 315-316 - www.mtzionmemorialfund.org/2020/02/reconciling-blues-king-rubin-lacy-and.html - eBay auctions - diverse internet resources thanks to Erwin Bosman for additional info
   Rubin Lacey, Blytheville, Arkansas, 1948 source: Front cover of Blues Unlimited 32 (April 1966) ("courtesy David Evans" |