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L A T T I E   M U R R E L L; source: L+R 42.034; photographer: Axel Küstner
Lattie Murrell, Somerville, Tennessee, September 3, 1978
source: Back cover of L+R LP 42.034; photographer: Axel Küstner

Lattie Murrell
Lattie "The Wolf" Murrell
sometimes misspelled "Lottie Murrell" or "Lottie Merle"
b. February 23, 1910 in Somerville, Fayette County, Tennessee
d. February 18, 1993 in Nashville, Tennessee

discography

 

#year
of release
title / label / notes
11972Southern Comfort Country

Lottie Merle [real name: Lattie Murrell] - When A Gal Cross The Bottom # (3:21) [Flyright FLYCD 58]   @ youtube
Perry Tillis - Kennedy Moan   @ youtube
David Johnson - Train Imitation
William Floyd - Why Did I Have To Leave Cairo   @ youtube   @ Spotify

Lottie Merle - Spoonful #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Perry Tillis - Soon One Morning   @ youtube
Lottie Merle - Blues For Mattie Mae #   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Memphis Piano Red - Dupree Blues

Lum Guffin & Bill Barth - Minglewood Blues   @ youtube
Perry Tillis - Too Close   @youtube   @ Spotify

Lottie Merle - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl #   @ youtube
David Johnson - Let The Nation Be Free
William Floyd - Every Time I Need You Baby
Joe Townsend & Bill Barth - Take Your Burdens To The Lord   @ youtube   @ Spotify
Perry Tillis - Motherless Children
Lincoln Jackson - What You Want Your Daddy To Do


all tracks rec. by Bengt Olsson
# rec. June-September 1971 in Somerville, TN; Lattie Murrell, voc, g

notes by Bengt Olsson

Flyright LP 501 (UK 1972)

Bengt Olsson recordings discography
Flyright Records discography
Lum Guffin discography
Memphis Piano Red discography

21975LOTTIE MERLE [real name: Lattie Murrell]

- Howlin' In The Moonlight   @ youtube
- Catfish   @ youtube

rec. June-September 1971 in Somerville, TN by Bengt Olsson; Lattie Murrell. voc, g

7 inch 45 rpm

Flyright 45.001 (UK 1975)

Flyright Records discography

31979Old Country Blues
Field Recordings, 1969 - 1974, in Tennesee and Alabama

Lattie Merle - When A Gal Cross The Bottom (alt tk) || [different version to that on Flyright LP 501] [Sutro Park SP 1024L]
Dewey Corley - Fool's Blues
Perry Tillis - Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt
Lum Guffin - Old Country Blues #
Lincoln Jackson - Loping Blues
Walter Miller - Hop's Boogie
Lum Guffin, John Mitchell & McKenzie - Sally Got A Big Leg *

Perry Tillis - The Man From Galilee
Ashley Thompson - Sweet Peace
Walter Miller - Sherman's Blues
Perry Tillis - God Don't Like It
Othar Broadnax - Don't The Peaches Look Mellow
Lincoln Jackson - Big Fat Mama
unknown - Getting That Stuff
Lum Guffin, Hallie Massey & Plez Rivers - Do You Know Him []


field recordings 1969-1974 in Tennessee and Alabama by Bengt Olsson
|| rec. 1971 "one Friday night at a bootlegger's house outside Somerville, Tennessee"; Lattie Murrell, voc, g
# rec. 1974; Lum Guffin, mandolin; Bill Barth, g
* rec. 1974; Lum Guffin, fife; John Mitchell, bass dr; McKenzie, snare dr
[] rec. 1974; Lum Guffin, fife; Hallie Massey, voc, bass dr; Plez (Williamson) Rivers [notes: "father of Homesick James"], snare dr


Flyright FLY 537 (UK 1979)

Flyright Records discography
Bengt Olsson recordings discography
Lum Guffin discography

41980Living 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)

L+R Records discography
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

51981Living Country Blues USA Vol. 4
Tennessee Blues


Hammie Nixon & Walter Cooper - Someday Baby
Lottie Murrell - I Got A Gal Cross The Bottom # (3:24)   @ youtube
Hammie Nixon - Louise Blues
Memphis Piano Red - Cow Cow Blues
Memphis Piano Red - 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' # (1:44)   @ youtube
Charlie Sangster & Hammie Nixon - Moanin' The Blues
Memphis Piano Red - Mother-In-Law Blues
Hammie Nixon & Walter Cooper - Soon One Mornin'


# rec. November 5, 1980 in Somerville, Tennessee by Siegfried Christmann and Axel Küstner; Lattie Murrell, voc, g
photos by Axel Küstner

= on Evidence 3 CD set (US 1999)

notes by Axel Küstner

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"


[CD notes do *not* contain liner photos that were part of the original LP release!]
= L+R LRCD 712829 (Germany 2008)

L+R Records discography

61982Living 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. November 5, 1980 in Somerville, Tennessee by Siegfried Christmann and Axel Küstner; Lattie Murrell, voc, g
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)

L+R Records discography
Guitar Slim discography
Son Thomas discography
Lonnie Pitchford discography
Memphis Piano Red discography
Archie Edwards discography

71997On The Road Again

- When A Gal Cross The Bottom - Lattie Murrell [Flyright LP 501]
- Railroad Blues - Lum Guffin (Germany)
- Spoonful - Lattie Murrell [Flyright LP 501]
- Blues For Mattie Mae - Lattie Murrell [Flyright LP 501]   @ youtube
- Johnny Wilson - Lum Guffin (voc, g)
- On The Road Again - Lum Guffin (voc, g)
- Loping Blues - Lincoln Jackson
- Kennedy Moan - Perry Tillis
- Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt - Perry Tillis
- Why Did I Have To Leave Cairo? - William Floyd Davis
- Sweet Peace - Ashley Thompson

- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Lattie Murrell [Flyright LP 501]
- Old Country Blues - Lum Guffin (mandolin)
- Denomination Blues - Perry Tillis
- Take Your Burdens To The Lord - Joe Townsend
- Moaning And Groaning Blues - Lum Guffin (voc, g)
- Stuttgart, Arkansas - Walter Miller
- Last Night - Dewey Corley
- Sherman's Blues - Walter Miller
- Fool's Blues - Dewey Corley
- Hop's Boogie - Walter Miller
- Don't The Peaches Look Mellow - Othar Broadnax
- Sally Got A Big Leg - The Fife And Drum Band Of The United Sons And Daughters Of Zion Chapter 9 (Lum Guffin, fife)


notes by Bengt Olsson

Flyright FLYCD 58 (UK 1997)

Flyright Records discography
Bengt Olsson recordings discography
Lum Guffin discography

81999Living 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)   @ youtube
- 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)


photos by Axel Küstner

3 CD set
48-pp. booklet with notes by Jerry Gordon, Axel Küstner & Brett Bonner

Evidence ECD 26105-2 (US 1999)

L+R Records discography

92005Old Country Blues Vol. 1

- Stuttgart Arkansas - Walter Miller
- Jack Of Diamonds - Lum Guffin

- Spoonful - Lattie Murrell [Flyright 501]
- Too Close - Bishop Perry Tillis
- Loping Blues - Lincoln Jackson
- Take Your Burdens To The Lord - Joe Townsend
- Sally Got A Big Leg - Fife And Drum Band Of The United Sons And Daughters Of Zion Chapter Nine

- Blues For Mattie Mae - Lattie Murrell [Flyright 501]   @ youtube
- Denomination Blues - Bishop Perry Tillis
- Fool's Blues - Dewey Corley
- Why Did I Have To Leave Cairo? - William Davis Floyd
- Sweet Peace - Ashley Thompson
- Old Country Blues - Lum Guffin


rec. by Bengt Olsson


for download only ("Birdman-a-phone is a virtual wing of the Birdman Recording Group, Inc.") birdmanaphone.com

Bengt Olsson recordings discography
Lum Guffin discography

102010Wolf's At The Door
Lost Recordings From The Spirits Of The South

- Johnny Wilson - Lum Guffin
- Sherman's Blues - Walter Miller
- Somewhere To Lay My Head - Bishop Perry Tillis
- Jesus Has Never Left Me Alone - Cleo Williams & Howard Williams
- Sweet Peace - Ashley Thompson
- Take Your Burdens To The Lord - Joe Thownsend & Bill Barth

- Stuttgart, Ark - Dewey Corley & Walter Miller
- He's Calling Me - Bootlegger's Quartet

- Wolf's At Your Door - Lattie Murrell [previously unreleased]   @ youtube
- 40 Days And 40 Nights - David Johnson & Guitar Sam
- Moan - Lonnie Fuqua
- The Soul Of A Man - David Johnson


rec. by Bengt Olsson

notes by Scott Barretta

Sutro Park SP 1003LP (180 Gram vinyl) [David Katznelson's vinyl only reissue project]

Bengt Olsson recordings discography
Lum Guffin discography

111/2014Live At The Bootleggers
Featuring Lattie Murrell and William Floyd Davis

- When A Gal Cross The Bottom (alt tk) - Lattie Murrell [Flyright LP 537]
- Spoonful - Lattie Murrell [Flyright LP 501]
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Lattie Murrell [Flyright LP 501]
- Howlin' In The Moonlight - Lattie Murrell [Flyright 45.001]
- Blues For Mattie Mae - Lattie Murrell [Flyright LP 501]
- Lookin' Down The Road - William Floyd Davis [previously unissued]
- The Capt'n - William Floyd Davis [previously unissued]
- Why Did I Have To Leave Cairo - William Floyd Davis [Flyright FLYCD 58]

- Catfish Blues - Lattie Murrell [Flyright 45.001]

- Rock Me Baby - Bootlegger with Bill Barth [previously unissued]
- Getting That Stuff - Bootlegger [Flyright FLY 537?]
- Bottle Up And Go - Bootlegger Quartet with Bill Barth [Birdman BMR 036]
- He's Callin' Me - Bootlegger Quartet [Sutro Park SP 1003]
- Cummins Prison Farm - Bootlegger [previously unissued]


rec. 1971 live at a bootlegger's homebase in Fayette County, TN by Bengt Olsson
illustrations by Cameron Forsley

notes by Bengt Olsson

Sutro Park SP 1024LP (180 Gram vinyl) [David Katznelson's vinyl only reissue project]

Bengt Olsson recordings discography



Additional information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 242
- Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 2011, pp. 335-336
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Snežana Lazarević, Max Hoeffner and Scott Barretta for additional info / scans

 

L A T T I E   M U R R E L L; source: Evidence ECD 26105-2; photographer: Axel Küstner
Lattie Murrell and girlfriend Liza Mae Weddle, Somerville, Tennessee, September 3, 1978
(source: Evidence ECD 26105-2; photographer: Axel Küstner)

 

L A T T I E   M U R R E L L; source: Evidence ECD 26105-2; photographer: Axel Küstner
Lattie Murrell and girlfriend Liza Mae Weddle, Somerville, Tennessee, September 3, 1978
(source: Evidence ECD 26105-2; photographer: Axel Küstner)

 

L A T T I E   M U R R E L L; source: Front cover of Sutro Park SP 1024LP
source: Front cover of Sutro Park SP 1024LP (snippet)
illustration (wimmelpicture) by Cameron Forsley
photoshop edited by Stefan Wirz

 

 

 

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