Illustrated Boyd Rivers discography

B O Y D R I V E R S ; source: Front cover of L+R LRCD 712126; photographer: Axel Küstner
source: Front cover of L+R LRCD 712126; photographer: Axel Küstner Boyd Rivers
b. December 25, 1934 near Pickens, Madison County, Mississippi
d. November 22, 1993 in Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi
discography

#	year of release	title / label # / notes
1	1980	Delta Blues Festival '79 Napoleon Strickland Fife and Drum Band (Jesse Mae Hemphill, Abe Young) - Shimmy Shawhawha Boyd Rivers - Grow Sick And Die Clyde Maxwell - Alberta Big Joe Williams - Tell Me Mama Harmonica Medley: Napoleon Strickland with Hammie Nixon - Fox Chase - Let's Boogie - Rock Me Mama - Mule To Ride Sam Chatmon & Eugene Powell - How Long Johnny Shines - Have You Ever Loved A Woman Sam Myers - Everything's Gonna Be Alright Sylvia Embry - Goin' To New York Betty Fikes & Johnny Shines Band - Rock Me Baby Lefty Dizz - You Might Have Made Your Move Too Soon rec. September 8, 1979 in Freedom Village (outside Greenville), Mississippi, by Worth Long in cooperation with Mississippi Action for Community Education (MACE) Delta Blues DBF 79 (US 1980)
2	1980	Mississippi Delta Blues Boyd Rivers @ youtube - You Got To Take Sick And Die One Of These Days - When I Cross Over Clyde Maxwell @ youtube - I Left Alabama Hammie Nixon [& Napoleon Strickland] @ youtube - I'm A Tatta [actually "(Po)Tato"] Digging Man [Nixon] - Fox Hound [Strickland] - Sent My Baby A Brand New Twenty Dollar Bill [Nixon] - Let's Boogie [Strickland] - Rock Me Baby [Nixon] Big Joe Williams @ youtube - Baby Please Don't Go - Don't You Wish Your Woman Was Tailored Made Like Mine [actually "Tailor Made"] - Came Home This Morning Sam Chatmon & Eugene Powell @ youtube - We Going Round The Mountain - How Long That Evening Train Been Gone Johnny Shines @ youtube - You Got To Pay The Cost - I Walked All The Way From East St. Louis Today Betty Fikes @ youtube - Rock Me Baby, Rock Me All Night Long Johnny Shines with Robert Lockwood Jr. @ youtube - They Call Me Little Wolf Sylvia Embry @ youtube - I'm Going To New York, Even If I Have To Walk Lefty Dizz - Make Your Move Too Soon filmed September 8, 1979 live at the 1st [not 2nd (1980), as the VHS' notes claim!] Mississippi Delta Blues Festival at Freedom Village (outside Greenville), Mississippi by Worth Long in cooperation with Mississippi Action for Community Education (MACE); hosted by Willie Dixon; VHS 60 min, colour, mono Kay Jazz KJ 081 (UK 1980)
3	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) 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
4	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) L+R Records discography Guitar Frank Hovington discography Guitar Slim Stephens discography Flora Molton discography
5	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) @ youtube - 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) @ youtube - 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) @ youtube - 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) @ youtube notes by Jerry Gordon, Axel Küstner & Brett Bonner Evidence ECD 26105-2 with 48-pp. booklet photos by Axel Küstner L+R Records discography
6	2009	Fire In My Bones Raw + Rare + Otherworldly African American Gospel [1944-2007] disc 1: The Wicked Shall Cease From Troubling - Peace In The Valley - Rev. Lonnie Farris - Rock And Roll Sermon - Elder Charles D. Beck - If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again - Reverend Anderson Johnson - I'm A Soldier - The Phillips' Specials - How Long - Sister O.M. Terrell - Better Get Ready - Elder R. Wilson & Family - So Glad - Rev. Robert Ballinger - Wasn't That A Mystery - Madison County Senior Center Singers - When The Saints Go Marching In - Precious Bryant - Get Back Satan - Rev. Roger L. Worthy & His Sister Bonnie Woodstock/Rev. Roger L. Worthy/Bonnie Woodstock - I Got A Telephone In My Bosom - Amazing Farmer Singers Of Chicago - I Made A Vow To The Lord - Rev. Steward & Family - You've Got To Move (When The Lord Gets Ready) - Two Gospel Keys - Down By The Riverside - Snooks Eaglin - Stand By Me - Sister Mathews - The Wicked Shall Cease From Troubling - Nathaniel Rivers - That's Alright (Since My Soul Has Got A Seat Up In The Kingdom) - Laura Rivers - Why Sorrow Done Passed Me Around - Georgia Fife And Drum Band - Don't Let Him Ride - Mississippi Nightingales - He's Coming Back - The Brinson Brothers/Elder & Sister Brinson/The Brinson Brothers - By His Word - The Holmes Sisters - Where Could I Go - Lucille Barbee - Stand By Me - Brother George & His Sanctified Singers - I'll Never Turn Back - Shelby Bransford Jr. - You Without Sin Cast The First Stone - Isaiah Owens - Storm Thru Mississippi - Henry Green - I'm Pressing On - Brother Willie Blue disc 2: God's Mighty Hand - Jesus' Blood - Golden Stars - Glory Glory Hallelujah - Napoleon Strickland - John Saw - Grant & Ella - Since He Touched Me - The Shaw Singers - God's Mighty Hand - Utah Smith - What Can I Do Without The Lord - Ray Branch - Angels - Prof. Johnson & His Gospel Singers - The Truth In The Gospel - Goldie Haynes & Choir - Walk With Me - Rayborn Brothers Quintet - Spirit Of The Lord - The Abraham Brothers - I've Got Heaven On My Mind - Hickory Bottom Harmoneers - In God's House - Sisters Of Song - Does Jesus Care - Marie Knight - If I Could Not Say A Word - Joe Townsend - Where The Sun Never Goes Down - Willie J. Williams - I Heard It Throught The True Vine - Flora Molton - Father, I Stretch My Arm To Thee - Rev. G.W. Killens & Mt. Calvary Congregation/Mt. Calvary Congregation/Rev. G.w. Killens - Nobody Knows - Robert Brown & The Sons Of The South/Robert Brown/Sons Of The South - How Much I Owe - The Radio Four - My Testimony - Abner Jay - Prayer / I Love The Lord - Clear Creek Missionary Baptist Church Congregation - Same Man - The Gospel Writers - I Know I Got Religion - Hogman Maxey/Andy Mosely - He's My Rock, My Sword, My Shield - Fannie Bell Chapman - Working On A Building - Rev. Louis Overstreet - Lord, Hold My Hand - True Loving Five - Fire Shed In My Bones - Boyd Rivers @ youtube disc 3: All God Power Store - Power Is The Heart Of Man - Brother & Sister W.B. Grate - Don't Let The Devil Ride - Ike Gordon - Holy Rock - Reverend Billy H. Grady - Pray On, My Child - Willamette Gospel Singers - Jesus Is Sweet To Me - Sensational Skylights - I Want To Live (So God Can Use Me) - Willie Eason - I'm Just A Voice - Helen McGiver & The McGiver Singers - You Ought To Been There - The B.C. Harmonizers - You Better Get Ready - The Bible Aires Spiritual Singers - Help Me - Lula Collins - So Soon - Little Ax & The Golden Echoes - Introduction/rock Daniels - Bishop Eric McDaniels - The Very Last Mile - John Boswell & The True Sounding Boswellettes - What God Can Do - Leon Pinson - Let The Redeemed Say So - Reverend John Wilkins - Sweet Home - E.l. Burtis - A Little Old Fashioned - Elizabeth Phillips - How Long - Charles White - At A Time Like This (pt. 1) - Isaac Haney & The Ebenezer Baptist Church Choir/Isaac Haney/Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church - God Rode In The Windstorm - James Earle Hines Goodwill Singers - Go Devil Go - Ira Mae Littlejohn - This Train - Elder Samuel Patterson & The Christian Crusaders - Victory Shall Be Mine - Straight Street Holiness Group - The Lord Is My Shepherd - Mosby Family Singers - Some Sweet Day - Bishop Perry Tillis - Swing Low - Theotis Taylor prod. by Mike McGonigal 3 CD set notes by Mike McGonigal Tompkins Square TSQ2271CD (US 2009)
7	2011	Last Time Around Rev. Roger L. Worthy & His Sister Bonnie - Get Back Satan Isaiah Owens - You Without Sin Cast The First Stone Hickory Bottom Harmoneers - I've Got Heaven On My Mind Straight Street Group - Victory Shall Be Mine Rev. Charles White - How Long ? Bishop McDaniel - Rock Daniels Isaac Haney & The Ebenezer Baptist Church Choir - At A Time Like This (Part One) Precious Bryant - The Saints Boyd Rivers - Fire Shed In My Bones Ike Gordon - Don't Let The Devil Ride Theotis Taylor - Swing Low compiled by Mike McGonigal Mississippi/Change Records MRP-002 (US 2011) = Social Music Records SM-007 = Nero's Neptune NN-015
8	2012	Boyd Rivers: You Can't Make Me Doubt - Get Away Jordan - That Fire Shed In My Bones [Tompkins Square TSQ2271CD] - I Want To Be At The Meeting - I Done Died One Time - You Got To Take Sick And Die - When I Cross Over - Won't It Be Grand - When The World Seems Cold - Wrapped Up Tied Up Tangled Up - I Know You Can - You Can't Make Me Doubt - Church House Rock electric tracks rec. 1991, acoustic 1993, both in Pickens, MS by Axel Küstner & Eleanor Ellis; Boyd Rivers, voc, g; prod. by Amos Harvey Mississippi Records claim: "All tracks (except 'That Fire Shed In My Bones') previously unreleased" cover paintings by Josh Kermiet notes by Amos Harvey Mississippi LP MRP011 (US 2012)
Additional information appreciated !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources
thanks to Joe Louis for additional info