Illustrated Will Shade discography

Bo Carter, Will Shade & Gus Cannon, 1960
source: ; photographer: Paul Oliver Will Shade
William Shade, Jr. a/k/a "Son Brimmer"
b. February 5, 1898 in Memphis, Tennessee
d. September 18, 1966 at John Gaston Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee
buried at Shelby County Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee
discography
Will Shade & his wife Jennie Mae Clayton Shade
source: www.flickr.com/photos/...; photographer: George Mitchell

#	year of release	title / label / notes
Memphis Jug Band (Ben Ramey, Will Shade, Charles Polk, Will Weldon) from a Victor catalogue of 1930 source: Olsson 1970, p. 28 Will Shade's 1927-34 recordings as member of the Memphis Jug Band can be found at the Memphis Jug Band discography
1	1957	American Skiffle Bands The Mobile Strugglers - Raise A Ruckus Tonight (3:11) @ youtube @ Spotify - Rock Me, Baby (2:56) @ Spotify - My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean (3:40) @ Spotify - Trouble, Trouble Followed Me All Of My Days (3:40) @ Spotify Virgil Perkins - Interview (1:42) @ Spotify Virgil Perkins & Jack Sims ["Jack Sims" = Sam Charters] - Goin' Around The Mountain, Darlin' Bessie (3:55) @ Spotify - John Henry (4:30) @ youtube @ Spotify The Memphis Jug Band - Harmonica Blues (instr) (3:16) # (Will Shade, hca; Charlie Burse, tenor g) @ Spotify - Tippin' Around (4:44) # (Charlie Burse, voc, tenor g; Will Shade, g, sp; Gus Cannon, jug) @ Spotify Gus Cannon - Interview (2:27) @ Spotify - Old John Booker, You Call That Gone (3:17) @ Spotify - Kansas City Blues (2:41) @ Spotify The Memphis Jug Band (Will Shade, voc, g; Gus Cannon, interjections) - What You Gonna Do, Baby, When Your Troubles Get Like Mine [aka "I Can't Stand It"] # [track mentioned in the accompanying notes, but included neither on the back cover and label nor on vinyl] Will Shade & Charlie Burse - Interview (2:51) # @ Spotify The Memphis Jug Band (Will Shade, voc, hca; Charlie Burse, tenor g; Gus Cannon, jug) - Take Your Fingers Off It (2:57) # @ youtube @ Spotify album rec. between 1954 and 1957 by Samuel B. Charters original release's front cover illustration by Carlis # rec. December 5, 1956 in Memphis, TN; Will Shade, voc, g, hca, sp; Charlie Burse, voc, g, sp; Gus Cannon, jug notes by Samuel Barclay Charters Folkways FA 2610 (US 1957) = Folkways FA 2610 (US 19??) = Folkways FA 2610 (US 19??) custom CDr = Smithsonian Folkways FA 2610 (US 2004)
		- Little Pretty Woman - Crazy Blues - instrumental rec. July 20, 1960 in Memphis, TN by Paul Oliver; Bo Carter, voc, g; Will Shade, hca, g; Gus Cannon, bj; Dewey Corley, b unissued Bo Carter 1960 source: http://sundayblues.org (from Paul Oliver's book "Conversation with the Blues"); photographer: Paul Oliver
2	1960	The Rural Blues A Study of the Vocal and Instrumental Resources LP 1: Will Shade - I Can't Stand It (1:20) [previously unissued, Wolf 120.920] @ youtube Hambone Willie Newbern - Shelby County Work House Blues [OKeh 8740] Robert Johnson - From Four Until Late [Vocalion 03623] Furry Lewis - You Can Leave, Baby [rec. October 3, 1959, previously unissued, Wolf 120.920] Sleepy John Estes - Sloppy Drunk Blues [= "Milk Cow Blues"] L'il Son Jackson - Roberta Blues Lightnin' Hopkins - Bad Luck And Trouble °° Blind Boy Fuller - Thousand Woman [sic] Blues Arthur Crudup - If I Get Lucky Charlie Pickett - Down The Highway Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues Blind Willie Johnson - Take Your Burden To The Lord Tommy McClennan - New Highway 51 Lightnin' Hopkins - Penitentiary Blues °° Blind Willie McTell - Mama T'ain't Long 'Fo' Day Charlie Burse - Take Your Fingers Off It [Folkways FA 2610] Charlie Lincoln - My Wife Drove Me From My Door [on back cover: "Drive"] Peg Leg Howell - Skin Game Blues Lightnin' Hopkins - Come Go Home With Me °° Lightnin' Hopkins - Goin' Back To Florida Robert Johnson - Standing At The Crossroads LP 2: Lightnin' Hopkins - One Kind Favor Furry Lewis - John Henry [rec. February 4, 1959, previously unissued] °° Blind Willie Johnson - Nobody's Fault But Mine Furry Lewis - Warm Up [rec. October 3, 1959, previously unissued, Wolf 120.920] Bukka White - Bukka's Jitterbug Swing Furry Lewis - Casey Jones [rec. February 4, 1959, previously unissued] °° Peg Leg Howell - Coal Man Blues John Hurt - Frankie °° Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Mama Papa Charlie Jackson - Airy Man Blues Skip James - Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - New How Long Blues Bert Bilbro - Mohana Blues °° @ youtube Sonny Terry & Oh Red - Harmonica Stomp Frank Stokes - Shiney Town Blues Virgil Perkins - Trouble In Mind Arthur Crudup- Mean Old Frisco Brownie McGhee- Sportin' Life Blues Virgil Perkins - [Washboard] Solo Charlie Burse - Tippin' Round [Folkways FA 2610] Ham Gravy - Mama Don't 'Low It Moochie Reeves - Key To The Highway compiled by Samuel B. Charters "The Material is in part from unissued material in the author's collection, in part from material on the author's Folkways releases, and in part from early blues recordings." RF-202 features only extracts of most of the recordings! °° tracks not on RF-202 (X) (1964) cover design by Ronald Clyne 2 LP boxed set notes (8-pp. booklet) by Samuel B. Charters notes captioned "RBF RECORDS album No. RF 202 Copyright © 1960" RBF RF-202 (US 1960) (not "1962", as Sam Charters erroneously claims in his remembrances!) (=) RBF RF-202 (X) (US 1964)
3	7/17/1963	Gus Cannon: Walk Right In - Narration - Kill It - Walk Right In - Salty Dog - Going Around The Mountain - Ol' Hen - Gonna Raise A Ruckus Tonight - Ain't Gonna Rain No More - Boll-Weevil - Come On Down To My House - Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor - Get Up In The Morning Soon - Crawdad Hole rec. March 24 ~~March 23, June 10~~, 1963 in Memphis, TN; Gus Cannon, voc, bj; poss. Sam Lindsay, g; Will Shade, jug; Milton Roby, wb notes by Bob Altshuler Stax 702 (US 1973) [only 500 copies pressed] = Collector's Issue C-552 (Austria 199?) "Gus Cannon 1963" original notes by Bob Altshuler and new notes by Bengt Olsson = Stax SCD-8603-2 (UK 1999) Collector's Issue discography Gus Cannon discography
4	1964	The Rural Blues A Study of the Vocal and Instrumental Resources LP 1: Will Shade - I Can't Stand It (1:20) [RBF 202, Wolf 120.920] @ youtube Hambone Willie Newbern - Shelby County Work House Blues [OKeh 8740] Robert Johnson - From Four Until Late [Vocalion 03623] Furry Lewis - You Can Leave, Baby [rec. October 3, 1959, previously unissued, Wolf 120.920] Sleepy John Estes - Milk Cow Blues [aka "Sloppy Drunk Blues", Victor V38614] L'il Son Jackson - Roberta Blues [Gold Star 638] Blind Boy Fuller - Thousand Woman [sic] Blues [OKeh 05657] Arthur Crudup - If I Get Lucky [Bluebird B8858] Charlie Pickett - Down The Highway [Decca 7707] Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues [Decca 7026] Blind Willie Johnson - Take Your Burden To The Lord [Columbia 14520-D] Tommy McClennan - New Highway 51 [Bluebird B8499] Blind Willie McTell - Mama T'ain't Long 'Fo' Day [Victor 21474] Charlie Burse - Take Your Fingers Off It (0:34) [previously unissued] Charlie Lincoln - My Wife Drove Me From My Door [Columbia 14305-D] Peg Leg Howell - Skin Game Blues [Columbia 14473-D] Lightnin' Hopkins - Goin' Back To Florida [rec. January 16, 1959, Folkways FS 3822] @ youtube (3:17) Robert Johnson - Standing At The Crossroads [aka "Cross Road Blues", Vocalion 03519] LP 2: Lightnin' Hopkins - One Kind Favor (0:57) [rec. January 16, 1959, previously unissued] @ youtube Blind Willie Johnson - Nobody's Fault But Mine [Columbia 14303-D] Furry Lewis - Warm Up [rec. October 3, 1959, previously unissued, Wolf 120.920] Bukka White - Bukka's Jitterbug Swing [OKeh 05625] Peg Leg Howell - Coal Man Blues [Columbia 14194-D] Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Mama [Columbia 14632-D] Papa Charlie Jackson - Airy Man Blues [Paramount 12219] Skip James - Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues [Paramount 13085] Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - New How Long Blues [Vocalion 1435] Sonny Terry & Oh Red - Harmonica Stomp [OKeh 05538] Frank Stokes - Shiney Town Blues [Victor V38589] Virgil Perkins - Trouble In Mind [rec. November 6, 1955, previously unissued] Arthur Crudup - Mean Old Frisco [Bluebird 34-0704] Brownie McGhee - Sportin' Life Blues [Alert 401] Virgil Perkins - [washboard] Solo [rec. November 6, 1955, previously unissued] Charlie Burse - Tippin' Round (1:27) [previously unissued] Ham Gravy (= Washboard Sam) - Mama Don't Love It [aka "Mama Don't Allow, No. 1", Vocalion 03275] Moochie Reeves - Key To The Highway (3:11) [previously unissued] @ youtube compiled by Samuel B. Charters "The Material is in part from unissued material in the author's collection, in part from material on the author's Folkways releases, and in part from early blues recordings." "All original recordings are included in their entirety" (RBF notes), while the previously unissued tracks (Charters' "field recordings") all seem to be cut short, "some without the courtesy of a proper fadeout, some of the cuts occur mid-stanza" (Charles Radcliffe review in Blues Unlimited 30, pp. 20-21) 2 LP boxed set notes (8-pp. booklet) by Samuel B. Charters originally issued with same front and back cover as RF-202 (1960) but with orange lettering RBF RF-202 (X) (US 1964) later issued with addition "All original recordings are included in their entirety" on back cover = RBF RF-202 (X) (US 196?) = RBF RF-202 (X) (US 196?) = RBF RF-202 (X) (US 1966?) 2 LP boxed set (abbreviated) notes by Samuel B. Charters = XTRA 1035 (UK 1966) DLP gatefold notes by Samuel B. Charters = XTRA 1035 (UK 1966?) = Fontana 982.099 2 x CDr notes by Samuel B. Charters = Smithsonian CD RF 202 (US 2012) RBF discography XTRA Records discography
5	1965	Conversation With The Blues A Documentary of Field Recordings by Paul Oliver LP track sequence: Boogie Woogie Red - So Much Good Feeling (spoken, with own piano) Willie Thomas - A Little Different spoken @ youtube James Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - Kill That Nigger Dead (Cage, voc & fiddle; Thomas, voc and guitar) spoken @ youtube Lil' Son Jackson - The Onliest Way (spoken) J.B. Lenoir - My Father's Style (guitar solo) J.B. Lenoir - So It Rocked On (spoken) J.B. Lenoir - Move To Kansas City (vocal and own guitar) Otis Spann - When She Comes Back (spoken) Otis Spann - Poor Country Boy (vocal, with own piano) Lightnin' Hopkins - Ain't No Easy Thing (spoken) Mance Lipscomb - Evil Heart Blues (vocal and own piano) Blind Arvella Gray - A Roughneck (spoken) Roosevelt Sykes - West Helena Blues (vocal and guitar) Will Shade - Days Of Nineteen-Hundred (spoken) # Will Shade - Newport News Blues (vocal and own guitar) # Whistling Alex Moore - Chock House Days (spoken) Whistling Alex Moore - Come and Get Me (vocal and own piano) Brother John Sellers - Move Back For What? (spoken) J.B. Lenoir - I Been Down So Long (vocal and own guitar) Jasper Love - Santa Fé Blues (vocal and piano) John Lee Hooker - Somewhere Down The Line (spoken) Robert Curtis Smith - I Hope One Day My Luck Will Change (vocal and own guitar) Otis Spann - Only Places They Can Go (spoken) Otis Spann - People Calls Me Lucky (vocal and own piano) Henry Townsend - What Have I Committed (spoken) James Butch Cage - Tween Midnight And Day (vocal and own guitar) spoken @ youtube Little Brother Montgomery - Walking Basses (spoken) Little Brother Montgomery - Dud Low Joe (piano solo) Little Brother Montgomery - It's A Barrelhouse Blues (spoken) [] Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues (vocal with piano) Little Brother Montgomery - They Beat Me To Chicago (spoken) [] Roosevelt Sykes - They All Called Him 'Pork Chops' (spoken) Roosevelt Sykes - Forty-Four Blues (vocal and own piano) Robert Junior Lockwood & Sunnyland Slim - Doctor Clayton And Me (spoken) [] Robert Junior Lockwood & Sunnyland Slim - Take A Little Walk With Me (vocal with own electric guitar, with Sunnyland Slim, piano) [] Edwin Buster Pickens - To Have The Blues Within (spoken) Mance Lipscomb - Blues In The Bottle (vocal and own guitar) CD track sequence:@ youtube (full album) - So Much Good Feeling - Boogie Woogie Red - A Little Different - Willie Thomas - Kill That Nigger Dead - James "Butch" Cage & Willie Thomas - The Onliest Way - Lil Son Jackson - My Father's Style / So It Rocked On / Move To Kansas City - J.B. Lenoir - When She Come Back / Poor Country Boy - Otis Spann - Ain't No Easy Thing - Lightnin' Hopkins - Evil Heart Blues - Mance Lipscomb - A Roughneck - Blind Arvella Gray - West Helena Blues - Roosevelt Sykes - Days of 1900 / Newport News Blues - Will Shade # - Chock House Days / Come and Get Me - Whistling Alex Moore - Move Back! For What? - Brother John Sellers - Been Down So Long - J.B. Lenoir - A Place They Call Boots' - James "Stump" Johnson [] - Henry Brown Blues - Henry Brown [] - They Called Us Gandy Dancers / Work Songs / John Henry - Blind Arvella Gray with Blind James Brewer [] - Santa Fe Train - Edwin "Buster" Pickens - Most Reason I Sing - Robert Curtis Smith - Santa Fe Blues - Jasper Love - Somewhere Down The Line - John Lee Hooker - I Hope One Day My Luck Will Change - Robert Curtis Smith - Only Places They Can Go / People Call Me Lucky - Otis Spann - What Have I Committed? - Henry Townsend - 'Tween Midnight And Day - James "Butch" Cage - Walking Basses / Dud Low Joe / The First Vicksburg Blues - Little Brother Montgomery - They Call Him "Pork Chops" / Forty-Four Blues - Roosevelt Sykes - Blues In The Bottle - Mance Lipscomb - To Have The Blues Within - Edward "Buster" Pickens - Colorado Springs Blues - Edwin "Buster" Pickens [] All tracks recorded between June 26 & August 28, 1960 # rec. July 20, 1960 in Memphis, TN; Will Shade, sp / voc, g LP and CD have slightly different tracks: [] = not on LP resp. CD !!! notes (plus 6-pp. insert) by Paul Oliver Decca LK 4664 insert (1 sheet folded to 6 pp.) Decca LK 4664 (UK 1965) notes by Paul Oliver = Decca LK 4664 (Germany 1965) LP resp. CD accompanying Paul Oliver's book by the same title: London (Cassell) (1st UK ed. 1965) xv, 217 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm New York (Horizon Press) (1st US ed. 1965) xix, 217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm London ("Jazz Book Club") JBC 64 (2nd UK ed. 1967) Cambridge (University Press) 0 521 59181 3 (revised edition of the original 1965 book with enclosed CD) (2nd US ed. 1997) Doyosha LLC (1st Jp ed. 2016) ISBN 978-4-907511-25-8 (190 × 129 × 21,8 mm \| 336 pages (incl. 48 photos) \| weight: 9,5 pound; price: 1.850 JPY equals 14,84 EUR) translated by Yasufumi Higurashi
6	1965	Music Down Home An Introduction to Negro Folk Music, U.S.A. When life is big... - Take This Hammer - Lead Belly (1:38) - Field Call - Annie Grace Horn Dodson (1:18) - Children's Call - Annie Grace Horn Dodson (0:47) - Complaint Call - Enoch Brown (0:44) - Water On The Wheel - Annie Dodson (0:47) - Railroad 1 - Rich Amerson (1:26) - Move Members Move - Rosie Hibler and Family (1:57) Go pray ye - Go Pray Ye - Annie Dodson (2:32) - The Day Is Past - Dorothy Melton (1:56) - Prayer Song - Dock Reed and Vera Hall Ward (2:37) - King David - Rich Amerson and Earthy Anne Coleman (4:30) - Rockin' Jerusalem - Fisk Jubilee Singers (2:13) - Just Got Over At Last - Little Brother Montgomery (2:23) When life is young - Mama's Goin' To Buy Him A Little Lap Dog - Vera Hall Ward (0:48) - Brother Hawk, Brother Buzzard and Brother Rabbit - Rich Amerson (1:59) - I'm Goin' Up North Satisfied - Children of East York School (1:25) Work songs - Railroad 2 - Rich Amerson (1:53) - Lost John - Sonny Terry (3:08) - Lost John - Prison Farm Work Group (4:55) Blues - I'm Goin' To Pack Up My Things And Back Down That Sunny Road I'm Goin' - Mozelle Moore (3:13) - Careless Love - Brownie McGhee (3:18) - Let Me Go Home, Whiskey - Snooks Eaglin (2:54) - You're My Man - Slick Chick Blues - Victoria Spivey (4:36) - I Wonder When I'll Get To Be Called A Man - Big Bill Broonzy (2:20) - Mule Ridin', Talking Blues - Big Bill Broonzy (3:43) - Black Woman - Rich Amerson (4:55) Instrumental sounds - Old John Booker - You Call That Gone - Gus Cannon (1:45) - John Henry - Furry Lewis (4:48) - Take Your Fingers Off It - Gus Cannon, Charlie Burse, and Will Shade [Folkways FA 2610] - 44 Blues - Willie Thomas and Butch Cage (4:11) - Sonny's Jump - Sonny Terry's Washboard Band (3:08) Two songs of Alabama - Birmingham Jail - Lead Belly (2:30) - I'm So Glad - Montgomery Gospel Trio (2:34) ed. by Charles Edward Smith cover design by Ronald Clyne; illustration by Philip Evergood review at record-fiend.blogspot.de DLP notes by Charles Edward Smith Folkways FA 2691 (US 1965) custom CD from www.folkways.si.edu
7	1971	Beale Street Mess-Around Revival 1004 / Barclay 920414 track sequence: Dewey Corley - Just A Dream I Had On My Mind * [Fat Possum 1059-2] @ youtube - Tri-State-Bus [sic] * [Arhoolie CD 401 / Fat Possum 1059-2] - Back To The Country * [Fat Possum 1059-2] @ youtube - I'm Going Home # °° [Fat Possum 1059-2] @ youtube - Four O'Clock In The Morning * [Fat Possum 1059-2] # + Walter Miller, g * + Johnny Woods, hca; Earl Bell, g Will Shade & Abe McNeil - Beale Street Mess-Around °° Furry Lewis & Will Shade - Muscle Shoal Blues °° @ youtube Charlie Burse (voc, tenor g) & Will Shade (oil can b) - Kansas City Blues °° Will Shade - Dirty Dozen °° Charlie Burse - Tippin' Round °° Will Shade - I Can't Stand It [nowhere else released!] @ youtube Rounder 2006 track sequence: Will Shade & Abe McNeil - Beale Street Mess-Around °° Furry Lewis & Will Shade - Muscle Shoals [sic] Blues °° Charlie Burse - Tippin' Round °° Furry Lewis - Perolee [sic] [nowhere else released!] @ youtube Will Shade - Dirty Dozen °° Furry Lewis - Old Original Furry Lewis Blues [Revival RVS 1008 "Worried Blues"] Will Shade & Catherine Porter - Let Me Ride With You Tonight [Fat Possum 1051-2 "I Wanna Ride ..."] @ youtube Walter Miller & Dewey Corley - I'm Going Home °° Will Shade & Charlie Burse - Kansas City Blues °° [Fat Possum 7-1079 "K.C. Blues"] Will Shade - Newport News [Revival RVS 1008] Earl Bell - Jump On Down [nowhere else released!] Furry Lewis - U.S. Waltz (aka "Spanish Flang Dang") [this rendition nowhere else released!] @ youtube Will Shade - I'll Get A Break [nowhere else released!] @ youtube Charlie Burse, Furry Lewis, Will Shade - Eleven Light City [nowhere else released!] @ youtube Furry Lewis - Hello, Judge [Revival RVS 1008 / Fat Possum 7-1098 "Good Morning Judge"] rec. 1963, 1967 & 1968 in Memphis, TN by George Mitchell and Roger Brown °° tracks on both LPs (Revival/Barclay and Rounder) notes by "Bengt Olssen" (Bengt Olsson) Revival RVS 1004 (UK 1971) notes by "Bengt Olssen" (Bengt Olsson) [translated into French] = Barclay 920.414 (Fr) "Blues from Memphis" notes by Roger S. Brown (=) Rounder 2006 (US 1975) = Dargil/Rounder 2006 (Portugal 1975) Revival Records discography Rounder Records discography Dewey Corley discography Earl Bell discography Walter Miller discography
8	197?	Old Original Tennessee Blues Furry Lewis - Good Morning, Baby - Hello, Judge - Old Original Furry Lewis Blues - Brownsville Blues - Glory, Hallelujah Sleepy John Estes (rec. Memphis, 1967) - Floating Bridge - Mr. Pat - Rats In My Kitchen - Special Agent Will Shade - Newport News [Rounder 2006] - I'll Get A Break [Rounder 2006] rec. 1963 & 1967 in Memphis, TN by George Mitchell Revival RVS 1008 (UK 197?) Revival Records discography
9	1985	Tennessee Legends Sleepy John Estes - Floating Bridge @ youtube @ Spotify - Special Agent @ youtube @ Spotify - Mr. Pat @ youtube @ Spotify - Rats In My Kitchen @ youtube @ Spotify Furry Lewis - Brownsville Blues @ youtube @ Spotify - Mistreatin' Woman @ youtube @ Spotify - Fare-Thee-Well, Old Tennessee @ youtube @ Spotify Will Shade - Kansas City Blues @ youtube @ Spotify Will Shade & Furry Lewis - The Train @ youtube @ Spotify Gus Cannon - Boll Weevil Blues @ youtube @ Spotify Will Shade - Wine-Headed Man @ youtube @ Spotify Furry Lewis (voc, g) & Will Shade (oil can b) - Furry Lewis Rag @ youtube @ Spotify Charlie Burse (voc, tenor g) & Will Shade (oil can b) - Beale Street Shuffle @ youtube @ Spotify Jennie Mae Clayton (voc) & Will Shade (g) (1963) - What Must I Do? @ youtube @ Spotify Will Shade - Jump And Jive [= "Won't You Send Me John"] @ youtube @ Spotify rec. summer 1962 & 1963 in Memphis, TN by George Mitchell & Roger Brown; Will Shade, voc, g, hca, oil can b; Charlie Burse, voc, g; Furry Lewis, g; unknown, b notes by Roger S. Brown Southland SLP-14 (US 1985) notes by Roger S. Brown = Fat Possum FP 1092-2 "Tennessee Recordings: The George Mitchell Collection" BR220,36 Southland Records discography
10	1989	Will Shade & Gus Cannon 1961 with Friends at a Private Party in Memphis, Tenn. - Kansas City Blues - Can't Stay I've Got To Go - Carry Me Back To West Virginia # - Can I Ride With You Tonight? - I Can't Stand It - Goin' Round The Mountain # - You Send Me John - I'm Sitting Beside The Water [] - Son Brimmer's Blues - Stingy Woman Blues - Newport News Blues - Stella - I'll Get A Break Before Long - Walk Right In (No. 2) # - Every Day I Have The Blues - Train - Banjo Rag # rec. July 18/19, 1961 in Memphis, TN; Will Shade, voc, g; Laura Dukes, voc, banjolele; # Gus Cannon, voc, bj, jug Document DLP 561 (Austria 1989) Document Records discography Laura Dukes discography
11	199?	Memphis Sessions (1956 - 1961) Will Shade (1956) - I Can't Stand It Furry Lewis (1959) - Slide guitar instrumental [Warm Up] [RBF 202] - You Can Leave [Me] Baby [RBF 202] Gus Cannon - I Met Mr. Toad # Little Laura Dukes (with Gus Cannon, bj & Will Shade, g; tub b) - Dirty Mother For You # Will Shade - You Send Me John (No. 2) # - The Woman I'm Lovin' # Little Laura Dukes (with Gus Cannon, bj & Will Shade, g; tub b) - Salty Water # - He's Knocking On My Door # Gus Cannon - Show Me The Way To Go Home # Little Laura Dukes (with Gus Cannon, bj & Will Shade, g; tub b) - He's Gone # Little Laura Dukes (with Gus Cannon, bj & Will Shade, g; tub b) - Shanghai Blues # Gus Cannon - Walk Right In (No. 1) # Little Laura Dukes (with Gus Cannon, bj & Will Shade, g; tub b) - Nobody Loves Me # Will Shade - You Send Me John (No. 2) # Little Laura Dukes (with Gus Cannon, bj & Will Shade, g; tub b) - I'm Goin Down To Lucy Maes # Charles Hicks (voc, g) - Lucille # Little Laura Dukes (with Gus Cannon, bj & Will Shade, g; tub b) - Haunted House Blues # Will Shade - Dirty, Dirty Dozen # Mary Mitchell (with Will Shade, g) - I'm Drifting # Little Laura Dukes (with Gus Cannon, bj & Will Shade, g; tub b) - Laura Blues # # rec. July 18 / 19, 1961 at a private party in Memphis, TN by Don Hill Wolf 120.920 (Austria 199?)
12	2003	Furry Lewis: Good Morning Judge - Good Morning Judge [Revival 1008, "Hello Judge"] - Worried Blues [Revival 1008, "Old Original Furry Lewis Blues"] - Blues Around My Bed # [Southland SLP 14, "Mistreatin' Woman"] - Why Don't You Come Home Blues * [previously unissued] - Don't You Wish Your Mama [previously unissued] - Furry Lewis Rag # [] [Southland SLP 14] - Roll And Tumble Blues # [Southland SLP 14, "Brownsville Blues"] - Old Hobo [previously unissued] - Farewell, I'm Growing Old [previously unissued] - Furry Lewis's Careless Love [Arhoolie 1041, "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean"] # rec. summer 1962 in Memphis, TN by George Mitchell; Furry Lewis, voc, (5-str) g all others rec. August 1967 in Memphis, TN by George Mitchell; Furry Lewis, voc, g * Furry Lewis, voc, g; Dewey Corley, washtub bass [] Furry Lewis, voc, g; Will Shade, oil can bass notes by Matthew Johnson Fat Possum CD 80374 (US 2003)
13	2003	Alan Lomax - Blues Songbook disc 1: - Goin' Down The River - Mississippi Fred McDowell - Rolled And Tumbled - Rosalie Hill - Cherry Ball Blues - Jack Owens & Bud Spires - Dust My Broom - Howlin' Wolf - Boogie Children - Joe Lee - Stagolee - Lucious Curtis - Stop All The Buses - Cecil Augusta - Worried Life Blues - David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - The Pony Blues - Son House - Tangle Eye Blues - Walter 'Tangle Eye' Jackson - Trouble So Hard - Vera Ward Hall - Worried Blues - Sonny Terry - Beggin' The Blues - Bessie Jones - John Henry - Gabriel Brown - Country Blues - Dock Boggs - Cherry Ball Blues - Skip James - I Hate A Man Like You - Jelly Roll Morton - Roll 'Em - Pete Johnson - Kokomo - The Memphis Jug Band # - Life Is Like That - Big Bill Broonzy disc 2: - I Could Hear My Name A Ringin' - Big Bill Broonzy - Dimples In Your Jaws - Joe Lee - Catfish Blues - Jack Owens & Bud Spires - Kill-It-Kid Rag - Blind Willie McTell - You're Gonna Need My Help - Elinor Boyer - The Army Blues - David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - Blues De La Prison - Canray Fontenot - I Been Drinnkin' - Vera Ward Hall - I Been A Bad, Bad Girl - Ozella Jones - I Be's Troubled - Muddy Waters - Boogie Instrumental - R.L. Burnside - Blind Lemon Blues - Lead Belly - Sweet Patootie Blues - Albert Ammons - The Last Time - Sam Chatmon - Shorty George - Smith Casey - Desert Blues - Hattie Ellis - Joe Turner - Hobart Smith - Joe Turner - Miles - Joe Turner - Big Bill Broonzy - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Hobart Smith - How Long Blues - Sonny Terry # rec. September 30, 1959 in Memphis, TN by Alan Lomax; Charlie Burse, voc, g; Will Shade, voc, b, washb; Robert Carter, g; Dewey Corley, b, jug, kazoo 2 CD set Rounder CD 1866 (US 2003)
14	2004	I Blueskvarter Chicago 1964, Volume Three CD One: Snooks Eaglin - Yours Truly @ Spotify - Pine Top's Boogie Woogie @ Spotify - My Babe @ Spotify - Let Me Go Home, Whiskey @ Spotify - Careless Love @ Spotify - Rock Island Line @ Spotify - C.C. Rider @ Spotify - I'm Looking For A Woman @ Spotify - Hello Dolly @ Spotify - Lonesome Road @ Spotify Babe Stovall - Good Morning Blues @ Spotify - Candy Man @ Spotify - Fo' Day Blues @ Spotify - Gonna Move To Kansas City @ Spotify Johnny Moment - Keep Our Business To Yourself @ Spotify - You Got To Mind How To Treat Someone Else @ Spotify Will Shade - I Got The Blues So Bad # @ youtube @ Spotify - I Can't Stand It @ youtube @ Spotify Furry Lewis - Baby, I Know You Don't Love Me @ Spotify Earl Bell - Travellin' Man @ Spotify - Terraplane Blues @ Spotify Moose Williams - Mother Keep Your Light Burning High In The Window @ Spotify CD Two: Willie Mabon - Somebody's Got To Pay @ Spotify Big Walter Horton - West Side Blues @ Spotify - Tin Pan Alley @ Spotify - This Is It @ Spotify Sunnyland Slim - Prison Bound @ Spotify Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Hot Potatoes @ Spotify - One Room Country Shack @ Spotify Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues @ Spotify Johnny Young - You Got Bad Blood, I Think You Need A Shoot @ Spotify Washboard Sam - Mama Don't Allow @ Spotify Big Joe Williams - Rootin' Groundhog @ Spotify - Southern Blues @ Spotify - King's Highway Blues @ Spotify Champion Jack Dupree - Improvisations and Interview 1 @ Spotify - Drive 'em Down Special @ Spotify - Improvisations and Interview 2 @ Spotify - I Feel Like A Millionaire @ Spotify - Improvisations and Interview 3 @ Spotify - Barrelhouse Woman @ Spotify - Improvisations and Interview 4 @ Spotify Snooks Eaglin tracks rec. June 2, 1964 in New Orleans, LA Babe Stovall tracks rec. June 2, 1964 at the Art Gallery, St. Peter Street, New Orleans, LA Johnny Moment, Will Shade, Furry Lewis, Earl Bell, and Moose Williams rec. May 26, 1964 at Will Shade's apartment, Memphis, TN Will Shade tracks rec. May 26, 1964 at Will Shade's apartment, Memphis, TN; Will Shade, voc, g; # Johnny Moment, hca CD 2 tracks rec. May 1964 at Southerland Lounge, Chicago, IL except Big Joe Williams tracks rec. May 18, 1961 at Willie Dixon's home in Chicago,IL Champion Jack Dupree tracks rec. January 26, 1964 at Sveriges Radio, Karlaplansstudion in Stockholm, Sweden 2 CD set notes writer's name not given, most likely Leif Gäverth Jefferson Records SBACD 12658/9 (Sweden 2004)
15	2007	George Mitchell Collection Volumes 1 - 45 disc 1: - Lucy Mae Blues - Cecil Barfield - I Woke Up Crying - Cecil Barfield - Love Blues - Cecil Barfield - I Told You Not To Do That - Cecil Barfield - In the Evening - Buddy Moss - Hey Lawdy Mama - Buddy Moss - Thousand Woman Blues - Buddy Moss - Blue Shadow Falling - Buddy Moss - Cold Rainy Day - Buddy Moss - Amy - Buddy Moss - Motherless Child - Leon Pinson - Hush, Somebody is Calling My Name - Leon Pinson - What God Can Do - Leon Pinson - He'll Understand and Say Well Done - Leon Pinson - Big Road Blues - Houston Stackhouse - Cool Water Blues - Houston Stackhouse - Big Fat Mama Blues - Houston Stackhouse - Take a Little Walk With Me - Houston Stackhouse - Everyone Got a Woman - Big Joe Williams - What She Need With a Rooster - Big Joe Williams - Sink or Swim - Big Joe Williams - Prison Bound - Big Joe Williams - Who's Gonna Be Your Man - John Lee Zeigler - If I Lose Let Me Lose - John Lee Zeigler - Black Woman - Othar Turner - Bumble Bee - Othar Turner disc 2: - Rabbit On a Log - Lonzie Thomas - Raise a Ruckus Tonight - Lonzie Thomas - My Three Women - Lonzie Thomas - Red Cross Store - Lonzie Thomas - Rats In the Kitchen - Sleepy John Estes - Special Agent - Sleepy John Estes - Trying To See - Sleepy John Estes - Mail Man Blues - Sleepy John Estes - Down Home Blues - Teddy Williams - Catfish Blues - Teddy Williams - Black Mattie - Teddy Williams - Sun Don't Shine - Teddy Williams - Trouble Brought Me Down - Green Paschal - My Lord - Green Paschal - Mother is Dead - Green Paschal - Lay My Burden Down - Green Paschal - Your Close Friend - Green Paschal - I'm Going To Leave It In the Hands of the Lord - Green Paschal - Hard Time Blues - Do-Boy Diamond - Just Want To Talk To You - Do-Boy Diamond - Just A Dream I Got On My Mind -Dewey Corley & Walter Miller - Memphis Is A Wonderful City - Dewey Corey & Walter Miller - Down To Arkansas - Dewey Corey & Walter Miller - Rock Me Mama - Bud Grant - Freight Train Blues - Bud Grant - So Sweet - Bud Grant - Bud Grant's Grunt - Bud Grant disc 3: - Go Ahead On - Bud White - You've Been Gone So Long - Bud White - White Horses - Bud White - When I'm Sober I'm Drunk Blues - George Henry Bussey - Mean Mistreater - George Henry Bussey - Blues Around My Bed - George Henry Bussey - Looking For My Woman - George Henry Bussey - Old Red #2 - Jim Bunkley - Jack of Diamonds - Jim Bunkley - Them Greasy Greens - Jim Bunkley - Rocking Chair - Jim Bunkley - Old Breakdown - Tom Turner - Drop Down Mama #1 - Tom Turner - Search Me Lord - James Shorter - My Mother Died and Left Me - James Shorter - Consolation - James Shorter - Home Going - James Shorter - Better Than Myself - Abe McNeil - Steady Rollin' Man - Abe McNeil - Drink Drink Drink - Abe McNeil - Country Blues - Joe Callicott - River Blues - Joe Callicott - 3 O'Clock In the Morning - Johnny Woods - I's Be Troubled - Johnny Woods disc 4: - Someday Baby - Robert Diggs - Racehorse Charleston - Robert Diggs - Done Lost My Health - Robert Diggs - Drive Your Car - Robert Diggs - Woke Up This Morning - Cliff Scott - Long Wavy Hair - Cliff Scott - Please Come Home - Cliff Scott - Pole Pattin' - Cliff Scott - I Wanna Ramble - Jimmie Lee Harris - Sitting Here Looking 1000 Miles Away - Jimmie Lee Harris - Just Like A Bird Without A Feather - R.L. Burnside - Skinny Woman - R.L. Burnside - Goin' Down South - R.L. Burnside - Poor Black Mattie - R.L. Burnside - Hold My Body Down - Robert Johnson - Trying To Make It Home - Robert Johnson - Precious Lord - Robert Johnson - He'll Make a Way - Robert Johnson - Sugar Mama - Robert Longstreet - Black Gal - Robert Longstreet - Sloppy Drunk - Robert Longstreet - Decoration Day - Robert Longstreet - Shake Em' On Down - Fred McDowell - Mama Says I'm Crazy - Fred McDowell disc 5: - That Ain't It - John Henry Barbee - Gonna Lose Your Mind - John Henry Barbee - Flat Foot Boogie - Albert Macon /Robert Thomas - Mama Can I Lay It Down - Albert Macon / Robert Thomas - How Can You Do It - Albert Macon / Robert Thomas - John Henry - Jessie Clarence Gorman - Goin' Up To the Country #1 - Jessie Clarence Gorman - Goin' Up To the Country #2 - Jessie Clarence Gorman - Dirty Dozens - Will Shade @ youtube - Won't You Send Me John - Will Shade @ youtube - Wine Headed Man - Will Shade @ youtube - K.C. Blues - Will Shade & Charlie Burse @ youtube - Every Time I Come Around - Georgia Fife & Drum Band - J.W.'S Special - Georgia Fife & Drum Band - Old Hen Cackle - Georgia Fife & Drum Band - Buck Dance - Georgia Fife & Drum Band - Hey Freddie - Como Fife & Drum Band - Late In the Evening - Como Fife & Drum Band - Punky Tony - Como Fife & Drum Band - Shimmy She Wa - Como Fife & Drum Band - You Got Reap What You Sow - Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis - Everything's Gonna Be Alright - Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis - That's the Way the Good Thing Go - Precious Bryant - Georgia Buck - Precious Bryant - When the Saints Go Marching In - Precious Bryant - Pork & Beans - Rosa Lee Hill - Count the Days I'm Gone - Rosa Lee Hill - Roll & Tumble - Rosa Lee Hill - Bullying Well - Rosa Lee Hill disc 6: - Good Morning Judge - Furry Lewis - Furry Lewis' Careless Love - Furry Lewis - What Make Grandpa Love Grandma So - Jimmy Lee Williams - Have You Ever Seen Peaches - Jimmy Lee Williams - Hoboing Into Hollywood - J.W. Warren - Sundown Blues - J.W. Warren - Rabbit On a Log - J.W. Warren - You're Gonna Miss Me - J.W. Warren - House On the Hill - Eddie Harris - I Have To Love Somebody - Eddie Harris - Old Country Rock #1 - James Davis - Instrumental #1 - James Davis - Who Stole the Lock Off the Henhouse Door? - James Davis - Instrumental #4 - James Davis - Canned Heat - Robert Nighthawk - Nighthawk Boogie - Robert Nighthawk - Down By the Woodshed - Robert Nighthawk - Home Going - Jessie Mae Hemphill - I Want To Be Ready - Jessie Mae Hemphill - Interview - Jessie Mae Hemphill disc 7: (bonus CD - tracks not on 45s set!) - Miss Maybelle - Jessie Lee Vortis - When My Baby Got On Board - Jessie Lee Vortis - Them Greasy Greens #1 - George Hollis - Rock and Roll To Midgetville - George Hollis - Black Rat Swing - Willie Rockomo - Tease Me Baby #2 - Bruce Upshaw/Willie Rockomo - Someday Baby #1 - Bruce Upshaw - Wonder Why My Baby Treat Me So Bad - Bruce Upshaw - Rosa Lee - Bruce Upshaw - I Got a Woman - Buddy Hubbard - So Sweet - Buddy Hubbard - You're Gonna Miss Me - Ira "Tiny" Coney - Mamie - Ira "Tiny" Coney - I'm So Lonesome - Ira "Tiny" Coney - Blood Red River - Eddie Hodge - Sitting On Top of the World - Eddie Hodge - Glory Hallelujah - Eddie Hodge - Jesus is Coming Back To Me - Pettis Sisters - Bound For Zion - Pettis Sisters - You Told Me Baby - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall - Sweet As an Apple On a Tree - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall - Juke #2 - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall - Woke Up This Morning - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall - Tell Me You Love Me - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall 7 CD set with 24-pp. booklet or forty-five 45s [without 7th bonus CD!] notes by Sam Sweet with George Mitchell Fat Possum FP 1114 (US 2007)
16	2007	George Mitchell Collection Volume 33 - Dirty Dozens - Will Shade @ youtube - Won't You Send Me John - Will Shade @ youtube - Wine Headed Man - Will Shade @ youtube - K.C. Blues - Will Shade & Charlie Burse @ youtube 7 inch 33 rpm EP Fat Possum blm 039 (US 2007)
17	2015	Memphis Rounders Blues Blues Singers Recorded in Memphis 1928 & 1929 Jim Jackson, voc, g - I'm Wild About My Lovin' - This Morning She Was Gone [previously unissued] - This Ain't No Place For Me [previously unissued] - I'm Gonna Move To Louisiana - Pt. 1 [previously unissued] - I'm Gonna Move To Louisiana - Pt. 2 [previously unissued] Frank Stokes, voc, g; Dan Sane, g - 'Tain't Nobody's Business [~~If I Do~~] - Part 1 [previously unissued] - 'Tain't Nobody's Business [~~If I Do~~] - Part 2 [previously unissued] Tommy Johnson, voc, g - Lonesome Home Blues - Lonesome Home Blues [previously unissued] Charlie Kyle, voc, g - Kyle's Worried Blues - Monkey-Man Blues Will Shade, voc, g; Jab Jones, p - Better Leave That Stuff Alone - Better Leave That Stuff Alone [previously unissued] - She Stabbed Me With An Ice-Pick [previously unissued] Minnie Wallace, voc; acc. prob.: Will Shade, g -1 / hca -2; Milton Roby, vn; Jab Jones, p -1 / jug -2; Charlie Burse, g -2 - Dirty Butter -1 - The Old Folks Started It -2 [previously unissued] Frank Stokes, voc, g; Will Batts, vn - South Memphis Blues - Bunker Hill Blues Hattie Hart, voc; prob.: Will Shade, g; Milton Roby, vn; Johnny Hardge, p - Won't You Be Kind To Me? Frank Stokes, voc, g; Will Batts, vn -1 - Right Now Blues -1 - Shiney Town Blues -1 - I'm Going Away Blues -1 - Old Sometime Blues -1 - Frank Stokes' Dream - Memphis Rounders Blues including alternate takes, rare tests, & previously unissued tracks all transfers by Nick Dellow, from rare originals notes by Paul Swinton Frog CD DGF 80 (UK 2015) www.frog-records.co.uk/
Additional information appreciated !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 239
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver (Eyeball Productions) 2006, p. 481
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970 (2nd edition).- Vancouver (Eyeball Productions) 2012, pp. 97, 106, 117, 441, 555-556
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970 (3rd edition).- Vancouver (Eyeball Productions) 2019, pp. 100, 120, 453-454, 571
- Mike Leadbitter & Neil Slaven: Blues Records 1943 to 1966 - A complete guide to 20 years of recorded blues.- London/New York (Oak Publications), 1968.- p. 286
- Mike Leadbitter & Neil Slaven: Blues Records 1943 to 1970 - A selective discography, Vol. one, A to K.- London (Record Information Services), 1987.- pp. 213, 265
- Mike Leadbitter, Leslie Fancourt & Paul Pelletier: Blues Records 1943 to 1970 - A selective discography, Vol. two, L to Z.- London (Record Information Services), 1994, p. 468
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources
thanks to Max Hoeffner and Don Deering for additional info

Mr. Crump did like it!

"A Negro jug band" "on their trip home to Memphis" and thereby playing for "Boss Crump",
who "strolls with accompanying minstrels through cars of his special train"
on 1st, 2nd and 3rd photo: Charlie Burse with guitar; on 2nd photo: Will Shade with jug
source: Life magazine Vol. 8, No. 13 (March 25, 1940), p. 20; jug band photos reprinted in Blues & Rhythm #62 (1991)

Will Shade and Dewey Corley at the port of Memphis, TN in front of the "Memphis Queen II", 1960 (The third musician is a riverboat worker)
source: Joachim E. Berendt & William Claxton: Jazz Life - Auf den Spuren des Jazz.- Offenburg (Burda Druck und Verlag GmbH) 1961, pp. 98-99
photographer: William Claxton; photoshop embellished by Stefan Wirz

Will Shade, Dewey Corley and a riverboat worker (on jug) at the port of Memphis, TN in front of the "Memphis Queen II", 1960
source: William Claxton & Joachim E. Berendt "Jazzlife - A Journey for Jazz across America in 1960".- Köln/Cologne (Taschen) 2013, p. 192
photographer: William Claxton

Will Shade & his wife Jennie Mae Clayton Shade
source: www.flickr.com/photos/44362663@N06/4415576177/in/album-72157624131758665/; photographer: George Mitchell

Charlie Burse & Will Shade footage at youtube.com