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L+R   R e c o r d sL+R Records
Lippmann + Rau Records
blues discography
 
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(released)
artists/titles / annotations
40.001 ff.
and
41.001 ff.
Jazz albums
40.011
(1980)
Philadelphia Jerry Ricks & Oscar Klein: Jazz Roots@ youtube (full album)

- Echoes Of Harlem
- Shine
- Davenport Blues
- Pallet On The Floor
- Wolverine Blues
- Song Of The Island

- Carolina Medley
- Fidgety Feet
- Nobody Knows You
- Ballin' The Jack
- Rosie's Rag
- Memphis Blues

rec. January 7 & 8, 1980 at Biton Studio in Frankfurt a.M., Germany; Jerry Ricks, g, voc; Oscar Klein, g, co

notes by Horst Lippmann

L+R 40.011 (Germany 1980)

Philadelphia Jerry Ricks discography

40.012
(1980)
L+R Records: 25 Years Of Jazz - The First Jazz Sampler
100 Minutes of Good Music!

LP 1:
Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet - Set' Em Up (6:10)
Miriam Klein - Something To Remember You By (5:02)
Jutta Hipp Quinte - Simone (2:24)
Manfred Schoof Quintet - Adjustment (2:10)
Sir Roland Hanna - F.W. Remembered (5:35)
Emil Mangelsdorff - Like A Drop Of Oil (4:35)

Gustl Mayer's Jazz Stampede - Father Cooperates (4:15)
Attila Zoller, Jimmy Raney - Autumn (11:27)
Wolfgang Dauner Trio - Free Fall (3:46)
Roland Hanna, Hans Koller, Attila Zoller - Afternoon Sun (6:51)


LP 2:
Günter Lenz Springtime - Roaring Plenties (4:25)
Attila Zoller - Puszta Feuer (11:03)
The Roland Hanna Jazz Orchestra - Study For Jiri Kaniak (6:05)

Philadelphia Jerry Ricks & Oscar Klein - Echoes Of Harlem (4:41) # [L+R Records 40.011]
Heinz Sauer, Bob Degen - I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart (4:37)
Hans Koller & The International Brass Company - C.M. (6:57)
Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet - Es Sungen Drei Engel (7:33)

# rec. January 7 & 8, 1980 at Biton Studio in Frankfurt a.M., Germany; Jerry Ricks, g, voc; Oscar Klein, g, co

DLP

L+R 40.012 (Germany 1980)

Philadelphia Jerry Ricks discography

40.017
(1983)
Heinz Sauer and Bob Degen with Carey Bell: Blues After Sunrise

- I Want You To Love Me   @ youtube
- Degen Blues   @ youtube
- Tonky Blues   @ youtube

- Hollerin' The Blues   @ youtube
- A Classical Preacher   @ youtube
- One Day I Get Lucky   @ youtube
- Blues After Sunrise   @ youtube

rec. September 29 & 30, 1982 at Audiolab Tonstudio in Oberursel, Germany; Heinz Sauer, ts; Bob Degen, p; Carey Bell, hca, voc; prod. by Horst Lippmann
liner photos by Mara Eggert

notes by Horst Lippmann

L+R 40.017 (Germany 1983)


= Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 711822 (Germany 2008)

42.001 ff.
Blues albums
42.001
(1979)
J.B. Lenoir: Alabama Blues

- Alabama Blues   @ youtube
- The Mojo Boogie #   @ youtube
- God's Word   @ youtube
- The Whale Has Swallowed Me #   @ youtube
- Remove This Rope   @ youtube
- I Feel So Good # []   @ youtube

- Alabama March   @ youtube
- Talk To Your Daughter #   @ youtube
- Mississippi Road   @ youtube
- Good Advice   @ youtube
- Vietnam   @ youtube
- I Want To Go #   @ youtube

rec. May 5, 1965 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; # Freddie Below, dr; [] Willie Dixon, additional voc

Alabama Blues (Bellaphon CDLR 42.001)
- Alabama Blues
- The Mojo Boogie
- God's Word
- The Whale Has Swallowed Me
- Remove This Rope
- I Feel So Good
- Alabama March
- Talk To Your Daughter
- Mississippi Road
- Good Advice
- Vietnam
- I Want To Go
- Down In Mississippi °°
- If I Get Lucky °°
- Born Dead °°
- Feeling Good °°

°° additional tracks from L+R 42.012

front cover photograph of Amiga 8 50 176 by Raeburn Flerlage [not Horst Lippmann as claimed on the back cover]
front cover photograph of L+R 42.001 by Horst Lippmann

notes by Horst Lippmann

CBS 62593 (Germany 1966)

notes by Horst Lippmann

= CBS 62593 (Fr 1966)

= CBS SBP-2 (Australia)

notes by Horst Lippmann

= Scout ScS-5 (Germany 1969)

notes by Jens Gerlach

= Amiga 8 50 176 (GDR 1969)

notes by Horst Lippmann

= L+R 42.001 (Germany 1979)

notes (1980) by Walter Sellhorn

= Amiga Jazz 850176 (GDR 1980)

notes by Jonny Meister

(=) Evidence CD 26068 (US 1995) "Vietnam Blues: The Complete L+R Recordings" (along with L+R 42.012)


= Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 42001 (Germany 1998)

180 g LP

= Pure Pleasure PPAN LR 42.001 (UK 2009)

180 g LP & CD
notes (1979) by Horst Lippmann

(=) Zweitausendeins / Blue Angel 580000 (Germany 2014) "Alabama Blues"

J.B. Lenoir discography
Scout Records discography

42.002
(1979)
Louisiana Red: New York Blues!

- New York Blues
- I'm In Trouble
- Country Boogie
- I'm A Roaming Stranger
- Chain Gang Blues

- Gasline Blues
- West Penn Blues
- Hey Lawdy Mama
- Waterboy Blues
- Where Is My Friend #
- Overseas Blues

rec. June 23, 1979 at Penthouse Recordings, New York; Louisiana Red, voc, g; # Elaine Monk, lead voc; # Vivian Minter, voc

notes by Horst Lippmann

L+R 42.002

42.003
(1979)
Willie Mabon: Chicago Blues Session!

- Little Red Rooster
- Lonely Blues
- It's A Shame
- Moanin' Blues

- Monday Woman (A Tribute to Jimmy Reed)
- Louise (A Tribute to Howlin' Wolf)
- Seventh Son (Dedicated to Willie Dixon)
- I'm Mad
- A Change Is Gonna Come

rec. July 4, 1979 at Odyssey Sound Studio, Chicago, IL; Willie Mabon, voc, p; Hubert Sumlin, g; Eddie Taylor, g; Aron Burton, b; Casey Jones, dr

notes by Willy Leiser, inner sleeve notes by Willy Leiser ("About Willie Mabon") and Horst Lippmann ("About The Session")

L+R 42.003


= Evidence CD 26063 (1995)


= Bellaphon CD (1996) "Blues Classics"

Willie Mabon discography

42.004
(1981)
American Folk Blues (Amiga 850 043 1965)
Hubert Sumlin: Blues Anytime! (L+R 42.004 1981)
Hubert Sumlin: Blues Anytime! (Evidence ECD 26052 1994)

- It's You My Baby §   @ youtube, Side A
- Love You, Woman []
- Everytime I Get To Drinking §
- When I Feel Better $
- Blues Anytime #
- I Love []

- Leavy [sic] Camp Moan § ||   @ youtube, Side B
  [on Evidence CD corrected to "Levee Camp Moan"]
- My Babe #
- Hubert's Blues (instr) $
- We Gonna Jump §
- Big Legged Woman # // ||   @ youtube
- Too Late For Me To Pray §

rec. Nov. 1, 1964 at Amiga-Studios in East-Berlin, GDR; Hubert Sumlin, g, $ g solo, [] voc; Sunnyland Slim, p, § voc; Willie Dixon, b, // g, # voc; Clifton James, dr; produced by Horst Lippman
|| tracks not reissued on Scout Sc 4, but on Scout Sc 1

  Hubert's "American" Blues! (Scout Sc-4 1969)
- My Babe #
- Hubert's Blues $
- We Gonna Jump §
- Too Late For Me To Pray §
- I Love []

- It's You My Baby §
- Love You, Woman []
- Everytime I Get To Drinking §
- When I Feel Better $
- Blues Anytime #

rec. Nov. 1, 1964 at Amiga-Studios in East-Berlin, GDR; Hubert Sumlin, g, $ g solo, [] voc; Sunnyland Slim, p, § voc; Willie Dixon, b, # voc; Clifton James, dr; produced by Horst Lippman

 
Hubert Sumlin: Blues Anytime! (L+R CDLR 72010 1994)

- It's You Baby *
- Love You Woman *
- Everytime I Get To Drinking *
- When I Feel Better *
- Blues Anytime *
- I Love *
- Leavy Camp Moan [still uncorrected] *
- My Babe *
- Hubert's Blues *
- We Gonna Jump *
- Big Legged Woman *
- Too Late For Me To Pray *
- Mabon's Boogie #
- I Don't Know #
- Woodchopping Blues []
- I Love []
- Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky []

* rec. Nov. 1, 1964 at Amiga-Studios in East-Berlin, GDR; Hubert Sumlin with Sunnyland Slim, Willie Dixon, Clifton James; produced by Horst Lippman
# rec. April 20/22, and May 5/7, 1980 in Saarbrücken, Mannheim, Hamburg, and Düsseldorf, Germany; Willie Mabon, voc, p; Hubert Sumlin, voc, g; Eddie Taylor, el g; Robert Stroger, b; Odie Payne, dr (from L+R 42.013 (1981)
[] rec. March 17, 1981 at Siegerlandhalle, Siegen, Germany; Hubert Sumlin, voc, g; Louisiana Red, voc, g; Lurrie Bell, g; Robert Stroger, b; Odie Payne, dr (from L+R 42.022 (1981)

 
Hubert Sumlin: Blues Classics (Bellaphon CDLR 82007 1996)

- Love You, Woman []
- When I Feel Better #
- I Love []
- Hubert's Blues #
- Blues On Blues
- My Baby Is Gone
- Lonesome Blues
- Blues In My Hand
- Blues For Chester
- Jammin' The Blues
- Gamblin' Woman


[] # rec. Nov. 1, 1964 at the Amiga-Studios in East-Berlin, GDR; Hubert Sumlin, [] g + voc. # g solo; produced by Horst Lippman

notes (1965) by Karlheinz Drechsel

Amiga 850 043 (GDR) (1st ed. 1965) "American Folk Blues"


= Scout Sc-4 (Germany 1969) "Hubert's 'American' Blues !"

notes (1980)
by Karlheinz Drechsel

(=) Amiga Jazz 850 043 (2nd ed. 1980) "American Folk Blues"


(=) L+R 42.004 (Germany 1980) "Blues Anytime !"


(=) Evidence ECD 26052 (US 1994)


(=) L+R CDLR 72010 (Germany 1994)


(=) Bellaphon CDLR 82007 (Germany 1996) "Blues Classics"

Scout Records discography

42.005
(1980)
Eddie Boyd: Five Long Years

- Five Long Years
- Hello Stranger
- Where You Belong
- I'm Comin' Home
- My Idea
- The Big Question

- Come On Home
- Blue Monday Blues
- Eddie's Blues
- All the Way
- Twenty-Four Hours Of Fear
- Rock The Rock

CD bonus tracks:
- Five Long Years - tk. 2 *
- The Big Question - tk. 2*
- Rosalie * §
- Hound Dog * #

rec. October 21, 1965 at Wessex Sound Studios, London, prod. by Horst Lippmann
* rec. October 7, 1965 in Hamburg, prod. by Siegfried E. Loch
Eddie Boyd, voc, p, org; Buddy Guy, g, § b; Jimmy Lee Robinson, b, § g; Freddie Below, dr; # Big Mama Thornton, voc

notes by Neil Slaven
click to read notes !
Fontana 883 905 JC (1966)

notes based on original notes by Neil Slaven
click to read notes !
= L+R 42.005 (Germany 1980)

= L+R CDLR 72009 (Germany 1994)


(=) Evidence CD 26051 (US 1994)

Eddie Boyd discography

42.006
(1980)
The first Blues Sampler

Louisiana Red & Sunnyland Slim Blues Band
- Chicago, Glad To Be Back Home
J.B. Lenoir
- I Feel So Good
The Eddie Taylor Blues Band + Carey Bell
- Wreck On 83 Highway
Willie Dixon with Hubert Sumlin, Sunnyland Slim
- My Babe
Eddie Boyd with Buddy Guy a.o.
- Blue Monday Blues
Eunice Davis with Wasboard Doc, Lucky & Flash a.o.
- Rock Little Daddy

Hubert Sumlin & Carey Bell
- Brought Up The Hard Way
Willie Mabon with Hubert Sumlin, Eddie Taylor a.o.
- Monday Woman
Wasboard Doc, Lucky & Flash; guest Lousiana Red
- Early One Morning
Philadelphia Jerry Ricks & Oscar Klein
- Levee Woman
Sunnyland Slim Blues Band; guest Carey Bell
- Tired Of Travelling
Lousiana Red
- Witchcraft Blues

tracks from other L+R LPs, and unissued takes


L+R 42.006 (Germany 1980)


= L+R 30 888 2 (Germany 1980) "Blues Meeting" (Club Edition)

42.007
(1980)
Philadelphia Jerry Ricks & Oscar Klein: Low Light Blues@ youtube (full album)

- It Hurts Me So
- Levee Woman
- Low Light Blues
- Keys To The Highway
- Louis Collins
- L & M Blues

- Blues For Horst
- Come Back Baby
- Cornet Shuffle
- Kind Hearted Woman
- Hey Hey Baby
- Blues For Pee Wee
- San Francisco Bay Blues

rec. January 7 & 8, 1980 at Biton Studio in Frankfurt a.M., Germany; Jerry Ricks, g, voc; Oscar Klein, g, co, hca + recorderette

notes by Oscar Klein and Jerry Ricks

L+R Records 42.007 (Germany 1980)

Jerry Ricks discography

42.008
(1980)
Hubert Sumlin & Carey Bell: Gamblin' Woman!

- Blues For Chester
- Jammin' The Blues
- Gamblin' Woman
- Hubert's 1980 Blues
- Nineteen Years Old

- Brought Up The Hard Way
- Blues On Blues
- My Baby Is Gone
- Lonesome Blues
- Blues In My Heart

rec. January 22, 1980 at Oddyssey Sound Studio, Chicago, IL; Hubert Sumlin, voc, ac g; Carey Bell, voc, hca
front cover photo by Mara Eggert; liner photos by D. Shigley (D. for Durward, a name he never used)

Hubert Sumlin: Blues Classics (Bellaphon CDLR 82007 1996)

- Love You, Woman []
- When I Feel Better #
- I Love []
- Hubert's Blues #

- Blues On Blues
- My Baby Is Gone
- Lonesome Blues
- Blues In My Hand
- Blues For Chester
- Jammin' The Blues
- Gamblin' Woman

[] # rec. Nov. 1, 1964 at the Amiga-Studios in East-Berlin, GDR; Hubert Sumlin, [] g + voc. # g solo

notes by Norbert Hess
click to read notes ! click to read notes ! click to read notes !
L+R 42.008 (Germany 1980)


(=) Bellaphon CDLR 82007 (Germany 1996) "Blues Classics"

Hubert Sumlin discography

42.009
(1980)
Eddie Taylor: My Heart Is Bleeding

- My Heart Is Bleeding
- Going To Virginia
- So Bad
- Lexington Breakdown
- Blow Wind Blow

- Wreck On 83 Highway
- Soul Brother
- There'll Be A Day
- Lawndale Blues

CD only:
- Gamblin' Woman
- I Got A Little Thing They Call It Swing
- One Day I Get Lucky
- Dust My Broom
- There'll Be A Day

Eddie Taylor, g + voc; Steeve Beal, g; George Kitta, b; Odie Payne, dr
Special Guests: Carey Bell, harp; Sunnyland Slim, p

notes by Norbert Hess
click to read notes !
L+R 42.009 (Germany 1980)

= L+R CDLR 72008 (Germany 1994)


= Evidence CD 26054 (US 1994)

42.010
(1980)
Washboard Doc, Lucky & Flash: Early Morning Blues

- Early One Morning
- Little Mary
- Driftin' Blues
- Goin' Home To Grandma
- Next Time I See You
- Boll Weevil

- Going To Louisiana
- Tell Me Pretty Mama
- Going Down The Road Feling Bad
- That's Alright
- Mailman Blues
- Whiskey Blues

Cab Lucky, g, voc; John "Flash" Whitner, washtub b, humazoo, voc; Joseph "Washboard Doc", washboard; special guest: Louisiana Red, dobro, voc

notes by Len Kunstadt

L+R 42.010 (Germany 1980)

42.011
(1980)
Louisiana Red: Reality Blues

- Farmworker's Blues
- Chicago, Glad To Be Back Home
- Without Of Love
- Jumpin' With Red

- Reality Blues
- Jailhouse Blues
- You Can't Mistreat A Brother

rec. January 29, 1980 at Odyssey Sound Studio, Chicago, IL; Louisiana Red, voc, g; Hubert Sumlin, g; Sunnyland Slim, p; Bob Stroger, b; Odie Payne, dr; special guest: Carey Bell, hca
liner photo by Axel Küstner

notes by Norbert Hess
click to read notes !
L+R 42.011 (Germany 1980)

42.012
(1980)
J.B. Lenoir: Crusade resp. Down In Mississippi

Crusade (Polydor 24-4011)
- Down In Mississippi #
- Voodoo Music
- Tax Paying Blues
- If I Get Lucky
- Oh Captain (One Of These Mornings) [] #
- How Much More?
- Everything I Do [] #

- Feeling Good #
- Shot On James Meredith   @ youtube
- Round And Round
- Slow Down
- Vietnam Blues
- Leaving Here
- Born Dead
- Need Somebody's Help []

between tracks: Ella Louise Lenoir interviewed by John Mayall
"Electronically re-channelled for stereo"

rec. September 2, 1966 at Sound Studio under the supervision of Willie Dixon, Chicago: J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Freddie Below, dr, # Willie Dixon, voc
[] rec. autumn 1962 in Chicago by Willie Dixon for a film by Steve Seaberg; J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; # Willie Dixon, voc

Down In Mississippi (L+R 42.012)@ youtube
- Down In Mississippi #
- Slow Down
- If I Get Lucky
- Shot On Meredith
- Round And Round
- Voodoo Music

- Born Dead
- Leavin' Here
- Vietnam Blues
- How Much More
- Tax Payin' Blues
- Feelin' Good #

Ella Louise Lenoir interviews omitted !

rec. September 2, 1966 at Sound Studio under the supervision of Willie Dixon, Chicago: J.B. Lenoir, voc, g; Freddie Below, dr, # Willie Dixon, voc

J.B. Lenoir (Bellaphon CDLR 82001)
- Down In Mississippi
- Alabama Blues °°
- Feelin' Good
- If I Get Lucky
- Mississippi Road °°
- The Mojo Boogie °°
- Born Dead
- Talk To Your Daughter °°
- Move This Rope °°
- Slow Down
- Shot On Meredith
- Round And Round
- Voodoo Music
- Leavin' Here
- Vietnam Blues
- Tax Payin' Blues
- How Much More

°° additional tracks from L+R 42.001


Crusade 24-4011 (US) [John Mayall's label, Polydor subsidiary]
= Polydor 2425009 (UK)
= Polydor 2482014 (UK)

notes by Jonny Meister

L+R 42.012 (Germany 1980) "Down In Mississippi"

= L+R Records 12L0273 5 (Sp 1981)

notes by Jonny Meister

(=) Evidence CD 26068 (US 1995) "Vietnam Blues: The Complete L+R Recordings" (along with L+R 42.001)


(=) Bellaphon CDLR 82001 (Germany 1996) "J.B. Lenoir" (Blues Classics series)

180 g LP & CD

(=) Zweitausendeins / Blue Angel 580004 (Germany 2014) "Down In Mississippi"

J.B. Lenoir discography

42.013
(1980)
DLP
American Folk Blues Festival '80

LP 1:
Louisiana Red
- Pretty Woman #
- I Wonder Who #
- Lonesome Train #
- Tribute To Mama Spivey # °°
Willie Mabon
- Mabon's Boogie *
- I Don't Know *

Washboard Doc, Lucky & Flash
- Shake, Rattle And Roll ||
Eunice Davis
- Rock Little Daddy []
Washboard Doc, Lucky & Flash
- Flip, Flop And Fly ||
Hubert Sumlin & Carey Bell
- Gamblin' Woman //
- I Got A Little Thing They Call The Swing //


LP 2:
Carey Bell
- One Day I Get Lucky \\
- Nineteen Years Old \\
- What My Mama Told Me \\
Sunnyland Slim
- Everytime I get To Drinking §

Sunnyland Slim
- Sunnyland's New Orleans Boogie §
Eddie Taylor
- Dust My Broom $
- There'll Be A Day $
Louisiana Red
- Labour Blues ##
- Thirty Dirty Women # °°

°° not on CD

rec. April 20 in Saarbrücken, April 22 in Mannheim, May 5 in Hamburg and May 7 in Düsseldorf, Germany
# Louisiana Red, voc, g
* Willie Mabon, voc, p; Hubert Sumlin, g; Eddie Taylor, g; Robert Stroger, b; Odie Payne, dr
|| Joseph "Washboard Doc", washboard; Cab Lucky, g, voc; John "Flash" Whitner, washtub b, humazoo, voc; Louisiana Red, dobro
[] Eunice Davis, voc; Sunnyland Slim, p
// Hubert Sumlin, voc, g; Carey Bell, hca; Eddie Taylor, g \\ Carey Bell, voc, hca; Hubert Sumlin, g; Eddie Taylor, g; Robert Stroger, b; Odie Payne, dr
§ Sunnyland Slim, voc, p; Carey Bell, hca; Hubert Sumlin, Eddie Taylor, g; Robert Stroger, b; Odie Payne, dr
$ Eddie Taylor, voc, g; Carey Bell, hca; Hubert Sumlin, g; Robert Stroger, b; Odie Payne, dr
## Louisiana Red, voc, g; Carey Bell, hca; Sunnyland Slim, p; Hubert Sumlin, g; Robert Stroger, b; Odie Payne, dr

photos by Ulla Reimer, Gerd Scheffler and Norbert Hess

notes by Norbert Hess

L+R 42.013 (Germany 1980)


(=) Optimism/L+R LR CD-2013 (US 1991)
= Optimism LRC-2013 (cassette)


(=) Bellaphon/L+R CDLS 42013 (Germany 1998)

4 CD box
notes by Ulfert Goemann
click to enlarge click to enlarge   click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge
(=) Bellaphon / L+R CDLR 726123 (EU 2002) "American Folk Blues Festival 1970/1972/1980/1981"

American Folk Blues Festival discography
Willie Mabon discography
Hubert Sumlin discography

42.014
(1980)
The Late Great Magic Sam

- Hi-Heel Sneakers *
- All Your Love *#
- Trying to Make It
- Call Me If You Need Me #
- Look Out Sam #
- Torturing My Soul #

- Sometimes
- Back Door Friend
- Feeling Good
- All Your Fault
- Looking Good
- Easy Baby

* = 45 rpm CBS 1444
# previously (1969) on Scout SC-2

rec. 1963/64/69

notes by Norbert Hess
click to read notes !
L+R 42.014 (Germany 1980)


= Bellaphon CD (1996)
"Blues Classics"


= Evidence CD 26070 (US 1995)

42.015
(1980)
Sunnyland Slim: Decoration Day

- Sun Is Going Down   @ Spotify
- Past Life   @ Spotify
- Decoration Day   @ Spotify
- Boogie'n The Blues (instr)   @ Spotify

- Depression Blues   @ Spotify
- Tired Of Traveling   @ Spotify
- Canadian Walk (instr)   @ Spotify
- Patient Like Jobe (Patience Like Jobe)   @ Spotify
- Sunnyland Jump (instr)   @ Spotify

L+R CDLR 72007 / Evidence ECD 26053 bonus tracks:
- Rock Little Daddy (Eunice Davis, voc; Louisiana Red, slide g)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Everytime I Get To Drinking   @ Spotify
- Sunnyland's New Orleans Boogie (instr)   @ Spotify
- One Room Country Shack   @ Spotify
- Tin Pan Alley   @ Spotify
- Dust My Broom   @ Spotify

rec. January 23, 1980 in Chicago, IL; Sunnyland Slim, voc, p; Hubert Sumlin, g; Jeff Swan, g; Bog Stroger, b; Odie Payne, dr; special guest: Carey Bell, hca

notes by Horst Lippmann

L+R 42.015 (Germany 1980)

= L+R 12L0127 (Spain 1981)


= L+R CDLR 72007 (Germany 1994)


= Evidence ECD 26053 (US 1994)

Hubert Sumlin discography

42.016
(1980)
Eunice Davis Sings The Classic Blues
of Victoria Spivey, Memphis Minnie & Eunice Davis

- In My Girlish Days
- Rock Little Daddy   @ youtube
- What Can I Do
- Don't Trust Nobody   @ youtube
- Detroit Moan

- Organ Grinder Blues
- I'm So Glad   @ youtube
- Black Rat
- It's Hard To Be Mistreated
- Murder In The First Degree   @ youtube

rec. February 4, 1980 in New York, NY; Eunice Davis, voc; Clem Moorman, p; Louisiana Red, dobro; Lucky, g; Flash, washtub-b; Washboard Doc, washboard
photos of Eunice Davis by Len Kunstadt


L+R 42.016 (Germany 1980)

42.017
(1980)
American Folk Blues Festival '62

Brunswick/Decca/Polydor/L+R/Evidence/Bellaphon/Oldays track sequence:
Memphis Slim - We're Gonna Rock   @ youtube
T-Bone Walker - I Wanna See My Baby   @ youtube
T-Bone Walker - I'm In Love   @ youtube
Sonny Terry - I'm Crazy 'Bout You Baby   @ youtube
Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon - Stewball   @ youtube
John Lee Hooker - Let's Make It Baby   @ youtube

John Lee Hooker - Shake It Baby   @ youtube
John Lee Hooker - The Right Time   @ youtube
Shakey Jake - Hey, Baby (2:17)   @ youtube
Shakey Jake - Love My Baby (3:07) [= Call Me If You Need Me]   @ youtube
Brownie McGhee - Crying At The Station   @ youtube
Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon - Bye Bye Baby   @ youtube

Excello LPS-8029 track sequence:
Memphis Slim - We're Gonna Rock
T-Bone Walker - I Wanna See My Baby
T-Bone Walker - I'm In Love
Sonny Terry - I'm Crazy 'Bout You Baby
Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon - Stewball
John Lee Hooker - Let's Make It Baby

John Lee Hooker - Shake It Baby
John Lee Hooker - The Right Time
Shakey Jake - Hey, Baby (2:17)
Shakey Jake - Love My Baby (3:07)
Brownie McGhee - Crying At The Station
Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon - Bye Bye Baby
John Lee Hooker - Need Your Love So Bad [bonus track]   @ youtube

Polydor 825 502-2 track sequence:
Memphis Slim - We're Gonna Rock
T-Bone Walker - I Wanna See My Baby
T-Bone Walker - I'm In Love
John Lee Hooker - Need Your Love So Bad [bonus track]
Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon - Stewball
John Lee Hooker - Let's Make It Baby
John Lee Hooker - Shake It Baby
John Lee Hooker - The Right Time
Shakey Jake - Hey, Baby (2:17)
Shakey Jake - Love My Baby (3:07)
Brownie McGhee - Crying At The Station
Sonny Terry - I'm Crazy 'Bout You Baby
Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon - Bye Bye Baby

rec. October 18, 1962 live in Hamburg, Germany

originally recorded and released by Deutsche Grammophon / Polydor

notes (in German and English) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos and Werner Burkhardt

Brunswick 009 012 (mono) (Germany 1962)     on covers: "American Folk Blues Festival", on labels: "The Original American Folk Blues Festival"

notes (in German and English) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos and Werner Burkhardt

Brunswick 109 012 (stereo) (Germany 1962)     on covers: "American Folk Blues Festival", on labels: "The Original American Folk Blues Festival"

notes (in English) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos and Werner Burkhardt

= Decca DL 4392 (mono) (US 1962) "The Original American Folk Blues Festival"

notes (in English) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos and Werner Burkhardt

= Decca DL 74392 (stereo) (US 1962) "The Original American Folk Blues Festival"


= Circulo Musical 037 (Columbia 1962?)
= Circulo Musical 248 (Venezuela 1962)


= Polydor 2482 041 (NL 1963) Golden Crown series "The Original American Folk Blues Festival"


= Polydor 2482 041 (Belgium 19??) "American Folk Blues Festival"

 
= Polydor 46.397 (Germany 1963)


= Polydor 237 597 (Germany 196?)


= Polydor Privilège 2310296 (Fr 196?)


= Polydor Privilège 658 017 (Fr 196?)


= Polydor Privilège 658 017 (Fr 196?)

= Polydor 917 003 (cassette) (France 19??)


= Polydor SLPM-1172 (Jp 1964) "Blues Hootenanny"

notes (in German and English) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos and Werner Burkhardt

Polydor 109 012 (stereo) (Germany 1966)     on covers: "American Folk Blues Festival", on labels: "The Original American Folk Blues Festival"

 
= Polydor Special 236 216 (UK 10/1967)
issued in the Netherlands as Polydor Special 236 716 (with a sticker on the back, covering the original catalog number)

notes (in English) by Werner Burkhardt
 
(=) Excello LPS-8029 (US 1974) / 8029 SO-1 (US late 1980s) "The Original American Folk Blues Festival"

notes by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos

= L+R 42.017 (Germany 1981)

= L+R/Edigsa 12L0271 (Spain 1981)


= Optimism/L+R CD-2017 (US 198?)


(=) Polydor 825 502-2 (Germany 1991)

5 CD box set
24-pp. booklet by Bill Dahl
 
(=) Evidence ECD 26100 (US 1995) "American Folk Blues Festival '62-'65"   CD 1 "'sixty-two"

notes by Jerry Gordon

(=) Evidence ECD 26087-2 (US 1997) "American Folk Blues Festival '62-'65 - Highlights"

Evidence ECD 260101 "American Folk Blues Festival '66 - '72" (as announced in the notes accompanying Evidence ECD 26087-2) obviously never happened!

notes (8-pp. booklet) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos

= Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 42017 (Germany 1998)

3 CD set
 
(=) Bellaphon CDLR 726321 (Germany 1999) "1962, 1963, 1964"   CD 1 "American Folk Blues Festival '62"


(=) Oldays ODR 6287-88 (Jp 2016) "1962-63"

American Folk Blues Festival discography
Excello Records discography
Shakey Jake discography

42.018
(1980)
DLP
American Folk Blues Festival 1972

LP 1:
Bukka White
- I'm Gettin' Ready *   @ youtube
- World Boogie (1:25) * °°   @ youtube
- Aberdeen Blues *   @ youtube
Big Joe Williams
- My Baby Is Gone #   @ youtube
- My Boots & Shoes #   @ youtube
- Louise (1:28) # °°   @ youtube
Robert Pete Williams
- Look Here Woman #   @ youtube

Roosevelt Sykes
- Driving Wheel (2:50) *   @ youtube
- Sweet Home Chicago (2:10) *   @ youtube
- Boot That Thing (2:10) * °°   @ youtube
Memphis Slim
- Baby Please Come Home # °°   @ youtube
- Lonesome Traveller #   @ youtube
- Boogin' And Bluesin' #   @ youtube
Johnny Young, W.D. Kent, Billy Davenport
- Instrumental Boogie *   @ youtube


LP 2:
Big Mama Thornton
- Tell Me Baby #   @ youtube
- Ball In [sic] Chain #   @ youtube
T-Bone Walker
- Shake It Baby #   @ youtube
- Goin' Back To Church #   @ youtube

Jimmy Rogers & Whispering Smith
- Chicago Bound (3:10) * °°   @ youtube
- Tricky Woman *   @ youtube
Lightnin' Slim & Whispering Smith
- Winter Time Blues *   @ youtube
Jimmy Dawkins Chicago Blues Band
- Don't Ever Leave Me *   @ youtube
- Got My Mojo Workin' *   @ youtube

°° not on CD

# rec. March 16, 1972 at Hilpert Theatre, Lünen, Germany: Memphis Slim, voc, p; Big Mama Thornton, voc, hca; Big Joe Williams, voc, g; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g; T-Bone Walker, voc, g, p; Hartley Severns, ts, bs, ss, vn; Edward Taylor, ts; Paul Lenart, g; Phillip Morrison, b; Vinton Johnson, dr

* rec. October 26, 1972 at Circus-Krone-Bau, München, Germany: Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Roosevelt Sykes, voc, p; Bukka White, voc, g; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Lightnin' Slim, voc, g; Whispering Smith, voc, hca; Jimmy Dawkins, voc, g; Big Voice Odom, voc; Jesse Williams, g; W.D. Kent, b; Billy Davenport, dr

photography by Rolf Ambor, Hans Harzheim, Norbert Hess

gatefold DLP
notes (German & English) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos
click to read notes !click to read notes ! click to enlarge! click to enlarge! click to enlarge! click to enlarge!   l; click to enlarge!
Atlantic 60036 (Germany, Austria, Switzerland 1973) "The 10th American Folk Blues Festival - 'Blues Giants - Rock Creators'"

gatefold DLP
notes (English only) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos

= L+R 42.018 (Germany 1980) "American Folk Blues Festival '72"
= L+R LRC-2018 (cassette) (Germany 1980)

= Edigsa/L+R 12A0272 (Sp 1981)

notes (English only) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos

(=) Optimism/L+R LR CD-2018 (US 1991?)

notes (English only) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos

(=) Bellaphon/L+R CDLS 42018 (Germany 1998?)

American Folk Blues Festival discography
Bukka White discography
Big Joe Williams discography
Robert Pete Williams discography
Roosevelt Sykes discography
Johnny Young discography
Jimmy Rogers discography
Whispering Smith discography
Lightnin' Slim discography
Jimmy Dawkins discography

42.019
(1980)
'Doctor Feelgood'   The Original Piano Red: Music Is Medicine
Blues, Boogie & Barrelhouse

- You Got The Thing On Me
- Try To Forget, Good-bye
- Pushing That Thing
- Blues Blues Blues
- Boogie Time
- Hey Good Lookin'

- Dr. Feelgood
- C.C. Rider
- Come On Down To My House
- Telephone Blues
- My Gal Jo
- Got You On My Mind

rec. October 16, 1980 at Tonstudio Walldorf near Frankfurt a.M.; Piano Red, voc, p
photography by Norbert Hess

notes by Norbert Hess

L+R 42.019 (Germany 1980)

42.020
(1980)
Sonnyboy Williamson & The Yardbirds with Eric Clapton 1963 Live In London!

- Bye Bye Bird   @ youtube
- Mister Downchild   @ youtube
- The River Rhine °°   @ youtube
- 23 Hours Too Long   @ youtube
- A Lost Care °°   @ youtube

- Pontiac Blues   @ youtube
- Take It Easy Baby   @ youtube
- Out On The Water Coast   @ youtube
- I Don't Care No More *   @ youtube
- Honey In Your Hips # °°   @ youtube
- Western Arizona °°   @ youtube

CD only:
- I'm Trying To Make London My Home
- I Don't Know
- Sonny Boy's Harmonica Blues
- Had My Fun
- Dissatisfied
- Do The Weston   @ youtube
- Take It Easy Baby ["Version Two"]

°° = not on CD

rec. December 8, 1963 at Craw-Daddy Club, Richmond (London), UK; Sonny Boy Williamson, voc, hca, * solo (# without Sonny Boy Williamson); Keith Relf, voc, hca; Eric Clapton, lead g; Chris Dreja, g; Paul Samwell-Smith, b; Jim McCarthy, dr
photography (cover & liner) by Stephanie Wiesand

Fontana TL 5277 (UK 1965)
= Fontana International SFJL.960, 858 025 FPY (UK 1967)
= Fontana FPY 858025 (New Zealand 196?)
= Mercury SR 61071 (US 1969)
= Fontana 6434 181 (Germany 1975)

notes (1964 & 1980) by Horst Lippmann

L+R LR 42.020 (Germany 1980)

= Optimism/L+R LR CD-2020 (US 198?)

= Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 42.020 (Germany 199?)


= Evidence CD 26071 (US 1995)

quite a few more re-releases at discogs.com

42.021
(1980)
DLP
American Folk Blues Festival 1970

LP 1:
Chicago Blues All Stars
- Introduction   @ youtube
Shakey Horton
- Hard Hearted Woman   @ youtube
- That Ain't It   @ youtube
Bukka White
- Magie [sic] Lee [= "Maggie Lee"]
- World Boogie

Bukka White
- Old Lady
Champion Jack Dupree
- School Day °°
- Going To Louisiana
- Blues Before Sunrise


LP 2:
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- Hootin' The Blues
- Back Water Blues
- Walk On
- When I Was Drinking

Lee Jackson
- Juanita (4:30)   @ youtube
- Came Home This Morning (2:21) °°
Lafayette Leak [sic]
- After Hours
Willie Dixon
- Crazy For My Baby   @ youtube
- Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues   @ youtube

rec. November 16, 1970 "Life" [sic] at Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt-Höchst, Germany; The Chicago Blues All Stars: Shakey Horton, hca, voc; Lafayette Leake, p; Lee Jackson, g, voc; Willie Dixon, b, voc; Clifton James, dr
photos by Norbert Hess

°° not on CD releases

DLP
notes by Horst Lippmann

Scout Sc-7 (Germany 1970)

DLP
notes by Horst Lippmann

= L+R 42.021 (Germany 1980)


= Optimism/L+R LR CD-2021 (US 1989)


= Bellaphon/L+R CDLS 42021 (Germany 1991)

4-CD-Box (67 tracks, 292:31)
 
(=) Bellaphon CDLR 726323 (Germany 2002)   CD 1: American Folk Blues Festival 1970

American Folk Blues Festival discography
Scout Records discography

42.022
(1981)
American Folk Blues Festival '81

LP 1:
Bowling Green John & Harmonica Phil Wiggins
- Bowlin' Green Rag
- Bye Bye Baby
- Last Fair Deal
- Richmond Blues °°
Sunnyland Slim
- One Room Country Shack

- Tin Pan Alley
- Dust My Broom
Louisiana Red
- Woodchopping Blues
Hubert Sumlin
- I Love
Louisiana Red
- Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky


LP 2:
Lurrie Bell
- I Need You So Bad
- Man And The Blues
Carey Bell
- Walking Through The Park °°

Margie Evans
- 29 Ways
- Trouble Trouble
- Hound Dog
- Next Time I See You

°° not on CD-2022

rec. March 10, 1981 at the Konzertaula, Kamen, Germany and March 17, 1981 at the Siegerlandhalle, Siegen, Germany

DLP
notes by Claus Groh

L+R 42.022 (Germany 1981)


= L+R 42.022 "Blaupunkt presents ..."

= Edigsa 12A9419 (Spain 1982)


= Optimism/L+R CD-2022 (US 198?)
Optimism/L+R LRC-2022 (cassette)

42.023
(1981)
American Folkblues [sic] Festival 1963 resp. American Folk Blues Festival 1963
"A documentation of the authentic blues featuring the best blues artists of America"

Memphis Slim - Wish Me Well
Big Joe Williams - I Have No Friends   @ youtube
Willie Dixon - Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues
Willie Dixon - Crazy For My Baby
Victoria Spivey - Grant Spivey Matt "Guitar" Murphy - Matt's Guitar Boogie

Sonnyboy Williamson - I Don't Know   @ youtube
Sonnyboy Williamson - Sonny's Harmonica Boogie
Lonnie Johnson - It's Too Late To Cry
Otis Spann - Had My Fun (3:53)   @ youtube
Muddy Waters - Five Long Years   @ youtube
Memphis Slim et al. - Bye, Bye, Blues   @ youtube

rec. October 13, 1963 live at the (2nd) American Folk Blues Festival in Bremen, Germany; accompanists: Matt "Guitar" Murphy, g; Willie Dixon, b; Bill Stepney, dr; prod. by Siegfried E. Loch

Philips/Phonogram SFL-7385 track sequence:
Muddy Waters - Five Long Years
Willie Dixon - Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues
Willie Dixon - Crazy For My Baby
Matthew Murphy - Matt's Guitar Boogie
Sonny Boy Williamson - I Don't Know

Sonny Boy Williamson - I'm Trying To Make London My Home
Lightnin' Hopkins - Ain't It A Pity
Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby, Please Don't Go
Sunnyland Slim - Everytime I Get The Drinking
Hubert Sumlin - No Title Boogie
Howlin Wolf - Dust My Broom


originally unissued tracks from same event on Evidence ECD 26200, all previously (1992) released on ACT CD 9205:
Big Joe Williams - Big Roll Blues (3:00)
Big Joe Williams - Back In The Bottom Blues (3:16)
Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go (2:03)
Muddy Waters - Blow Wind Blow (alt tk) (= "In The City") (3:57)
Muddy Waters - My Home Is In The Delta (= "I Feel Like Cryin'") (4:42)
Sonny Boy Williamson - That's All I Want Baby (= "Your Love For Me Is True") (4:51)   @ youtube
Sonny Boy Williamson - Don't Misuse Me (4:47)   @ youtube
Otis Spann - Goin' Down Slow (alt tk, sans Sonny Boy Williamson) (= "Had My Fun") (3:36)
Lonnie Johnson - Careless Love (3:13)   @ youtube
Lonnie Johnson - C.C. Rider (2:37)   @ youtube

notes (8-pp. German/English) by Horst Lippmann and Siegfried Schmidt-Joos

Fontana 681510 ZL (mono) (Germany 1963) "American Folkblues Festival"   incl. photos by Rolf Ambor

or
= Fontana 885403 ZL (mono)
= Fontana 885403 ZY (stereo) (Germany 1963) "American Folkblues Festival"

notes by Anonymous

= Fontana TL 5204 (mono) (UK 1964) "American Folk Blues Festival"

notes by Jean Tronchot

= Fontana 885403 MY (mono)
= Fontana 885403 ZY (stereo) (Fr 196?)

notes by Jean Tronchot

= Fontana 681510 TL/ZL (Fr 19??)


= Fontana 858 100 FPY (NL 1968)

= Polydor 2310 296 (Fr)




= Exodus EX/EXS 302 (US 1966) [Ewart Abner's label]


(=) Philips/Phonogram SFL-7385 (Jp 1969) "American Folk Blues Festival 63-64"

notes by Willy Leiser

= L+R 42.023 (Germany 1981)


= Optimism/L+R CD-2023 (US 198?)


= Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 42023 (Germany 199?)

5 CD box set
notes by Bill Dahl
   
(=) Evidence ECD 26100 (US 1995) "American Folk Blues Festival '62-'65"     CDs 2 & 3: "1963, parts 1 & 2"

notes by Jerry Gordon

(=) Evidence ECD 26087-2 (US 1997) "American Folk Blues Festival '62-'65 - Highlights"

Evidence ECD 260101 "American Folk Blues Festival '66 - '72" (as announced in the notes accompanying Evidence ECD 26087-2) obviously never happened!

3 CD set
 
(=) Bellaphon CDLR 726321 (Germany 1999) "1962, 1963, 1964"     CD 2: "1963"


(=) Oldays ODR 6287-88 (Jp 2016) "1962-63"

a few more re-releases @ discogs. com

American Folk Blues Festival discography
L+R Records discography

42.024
(1981)
American Folk Blues Festival '64

Sonnyboy Williamson
- I'm Trying To Make London My Home
- Dissatisfied
Sunnyland Slim
- Everytime I Get To Drinkin'
Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins
- Ain't It A Pity
- Baby Please Don't Go

Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon
- I'm A Tearing Little Daddy
John Henry Barbee
- Cotton Pickin' Blues
Hubert Sumlin / Sunnyland Slim
- No Title Boogie
Sugar Pie Desanto
- Slip In Mules
Howlin' Wolf
- Dust My Broom
rec. October 9, 1964 at Musikhalle, Hamburg, Germany; + Willie Dixon, b; Clifton James, dr

Philips/Phonogram SFL-7385 track sequence:
American Folk Blues Festival 63-64

- Five Long Years - Muddy Waters (AFBF 1963)
- Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues - Willie Dixon (AFBF 1963)
- Crazy For My Baby - Willie Dixon (AFBF 1963)
- Matt's Guitar Boogie - Matthew Murphy (AFBF 1963)
- I Don't Know - Sonny Boy Williamson (AFBF 1963)


- I'm Trying To Make London My Home - Sonny Boy Williamson (AFBF 1964)
- Ain't It A Pity - Lightnin' Hopkins (AFBF 1964)
- Baby, Please Don't Go - Lightnin' Hopkins (AFBF 1964)
- Everytime I Get To Drinkin' - Sunnyland Slim (AFBF 1964)
- No Title Boogie - Hubert Sumlin (AFBF 1964)
- Dust My Broom - Howlin Wolf (AFBF 1964)

produced by Siegfried E. Loch

notes by Horst Lippmann & Fritz Rau (introduction), Georges Adins, Joachim E. Berendt, Jacques Demêtre, Bob Koester, Horst Lippmann, Paul Oliver (artists' portraits)

Fontana 681 522 TL (mono) (Germany 1964)
= Fontana 885 411 TY (stereo) (Germany 1964)

notes by Jean Tronchot

= Fontana 681 522 TL (mono) (Fr 1964)

notes by Jean Tronchot

= Fontana 885 411 MY (stereo) (Fr 1964)


= Fontana TL 5225 (UK 1964)

[not = Amiga 850043 !!!]


(=) Philips/Phonogram SFL-7385 (Jp 1969) "American Folk Blues Festival 63-64"

notes by Willy Leiser

= L+R 42.024 (Germany 1981)


= L+R 42.024 (Germany 1982)

= Edigsa/L+R 12L0293 (Sp 1982)


= Optimism/L+R CD LR-2024 (US 198?)


= Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 42024 (Germany 199?)

5 CD box set
notes by Bill Dahl
 
(=) Evidence ECD 26100 (US 1995) "American Folk Blues Festival '62-'65"     CD 4: "'sixty four"

notes by Jerry Gordon

(=) Evidence ECD 26087-2 (US 1997) "American Folk Blues Festival '62-'65 - Highlights"

Evidence ECD 260101 "American Folk Blues Festival '66 - '72" (as announced in the notes accompanying Evidence ECD 26087-2) obviously never happened!

3 CD set
 
(=) Bellaphon CDLR 726321 (Germany 2002) "1962, 1963, 1964"     CD 3: 1964

180 g LP

= Pure Pleasure/L+R PPAN LR42024 (UK 2014)

American Folk Blues Festival discography
Fontana Records discography
Sleepy John Estes discography

42.025
(1980)
American Folk Blues Festival '65 - Studio Session

Fred McDowell
- Highway 61 (3:04)   @ Spotify
J.B. Lenoir
- Slow Down (1:48)   @ Spotify
Walter Horton
- Christine   @ youtube
Roosevelt Sykes
- Come On Back Home (2:31)   @ youtube
Eddie Boyd
- Five Long Years (3:14)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- The Big Question (2:49)   @ youtube   @ Spotify

Jimmy Lee Robinson
- Rosalie   @ youtube
John Lee Hooker
- King Of The World   @ youtube
- Della Mae   @ youtube
Buddy Guy
- First Time I Met The Blues   @ youtube
Big Mama Thornton
- Houn' Dog   @ Spotify
Doctor Ross
- My Black Name Is Ringing   @ Spotify

rec. October 7, 1965 at a studio in Hamburg, Germany

Philips/Phonogram SFL-7386 track sequence:
John Lee Hooker - King Of The World (AFBF 1965)
John Lee Hooker - Della May [sic] (AFBF 1965)
J.B. Lenoir - Slow Down (AFBF 1965)
Fred McDowell - Highway 61 (AFBF 1965)
Doctor Ross - My Black Name Is Ringing (AFBF 1965)
Jimmy Lee Robinson - Rosalie (AFBF 1965)
Buddy Guy - First Time I Met The Blues (AFBF 1966)

Eddie Boyd - Five Long Years (AFBF 1965) [track sequence of side B?]
Eddie Boyd - The Big Question (AFBF 1965)
Junior Wells - Checkin' On My Baby (AFBF 1965)
Roosevelt Sykes - Running The Boogie (AFBF 1966)
Little Brother Montgomery - I Keep On Drinking (AFBF 1966)
Sippie Wallace - Suitcase Blues (AFBF 1966)
Otis Rush - All Your Love or My Own Fault (actually "Sweet Little Angel") (AFBF 1966)

Evidence ECD 26100 track sequence:
disc 5: American Folk Blues Festival 'sixty five

Mississippi Fred McDowell - Highway 61
J.B. Lenoir - Slow Down, Woman
Big Walter "Shakey" Horton - Blues Harp Shuffle °°
Big Walter "Shakey" Horton - Christine
Roosevelt Sykes - Come On Back Home
Eddie Boyd - Five Long Years
Eddie Boyd - The Big Question
Jimmie Lee Robinson - Rosa Lee
John Lee Hooker - King Of The World
John Lee Hooker - Della Mae
Buddy Guy - First Time I Met The Blues
Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog
Doctor Ross - My Black Name Is Ringing
John Lee Hooker - Della Mae (alt tk) °°
Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog (alt tk) °°
Buddy Guy - South Side Jump °°
J.B. Lenoir - If I Get Lucky °°
Mississippi Fred McDowell - Got A Letter This Morning °°
Roosevelt Sykes - Sail On °°
Doctor Ross - Farewell, Baby °°

°° bonus tracks (from ACT CD 9204)

notes by Horst Lippmann

Fontana 885 422 TY (Germany 1965)

notes by Horst Lippmann

= Fontana 885 422 TY ("Special Edition")

notes by Horst Lippmann

Fontana TL 5286 (UK 1965)


(=) Philips/Phonogram SFL-7386 (Jp 1969) American Folk Blues Festival 65-66

notes by Willy Leiser

= L+R 42.025 (Germany 1980)


= Optimism/L+R LR CD-2025 (US 198?)


= Optimism LRC-2025 (US 198?) (cassette)


= Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 42025 (Germany 199?)

5 CD set
notes by Bill Dahl

(=) Evidence ECD 26100 (US 1995)

American Folk Blues Festival discography

42.030
(1980)
DLP
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)

Guitar Frank Hovington 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

42.031
(1981)
Living Country Blues USA Vol. 1
Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins


- Black Rat Swing
- Eyesight To The Blind
- Guitar & Harmonica Rag
- Rising River Blues
- I'm A Pilgrim
- Chicken Can't Roost Too High For Me

- I Ain't Got No Lovin' Baby Now
- West Carey Street Blues
- Richmond Blues
- Pony Blues
- Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad

= on Evidence 3 CD set (US 1999)

recorded 1980 by Axel Küstner and Siegfried Christmann


L+R 42.031 (Germany 1981)

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 713123 (Germany 2008)

= Bellaphon LR 713016 (Germany 2014) (180 g LP) (includes download code)

www.cephasandwiggins.com

42.032
(1981)
Living Country Blues USA Vol. 2
Blues On Highway 61


James "Son" Thomas
- Standing At The Crossroads
Sam Chatmon
- Stop And Listen Blues
James "Son" Thomas
- Bull Cow Blues
- 61 Highway Blues
Walter Brown
- Keep On Walkin'
Joe Cooper
- She Put Me Out On The Road

Sam Chatmon
- Sam's Blues
- Black Night
James "Son" Thomas
- Mean Ol' Frisco
Sam Chatmon
- My Daddy Was A Jockey
Eddie Cusie [real name: Eddie Cusic]
- Gonna Cut You Loose
Sam Chatmon
- Vicksburg Blues

= on Evidence 3 CD set (US 1999)

recorded 1980 by Axel Küstner and Siegfried Christmann


L+R 42.032 (Germany 1981)

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 713024 (Germany 2008)

= Bellaphon LR 713017 (Germany 2014) (180 g LP) (includes download code)

Sam Chatmon discography

42.033
(1981)
Living Country Blues USA Vol. 3
Flora Molton & The Truth Band


- Last Words My Mother Said To Met   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- I Can't Stand It   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Mean Old World   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- My Mother Left Me Standing On The Lonesome Highway   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Bye And Bye I'm Going To See The King   @ Spotify

- Your Enemy Can't Harm You   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Louis Armstrong   @ Spotify
- Get Right With God   @ Spotify
- The Trainsong   @ Spotify
- Vacation In Heaven   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. October 5, 7 & 9, 1980 at Flora Molton's house, 614 Hamilton St. N.W. in Washington, DC. by Siegfried A. Christmann; Flora Molton & The Truth Band: Flora Molton voc, g, cabasa, cymbals, tambourine; Phil Wiggins, hca; Ed Morris, g; Larry Wise, g; Vgo (Phillip McTerry), dulcimer
photos by Axel Küstner

= on Evidence 3 CD set (US 1999)


Ed Morris
photographer: Axel Küstner



Vgo (Phillip McTerry)
photographer: Axel Küstner

notes by Axel Küstner

L+R 42.033 (Germany 1981)

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"

notes by Axel Küstner

[CD notes do *not* contain liner photos that were part of the original LP release!]


= Bellaphon CDLR 712928 (Germany 2008)

42.034
(1981)
Living Country Blues USA Vol. 4
Tennessee Blues


Hammie Nixon & Walter Cooper
- Someday Baby
Lottie Murrell
- I Got A Gal Cross The Bottom
Hammie Nixon
- Louise Blues
Memphis Piano Red
- Cow Cow Blues
- Goin' To Chicago
Charlie Sangster
- She's Taylor [sic] Made
Memphis Piano Red
- Mr. Freddy

Memphis Piano Red
- Hangover
Hammie Nixon
- Viola Lee Blues
Memphis Piano Red
- Good Patuni
Lottie Murrell
- Rollin' And Tumblin'
Charlie Sangster & Hammie Nixon
- Moanin' The Blues
Memphis Piano Red
- Mother-In-Law Blues
Hammie Nixon & Walter Cooper
- Soon One Mornin'

= on Evidence 3 CD set (US 1999)

recorded 1980 by Axel Küstner and Siegfried Christmann


L+R 42.034 (Germany 1981)

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 712829 (Germany 2008)

42.035
(1982)
Living Country Blues USA Vol. 5
Mississippi Delta Blues


James "Son" Thomas
- Big Fat Mama
James "Son" Thomas & Cleveland Jones
- I Laid And I Wondered
CeDell Davis
- Bull Dog Blues
Othar Turner
- My Babe
CeDell Davis
- Love Blues
James "Son" Thomas
- Cairo Blues

CeDell Davis
- Hello Central
James "Son" Thomas
- Catfish Blues
Walter Brown
- Goin' To Arkansas City
Stonewall Mays
- Jazz Boogie Woogie
CeDell Davis
- Let Me Play With Your Poodle
Stonewall Mays
- Stormy Weather Blues

= on Evidence 3 CD set (US 1999)

recorded 1980 by Axel Küstner and Siegfried Christmann


L+R 42.035 (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 712720 (Germany 2008)

42.036
(1982)
Living Country Blues USA   Vol. 6
Archie Edwards: The Road Is Rough And Rocky


- That Won't Do
- My Old Schoolmates
- I Called My Baby Long Distance
- Pittsburgh Blues
- Baby Please Give Me A Break
- Duffle Bag Blues

- Lovin' Spoonful
- The Road Is Rough And Rocky
- Jinky Lou
- Stagg-O-Lee
- T For Texas
- Do Lord Remember Me

rec. 1980 by Siegfried A. Christmann and Axel Küstner

= on Evidence 3 CD set (US 1999)


L+R 42.036 (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 712621 (Germany 2008)

Archie Edwards discography

42.037
(1982)
Living Country Blues USA Vol. 7
Afro-American Blues Roots


Sam "Stretch" Shields
- The Hounds
Lonnie Pitchford
- Boogie Chillun
Walter Brown
- Alberta
Cora Fluker
- Dry Bones In The Valley
Othar Turner & The Rising Star Five And Drum Band
- Granny Will Your Dog Bite
Walter Brown
- Roustabout Holler
Arzo Youngblood
- Goin' Up The Country Blues

Cora Fluker
- Move Daniel
Walter Brown & Joe Savage
- Raise 'Em Up Higher
Napoleon Strickland
- Banty Rooster
Othar Turner & The Rising Star Five And Drum Band
- When The Saints Go Marchin' In
Lonnie Pitchford
- Johnny Stole An Apple
Napoleon Strickland
- Cryin' Won't Make Me Stay
Othar Turner
- Father, I Stretch My Hands To Thee

= on Evidence 3 CD set (US 1999)

recorded 1980 by Axel Küstner and Siegfried Christmann


L+R 42.037

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 712522 (Germany 2008)

Lonnie Pitchford discography

42.038
(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   @ 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 tracks rec. October 11, 1980 in Frederica, DE
Guitar Slim tracks rec. October 13, 1980 in Greensboro, NC
by Siegfried Christmann and 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)

Frank Hovington discography

42.039
(1982)
Living Country Blues USA Vol. 9
Mississippi Moan


Boogie Bill Webb
- Maggie Campbell Blues
Lonnie Pitchford
- My Baby Walked Away
James "Son" Thomas
- Beefsteak Blues
Joe Savage
- Joe's Prison Camp Holler
Arzo Youngblood
- Bye Bye Blues
Sam "Stretch" Shields
- Mellow Peaches
Cora Fluker
- Out In The Woods

Arzo Youngblood
- Worried Blues
Walter Brown
- Levee Camp Holler
Cora Fluker
- Look How This World Done A Change
Boogie Bill Webb
- Seven Sisters Blues
Walter Brown
- Mississippi Moan

recorded 1980 by Axel Küstner and Siegfried Christmann

= on Evidence 3 CD set (US 1999)


L+R 42.039 (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 712324 (Germany 2008)

Lonnie Pitchford discography

42.040
(1982)
Living Country Blues USA Vol. 10
Country Boogie


Lottie Murrell - Spoonful   @ youtube
Napoleon Strickland - That's The Boogie   @ youtube
Guitar Slim - Lovin' Blues   @ youtube
James "Son" Thomas - Mama Don't 'Low No Guitar Playin' Here   @ youtube
Othar Turner & the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band - Bouncin' Ball   @ youtube
Lonnie Pitchford - One String Boogie   @ youtube

Bowling Green John & Harmonica Phil Wiggins - Burn Your Bridges   @ youtube
Memphis Piano Red - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie   @ youtube
Archie Edwards - Sellin' That Stuff   @ youtube
Lonnie Pitchford - Shake Your Moneymaker   @ youtube
Cora Fluker - Shotgun Boogie   @ youtube
Arzo Youngblood - Swing, Swing   @ youtube
Cedell "Big G" Davis - You Got To Do The Boogie Woogie   @ youtube

rec. October / November 1980 by Siegfried Christmann and Axel Küstner
photos by Axel Küstner

= on Evidence 3 CD set (US 1999)

notes by Axel Küstner

L+R 42.040 (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"


[CD notes do *not* contain liner photos that were part of the original LP release!]
= L+R LRCD 712225 (Germany 2008)

Lattie Murrell discography
Memphis Piano Red discography
Guitar Slim discography
Son Thomas discography
Lonnie Pitchford discography
Archie Edwards discography

42.041
(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)

Boyd Rivers discography
Guitar Frank Hovington discography
Guitar Slim Stephens discography
Flora Molton discography

42.042
(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
Archie Edwards
- Everybody's Blues

Guitar Frank (Hovington)
- Trouble In Mind
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
- Key To The Highway

rec. 1980 by Siegfried A. Christmann and Axel Küstner

notes by Axel Küstner

L+R 42042 (Germany 1982)


= L+R LRCD 712027 (Germany 2008)

Guitar Frank Hovington discography
Guitar Slim Stephens discography
Archie Edwards discography

42.045
(1983)
Louisiana Red: Anti Nuclear Blues

- Anti Nuclear Blues
- Reagan Is For The Rich Man
- Starving In Detroit
- Still Crying About Detroit
- Tribute To Tampa Red

- No More Destruction In This Land
- I'm Tired
- Bessie
- I'll Get To Victory

rec. February 10 & 11, 1983 at Bunkerstudio Bad Wildungen, Germany; Louisiana Red, voc, g, dobro, el g; Gerhard Engbarth, g, el g

notes by Gerhard Engbarth

L+R 42.045


= Bellaphon CD (1996) "Blues Classics"

42.046
(1983)
Larry Johnson: Johnson! Where Did You Get That Sound?

- Don't Get Mad With Me (Larry Johnson)
- Davison County Blues (DeFord Bailey) *
- Standing By My Window (Larry Johnson)
- Crawdad Whole (Big Bill Broonzy)
- You Can't Quit Me Baby (Blind Blake)
- Evening Sun / Rocke Me (Trad., arr. Nat Riddles) #   @ youtube

- Johnson! Where Did You Get That Sound? (Larry Johnson)
- Little Boy Blue (Rice Miller Williamson) #
- Who's Been Here Since I've Been Gone (Bo Carter)
- C. C. Rider (Arent - Ma Rainey)
- Step It Up And Go (Blind Boy Fuller)
- Baby Quit Me, That's All (Larry Johnson)

rec. June 22, 1982 at Fly Studios, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Larry Johnson, voc, g; Nat Riddles, blues harp & vocal
* harp solo Nat Riddles
# vocals Nat Riddles

notes by Len Kunstadt

L+R LR 42.046 (Germany 1983)

Larry Johnson discography
Nat Riddles discography

42.047
(1983)
Big Joe Williams: 1973 - 80 Field Recordings

- Tailor Made Baby   @ youtube
- Prison Bound Blues   @ youtube
- Dark Road Blues   @ youtube
- Hold Up The Light, Let It Shine [omitted from Bellaphon CDLR 82004]   @ youtube
- Delta Blues   @ youtube
- Lord Have Mercy   @ youtube
- Don't Your House Look Lonesome °°   @ youtube
- Somebody's Been Borrowing That Stuff O' Mine #   @ youtube

- Deal 'Em On Down   @ youtube
- Snitchin' Blues   @ youtube
- Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin' Bed #   @ youtube
- Lonesome Train Blues   @ youtube
- No More Whiskey   @ youtube
- Liza Jane Blues   @ youtube
- Texas Blues °° *   @ youtube
- When I Lay My Burden Down #   @ youtube

rec. July 28, August 3, August 20, August 26, 1978, August 25, September 5, October 15, 1980 in Crawford, MS by Axel Küstner; Big Joe Williams, 9-str g, voc; # Lydia Carter, add'l voc
°° rec. March 30, 1977 in Berlin, Germany; Big Joe Williams, 9-str g, voc; * Cooper Terry, hca
prod. by Axel Küstner & Siegfried A. Christmann
photos by Axel Küstner (cover photo: October 29, 1976 in Dortmund, Germany, liner photo: September 26, 1978 in Crawford, MS)

notes by Axel Küstner

L+R 42.047 (Germany 1983)


= Optimism/L+R LR CD-2047 (US 198?)


(=) Bellaphon CDLR 82004 (Germany 1996) "Blues Classics"

notes by Peter R. Aschoff

= Evidence CD 26096 (US 1998) "No More Whiskey"

Big Joe Williams discography

42.048
(1982)
The James 'Son' Thomas Album

- Big Fat Mama
- The Real Catfish Blues
  [unexpurgated version]
- Standing At The Crossroads
- 61 Highway

- Beefsteak Blues
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Stormy Monday Blues
- Rock Me Mama
- Mama Don't 'Low No Guitar Playin' Round Here
- Hoochie Coochie Man/Tune In Next Time

Evidence CD track sequence:
- Mama Don't 'Low No Guitar Playin' Round Here
- Big Fat Mama
- Beefsteak Blues
- Rock Me Mama
- Catfish Blues (unexpurgated version)
- Standing At The Crossroads
- Highway 61
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Stormy Monday Blues
- Catfish Blues ['clean' version]
- Smokey Mountain #
- Hoochie Coochie Man/Tune In Next Time
# from L+R 42.065

P-Vine CD track sequence:
- Big Fat Mama
- The Real Catfish Blues
- Standing At The Crossroads
- 61 Highway
- Beefsteak Blues
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Stormy Monday Blues
- Rock Me Mama
- Mama Don't 'low No Guitar Playin' Round Here
- Medley: Hoochie Coochie Man/Tune In Next Time


L+R 42.048 (Germany 1982)


= LR CD
= Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 82006 (Germany 1996) "Blues Classics"


= Evidence CD 26095 (US 1998) "Beefsteak Blues"

= P-Vine PCD 2178 (Jp) "Living Country Blues"

Son Thomas discography

42.049
(1982)
Lurrie Bell & Billy Branch: Chicago's Young Blues Generation!

L+R 42.049) track sequence:
- The Train I Ride (Wells) (7:15)
- Help Me (Sonny Boy Williamson) (6:46) #
- Breakin' Up Somebody's Home (adapted and arranged by Lurrie Bell) (7:24)

- Sweet Little Angel (B.B.King-J.Taub) (5:41)
- Don't Stop Me Talking (Sonny Boy Williamson) (4:52) #
- Teenie Weenie Bit (adapted and arranged by Lurrie Bell) (4:01)
- I Need You So Bad (Samuel Maghett) (5:43)

Evidence CD track sequence:
- Help Me (Sonny Boy Willamson) (6:50)
- Breakin' Up Somebody's Home (Al Jackson Jr. / Timothy Matthews) (7:19)
- Sweet Little Angel (King / Taub) (5:44)
- Don't Start Me Talkin' (Sonny Boy Williamson) (4:33)
- Just A little Bit ( Thornton / Brown / Bass / Washington) (4:00)
- I Need You So Bad (Maghett) (5:21)
- Mystery Train (Parker / Phillips) (7:08)

rec. June 30, 1982 at Odyssey Sound Studio, Chicago, IL; Lurrie Bell, voc, g; Billy Branch, hca, # voc; Elisha "Eli" Murray, g; J.W. Williams, b; Mose Rutues jr. dr; prod. by Horst Lippmann
cover photo by Mara Eggert; liner photo by Axel Küstner


L+R 42.049 (Germany 1982)


(=) Evidence CD 26114 (US 2001) "Billy Branch: Chicago's Young Blues Generation"

42.050
(1982)
Margie Evans: Mistreated Woman

- Mistreated Woman
- It's A Shame
- Your Love Is Painful

- Two Lovers In One
- Blue Blue Blues
- Don't Throw No Stones At Me
- God Bless The Child

rec. July 2, 1982 at Magic Wand Recording Studios in Burbank, CA

notes by Horst Lippmann
click to read notes !
L+R 42.050 (Germany 1982)


Bellaphon CD (Germany 1996) "Blues Classics""

42.051
(1982)
Carey Bell's Blues Harp Band with Lurrie Bell: Goin' On Main Street

- Goin' On Main Street
- I Am Worried
- Heartaches And Pain

- Easy To Love You
- Train Ticket
- When A Woman Get In Trouble
- Tribute To Big Walter

CD bonus tracks:
- I Need You So Bad
- Man And The Blues


L+R 42.051 (Germany 1982)


= Bellaphon CD (Germany 1996)
"Blues Classics"


= Evidence CD 26055 (1994)

42.052
(1982)
DLP
American Folk Blues Festival
Blues Live '82


LP 1:
James "Son" Thomas
- Beefsteak Blues *   @ youtube
- Catfish Blues *   @ youtube
Archie Edwards
- How Long Blues *   @ youtube
- That Won't Do *   @ youtube
- Take Me Back Baby *   @ youtube
Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins
- Big Boss Man *   @ youtube

Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins
- Burn Your Bridges #   @ youtube
- Worried Man Blues # °°   @ youtube
Lurrie Bell & Billy Branch
- Detroit, Michigan #   @ youtube
- Tribute To Little Walter #   @ youtube


LP 2:
Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins
- Running And Hiding #   @ youtube
James "Son" Thomas
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl #   @ youtube
- Standing At The Crossroads # °° [L+R 42.048]   @ youtube
- Stormy Monday Blues #   @ youtube
Carey Bell
- Goin' On Main Street #   @ youtube

Carey Bell
- Blues Harp By Three *   @ youtube
Margie Evans
- That Dirty Black Rat #   @ youtube
- Sometimes I'll Be Gone #   @ youtube
- Bye Bye Baby *   @ youtube

°° not on CDs

# rec. November 15, 1982 at Palmengarten, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
* rec. November 24, 1982 at Siegerlandhalle, Siegen, Germany
all photos by Axel Küstner

gatefold DLP
notes by Siegfried A. Christmann

L+R 42.052 (Germany 1983)

notes by Siegfried A. Christmann & Horst Lippmann

(=) L+R/Bellaphon CDLS 42052 (Germany 1991)

3-CD-Box

(=) Bellaphon CDLR 726024 (Germany 2002) "American Folk Blues Festival 1982/1983/1985"

42.053
(1982)
American Folk Blues Festival '82
Sons Of The Blues - Live '82


L+R 42.053 track sequence:
- Never Make Your Move Too Soon *
- Did You Ever Love A Woman #
- Eyesight To The Blind #

- Sweet Little Angel *
- My Kind Of Woman []
- Reconsider Baby *

Evidence CD 26049 track sequence:
- Never Make Your Move Too Soon
- Did You Ever Love A Woman
- Eyesight To The Blind See
- Sweet Little Angel
- My Kind Of Woman
- Reconsider Baby
- Detroit, Michigan
- Goin' On Main Street


# rec. November 6, 1982 at Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Konzerthalle in Frankfurt an der Oder, GDR
* rec. November 15, 1982 at Palmengarten, Frankfurt am Main, FRG
[] rec. November 27, 1982 t Auditorium de Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Lurrie Bell, el g, voc; Billy Branch, hca, voc; Elisha Murray, el g; J. W. Williams, el b, voc; Mose Rutues, dr

notes by Horst Lippmann

L+R 42.053 (Germany 1982)


L+R CD 42.053


(=) Evidence CD 26049 (1994)
Billy Branch & The S.O.B.s
Of Blues: Live '82

42.054
(1983)
Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins: Sweet Bitter Blues

- Sweet Bitter Blues
- St. James Infirmary
- I Saw the Light
- Tribute To Skip James

- Piedmont Rag
- Dog Days Of August
- Roberta - A Thousand Miles From Home
- Highway 301
- Hoodoo Woman
- Louisiana Chase

CD bonus tracks:
- Bowling Green Rag
- Bye Bye Baby
- Last Fair Deal
- Big Boss Man
- Burn Your Bridges
- Running And Hiding

rec. April 9, 1983 at Gypsy Studio, Falls Church, Virginia, USA; "Bowling Green John" Cephas, voc, g; "Harmonica Phil" Wiggins, voc, hca

notes by Joe Wilson
click to read notes!
L+R 42.054 (Germany 1983)


= Evidence CD 26050 (1994)

www.cephasandwiggins.com

42.055
(1983)
Louisiana Red & His Chicago Blues Friends
Boy from Black Bayou

Tribute to Muddy Waters

- Future Blues
- Boy From Black Bayou
- The Good Book

- I'm Too Good
- Texas Hop
- Gal From Elgin, Illinois

Louisiana Red, lead g, voc; Carey Bell, hca; Lovie Lee, p; Larry Exum, b; Earl Howell, dr


L+R 42.055 (Germany 1983)

42.056
(1983)
Blind John Davis

- I Had A Dream
- I Know The Baby Loves Me
- Hey Hey Mama
- The Woman I Love
- I Heard An Echo
- The Tricks Don't Turn [sic] On You

- Harlem Blues
- When The Blues Birds Come Out To Sing
- Pretty Blues For Listening
- When I've Been Drinking
- Bartender's Bounce
- Penny Pitchin' Blues *
- Don't Lie To Me

rec. April 3, 1983 at Odyssey Sound Studios, Chicago, Ill
* with special guest: Jeanne Caroll, voc

notes by Rolf Schubert

L+R 42.056 (Germany 1983)


= Evidence CD 26056 (US 1994)

42.057
(1983)
Blues Queen Sylvia: Midnight Baby@ youtube (full CD album)

- I'm Hurtin'   @ youtube
- Life And Troubles   @ youtube
- New York Bound
- Baby, What Do I Do   @ youtube

- Midnight Baby
- Party   @ youtube
- Can't Get Along
- Why Wonder   @ youtube

Evidence CD bonus tracks:
- You Treat Me So Mean *   @ youtube
- I Love You #
- Baby, What Do I Do #

rec. April 4, 1983 at Odyssey Sound Studios, Chicago Ill.; Queen Sylvia, voc, b; Jimmy Dawkins, lead g; Richie Krich [sic, actually Rich Kirch], 2nd lead g; Phillip Meeks, rhythm g; Tyrone Centuray, dr; prod. by Horst Lippmann

* previously issued on L+R 50.002 (1983)

# rec. November 11, 1983 at the Music Hall, Würzburg, Germany; Sylvia Embry, voc, b; Jimmy Rogers, g; Louisiana Red, slide g; Carey Bell, hca; Lovie Lee, keyboards; Charles "Honeyboy" Otis, dr; previously issued on L+R 42.063 (1984)

notes by Jean-Claude Arnaudon

L+R 42.057 (Germany 1983)


= Bellaphon CDLR 72003 (Germany 1994)


= Evidence CD 26057 (US 1994) "Blues Queen Sylvia with Jimmy Dawkins"

Sylvia (and Johnny) Embry discography

42.058
(1983)
Cash McCall: No More Doggin'

- Mojo Woman
- Something Funny Is Going On
- No Moer Doggin'
- European Holiday
- I'll Be There

- Southern Woman
- Hurry Sundown

Cash McCall, lead g, voc
Andre Avila, tenor/alto sax
Arthur L. Wood, p
Zackery Prather, g
Welton Gite, b
Charles Avery, dr

notes by Willy Leiser

L+R 42.058 (Germany 1983)


= Bellaphon CD (Germany 1996) "Blues Classics"


= Evidence CD 26065 (US 1995)

42.059
(1983)
Blind Joe Hill   One-Man-Blues-Band: First Chance

- Big Butt Woman
- Lickin' Gravy Baby
- Wake Me Up In The Morning
- Highway 13
- Darling, I Love You
- Blind Joe Special

- First Change
- P. D. Blues
- I Can't Do What I Used To Do
- You Got Me Dizzy
- I'm Travellin'

rec. March 27, 1983 in Hollywood; Blind Joe Hill, voc, hca, g, dr

notes by Inge Gawlitta

L+R 42.059 (Germany 1983)

Blind Joe Hill discography

42.060
(1983)
Margie Evans: Another Blues Day

- Another Blues Day
- Loser
- I've Been 'Buked
- The Lighthouse

- Come To Me
- Let The Telephone Ring
- I've Been There
- Chilly Waters

recorded March 1983 at In House Recordings, N. Hollywood, CA; Margie Evans, voc; André Avila, ts/as/fl; Arthur L. Woods, p; Cash McCall, lead g; Zackerey Prather, g; Welton Gite, b; Charles Avery, dr; prod. by Horst Lippmann

notes by Greg Drust

L+R 42.060 (Germany 1983)

42.061
(1984)
Louisiana Red with Carey Bell: My Life

- Arizona Blues
- Prison Blues
- Honorable Discharge
- Keep On Slidin' The Blues

- Standing Out Cryin'
- Lonesome Train
- Bo-Weavil Blues
- My Life (with Carey Bell)

rec. April 1, 1983 at Odyssey Sound Studios in Chicago, Ill., November 11, 1983 live at the American Folk Blues Festival at Music Hall in Würzburg; Louisiana Red, el g, voc; Carey Bell, hca; special guest: Valerie Wellington, voc

notes by Peter Goldsmith

L+R 42.061 (Germany 1984)

42.062
(1984)
James Sparky Rucker: Drive Back The Night

- Babylon Blues *°   @ Spotify
- Lay My Burden Down *°   @ Spotify
- M & O Blues   @ Spotify
- Blues In The Bordertown Jail *   @ Spotify
- Drive Back The Night *°   @ Spotify

- A Song For Babe   @ Spotify
- Satisfied And Tickled Too °   @ Spotify
- Kind-Hearted Woman   @ Spotify
- Break Of Day Blues *   @ Spotify
- A Beautiful Life *°   @ Spotify

cover photo: Axel Küstner

Bellaphon CD track sequence:
- Babylon Blues *°
- Lay My Burden Down *°
- M & O Blues
- Blues In A Bordertown Jail *
- Drive Back The Night *°
- A Song For Babe
- Satisfied And Tickled Too °
- Kind-Hearted Woman
- Break Of Day Blues *
- A Beautiful Life *°
- Rock Me Baby #   @ Spotify
- Crossroads #   @ Spotify

# additional tracks from L+R 42.063 (AFBF '83)

rec. November 7, 1983 at Sinus Music, Ulli Weigel's Tonstudio, West-Berlin; James "Sparky" Rucker voc, ac g; * Louisiana Red, el g; ° Carey Bell, hca

notes by Inge Gawlitta (March 1984) and Sparky Rucker (December 1983)
click to read notes !
L+R 42.062 (Germany 1984)


(=) Bellaphon CDLR 82005 (Germany 1996) "James 'Sparky' Rucker" "Blues Classics"

42.063
(1984)
DLP




American Folk Blues Festival Live '83

LP 1:
James "Sparky" Rucker
- Rock Me Baby ^   @ Spotify
- Here Rattler Here °°   @ youtube
- Crossroads   @ Spotify
- Come On In My Kitchen °°   @ youtube
Larry Johnson
- Midnight Hour   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- That's The Wrong Woman   @ youtube   @ Spotify

Louisiana Red & His Chicago Blues Friends
- Red's Tribute To Muddy Waters ^ # ||   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Boy From Black Bayou # ||   @ Spotify
- Gold Tail Bird # [] °°   @ youtube
- She Is Worse # ||   @ Spotify


LP 2:
Lonnie Pitchford
- One-String Boogie ^   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- My Baby Walked Away ^   @ Spotify
- C.C. Rider   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Why I Sing The Blues °°   @ youtube
Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
- When I Lay Down To Rest   @ Spotify
- Who's Louisiana Red   @ Spotify
- Reagan Is For The Rich Man   @ Spotify

Lovie Lee & Band
- Flip, Flop, And Fly ^   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Mind To Ramble ^   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Iko-Iko   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Queen Sylvia & Friends
- I Love You ^ *   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Baby, What Do I Do ^ *   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- New York Bound ^ °°

°° not on CDLS 42063

rec. October 30, 1983 at Volksbildungsheim, Frankfurt a.M.
^ rec. November 11, 1983 at Music Hall, Würzburg
# Louisiana Red, g, || voc; Jimmy Rogers, g, [] voc; Carey Bell, hca; Lovie Lee, p; Queen Sylvia Embry, b; Charles "Honey Boy" Otis, dr
* Sylvia Embry, voc, b; Carey Bell, hca; Lovie Lee, p; Jimmy Rogers, Louisiana Red, g; Charles "Honey Boy" Otis, dr
liner photo by Norbert Hess

gatefold DLP
notes by Peter C. Goldsmith

L+R 42.063 (Germany 1984)

notes by Peter C. Goldsmith

(=) L+R CDLS 42063 (Germany 1992)

American Folk Blues Festival discography

42.064
(1985)
Jim Kahr: My Guitar And I Have Travelled

- Sneakin' And Lyin'
- Cliff House
- Airport Dues
- My Guitar And I Have Travelled
- Funny Side Of Life

- St. Louis Blues #
- Broke This Heart Of Mine #
- Where We Goin' #
- You Oughta Know
- Walkin' Blues

rec. July 4, 1985 in Frankfurt a.M., Germany; Jim Kahr, voc, ac g; # el g

notes by Horst Lippmann

L+R 42.064 (Germany 1985) "Blues & Love Songs"


= CD "Unplugged Visions"

42.065
(1985)
American Folk Blues Festival Live '85

James "Sparky" Rucker
- Walkin' Blues   @ Spotify
Blind Joe Hill
- Fanny Mae   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Cash McCall & Young Blues Thrillers
- I Can't Quit You Baby   @ Spotify
James "Son" Thomas
- Smokey Mountain Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson & Young Blues Thrillers
- Hold It Right There   @ Spotify

Young Blues Thrillers
- From Boogie To Funk   @ Spotify
- Gettin' Closer   @ Spotify
- Young Blues Thrillers' Theme   @ Spotify
Margie Evans, Cash McCall & Young Blues Thrillers
- Two Lovers In One   @ Spotify

rec. October 22, 1985 at Volksbildungsheim, Frankfurt/Main, Germany and October 23, 1985 at Capitol, Mannheim, Germany

notes by Horst Lippmann

L+R LR 42.065 (Germany 1985)

notes by Horst Lippmann

= Optimism/L+R LR CD-2065 (US 1990?)

notes by Horst Lippmann

= L+R CDLR 42065 (Germany 1992)

4 CD set
notes by Siegfried A. Christmann
  ; click to enlarge!
(=) Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 726024 (EU 2002) "American Folk Blues Festival 1982/1983/1985"

American Folk Blues Festival discography
Blind Joe Hill discography
James "Son" Thomas discography

42.066
(1987)
The Best Of The American Folk Blues Festival '63-'67

Sleepy John Estes
- I'm Tearing Little Dady
Buddy Guy
- First Time I Met The Blues
Big Mama Thornton
- Hound Dog
Muddy Waters
- Five Long Years
Howlin' Wolf
- Dust My Broom
John Lee Hooker
- King Of The World

Sonny Boy Williamson
- I'm Trying To Make London My Home
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- Rock Island Line
Roosevelt Sykes
- Come On Back Home
J.B. Lenoir
- Vietnam Blues
Bukka White
- Aberdeen Mississippi Blues
Sam 'Lightnin' Hopkins
- Ain't It A Pity

compiled by Peter C. Goldsmith; artwork by Jürgen Höber

notes by Peter C. Goldsmith

L+R 42.066 (Germany 1987)

= Philips 9279 451 (NL 19??)


= Bellaphon CDLR 42066 (Germany 1998)

42.067
(198?)
Matchbox Blues Band with Klaus "Mojo" Kilian: Flamethrower




L+R 42.067 (Germany 198?)

42.068
(1989)
Andy J. Forest Band: Shuffle City
Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival with Billy Gregory, former guitarist of "It's a Beautiful Day"




L+R 42.068 (Germany 1989)

42.069
(1990)
American Folk Blues Festival '66

Fontana 885 431 BY / L+R 42.069
Roosevelt Sykes
- Running The Boogie   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Otis Rush
- All Your Love ||   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Little Brother Montgomery
- I Keep On Drinking   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Sleepy John Estes
- You Shouldn't Do It   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Otis Rush
- My Own Fault || [actually "Sweet Little Angel"]   @ youtube   @ Spotify

Junior Wells
- Checkin' On My Baby \\   @ youtube @ Spotify
- A Tribute To Sonny Boy Williamson \\ @ youtube (2:40)   @ Spotify
Sippie Wallace
- Suitcase Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Robert Pete Williams
- Louise   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Big Joe Turner
- Flip, Flop And Fly // *   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Roll 'Em Pete // ^   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. October 16, 1966 at the Friedrichstadt-Palast, East-Berlin, GDR (American Folk Blues Festival 1966); prod. by Siegfried E. Loch

Roosevelt Sykes, voc, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr
|| Otis Rush, voc, g; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr
Little Brother Montgomery, voc, p; Freddie Below, dr
Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Yank Rachell, voc, mand
\\ Junior Wells, voc, hca; Otis Rush g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr
Sippie Wallace, voc; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr
Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
// Big Joe Turner, voc; * Little Brother Montgomery, ^ Roosevelt Sykes, p; Otis Rush, g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr

notes by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos

Fontana 885 431 TY (Germany 1966)


= Fontana 885 431 BY/MY (Fr 1966)


= Fontana TL 5389 (mono) / STL 5389 (stereo) (UK 1966)


= Fontana 681.533 TL/IL (Fr 1966?)


= Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 42069 (Germany 1990)


= Optimism/L+R LR CD-2069 (US 1990)

4-CD-Box
original 1966 notes by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos
 
(=) Bellaphon CDLR 726322 (Germany 1998) (45 Tracks, 165:59)


American Folk Blues Festival '66   Vol. 1

Vol. 1: Amiga 855114
Roosevelt Sykes
- Running The Boogie   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Otis Rush
- All Your Love ||   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Little Brother Montgomery
- I Keep On Drinking   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Sleepy John Estes
- You Shouldn't Do It   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Big Joe Turner
- Roll 'Em Pete // ^   @ youtube   @ Spotify

Junior Wells
- Sheckin' [sic] On My Baby \\   @ youtube @ Spotify
- Vietnam Blues \\ °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Sippie Wallace
- Suitcase Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Robert Pete Williams
- Midnight Boogie °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Big Joe Turner
- Flip, Flop And Fly // *   @ youtube   @ Spotify

°° not on Fontana 885 431 BY

rec. October 16, 1966 at the Friedrichstadt-Palast, East-Berlin, GDR (American Folk Blues Festival 1966); prod. by Siegfried E. Loch

Roosevelt Sykes, voc, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr
|| Otis Rush, voc, g; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr
Little Brother Montgomery, voc, p; Freddie Below, dr
Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Yank Rachell, voc, mand
\\ Junior Wells, voc, hca; Otis Rush g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr
Sippie Wallace, voc; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr
Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
// Big Joe Turner, voc; * Little Brother Montgomery, ^ Roosevelt Sykes, p; Otis Rush, g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr

notes (1968) by Karlheinz Drechsel
Amiga 855114, 1968 release, flip-back cover; click to read notes (in German)! Amiga 855114, 1971 repress, no flip-back cover; click to read notes (in German)!
Amiga 855114 (GDR 1968)

notes (1968) by Karlheinz Drechsel
click to read notes (in German)!
= Amiga 855114 (GDR 1979) (Amiga Jazz series)


= Amiga 855114 (GDR 1981-86?) blue label re-release


= Amiga CD 82876-63060-2 (Germany 2004)


American Folk Blues Festival '66   Vol. 2

Vol. 2: Amiga 850126/855126
Otis Rush
- It Takes Time || °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Roosevelt Sykes
- Night Time Is The Right Time °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Otis Rush
- My Own Fault || [actually "Sweet Little Angel"]   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Little Brother Montgomery
- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Sleepy John Estes, g (Yank Rachell, voc, mand!)
- Yellow Jam Blues °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify

Junior Wells
- Over Yonders Walls \\ °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Sippie Wallace
- Women Keep Your Mouth Shut °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Junior Wells
- A Tribute To Sonny Boy Williamson \\ @ youtube (2:40)   @ Spotify
Robert Pete Williams
- Louise   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Big Joe Turner
- Feeling Happy // * °°

°° not on Fontana 885 431 BY

rec. October 16, 1966 at the Friedrichstadt-Palast, East-Berlin, GDR (American Folk Blues Festival 1966); prod. by Siegfried E. Loch

Roosevelt Sykes, voc, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr
|| Otis Rush, voc, g; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr
Little Brother Montgomery, voc, p; Freddie Below, dr
Sleepy John Estes, voc, g; Yank Rachell, voc, mand
\\ Junior Wells, voc, hca; Otis Rush g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr
Sippie Wallace, voc; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr
Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
// Big Joe Turner, voc; * Little Brother Montgomery, ^ Roosevelt Sykes, p; Otis Rush, g; Jack Myers, b; Freddie Below, dr

notes (1969) by Karlheinz Drechsel

Amiga 850126 (GDR 1969)

notes (1969) by Karlheinz Drechsel
click to read notes (in German)!
= Amiga 855126 (GDR 1979) (Amiga Jazz series)


= Amiga 855126 (GDR 1981-86?) blue label re-release

click to read track list!
= Amiga CD 82876-63061-2 (Germany 2004)

American Folk Blues Festival discography
Fontana Records discography
Roosevelt Sykes discography
Otis Rush discography
Little Brother Montgomery discography
Roosevelt Sykes discography
Sleepy John Estes discography
Yank Rachell discography
Robert Pete Williams discography

42.070
(1990)
American Folk Blues Festival '67

Bukka White
- Aberdeen Blues
Hound Dog Taylor, Little Walter, Dillard Crume, Odie Payne
- The Sky Is Crying   @ youtube
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- Rock Island Line
Son House
- Got A Letter This Morning
Hound Dog Taylor, Little Walter, Dillard Crume, Odie Payne
- You Be So Fine

Koko Taylor
- Wang Dang Doodle
Skip James
- Hard Luck Child
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- I'm Gonna Move Across The River
Koko Taylor
- What Kind Of Man Is This
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- Walk On

rec. October 15, 1967 at Kongress-Halle, Berlin, Germany
Bukka White, voc, g
Hound Dog Taylor, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Dillard Crume, b; Odie Payne, dr
Sonny Terry, voc, hca; Brownie McGhee, voc, g, kazoo
Son House, voc, g
Little Walter, voc, hca; Hound Dog Taylor, g; Dillard Crume, b; Odie Payne, dr
Koko Taylor, voc; Little Walter, hca; Hound Dog Taylor, g; Dillard Crume, b; Odie Payne, dr
Skip James, voc, g

notes by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos (translated by Nigel Whittaker)

Fontana 885 433 TY (Germany 1968)

notes (8-pp. booklet) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos

= Optimism/L+R LR CD-2070 (US 1990)

notes (8-pp. booklet) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos

= Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 42070 (Germany 1998)

4 CD set
notes by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos
  ; click to enlarge!
(=) Bellaphon / L+R CDLR 726222 (EU 2002) "American Folk Blues Festival 1965/1966/1967/1969"

 
American Folk Blues Festival discography
Fontana Records discography
L+R Records discography
Bukka White discography
Hound Dog Taylor discography
Son House discography
Little Walter discography
Skip James discography

42.071
(1990)
American Folk Blues Festival '69
Live! At Royal Albert Hall London

Juke Boy Bonner - Jumpin' With Juke Boy   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Earl Hooker - Going Up And Down   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Carey Bell - Rocking With Chromanica / I Feel Bad, Bad, Bad   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Juke Boy Bonner - Running Shoes   @ youtube   @ Spotify
John Jackson - Poor Boy   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Clifton Chenier - Zydeco Et Pas Sale   @ youtube   @ Spotify

Earl Hooker - Blue Shadows Fall   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Clifton Chenier - Wrap It Up   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Magic Sam - Easy Baby (3:24)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Magic Sam - Looking Good (2:06)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Whistling Alex Moore - Across The Atlantic Ocean   @ youtube   @ youtube   @ Spotify
John Jackson - John Jackson Breakdown (instr)   @ youtube   @ Spotify



originally unissued tracks from same appearance:
Earl Hooker
- Walking The Floor Over You / Steel Guitar Rag (HCO 2010) # [CBS LP 52796]
- Walking The Floor Over You / Off The Hook # [Hip-O CD B0003224-02]
Magic Sam
- Sweet Home Chicago
- All Your Love [Hip-O CD B0003224-02, Hip-O DVD B0000751-09]
- Every Night About This Time
- I Feel So Good (I Wanna Boogie) [aka "Magic Sam's Boogie", Hip-O DVD B0000751-09]



rec. October 3, 1969 at Royal Albert Hall, London, UK; prod. & presented by Lippmann + Rau in cooperation with Chris Strachwitz

Juke Boy Bonner, voc, hca, g
Earl Hooker, voc, g; Carey Bell, hca; Mack Thompson, b; Robert St. Julien, dr
Earl Hooker, voc, g; Mack Thompson, b; Robert St. Julien, dr
Carey Bell, voc, hca; Earl Hooker, g; Mack Thompson, b; Robert St. Julien, dr
John Jackson, voc, g
Clifton Chenier, voc, acc; Cleveland Chenier, washb; Robert St. Julien, dr
Magic Sam, voc, g; Mack Thompson, b; Robert St. Julien, dr
Whistling Alex Moore, voc, p, whistling

back cover photo by Valerie Wilmer

notes by Horst Lippmann & Paul Oliver

Scout Sc-6 (Germany 1969)

notes by Horst Lippmann & Paul Oliver

= CBS S 63912 (UK 1969)

notes by Horst Lippmann & Paul Oliver

= Optimism/L+R LR CD-2071 (US 198?)

notes by Horst Lippmann & Paul Oliver

= Bellaphon/L+R CD 42.071 (Germany 1991)

4 CD set
notes by Horst Lippmann & Paul Oliver
 
(=) Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 726222 (EU 2002) "American Folk Blues Festival 1965/1966/1967/1969"

concert review by Paul Oliver (Jazz Monthly December 1969, pp. 24-25) at WeenieCampbell.com, scanned & OCRed by Alan Balfour

American Folk Blues Festival discography
Scout Records discography
Juke Boy Bonner discography
Earl Hooker discography
John Jackson discography
Magic Sam discography
Whistling Alex Moore discography
Mac Thompson discography

42.072
(1990)
Arny Kay: Walkin' On Thin Ice

- I Want Your Love
- Walkin On Thin Ice
- My Way
- Rock 'n Roll Boogaloo
- Crosstown Traffic
- Stone Crazy
- Nightmare Blues
- Keep A Drivin
- Big Road Blues
- Leavin Blues
- Love Me
- Big Star
- Memories Of Blind
- Chicago O'Hare



L+R 42.072

arnykayband.de

42.073
(1992)
Pete Haycock Band: Livin' It

- Liberty
- So Many Roads
- Communication
- Medley:
  Come On In My Kitchen
  Country Hat
  Slide Solo
- The Thrill Is Gone
- Lucienne
- Dr. Brown
- Presume
- Blackjack And Me

rec. live in Pirmasens 1992


L+R 42.073

Pete Haycock discography

42.077
(1994)
The Rockets: Out Of The Blue

- (I Got The) Same Old Blues
- Why I Sing The Blues
- Sweet Little Angel
- Smokestack Lightnin'
- I Got A Mind To Travel
- Stop Breaking Down
- When The War Is Over
- Everyday I Have The Blues
- I'm Ready
- Look On Yonder Wall
- Great Balls Of Fire



L+R 42.077

42.0??
(198?)
American Folk Blues Festival '68

Jimmy Reed
John Lee Hooker
T-Bone Walker
Big Joe Williams
Curtis Jones
Eddie Tayler
Big Walter "Shakey" Horton
Jerome Arnold
J. C. Lewis



obviously never published (?)
Tivolis Koncerthal, København, 68.10.10
more info
more info

 
44.001
(198?)
The Yardbirds: London '63
The first recordings


L+R 44.001

44.003
(1981)
Festival Flamenco Gitano 1 - Live
con Caraestaca, Margarita, Maria Vargas, El Camaron, Paco de Lucia, Cepero

Cepero / Rumba Gitana
El Lebrijano, Charro Cortez / Mirabras
Paco De Lucia / Guajiras
El Lebrijano, Charro Cortez / Tientos
Cepero / Rumba Gitana
Maria Vargas, Cepero / Fandangos
Cepero / Rumba Gitana
El Camaron, Paco de Lucia / Fandangos
Maria Vargas, Cepero / Builerias
Paco De Lucia / Panaderos Flamencos
Cepero / Rumba Gitana


L+R 44003


= CD 480225

44.004
(1981)
The Escorts: From The Caribbean


44.005
(1981)
The Famous Spiritual + Gospel Festival 1965

Bishop Samuel Kelsey and the Congregation Of Temple Church Of Washington, DC
- Jesus Said If You Go
- Lord Send The Rain (solo Sister Lena Phillips Jones)
- Travelling Shoes
- Preaching (Exodus 3rd Chapter Bishop Kelsey)
- I Cried He Delivered Me
Bishop Kelsey & his Congregation, The Original Five Blind Boys of Mississippi & The Andrewettes
- Tell Me How Long The Train Been Gone

Inez Andrews and the Andrewettes
- It's A Needed Time (solo Inez Andrews)
- It's In My Heart (solo Inez Andrews)
- What Love (solo Elane Davis)
- A God Somewhere (solo Elizabeth Dargan)
The Original Five Blind Boys of Mississippi
- John Saw The Number
- O Why(solo Henry Johnson)
- Lord, You've Been Good To Me

rec. January 1965 live at Kloster (Monastry) Alpirsbach, Black Forest, Germany


Fontana 885 415 TY (1965)

= Fontana TL 5243

notes by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos

= L+R 44.005

44.007
(1981)
Festival Flamenco Gitano 2
con La Singla y Andres Batista, Antonio Francisco Serra

- El Novio De La Maria - La Singla y todo el gruppo, Jesús Heredia
- Siguiriyas - José Carmona "El Chocolate"
- Jasmin Flamenco - La Singla y todo el gruppo, Jesús Heredia
- Tu Querer No Me Conviene - Jesús Heredia
- Rumba Saratonga - La Singla y todo el gruppo
- Aires Cales - La Singla y todo el gruppo, Jesús Here
- Serrana - La Galleguita
- Martinete - La Singla y todo el gruppo, José Carmona "El Chocolate"
- Fandangos (A Tres) - Jesús Heredia, La Galleguita, José Carmona "El Chocolate"
- Rumba Jaleo - La Singla y todo el gruppo


L+R 44.007


= CD 480226

44.008
(1982)
Doc Watson - A Folk & Country Legend: Red Rocking Chair
with Merle Watson, T. Michael Coleman and others

- Sadie
- Fisher's Hornpipe / Devil's Dream
- Along The Road
- Smoke, Smoke, Smoke
- Below Freeezing
- California Blues

- John Hurt
- Mole In The Ground
- Any Old Time
- Red Rocking Chair
- How Long Blues
- Down Yonder

rec. December 1980 & January 1981 at Crimson Sound, Santa Monica, Ca.; Doc Watson, voc, g, hca, bj; Merle Watson, g, sl g, bj; T. Michael Coleman, b, harmony voc, g; Herb Pedersen, harmony voc; Ron Tutt, dr; Gene Estes, perc; special guests: Hank "Bones" Kahn, bones; Al Perkins, pedal steel; Tom Scott, cl; Charlie Musselwhite, hca; Byron Berline, fiddle; prod. by Mitch Greenhill

notes by John Hartley Fox
click to read notes !
L+R 44.008

44.011
(1982)
Gerhard Engbarth & Louisiana Red: Blues vom Frieden

- Blues vom Frieden
- Blues For Shakey
- Spiel 77
- Wenn's dir schlecht geht
- Entertainer
- Sweet Home Sobernheim
- Blues For Anita
- Dust My Blues
- Spinnenmaerchen Blues
- Schweizer Kaes' Boogie
- Das kleine Lied


L+R 44.011

44.012
(198?)
Al Rapone & Zydeco Express: C'est La Vie

- C'est La Vie
- Married Man Blues
- Je Vas Revenir
- Bernadette
- Without You
- Alice Mae
- Chère Duloone
- Walking Papers Blues
- Fait Pas Sa
- Washboard Anna

rec. March 1984 in Oberursel, Germany; Al Rapone, acc, voc; Patty "Larue" Harrison, perc/washb; Lisa Haley, viol, voc; Ben Bording, g; Michael O, b; Ben Holmes III, dr


L+R 44.012

44.013
(1984)
Lee Green and Lafayette Leake: Somebody's Praying, Lord

- Somebody's Praying, Lord, Come By Here
- I Believe
- Glory, Glory Hallelujah

- Rise Again
- Wade In The Water
- I Am On The Battlefield For My Lord

Lee Green, voc; Lafayette Leake, p

notes by Rolf Schubert

L+R 44.013

44.015
(198?)
Festival Flamenco Gitano 3


L+R 44.015

44.016
(198?)
The Jackson Singers: Gospel Emotion


L+R 44.016

44.017
(198?)
Festival Flamenco Gitano Ole!


L+R 44.017

44.018
(198?)
R. Ringwood's Gospel Messengers: Have A Friend


L+R 44.018

 
50.001
(1982)
American Folk Blues Festival 1982
Program and LP Album with all participating artists

James 'Son' Thomas
- Cairo Blues
Archie Edwards
- The Road Is Rough And Rocky
Bowling Green & John Cephas
- Bye Bye Baby
Carey Bell & Billy Brach
- Tribute To Big Walter

Lurrie Bell & Billy Brach
- The Train I Ride
Carey Bell's Blues Harp Band
- Goin' On Main Street
Margie Evans, Cash McCall et al.
- Mistreated Woman

tracks from other L+R LPs, unissued tracks, and demo recordings


L+R 50.001

50.002
(1983)
American Folk Blues Festival '83
In Memoriam Muddy Waters

Louisiana Red & His Chicago Blues Friends
- Louisiana Hot Sauce [previously unissued, from L+R LR 42.055 session]   @ Spotify
"Sparky" Rucker
- Black Snake Moan [Spivey 1017]   @ Spotify
Louisiana Red & His Chicago Blues Friends
- Future Blues [previously unissued, from L+R LR 42.055 session]   @ Spotify

Larry Johnson
- Confusion [previously unissued, from L+R LR 42.046 session]   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Larry Johnson & Nat Riddles
- I Got The Blues [previously unissued, from L+R LR 42.046 session]   @ youtube   @ Spotify

Lonnie Pitchford
- Johnny Stole An Apple [L+R LR 42.037]   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
- Delta Fish Market Blues [previously unissued, from L+R LR 42.061 session]   @ Spotify
Lovie Lee
- Mine To Ramble [Mind To Ramble] [previously unissued]   @ Spotify
- Lovie Lee's Boogie [previously unissued]   @ Spotify
Queen Sylvia's Blues Band
- You Treat Me So Mean [previously unissued, from L+R LR 42.057 session]   @ Spotify

tracks from other (L+R) LPs, and unissued tracks

notes by Horst Lippmann

L+R 50.002


= Bellaphon CDLR 711525 (Germany 2008)

50.003
(1985)
American Folk Blues Festival '85

James Sparky Rucker
- Babylon Blues [L+R 42.062]   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Here Rattler Here [L+R 42.063]   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Cash Mc Call
- No More Doggin' [L+R 42.058]   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
- Mr. Cleanhead's Blues [unissued track from demo recording]   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Kidney Stew [unissued track from demo recording]   @ youtube   @ Spotify

Blind Joe Hill
- Big Boss Man # [unissued track from L+R 42.059 session]   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- I'm Travellin' # [L+R 42.059]   @ youtube   @ Spotify
The Young Blues Thrillers
- Blues Thriller's Funk [unissued track from demo recording]   @ youtube   @ Spotify
James "Son" Thomas
- Standing At The Crossroads [L+R 42.048]   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Margie Evans
- Chilly Waters [L+R 42.060]   @ youtube   @ Spotify

"from other L+R LPs, unissued tracks, and demo recordings"

# rec. March 27, 1983 at In House Recording, North Hollywood, CA; Blind Joe Hill, voc, hca, g, dr; prod. by Horst Lippmann and Margie Evans
Sparky Rucker and James "Son" Thomas photos by Axel Küstner, all others by courtesy of the artists

rel. in gatefold-cover with a 4-page booklet by Horst Lippmann

L+R 50.003 (Germany 1985)

notes (1985) by Horst Lippmann

= Bellaphon CDLR 711426 (Germany 2008)

American Folk Blues Festival discography
Blind Joe Hill discography
James "Son" Thomas discography

Will be completed and expanded with further details !!!

 

Compilations
##
(released)
artists/titles / annotations
 
1995
American Folk Blues Festival '62 - '65

 
Disc 1:   American Folk Blues Festival '62
- Rockin' The House - Memphis Slim
- I Wanna See My Baby - T-Bone Walker
- I'm In Love - T-Bone Walker
- I'm Crazy 'Bout You Baby - Sonny Terry
- Stewball - Memphis Slim
- Let's Make It - John Lee Hooker
- Shake It Baby - John Lee Hooker
- Night Time Is The Right Time - John Lee Hooker
- Ah 'w Baby - Shakey Jake
- Love My Baby - Shakey Jake Harris
- Crying At The Station - Brownie McGhee
- Wee Baby Blues - Memphis Slim
 
Disc 2:   American Folk Blues Festival '63   Part 1
- The Blues Is Everywhere - Memphis Slim °°
- John Henry - Memphis Slim °°
- Wish Me Well - Memphis Slim
- Memphis Boogie - Memphis Slim (previously unreleased) °°
- My Captain - Muddy Waters (previously unreleased) °°
- Catfish Blues - Muddy Waters °°
- Blow Wind Blow - Muddy Waters °°
- My Home Is In The Delta - Muddy Waters °°
- Five Long Years - Muddy Waters
- That's All I Want Baby - Sonny Boy Williamson (previously unreleased) °°
- Don't Misuse Me - Sonny Boy Williamson °°
- I Don't Know - Sonny Boy Williamson
- I'm Gettin' Tired - Sonny Boy Williamson °°
- Goin' Down Slow - Otis Spann
- Sunny Boy's Harmonica Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson
 
Disc 3:   American Folk Blues Festival '63   Part 2
- Goin' Down Slow-Alternate Take - Otis Spann °°
- Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues - Willie Dixon
- Grant Spivey - Victoria Spivey
- T.B. Blues - Victoria Spivey °°
- Big Roll Blues - Big Joe Williams °°
- Back In The Bottom Blues - Big Joe Williams °°
- I Have No Friends - Big Joe Williams
- Baby Please Don't Go - Big Joe Williams °°
- Careless Love - Lonnie Johnson °°
- C.C. Rider - Lonnie Johnson (previously unreleased) °°
- It's Too Late To Cry - Lonnie Johnson
- Matt's Guitar Boogie - Matt 'Guitar' Murphy
- Bye Bye Blues - Memphis Slim
 
Disc 4:   American Folk Blues Festival '64
- I'm Trying To Make London My Home - Sonny Boy Williamson
- Dissatisfied - Sonny Boy Williamson
- Everytime I Get To Drinkin' - Sunnyland Slim
- Ain't It A Pity - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Baby Please Don't Go - Lightnin' Hopkins
- I'm A Tearing Little Daddy - Sleepy John Estes
- I Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton - John Henry Barbee
- No Title Boogie - Hubert Sumlin
- Slip-In Mules - Sugar Pie DeSanto
- Dust My Broom - Howlin' Wolf
- I Got To Cut Out - Sonny Boy Williamson °°
- Weak Brain And Narrow Mind - Willie Dixon °°
- Big Legged Woman - Willie Dixon °°
- Your Best Friend's Gone - Sleepy John Estes °°
- Baby What You Want Me To Do - Sugar Pie DeSanto °°
 
Disc 5:   American Folk Blues Festival '65
- Highway 61 - Mississippi Fred McDowell
- Slow Down Woman - J.B. Lenoir / Big Walter "Shakey" Horton
- Blues Harp Shuffle - Big Walter 'Shakey' Horton °°
- Christine - Big Walter "Shakey" Horton
- Come On Back Home - Roosevelt Sykes
- Five Long Years - Eddie Boyd
- The Big Question - Eddie Boyd
- Rosa Lee - Jimmie Lee Robinson
- King Of The World - John Lee Hooker
- Della Mae - John Lee Hooker
- First Time I Met The Blues - Buddy Guy Guy
- Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton (alternate take previously unreleased)
- My Black Name Is Ringing - Doctor Ross
- Della Mae-Alternate Take - John Lee Hooker °°
- Hound Dog-Alternate Take - Big Mama Thornton °°
- South Side Jump - Buddy Guy °°
- If I Get Lucky - J.B. Lenoir °°
- Got A Letter This Morning - Mississippi Fred McDowell °°
- Sail On - Roosevelt Sykes
- Farewell Baby - Doctor Ross °°

°° bonus tracks


Evidence 5 CD set 26200

more info

 
1997
American Folk Blues Festival '62-'65: Highlights

- Highway 61 - Mississippi Fred McDowell
- Baby Please Don't Go - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Della Mae - John Lee Hooker
- Wish Me Well - Memphis Slim
- Five Long Years - Muddy Waters
- Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton
- Dust My Broom - Howlin' Wolf
- I'm In Love - T-Bone Walker
- Everytime I Get To Drinkin' - Sunnyland Slim
- First Time I Met The Blues - Buddy Guy
- Slip-In Mules - Sugar Pie DeSanto
- Love My Baby - Shakey Jake
- Five Long Years - Eddie Boyd
- Dissatisfied - Sonny Boy Williamson
- Goin' Down Slow - Otis Spann
- Crying At The Station - Brownie McGhee
- Slow Down Woman - J.B.Lenoir


Evidence CD 26087

more info

 
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 Maker - 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
- 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
- Railroad Bill - Guitar Frank
- 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
- 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

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


Evidence ECD 26105-2


with 48-pp. booklet

photos by Axel Küstner

1999The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1985
 American Folk Blues Festival 1962/1963/1964

Disc 1:   American Folk Blues Festival '62
Memphis Slim
- We're Gonna Rock
T-Bone Walker
- I Wanna See My Baby
- I'm In Love
Sonny Terry
- I'm Crazy 'Bout You Baby
Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon
- Stewball
John Lee Hooker
- Let's Make It Baby
- Shake It Baby
- The Right Time
Shakey Jake
- Hey, Baby
- Love My Baby
Brownie McGhee
- Crying At The Station
Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon
- Bye Bye Baby

rec. October 18th, 1962 in Hamburg

Disc 2:   American Folk Blues Festival '63
Memphis Slim
- Wish Me Well
Big Joe Williams
- I Have No Friends
Willie Dixon
- Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues
- Crazy For My Baby
Victoria Spivey
- Grant Spivey
Matt "Guitar" Murphy
- Matt's Guitar Boogie
Sonnyboy Williamson
- I Don't Know
- Sonny's Harmonica Boogie
Lonnie Johnson
- It's Too Late To Cry
Otis Spann
- Had My Fun
Muddy Waters
- Five Long Years
Memphis Slim et al.
- Bye, Bye, Blues

rec. October 13th, 1963 in Bremen

Disc 3:   American Folk Blues Festival '64
Sonnyboy Williamson
- I'm Trying To Make London My Home
- Dissatisfied
Sunnyland Slim
- Everytime I Get To Drinkin'
Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins
- Ain't It A Pity
- Baby Please Don't Go
Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon
- I'm A Tearing Little Daddy
John Henry Barbee
- Cotton Pickin' Blues
Hubert Sumlin / Sunnyland Slim
- No Title Boogie
Sugar Pie Desanto
- Slip In Mules
Howlin' Wolf
- Dust My Broom

rec. October 9th, 1964 at the Musikhalle, Hamburg

3-CD-Box

Bellaphon CDLR 726321
(34 Tracks, 133:54)

 American Folk Blues Festival 1965/1966/1967/1969

Disc 1:   American Folk Blues Festival '65

Fred McDowell
- Highway 61
J.B. Lenoir
- Slow Down
Walter Horton
- Christine
Roosevelt Sykes
- Come On Back Home
Eddie Boyd
- Five Long Years
- The Big Question
Jimmy Lee Robinson
- Rosalie
John Lee Hooker
- King Of The World
- Della Mae
Buddy Guy
- First Time I Met The Blues
Big Mama Thornton
- Houn' Dog
Doctor Ross
- My Black Name Is Ringing

rec. October 7th, 1965

Disc 2:   American Folk Blues Festival '66

Roosevelt Sykes
- Running The Boogie
Otis Rush
- All Your Love
Little Brother Montgomery
- I Keep On Drinking
Sleepy John Estes
- You Shouldn't Do It
Otis Rush
- My Own Fault (actually "Sweet Little Angel")
Junior Wells
- Checkin' On My Baby
- A Tribute To Sonny Boy Williamson
Sippie Wallace
- Suitcase Blues
Robert Pete Williams
- Louise
Big Joe Turner
- Flip, Flop And Fly
- Roll 'Em Pete

rec. October 16th, 1966 at the Friedrichstadt-Palast, Berlin

Disc 3:   American Folk Blues Festival '67

Bukka White
- Aberdeen Blues
Hound Dog Taylor, Little Walter, Dillard Crume, Odie Payne
- The Sky Is Crying
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- Rock Island Line
Son House
- Got A Letter This Morning
Hound Dog Taylor, Little Walter, Dillard Crume, Odie Payne
- You Be So Fine
Koko Taylor
- Wang Dang Doodle
Skip James
- Hard Luck Child
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- I'm Gonna Move Across The River
Koko Taylor
- What Kind Of Man Is This
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- Walk On

rec. October 15th, 1967 at Kongress-Halle, Berlin

Disc 4:   American Folk Blues Festival '69

Juke Boy Bonner
- Jumpin' With Juke Boy
Earl Hooker
- Going Up And Down
Carey Bell
- Rocking With Chromanica / I Feel Bad, Bad, Bad
Juke Boy Bonner
- Running Shoes
John Jackson
- Poor Boy
Clifton Chenier
- Zydeco Et Pas Sale
Earl Hooker
- Blue Shadows Fall
Clifton Chenier
- Wrap It Up
Magic Sam
- Easy Baby
- Looking Good
Whistling Alex Moore
- Across The Atlantic Ocean
John Jackson
- John Jackson Breakdown

rec. October 3rd, 1969 at Royal Albert Hall, London

4-CD-Box

Bellaphon CDLR 726322
(45 Tracks, 165:59)

 American Folk Blues Festival 1970/1972/1980/1981

Disc 1:   American Folk Blues Festival '70

Chicago Blues All Stars
- Introduction
Shakey Horton
- Hard Hearted Woman
- That Ain't It
Bukka White
- Maggie Lee
- World Boogie
- Old Lady
Champion Jack Dupree
- Going To Louisiana
- Blues Before Sunrise
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- Hootin' The Blues
- Back Water Blues
- Walk On
- When I Was Drinking
Lee Jackson
- Juanita
Lafayette Leak (!)
- After Hours
Willie Dixon
- Crazy For My Baby
- Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues

rec. November 16th, 1970

Disc 2:   American Folk Blues Festival '72

Bukka White
- I'm Gettin' Ready
- Aberdeen Blues
Big Joe Williams
- My Baby Is Gone
- My Boots & Shoes
Robert Pete Williams
- Look Here Woman
Roosevelt Sykes
- Driving Wheel
- Sweet Home Chicago
Memphis Slim
- Lonesome Traveller
- Boogin' And Bluesin'
Johnny Young, W.D.Kent, Billy Davenport
- Instrumental Boogie
Big Mama Thornton
- Tell Me Baby
- Ball In (!) Chain
T-Bone Walker
- Shake It Baby
- Goin' Back To Church
Jimmy Rogers & Whispering Smith
- Tricky Woman
Lightnin' Slim & Whispering Smith
- Winter Time Blues
Jimmy Dawkins Chicago Blues Band
- Don't Ever Leave Me
- Got My Mojo Workin'

rec. March 16th at Lünen and October 26th, 1972 at München

Disc 3:   American Folk Blues Festival '80

Louisiana Red
- Pretty Woman
- I Wonder Who
- Lonesome Train
Willie Mabon
- Mabon's Boogie
- I Don't Know
Washboard Doc, Lucky & Flash
- Shake, Rattle And Roll
Eunice Davis
- Rock Little Daddy
Washboard Doc, Lucky & Flash
- Flip, Flop And Fly
Hubert Sumlin & Carey Bell
- Gamblin' Woman
- I Got A Little Thing They Call The Swing
Carey Bell
- One Day I Get Lucky
- Nineteen Years Old
- What My Mama Told Me
Sunnyland Slim
- Everytime I Get To Drinking
- Sunnyland's New Orleans Boogie
Eddie Taylor
- Dust My Broom
- There'll Be A Day
Louisiana Red
- Labour Blues

rec. April 20/22th, and May 5/7th, 1980

Disc 4:   American Folk Blues Festival '81

Bowling Green John & Harmonica Phil Wiggins
- Bowlin' Green Rag
- Bye Bye Baby
- Last Fair Deal
Sunnyland Slim
- One Room Country Shack
- Tin Pan Alley
- Dust My Broom
Louisiana Red
- Woodchopping Blues
Hubert Sumlin
- I Love
Louisiana Red
- Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky
Lurrie Bell
- I Need You So Bad
- Man And The Blues
Margie Evans
- 29 Ways
- Trouble Trouble
- Hound Dog
- Next Time I See You

rec. March 10th, 1981 at the Konzertaula, Kamen, and March 17th, 1981 at the Siegerlandhalle, Siegen

4-CD-Box

Bellaphon CDLR 726323
(67 Tracks, 292:31)

 American Folk Blues Festival 1982/1983/1985

Disc 1:   American Folk Blues Festival '82

James "Son" Thomas
- Beefsteak Blues
- Catfish Blues
John Cephas
- Announcement
Archie Edwards
- How Long Blues
- That Won't Do
- Take Me Back Baby
Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins
- Big Boss Man
- Burn Your Bridges
Lurrie Bell & Billy Branch
- Detroit, Michigan
- Tribute To Little Walter
Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins
- Running And Hiding
James 'Son' Thomas
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Stormy Monday
Carey Bell
- Goin' On Main Street
- Blues Harp By Three
Margie Evans
- That Dirty Black Rat
- Sometimes I'll Be Gone
- Bye Bye Baby

rec. November 15th, 1982 at the Palmengarten, Frankfurt a. M. and November 24th, 1982 at the Siegerlandhalle, Siegen

Disc 2:   American Folk Blues Festival '83

James "Sparky" Rucker
- Rock Me Baby
- Crossroads
Larry Johnson
- Midnight Hour
- That's The Wrong Woman
Louisiana Red
- Red's Tribute To Muddy Waters
- Boy From Black Bayou
- She Is Worse
Lonnie Pitchford
- One-String Boogie
- My Baby Walked Away
- C.C. Rider
Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
- When I Lay Down To Rest
- Who's Louisiana Red
- Reagan Is For The Rich Man
Lovie Lee & Band
- Flip, Flop, And Fly
- Mind To Ramble
- Iko-Iko
Queen Sylvia Embry & Friends
- I Love You
- Baby, What Do I Do

rec. October 30th, 1983, at the Volksbildungsheim, Frankfurt a. M., and November 11th, 1983 at the Music Hall, Würzburg

Disc 3:   American Folk Blues Festival '85

James "Sparky" Rucker
- Walkin' Blues
Blind Joe Hill
- Fanny Mae
Cash McCall & Young Blues Thrillers
- I Can't Quit You Baby
James "Son" Thomas
- Smokey Mountain Blues
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson &Young Blues Thrillers
- Hold It Right There
Young Blues Thrillers
- From Boogie To Funk
- Gettin' Closer
- Young Blues Thrillers' Theme
Margie Evans, Cash McCall & Young Blues Thrillers
- Two Lovers In One

rec. October 22, 1985, Volksbildungsheim, Frankfurt a. M., and October. 23, 1985, Capitol, Mannheim

3-CD-Box

Bellaphon CDLR 726324
(45 Tracks, 195:12)

Thanks to Wilson Fabian Ruales Villalva, Manfred Helfert and Scott Barretta for additional info / scans / MP3

 

Horst Lippmann (left) & Fritz Rau (right); source: Front cover of L+R CD 714526; click to enlarge!
Horst Lippmann (left) & Fritz Rau (right)
source: Front cover of L+R CD 714526

 

ad in Blues Forum Nr. 8/1982, p. 22; click to enlarge! ad in Blues Forum Nr. 11/1983, p. 25; click to enlarge!

 

 

 

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