source: Front cover of Rooster CD R2629 photographer: Norman Mauskopf

Lonnie Pitchford b. October 8, 1955 near Lexington, Mississippi d. November 8, 1998 in Lexington, Mississippi discography

#	year of release	title / label / notes
1	1980	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 Guitar Slim discography Boyd Rivers discography
2	1980	Living Country Blues USA Vol. 7 Afro American Blues Roots Sam "Stretch" Shields - The Hounds Lonnie Pitchford - Boogie Chillun (5:09) 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 (6:15)   @ youtube Napoleon Strickland - Cryin' Won't Make Me Stay Othar Turner - Father, I Stretch My Hands To Thee recorded 1980 by Siegfried Christmann and Axel Küstner; Lonnie Pitchford, voc, 1-str g L+R 42.037 some tracks reissued on CD Evidence ECD 26105-2 (1999) Living Country Blues - An Anthology = L+R LRCD 712522 (2008) L+R Records discography
3	1980	Living Country Blues USA Vol. 9 Mississippi Moan Boogie Bill Webb - Maggie Campbell Blues # Lonnie Pitchford - My Baby Walked Away (4:40)   @ youtube 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 Siegfried Christmann and Axel Küstner; Lonnie Pitchford, voc, 1-str g # tracks reissued on Evidence ECD 26105-2 L+R 42.039 some tracks reissued on CD Evidence ECD 26105-2 (1999) Living Country Blues - An Anthology = L+R LRCD 712324 (2008) L+R Records discography
4	1980	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 (4:59) #   @ 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 (2:37) *   @ 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; Lonnie Pitchford, voc, # 1-str g, * 6-str 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 Lattie Murrell discography Guitar Slim discography Lonnie Pitchford discography Memphis Piano Red discography Archie Edwards discography
5	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]   @ Spotify Larry Johnson & Nat Riddles - I Got The Blues [previously unissued, from L+R LR 42.046 session]   @ 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 (Germany 1983) = Bellaphon CDLR 711525 (Germany 2008) L+R Records discography
6	1984	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 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 L+R Records discography
7	1992	Roots of Rhythm & Blues A Tribute to the Robert Johnson Era Johnny 'Ned' Shines & Kent DuChaine & ensemble - Sweet Home Chicago Lonnie Pitchford - Come On In My Kitchen # Moving Star Hall Singers - You've Got To Move Henry Townsend - All My Money's Gone Robert Jr. Lockwood & Gene Schwartz, b - How Long, How Long Blues David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - That's Alright Jesse Mae Hemphill - Train, Train Elder Roma Wilson - This Train Phil Wiggins - Silver Comet Train Railroad Maintenance Crew - Captain Can't Read Johnny 'Ned' Shines - Satisfied - Watermelons David Savage - I'm Going Home John Cephas & Phil Wiggins - Brownsville Blues Johnny 'Ned' Shines & ensemble - Loved And Lost Lonnie Pitchford - Walking Blues # Johnny 'Ned' Shines - Tell Me Daddy, How You Want Your Rolling Done David Savage - Bertha Moving Star Hall Singers - If You Miss Me Johnny 'Ned' Shines & ensemble - Moon Is Rising Robert Jr. Lockwood - Kindhearted Woman Blues Toshi Reagon - I Hate To See The Sun Go Down Lonnie Pitchford - Terraplane Blues # Johnny 'Ned' Shines & ensemble - Milk Cow Blues - Fat Mama # Lonnie Pitchford, voc, 6-str g notes by Barry Lee Pearson with introduction by Bernice Johnson Reagon CBS 48584 (US 1992)
8	1992	Deep Blues Music from the Original Soundtrack R.L. Burnside - Jumper On The Line Junior Kimbrough - Jr. Blues Big Jack Johnson - Catfish Blues - Daddy, When Is Momma Coming Home - Big Boy Now Frank Frost - Midnight Prowler Jessie Mae Hemphill - You Can Talk About Me - Shame On You R.L. Burnside - Long Haired Doney Roosevelt 'Booba' Barnes - Heartbroken Man - Ain't Gonna Worry About Tomorrow - Love Like I Wanna Lonnie Pitchford - Terraplane Blues - If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day Jack Owens with Bud Spires - Devil Blues movie prod. by Robert Palmer Anxious 4509-91981-4 = Atlantic 82450-2 DVD (2000)
9	1994	National Downhome Blues Festival - Volume One@ youtube (full album playlist) Lonnie Pitchford - That Train Coming Around The Bend #   @ dailymotion.com - My Babe # - Mary Had A Little Lamb # - One-String Boogie # - Walking Blues * - Last Fair Deal Going Down * Precious Bryant - Baby, Please Come Home To Me - Ain't That Loving You, Baby? - Black Rat Swing - You Don't Have To Go - Long Distance Call - Precious Bryant Staggering Blues rec. October 19-24, 1984 live at the Moonshadow, Atlanta, GA; Festival Coordinator: George Mitchell; Associate Coordinator: David Evans; edited by George Mitchell; Lonnie Pitchford, voc, # 1-str g, * 6-str g notes by David Evans Southland SLP-21 (US 1994) notes by David Evans (=) Southland SCD-21 (along with Southland SLP-22) (US 1996) Southland Records discography
10	1994	Lonnie Pitchford: All Around Man - Elvira (Pitchford)   @ youtube - All Around Man (Carter) - If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day (Robert Johnson) - Real Rock Music: Crawlin' Kingsnake (Hollins) - My Babe (Dixon) - 55 Blues (Pitchford) - Bring It On Home (Dixon) - This Is The Blues (Lockwood)   @ youtube - The Ghetto (Hathaway/Hutson)   @ youtube - See See Rider (Rainey) - My Sunny (Hebb/Pitchford) - Water In My Gas Tank (Pitchford/Stewart) - Louisiana Blues (Morganfield) - Lonesome Blues (Pitchford/Pitchford) - Sweet Home Chicago (Robert Johnson) - Don't You Do That No More (James) - If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day [Band Version] - All Around Man (Reprise) (Carter) - Drinkin' Antiseptic (Pitchford) notes by Lonnie Pitchford, Patty Johnson & Jim O'Neal Rooster CD R2629 (US 1994)
11	1994	Big Jack Johnson - Ice Storm Blues Part 1 - Ice Storm Blues Part 2 The Story of the Great Ice Storm of 1994, Clarksdale, Mississippi; rec. March 4, 1994 at the Stackhouse Recording Studio in Clarksdale, Ms.; Big Jack Johnson, voc, lead g; Lonnie Pitchford, rhythm g; Kevin Brown, b, dr cassette single Rooster Blues R60-C (US 1994) P-Vine PCD-5291 (Jp 1997)
12	1995?	The Star Lite Singers: Footprint of Jesus - What Kind Of Man Jesus Is? - Footprint Of Jesus - He Touched Me - Be Still And Know - New Jerusalem - Wold Condition - Lord I've Tried - One More River - This Heart Of Mine - Mother Kneeling The Star Lite Singers (of Lexington, Ms.): Celatha Johnson, James R. Johnson, Rev. Ernest Deering, Rev. Charles Pitchford, Rev. Lee Johnson, Myron Smith, and Edward Johnson; Kelvin Johnson, Lonnie Pitchford, g, b (no instruments listed) HUE WB-LP-384
13	1996	National Downhome Blues Festival - Volume One Lonnie Pitchford - That Train Coming Around The Bend - My Babe - Mary Had A Little Lamb - One-String Boogie - Walking Blues - Last Fair Deal Precious Bryant - Baby, Please Come Home To Me - Ain't That Loving You Baby - Black Rat Swing - You Don't Have To Go - Long Distance Call - Precious Bryant Staggering Blues Thomas Burt - Hooks In The Water - Hate To See The Evening Sun Go Down - Ain't Got No Loving Baby Now Jessie Mae Hemphill - Train, Train Junior Kimbrough and the Soul Blues Boys - All Night Long Sunnyland Slim - You Put That Thing On Me - She's Got Things Going On Frank Edwards - Chicken Raid John Cephas and Phil Wiggins - Burning Bridges - Stagolee Southland SCD-21 Southland Records discography
14	1996	John Mellencamp: Mr. Happy Go Lucky - Overture - Jerry - Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First) - Just Another Day - This May Not Be The End Of The World - Emotional Love - Mr. Bellows - The Full Catastrophe - Circling Around The Moon - Large World Turning - Jackamo Road - Life Is Hard - What If I Came Knocking (live, bonus track) rec. January 1995 & June 1996 at Belmont Mall Studio, Belmont, IN; Lonnie Pitchford, slide g notes by John Mellencamp Mercury 532896 remastered 2005
15	1997	Big Jack Johnson: The Oil Man Got Drunk Rooster Blues Sessions 1990 1993 1994 - Rudolph Got Drunk Last Night - The Things That I Used To Do (band version) - Ice Storm Blues (Part 1) - Ice Storm Blues (Part 2) - Vampire Woman - Close Shave Boogie - The Spoonful - Little Piggy - Corrine,Corrina - Fightin' Woman - I'm A Lonely Woman - Baby Please Don't Go - Hummin' Blues (Part 1) - Hummin' Blues (Part 2) - Jingle Bell Boogie - The Things That I Used To Do (solo version) P-Vine PCD-5291 (Jp 1997)
16	1998	The Harry Smith Connection: A Live Tribute To The Anthology Of American Folk Music - East Virginia Blues - Roger McGuinn, Jeff Tweedy, And Jay Bennett - I'm On The Battlefield For My Lord - Ethel Caffie-Austin - John Henry - John Jackson - A Lazy Farmer Boy - Greg Hooven String Band - Old Dog Blue - Lonnie Pitchford - Home Sweet Home - The New Lost City Ramblers - The Butcher Boy - Ginny Hawker - John The Revelator - Ethel Caffie-Austin - His Tapes Roll On - Peter Stampfel - Minglewood Blues - John Sebastian And The J-Band With Geoff Muldaur - The Coo Coo Bird - Ella Jenkins - Frankie And Johnny - John Jackson - Sugar Baby - Roger McGuinn, Jeff Tweedy And Jay Bennett - Le Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme - Balfa Toujours - Spike Driver Blues - Dave Van Ronk - Darling Corey - Greg Hooven String Band - The Coo Coo Bird - Toshi Reagon - James Alley Blues - Jeff Tweedy, Roger McGuinn, And Jay Bennett - Nothing - The Fugs Smithsonian Folkways CD SF 40085 [read notes]
17	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 3 CD set Evidence ECD 26105-2 with 48-pp. booklet by Brett Bonner and Axel Küstner photos by Axel Küstner
18	4/2000	Rooster Blues Records 1980-2000 Sampler - Fistful Of Dollars - Lonnie Shields - Eatin' Dry Onions - Willie Cobbs - Worried Dream - Larry Davis - Down In The Delta - Johnson's Jazzers - Rocking Daddy - Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes & The Playboys - Elvira - Lonnie Pitchford - Rollin' And Tumblin' - Carey Bell, Lurrie Bell - I Wouldn't Lay My Guitar Down - Eddy Clearwater - Eyesight To The Blind - Good Rockin' Charles - Bad Avenue - Valerie Wellington - King Of The Jungle - Eddie C. Campbell - Give Me Back My Wig - Magic Slim - Hummin' Blues, Pt. 1 - Big Jack Johnson - How Much More/mama Talk To Your Daughter - Robert Walker - Dunkin' Donut Woman - Eddie Shaw - Can't Sleep At Night - L.C. Luckett, Johnny Rawls - I Can't Leave You Alone - D.C. Bellamy - James Alley Blues - Jerry Ricks - Walkin' And Cryin' The Blues - Foree 'Guitar' Wells notes by Jim O'Neal Rooster CD R9825 (US 4/2000) "20th Anniversary Sampler" notes by Jim O'Neal = Rooster CD R2637 (US 2001)

Sources / Further reading: - own record collection - http://jeffcrompton.blogspot.com/2009/09/all-around-man.html - http://www.hollygroverecords.com/index.php?act=gospel - eBay auctions - diverse internet resources thanks to Jeff Crompton, Rob Ford and Scott Barretta for additional info / scan   National Downhome Blues Festival 1984 source: Front cover of Southland SLP-21 photographer: Jim Alexander   Sunflower River Blues Festival 1997 source: Blues Review 37 (1998), p. 64 photographer: Chuck Bloomingburg