 Willie Nix, c. 1951 source: Front cover of Living Blues # 43 (Summer 1979) ("courtesy of Patty Nix & Steve LaVere") |  source: Mike Rowe: Chicago Blues, p. 110 photographer: Paul Oliver |  Willie Nix & his wife Patty in front of their home in Monroe, Louisiana, 1960; source: Paul Oliver: Conversation with the Blues (The Jazz Book Club, 1967) photo #73, photo pp. between pp. 164 and 165; photographer: Paul Oliver |
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| 1 | 1951 | WILLIE NIX - Lonesome Bedroom Blues (MM 1608) @ youtube - Try Me One More Time (MM 1609) @ youtube  originally unissued track from same session: - Fine And Mellow Baby [P-Vine PCD-3036] rec. c. June 18, 1951 at Memphis Recording Service in Memphis, TN; Willie Nix, voc, dr; Billy "Red" Love, p; Willie Johnson, g
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| 2 | 1952 | WILLIE NIX - Truckin' Little Woman (C 1026) @ youtube - Just One Mistake (C 1027) @ youtube originally unissued tracks from same session: - Take A Little Walk With Me [Charly CR 30127] @ youtube - Ridin' In The Moonlight [Sun Box 105] @ youtube - Prison Bound Blues [Charly CR 30127] @ youtube - Mighty Showers Of Rain [Sun Box 105] @ youtube rec. April 25, 1952 at the SUN Studio in Memphis, TN; Willie Nix, voc, dr; Walter Horton, hca; Billy Love, p; Willie Johnson, g
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| 3 | 1952 | JOE HILL LOUIS - When I Am Gone (C 1036A, edited for release on Checker 763) # @ youtube - Dorothy Mae (C 1035A) * @ youtube # rec. March 31, 1952 at the SUN Studio in Memphis, TN; Joe Hill Louis, voc, g; Nolan Hall, dr * rec. July 18, 1952 at the SUN Studio in Memphis, TN; Joe Hill Louis, voc, g; Walter Horton, hca; Jack Kelly, b; Willie Nix, dr
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| 4 | 1953 | Joe Hill Louis - She May Be Yours (But She Comes To See Me Sometime) (U58-3) # @ youtube - We All Gotta Go Sometime (U57, tk 2) * @ youtube # rec. November 17, 1952 at the SUN Studio in Memphis, TN; Joe Hill Louis, voc, hca, g; Albert Williams, p; Willie Nix, dr * rec. December 29, 1952 at the SUN Studio in Memphis, TN; Joe Hill Louis, voc, hca, g; Albert Williams, p; dr
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| - She Comes To See Me Sometime (tk 2) [P-Vine PLP 304] - Make My Love Stay Warm [Bear Family BCD 15524] rec. November 17, 1952 at the SUN Studio in Memphis, TN; Joe Hill Louis, voc, hca, g; Albert Williams, p; Willie Nix, dr Sun unissued | ||
| 5 | 1953 | WILLIE NIX THE MEMPHIS BLUES BOY - Seems Like A Million Years (U 59) (2:40) [piano intro] @ youtube - Baker Shop Boogie (U 60) (2:40) @ youtube originally unissued tracks from same session: - Baker Shop Boogie (tk 1) (2:51) [Charly CR 30114] @ youtube - Baker Shop Boogie (tk ?) [Titanic CD 6006] rec. October 9, 1952 in Memphis, TN; Willie Nix, voc, dr; James Cotton, hca; Albert Williams, p; Joe Willie Wilkins, g
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| - untitled instrumental rec. December 10, 1952 in Memphis, TN; Willie Nix, voc, dr; George Lawson, ts; James Cotton, hca; Albert Williams, p; Joe Willie Wilkins, g Sun unissued | ||
| - Seems Like A Million Years (tk 1) (2:48) [guitar intro, guitar/hca dominated outro] @ youtube @ Spotify - Seems Like A Million Years (tk 2) (2:48) [guitar intro, sax dominated outro] @ youtube @ Spotify rec. December 10, 1952 in Memphis, TN; Willie Nix, voc, dr; ts; prob. Walter Horton, hca; Willie Johnson, g; g Sun unissued Titanic CD 6006 | ||
| - Cold Love (U4336) - Mean And Evil (U4337) - Eight Ball (U4338) # @ youtube rec. January 9, 1953 in Chicago, IL; Augustus "Gus" Jenkins, voc, p; Walter Horton, hca; Willie Nix, dr Chess unissued # Chess LP 6641 174 | ||
| - (Talkin') Off The Wall # - Off The Wall (2 inc. tks) * rec. July 15, 1953 in Memphis, TN; Walter Horton (or Joe Hill Louis?), hca; prob. Pinetop Perkins, p; Earl Hooker, g; Edward Irvon or Willie Nix, dr; Sun unissued # Charly CD 30127 | ||
| 6 | 1953 | WILLIE NIX and HIS BAND - Nervous Wreck (C 5062) @ youtube - No More Love (C 5063) @ youtube @ Spotify rec. October 14, 1953 in Chicago, IL; Willie Nix, voc; Snooky Pryor, hca; Sunnyland Slim, p; Eddie Taylor, g; Alfred Wallace, dr
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| 7 | 1953 | WILLIE NIX AND HIS COMBO - Just Can't Stay (C 5064) @ youtube - All By Yourself (C 5065) @ youtube @ Spotify rec. October 14, 1953 in Chicago, IL; Willie Nix, voc; Snooky Pryor, hca; Sunnyland Slim, p; Eddie Taylor, g; Alfred Wallace, dr
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| 7a | 4/1953 | MUDDY WATERS and his Guitar - She's All Right (U 4334) (2:31) @ youtube - Sad, Sad Day (U 4335) @ youtube originally unissued tracks from same session: - Flood (U 4332) # [Chess LP 6641 174] - My Life Is Ruined (Land Lady) (U 4333) * [Chess LP 1511] - She's All Right (alt tk) (2:28) * [Chess LP 1511] @ youtube rec. January 9, 1953 in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc, g; Walter Horton, hca; Jimmy Rogers, g; prob. Willie Nix, dr
brown vinyl 7 inch 45 rpm Muddy Waters discography |
| - Cold Love (U 4336) @ youtube - Mean And Evil (U 4337) @ youtube - Eight Ball (U 4338) # @ youtube rec. January 9, 1953 in Chicago, IL; Augustus "Gus" Jenkins, voc, p; Walter Horton, hca; Willie Nix, dr Chess unissued # Chess LP 6641174 Walter Horton discography | ||
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| 8 | 1965 | Chicago the post-war blues volume 1 Johnny Shines - Brutal Hearted Woman - Evening Sun Willie Nix & His Combo - Just Can't Stay [Sabre 104] - All By Yourself [Sabre104] "Little" Willie Foster - Falling Rain Blues - Four Day Jump J B. Hutto & His Hawks - Pet Cream Man - Lovin' You Othum Brown - Ora-Nelle Blues Little Walter - I Just Keep Loving Her Johnny William(s) - Worried Man Blues Johnny Young - Money Taking Woman John Lee - Knocking On Lula Mae's Door - Rythm Rockin' Boogie [sic] Junior Wells & His Eagle Rockers - Hodo Man [sic] - Junior's Wail
notes by Charles Radcliffe pwb discography |
| 9 | 3/1966 | The Blues Came Down From Memphis LP track sequence: Dr. Ross - The Boogie Disease [Sun 212] James Cotton - Cotton Crop Blues Willie Nix - Baker Shop Boogie [Sun 179] Rufus "Hound Dog" Thomas - Bear Cat Jimmy DeBerry - Take A Little Chance Dr. Ross - Juke Box Boogie [Sun 212] Sammy Lewis & Willie Johnson Combo - I Feel So Worried Little Milton - If You Love Me Jimmy DeBerry - Time Has Made A Change Dr. Ross - Come Back Baby [Sun 193] Sammy Lewis & Willie Johnson Combo - So Long Rufus Thomas Jr. - Tiger Man (King Of The Jungle) Willie Nix - Seems Like A Million Years [Sun 179] Dr. Ross - Chicago Breakdown [Sun 193] compiled by Michael Vernon
CD track sequence:
notes by Neil Slaven notes by Neil Slaven
= Charly LP 10033 (Portugal 1985)
notes by Bez Turner
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| 10 | 1966 | Two Willies From Memphis Willie Love and His Three Aces - Shady Lane Blues [Trumpet 174] - Feed My Body To The Fishes [Trumpet 172] - Falling Rain [Trumpet 172] Willie Nix - Lonesome Bedroom Blues [RPM 327] - No More Love [Chance 1163] - Nervous Wreck [Chance 1163] Front cover: Willie Nix at Monroe, Louisiana; photographer: Paul Oliver
7 inch EP Highway 51 Records discography |
| 11 | 1969 | Memphis Blues Anthology of the Blues - Archive series Volume Two Kent/United/Musidisc LPs track sequence: Howlin' Wolf - Passing By Blues [RPM 340] - I'm The Wolf [previously unissued] Joe Hill Louis - The Way You Treat Me - Highway 99 Big Walter Horton - Walter's Blues Bobby Bland - Love Me Baby Bobby Bland & Junior Parker - Drifting From Town To Town Joe Hill Louis - Western Union Man Howlin' Wolf - The Sun Is Rising [previously unissued] - My Friends (Stealing My Clothes) [previously unissued] Willie Nix - Lonesome Bedroom Blues [RPM 327] Big Walter Horton - Little Boy Blue P-Vine PCD-3036 track sequence: Howling Wolf - I'm The Wolf - The Sun Is Rising Joe Hill Louis - The Way You Treat Me - Highway 99 - Western Union Man Walter Horton - Walter's Blues - Little Boy Blue Willie Nix - Lonesome Bedroom [RPM 327] - Fine And Mellow Baby [previously unissued] Bobby Bland & Junior Parker - Love My Baby Bobby Bland - Drifting From Town To Town (tk 1) - Dry Up Baby - Crying All Night Long - Love You Yes I Do - Drifting From Town To Town (tk 2) Johnny Ace - I Cried [actually by Earl Forest] - Midnight Hours Journey Rosco Gordon - No More Doggin' - Just In From Texas
gatefold LP gatefold LP notes by Frank Scott
notes by Frank Scott
Kent/United Records discography |
| 12 | 1972 | Take A Little Walk With Me The Blues in Chicago 1948-1957 LP 1: J.B. Hutto - Combination Boogie Willie Nix - All By Yourself [Sabre 104] Floyd Jones - Any Old Lonesome Day Eddie Taylor - Big Town Playboy Little Willie Foster - Little Girl John Lee Henley - Knockin' On Lula Mae's Door Robert Nighthawk - My Sweet Lovin' Woman John Brim - Gary Stomp Lazy Bill Lucas - She Got Me Walkin' Willie Nix - Nervous Wreck [Chance 1163] Floyd Jones - Skinny Woman Grace Brim - Going Down The Line Johnny Young - My Baby Walked Out Little Walter - Blue Baby Jimmy Rogers - Ludella No.2 Baby Face Leroy - Take A Little Walk With Me LP 2: Grace Brim - Mean Man Blues Robert Nighthawk - Feel So Bad Homesick James - The Woman I Love Lazy Bill Lucas - I Had A Dream Willie Nix - No More Love [Chance 1163] Floyd Jones - Floyd's Blues John Lee Henley - Rhythm Rockin' Boogie Memphis Minnie - World Of Trouble Johnny Young - Let Me Ride Your Mule Floyd Jones - Big World John Brim - Drinking Woman Memphis Minnie - Kissing In The Dark Willie Nix - Just Can't Stay [Sabre 104] Junior Wells - Tomorrow Night Little Willie Foster - Crying The Blues Johnny Shines - Living In The White House compiled, annotated and produced by Leroy Pierson
DLP |
| 13 | 1973 | Joe Hill Louis & Willie Nix: Blue in the Morning Joe Hill Louis - Nappy Head Woman - Cold Chills - Mistreat Me Woman - Key To The Highway - Blue In The Morning - Highway - Big Legged Woman - Gotta Go Baby - Eyesight To The Blind - The Way You Treat Me - Peace Of Mind - At The Woodchopper's Ball - I Love My Baby - Western Union Man Willie Nix - Lonesome Bedroom Blues [RPM 327] - Try Me One More Time [RPM 327]
notes by Mike Leadbitter and Steve LaVere |
| 14 | 1973 | Genesis Vol. 2 The Beginnings of Rock: From Memphis to Chicago Album 1 (6499 432) Sonny Boy Williamson - Work With Me - Don't Start Me To Talking - All My Love In Vain - Good Evening Everybody - You Killing Me (On My Feet) - Let Me Explain - I Know What Love Is All About Sonny Boy Williamson - I Wonder Why - Your Imagination Elmore James - Country Boogie - My Best Friend - I See My Baby - She Just Won't Do Right - Muddy Shoes Album 2 (6499 433) Ethel Mae - Down The Line - Handsome Lover - Sugar Papa Robert Nighthawk - Good News - Six Three O - Prison Bound Forrest City Joe - Mean Mistreatin' Woman Forrest City Joe - Lonesome Day Blues Howlin' Wolf - I'm Not Joking - Moanin' At Midnight - How Many More Years - All Night Long - No Place To Go Album 3 (6499 434) Jackie Brenston - Rocket "88" Doctor Ross - Country Clown - Doctor Ross Boogie Willie Nix - Truckin' Little Woman [Checker 756] - Just One Mistake [Checker 756] Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Open Your Book - Tears In My Eyes (C-1023 [alt.]) Woodrow Adams - Pretty Baby Blues - She's Done Come And Gone Joe Hill Louis - Dorothy Mae - When I Am Gone Harmonica Frank - Swamp Root - Howlin' Tomcat - She Done Moved Album 4 (6499 435) Sonny Boy Williamson - Keep It To Yourself - Please Forgive (Keep It To Yourself) - The Key To Your Love Howlin' Wolf - Baby How Long - Evil Is Goin' On - Forty Four - Who Will Be Next Howlin' Wolf - I Have A Little Girl - Come To Me Baby - Don't Mess With My Baby - Smokestack Lightning - You Can't Be Beat - So Glad - Break Of Day compiled by Mike Leadbitter & Neil Slaven
4 LP box set |
| 14a | 6/1975 | Genesis Vol. 3 - Sweet Home Chicago Dedicated to Mike Leadbitter Album 1 (6499 862) Baby Face Leroy - My Head Can't Rest Anymore - Take A Little Walk With Me Floyd Jones - Dark Road - Big World - Overseas - Playhouse Otis Spann - It Must Have Been The Devil - Five Spot Gus Jenkins - Eight Ball [Chess unissued] Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires - One Of These Days [Checker 752] - Murmur Low [Checker 752] Little Henry - I Declare That Ain't Right - Matchbox Blues Blue Smitty - Sad Story - Elgin Movements - Date Bait Album 2 (6499 863) Muddy Waters - Mean Red Spider - Hard Days - Burying Ground - Last Time I Fool Around With You - Screaming And Crying - Where's My Woman Been - Rollin' And Tumblin' - part 1 - Rollin' And Tumblin' - part 2 - Stuff You Gotta Watch - Lonesome Day - Iodine In My Coffee - Flood - I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man - Oh! Yeh - Smokestack Lightning Album 3 (6499 864) Little Walter - Juke - Boogie - Mean Old World - Sad Hours - Don't Have To Hunt No More - Tonight With A Fool - Quarter To Twelve - Blues With A Feeling - Last Boogie - Fast Boogie - Light's Out - You're So Fine - Blues Light - Last Night - Thunderbird - I Got To Go Album 4 (6499 865) Jimmy Rogers - Today, Today Blues - The World Is In A Tangle - She Loves Another Man - Hard Working Man - Chance To Love - My Little Machine - Mistreated Baby - What's The Matter Jimmy Rogers - You're The One John Brim - Rattlesnake - It Was A Dream - Ice Cream Man - Lifetime Baby - Tough Times - Go Away - That Ain't Right compiled by Mike Rowe
4 LP box set
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| 15 | 1976 | Lowdown Memphis Harmonica Jam 1950-1955 Hot Shot Love - Harmonica Jam - Wolf Call Boogie Joe Hill Louis - Street Walkin' Woman - Walkin' Talkin' Blues J. D. Horton - Cadillac Blues - Why Don't You Let Me Be Mumbles - Now Tell Me Baby - Jumpin' Blues Joe Hill Louis - Gotta Let You Got - Boogie In The Park Willie Nix - Seems Like A Million Years [Sun 179] - Bakershop Boogie [Sun 179] Woodrow Adams - Wine Head Woman [Meteor 5018] - Baby, You Just Don't Know [Meteor 5018]> Chicago Sunny Boy - Love My Baby - On The Floor
notes by Leroy Pierson Nighthawk Records discography |
| 16 | 1976 | Sun Blues The Roots Of Rock Vol. 7 Handy Jackson - Got My Application Baby - Trouble (Will Bring You Down) Willie Nix - Seems Like A Million Years - Baker Shop Boogie Little Junior's Blue Flames - Feelin' Good - Fussin' And Fightin' Blues Rufus Thomas - Tiger Man - Save That Money Hot Shot Love - Wolf Call Boogie - Harmonica Jam James Cotton - Cotton Crop Blues - Hold Me In Your Arms Doctor Ross - Boogie Disease - Juke Box Boogie Eddie Snow - Ain't That Right - Bring Your Love Back To Me
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| 17 | 1976 | Memphis Blues Anthology: Drifting From Town To Town Blues Great Essential Vol. 4 Walter Horton - Jumpin' Blues Joe Hill Louis - Cold Chills Willie Nix - Try Me One More Time Bobby Bland - Drifting From Town To Town Joe Hill Louis - Eyesight To The Blind Junior Parker - Bad Woman, Bad Whiskey Walter Horton - Hard-Hearted Woman Joe Hill Louis - I Feel Like A Millionaire Willie Nix - Lonesome Bedroom Blues Bobby Bland & Junior Parker - Love My Baby Joe Hill Louis - Chocolate Blonde Bobby Bland - Good Lovin'
Trio Records discography |
| 18 | 8/1977 | Union Avenue Breakdown The Roots Of Rock Vol. 12 Jimmy DeBerry - Party Line Blues Joe Hill Louis - Treat Me Mean And Evil Willie Nix - Prison Bound Blues [previously unissued] - Take A Little Walk With Me [previously unissued] Walter Horton - Walter's Boogie Honeyboy Edwards [mistakenly credited to Albert (Joiner) Williams] - Sweet Home Chicago Albert (Joiner) Williams - Rhumba Chillen Woodrow Adams - The Train Is Coming William Stewart - Rattlesnakin' Mama - The Call Me Talkin' Boy Dr. Ross with Henry Hill - That Ain't Right Dr. Ross - Texas Hop Pinetop Perkins - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie Chris Booker [sic] - Walked All Night (tk 2) [Sun unissued] Boyd Gilmore & Earl Hooker - Believe I'll Settle Down
notes by Martin Hawkins |
| 19 | 1980 | Chicago Slickers Vol. 2 1948-55 Little Walter - Blue Baby Man Young - Let Me Ride Your Mule - My Baby Walked Out Robert Nighthawk - My Sweet Lovin' Woman Grace Brim - Goin Down The Line Johnny Shines - Living In The White House Willie Nix - No More Love - Nervous Wreck Willie Nix - Just Can't Stay - All By Yourself Floyd Jones - Skinny Woman John Brim - Drinking Woman Lazy Bill - I Had A Dream J. B. Hutto - Combination Boogie Floyd Jones - Any Old Lonesome Day - Floyd's Blue
Nighthawk Records discography |
| 20 | 1982 | Combination Blues Chicago Bluesmasters Vol. 1 J.B. Hutto & His Hawks - Combination Boogie - Now She's Gone - Pet Cream Man - Lovin' You - Price Of Love - Things Are So Slow - Dim Lights Snooky Pryor - Judgement Day - Someone To Love Me - You Tried To Ruin Me Willie Nix And His Combo - Nervous Wreck [Chance 1163] - No More Love [Chance 1163] - Just Can't Stay [Sabre 104] - All By Myself [Sabre 104] compiled by Bez Turner
notes by D. Weld, Jim O'Neal and Mike Rowe |
| 21 | 1985 | Sun Records - The Blues Years 1950-1956 record five: side 9 - Sellin' My Stuff Walter Horton - Walter's Instrumental Jackie Boy & Little Walter - Selling My Whiskey Walter Horton - West Winds Are Blowing - Little Walter's Boogie - Off The Wall - Easy Jimmy DeBerry - Before Long - Party Line Blues side 10 - Take A Little Chance Jimmy DeBerry - Take A Little Chance - Time Has Made A Change Willie Nix - Midnight Showers Of Rain - Prison Bound Blues - Riding In The Moonlight - Take A Little Walk With Me - Seems Like A Million Years [Sun 179] - Baker Shop Boogie [Sun 179] record six: side 11 - Hoo Doo Man L.B. Lawson - Can't Love Me And My Money Too Honeyboy Edwards - Sweet Home Chgicago Albert Williams - Rhumba Chillen - Hoo Doo Man Joe Hill Louis - When I'm Gone - We All Gotta Go Sometime - She May Be Yours - Keep Your Arms Around Me side 12 Mose Vinson - Mistreatin' Boogie - Worry You Off My Mind Joe Hill Louis - Hydramatic Woman - Tiger Man Mose, Joe & Walter - Shine Boy Mose Vinson - Reap What You Sow - 44 Blues - Come See Me
9 LP box set Sun Blues Boxes discography |
| 22 | 1986 | Joe Hill Louis: The Bebop Boy - We All Gotta Go Sometime - She May Be Yours - Sweet Gal In Town (She May Be Yours) (take 2) - I Got A New Woman - Keep Your Arms Around Me - Tiger Man - I'm A Poor Boy - Boogie In The Park - Gotta Let You Go - When I'm Gone (= She Treats Me Mean And Evil) - Tiger Man - Hydramatic Woman - We All Gotta Go Sometime (tk 2) - We All Gotta Go Sometime (tk 3)
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| 23 | 1986 | Memphis: Beale Street Breakdown Chess Blues Archives Vol. 3 Doctor Ross - Doctor Ross Boogie - Country Clown Walter Horton - Walter's Boogie - West Winds Are Blowing Willie Nix - Truckin Little Woman - Just One Mistake Harmonica Frank - Swamp Root [Chess 1475] Harmonica Frank - Goin' Away Walkin' [Chess 1475] - Howlin' Tomcat [Chess 1494] - She Done Moved [Chess 1494] Joe Hill Louis - When I'm Gone - Dorothy Mae LJ Thomas - Baby Take A Chance With Me - Sam's Drag
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| 23a | 1986 | Cotton Crop Blues James Cotton, Walter Horton & Willie Nix Jimmy & Walter - Easy Willie Nix - Prison Bound Blues Willie Nix - Midnight Showers Of Rain Willie Nix - Ridin' In the Moonlight Willie Nix - Take A Little Walk With Me Jackie Boy And Little Walter - Selling My Whiskey Walter Horton - Off The Wall James Cotton - Cotton Crop Blues Willie Nix - Hold Me In Your Arms Willie Nix - Baker Shop Boogie Willie Nix - Seems Like A Million Years James Cotton - My Baby James Cotton - Straighten Up Baby Walter Horton - Walter's Instrumental
Walter Horton discography |
| 24 | 1995 | Ain't Times Hard Modern Blues Anthology CD 1 - Dust My Broom - Elmore James - Well That's All Right - Howlin' Wolf - Five Long Years - Eddie Boyd - Seems Like A Million Years - Willie Nix - We All Gotta Go Sometime - Joe Hill Louis - Mojo Boogie - J.B. Lenoir - Evening Sun - Johnny Shines - I'm Looking For A Woman - Little Hudson - Easy - Big Walter Horton - Bear Cat (The Answer To Hound Dog) - Rufus Thomas - Take A Little Chance - Jimmy De Berry - Feelin' Good - Junior Parker - Mystery Train - Junior Parker - The Boogie Disease - Doctor Ross - Hart's Bread Boogie - Billy Love - Ain't Times Hard - Floyd Jones - Combination Boogie - J.B. Hutto - Cotton Crop Blues - James Cotton - I'm Gonna Murder My Baby - Pat Hare - You Don't Have To Go - Jimmy Reed - Bad Boy - Eddie Taylor - Aw Baby (Sweet Home Chicago) - Robert Jr. Lockwood - So Long Baby, Goodbye - Willie Johnson CD 2 - I Wish You Would - Billy Boy Arnold - Big Town Playboy - Eddie Taylor - Hands Off - Priscilla Bowman - I Ain't Got You - Billy Boy Arnold - Every Woman I Know (Crazy About Automobiles) - Billy 'The Kid' Emerson - Judgement Day - Snooky Pryor - I Can't Quit You Baby - Otis Rush - Have A Good Time - Big Walter Horton - The Telephone Is Ringing - Pee Wee Crayton - Going Back Home - Big Joe Williams - It's You Baby - Sunnyland Slim - Fishin' In My Pond - Lee Jackson - The Twelve Year Old Boy - Elmore James - All Your Love - Magic Sam - Honest I Do - Jimmy Reed - Blues Get Off My Shoulder - Bobby Parker - Mama, You Got A Daughter - John Lee Hooker - Double Trouble - Otis Rush - Row Your Boat - Charles Clark - Roll You Moneymaker - Shakey Jake - This Is The End - Buddy Guy - Number Nine Train - Tarheel Slim - Kansas City - Jimmy Witherspoon - I'm In The Mood - John Lee Hooker CD 3 - Bad Luck And Trouble - Boogie Jake - No More Doggin' - Rosco Gordon - Baby, What You Want Me To Do - Jimmy Reed - Rockin' The House - Memphis Slim - Just A Little Bit - Rosco Gordon - Fannie Mae - Buster Brown - Somebody's Doin' Me Wrong - Edgar Blanchard - Little By Little - Junior Wells - Will My Man Be Home Tonight? - Lillian Offitt - You Don't Have To Go - Sam Myers - Messin' With The Kid - Junior Wells - Blue Guitar - Earl Hooker - Sittin' Here Drinkin' - Christine Kitrell - You Don't Love Me - Willie Cobbs - Bright Lights, Big City - Jimmy Reed - Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker - Got Me A Louisiana Woman - Lightnin' Hopkins - Shake Your Moneymaker - Elmore James - Mean Old Frisco - Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - My Baby's Sweet - Homesick James - It Hurts Me Too - Elmore James - Too Many Cooks - Jesse Fortune - Cut You A-Loose - Rick Allen - You Better Stop - Andrew Brown CD 4 - Rough Dried Woman, Pt. 1 - Big Mac - Ain't Broke Ain't Hungry - Polka Dot Slim - Figure Head - Lonnie Brooks - The Way I Feel - Detroit Junior - Southern Country Boy - Carter Brothers - Out Of Bad Luck - Magic Sam - Ride With Your Daddy Tonight - Frank Frost - Say You're Leavin' - Fenton Robinson - She's Crazy 'bout Entertainers - Jerry Mccain - Hard Times - Young, Mighty Joe - Rambling Woman - Johnny 'Big Moose' Walker - Put It All In There - George 'Wild Child' Butler - Long Way From Home - Lightnin' Hopkins - Rock Me Baby - Ike And Tina Turner - Cummins Prison Farm - Calvin Leavy - Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker - Shakin' Hands With The Judge - Little Joe Blue - My Baby - Lowell Fulson - High Cost Of Livin' - Al King - It's My Fault Darling - Little Johnny Taylor - Go And Help Yourself - Albert Washington - Bowlegged Woman, Knock-Kneed Man, Pt. 1 - Bobby Rush - Spider In My Stew - Buster Benton - Food Stamp Blues - Eddie Lang compiled by Les Fancourt
4 CD set with 44-pp. booklet |
| 25 | 1996 | Sun Records - The Blues Years - 1950-1958 disc three: Willie Nix - Midnight Showers of Rain - Prison Bound Blues - Riding in the Moonlight - Let's Take a Little Walk James Banister - Ain't Gonna Tell You No Lie (Sweet Little Woman) Dennis Binder - Love You Love You Baby Woodrow Adams - Last Time (tk 1) - Train is Comin' - If You Don't Want Me - Train Time Walter Bradford - Reward for my Baby - Love for my Baby LC Hubert - Lucy Done Moved Walter Horton - West Winds are Blowing - In the Mood - Little Walter's Boogie (tk 2) - We All Gotta Go Sometime (tk 2) Raymond Hill - Long Gone Raymond - My Baby Left Me - Somebody's Been Carryin' On Your Rollin' On - I'm Back Pretty Baby Willie Nix - Seems Like a Million Years [Sun 179] - Bakershop Boogie [Sun 179] Walter 'Tang' Smith - Hi-Tone Mama - Every Monday Morning disc four: Houston Stokes - You'll Be Sorry - Blue and Lonesome - Baby's Gone and Left Me - We're All Gonna Do Some Wrong Joe Hill Louis - She Comes to See Me Sometime (tk 1) - We All Gotta Go Sometime - She May Be Yours (Sweetest Girl in Town) - I'm A Poor Boy Doctor Ross - Left Job Boogie - Shake 'em On Down (tk 1) Henry Hill with Doctor Ross - That Ain't Right (tk 1) Doctor Ross - Down South Blues Honeyboy Edwards - Sweet Home Chicago (tk 1) Albert Williams - Rhumba Chillen - Hoodoo Man (Memphis Al) Handy Jackson Got My Application Baby - Trouble Will Bring You Down Various Artists - Easy - Before Long Rufus Thomas Jr - Bear Cat - Walkin' in the Rain Charlie Booker - Walked All Night (tk 1) - Baby I'm Comin' Home (tk 1) Rosco Gordon - Juice Head - VO Baby
8 CD box set Sun Blues Boxes discography |
| 26 | 1997 | Big Bad Blues 25 Sun Blues Classics Volume One - Before Long - Jimmy & Walter - We All Gotta Go Sometime - Joe Hill Louis - Bear Cat - Rufus Thomas - Carry My Business On - Houston Boines - Baby I'm Coming Home - Charlie Booker [Sun unissued] - Juiced - Billy Red Love - My Real Gone Rocket - Jackie Brenston - Greyhound Blues - D.A. Hunt - Wolf Call Boogie - Coy 'Hot Shot' Love - Prison Bound Blues - Willie Nix - Blues Train - Tot Randolph - Mystery Train - Little Junior'S Blue Flames - Beggin' My Baby - Little Milton - Red Hot - Billy 'The Kid' Emerson - Cotton Crop Blues - James Cotton - I'm Gonna Murder My Baby - Pat Hare - Rattlesnakin Mama - William Stewart - Tiger Man - Mose Vinson - Gonna Leave You Baby - Willie Johnson - Cool Down Mama - Lost John Hunter - Come Back Home - Howlin' Wolf - Come Back Baby - Doctor Ross - Feel So Worried - Willie Johnson - Lets Get High - Rosco Gordon - Aint That Right - Eddie Snow
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| 27 | 2001 | The Traveling Record Man Historic Down South Recording Trips Of Joe Bihari & Ike Turner - Blue Serenade - Baby Face Turner - My Sweet Woman - Driftin' Slim< - No Ridin' Blues - Charlie Booker [Blues & Rhythm 7003]> - Numbered Days (previously unreleased) - Big Charlie Bradix - Riding In The Moonlight - Howlin' Wolf - I'm Gonna Find Your Trick - Smokey Hogg - Baby Please Don't Go - Pinetop Slim - Cairo Blues - Lil' Son Jackson - Good Morning Little Angel - Joe Hill Louis - Tiny's Down Home - Tiny Webb - Tomorrow I May Be Gone - Jesse Thomas - Please Send My Baby Back Home aka Step Back Baby - Sunny Blair - If I Lose You Woman - Alexander Moore - My Little Machine - Driftin' Slim - My Baby's Gone - Elmore James - Rock House - Calvin Frazier - She Broke Up My Life (She Got Me Walking) - Joe Hill Louis - Keep Away From Me Baby - Joe Hill Louis - Lonesome Bedroom Blues - Willie Nix - Talking Boogie - Lil' Son Jackson - Long Tall Woman - Elmore James - I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You - "Arkansas Johnny Todd" - Ramblin' On My Mind - Boyd Gilmore
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| 28 | 2006 | Memphis Blues Important Postwar Blues disc 1: - Gotta Let You Go - Joe Hill Louis - Boogie in the Park - Joe Hill Louis - That Ain't Right (tk 1) - Henry Hill - Little Soldier Boy (tk 2) - Doctor Ross - Country Clown (tk 1) - Doctor Ross - County Farm Blues - William Stewart - They Call Me Talkin' Boy - William Stewart - Easy - Jimmy & Walter - Before Long - Jimmy & Walter - Lonesome Ol' Jail - D.A. Hunt - Greyhound Blues - D.A. Hunt - Registration Day Blues - Sleepy John Estes - Rats in My Kitchen - Sleepy John Estes - Rattlesnake Mama - William Stewart - Forty Four Blues - William Stewart - I Feel Like a Million - Joe Hill Louis - Heartache Baby - Joe Hill Louis - Shorty the Barber - Charlie Burse - Last Time, The - Woodrow Wilson Adams - Train Is Comin' - Woodrow Wilson Adams - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Pinetop Perkins - Wolf Call Boogie - Sleepy John Estes - Harmonica Jam - Coy "Hot Shot" Love - Policy Man Blues (tk 1) - Coy "Hot Shot" Love - Take a Little Chance - Jimmy DeBerry - Tailor Made - Doctor Ross - The Boogie Disease - Doctor Ross disc 2: - Moanin' at Midnight - Howlin' Wolf - Bluebird - Howlin' Wolf - Move on Down the Line - Earl Hooker - The Hucklebuck - Earl Hooker - Walter's Instrumental - Walter Horton - Grandmother Got Grandfather Told - Walter Horton - Midnight Showers of Rain - Willie Nix - Prison Bound Blues - Willie Nix - Bear Cat - Rufus Thomas - Married Woman - Rufus Thomas - Roscoe's Boogie - Rosco Gordon - City Women - Rosco Gordon - Baby, Baby - Earl Forest - Rock the Bottle - Earl Forest - Bad Women, Bad Whiskey - Little Parker, Jr. - You're My Angel - Little Parker, Jr. - Good Lovin' - Bobby "Blue" Bland - Drifting from Town to Town - Bobby "Blue" Bland - My Baby - James Anthony Cotton - Straighten Up Baby - James Anthony Cotton - Work with Her Boy - Shy Guy Douglas - Detroit Arrow Blues - Shy Guy Douglas - Carry My Business On (tk 1) - Houston Boines - Crying in the Courthouse (tk 1) - Houston Boines - Walked All Night - Charley Booker [Sun unissued] - Baby I'm Coming Home - Charley Booker [Sun unissued] - I'm Gonna Murder My Baby - Pat Hare - Bonus Pay - Pat Hare disc 3: - T Model Boogie - Rosco Gordon - Saddled the Cow (And Milked the Horse) - Rosco Gordon - Seems Like a Million Years (tk 1) - Willie Nix - Riding in the Moonlight - Willie Nix - Can't Love Me and My Money Too - L.B. Lawson - Flypaper Boogie - L.B. Lawson - Somebody Told Me - Little Milton - If You Love Me Baby - Little Milton - Feelin' Good - Little Junior - Fussin' and Fightin' Blues - Little Junior - Hart's Bread Boogie - Billy Love - Blues Leave Me Alone - Billy Love - She Comes to See Me Sometime (tk 1) - Joe Hill Louis - We All Gotta Go Sometime - Joe Hill Louis - Sweet Home Chicago (tk 1) - David Honeyboy Edwards - Mistreating Boogie - Mose Vinson - Worry You Off My Mind - Mose Vinson - Lucy Done Moved - L.C. Hubert - Don't Dog Me Around - Eddie Snow - Skin and Bone (tk 1) - Eddie Snow - Dead Letter Blues (tk 1) - Johnny O'Neal - Ugly Woman (tk 3) - Johnny O'Neal - You'll Be Sorry - Houston Stokes - Blue and Lonesome - Houston Stokes - Long Gone Raymond - Raymond Hill - I'm Back Pretty Baby - Raymond Hill - Blue Man (tk 1) - Kenneth Banks - High (tk 1) - Kenneth Banks disc 4: - Tiger Man - Rufus Thomas - Save That Money - Rufus Thomas - Lookin' for My Baby - Little Milton - Homesick for My Baby - Little Milton - Feel So Worried - Sammy Lewis/Willie Johnson - So Long Baby Goodbye - Sammy Lewis/Willie Johnson - Cotton Crop Blues - James Anthony Cotton - Hold Me in Your Arms - James Anthony Cotton - Come Back Home (tk 1) - Howlin' Wolf - Chocolate Drop - Howlin' Wolf - Blue Guitar - Earl Hooker - Believe I'll Settle Down - Boyd Gilmore - We All Gotta Go Sometime - Walter Horton - Off the Wall - Walter Horton - Love My Baby - Little Junior - Mystery Train - Junior Parker - Dry Up Baby - Bobby "Blue" Bland - Crying All Night Long - Bobby "Blue" Bland - Way After Midnight (tk 1) - Billy Love - Hey Now (tk 1) - Billy Love - I Wronged a Woman - Earl Forest - I Can't Forgive You - Earl Forest - Midnight Hours Journey - Johnny Ace - My Baby Left Me - Raymond Hill - You're Driving Me Insane - Ike Turner - Trouble and Heartaches - Ike Turner - When It Rains It Pours - Billy "The Kid" Emerson - Move Baby Move - Billy "The Kid" Emerson
4 CD set |
| 29 | 2008 | Red Hot about The Blues Previously Unreleased Sun Recordings Billy the Kid Emerson - Red Hot (tk 2) Houston Boines - Operator Blues (tk 3) [Modern unissued] Houston Boines - G-Man Blues [Modern unissued] Houston Boines - Operator Blues (tk 2) [Modern unissued] Hot Shot Love - Cotton Patch Hop Willie Nix Seems Like A Million Years (tk 1) (2:48) [guitar intro, guitar/hca dominated outro] @ youtube @ Spotify Willie Nix - Baker Shop Boogie (tk 1 [?]) Willie Nix - Seems Like A Million Years (tk 2) (2:48) [guitar intro, sax dominated outro] @ youtube @ Spotify Doctor Ross - Juke Box Boogie (tk 2) Doctor Ross - Boogie Disease (tk 5) Doctor Ross - Juke Box Boogie (tk 1) Sammy Lewis & Willie Johnson - Feel So Worried (tk 2) Eddie Snow - Bring It Home (tk 2) Raymond Hill - The Snuggle (tk 2) Billy the Kid Emerson - Little Fine Healthy Thing (tk 3) Billy the Kid Emerson - Something For Nothing (tk 1) Billy the Kid Emerson - No Greater Love (tk 2) Little Milton - Lookin' For My Baby (tk 1) Little Milton - If You Love Me Little Milton - Homesick For My Baby Little Milton - Alone And Blue (tk 1) Little Milton - Lookin' For My Baby (tk 5) Roscoe Gordon - Just Love Me Baby (tk 1) Roscoe Gordon - Love For You Baby Roscoe Gordon - The Chicken Roscoe Gordon - Weeping Blues Roscoe Gordon - Just Love Me Baby (tk 4) Billy Emerson - If Loving Is Believing (tk 4) Billy Emerson - I'm Not Going Home (tk 2)
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| 30 | 2010 | Big Walter Horton: Blues Harmonica Giant Classic Sides 1951-1956 disc 1: - Cotton Patch Hotfoot - What's The Matter With You (tk 1) - Little Boy Blue (tk 1) - Blues In The Morning - Now Tell Me Baby - I'm In Love With You Baby (tk 1) - Black Gal - Hard Hearted Woman - Jumpin' Blues - So Long Woman - What's The Matter With You (tk 2) - Little Boy Blue (tk 2) - I'm I Love With You Baby (tk 2) - Grandmother Got Grandfather Told (tk 1) - In The Mood - Grandmother Got Grandfather Told (tk 2) - We All Gotta Go (tk 3) - Little Walter's Boogie (tk 1) - We All Gotta Go (tk 4) - Little Walter's Boogie (tk 2) - West Winds Are Blowing (tk 1) - Little Walter's Boogie (tk 3) - West Winds Are Blowing (tk 2) - Walter's Instrumental - Off The Wall - Off The Wall - Hard Hearted Woman - Back Home To Mama disc 2: - Hard Hearted Woman - Back Home To Mama - Need My Baby [Cobra 5002] - Have A Good Time - Need My Baby (tk 1) - Selling My Whiskey (incomplete version) - Midnight Showers of Rain - Prison Bound Blues - Riding In The Moonlight - Let's Take A Little Walk - Easy - Hydramatic Woman - Tiger Man (King Of The Jungle) - Seems Like A Million Years (tk 1) - Seems Like A Million Years (tk 2) - Worry You Off My Mind - Shine Boy - Evening Shuffle (tk 1) - Evening Shuffle (tk2) - Evening Sun - No Name Blues - Brutal Hearted Woman - Gonna Call The Angel (rehearsal version) - Gonna Call The Angel (tk 3) - Big Stars Falling Blues - Rambler's Blues - Evalena - Highway 61 - It's You Baby disc 3: - Hard Hearted Woman [JSP 1071] - Sick & Tired [JSP 1071] - Walter's Jump (instr) [JSP 1071] - Leaving In The Morning [JSP 1071] - Walter & Carey (instr) [JSP 1071] - Walking By Myself [JSP 1071] - My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble [JSP 1071] compiled by Neil Slaven
3 CD set |
| 31 | 2012 | Juke Joints Vol. 3 disc 1 - I'm A King Bee - Slim Harpo - My Woman Has A Black Cat Bone - Hop Wilson - Steady - Jerry McCain - Late Hours At Midnight - Homesick James - Ludella - Jimmy Rogers - Sail On, Little Girl - Pete McKinley - Alley Special - Wright Holmes - Play My Juke Box - Boy Green - Chicago Blues - Dan Pickett - Shackles Round My Body - David Wylie - Throw A Little Boogie - Manny Nicholls - Dial 110 Blues - Country Jim - About To Lose My Mind - Big Boy Spires - You Better Move On Away From Here - Honeyboy - Applejack Boogie - Pinetop Slim - Seems Like A Million Years tk 1 - Willie Nix - Western Union Man - Chicago Sunny Boy - Silver Haired Woman - Johnny Williams - She Got Me Walkin' - Lazy Bill Lucas - Ride My New Car With Me - Big Joe Williams - After Hours - Earl Hooker - 1958 Blues - Little Sam Davis - Bad Feeling Blues (alt tk) - Lightnin' Slim - Feel So Worried tk 2 - Sammy Lewis & Willie Johnson - I Want A Roller - Smokey Hogg - Gary Stomp - John Brim disc 2 - Operator Blues tk 2 - Houston Boines - My Baby Left Me - John Lee Hooker - Lookin' For My Baby tk 5 - Little Milton - I'm Gonna Love You - Eddie Taylor - She's Gone With The Wind - The Sugarman - Eula Mae - Big Joe Williams - Ardelle - Pete McKinley - Happy Home Blues - D.C. Washington - I've Got Love If You Want It - Slim Harpo - That's All Right - Jimmy Rogers - Hello Central, Please Give Me 209 - Robert Lee Westmoreland - Crying - J.D. Edwards - I'll Move You - Eddie Kirkland - Awful Shame - Hank Kilroy - Cadillac Blues - J.D. Horton - Hollywood Boogie - Country Jim - Chicken Stuff - Hop Wilson - Please Mam Forgive Me - Sunny James - You Better Watch That Jive - Smokey Hogg - Walking Talking Blues - Manny Nicholls - Locked In Jail Blues - Johnny Beck - Highway 51 - Stick Horse Hammond - Jet Black Woman - Buddy Chiles - I Had A Dream - Lazy Bill Lucas - Got A Letter This Morning - Clarence London - Down South - Junior Blackmon disc 3 - She's Tough - Jerry Mccain - Baker Shop Boogie tk 1 - Willie Nix - Ridin' Home - Leslie Louis - Sad And Lonely - Country Jim - Crawdad - Smokey Hogg - No One To Love Me - Manny Nicholls - Wonderin' And Worryin' - Slim Harpo - Lightnin' Slim Boogie - Lightnin' Slim - A & B Blues - Boy Green - Homesick Blues - Homesick James - Fat Mouth - Johnny Williams - Number Writer - Dan Pickett - King's Highway - Big Joe Williams - John Henry - Pinetop Slim - Jammin' - Earl Hooker - Take It Easy - Nat Terry - Mr Ticket Agent - Silver Cooks - Which One Do I Love - Big Boy Spires - Little School Girl - L.C. Greene - Excuse Me Baby - Sunny James - Have You A Match - Honeyboy - Goin' To New Orleans - Little Sam Davis - Want To Boogie-woogie - Clarence London - Love Me Mama - Boogie Bill Webb - Log House On The Hill - Leroy Johnson - You'll Always Have A Home - Eddie Taylor disc 4 - Jimmie's Boogie - Jimmy Reed - Rather Be Sloppy Drunk - Big Joe Williams - G-man Blues - Houston Boines - No One To Love Me - Leroy Johnson - Y M & V Blues - Lost John Hunter - Sittin' Here Wonderin' - Luther Stoneham - Strange Love - Slim Harpo - Size 4 Shoe - Smokey Hogg - I'm In Love - Jimmy Rogers - You Gotta Lay Down Mama - Johnny Beck - Jelly Roll Man - Bill Simpson - Cold In The Evening - J.D. Edwards - Mistreated Blues - Buddy Chiles - My Baby's Gone - Lazy Bill Lucas - Forgive Me - Manny Nicholls - Don't Do It Again - Leslie Louis - Good Lookin' Woman - Country Jim - Goin' Back To Mama - Clarence London - Truck 'em On Down - Stick Horse Hammond - Goin' Back Home Today - Willie Baker - Uncle Sam Blues - Pinebluff Pete - Harlem Women - Hank Kilroy - Don't Want Me Blues - Pete McKinley - Broke And Hungry - Hop Wilson - I Don't Know Why - Nat Terry - Boogie - Boogie Bill Webb compiled by Neil Slaven
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Sources / Further reading: - own record collection - Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver 2006, pp. 234, 260, 345, 421 - Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, pp. 769-770 - Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- New York 1987, pp. 399-400 - Paul Oliver: Conversation with the Blues.- London (The Jazz Book Club) 1967 - Mike Rowe: Chicago Blues - The City and the Music.- New York (Da Capo Paperback) 1975, first published in 1973 as "Chicago Breakdown" - http://www.ckua.com/10/03/10/1953-WILLIE-NIX-78-ON-SABRE-/landing.html?blockID=323852&feedID=7648 - http://www.boija.com/skivor/presun/presun.htm - eBay auctions - diverse internet resources thanks to Ray Templeton and Wilson Fabian Ruales Villalva for additional info / scans
![Willie Nix and his band ('Satchel Paige', saxophone; Jerry McConkle, guitar [seated at piano]; Joe Willie Wilkins, guitar; Willie Nix, drums / vocals; unidentified musician seated at drums; Billy Adolph Duncan, saxophone); source: Postcard from postcard book by Stephen C. LaVere (Pomegranate Artbooks 1989, revised 1993); 'photograph courtesy Patty Nix'; click to enlarge!](nix/grafik/nixetal4.jpg) Willie Nix and his band: "Satchel Paige", saxophone; Jerry McConkle, guitar [seated at piano]; Joe Willie Wilkins, guitar; Willie Nix, drums / vocals; unidentified musician seated at drums; Billy Adolph Duncan, saxophone source: Postcard from postcard book by Stephen C. LaVere (Pomegranate Artbooks 1989, revised 1993) "photograph courtesy Patty Nix"
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