Illustrated Mr. Blues Records discography

Mr. Blues Records
discography

Record label founded and run by Steve Wisner

Big Guitar Red with producer Steve Wisner 1975
source: Back cover of Bedrock BEDLP15; photographer: Jim O'Neal

# year of release	title / notes
	rec. 1973; Lucky Lopez; prod. by Steve Wisner Mr. Blues unissued
	rec. 1974; Easy Baby (Alex 'Easy Baby' Randle) & Big Guitar Red; prod. by Steve Wisner Mr. Blues unissued
7601 (1976)	Good Rockin' Charles Mr. Blues MB 7601 / Rooster R-7601 track sequence: - Eyesight To The Blind * - Confessin' The Blues * - Shake Your Boogie * - Five Years In Prison * - The Goat * - I Used To Have A Woman * - Prison Blues * - Broke And Hungry § - Blues All Day Long § - Rockin' At Midnight § P-Vine PCD 5249 track sequence: - Eyesight To The Blind * - Confessin' The Blues * - Shake Your Boogie * - Five Years In Prison * - The Goat * - I Used To Have A Woman * - Prison Blues * - Broke And Hungry § - Blues All Day Long § - Rockin' At Midnight § - Lazar's Wail [] °° - Broke And Hungry (tk 1) § °° - Broke And Hungry (tk 2) § °° - Flipped Harp Rock [] °° °° CD bonus tracks rec. November 1975 in Chicago, IL; Good Rockin' Charles, voc, hca; Walter Smith, J.C. Hurds, gs; Lafayette "Shorty" Gilbert, b; * Eddie Payne, dr; § Ray Scott, dr; [] Eddie Payne or Ray Scott, dr; prod. by Steve Wisner photography front cover by Dale Hoyt; photography back cover by Amy van Singel notes by Dick Shurman Mr. Blues MB 7601 (US 1976) notes by Dick Shurman = Rooster R-7601 (US) = Double Trouble R-7601 (NL) (=) P-Vine PCD-5249 (Jp 2002) Good Rockin' Charles discography
7602 (1977)	Eddie C. Campbell: King Of The Jungle@ youtube (full album) Mr. Blues MB 7602 track sequence: - Santa's Messin' With The Kid - She's Nineteen Years Old - Cheaper To Keep Her - Weary Blues - Smokin' Potatoes - King Of The Jungle - We Both Must Cry - Poison Ivy - The Red Rooster - Blues On The Highway Rooster / Double Trouble R-7602 / Rooster CD 2602 track sequence: - Santa's Messin' With The Kid - Still A Fool °° - Cheaper To Keep Her - Poison Ivy - The Red Rooster - Smokin' Potatoes - King Of The Jungle - She's Nineteen Years Old - Look At What You Done °° - We Both Must Cry - Weary Blues - Blues On The Highway °° Rooster / Double Trouble R-7602 bonus tracks rec. June 13, 1977 at Sound Studios in Chicago, IL; Eddie C. Campbell, voc, g; Lafayette Leake, p; Carey Bell, hca; Lurrie Bell, Bob Stroger, b; Clifton James, dr; prod. by Steve Wisner notes (1977) by Dick Shurman Mr. Blues MB 7602 (US 1977) notes (October 1985) by Dick Shurman = Rooster R-7602 (US 1986) notes (October 1985) by Dick Shurman = Double Trouble R-7602 (NL 1986) notes by Dick Shurman (=) Rooster CD 2602 (US 1996) (=) Rooster cassette 2602 (US 1996)
7603 (1979)	Mojo Buford's Chicago Blues Summit Mr. Blues 7603 / Rooster R-7603 track sequence: - Mo' Jam (instr) # - Deep Sea River # - I Need you So Bad [] - Worry Worry [] - I'm So Glad # - Devil's Love Sin # - St. James Infirmary * - Windy City Blues # - Watch Dog # - Mean Old World * - Blues for Georgia Boy # Pony Canyon 1850 / P-Vine PCD-1850 track sequence: - Mo' Jam (instr) # - Deep Sea River # - I Need you So Bad [] - Sammy's Shuffle °° # - Worry Worry [] - I'm So Glad # - Devil's Love Sin # - St. James Infirmary * - Sonny's Blues °° - Don't Go No Farther °° # - Windy City Blues # - Watch Dog # - Mean Old World * - Blues for Georgia Boy # °° CD bonus tracks rec. February 17, 1979 at the Curtom Studios in Chicago, IL; prod. by Steve Wisner # George 'Mojo' Buford, voc, hca; Sammy Lawhorn, James 'Pee Wee' Madison, Oliver 'Sonny' Rogers, Abe 'Little Smokey' Smothers, g; Earnest Johnson, b; Sam Lay, dr * Sammy Lawhorn, voc, g; George 'Mojo' Buford, hca; Oliver 'Sonny' Rogers, Abe 'Little Smokey' Smothers, g; Earnest Johnson, b; Sam Lay, dr [] Abe 'Little Smokey' Smothers, voc, g; James 'Pee Wee' Madison, g; Earnest Johnson, b; Sam Lay, dr notes by Dick Shurman Mr. Blues MB 7603 (US 1979) notes by Dick Shurman = Rooster R-7603 (US 1982) = Pony Canyon 1850 (Jp 2000) = P-Vine PCD-1850 (Jp 2002) Sonny 'Cat Daddy' Rodgers discography
Steve Wisner productions not released on Mr. Blues Records
BH-009 (1976)	Bring Me Another Half-A-Pint @ youtube (full album) Harmonica Blues Bands Kansas City Red - Mean Black Spider # @ youtube - Money Tree # @ youtube - K.C. Red's In Town # @ youtube Easy Baby - Good Morning Mr. Blues @ youtube Nate Armstrong - Red Light Boogie @ youtube Sonny Boy McGhee - Bluebird Blues @ youtube - Train Fare Home @ youtube Earl Payton - Too Late @ youtube - I Got To Go @ youtube Billy Branch - Hoochie Coochie Man @ youtube - Billy's Boogie @ youtube rec. rec. March 22 & 29, April 12, 1975 on the South Side of Chicago, IL; sessions prod. by Steve Wisner; album production & mixing by George Paulus # rec. at Willie Dixon's Sound Factory with Hayes Ware, Nate Armstrong and Big Guitar Red cover artwork by R. Crumb; liner photographs by Jim and Amy O'Neal notes by George Paulus Barrelhouse BH-009 (US 1976) Barrelhouse Records discography
DT-3014/15 (1986)	Eddie C. Campbell: Mind Trouble - Do What You Wanna Do - Mind Trouble - You Worry Me - Bug - Head Clear - Everything Gonna Be Alright - Alimony - Life Is Like A Game - Shake For Me - Five And A Half - Vibrations In The Air - Devil's Walk - Loneliness And Me - Eddie's Rock - Head Clear - Please Love Me # # rec. June 13, 1977 in Chicago, IL; Eddie C. Campbell, voc, g; Lafayette Leake, p; Carey Bell, hca; Lurrie Bell, Bob Stroger, b; Clifton James, dr; prod. by Steve Wisner all other tracks rec. June/July 1986 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; prod. by Marcel M. Vos & Hans Kramer DLP Double Trouble DT-3014/15 (NL 1986) = Double Trouble DTCD 3014 (NL 1988) = Icehouce CD 9423 (1999) "gonna be alright" notes by Cub Coda = Wolf CD 120.816 (Austria 2008) "Mind Trouble" "Chicago Blues Session Vol. 68"
DT-3017 (1987)	eddie king bluesband: the blues has got me featuring Mae Bee May - When You Find A Fool - The Blues Has Got Me - Love At First Sight - The Twelve Year Old Girl # - 99 Pounds # - Laundromat Blues - Able Mae Bee # - He'll Drain On You # - The Woman I Love - Buttermilk And Cornbread # CD bonus tracks: - Losin' Boy - Man-Sized Job # - Eddie's Thing rec. December 1985 (overdubbed January & November 1986) in Evanston, IL; Eddie King (Eddie King Milton), voc, g; # Mae Bee Mae, voc; Earl Crossley, ts (tracks 1, 6, 9); Golden "Big" Wheeler, hca (tracks 3, 4, 8); Alan Batts, org (tracks 1, 6). p (track 9); Lendell "Slim" Moore, lead g (tracks 1, 2, 5); Sir Lucky King, rhythm g; Joe Roland, b; James Mason, dr; Eddie King (track 9), James Mason (track 9), Joe Roland (track 9), Lendell "Slim" Moore (track 9), Sir Lucky King (track 9), backgr voc; prod. by Steve Wisner reissue prod. by Gerard Robs & Kees Van Wijngaarden notes by Robert Pruter Double Trouble DT-3017 (NL 1987) notes by Robert Pruter (=) Black Magic 9047 (NL 2010) "Eddie King & Mae Bee Mae: The Blues Has Got Me"
7610 (1988)	Low Blows An Anthology of Chicago Harmonica Blues Big Guitar Red with Good Rockin' Charles - Found My Baby (Gone) # [] Big Leon Brooks - Kicking Up Dust @ youtube George "Mojo" Buford - Don't Go No Further @ youtube Easy Baby - Good Morning Mr. Blues @ youtube Good Rockin' Charles - She Loves Another Man # @ youtube Big Leon Brooks - Pink Champagne Joe Carter with Big John Wrencher - Take A Little Walk With Me Golden Wheeler - Good Lover Big Walter Horton with Carey Bell - Avenue Stomp Good Rockin' Charles - Ground Hog Blues # Golden Wheeler - Evil Woman Big Leon Brooks - You Know @ youtube CD bonus tracks: Good Rockin' Charles - I Got To Go # Good Rockin' Charles - Good Rockin' # @ youtube Joe Carter with Big John Wrencher - Honey Bee @ youtube compilation prod. by Bob Corritone & Jim O'Neal # rec. November 15, 1975 in Chicago, IL; Good Rockin' Charles, voc, hca; [] Big Guitar Red (Walter Smith), voc, g; J.C. Hurds, gs; Lafayette "Shorty" Gilbert, b; Eddie Payne, dr; prod. by Steve Wisner Mr. Blues MB 7610 (US) [ever issued ???] notes (insert) by Jim O'Neal = Rooster Blues R7610 (US 1988) notes (insert) by Jim O'Neal = Bedrock BEDLP 15 (UK 1988) notes by Dick Shurman, Steve Wisner, Jim O'Neal (=) Rooster CD 2610 (US 1994) = Bedrock BED CD 15 (UK 1994) Big John Wrencher discography
Additional information appreciated !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 2011, pp. 72, 81, 166, 259, 269, 420
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources
thanks to Gerrit Robs, Dick Shurman, Wilson Fabian Ruales Villalva and Hank Moore for additional info / scans