# | year of release | title / label / notes |
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1 | 1971 | Johnie Lewis: Alabama Slide Guitar![]() - Hobo Blues @ youtube @ Spotify - He Met Me On A Thursday Morning @ Spotify - Uncle Sam @ Spotify - Can't Hardly Get Along @ youtube @ Spotify - My Little Gal # @ Spotify - North Carolina Blues @ Spotify ![]() - I'm Gonna Quit My Baby @ Spotify - Baby, Listen To Me Howl @ youtube @ Spotify - You Gonna Miss Me ("Martin Luther King") @ youtube @ Spotify - Mistake In Life @ Spotify - I Got To Climb A High Mountain [Arhoolie CD 510] @ youtube @ Spotify - My Mother Often Told Me @ Spotify ![]() CD bonus tracks - Lewis' Little Girl Done Stole A Black Cat Bone * @ Spotify - Jumpin' Jive * § @ Spotify - Poor Boy @ Spotify - Guitar Blues (Hound Dogs On My Track) @ Spotify - Comb My Baby's Hair @ Spotify - Oh Lord, Tell Me Right From Wrong @ Spotify ![]() LP side A (& "Lewis' Little Girl Done Stole...") rec. January 9, 1971 in Chicago, IL by Leon Kelert with Charlie Musselwhite supervising; Johnie Lewis, voc, g; # Charlie Musselwhite, hca LP side B (& all other bonus tracks) rec. August 13, 1970 in Chicago, IL by John Steiner with Chris Strachwitz supervising; Johnie Lewis, voc, g, * hca, § kazoo prod. & cover photo by Chris Strachwitz
notes by Chris Strachwitz original 1971 notes (revised 1997) by Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie Records discography |
2 | 1972/ 1995/ 2004 | Chicago Blues![]() ![]() Johnnie Lewis - The Hobo Blues @ youtube Muddy Waters - Hoochie-Coochie Man Muddy Waters - Nineteen Years Old Floyd Jones - Stockyard Blues J.B. Hutto & The Hawks - Come On Back Home Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Country Girl (filmed at Theresa's) Johnnie Lewis - You're Gonna Miss Me @ youtube Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - We're Ready Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - First Time I Met The Blues (filmed at Theresa's) - interviews with Dick Gregory and Willie Dixon ![]() A Harley Cokliss film (IRIT Film Production), filmed December 1969 ( shown on BBC TV in January 1971 DVD: Sparta, NJ: Vestapol Productions, Cambridge, MA: Distributed by Rounder Records VHS
VHS VHS DVD |
3 | 2005 | Blues With A Message![]() - I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatman - John Henry - John Jackson [Arhoolie 1025 1970] - Walked Down So Many Turn Rows - Mercy Dee - Tom Moore's Farm - Mance Lipscomb - Tom Moore Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins - River Blues - Lowell Fulson - Levee Camp Blues - Fred McDowell - The 1919 Influenza Blues - Essie Jenkins - Why I Like Roosevelt - Willie Eason - Little Soldier Boy - Doctor Ross - Prisoner's Talking Blues - Robert Pete Williams - I Got To Climb A High Mountain - Johnie Lewis [Arhoolie 1055] - Depression Blues - Herman E. Johnson - Stockyard Blues - Johnny Young/Big Walter Horton - What Will I Tell The Children - Juke Boy Bonner - It's Enough - Juke Boy Bonner - Things Gonna Get Better - Bee Houston - Back Home Blues - Big Joe Williams ![]() ed. by Chris Strachwitz & Paul Oliver
notes by Paul Oliver
on front cover: Sleepy John Estes' hands cropped from a 1962 photo by Georges Adins Arhoolie Records discography |
4 | 2010 | Martin Luther King's Blues African-American blues and gospel songs on MLK 1963-1968 ![]() Brother Will Hairston - The Alabama Bus (Parts 1&2) Bob Starr - The Jail House King Johnie Lewis - I Got To Climb A High Mountain [Arhoolie 1055] The Hewlett Sisters - What Manner Of Man (Was Dr. Martin Luther King) (Parts 1&2) Otis Spann - Hotel Lorraine Rev. Julius Cheeks & The Four Knights - Where Do I Go From Here Little Mac Simmons - A Tribute To Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Stop Looting And Rioting) Big Maybelle - Heaven Will Welcome You Dr. King The Loving Sisters - Tribute To Dr. King Ethel Davenport - Free At Last Big Joe Williams - The Death Of Dr. Martin Luther King Tom Shaw - Martin Luther King Robert Chatman - Ballad Of Martin Luther King, Jr. The Norfleet Bros. - We All Praise Him The Southerners - Tragic Story (A Tribute To Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) Nina Simone - Why (The King Of Love Is Dead) Earl Gaines - Our Friend Is Gone Shirley Wahls - We've Got To Keep On Movin' On Bill Spivery & The Sons Of Truth - The Non-Violent Man Rev. Charlie Jackson - Something To Think About Thomas Walton & The Blind Disciples - Ode To Martin Luther King Elizabeth D. Williams - Sleep On Doctor King, Sleep On ![]() |
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Sources / Further reading: - own record collection - Jean-Claude Arnaudon: Dictionnaire du Blues.- Paris, France (Filipacci) 1977, p. 153 - Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 89 - Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, p. 653 - Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- New York (Da Capo Press) 1987, pp. 324-325 - eBay auctions - diverse internet resources thanks to Tom Diamant for additional info
Johnie Lewis interviewed by Chris Strachwitz
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