 source: Lawrence Cohn (ed.): Nothing but the Blues.- New York, London, Paris (Abbeville Press) 1993, p.184 ("Lawrence Cohn Collection" as per this book's Photography Credits on p. 430); actual photographer most likely (as per back cover of BluesTime BT 29006 / BTS 9006): Charles "Chuck" Stewart | Otis Spann b. March 21, 1924 in Belzoni, Humphreys County, Mississippi d. April 24, 1970 at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois buried at Burr Oak Cemetery in Worth, Illinois discography |  Otis Spann with James Cotton, hca, in Muddy Waters' basement flat/studio at 4339 South Lake Park in Chicago, Illinois, 1965 source: Lisa Day (ed.): Chicago Blues as seen from the inside - The Photographs of Raeburn Flerlage.- Chicago (ECW Press) 2000, p. 15; photographer: Ray Flerlage |
| 1 | 10/1953 | MUDDY WATERS and his Guitar - Blow Wind Blow (U 7551) @ youtube - Mad Love (U 7552) (= I Want You To Love Me) @ youtube @ Spotify  originally unissued tracks from same session: - Too Deep Blues (U 7553) - Tell Me How (U 7553A) rec. September 24, 1953 at Universal Recording Studios, 111 E. Ontario St. in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc, g;
Muddy Waters discography | |||
| 2 | 1/1954 | MUDDY WATERS and his Guitar - I'm Your Hoochie Cooche (or Kooche or Coochie) Man [sic] (U 7589-16) (2:49) # @ youtube - She's So Pretty (U 7590-5) @ youtube originally unissued track from same session: - Hoochie Coochie Man (alt tk) (2:49) [Chess LP 6.24474, Chess LP 6-80002] @ youtube rec. January 7, 1954 at Universal Recording Studios, 111 E. Ontario St. in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Otis Spann, p; Jimmy Rogers, g; Willie Dixon, b; Elga Edmonds, dr
# Chess 1973 (9/1966) Muddy Waters discography | |||
| 3 | 5/1954 | THE HOWLIN' WOLF - No Place To Go (U7618) (= You Gonna Wreck My Life) # @ youtube - Rockin' Daddy (U7621) @ youtube originally unissued tracks from same session: - You Gonna Wreck My Life (U7618 alt tk) # [Chess 1744, Chess LP 1512] @ youtube - Neighbors (U7619) [Chess LP 1512] @ youtube - I'm The Wolf (U7620) # [Chess LP 1512] @ youtube rec. March 1954 at Universal Recording Studios, 111 E. Ontario St. in Chicago, IL; Howlin' Wolf, voc, # hca; Otis Spann, p; Lee Cooper, g; Willie Dixon, b; Earl Phillips, dr
Howling Wolf discography | |||
| 4 | 5/1954 | MUDDY WATERS and his Guitar - Just Make Love To Me (= I Just Want To Make Love To You) (U 7630) @ youtube - Oh! Yeh (U 7631) (= "Oh Yeah" on most re-issues) @ youtube rec. April 13, 1954 in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Otis Spann, p; Jimmy Rogers, g; Willie Dixon, b; Elga Edmonds, dr
Muddy Waters discography | |||
| 5 | 6/1954 | JUNIOR WELLS - 'Bout The Break Of Day (1441) @ youtube - Lord, Lord (1442-2) (= Lawdy! Lawdy!) @ youtube originally unissued tracks from same session: - 'Bout The Break Of Day (1441-4) [Delmark DL 640] @ youtube - Lord, Lord (1442-1) [Delmark DD 640] @ youtube rec. April 15, 1954 in Chicago, IL; Junior Wells, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; Muddy Waters, Louis Myers, g; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, dr
Junior Wells discography | |||
| 6 | 6/1954 | JIMMY ROGERS and his Rocking Four - Chicago Bound (7592-3) # @ youtube - Sloppy Drunk (7632) * @ youtube # rec. January 7, 1954 at Universal Recording Studios, 111 E. Ontario St. in Chicago, IL; Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Henry Gray or Johnny Jones, p; Muddy Waters, g; Odie Payne, dr * rec. April 13, 1954 in Chicago, IL; Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Otis Spann, p; Muddy Waters, g; Willie Dixon, b; Elga Edmonds, dr
Jimmy Rogers discography | |||
| 7 | 7/1954 | THE HOWLIN' WOLF - Baby How Long? (U7657) (= Baby, How Long) @ youtube - Evil Is Goin' On (U7658) (= Evil) @ youtube rec. May 25, 1954 in Chicago, IL; Howlin' Wolf, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; Jody Williams, Hubert Sumlin, g; Willie Dixon, b; Earl Phillips, dr
Howling Wolf discography | |||
| 8 | 12/1954 | THE HOWLIN' WOLF - I'll Be Around (U7740) @ youtube - Forty Four (U7741) (= I'm Mad) (15744) @ youtube rec. October 1954 in Chicago, IL; Howlin' Wolf, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; Jody Williams, Hubert Sumlin, g; Willie Dixon, b; Earl Phillips, dr
Howling Wolf discography | |||
| 9 | 12/1954 | JUNIOR WELLS - Tomorrow Night (1328-4) # @ youtube @ Spotify - So All Alone (1443-7) * @ youtube @ Spotify # rec. June 8, 1953 in Chicago, IL; Junior Wells, voc, hca; Johnny Jones, p; Elmore James or Louis Myers, g; Dave Myers, b-g; Odie Payne, dr * rec. April 15, 1954 in Chicago, IL; Junior Wells, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; Muddy Waters, Louis Myers, g; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, dr
Junior Wells discography | |||
| 10 | 12/1954 | OTIS SPANN - It Must Have Been The Devil (7738) # @ youtube - Five Spot (7739) (instr) * @ youtube [cf. Roy Milton and his Solid Senders' "Junior Jives" @ youtube] rec. October 25, 1954 (after an all night party) in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, p, # voc; # George Smith, hca; * B.B. King, g; Jody Williams [not Robert Jr. Lockwood!], g; Willie Dixon, b; Earl Phillips [not Fred Below!], dr
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| 11 | 3/1955 | BO DIDDLEY - I'm A Man (U 7786) # @ youtube - Bo Diddley (U 7788) @ youtube originally unissued tracks from same session: - I'm A Man (alt tk) # [Chess CHD 9331] - Little Girl (Can I Go Home With You) (U 7787) # [Checker LP 1436] - Little Girl (alt tk) # [Chess CHD 9331] - Bo Diddley (alt tk) [Hip-O-Select CD 9231-02] - Bo Diddley (alt tk) [Hip-O-Select CD 9231-02] - You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care) (U 7789) # [Checker LP 1436] # rec. March 2/3, 1955 in Chicago, IL; Ellas Bates, voc, g; Billy Boy Arnold, hca; Otis Spann, p; Willie Dixon, b; Clifton James, dr; Jerome Green, mrcs
Billy Boy Arnold discography | |||
| - Rhumba (U 7790) - Sweet On You Baby (U 7791) # @ youtube - You Got To Love Me Baby (U 7792) # * rec. March 2, 1955 in Chicago, IL; Billy Boy Arnold, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; Bo Diddley, g; James Bradford b; Clifton James, dr; Jerome Green, mrcs Chess unissued # Red Lightnin' RL 0012 Billy Boy Arnold discography | |||||
| 12 | 11/1955 | MUDDY WATERS And His Guitar - Sugar Sweet (= I Can't Call Her Sugar) (U 7938) @ youtube - Trouble, No More (U 7939) @ youtube rec. November 3, 1955 in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Otis Spann, p; Jimmy Rogers, g; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, dr; chorus
Muddy Waters discography | |||
| 2/1956 | HOWLIN' WOLF - Smoke Stack Lightning (U7985) @ youtube - You Can't Be Beat (U7986) @ youtube rec. January 1956 in Chicago, IL; Howlin' Wolf, voc, hca;
Howling Wolf discography | ||||
| 8/1956 | HOWLIN WOLF - I Asked For Water (8175) @ youtube - So Glad (8176) @ youtube originally unissued track from same session: - Break Of Day (8177) [Chess LP 6641 125] @ youtube rec. July 19, 1956 in Chicago, IL; Howlin' Wolf, voc, hca;
Howling Wolf discography | ||||
| - I'm Leaving You (8185) @ youtube - I'm In Love With You Baby (8186) @ youtube rec. July 1956 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, voc, p; Walter Horton, hca; Robert Lockwood Jr., g; unknown, g; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, dr Chess unissued Chess/P-Vine PLP-6022 | |||||
| 4bb | 1956 | JIMMY ROGERS - Walking By Myself (8305) - If It Ain't Me (Who You Thinking Of) (8304) rec. October 29, 1956 in Chicago, IL; Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Walter Horton, hca; Otis Spann, p; Robert Lockwood Jr., g; Willie Dixon, b; A.J. Gladney, dr
Jimmy Rogers discography | |||
| 4bbb | 1956 | MUDDY WATERS - Just To Be With You (8147) * @ youtube - I Got To Find My Baby (U 7937) # @ youtube # rec. November 3, 1955 in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Otis Spann, p; Jimmy Rogers, g; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, dr * rec. June 29, 1956 in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc; with prob.: Little Walter, hca; Otis Spann, p; Pat Hare, Hubert Sumlin, g; Willie Dixon, b; Odie Payne, dr
Muddy Waters discography | |||
| 4bbbb | 1956 | JIMMY ROGERS - I Can't Believe (8394) - One Kiss (8395) rec. December 1, 1956 in Chicago, IL; Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Walter Horton, hca; Otis Spann, p; Jody Williams, g; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, dr
Jimmy Rogers discography | |||
| - Can't Keep From Worryin' Lost (8396) rec. December 1, 1956 in Chicago, IL; Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Walter Horton, hca; Otis Spann, p; Jody Williams, g; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, dr Chess unissued Jimmy Rogers discography | |||||
| 4c | 3/1958 | JIMMY ROGERS - What Have I Done (8597) @ youtube - Trace Of You (8599) # @ youtube originally unissued tracks from same session: - What Have I Done (alt tk) [Chess 6.24807] @ youtube - My Baby Don't Love Me No More (8598) (2:20) [Chess 2ACMB 207] @ youtube - My Baby Don't Love Me No More (alt tk) (2:18) [Chess 6.24807] @ youtube - Trace Of You (alt tk) # [Chess 2ACMB 207] @ youtube rec. September 18, 1957 in Chicago, IL; Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Little Walter, hca, # voc; Otis Spann, p; g; Willie Dixon, b; Francis Clay, dr, # Margaret Whitfield, voc
Jimmy Rogers discography | |||
- Don't You Know My Baby (8797) § * - Don't You Know My Baby (alt tk) § # - Don't Turn Me Down (8598) § [] - Don't Turn Me Down (alt tk) § # - Looka Here (8799) # - This Has Never Been (inc) (8800-1) # - This Has Never Been (alt tk) # - This Has Never Been * rec. May 20, 1958 in Chicago, IL; Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; § ts; Otis Spann, p; Mighty Joe Young, g; Willie Dixon, b; Odie Payne, dr Chess unissued * Chess 2ACMB 207 Jimmy Rogers discography | |||||
| 4cc | 1959 | JIMMY ROGERS - Rock This House (9241) - My Last Meal (9242) [] rec. February 1959 in Chicago, IL; Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Otis Spann, p; Reggie Boyd, g; Willie Dixon, b; S.P. Leary, dr; [] voc group
Jimmy Rogers discography | |||
| - Rock This House (alt tk) - My Last Meal (alt tk) [] - My Last Meal (alt tk) [] rec. February 1959 in Chicago, IL; Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Otis Spann, p; Reggie Boyd, g; Willie Dixon, b; S.P. Leary, dr; [] voc group Chess CHD 9372 Jimmy Rogers discography | |||||
| 4ccc | 1959 | MUDDY WATERS and his Guitar - Clouds In My Heart (U 7940) * - Ooh Wee (U 7747) # # rec. November 1954 in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Jimmy Rogers, g; Elga Edmonds, dr * rec. November 3, 1955 in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Otis Spann, p; Jimmy Rogers, g; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, dr; chorus
Muddy Waters discography | |||
| - You Don't Know (9808) # - You Don't Know (alt tk) * - Can't Keep From Worryin' (9809) # - Can't Keep From Worryin' (alt tk) * rec. c. November 1959; Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Otis Spann, p; Luther Tucker, g; Fred L. Robinson, b; George Hunter, dr Chess unissued # Chess 2ACMB 207 (1976) Jimmy Rogers discography | |||||
| 4d | 11/1959 | HOWLIN' WOLF - The Natchez Burning (8178) * - You Gonna Wreck My Life (U 7618 alt tk) # # rec. March 1954 in Chicago, IL; Howlin' Wolf, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; Lee Cooper, g; Willie Dixon, b; Earl Phillips, dr * rec. July 19, 1956 in Chicago, IL; Howlin' Wolf, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; Hosea Lee Kennard, p; Willie Johnson, Otis 'Smokey' Smothers, g; Willie Dixon, b; Earl Phillips, dr
Howling Wolf discography | |||
| 4dd | 1960 | LITTLE WALTER - Me And Piney Brown (9810) - Break It Up (9811) rec. 1960 in Chicago, IL; Little Walter, voc, hca; Luther Tucker, Jimmy Rogers, Freddy Robinson, g; Otis Spann, p; Willie Dixon, b; George Hunter, dr
Synd. Chapter 004 Little Walter discography | |||
| 4e | 1960 | HOWLIN' WOLF - Spoonful (10265) # - Howlin' For My Darling (9584) * # rec. June 1960 in Chicago, IL; Howlin' Wolf, voc; Otis Spann, p; Freddy Robinson, Hubert Sumlin, g; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, dr * rec. July 1959 in Chicago, IL; Howlin' Wolf, voc, hca; Abb Locke, ts; Hosea Lee Kennard, p; Hubert Sumlin, Abraham Smothers, g; S.P. Leary, dr
Howling Wolf discography | |||
| 4f | 1960 | HOWLIN' WOLF - Back Door Man (10264) - Wang Dang Doodle (10263) rec. June 1960 in Chicago, IL; Howlin' Wolf, voc; Otis Spann, p; Freddy Robinson, g; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, dr
Howling Wolf discography | |||
| - Woman Leave Me Alone # [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488, Black Magic 9004] [Mosaic MR5-139 (as "Beat-Up Team (first version)")] - Great Northern Stomp (instr) [Mosaic MR5-139] [Curcio GSR 84 (?)] @ youtube - "Great Northern Stomp" (instr) [mistitled, actually "Cow Cow Blues"!] [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] [BYG 529512, as "Spann's Boogie"] [Curcio GSR 84 (?)] [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488 (as "Otis Rides Again")] [Mosaic MR5-139 (as "Cow Cow Blues")] [Roots RTS 113014, Editions Atlas BLU-CD 3063, Orbis BLU NC 032, Blues Boulevard 250308] @ youtube - Walkin' The Blues # [Barnaby KZ 31290, Curcio GSR 62] [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488 (as "Don't Give Up The Ship")] [Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308] - Otis In The Dark (Spann piano solo) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] [BYG 529512, as "Otis Alone"] [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488 (as "One More Encore")] [Mosaic MR5-139, House of Blues 7001087000, Blues Boulevard 250308] - This Is The Blues # [Barnaby KZ 31290] [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488 (as "3 Minute Number Boogie")] [Curcio GSR 62, Roots RTS 113014, Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308] - Worried Life Blues # [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001, BYG 529512, Curcio GSR 84, Roots RTS 113014, Mosaic MR5-139, Editions Atlas BLU-CD 3063, Orbis BLU NC 032, Blues Boulevard 250308] - Country Boy # [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] [BYG 529512, as "I'm Just A Country Boy"] [Roots RTS 113014, Mosaic MR5-139] [Emporio EMPRCD661 (as "Country Boy Blues")] [Editions Atlas BLU-CD 3063, Orbis BLU NC 032, Blues Boulevard 250308] - The Hard Way # [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] [BYG 529512, as "I Grew Up The Hard Way"] [Curcio GSR 62, Roots RTS 113014, Mosaic MR5-139, Editions Atlas BLU-CD 3063, Orbis BLU NC 032, Blues Boulevard 250308] - Beat-Up Team # [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] [BYG 529512, as "Got Me A Beat-Up Team"] [Roots RTS 113014, Mosaic MR5-139, Editions Atlas BLU-CD 3063, Orbis BLU NC 032, Blues Boulevard 250308] - My Home Is In The Delta # [Barnaby KZ 31290, Curcio GSR 84, Roots RTS 113014, Mosaic MR5-139] [Editions Atlas BLU-CD 3063, Orbis BLU NC 032 (as "My Home In The Delta")] [Blues Boulevard 250308 (as "My Home On The Delta")] - It Must Have Been The Devil # [Barnaby KZ 31290, Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308] - Take A Little Walk With Me * [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001, BYG 529512, Mosaic MR5-139, Emporio EMPRCD 661, Blues Boulevard 250308] - I Got Rambling On My Mind # 2 * [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] [BYG 529512, as "Rambling On My Mind"] [Roots RTS 113014 (as "I Got Ramblin' On My Mind")] [Mosaic MR5-139 (as "Ramblin' On My Mind")] [Editions Atlas BLU-CD 3063, Orbis BLU NC 032 (as "I Got Ramblin' On My Mind")] [Blues Boulevard 250308 (as "Ramblin' On My Mind")] - Little Boy Blue * [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] [BYG 529512, as "Come Blow Your Horn"] [Curcio GSR 41, Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308] - My Daily Wish (4:10) * [Candid 8001] [BYG 529512, as "Get You Off My Mind"] [Blues Boulevard 250308] - Instrumental Boogie [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488; Black Magic BM 9004; Crosscut CCR 1003] [Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308 (as "Spann And Bob")] - Monkey Woman || (4:56) [Barnaby KZ31290, Curcio GSR 51] [Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308 (as "Monkey Face Blues")] [Editions Atlas BLU-CD 3063, Orbis BLU NC 032 (as " Monkey Face Woman")] - One Doggone Reason || [Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308] - Strange Woman || [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488, Black Magic 9004] [Mosaic MR5-139 (as "Strange Woman Blues")] - When Things Go Wrong # [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488, Black Magic 9004] [Mosaic MR5-139 (as "It Hurts Me Too")] - Baby Child (tk 1) # [Crosscut CCR 1003, Black Magic 9004, Mosaic MR5-139] - Baby Child (tk 5) # [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488] - Talkin' The Blues (tk 1) # [Black Magic 9004, Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308] - Talkin' The Blues (tk 3) # [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488, Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308] - Can't Stand Your Evil Ways (tk 2) # [Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308] - Otis' Blues (Spann piano solo) [Barnaby KZ 31290, Curcio GSR 41, Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308] - Half Ain't Been Told # [Barnaby KZ 31290, Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308] - Evil Ways # [Barnaby KZ 31290, Curcio GSR 62] [Mosaic MR5-139 as "Can't Stand Your Evil Ways (tk 4)"] [Blues Boulevard 250308] - Going Down Slow || [Barnaby KZ 31290, Curcio GSR 41, Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308] - The Girl I Love || [Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308] - Bad Condition || [Barnaby KZ31290, Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308] - Come Day, Go Day (tk 2) || [Barnaby KZ 31290, Curcio GSR 51, Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308] - Come Day, Go Day (tk 3) || [Mosaic MR5-139, Blues Boulevard 250308] rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; Otis Spann, p, # voc; Robert Lockwood, g, * voc; || St. Louis Jimmy, voc; engineered by George Piros; prod. by Nat Hentoff
Candid recordings releases'/re-releases' timeline: | |||||
| 5 | 1960 | Otis Spann Is The Blues Candid 8001 et al. track sequence: - The Hard Way @ youtube - Take A Little Walk With Me * @ youtube - Otis In The Dark (Spann piano solo) @ youtube - Little Boy Blue * @ youtube - Country Boy @ youtube - Beat-Up Team @ youtube - My Daily Wish (4:10) * @ youtube - Great Northern Stomp (instr) @ youtube - I Got Rambling On My Mind no. 2 * @ youtube - Worried Life Blues @ youtube
Python PLP-KM 4 track sequence:
notes by Nat Hentoff notes by Nat Hentoff notes (February 1969) by Keith Tillman notes by Don DeMicheal (shortened) notes by Nat Hentoff (German) notes by Manfred Miller notes by Nat Hentoff Robert Lockwood discography | |||
| 5a | 196? | Blues From Chicago Volume 2 Jimmy Lee Robinson and Band - All Of My Life Tommy Brown with Big Walter 'Shakey' Horton - Remember Me - Southern Women Lazy Bill Lucas and his Blue Rhythms - I Had A Dream Otis Spann with Band - Five Spot Elmore James and his Broomdusters - Baby What's Wrong - Sinful Woman Junior Wells and his Eagle Rockers - Lawdy Lawdy (Lord, Lord) [States 139] Muddy Waters with Rhythm Accompaniment - You're Gonna Miss Me (When I'm Dead And Gone) Little Johnny Jones & The Chicago Hound Dogs - Sweet Little Woman (Dirty By The Dozen) [Flair 1010]
Python Records discography | |||
| 5b | 1963 | Folk Festival Of The Blues Recorded Live @ youtube (full album)- Wee, Wee Baby - Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon and Buddy Guy @ youtube - Sitting And Thinking - Muddy Waters @ youtube - Worried Blues (3:10) - Buddy Guy || @ youtube - Bring It On Home - Sonny Boy Williamson ||| [Checker 1134] @ youtube - Sugar Mama - Howlin' Wolf [] # @ youtube - Clouds In My Heart - Muddy Waters @ youtube - May I Have A Talk With You - Howlin' Wolf # @ youtube - Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters @ youtube - Don't Know Which Way To Go - Buddy Guy @ youtube - She's 19 Years Old - Muddy Waters @ youtube # rec. July 26, 1963 at Copa Cabana Club, Chicago; Howlin' Wolf, voc, [] hca; Jarrett Gibson, ts; Donald Hankins, bs; Otis Spann, p; Buddy Guy, g; Jack Meyers, b; Fred Below, dr || / ||| studio recordings with dubbed audience: || rec. August 14, 1963 in Chicago, IL; Buddy Guy, voc, g; Jarrett Gibson, ts; Donald Hankins, bs; Lafayette Leake, p; Jack Meyers, b; Clifton James, dr ||| rec. January 11, 1963 in Chicago, IL; Sonny Boy Williemason, voc, hca; Lafayette Leake or Billy Emerson, org; Matt Murphy. g; Milton Rector, b; Al Duncan, dr notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding
= Chess/Funckler MAR-S 3171 (NL 1968) "Folk Festival of the Blues Recorded Live"
= Chess CH-9181
= Chess/Green Line GCH-8004 (It 1984) = Chess/Green Line CD 1015 (It 1989)
Muddy Waters discography | |||
| 6 | 1963 | American Folkblues [sic] Festival 1963 resp. American Folk Blues Festival 1963 "A documentation of the authentic blues featuring the best blues artists of America" Memphis Slim - Wish Me Well @ youtube Big Joe Williams - I Have No Friends @ youtube Willie Dixon - Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues @ youtube Willie Dixon - Crazy For My Baby @ youtube Victoria Spivey - Grant Spivey @ youtube Matt "Guitar" Murphy - Matt's Guitar Boogie @ youtube Sonnyboy Williamson - I Don't Know @ youtube Sonnyboy Williamson - Sonny's Harmonica Boogie @ youtube Lonnie Johnson - It's Too Late To Cry @ youtube Otis Spann - Had My Fun (3:53) @ youtube Muddy Waters - Five Long Years @ youtube Memphis Slim et al. - Bye, Bye, Blues @ youtube rec. October 13, 1963 live at the (2nd) American Folk Blues Festival in Bremen, Germany; accompanists: Matt "Guitar" Murphy, g; Willie Dixon, b; Bill Stepney, dr; prod. by Siegfried E. Loch
Philips/Phonogram SFL-7385 track sequence:
Evidence ECD 26087-2 track sequence:
originally unissued Otis Spann tracks from same event on Evidence ECD 26100, all previously (1992) released on ACT CD 9205:
notes (8-pp. German/English) by Horst Lippmann and Siegfried Schmidt-Joos
notes by Anonymous notes by Jean Tronchot notes by Jean Tronchot
= Polydor 2310 296 (Fr)
notes by Willy Leiser
5 CD box set notes by Jerry Gordon 3 CD set
a few more re-releases @ discogs. com American Folk Blues Festival discography | |||
| 7 | 1964 | Otis Spann: Good Morning Blues Portraits In Blues Vol. 3 Storyville SLP 157 / Everest FS 216 / Storyville SLP 4041 track sequence: - Good Morning Mr. Blues (3:20) @ youtube - Love, Love, Love (2:27) @ youtube - Riverside Blues (3:20) @ youtube - Must Have Been The Devil (2:30) @ youtube - Jelly Roll Baker (4:00) @ youtube - Trouble In Mind # (3:25) @ youtube - Worried Life Blues (4:07) @ youtube - T.B. Blues (4:12) @ youtube - Spann's Boogie (instr) (2:15) @ youtube - Don't You Know (4:28) @ youtube - Goin' Down Slow (4:40) @ youtube Storyville/Teldec 6.23708 bonus track: - Keep Your Hands Out Of My Pocket [Storyville SLP 168] @ youtube rec. October 16, 1963 in Copenhagen, Denmark; Otis Spann, voc, p; # Lonnie Johnson, g Storyville SLP 157 photo by Rolf Ambor Storyville ST 21004 photo by Jean-Pierre Leloir
notes by Paul Oliver
notes by Paul Oliver notes by Paul Oliver notes by Paul Oliver
180 g LP Storyville Records discography | |||
| 8 | 196? | Lonnie Johnson: Portraits In Blues Vol. 6 - Tomorrow Night - Clementine Blues - See See Rider - Raining On The Cold Ground - Jelly Jelly - Too Late To Cry - Call Me Darling - Why Did You Go - Swingin' With Lonnie - Please Help Me rec. October 16, 1963 in Copenhagen, Denmark; Lonnie Johnson, voc, g; Otis Spann, p
notes by Paul Oliver notes by Paul Oliver
Storyville Records discography | |||
| 9 | 1963 | Piano Blues Otis Spann - The Skies Are Blue - Keep Your Hand Out Of My Pocket Speckled Red - Cow Cow Blues Memphis Slim - A Letter Home Sunnyland Slim - Women Trouble Blues # - Sittin' Here Thinkin' # Champion Jack Dupree - Don't Ever Believe - I Just Want To Be Free Memphis Slim - Rebecca Blues * Champion Jack Dupree - T.V. Mama # rec. October 8, 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark; Sunnyland Slim, voc, p * rec. November 1, 1963 in Copenhagen, Denmark; Memphis Slim, voc, p; Sonny Boy Williamson, voc, hca
notes by Paul Oliver DLP Storyville Records discography | |||
| 10 | 1964 | Can't Keep From Crying Topical Blues on the Death of President Kennedy Big Joe Williams - A Man Amongst Men @ youtube James & Fannie Brewer - I Want To Know Why John Lee Granderson - A Man For The Nation @ youtube Otis Spann - Sad Day In Texas @ youtube Mary Ross - President Kennedy Gave His Life Bill Jackson - The 22nd Day Of November James Brewer - Why Did He Have To Go? Johnny Young - I Tried Not To Cry Avery Brady - Poor Kennedy @ youtube Fannie Brewer - When We Got The Message Jimmy Brown - He Was Loved By All The People @ youtube CD bonus tracks: Johnny Young - Tribute To J.F.K. @ youtube Avery Brady - Poor Kennedy no. 2 rec. in Chicago, IL in the weeks immediately following JFK's death on November 22, 1963 by Norman Dayron and Peter J. Welding; prod. by Peter J. Welding cover photo of Big Joe Williams by Lars Swanberg printed on LP's back cover: "TESTAMENT RECORDS, P.O. Box 1813, Chicago, Illinois 60690" later additionally stamped "New address: 577 Levering, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024"
notes by Peter J. Welding "5851 Blackstone Avenue/Chicago 37, Illinois" notes by Peter J. Welding notes by Peter J. Welding Testament Records discography | |||
| 11 | 1964 | Modern Chicago Blues Johnny Young - My Baby Walked Out In 1954 #* @ youtube Wilbert Jenkins - Married Woman Blues @ youtube Johnny Young - You Make Me Feel So Good ##* @ youtube Maxwell St. Jimmy - Crying Won't Make Me Stay || @ youtube Big Walter Horton - Everybody's Fishing // @ youtube Johnny Young - Money Taking Woman ## @ youtube Robert Nighthawk - Blues Before Sunrise § @ youtube Johnny Young - Back To Chicago @ youtube John Lee Granderson - Bumble Bee \\ °° @ youtube Maxwell Street Jimmy - I've Got My Eyes on You || °° @ youtube Johnny Young - Bad Blood #* @ youtube John Wrencher - I'm Going To Detroit [] @ youtube Maxwell St. Jimmy - Hanging Around My Door || @ youtube Johnny Young - Tired Of You Smiling ## @ youtube Wilbert Jenkins - Crawling King Snake @ youtube Johnny Young - Let Me Ride Your Mule #* @ youtube Big Walter Horton - Hard-Hearted Woman // @ youtube John Lee Granderson - I Don't Feel Good \\ @ youtube Maxwell Street Jimmy - Long Haired Doney || °° @ youtube John Lee Granderson - That's All Right \\ °° @ youtube William Mack - Hideaway °° @ youtube °° CD bonus tracks rec. by Norman Dayron, Norman Goodis, or Peter J. Welding # rec. November 17, 1963 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, g, ## mand; Otis Spann, p; Slim Willis, hca; * Robert Whitehead, dr || rec. 1963 at the Fickle Pickle, Chicago, IL by Norman Dayron; Maxwell Street Jimmy, voc, g // rec. July 1, 1962 in Chicago, IL; Walter Horton, voc, hca; Jimmy Walker, p; Johnny Young, g \\ rec. poss. September 30, 1962; John Lee Granderson, voc, g; Prez Thomas, hca; Jimmy Walker, p; William Mack, g § rec. October 14, 1964 in Chicago, IL; Robert Nighthawk, voc, g; Big John Wrencher, hca; Johnny Young, mand [] rec. 1964 in Chicago, IL; Big John Wrencher, voc, hca; Johnny Young, mand; John Lee Granderson, g Testament LP/CD front cover drawing by George Roth; Bounty/Polydor LPs front cover photo by Ray Flerlage; back liner photos by Peter J. Welding
notes by Peter J. Welding "P.O. Box 1813/Chicago, Illinois, 60690"
Testament Records discography | |||
| 12 | 1964 | The Blues Of Otis Spann Decca LK 4615 track sequence: - Rock Me Mama (DR 33247) @ youtube - I Came From Clarksdale (DR 33246) @ youtube - Keep Your Hand Out Of My Pocket (DR 33250) @ youtube - Spann's Boogie (DR 33243) (instr) @ youtube - Sarah Street (DR 33234) @ youtube - The Blues Don't Like Nobody (DR 33237) @ youtube - My Home In The Delta (DR 33239) [Black Cat 001 bonus track, from Ace Of Clubs ACL/SCL 1220] @ youtube - Meet Me In The Bottom (DR 33231) @ youtube - Lost Sheep In The Fold (DR 33249) @ youtube - I Got A Feeling (DR 33232) @ youtube - Jangle Boogie (DR 33235) (instr) @ youtube - T.99 (DR 33238) @ youtube - Natural Days (DR 33230) @ youtube - You Gonna Need My Help (DR 39340) [Black Cat 001 bonus track, from Ace Of Clubs ACL/SCL 1220] @ youtube
See For Miles SEE 54 track sequence:
notes by Neil E. Slaven = Decca LK 4615 (Germany 1964) = Black Cat 001 (NL 1980) "Half Ain't Been Told" notes by Alan Balfour notes by Alan Balfour 180g LP | |||
| - Meet Me In The Bottom (3:30) [Curcio GSR 84] - Chicago Blues (5:50) [Curcio GSR 84] - Spann's Boogie (instr) (3:45) [Curcio GSR 84] rec. May 12, 1964 at Maison de la Radio (ORTF), Paris, France; Otis Spann, voc, p; Ransom Knowling, b; Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, dr French broadcast, originally not published on record | |||||
| - The Bible Don't Lie # // [J.O.B. 1110] - Los Angeles Midnight Groove (instr) || [J.O.B. 1110] - T-99 (A) # [J.O.B. 1111] @ youtube - Love (B) (instr) // [J.O.B. 1111] @ youtube - I'm A Lonely Man - Somebody Is Knocking At Your Door rec. 1964 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, p, # voc; J.T. Brown, // cl, || ts; g; b; dr J.O.B. unissued | |||||
| 12a | 9/1964 | OTIS SPANN - Stirs Me Up (A) * @ youtube - Keep Your Hand Out Of My Pocket (B) # rec. May 4, 1964 at Decca Studios in West Hampstead, London, UK; Otis Spann, voc, p; Muddy Waters, * Eric Clapton, g; Jimmy Page, # g, * hca, b & g (overdubbed); Ransom Knowling, b; Little Willie Smith, dr; prod. by Michael Vernon
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| 12b | 1964 | MUDDY WATERS - Put Me In Your Lay Away (13475) * - Still A Fool (U 7360) # * rec. c. September 1964 in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc; J.T. Brown, cl; Otis Spann, p; Pee Wee Madison, g; Milton Rector, b; S.P. Leary, dr # rec. July 11, 1951 in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc, g; James Cotton, hca; Jimmy Rogers, g; Big Crawford, b; Elga Edmonds, dr # Chess 1480
Muddy Waters discography | |||
| 13 | 1965 | Otis Spann: The Blues Never Die! - The Blues Never Die @ youtube - I Got A Feeling @ youtube - One More Mile To Go # [] @ youtube - Feeling Good # @ youtube - After Awhile [on labels: "After While"] @ youtube - Dust My Broom # @ youtube - Straighten Up Baby # @ Spotify - Come On @ youtube - Must Have Been The Devil @ youtube - Lightnin' (inst) @ youtube - I'm Ready # (no guitar) @ youtube rec. November 21, 1964 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, voc, p; "Dirty Rivers" [Muddy Waters], g; James Cotton hca, # voc; James "Pee Wee" Madison, g; Milton Rector, b; SP Leary, dr; [] band voc; prod. by Samuel Charters front cover design by Don Schlitten, photo by Ray Flerlage
notes (May 1965) by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding "In 1971 the Prestige label and its catalogue was sold to Fantasy Records of San Francisco, who proceeded to embark on a major programme of re-issues (light green label), sadly, of lamentable audio quality." notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding
notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding = Concord CD (NL 2006) mini LP CD a few more re-releases @ discogs. com | |||
| 14 | 7/1965 | Blues Now Otis Spann - Stirs Me Up (DR 33244) * @ youtube The Art Woods - Sweet Mary Champion Jack Dupree - I'm A Prisoner (DR 33475) # [previously unissued] John Mayall & The Blues Breakers - I Need Your Love Davy Graham - Goin' Down Slow Otis Spann - Mojo Rock 'N' Roll (DR 33240) ** Curtis Jones - Shake It Baby [] Them - Baby Please Don't Go Mae Mercer - Sweet Little Angel Otis Spann - Pretty Girls Everywhere (DR 33241) *** @ youtube Graham Bond Organization - Wade In The Water Rod Stewart - Good Morning Little School Girl Champion Jack Dupree - All Right [Decca DFE 8586] # Ronnie Jones & The Night-Timers - I Need Your Loving # rec. June 26, 1964 in London, UK; Jack Dupree, voc, p; Keith Smith's Climax Jazz Band: Keith Smith, tp; Mike Sherborne, tb; John Deferary, cl, ts; Paul Sealy, bj, g; Ray Holland, b; Dave Evans, dr; ** Jimmy Page, hca/g/b (overdubbed) * rec. May 4, 1964 at Decca No. 2 studio, West Hampstead, London, UK; Otis Spann, voc, jangle p; Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, g; Ransom Knowling, b; Willie Smith, dr; Jimmy Page, hca/g/b (overdubbed) ** rec. May 4, 1964 at Decca No. 2 studio, West Hampstead, London, UK; Otis Spann, voc, p; Memphis Slim, p; Muddy Waters, voc, g; Ransom Knowling, b; Willie Smith, dr *** rec. May 4, 1964 at Decca No. 2 studio, West Hampstead, London, UK; Otis Spann, voc, p; Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, g; Ransom Knowling, b; Willie Smith, dr [] rec. November 27/28, 1963 at Decca No. 2 studio, West Hampstead, London, UK; Curtis Jones, voc, p; Alexis Korner, g; Jack Fallon, b; Eddie Taylor (British jazz drummer), dr
notes by M.V. (Mike Vernon)
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| 15 | 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: LP and CD have slightly different tracks: [] = not on LP resp. CD !!!
notes (plus 6-pp. insert) by Paul Oliver notes by Paul Oliver
LP resp. CD accompanying Paul Oliver's book by the same title:
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| 16 | 1966 | Otis Spann's Chicago Blues resp. Nobody Knows My Troubles - Get Your Hands Out Of My Pocket # @ youtube - Nobody Knows My Troubles # @ youtube - Sarah Street # @ youtube - Worried Life Blues @ Spotify - You Can't Hide @ Spotify - Jack-Knife (instr) # [] @ Spotify - What's On Your Worried Mind? @ youtube - Vicksburg Blues § @ Spotify - Who's Out There? # @ youtube - Spann's Boogie Woogie (instr) @ youtube - See See Rider @ youtube - Lovin' You # [] @ youtube - One-Room Country Shack @ Spotify - Mr. Jelly-Roll Baker @ Spotify CD bonus track: - G.B. Blues (instr) * [Testament T-2217] @ youtube @ Spotify rec. 1965 in Chicago, IL by Pete Welding; Otis Spann, voc, p; § Robert Whitehead, dr # rec. November 22, 1965 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, voc, p, [] org; James Cotton, hca; Johnny Young, g; Jimmy Lee Morris, b; S.P. Leary, dr * rec. 1966 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, p; Walter Horton, hca; Johnny Shines, g; Lee Jackson, b; Fred Below, dr cover photo by Pete Welding
notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding Testament Records discography | |||
| 17 | 196? | The Best of The Blues Big Bill Broonzy - Diggin' My Potatoes (DGF 38) # [Storyville SEP 383] Speckled Red - Uncle Sam's Blues Memphis Slim - Bertha May Champion Jack Dupree - Christina, Christina Blues Big Joe Williams - Vitamin A Blues Lonnie Johnson with Otis Spann - Don't Cry Baby @ Spotify Roosevelt Sykes - The Way I Feel Sleepy John Estes - City Hall Blues John Henry Barbee - Early In The Morning Sunnyland Slim - One Room Country Shack Sonny Boy & M. Slim - Copenhagen Woman * Otis Spann - Boots And Shoes [] @ youtube # rec. May 4, 1956 live at Club Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark; Big Bill Broonzy, voc, g * rec. November 1, 1963 in Copenhagen, Denmark; Memphis Slim, voc, p; Sonny Boy Williamson, hca; Matt Murphy, g [] rec. October 16, 1963 in Copenhagen, Denmark; Lonnie Johnson, voc, g; Otis Spann, voc, g
notes by Paul Oliver notes by Paul Oliver notes (in Spanish) by Paul Oliver notes (in Japanese) by Paul Oliver notes by Paul Oliver notes by Paul Oliver Storyville Records discography | |||
| 18 | 1966 | The Bluesmen of the Muddy Waters Chicago Blues Band Band - Chicago Slide (1:45) @ youtube Luther Johnson - Creepin' Snake (3:47) @ youtube George Smith - Lookout Victoria (2:45) Otis Spann - You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now # (3:50) Victoria Spivey - Take Webster's Word For It (5:45) Band - Theme (1:15) Otis Spann - Ain't Nobody's Business What I Do # (5:25) Luther Johnson - Born In Georgia (2:00) @ youtube Victoria Spivey - Trouble Hurts (2:45) Band - Watermelon Man (4:15) George Smith - Old Ugly Man Like Me (3:10) Victoria Spivey - Gave It All To Me (5:05) P-Vine CD bonus tracks: Otis Spann - You Know You Don't Love Me Baby - Why Don't You Leave Me Alone rec. November 25, 1966 in New York City, NY; Victoria Spivey, voc; Otis Spann, p, # org, voc; George Smith, hca, voc; Luther 'Georgia Boy' Johnson, g, voc; Samuel Lawhorn, g; "Main Stream" (Muddy Waters, prob. does not play on all tracks), g; Francis Clay, dr photos by Len Kunstadt
notes by Len Kunstadt notes by Len Kunstadt notes by Len Kunstadt notes by Len Kunstadt
Spivey Records discography | |||
| 19 | 1966 | Chicago / The Blues / Today! Vol. 1 Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band - Tribute To Sonny Boy Williamson (= Help Me) # @ youtube - It Hurts Me Too (= When Things Go Wrong) # @ youtube - Messin' With The Kid # @ youtube - Vietcong Blues # @ youtube - All Night Long (= Rock Me Baby) # @ youtube J.B. Hutto And His Hawks - Going Ahead - Please Help J.B. Hutto And His Hawks - Too Much Alcohol - Married Woman Blues - That's The Truth Otis Spann's South Side Piano - Marie (instr) * @ youtube - Burning Fire * @ youtube - S.P. Blues (instr) * @ youtube - Sometime I Wonder * @ youtube - Spann's Stomp (instr) * @ youtube # rec. December 1965 in Chicago, IL; Junior Wells, voc, hca; "Friendly Chap" (Buddy Guy), g; Jack Myers, b; Bill Warren, dr; prod. by Samuel Charters * rec. December 1965 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, voc, p; S.P. Leary, dr; prod. by Samuel Charters
notes by Samuel Charters notes by Samuel Charters 3 CD set Junior Wells discography | |||
| 20 | 1966 | Chicago / The Blues / Today! Vol. 2 Jimmy Cotton Blues Quartet - Cotton Crop Blues # - Blues Keep Falling # - Love Me or Leave # - Rocket 88 # - West Helena Blues # Otis Rush Blues Band - Everything's Going To Turn Out Alright (instr) * @ youtube - It's a Mean Old World (2:24) * @ youtube Otis Rush Blues Band - I Can't Quit You Baby * @ youtube - Rock (instr) * @ youtube - It's My Own Fault * @ youtube Homesick James & his Dusters - Dust My Broom || @ youtube - Somebody's Been Talkin' || @ youtube - Set A Date || @ youtube - So Mean To Me || @ youtube # rec. December 1965 in Chicago, IL by Samuel Charters; James Cotton, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; James "Pee Wee" Madison, g; S.P. Leary, dr * rec. December 28/29, 1965 in Chicago, IL by Samuel Charters; Otis Rush, voc, g; Robert "Sax" Crowder, as; Luther Tucker, g; || rec. late 1965 in Chicago, IL by Samuel Charters; Homesick James, voc, g; Willie Dixon, b;
notes by Samuel Charters notes by Samuel Charters
= Vanguard SVRL 19021 (UK 1966) 3 CD set Otis Rush discography | |||
| 21 | 1966 | The Johnny Shines Band Masters Of Modern Blues Vol. 1 - Rollin' & Tumblin' @ youtube - Trouble Is All I See @ youtube - Mr. Tom Green's Farm @ youtube - My Black Mare @ youtube - What Kind Of Little Girl Are You? @ youtube - So Cold In Vietnam @ youtube - Sweet Home Chicago @ youtube - Walkin' Blues @ youtube - Black Panther @ youtube - Two Trains Runnin' @ youtube rec. June 1966 at One-derful Studios in Chicago, IL; The Johnny Shines Band: Johnny Shines, voc, g; Big Walter Horton, hca; Otis Spann, p; Lee Jackson, b; Fred Below, dr; prod. by Pete Welding cover photograph line resolution by Brad Barrett from a photograph by Pete Welding; liner photo by Ray Flerlage
notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding
Testament Records discography | |||
| 22 | 1966 | Johnny Young And His Chicago Blues Band Arhoolie F 1029 track sequence: - Wild, Wild Woman [Arhoolie 45-515] @ youtube - Keep Your Nose Out Of My Business @ youtube - I'm Having A Ball @ youtube - My Trainfare Out Of Town @ youtube - I'm Doing All Right @ youtube - Stealin' @ youtube - Keep On Drinking @ youtube - Hot Dog! @ youtube - Come Early In The Morning @ youtube - Moaning And Groaning @ youtube - Crosscut Saw @ youtube - Slam Hammer (instr) [Arhoolie 45-515] @ youtube rec. November 11 [22 on back cover], 1965 at Sound Studios in Chicago, IL by Pete Welding; Johnny Young, voc, g, mand; Otis Spann, p; James Cotton, hca; Jimmy Lee Morris, b; S.P. Leary, dr; prod. by Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie F 1029, etc. cover photo by Pete Welding Arhoolie CD 325 cover photo by Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie CD 325 / P-Vine PCD-2504 track sequence: - Wild, Wild Woman - Keep Your Nose Out Of My Business - I'm Having A Ball - My Trainfare Out Of Town - I'm Doing All Right - Stealin' - Keep On Drinking - Hot Dog! - Come Early In The Morning - Moaning And Groaning - Cross-Cut Saw - Slam Hammer - Strange Girl - Ring Around My Heart - Sometimes I Cry - Don't You Lie To Me - On The Road Again - Walter's Boogie - Stockyard Blues - Drinking Straight Whiskey additional tracks on P-Vine PCD-2504: - Sleeping With The Devil - Fumbling Around
notes (1966) by Pete Welding Arhoolie Records, P.O. Box 5073, Berkeley 5, Calif. notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding Arhoolie Records, Box 9195, Berkeley, Ca. 94709 notes by Pete Welding Arhoolie Records, 10341 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito, CA 94530 notes (1966 & 1968) by Pete Welding
Johnny Young discography | |||
| 22a | 9/1966 | MUDDY WATERS - Hootchie Coochie Man [sic] (15035) (Willie Dixon) (2:51) # @ youtube - Corine, Corina (14866) (Bob Miller) (3:10) * @ youtube # rec. January 7, 1954 in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc, g; Little Walter, hca; Otis Spann, p; Jimmy Rogers, g; Elga Edmonds, dr * rec. June 22/23, 1966 at Ter Mar Recording Studios in Chicago, IL; Muddy Waters, voc, g; tp; tb; as; Gene Barge, ts; bs; James Cotton, hca; Otis Spann, p; Charles Stepney, org; Sammy Lawhorn, Pee Wee Madison, g; Calvin Jones, b; Willie Smith, dr Corine, Corina: "from Chess LP 1507" DJ Copy has title of A-side as "Hootchie Cootchie Man", title of B-side as "Corinna", writer's credit as "Hubert"!
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| 23 | 1967 | Raw Blues Otis Spann - Pretty Girls Everywhere (DR 33241) ** @ youtube John Mayall - Burn Out Your Blind Eyes Champion Jack Dupree - Calcutta Blues # John Mayall & Steve Anglo - Long Night Otis Spann - Country Boy (DR 33242) * Curtis Jones - You Got Good Business § John Mayall & Eric Clapton - Lonely Years John Mayall & Peter Green - Evil Woman Blues Otis Spann - My Home In The Desert (DR 33239) * @ youtube John Mayall - Milkman Strut Champion Jack Dupree - 24 Hours # Curtis Jones - Roll Me Over § John Mayall & Eric Clapton - Bernard Jenkins Otis Spann - You Gonna Need My Help (DR 39340) *** @ youtube # rec. February 1966 in London, UK; Champion Jack Dupree, voc, p; John Mayall, hca; Eric Clapton, g; Tony McPhee, g; Malcolm Pool, b; Keef Hartley, dr * rec. May 4, 1964 at Decca No. 2 studio, West Hampstead, London, UK; Otis Spann, voc, *** jangle p; Muddy Waters, g, *** voc; ** Eric Clapton, g; Ransom Knowling, b; Willie Smith, dr; Jimmy Page, hca/g/b (overdubbed) § rec. November 27 & 28, 1963 in West Hampstead, UK; Curtis Jones, voc, p; Alexis Korner, g; Jack Fallon, b; Eddie Taylor, dr
notes by Mike Vernon notes by Mike Vernon notes by Mike Vernon quite a few more re-releases at discogs.com | |||
| 24 | 1967 | John Lee Hooker Live At Cafe Au Go-Go - I'm Bad Like Jesse James @ youtube - She's Long, She's Tall (She Weeps Like A Willow Tree) @ youtube - When My First Wife Left Me @ youtube - Heartaches And Misery @ youtube - One Bourbon, One Scotch One Beer @ youtube - I Don't Want No Trouble @ youtube - I'll Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive @ youtube - Seven Days And Seven Nights @ youtube CD bonus tracks (Live at Soledad Prison): - What's The Matter Baby @ youtube - Lucille @ youtube - Boogie Everywhere I Go @ youtube - Serves Me Right To Suffer @ youtube - Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang @ youtube LP rec. August 20, 1966 "at the Café Au Go-Go" [actually studio recordings with an audience] in New York City by Rudy Van Gelder; John Lee Hooker, voc, g; Otis Spann, p; Muddy Waters, Sammy Lawhorn, Luther 'Georgia Boy' Johnson, gs; Mac Arnold, b; Francis Clay, dr; though listed on sleeve, George Smith does not appear; prod. by Bob Thiele
notes by Stanley Dance
= Mediterraneo-Movieplay TK 3029 (Sp 1976) notes by Stanley Dance Bluesway Records discography | |||
| 25 | 3/1967 | Otis Spann: The Blues Is Where It's At - Popcorn Man # @ youtube - Brand New House # @ youtube - Chicago Blues # * @ youtube - Steel Mill Blues (= Five Long Years) @ youtube - Down On Sarah Street # @ youtube - T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do # @ youtube - Nobody Knows Chicago Like I Do (Stanley Dance's subtitle: "Party Blues") # @ youtube - My Home Is On The Delta [sic] * @ youtube - Spann Blues # @ youtube rec. August 30, 1966 "at the Café Au Go-Go" [actually studio recordings with an audience] in New York City, N.Y.; Otis Spann, voc, p; # George Smith, hca [without amplification]; Sammy Lawhorn, Luther 'Georgia Boy' Johnson [except "My Home Is On The Delta"], * Muddy Waters, g; Mac Arnold, b; Francis Clay, dr; prod. by Bob Thiele photography by Charles Shabacon
notes by Stanley Dance notes by Stanley Dance notes by Stanley Dance notes by Stanley Dance notes by Stanley Dance notes by Stanley Dance = Stateside SSLM 6042 (New Zealand 1967) notes by Patrice Blanc-Francard notes by Stanley Dance notes by Stanley Dance notes by Bez Turner notes by Stanley Dance notes by Wolfgang Quander
notes by Stanley Dance notes by Bill Dahl Bluesway Records discography | |||
| 25a | 1/1968 | The Super Super Blues Band Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters & Bo Diddley - Long Distance Call (16444) - Ooh Baby & Wrecking My Love Life (16226) - Sweet Little Angel (16229) - Spoonful (16227) - Diddley Daddy (6225) - The Red Rooster (16224) - Goin' Down Slow (16228) rec. September 1967 at Ter Mar Studios, Chicago, IL; Bo Diddley, voc, g; Howlin' Wolf, voc, hca, ac g; Muddy Waters, voc, g; Otis Spann, p; Hubert Sumlin, g; Buddy Guy, b; Frank Kirkland, dr; Coockie Vee, voc, tamb
Charly BM 26 track sequence:
notes by Richard Meltzer notes by Richard Meltzer
= Chess/Funckler MAR-S 3218 (NL 196?) notes by Richard Meltzer
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| 26 | 1968 | The Bluesmen of the Muddy Waters Chicago Blues Band Volume 2 with Otis Spann, Lucille Spann, Luther Johnson, Sammy Lawhorn, Little Sonny Wimberley, S.P. Leary, Paul Oscher, Pee Wee Madison, Willie Smith They Done It Again!  @ youtube (full album playlist)- Blues Trot (instr) # (3:35) # (Otis Spann, p) @ youtube - Diving Mama (2:45) * (Otis Spann & Victoria Spivey, voc) @ youtube - Been Hurt (3:20) # (Luther Johnson, voc) @ youtube - Last Night (6:05) * (Pee Wee Madison, voc) @ youtube - Blues For Spivey (instr) (5:40) # (Otis Spann, p) @ youtube - Wonder Why (2:40) ## (Lucille & Otis Spann, voc) # @ youtube - Funky Broadway (4:15) (Little Sonny Wimberly, voc) @ youtube - Mother and Son (10:05) * (Otis Spann & Victoria Spivey, voc) @ youtube - How Much More (3:25) * (Sammy Lawhorn, voc) @ youtube - She's My Baby (2:35) # (Otis Spann, voc, p) @ youtube P-Vine CD bonus tracks: - Yes Sir! Boss (Muddy Waters Blues Men) [Spivey 1009, rec. November 25, 1966] - Take Webster's Word For It (alt tk) (Victoria Spivey & Muddy Waters Blues Men) [Spivey 1026, rec. November 25, 1966] - I'm A Bad Boy (Otis Spann) [Spivey 1013, rec. April 1969] - Going Back Home (Otis Spann) [Spivey 1013, rec. April 1969] # rec. 1967 in New York, NY; Otis Spann, voc, org, p; ## Lucille Spann, voc; Luther Johnson, g; Sammy Lawhorn, g; Little Sonny Wimberly, b; S.P. Leary, dr * rec. 1968 in New York, NY; Otis Spann, voc, org, p; Victoria Spivey, voc; Paul Oscher, hca; Luther Johnson, g; Sammy Lawhorn, g; James 'Pee Wee' Madison, b; Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith, dr front cover photos (top to bottom): Otis and Lucille Spann (Dennis Chalkin), Willie Smith and James Madison (Pete Lowry), Sammy Lawhorn (Len Kunstadt), Lawrence Wimberly (Pete Lowry), Victoria Spivey (Len Kunstadt),
notes by Len Kunstadt notes by Len Kunstadt notes by Len Kunstadt notes by Len Kunstadt
Spivey Records discography | |||
| 27 | 1968 | Otis Spann: The Bottom Of The Blues@ youtube (full album playlist) - Heart Loaded With Trouble - Diving Duck - Shimmy Baby # - Look Like Twins * - I'm A Fool # - My Man # @ youtube - Down To Earth # - Nobody Knows - Doctor Blues rec. November 20, 1967 in New York City; Otis Spann, voc, p; # Lucille Spann, voc; * Muddy Waters, Luther Johnson, Sam Lawhorn, g; George Buford, hca; Sonny Wimberley, b; S.P. Leary, dr; prod. by Bob Thiele photographer: Dennis Chalkin
notes by Sheldon Harris notes by Sheldon Harris notes by Sheldon Harris notes by Sheldon Harris (=) MCA 11202 (US 1995) Bluesway Records discography etc., etc., etc. @ discogs.com | |||
| 28 | 9/1968 | Otis Spann - Can't Do Me No Good (SBH 10264) @ youtube - Bloody Murder (SBH 10265) # @ youtube rec. June 10, 1968 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, voc, p; Walter Horton, hca; Johnny Shines, g; Willie Dixon, b; Clifton James, dr
# Excello 2329 Blue Horizon Records discography | |||
| - Chains Of Love rec. September 26, 1968 in Los Angeles, Ca.; Lucille Spann, voc; Shakey Jake, hca; Otis Spann, p; Luther Allison, g; Robert "Big Mojo" Elem, b; Francis Clay, dr World Pacific unissued Capitol CD 36288 (1997) | |||||
| - Love With A Feelin' @ youtube rec. October 2, 1968 in Los Angeles, Ca.; Lucille Spann, voc; Otis Spann, p World Pacific unissued Capitol CD 36288 (1997) | |||||
| 29 | 1968 | Saint Louis Jimmy / Lucille & Otis Spann Saint Louis Jimmy With Jimmy Odens Blues Soul Stirrers - Going Down Slow * Lucille & Otis Spann - Night Time Is The Right Time # * rec. Chicago; St. Louis Jimmy, voc; Little Brother Montgomery, p; b; dr # rec. c.1968 in Chicago. Ill.; Otis Spann, voc, el-p; Lucille Spann, voc; Muddy Waters, Luther Allison, g; Lawrence "Little Sonny" Wimberley, b; S.P. Leary, dr | |||
| 30 | 1968 | Johnny Shines: Last Night's Dream - Solid Gold - From Dark 'Til Dawn - I Will Be Kind To You - Last Night's Dream - Baby Don't You Think I Know - Pipeline Blues - I Don't Know - Black Panther - I Had A Good Home - Mean Fisherman rec. and engineered June 10, 1968 [Blue Horizon BM 4607 says 'May 1968] by Malcolm Chrisholm at the Chess Records Ter-Mar studios in Chicago, Ill.; prod. by Mike Vernon; cover by Terence Ibbott; Johnny Shines, voc, g; Big Walter Horton, hca; Otis Spann, p; Willie Dixon, p; Clifton James, dr
notes by Mike Rowe
EPIC 88697192172 (2008) Blue Horizon Records discography | |||
| 31 | 1968 | Johnny Young: Blues Masters Vol. 9 / Fat Mandolin Blue Horizon BM 4609 / Blue Horizon 7-63852 track sequence: - Moaning And Groaning - Heard My Doorbell Ring - My Trainfare Out Of Town - Lula Mae - Jackson Bound - Walking Slow - Deal The Cards - Lend Me Your Love - Lorraine - Prison Bound - Little Girl - Mean Black Snake Sony/Blue Horizon CD track sequence: - Moaning And Groaning - Heard My Doorbell Ring - My Trainfare Out Of Town - Lula Mae - Jackson Bound [tk 1: false start/previously unreleased plus tk 2: master version/remix] - Walking Slow [master version/remix] - Deal The Cards [tk 1: previously unreleased] - Deal The Cards [tk 2: false start/previously unreleased plus tk 3: master version/remix] - Lend Me Your Love [tks 1, 2 & 3: false starts/previously unreleased plus tk 4: master version/remix] - Lorraine - Prison Bound [tks 1 & 2: false starts/previously unreleased plus tk 3: master version/remix] - Little Girl - Mean Black Snake [master version/remix] - Stealin' [previously unreleased] - Go Ahead On (With That Funky Broadway Sound) [tk 1: false start plus tk 2/previously unreleased] - Johnny's Mess Around [previously unreleased] rec. April 6, 1969 at the O.D.O. Studios in New York City; Johnny Young, voc, g, mand; Paul Osher, hca; Otis Spann, p; Sammy Lawhorn, g, b; S.P. Leary, dr. prod. by Bart Friedman and Otis Spann sleeve design of Blue Horizon 7-63852 ("Fat Mandolin") by Terence Ibbott
notes by Top Topham notes by Top Topham notes by Michael Vernon Blue Horizon Records discography | |||
| 32 | 1969 | Otis Spann: The Biggest Thing Since Colossus @ youtube (full album)- My Love Depends On You - Walkin' [Blue Horizon 57-3155, BH 304] - It Was A Big Thing - Temperature Is Rising (100.2° F) - Dig You - No More Doggin' (Rosco Gordon) - Ain't Nobody's Business (Jimmy Witherspoon) - She Needs Some Loving - I Need Some Air - Someday Baby rec. January 9, 1969 at Tempo Sound Studios in New York City, U.S.; Otis Spann, voc, p; Peter Green, g; Danny Kirwan, g; John McVie, b; S.P. Leary, dr; prod. by Mike Vernon sleeve design / photography by Terence Ibbott
notes by Mike Vernon Blue Horizon Records discography | |||
| 33 | 1969 | Fleetwood Mac: Blues Jam At Chess / In Chicago - Watch Out - Ooh Baby - South Indiana - take 1 (instr) - South Indiana - take 2 (instr) - Last Night - Red Hot Jam (instr) # @ youtube - Worlds In A Tangle * @ youtube - Talk With You * @ youtube - Like It This Way * @ youtube - Someday Soon Baby ** (Otis Spann, voc) @ youtube - Hungry Country Girl ** (Otis Spann, voc) @ youtube - I'm Worried - I Held My Baby Last Night - Madison Blues - I Can't Hold Out - I Need Your Love (tk 2) * (Walter Horton, voc) @ youtube - I Got The Blues * (Walter Horton, voc) @ youtube - Black Jack Blues # (J.T. Brown, voc) @ youtube - Everyday I Have The Blues - Rockin' Boogie (instr) # @ youtube - Sugar Mama * @ youtube - Homework * @ youtube CD bonus tracks: - Drifting - Fleetwood Mac 2004 expanded edition, Volume One: - Watch Out - Ooh Baby - South Indiana (tk 1) - South Indiana (tk 2) - Last Night - Red Hot Jam (tk 1) (instr) # [bonus track] @ youtube - Red Hot Jam (instr) # - I'm Worried - I Held My Baby Last Night - Madison Blues - I Can't Hold Out - Bobby's Rock (instr) [bonus track] - I Need Your Love (tk 2) * - Horton's Boogie Woogie (tk 1) * [bonus track] @ youtube - I Got The Blues * 2004 expanded edition, Volume Two: - World's In A Tangle * - Talk With You * - Like It This Way * - Someday Soon Baby ** (Otis Spann, voc) - Hungry Country Girl ** (Otis Spann, voc) - Black Jack Blues # - Every Day I Have The Blues # @ youtube - Rockin' Boogie # @ youtube - My Baby's Gone (Honeyboy Edwards, voc) # @ youtube - Sugar Mama (tk 1) * [bonus track] @ youtube - Sugar Mama * - Homework * - Honey Boy Blues (instr) # [bonus track] @ youtube - I Need Your Love (tk 1) * [bonus track] @ youtube - Horton's Boogie Woogie (tk 2) (Walter Horton, voc) * [bonus track] @ youtube - Have A Good Time (Walter Horton, voc) * [bonus track] @ youtube - That's Wrong (Walter Horton, voc) * [bonus track] @ youtube - Rock Me Baby (Walter Horton, voc) * [bonus track] @ youtube rec. January 4, 1969 at Chess Ter Mar Studios, 320 E. 21st St. in Chicago, IL # with David 'Honeyboy' Edwards, g with Otis Spann, * p, ** voc, p prod. by Mike Vernon and Marshall Chess session photographs by Jeff Lowenthal
gatefold DLP 2 LPs gatefold DLP gatefold DLP gatefold DLP
Blue Horizon Records discography a whole bunch of re-releases at www.discogs.com | |||
| 33a | 7/1969 | Otis Spann with Fleetwood Mac - Walkin' (SBH 10504-2) # [Blue Horizon 7-63217, BH 4802, 57-3155] @ youtube - Temperature Is Rising (98.8 Degrees F) (SBH 10512) [alt tk, not Blue Horizon 7-63217, BH 4802 version!] @ youtube rec. January 9, 1969 at Tempo Sound Studios in New York City, U.S.; Otis Spann, voc, p; Peter Green, g; Danny Kirwan, g; John McVie, b; S.P. Leary, dr; prod. by Mike Vernon
# Blue Horizon BH 304 Blue Horizon Records discography | |||
| 34 | 1969 | T-Bone Walker / Joe Turner / Otis Spann: Super Black Blues - Paris Blues # - Here Am I Broken Hearted - Jot's Blues - Blues Jam # rec. October 17, 1969 prob. Los Angeles; Joe Turner, voc, T-Bone Walker, voc, g; Otis Spann, voc, p; # George Smith, hca; Ron Brown, b; Arthur Wright, g; Ernie Watts, ts; Paul Humphrey, dr; prod. by Bob Thiele
notes by Stanley Dance
notes by Stanley Dance | |||
| 35 | 1969 | The Everlasting Blues vs. Otis Spann with Otis Spann, Johnny Young, Luther Johnson, Peter Malick, SP Leary - I'm A Bad Boy - You're Going To Miss Me When I'm Gone - Let Me Ride Your Mule # - Number 12 And 10 Train # - You Know You Don't Love Me Baby - Why Don't You Leave Me Alone - Where Is My Wife? - Going Back Home # rec. April 1969 in New York City; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Otis Spann, p; S.P. Leary, dr notes by Len Kunstadt Spivey Records discography | |||
| 36 | 1969 | OTIS SPANN And His Chicago Blues Band - Got My Mojo Working - Moon Blues from BluesTime BTS 9006
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| 37 | 1969 | In Our Own Way - Oldies But Goodies Chicken Shack - Hey Baby Duster Bennett - Raining In My Heart Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation - Cobwebs Champion Jack Dupree - I Haven't Done No-One No Harm Otis Spann - Bloody Murder [Blue Horizon 57-3142] Chicken Shack - Its Ok With Me Baby Guitar Crusher - Hambone Blues Bobby Parker - It's Hard But Its Fair Otis Spann - Can't Do Me No Good [Blue Horizon 57-3142] Chicken Shack - When My Left Eye Jumps Champion Jack Dupree - Ba' La Fouche Bobby Parker - I Couldn't Quit My Baby Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation - Warning Garfield Love - Part Time Love
Blue Horizon Records discography | |||
| 38 | 1969 | Otis Spann: Cracked Spanner Head - Crack Your Head @ youtube - Iced Nehi - Wagon Wheel - No Sense In Worrying - Dollar Twenty-Five - Everything's Gonna Be Alright - Lucky So And So - Sometimes I Wonder - Mr. Highway Man - What Will Become Of Me outtakes from Decca LK.4615, recorded in 1964 and adorned with overdubs in 1969; prod. by Mike Vernon
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| 39 | 1969 | Johnny Shines with Big Walter Horton Electrifying Performances By Two Masters Of Modern Chicago Blues, With Luther Allison - Hello Central * @ youtube - You Don't Have To Go # @ youtube - Sneakin' And Hidin' * @ youtube - 'Til I Made My Tonsils Sore # @ youtube - Fat Mama * @ youtube - Worried Life Blues # @ youtube - I Cry, I Cry * @ youtube - If It Ain't Me * [] @ youtube - I Want To Warn You, Baby # @ youtube - G.B. Blues # @ youtube Testament TCD-5015 bonus tracks: - I Cry, I Cry (alt tk) * @ youtube - Sneakin' And Hidin' Part 2 * @ youtube Floating World 2CD track sequence: CD 1: - Hello Central * - You Don't Have To Go # - Sneakin' And Hidin' * - 'Til I Made My Tonsils Sore # - Fat Mama * - G.B. Blues # - Worried Life Blues # - I Cry, I Cry * - If It Ain't Me * [] - I Want To Warn You, Baby # - I Cry, I Cry (alt tk) * - Sneakin' And Hidin' Part 2 * CD 2: - Standing At The Crossroads - Milk Cow's Troubles - Death Hearse Blues - Drunken Man's Prayer - Hoo Doo Snake Doctor's Blues - It's A Lowdown Dirty Shame - How Long - Crying Black Angel - Down In Spirit - Your Troubles Can't Be Like Mine - Kind-Hearted Woman - Baby Sister Blues - My Rat - Don't Take A Country Woman - Kind-Hearted Woman - Death Hearse Blues # rec. June 1966 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Shines, voc, g; Big Walter Horton, hca; Otis Spann, p; Lee Jackson, b; Fred Below, dr * rec. January 1969 in Los Angeles, LA; Johnny Shines, voc, g; Big Walter Horton, hca, [] voc; Luther Allison, g; Prince Candy, b; Bill Brown, dr cover illustration by Warren Hughey; back liner photo by Brad Barrett
notes by Pete Welding
two CD set Testament Records discography | |||
| 40 | 1969 | Goin' To Chicago Sam Lay Blues Band @ youtube (all three tracks) - Tell Me, Mama * - Walking By Myself * - I Can't Be Satisfied * Billy Boy Arnold Band - I Left My Happy Home # [Testament TCD-5018] @ youtube - Billy Boy's Jump # [Testament TCD-5018] @ youtube - Crying And Pleading # [Testament TCD-5018] @ youtube J.B. Hutto & The Hawks - Wild, Wild Woman § [Testament TCD-5020] @ youtube - Bluebird § [Testament TCD-5020] @ youtube Floyd Jones - Eddie Taylor Band - Playhouse Blues || [Testament TCD-5001] @ youtube - I Feel So Bad || [Testament TCD-5001] @ youtube - Sweet Talkin' Woman || [Testament TCD-5001] @ youtube * rec. June 1966 in Chicago, IL; Sam Lay, voc; Jeff Carp, hca; Boots Hamilton, p; Paul Asbell, g; Chester 'Geno' Skaggs, b; Billy Davenport, dr # rec. June 1966 in Chicago, IL; Billy Boy Arnold, voc, hca; Mighty Joe Young, Ted Mosley or Jody Williams, g; Jerome Arnold, b; Clifton James or Reynolds Howard, dr § rec. June 1966 in Chicago, IL; J.B. Hutto, voc, g; Walter Horton, hca; Johnny Young, g; Lee Jackson, b; Fred Below, dr || rec. 1966 in Chicago, IL; Floyd Jones, voc, g; Walter Horton, hca; Otis Spann, p; Eddie Taylor, b-g; Fred Below, dr cover photo by Curt Burkhardt; back liner photo by Raeburn Flerlage
Testament Records discography | |||
| 41 | 1969 | The Story Of The Blues Fra-Fra Tribesmen - Yarum Praise Songs Mississippi John Hurt - Stack O' Lee Blues Blind Willie McTell - Travelin' Blues Charley Patton - Stone Pony Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson - Black Snake Moan Leadbelly - Pig Meat Papa Texas Alexander - Broken Yo-yo Peg Leg Howell - Broke And Hungry Blues Barbecue Bob - It Won't Be Long Now Henry Williams - Georgia Crawl Mississippi Jook Band - Dangerous Woman Memphis Jug Band - Gator Wobble Bessie Smith - In The House Blues Lillian Glinn - Shake It Down Bertha 'Chippie' Hill - Pratt City Blues Butterbeans And Susie - What It Takes To Bring You Back (Mama Keeps It All The Time) Leroy Carr - Midnight Hour Blues Faber Smith - East St Louis Blues Peetie Wheatstraw - Good Whiskey Blues Casey Bill - W.P.A. Blues Bo Carter - Sorry Feeling Blues Robert Johnson - Little Queen Of Spades Bukka White - Parchman Farm Blues Memphis Minnie - Me And My Chauffeur Blues Blind Boy Fuller - I Want Some Of Your Pie Brownie McGhee - Million Lonesome Woman Joe Williams - Wild Cow Moan Big Bill Broonzy - All By Myself Joe Turner - Roll 'Em Pete Otis Spann - Bloody Murder Elmore James - Sunnyland Johnny Shines - I Don't Know compiled by Paul Oliver
DLP | |||
| 42 | 197? | Raw Blues Now Otis Spann - Pretty Girls Everywhere [Decca LK 4681] John Mayall - Burn Out Your Blind Eyes Champion Jack Dupree - Calcutta Blues John Mayall & Steve Anglo - Long Night Otis Spann - Country Boy [Ace of Clubs 1220] Curtis Jones - You Got Good Business John Mayall & Eric Clapton - Lonely Years Peter Green & John Mayall - Evil Woman Blues Otis Spann - My Home In The Desert [Ace of Clubs 1220] John Mayall - Milkman Strut Champion Jack Dupree - 24 Hours Of Fear Curtis Jones - Roll Me Over John Mayall & Eric Clapton - Bernard Jenkins Otis Spann - You Gonna Need My Help [Ace of Clubs 1220] Savoy Brown Blues Band - Little Girl Eddie Boyd - Vacation From The Blues Savoy Brown Blues Band - Shake 'Em On Down John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Double Trouble Eddie Boyd - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie Savoy Brown Blues Band - I Smell Trouble Eddie Boyd - Too Bad Part 1 / Too Bad Part 2 John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Jenny Savoy Brown Blues Band - The Doormouse Rides The Rails Amen Corner - Gin House Blues Eddie Boyd - Letter Missin' Blues Savoy Brown Blues Band - Black Night
2 LP boxset | |||
| 43 | 1970 | The Best Of The Chicago Blues Jimmy Cotton - Love Me Or Leave Me Jimmy Cotton - Next Time You See Me Junior Wells - Vietcong Blues Otis Spann - Spann's Stomp Buddy Guy - One Room Country Shack J.B. Hutto - That's The Truth Homesick James - Somebody Been Talkin' [Vanguard VRS 9217] Buddy Guy - I Had A Dream Last Night Junior Wells - When My Baby Left Me Otis Spann - Twisted Snake Buddy Guy - Sweet Little Angel Jimmy Cotton - Rocket 88 Otis Spann - Mule Kicking In My Stall Jimmy Cotton - The Blues Keep Falling Big Walter Horton - Rockin' My Boogie Otis Spann - Blues Is A Botheration Otis Spann - S.P. Blues Junior Wells - Five Long Years Junior Wells - Checking On My Baby Otis Spann - Some Day Buddy Guy - Money (That's What I Want) Johnny Young - Stealin' Back Junior Wells - Tobacco Road
DLP
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| 44 | 1970 | Otis Spann: Sweet Giant of the Blues - Got My Mojo Working - Sellin' My Thing - Moon Blues - I'm A Dues Payin' Man - I Wonder Why - Bird In A Cage - Hey Baby - Make A Way front cover photo by Irv Glaser back cover photo by Charles "Chuck" Stewart
notes by Sheldon Harris
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| 45 | 1970 | Blues Special The Graham Bond Organisation - Hoochie Cooche Man - Strut Around - Hi Heel Sneakers - Wade in the Water - Little Girl - Long Legged Baby Otis Spann with Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters - Stirs Me Up Ronnie Jones and The Nighttimers - I Need Your Loving Curtis Jones with Alexis Korner - Shake It Baby Mae Mercer - Sweet Little Angel Champion Jack Dupree with Keith Smith - All Right [Decca DFE 8586, Decca LK 4681] - I'm A Prisoner [Decca LK 4681] The Graham Bond Organisation: Graham Bond, Dick Heckstall Smith, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker
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| 46 | 1970 | How Blue Can We Get? Volume I: White Fleetwood Mac - Watch Out Jellybread - Don't Pay Them No Mind Top Topham - Mini-Minor-Mo Duster Bennett - What A Dream Bacon Fat - Boom, Boom (Out Goes The Lights) Chicken Shack - Evelyn Christine Perfect - And That's Saying A Lot Bacon Fat - Small's On 53rd Fleetwood Mac - I'm Worried Chicken Shack - The Way It Is Jellybread - No Brag, Just Facts (parts 1 and 2) Fleetwood Mac - Rambling Pony Volume II: Black Elmore James - Hand In Hand Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - That's Alright Magic Sam - All Your Love Larry Johnson - Catfish Blues Otis Spann - My Love Depends On You Furry Lewis - Casey Jones Champion Jack Dupree - Grandma (You're A Bit Too Slow) George Smith - No Time For Jive Johnny Young - Deal The Cards Roosevelt Holts - Little Bitty Woman Bukka White - Bed Spring Blues Mississippi Joe Callicott - On My Last Go Round Otis Rush - Jump Sister Bessie
DLP DLP Blue Horizon Records discography | |||
| 47 | 1970 | Otis Spann: Cryin' Time - Home To Mississippi - Blues Is A Botheration - You Said You'd Be On Time - Cryin' Time - Blind Man # @ youtube - Some Day # @ youtube - Twisted Snake - Green Flowers - The New Boogaloo - Mule Kicking In My Stall CD bonus tracks: - Blues Jam - He's Got The Whole World In His Hands # - My God rec. March 7, 20 & 21, 1968 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, voc, p, org; Barry Melton, g; Luther 'Georgis Boy' Johnson, g; Jos Davidson, b; Lonnie Taylor, dr; # Lucille Spann, voc
notes by Otis Spann = Vanguard KICP-2510 (Jp) (=) Vanguard CD 79537 (US 1999) "The Best of the Vanguard Years" | |||
| 48 | 1970 | Blue Rocks - Got My Mojo Working - Otis Spann - Everyday I Have the Blues - T-Bone Walker - Alimony Blues - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - Corrine, Corrina - Joe Turner / B.B. King / T-Bone Walker - For B.B. King - T-Bone Walker - Cleanhead Blues - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - Juice Head Baby - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - Shake, Rattle and Roll - Joe Turner - Moon Blues - Otis Spann - Shake It Baby - T-Bone Walker - How Long, How Long Blues - Joe Turner - I Wonder Why - Otis Spann
= RCA SF 8427 (UK 1973) | |||
| - Country Girl * - Get On Down To The Nitty Gritty # * - Long Distance Call # * - I Got My Mojo Working # * - Chains Of Love * - Stomp With Spann * - My Baby (Sweet As An Apple) § * - I Wonder Why * - My Man * - Since I Fell For You - Stormy Monday rec. April 2-4, 1970 in Boston; Otis Spann, p; Lucille Spann, voc; Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, # g + voc, § g; Peter Malick, g; Ted Parkins, b; Richard Ponte, dr; prod by Peter Malick unissued * Mr. Cat Music MCAT 1014 (US 2000) | |||||
| 48a | 1970 | Junior Wells with Buddy Guy & Otis Spann: Southside Blues Jam - Stop Breaking Down - I Could Have Had Religion # - Just Make Love To Me # - Lend Me Your Love - Long Distance Call - Blues For Mayor Daley - In My Younger Days # - Trouble Don't Last Alaways Delmark DE-628 (2012) bonus tracks: - It's Too Late Brother - Warmin' Up - Love Me Baby - I Could Have Had Religion (alt tk) - Rock Me - Lexington Movies - Got To Play The Blues rec. December 30, 1969 and January 8, 1970 in Chicago, IL; Junior Wells, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; Buddy Guy, g (except #); # Louis Myers, g; Earnest Johnson, b; Fred Below, dr front cover photo by Greg Roberts [aka Bob Koester], back cover photos by Ray Flerlage (top left), Zbigniew Jastrzebski (top right) & Greg Roberts (bottom)
notes by The Delmark Staff "7 West Grand - Chicago 60610" "4243 N. Lincoln - Chicago, Ill." (on labels) "4121 N. Rockwell - Chicago, IL 60618" (on labels) notes by Jacques Jerome notes by The Delmark Staff "distributed by Talent Record Co Ltd."
notes (English & German) by Wolfgang Behr notes by Toyo Nakamura
= Delmark LP DS-628 (US 2010)
notes by Michael Cuscuna Delmark Records discography | |||
| 48b | 1971 | OTIS SPANN - The Bible Don't Lie # - Los Angeles Midnight Groove (instr) * rec. 1964 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, p, # voc; J.T. Brown, # cl, * ts; g; b; dr | |||
| 48c | 1971 | OTIS SPANN - T-99 (A) # @ youtube - Love (B) (instr) * @ youtube unissued tracks from same session: - I'm A Lonely Man - Somebody Is Knocking At Your Door rec. 1964 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, p, # voc; J.T. Brown, * cl; g; b; dr | |||
| 49 | 1971 | Nothing But The Blues The record companion to Hanover Publications' book "Nothing But The Blues" compiled by the Editors of Blues Unlimited LP 1: J.B. Lenoir - I Don't Care What Nobody Say [Blue Horizon 1004] Juke Boy Bonner - Runnin' Shoes [Blues Unlimited 101] Doctor Ross - Goin' Down Slow [Blue Horizon LP-1] Model 'T' Slim - Woman's The Glory Of Man [Audio Blues AB-1933-A] Little Mack Simmons - Come Back [C.-J. 606] Johnny Shines - Pipeline Blues [Blue Horizon 7-63212] Boozoo Chavis - Forty One Days [Folk Star 1201] Hop Wilson - That Wouldn't Satisfy [Goldband G-1071] Big Walter - My Tears [Flyright LP 4700] Lonesome Sundown - I Stood By [Excello 2145] Arthur Gunter - Don't Leave Me Now [Excello 2147] Rockin' Sydney - Keep On Pushin' [previously unissued] LP 2: B.B. King - Eyesight To The Blind [Kent 441] Otis Rush - All Your Love (I Miss Loving) [Cobra 5032] Buddy Guy - Sit And Cry (The Blues) [Artistic 1501] John Brim - Lifetime Baby [previously unissued] Elmore James - Goin' For Good [previously unissued] Magic Sam - All Night Long [Cobra 5025] Lightnin' Slim - Greyhound Blues [Excello 2252] Slim Harpo - Loving You (The Way I Do) [Excello 2282] Otis Spann - Can't Do Me No Good [Blue Horizon 57-3142] Sunnyland Slim - Midnight Jump [Blue Horizon 7-63213] Johnny Young - Moaning And Groaning [Blue Horizon 7-63852] George Smith - Telephone Blues [Blue Horizon7-63858] compiled by Mike Leadbitter & Mike Vernon
2 LP set
DLP accompanying the book by the same title: | |||
| 50 | 1971 | Otis Spann: I Was Raised In Mississippi Fontana 6434 904 track sequence: - Beat-Up Team (5:57) - My Daily Wish (4:22) # - Great Northern Stomp (4:13) - Rambling On My Mind (4:00) # - Worried Life Blues (4:18) - The Hard Way (5:05) - Take A Little Walk With Me (3:27) # - Otis In The Dark (4:36) - Little Boy Blue (3:41) # - Country Boy (4:28) BYG 529512 track sequence: - Got Me A Beat-Up Team - Get You Off My Mind (= "My Daily Wish") # - Spann's Boogie (= "Great Northern Stomp") - Rambling On My Mind # - Worried Life Blues - I Grew Up The Hard Way - Take A Walk With Me # - Otis Alone (= "Otis In The Dark") - Come Blow Your Horn (= "Little Boy Blue") # - I'm Just A Country Boy all tracks first released on Candid 8001/9001 rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; Otis Spann, voc, p; Robert Lockwood, g, # voc; originally engineered by George Piros; originally prod. by Nat Hentoff
notes (English/German) by Wolfgang Behr
Robert Lockwood discography | |||
| 51 | 12/1971 | OTIS SPANN WITH FLEETWOOD MAC - Hungry Country Girl [Blue Horizon 7-66227, BH 3801] OTIS SPANN - Walkin' [Blue Horizon 7-63217, BH 4802, 57-3155] # rec. January 9, 1969 at Tempo Sound Studios in New York City, U.S.; Otis Spann, voc, p; Peter Green, g; Danny Kirwan, g; John McVie, b; S.P. Leary, dr; prod. by Mike Vernon
Blue Horizon Records discography | |||
| 52 | 1972 | OTIS SPANN - Bloody Murder [Blue Horizon 57-3142] - Blues For Hippies (SBH-10506) # @ youtube # rec. January 9, 1969 in New York, NY; Otis Spann, voc, p; Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, g; John McVie, b; S.P. Leary, dr
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| 53 | 1972 | Blues Piano Orgy Speckled Red - Blues Hurt My Tongue To Talk (4:12) // @ youtube Curtis Jones - Tin Pan Alley Blues (3:06) § @ youtube Sunnyland Slim - My Baby's Coming With A Marriage License (3:13) ## @ youtube - Every Time I Get To Drinkin' (3:09) ## Little Brother Montgomery - Stendahl Stomp (2:49) || @ youtube - Tremblin' Blues (3:05) || Little Brother Montgomery - No Special Rider (2:38) || - Bass Key Boogie (2:57) || @ youtube Roosevelt Sykes - Dresser Drawers (2:43) ## - Concentration Blues (2:56) ## @ youtube - Kickin' Motor Scooter (2:51) # @ youtube Otis Spann - Three-In-One Blues (2:25) [] @ youtube
Delmark CD DE-626 bonus tracks:
notes by Bob Koester "Delmark Records, 4243 North Lincoln, Chicago, Illinois 60618"
notes by Bob Koester "Delmark Records, 4121 North Rockwell, Chicago, Illinois 60618" Delmark Records discography | |||
| 54 | 1972 | Otis Spann: Walking The Blues Featuring: St. Louis Jimmy and Robert Lockwood, Jr. Barnaby KZ 31290 track sequence: - It Must Have Been The Devil # - Otis' Blues (Spann piano solo) - Going Down Slow * - Half Ain't Been Told # - Monkey Face Woman * - This Is The Blues (Spann piano solo) - Evil Ways # - Come Day, Go Day (tk 2) * - Walking The Blues (Spann piano solo) - Bad Condition * - My Home Is On The Delta # CrossCut CCR 1004 track sequence (°° bonus tracks): - It Must Have Been The Devil # (3:44) - Otis' Blues (Spann piano solo) (4:11) - Going Down Slow * (3:54) - Half Ain't Been Told # (4:39) - Monkey Face Woman * (4:55) - This Is The Blues (Spann piano solo) (3:05) - Strange Woman (3:50) °° - Evil Ways # (3:50) - Come Day Go Day (tk 2) * (4:08) - Walking The Blues (Spann piano solo) (4:55) - When Things Go Wrong (4:54) °° - Bad Condition * (4:17) - My Home In The Delta # (3:10) rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; Otis Spann, p, # voc; * St. Louis Jimmy, voc; Robert Lockwood, g; prod. by Nat Hentoff Barnaby KZ 31290 photography by David Redfern CrossCut CCR 1004 photography by Valerie Wilmer Candid 9025/Candid CCD 79025 photography by Sylvia Pitcher [originally intended as Candid 8025/9025]
notes (March 1972) by Pete Welding notes (in German) by Manfred Miller notes by Tony Russell notes by Tony Russell quite a few more re-releases at discogs.com | |||
| 55 | 1972 | Muddy Waters: Rare Live Recordings Volume 1 - The Blues Ain't Nothin' (Otis Spann, voc) * - Trouble No More * - Five Long Years * - Got My Mojo Working ** - Captain, Captain (Muddy Waters, voc, ac g) § - T-99 (Otis Spann, voc) * - Blowin' These Blues || [short instr version of "Got my mojo workin'"] - Goodbye Baby # [actually "Blow Wind Blow", incomplete (part 2)] - Hoochie Coochie Man # - Honey Bee ## - Walking Through The Park # "All selections recorded 'live' at venues in U.S.A. & Europe" * rec. October 4, 1963 at Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt a.M., Germany (American Folk Blues Festival '63); Muddy Waters, voc; Otis Spann, p; Matt Murphy, g; Willie Dixon, b: Billy Stepney, dr; ** band voc § rec. || rec. ???; Muddy Waters, g [?]; Paul Butterfield, hca; Luther Johnson, g; Jerome Arnold, b; Sam Lay, dr # Radio broadcast November 1970, Stockholm, Sweden; Muddy Waters, voc, ## g; Carey Bell, hca; Joe 'Pinetop' Perkins, p; James 'Pee Wee' Madison, Sam Lawhorn g; Sonny Wimberley, b; Willie Smith dr "Photograph courtesy of Scandinavian Blues Association, Tegnergatan 21, S-852, 49 Sundsvall, Sweden"
cover plain white with photocopied inserts cover plain white with photocopied inserts and blank red labels Python Records discography | |||
| 56 | 1972 | Muddy Waters: Rare Live Recordings Volume 2 - Blues Riff (instr, incomplete) - You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had - Bloodstains On The Wall # - Hoochie Coochie Man No. 2 / version 2 - Got My Mojo Working No. 2 / version 2 - Long Distance Call - Country Boy - Have You Ever Been Mistreated? - What's Getting Wrong With Me * "All selections recorded 'live' at venues in U.S.A. & Europe" rec. October 21, 1968 at The Maltings, Snape, Suffolk, UK (BBC 2 TV Broadcast "Jazz At The Maltings"); Muddy Waters, voc, g; Paul Oscher, hca, Otis Spann, p, # voc; Luther 'Georgia Boy' Johnson, Pee Wee Madison, g; Sonny Wimberley, b; S.P. Leary, dr * rec. 1963 in Europe; Otis Spann, voc, p, Willie Dixon, b; Bill Stepney, dr "Photograph courtesy of Scandinavian Blues Association, Tegnergatan 21, S-852, 49 Sundsvall, Sweden" Muddy Waters & Sammy Lawhorn; previously published in Jefferson No. 14, 1971, p. 13 (accompanying Clas Ahlstrand's, Peter Måhlin's and Jan-Åke Petterson's Muddy Waters article/interview "Muddy Talkin'", pp. 6-14); photographer Bill Greensmith [?]
cover plain white with photocopied inserts cover plain white with photocopied inserts and blank black labels Python Records discography | |||
| 57 | 1972 | Muddy Waters: Rare Live Recordings Volume 3 Muddy Waters - Blow Wind, Blow - Trouble No More No. 2 - Built Up From The Ground # - Goin' Down Slow - Sonny Boy Williamson - Muddy's Mojo - Blowin' On Up Jimmy Rogers - My Home Is In Shelby County - You're Sweet # Otis Spann, voc, p
cover plain white with photocopied insert Python Records discography | |||
| 58 | 1972 | The Great Blues Men Vanguard VSD 25/26, LP 1: Homesick James - Set A Date John Lee Hooker - Dusty Road Sleepy John Estes - Corinna °° Muddy Waters - Nineteen Years Old Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues Mance Lipscomb - Blues In G Rev. Gary Davis - If I Had My Way °° Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Key To The Highway Otis Spann - Burning Fire Lightnin' Hopkins - Cotton Field Blues Big Bill Broonzy - Louise, Louise Blues Johnny Young - Tighten Up On It James Cotton - Ain't Nobody's Business Vanguard VSD 25/26, LP 2: Mississippi John Hurt - Moanin' The Blues Junior Wells - Stormy Monday Blues °° Johnny Shines - Dynaflow Blues Son House (+ Al Wilson) - Empire State Blues °° Sonny Terry - Mountain Blues Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - It's All Right, Baby Jimmy Rushing - How Long, How Long Blues Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues J. B. Hutto - Please Help Fred McDowell - Fred's Ramblin' Blues Ida Cox - Four Day Creep °° Robert Pete Williams - On My Way From Texas [Vanguard VRS 9180, Vanguard VCD 115/16 (US 1991) Newport Folk Festival discography
Vanguard VCD 25/26:
gatefold DLP gatefold DLP DLP, no gatefold, but 2-page leaflet notes Leroy J. Pierson lots of further editions at www.discogs.com | |||
| 58a | 197? | Real Bluesmen & Folksingers LP 1: - Dog Me Around - Howlin' Wolf - Lonesome Bedroom Blues - Curtis Jones - Red River - Sonny Terry - See See Rider - Lightnin' Hopkins - Texas Tony - Yank Rachell - Bad Boy - John Lee Hooker - In The Wee Wee Hours - Junior Wells - Nobody Knows Chicago Like I Do - Big Joe Williams - The Gallis Pole - Leadbelly - Pretty Boy Floyd - Woody Guthrie - Dust My Blues - Elmore James LP 2: - Prison Blues Come Down On Me - Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby, Please Lend Me Your Love - Otis Spann, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Crying At Daybreak - Howlin' Wolf - The House Carpenter - Pete Seeger - Buffalo Skinners - Woody Guthrie - Rambling On My Mind - 'Big Boy' Crudup - Gonna Boogie - John Lee Hooker - So Glad I'm Livin' - Sleepy John Estes - Looky, Looky Younder - Leadbelly - Johnny Hard - Cisco Houston
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| 59 | 1973 | Otis Spann: Heart Loaded With Trouble The Classic Blues of Otis Spann - Heart Loaded With Trouble * @ youtube - I'm A Fool * @ youtube - Doctor Blues * @ youtube - Looks Like Twins * @ youtube - Down To Earth [] * @ youtube - My Home Is On The Delta - Down On Sarah Street # - Spann Blues # - Chicago Blues - Brand New House # # rec. August 30, 1966 "at the Café Au Go-Go" [actually studio recordings with an audience] in New York City; Otis Spann, voc, p; George Smith, hca [without amplification]; Muddy Waters, Sammy Lawhorn, Luther Johnson, gs; Mac Arnold, b; Francis Clay, dr; prod. by Bob Thiele * rec. November 20, 1967 in New York City; Otis Spann, voc, p; [] Lucille Spann, voc; Muddy Waters, Luther Johnson, Sam Lawhorn, g; George Buford, hca; Sonny Wimberley, b; S.P. Leary, dr; prod. by Bob Thiele "Previously issued in other albums" (part of BLS 6003 and BLS 6013)
notes by Joel Selvin notes by Joel Selvin Bluesway Records discography | |||
| 60 | 1974 | The Best Of The Blues Big Bill Broonzy - Diggin' My Potatoes Spreckled [sic] Red - Uncle Sam's Blues Memphis Slim - Bertha May Champion Jack Dupree - Christina, Christina Blues Big Joe Williams - Vitamin A Blues Lonnie Johnson with Otis Spann - Don't Cry Baby [Storyville SLP 188] Roosevelt Sykes - The Way I Feel Sleepy John Estes - City Hall Blues John Henry Barbee - Early In The Morning Sunnyland Slim - One Room Country Shack Sonny Boy Williamson & Memphis Slim - Copenhagen Woman Otis Spann - Boots And Shoes [Storyville SLP 188] Champion Jack Dupree & Mogens Seidelin - Sporting Life Blues Memphis Slim - Blues Confession John Henry Barbee - That's Alright Sippie Wallace & Little Brother Montgomery - Suitcase Blues Roosevelt Sykes - No Money Down Memphis Slim - St. Louis Blues John Henry Barbee - Worried Life Blues Memphis Slim - Lonesome Blues Champion Jack Dupree - Number Nine Sippie Wallace & Roosevelt Sykes - You Don't Know My Mind Speckled Red - It Feels So Good Roosevelt Sykes - Baby Child
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Storyville Records discography | |||
| 61 | 1975 | Spivey's Blues Showcase Lefty Dizz - We're Gonna Boogie @ youtube - That's All Right Sparky Rucker - Black Snake Moan - Kind Hearted Woman Otis Spann - If I Could Hear My Mother Ralph Rush - Smuggling Man Danny Russo - Blues Before Sunrise Victoria Spivey - TB Blues Band - Kazoo Jump
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| 62 | 6/1975 | Genesis Vol. 3 - Sweet Home Chicago Album 1: 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 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: 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: 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: 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
'Genesis' discography | |||
| 62a | 1976 | Jimmy Rogers Chess Blues Masters Vol. 7 LP 1: - Left Me With A Broken Heart - Blues All Day Long - Today Today Blues - The World's In A Tangle - She Loves Another Man - Hard Working Man - Chance To Love - My Little Machine - Mistreated Baby - What's The Matter - You're The One - If It Ain't Me LP 2: - One Kiss - I Can't Believe - What Have I Done - My Baby Don't Love Me No More (8598) - Trace of You (alt tk) - Don't You Know My Baby - Crying Shame - Give Love Another Chance - This Has Never Been - Rock This House - My Last Meal - You Don't Know # - Can't Keep From Worrying # Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; Muddy Waters, g; Little Walter, hca; Big Crawford, b; Ernest Cotton, ts; Eddie Ware, p; "Elga Edmonds" [Elga Edmonds], dr; Bob Woodfork, g; Johnny Jones, p; Wille Dixon, b; AJ Gladney, dr; JT Brown, ts; Henry Gray, p; Fred Below, dr; Otis Spann, p; Walter Horton, hca; Joe Young, g; Odie Payne, dr; Wayne Bennett, g; Francis Clay, dr; SP Leary, dr; Luther Tucker, g; # Fred Robinson, g; George Hunter, dr DLP DLP DLP = MCA CH2-92505 | |||
| 63 | 1977 | Rare Gems Previously unissued Chicago blues recordings from the collection of Norman Dayron Roots TR 1005 LP 1 // TK Records TKR 82539: Little Brother Montgomery - Ain't Nobody Here But Me @ youtube John Lee Granderson - Bumble Bee @ youtube Robert Nighthawk - Murderin' Blues (= Goin' Down To Eli's = Cheatin' And Lyin' Blues) @ youtube @ Spotify Otis Spann - Hotel Lorraine @ youtube Big Joe Williams - Sinkin' Blues @ Spotify Johnnie Jones - Worried Life Blues @ youtube Rev. Robert Wilkins - Glory Glory Hallelujah @ youtube Big Joe Williams and Paul Butterfield - Wild Cow Moan @ Spotify Johnnie Jones with Billy Boy Arnold - I Hear My Black Name Ringing @ youtube James Cotton with Elvin Bishop - So Glad I'm Living @ Spotify Little Brother Montgomery - Buddy Bolden's Blues @ youtube Roots TR 1005 LP 2: Otis Spann - Blues For Martin Luther King @ youtube Robert Pete Williams - Ugly Man Blues @ Spotify Little Brother Montgomery - Prescription For The Blues @ youtube James Cotton with Elvin Bishop, Paul Butterfield - Diggin' My Potatoes @ Spotify J.B. Lenoir - My Dear Old Mother °° @ youtube Maxwell Street Jimmy - Someday Baby @ youtube James Cotton with Elvin Bishop, Paul Butterfield, Billy Boy Arnold - Three Harp Boogie (= South Side Boogie) @ youtube @ Spotify Big Joe Williams - Screamin' And Cryin' @ Spotify Little Brother Montgomery - Salty Dog @ youtube Robert Nighthawk - Medley: Annie Lee & Sweet Black Angel @ youtube @ Spotify Rev. Robert Wilkins - Just A Closer Walk With Thee (2:50) °° @ youtube °° not on Bullseye/Rounder CD BB 9530
Bullseye/Rounder CD BB 9530 track sequence
notes by Pete Welding = CBS S2BP 220205 (Australia 1977) notes by Pete Welding notes by Pete Welding | |||
| 64 | 1979 | Blues Roots: Give Me The Blues The Living Tradition LP 1: Smoky Babe - Boogy Avery Brady - I Don't Want You No More Doug Quattlebaum - Good Woman Blues Huddie Ledbetter - Frankie And Albert, parts 1 + 2 [Jimmy Brewer - Big Road Blues Even though shown on the cover as well as on the label track listing and even though there's a picture and a short bio of Jim Brewer in the liner notes, this Jim Brewer track is actually / erroneously? not included; instead there's the following Arthur Weston track !!!] Arthur Weston - Someday Baby Big Joe Williams - Long Road Blues Big Bill Broonzy - You Better Mind Clarence Edwards - Mean Old Frisco Bert Logan, Russ Logan, Big Joe Williams - Four O'Clock In The Morning Big Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires - 21 Below Zero Johnny Young - Green Door Blues Arthur Weston - Roll Me Over Slow LP 2: Champion Jack Dupree - Back Door Special Roosevelt Sykes - Southern Style Piano Henry Brown - Low Down Drag Memphis Slim - Funky Blues Jimmy Yancey - Yancey Special Sunnyland Slim - Sunnyland's Boogie Speckled Red - Cow Cow Blues Otis Spann - The Skies Are Blue Memphis Slim - A Letter Home Otis Spann - Boots And Shoes Memphis Slim - Rebecca Blues Willie Mabon - I'm The Fixer Champion Jack Dupree - I Just Want To Be Free compiled by Manfred Miller front cover lino-cut by Hartmut Heumann
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Storyville Records discography | |||
| 65 | 1980 | Otis Spann: Up in the Queen's Pad A Musical Parlor Social Deluxe!! - I Just Want A Little Bit (3:31) @ youtube - I'm Accused (8:36) - Vicksburg Blues (5:31) - Five Long Years (5:25) - Black Gal (2:47) # - Let's Look After Each Other (5:30) # - Help Me Somebody (3:22) # rec. April 1969 at "Queen's Pad" (Spivey's Apartment), Albany Avenue, Brooklyn, NY; Otis Spann, voc and p and percussive foot stomping; Sammy Lawhorn, g; Victoria Spivey, incidental chatter and piano frets, # voc; "Guess Who", kazoo; Parakeets, Tweet and Chirp
notes by Len Kunstadt Spivey Records discography | |||
| 66 | 1980 | Otis Spann: Otis Rides Again - Strange Woman # [previously unissued] - When Things Go Wrong *# [previously unissued] - Baby Child (tk 5) # [previously unissued] - Talkin' The Blues (tk 1) *#§ [previously unissued] - Woman Leave Me Alone (= Beat-Up Team) [previously unissued] - Instrumental Boogie (= Spann And Bob) [previously unissued] - Otis Rides Again (= Great Northern Stomp) [Candid 8001] - Don't Give Up The Ship (= Walking The Blues) [Barnaby KZ 31290] - One More Encore (= Otis In The Dark) [Candid 8001] - 3 Minute Number Boogie (= Otis' Blues) [Barnaby KZ 31290] # rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; St. Louis Jimmy, voc; Otis Spann, p, * voc; Robert Lockwood, g, § voc; prod. by Nat Hentoff
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| 67 | 1982 | Percy Sledge / Joe Simon / Otis Spann Percy Sledge - (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right (3:58) - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay (2:36) - Bring It On Home To Me (3:36) Joe Simon - My Adorable One (2:22) - Let's Do It Over (2:19) - The Whoopee (2:08) - It's A Miracle (2:15) Joe Simon - Say (That Your Love Is True) (2:22) - I Keep Remembering (2:30) Otis Spann - Otis' Blues (Otis Spann piano solo) (4:15) # [Barnaby KZ 31290] - Going Down Slow (3:53) # § [Barnaby KZ 31290] - Little Boy Blue (3:38) # * [Candid 8001/9001] # rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; Otis Spann, p; Robert Lockwood, g, * voc; § St. Louis Jimmy, voc; prod. by Nat Hentoff Otis Spann photo by Jean-Pierre Leloir
gatefold LP = Sarpe GER-32 (Spain 1983) ("Las Grandes Estrellas Del Rock # 32) | |||
| 67a | 1982 | Shirley & Lee / Otis Spann Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Crazy 'Bout You Baby (2:50) - Sliding (2:33) - She Loves So Easy (2:39) Otis Spann - Monkey Woman (4:53) # § [Barnaby KZ 31290] - Come Day Go Day (4:07) # § [Barnaby KZ 31290] The Impressions - Young Lover (2:06) - Lover's Lane (2:13) - A Long Time Ago (2:20) - Señorita I Love You (2:28) - A New Love (2:04) - Believe In Me (2:05) - At The Country Fair (2:01) - Let Me Know (2:35) # rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; Otis Spann, p; Robert Lockwood, g; § St. Louis Jimmy, voc; prod. by Nat Hentoff
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| 67b | 1982 | Mike Bloomfield & Electric Flag / Otis Spann Mike Bloomfield & The Electric Flag - Kansas City (3:35) - Linda Lou (3:50) - Blues In B Flat (6:00) - Medley: Darktown Strutter's Ball / Mop Mop / Call Me A Dog (4:00) - Great Gifts From Heaven (3:35) Otis Spann - This Is The Blues (3:05) # [Barnaby KZ 31290] - Evil Ways (3:50) # [Barnaby KZ 31290] - Walking The Blues (4:52) # [Barnaby KZ 31290] - The Hard Way (5:02) # [Candid 8001/9001] # rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; Otis Spann, p; Robert Lockwood, g; prod. by Nat Hentoff Otis Spann photos by Jean-Pierre Leloir
gatefold LP = Sarpe GER-36 (Spain 1983) ("Las Grandes Estrellas Del Rock # 36) | |||
| 67c | 1982 | Shirley & Lee / Otis Spann Shirley & Lee - Bewildered - Ya Moves Me - Let's Live It Up - Two Peas In A Pod - After Last Night Otis Spann - Must Have Been The Devil (3:41) [Candid 8001/9001] - Great Northern Stomp (4:15) [Candid 8001/9001] Otis Spann - My Home In The Delta (3:09) # [Candid 8001/9001] - Worried Life Blues (4:20) # [Candid 8001/9001] - Meet Me In The Bottom * (3:30) [previously unissued] - Chicago Blues * (5:50) [previously unissued] - Spann's Boogie (instr) * (3:45) [previously unissued] # rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; Otis Spann, p; Robert Lockwood, g; prod. by Nat Hentoff * rec. May 12, 1964 at Maison de la Radio (ORTF), Paris France; Otis Spann, voc, p; Ransom Knowling, b; Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, dr Otis Spann photo by Jean-Pierre Leloir
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| 68 | 1983 | New York Really Has The "Blues Stars" Vol. 4 Johnny Allen - I'm Bad Murch - I'm Going To Send You Back To Your Mother Harry Holt - Crosscut Saw Louvet Jackson - Please, Please, Please Bill Dicey - Walking Blues Nat Riddles - Cross My Heart @ youtube Chuck Hancock - Cissy Strut Victoria Spivey & The Muddy Waters Blues Band - Gave It All To Me (alt tk) # # rec. November 25, 1966 in New York; Victoria Spivey, voc; Otis Spann, p, org, voc; George Smith, hca, # whistling, voc; Luther "Georgia Boy - Snake" Johnson, b, voc; "Main Stream" (Muddy Waters), Samuel Lawhorn, g; Francis Clay, dr
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| 68a | 1983 | Chess Masters - Chicago Blues Johnny Jones - Big Town Playboy Johnny Jones - Shelby County Blue Smitty - Sad Story [Chess 1522] Blue Smitty - Elgin Movements [Chess unissued] Blue Smitty - Date Bait [Chess unissued] Eddie Boyd - Twenty Four Hours J B Lenoir - Eisenhower Blues J B Lenoir - Sitting Down Thinking John Brim - It Was A Dream Henry Gray - I Declare That Ain't Right Henry Gray - Matchbox Blues John Brim - Lifetime Baby Otis Spann - It Must Have Been The Devil Otis Spann - Five Spot John Brim - Go Away John Brim - That Ain't Right Jimmy Rogers - You're The One Jimmy Rogers - If It Ain't Me Muddy Waters - Rock Me Jimmy Rogers - One Kiss Howlin' Wolf - I'm Leavin' You Buddy Guy - Let Me Love You Baby Buddy Guy - My Time After Awhile Robert Nighthawk - Someday concept by Matt Haywood; compiled by Leslie Fancourt & Matt Haywood
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| 69 | 1983 | Piano Blues Legends Professor Longhair - P.L. Bounce Lyin' Joe Holley - Sea-Sick & Waterbound - With You On My Mind - Mother Fuyer - Goin' Down Slow Little Brother Montgomery - St. Louis Blues Otis Spann - T.99 - Blood Stains On The Wall - Why Should I Cry - Blues Ain't Nothing' But A Botheration - I Got A Gal
JSP Records discography | |||
| 70 | 1984 | Otis Spann: Take Me Back Home - I'd Rather Be The Devil (2:48) [previously unissued] @ youtube - Nobody Knows (4:12) [previously unissued] - Pretty Girls Everywhere (2:55) [Decca LK 4681] - Mojo Rock & Roll (2:17) [Decca LK 4681] - Country Boy (3:29) [Ace of Clubs ACL/SCL 1220] - Stirs Me Up (2:29) [Decca LK 4681] - Woman Leave Me Alone (6:32) [Picc-A-Dilly 3488] - Baby Child (tk 1) (4:02) [Crosscut CCR 1003] - Strange Woman (3:50) # [Picc-A-Dilly 3488] - Instrumental Boogie (3:09) [Picc-A-Dilly 3488] - When Things Go Wrong (4:54) [Picc-A-Dilly 3488] - Talkin' The Blues (tk 1) (5:16) *# [Picc-A-Dilly 3488] # rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; St. Louis Jimmy, voc; Otis Spann, p, * voc; Robert Lockwood, g, * voc prod. by Mike Vernon (tracks A1 to A6), Nat Hentoff (tracks B1 to B6) front cover photo by Val Wilmer, back cover photography by Georges Adins, Robert Lockwood Jr. photo by Yannick Bruynoghe
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| 71 | 1984 | Otis Spann: Rarest Recordings featuring Muddy Waters & James Cotton - Catfish Blues - Boogie Woogie - Slow Blues - Jump Blues - St. Louis Blues - Everything Gonna Be Alright - Love Me Or Leave Me - Why Did She Have To Go - Spann Boogie - Why Should I Cry side 1, tracks 1 to 5: Otis Spann, voc, p; James Cotton, hca; Muddy Waters, Pat Hare, g; Andrew Stephensen, b; Francis Clay, dr side 1, track 6 and side 2: Otis Spann, voc, p; unknown accompanists
notes by Anonymous (most likely John Stedman) JSP Records discography | |||
| 71a | 1984 | Chicago Piano-ology Otis Spann - I'm Leaving You [previously unissued] - I'm In Love With You Baby [previously unissued] - It Must Have Been The Devil [Checker 807] - Five Spot [Checker 807] Little Henry - I Declare That Ain't Right (tk 2) - I Declare That Ain't Right (tk 4) - Matchbox Blues Little Johnny Jones - Big Town Playboy - Shelby County Blues Eddie Ware - Wandering Lover - Rumba Dust - I Found Out - Lima Beans Sunnyland Slim - Johnson Machine Gun - Fly Right Little Girl
notes (July 1988) by Chris Bentley | |||
| 72 | 1987 | Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band with Sippie Wallace and Otis Spann Jug Band Blues @ youtube (full album)- Loving Sam (The Sheik from Alabam) - Mighty Tight Woman * - Black Snake Blues || - Special Delivery - Jelly Roll Blues || - Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This Morning - Separation Blues * - Gambler's Dream || - Up The Country # - Muhammed Ali || - You Got To Know How - Everybody Loves My Baby [] unissued tracks from same session: - Hard Boiled Mama - Shorty George - Why Can't We Get Along - Leavin' Me Daddy rec. November 21/22, 1967 in New York, NY; Sippie Wallace, voc, # p; * Maria Muldaur, voc; || Otis Spann, p; Jim Kweskin, g, comb; Geoff Muldaur, cl, g, mand, washb, kazoo; Bill Keith, bj; Richard Greene, vl; Fritz Richmond, washtub b, jug; [] ensemble voc session originally intended for Reprise
Jim Kweskin discography | |||
| 73 | 1992 | The Complete Candid Otis Spann, Lightnin' Hopkins Sessions Otis Spann / Robert Lockwood / St. Louis Jimmy - Beat-Up Team (first version) [previously unissued] - Great Northern Stomp (instr) [Candid CJM 8001 / CJS 9001] - Cow Cow Blues (instr) [previously unissued] - Walkin' The Blues (instr) [( - Otis In The Dark (instr) [Candid CJM 8001 / CJS 9001] - This Is The Blues (instr) [( - Worried Life Blues [Candid CJM 8001 / CJS 9001] - Country Boy [Candid CJM 8001 / CJS 9001] - Beat-Up Team [Candid CJM 8001 / CJS 9001] LP 2: - The Hard Way [Candid CJM 8001 / CJS 9001] - My Home Is On The Delta [( - It Must Have Been The Devil [( - Take A Little Walk With Me (Robert Lockwood Jr., voc) [Candid CJM 8001 / CJS 9001] - Ramblin' On My Mind #2 (Robert Lockwood Jr., voc) [Candid CJM 8001 / CJS 9001] - Little Boy Blue (Robert Lockwood Jr., voc) [Candid CJM 8001 / CJS 9001] - My Daily Wish (Robert Lockwood Jr., voc) [Candid CJM 8001 / CJS 9001] - Monkey Face Blues # [( - One Doggone Reason # [previously unissued] - Strange Woman Blues # [Picc-A-Dilly 3488] LP 3: - It Hurts Me Too # [Picc-A-Dilly 3488] - Baby Child ("tk 3", actually tk 1) # [Crosscut CCR 1003, Black Magic 9004] - Baby Child (tk 5) # [Picc-A-Dilly 3488] - Talkin' The Blues (tk 1) # [Black Magic BM 9004] - Talkin' The Blues (tk 3) # [previously unissued] - Can't Stand Your Evil Ways (tk 2) [previously unissued] - Otis' Blues [( - Half Ain't Been Told [( - (Can't Stand Your) Evil Ways (tk 4) [( LP 4: - Goin' Down Slow # [( - The Girl I Love [previously unissued] - Bad Condition # [( - Come Day, Go Day (tk 2) # [( - Come Day, Go Day (tk 3) # [previously unissued] - Rainy Highway - When My First Wife Quit Me - Walk On - Lightnin's Guitar Boogie - I've Had My Fun If I Don't Get Well No More - Mister Charlie LP 5: - Mighty Crazy - Wonder Why - Black Cat - The Trouble Blues - Your Own Fault, Baby, To Treat Me The Way You Do - Lightnin's Piano Boogie - Take It Easy - Come Go Home With Me # rec. August 23, 1960 at Fine Recording Studios in New York, NY; Otis Spann, p, voc; St. Louis Jimmy, voc; Robert Lockwood, g, voc; prod. by Nat Hentoff
5 LP box set 3 CD box set | |||
| 74 | 1992 | Blues Giants In Concert More American Folk Blues Festival 1963 a/k/a "The Lost Blues Tapes, Vol. 2" Memphis Slim - Blues Everywhere (2:29) Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon - John Henry (2:50) Muddy Waters - Captain Captain (3:47) Muddy Waters - Catfish Blues (2:59) Muddy Waters - In The City (= "Blow Wind Blow") # (3:56) Muddy Waters - I Feel Like Cryin' (= "My Home Is In The Delta") # (5:07) Sonny Boy Williamson - Your Love For Me Is True (= "That's All I Want Baby") # (4:51) Sonny Boy Williamson - Don't Misuse Me # (4:57) Sonny Boy Williamson - I'm Gettin' Tired (3:04) Otis Spann - Going Down Slow (alt version) (= "Had My Fun") ## (3:32) Lonnie Johnson - Careless Love (3:13) Lonnie Johnson - C.C. Rider (2:36) Victoria Spivey - T.B. Blues (4:33) Big Joe Williams - Big Roll Blues (2:55) Big Joe Williams - Back In The Bottom (3:16) Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go (2:21) # rec. October 13, 1963 "live" in Bremen, Germany; Otis Spann, p, ## voc; prod. by Siegfried Loch, co-producer: Horst Lippmann
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| 75 | 1990 | Otis Spann: This Is The Blues / My Home In The Delta Roots RTS 113014 track sequence: - Country Boy (4:27) [Candid 8001/9001] - My Daily Wish (4:28) # [Candid 8001/9001] - Great Northern Stomp (4:18) [Candid 8001/9001] - I Got Rambling On My Mind (no. 2) (4:04) # [Candid 8001/9001] - Worried Life Blues (4:20) [Candid 8001/9001] - The Hard Way (5:06) [Candid 8001/9001] - Half Ain't Been Told (4:40) [Barnaby KZ31290] - Monkey Woman * (4:56) [Barnaby KZ31290] - This Is The Blues (3:06) [Barnaby KZ31290] - Beat-Up Team (6:01) [Candid 8001/9001] - Come Day Come Go [sic] (4:10) [Barnaby KZ31290] - Bad Condition * (4:21) [Barnaby KZ31290] - My Home Is [sic] In The Delta (3:13) [Barnaby KZ31290]
Editions Atlas BLU-CD 3063 / Orbis BLU NC 032 track sequence:
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| 75a | 1992 | Chess Blues disc 1: - Lollypop Mama - Clarence Samuels - Bilbo Is Dead - Andrew Tibbs - Johnson Machine Gun - Sunnyland Slim - Fly Right, Little Girl - Sunnyland Slim - Little Anna Mae - Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied - Muddy Waters - My Sweet Lovin' Woman - Robert Nighthawk - I Feel Like Going Home - Muddy Waters - She Ain't Nowhere - Sunnyland Slim - Florida Hurricane - St. Louis Jimmy - Memory Of Sonny Boy - Forest City Joe - Tonky Boogie - Forrest Sykes - Cryin' The Blues - Laura Rucker - My Head Can't Rest Anymore - Baby Face Leroy - Big Town Playboy - Johnny Jones - Sweet Black Angel - Robert Nighthawk - Rollin' Stone - Muddy Waters - Luedella - Jimmy Rogers - Mother Earth - Memphis Slim - Dr. Ross' Boogie - Doctor Ross - Joliet Blues - Johnny Shines - Moanin' At Midnight - Howlin' Wolf - All Night Long - Muddy Waters (alt tk) - Mr. Commissioner - Arbee Stidham (alt tk) - Getting Old And Grey - Howlin' Wolf disc 2: - Walkin' The Boogie - John Lee Hooker Alternate Take - Juke - Little Walter - Conjur Man - Memphis Minnie - Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I'm Gone - Muddy Waters - Broken Heart (alt tk) - Memphis Minnie - Truckin' Little Woman - Willie Nix - Funeral Hearse At My Door - Rocky Fuller - Hard Time Gettin' Started - Eddie Boyd - Don't Need No Horse - Little Walter - Eight Ball - Gus Jenkins - Fast Boogie - Little Walter - I'm Mad - Willie Mabon - Ice Cream Man - John Brim - Whose Muddy Shoes - Elmore James - Got To Have It - Willie Mabon - I Declare That Ain't Right - Henry Gray - Remember - Alberta Adams - [Untitled Instrumental] - Henry Gray - Blues With A Feeling - Little Walter - (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters - Forty-Four - Howlin' Wolf - Got To Find My Baby (alt tk) - Little Walter - Evil - Howlin' Wolf - Reconsider Baby - Lowell Fulson - Mama Talk To Your Daughter - J.B. Lenoir disc 3: - Mellow Down Easy - Little Walter - My Eyes (Keep Me in Trouble) - Muddy Waters - My Baby - Little Walter - You Got To Love Me - Billy Boy Arnold - Walking The Blues - Willie Dixon - Don't Start Me To Talkin' - Sonny Boy Williamson II - Smokestack Lightning - Howlin' Wolf - Twenty-Nine Ways To My Baby's Door - Willie Dixon - Right To Love You - Paul Gayton - Ain't Nobody's Business - Jimmy Witherspoon - I'm Leaving You - Otis Spann - Break Of Day - Howlin' Wolf - Please Don't Go - Floyd Dixon - Keep It To Yourself - Sonny Boy Williamson II - Walking By Myself - Jimmy Rogers - Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters - Fattening Frogs For Snakes - Sonny Boy Williamson II - Slow Leake - Lafayette Leake - Sitting On Top Of The World - Howlin' Wolf - She Don't Know - J.B. Lenoir - Your Funeral And My Trial - Sonny Boy Williamson II - Key To The Highway - Little Walter - Double Trouble (alt tk) - Muddy Waters - Come On Home - Eddie Boyd - Goat - Sonny Boy Williamson II Band Track - So Many Roads, So Many Trains - Otis Rush disc 4: - First Time I Met the Blues - Buddy Guy - Too Poor - Detroit Junior - Blue Shadows - Lowell Fulson - The Shakedown - Lloyd Glenn - Sun Is Shining (alt tk) - Elmore James - Calling On My Darling - Albert King - The Red Rooster - Howlin' Wolf - Nine Below Zero - Sonny Boy Williamson II - Goin' Down Slow - Howlin' Wolf - Satisfied - Little Milton - Something's Got A Hold On Me - Etta James - Wrinkles - The Big Three Trio - Bring It On Home - Sonny Boy Williamson II - Good Moanin' Blues - Big Walter Horton - Killing Floor - Howlin' Wolf - What Kind Of Man Is That? - Koko Taylor - We're Gonna Make It - Little Milton - Wang Dang Doodle - Koko Taylor - Dirty Work Goin' On - Little Joe Blue - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer - John Lee Hooker - Jinglin' Baby - Eddie "Guitar" Burns - That's Why I Don't Mind - Muddy Waters - Keep It To Myself - Buddy Guy - Sitting Here Alone - Hound Dog Taylor - I'd Rather Go Blind - Etta James compiled by Mary Katherine Aldin & Andy McKaie; prod. by Andy McKaie
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| 76 | 199? | Savage Kick Vol. 7 Billy Garner - Little School Girl J.D.Edwards - Hobo The Barons - Who's In The Shack Arthur Gunter - We're Gonna Shake Otis Spann - It Must Have Been The Devil Little Johnny Jones - Hoy Hoy Jessie Hill - Oogsey Moo Bobby Long - Jersey City Louisiana Red - Ride On Red, Ride On Junior Wells - Little By Little Harold Burrage - She Knocks Me Out Champion Jack Dupree - Nasty Boogie Vincent Francks - Vincent's Blues Little Sonny (Sonny Warner with Big Jay Mcneely) - ...Back...Shack...Trac Little Sonny - Ride With Me The Idols - The Prowler
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| 77 | 3/1995 | Otis Spann: Down To Earth The Bluesway Recordings - Popcorn Man - Brand New House - Chicago Blues - Steel Mill Blues - Down On Sarah Street - T'ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do - Nobody Knows Chicago Like I Do (Party Blues) - My Home Is In The Delta - Spann Blues - Heart Loaded With Trouble °° - Diving Duck °° - Shimmy Baby °° - Look Like Twins °° - I'm A Fool °° - My Man °° - Down To Earth °° - Nobody Knows °° - Doctor Blues °° °° previously Bluesway BLS 6013 (1968)
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| 78 | 1995 | Testament Records Sampler - Pet Cream Man - J.B. Hutto & The Hawks - A Man For The Nation - John Lee Granderson - Railroad Blues - The Chicago String Band - Nobody Knows My Troubles - Otis Spann - Jesus Is On The Mainline - Fred McDowell & The Hunter's Chapel Singers - Peach Tree Blues - Eddie Taylor - I'm Talking 'Bout You - Eddie Lee "Mustright" Jones - Cat Squirrel - Dr. Isaiah Ross - I'm Gettin' Tired - Robert Nighthawk - Going Back To Texas - Jimmy Walker & His Western Stars/Erwin Helfer - Black Mary - Ruby McCoy - So Cold In Vietnam - Johnny Shines - Titanic Blues - Bill Jackson - Don't Start Me To Talkin' - A Feeling / Johnny Turner & Blues With A Feeling - All My Money Gone - Johnny Young - One Thin Dime - Blind Connie Williams - Goin' Down South - Fred McDowell - I'm Going To Detroit - John Wrencher - Annie Mae - Big Joe Williams - My Babe - Napoleon Strickland Fife & Drum Band - Hoodoo Snake Doctor Blues - Johnny Shines - Dust My Broom - Johnny Littlejohn - Pleading And Crying - Billy Boy Arnold
notes by Pete Welding Testament Records discography | |||
| 79 | 1995 | Sonny Boy Williamson In Europe with Eric Clapton, Willie Dixon, Otis Spann, Matt "Guitar" Murphy - I'm Trying To Make London My Home (4:14) - I Don't Know # (4:50) - Sonny Boy's Harmonica Blues (2:54) - Had My Fun ## (3:50) - Dissatisfied (4:24) - Bye Bye Bird (3:40) - Mister Downchild (3:54) - 23 Hours Too Long (5:07) - Pontiac Blues (3:49) - Take It Easy Baby (version 1) (5:41) - Out On The Water Coast (3:08) - I Don't Care No More (3:43) - Do The Weston (3:00) - Take It Easy Baby (version 2) (4:12) Otis Spann, # p, ## voc, p cover photo by Stephanie Wiesand
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| 79a | 1996 | Blues You Hate To Lose Otis Spann - Country Boy Blues Robert Lockwood Jr. - Take A Little Walk With Me Memphis Slim - El Capitan Sammy Price - How Long Blues Lightnin' Hopkins - It's Your Own Fault Jazz Gillum - New Key To The Highway Arbee Stidham - Bad Luck And Troubles Jimmy Witherspoon - In The Evening Art Hodes - Mamie's Blues Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry - See See Rider Lowell Fulson - I've Been Mistreated Louis Jordan - I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town Big Bill Broonzy - It's A Low Down Dirty Shame Carrie Smith - When I've Been Drinkin' Bo Diddley - Bring It To Jerome Muddy Waters -Goin' Down Slow
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| 80 | 1997 | Chicago Blues Masters Vol. 3 World Pacific WPS 21887 / Liberty LBS 83218 track sequence: - Mellow Down Easy * - Can't Hold Out Much Longer - My Babe * - Juke # - West Helena Woman # - Tell Me Mama # - Last Night # - You Better Watch Yourself # - Key To The Highway # - Everything Gonna Be Alright # * - Too Late * Capitol CD 36288 track sequence: disc 1: Shakey Jake Harris - Everything Gonna Be Alright - Hold That Bus, Conductor - Stollin' The Strip - Respect Me Baby - I Will Always Love You - Three Times Seven - Father On Up The Road - A Hard Road To Travel - Save Your Money, Baby - Too Hot To Hold - Long Distance Call - Don't Answer The Door - Love Me Baby - Chains Of Love James Cotton - Sky Is Falling - Long Distance Operator - I'm A Free Man - Can't Live Without Love - Kiddy Boy disc 2: George Smith - Mellow Down Easy - Can't Hold On Much Longer - My Babe - Juke - West Helena Woman - Tell Me Mama - Last Night - You Better Watch Yourself - Key To The Highway - Everything's Gonna Be Alright - Too Late - Love With A Feelin' # - Goin' Down Slow - Just A Feelin' James Cotton - She Moves Me - Tonight I Wanna Love Me A Stranger - Nose Open - Goodbye My Lady - Georgia Swing # Lucille Spann, voc compiled by Billy Vera
BGOCD 1035 bonus tracks (from 1979)
notes by Pete Welding
2 CD set orig. notes by Pete Welding plus new notes by Tony Russell | |||
| 81 | 1997 | Muddy Waters & Friends: Goin' Way Back - Gypsy Woman § // - Little Anna Mae § // - My Home Is On The Delta [sic] § // - Take A Little Walk § // - Mean Disposition # § // - Laverne (Why Do You Treat Me So Mean?) * // - Leavin' In The Mornin' * // - Got A Sweet Little Girl # * // - Bad Lovin' Trouble [] # - Nothin' Bother Me [] # - Crazy 'Bout You Baby # \\ // rec. October 18, 1967 at 624 Prince Arthur Street Rooming House in Montreal, Québec, Canada; Muddy Waters, voc, § g; [] Otis Spann, voc, ac g; George 'Mojo' Buford, # hca, \\ voc; * Luther 'Georgia Boy-Snake' Johnson, voc, g; // Sammy Lawhorn, g; Lawrence 'Little Sonny' Wimberley, b; S.P. Leary, dr; executive producer: Jim West; reissue producer: Michael Nerenberg
notes by Michael Nerenberg | |||
| 81a | 6/1997 | Chess Blues Piano Greats The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection disc 1 Eddie Boyd - 24 Hours - Got Lonesome Here - I Got The Blues - I Began To Sing The Blues °° - Rosa Lee Swing - Blues For Baby - Hard Time Gettin' Started - Third Degree - Just A Fool - Rattin' And Running Around - Hush Baby, Don't You Cry - Instrumental (tk 2) (instr) (=? Back Beat, tk 2) °° - Picture In The Frame - Nothing But Trouble - Got Me Seein' Double - What's The Matter Baby? °° - Life Gets To Be A Burden - Hotel Blues °° - Come On Home - Five Long Years °° Otis Spann - It Must Have Been The Devil - Five Spot (instr) - I'm Leaving You - I'm In Love With You Baby disc 2 Willie Mabon - Don't Know - Worry Blues - I'm Mad - Got To Have It - Monday Woman - I Got To Go - Life Could Be Miserable °° - Late Again - Willie's Blues - Say Man - Poison Ivy - Wow! I Feel So Good - The Seventh Son - Lucinda °° - Someday You Will Have To Pay - He Lied - Knock On Wood - I Love My Baby °° Lafayette Leake - Slow Leake - Wrinkles (live) - Swiss Boogie (live) compiled by Andy McKaie with Don Snowdon; prod. by Andy McKaie cover photo by Ray Flerlage °° previously unreleased (in the USA)
2 CD set Eddie Boyd discography | |||
| 82 | 1999 | I Blueskvarter Chicago 1964, Volume One CD One: Willie Mabon - Michelle @ Spotify - I'm Hungry @ Spotify - I Don't Know @ Spotify - New Orleans Blues @ Spotify - I'm The Fixer @ Spotify James Brewer - I Know A Woman, She Lives Up The Hill @ Spotify - Big Road Blues @ Spotify - Blues In The Morning, Blues Every Turn Around @ Spotify - Poor Kelly Blues @ Spotify - I Don't No Woman, She Got Hair Like Drops Of Rain @ Spotify Eddie Boyd (+ Mike Bloomfield) - Five Long Years @ Spotify - Her Picture In The Frame @ Spotify - Early Grave @ Spotify - The Big Question @ Spotify - Look Over Younder Wall @ Spotify Yank Rachell - Going To Pack Up My Things And Go @ Spotify - Every Night And Day, I Hear My Baby Call My Name @ Spotify - My Baby Rocks Me @ Spotify - My Baby's Gone, Soon I'll Be Gone Myself @ Spotify CD Two: Johnny Young (+ Slim Willis, Otis Spann, Robert Whitehead) - Why Did You Break My Heart @ Spotify - Better Cut It Out @ Spotify - My Baby Walked Out And Left @ Spotify - Step By, Baby @ Spotify - Monkey-Face Woman @ Spotify Sunnyland Slim (+ Mike Bloomfield) - Brownskin Woman @ Spotify - It's You Baby @ Spotify - One Room Country Shack @ Spotify - Sunnyland's Jump @ Spotify - Rock Me @ Spotify Big Walter Horton (+ Robert Nighthawk) - Let's Have A Good Time @ Spotify - Mean Mistreater @ Spotify - I'm In The Mood @ Spotify - Louise, Louise @ Spotify - You Don't Mistreat Me @ Spotify - Trouble In Mind @ Spotify Interviews (& Olle Helander) Willie Mabon @ Spotify James Brewer @ Spotify Eddie Boyd @ Spotify Yank Rachell @ Spotify unissued tracks from same session: Yank Rachell - Texas Tony (takes 1 to 3) - Bye Bye Baby - Sometimes I Believe My Baby Treats Me Wrong - My Rock Is My Steady Pistol CD 1 tracks all rec. May 16, 1964 in Chicago, IL Willie Mabon, voc, p James Brewer, voc, g Eddie Boyd, voc, p; Mike Bloomfield, g Yank Rachell, voc, mand, g; Mike Bloomfield, p; John Lee Granderson, g CD 2 tracks all rec. May 1964 in Chicago, IL Johnny Young rec. May 23, 1964; Johnny Young, voc, g; Slim Willis, hca; Otis Spann, p; Robert Whitehead, dr Sunnyland Slim rec. May 19, 1964; Sunnyland Slim, voc, p Walter Horton rec. May 23, 1964; Walter Horton, voc, hca; Robert Nighthawk, g all interviews rec. May 16, 1964
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| 83 | 1997 | Otis Spann with Muddy Waters and his Band: Live The Life - Been A Long, Long Time (4:23) # * - Look Under My Bed (4:26) # * - Tribute To Martin Luther King (4:40) # * - Sarah Street (6:24) # * - Worried Life Blues (4:00) # * - Kansas City (4:11) || # - Tin Pan Alley (7:29) || # - 5 Long Years (7:32) || - Live The Life I Love ||(3:21) - I Wanna Go Home (5:59) || § - Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had (3:37) || * - High Rising (instr) (4:36) || - Everything's Gonna Be Alright (2:09) # * - What's On Your Worried Mind (2:27) # * - Mean Old Train (3:03) \\ @ youtube - My Baby Left Me (2:55) // @ youtube rec. c. 1968 live, unknown location; Otis Spann, p, # lead voc; Muddy Waters, || voc, * g; prob. Paul Oscher, hca; prob. Sammy Lawhorn, Pee Wee Madison, g; Sonny Wimberley, b; S.P. Leary. dr; § Charles Morganfield & others, chorus \\ rec. November 17, 1963 (?) in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, g; Slim Willis, hca; Otis Spann, p; Robert Whitehead, dr // rec. May 1964 in Chicago, IL; Slim Willis, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; Johnny Young, g; Robert Whitehead, dr
notes by Frank Scott Testament Records discography | |||
| 84 | 2000 | Otis Spann: Last Call Live at Boston Tea Party, April 2, 1970 - Country Girl - Get On Down To The Nitty Gritty # - Long Distance Call # - I Got My Mojo Working # - Chains Of Love - Stomp With Spann - My Baby (Sweet As An Apple) § - I Wonder Why - My Man hidden track: - Blues For Otis (Peter Malick, voc, g) rec. April 2-4, 1970 in Boston, MA; Otis Spann, p; Lucille Spann, voc; Luther 'Georgia Boy' / 'Snake' Johnson, # g + voc, § g; Peter Malick, g; Ted Parkins, b; Richard Ponte, dr; prod by Peter Malick
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| 85 | 2001 | Newport Folk Festival Best of the Blues 1959-68 disc 1: Mississippi John Hurt - Sliding Delta - Candy Man - Coffee Blues - Stagger Lee - Here I Am Lord Send Me - Pallet On Your Floor Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (3:23) - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues Son House - Preaching Blues - Death Letter Blues - Empire State Express - Son Blues Bukka White - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues Mississippi Fred McDowell - Louise - If The River Was Whiskey Muddy Waters (solo) - Walkin' Blues [Vanguard VCD2-77005] - I Can't Be Satisfied [Vanguard VCD2-77005] disc 2: Robert Pete Williams - Levee Camp Blues - Midnight Boogie - On My Way From Texas Mance Lipscomb - Freddie - So Different Blues - God Moves On The Water (The Sinking Of The Titanic) Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues - Double Double Do Love You Rev. Gary Davis - Samson And Delilah - I Won't Be Back No More Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Intro/The Train Is Leaving °° - Drink Muddy Water °° - Long Gone - Key To The Highway - My Baby Done Changed The Lock On The Door Sleepy John Estes - Clean Up At Home disc 3: Lightnin' Hopkins - Woman I'm Lovin' She's Taken My Appetite - Baby Please Don't Go Lightnin' Hopkins & Samuel Lay - Shake That Thing John Lee Hooker & Bill Lee - Tupelo - Bus Station Blues - Let's Make It °° - Great Fire Of Natchez °° - Boom Boom °° - I Can't Quit You Baby / Stop Now Baby Memphis Slim - How Long °° - Black Cat Crossed My Path °° - Harlem Bound °° - Piano Instrumental °° Muddy Waters & Otis Spann - Blow Wind Blow °° @ youtube - Flood (= "Clouds In My Heart") °° @ youtube Chambers Brothers - CC Rider The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Blues With A Feeling - Born In Chicago °° compilation prod. by Tom Vickers front cover painting by Meredith Steele °° 12 previously unreleased tracks
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| 86 | 2002 | Colin James presents THE BLUES MASTERS@ youtube (full album) - I've Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters - Blues Don't Like Nobody - Otis Spann - How Long Has That Train Been Gone - Mable Hillery @ youtube - Cornbread And Peas - Sonny Terry/Brownie McGhee - Hooray, These Women Is Killin' Me - Sonny Terry - Born And Livin' With The Blues - Brownie McGhee - Tin Pan Alley Blues - Sunnyland Slim - T'aint Nobody's Business If I Do - Otis Spann - Crazy For My Baby - Willie Dixon/Sunnyland Slim/Colin James - Bassology - Willie Dixon - You Can't Lose What You Never Had - Muddy Waters - Bye Bye Baby, Goodbye - Muddy Waters A re-edited version of a "Festival" series programme originally recorded by CBC in a Toronto studio over three days in 1966
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| 87 | 2003 | Roots Of The Blues disc 1 "Folk Blues": Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:47) The Chambers Brothers - See See Rider (3:08) John Hammond - Statesboro Blues (3:39) Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (3:53) Dave Van Ronk - Cocaine (3:46) Buffy Sainte-Marie - You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond (2:51) °° Spider John Koerner - Traveling Blues (4:44) Bill Monroe - Blue Yodel # 4 (2:43) Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Maria Muldaur - Richland Woman (4:19) Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Geoff & Maria Muldaur - Chevrolet (3:51) Sam & Kirk McGee - Milk Cow Blues (2:31) °° Tony Glover - I Dont Need No Whiskey (4:30) °° Josh White - What You Gonna Do When Your Meat Gives Out (1:49) °° Eric Von Schmidt - Grizzly Bear (4:34) Mance Lipscomb - Keep On Truckin' Mama (1:35) °° disc 2 "Delta & Country Blues": Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man (2:53) Rev. Gary Davis - You Got To Move (5:50) Skip James - I'm So Glad (1:53) Son House - Empire State Express (3:50) Bukka White - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (4:45) Mississippi Fred McDowell - If The River Was Whiskey (2:34) Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied (2:53) Odetta - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (2:13) Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Key To The Highway (3:37) Sleepy John Estes - Clean Up At Home (2:59) Mance Lipscomb - Freddie (1:50) Memphis Slim - How Long (2:59) Robert Pete Williams - Midnight Boogie (3:25) [Vanguard VRS 9180, Vanguard VSD 77/78, Vanguard CD 70193-2, Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube Eddie Boyd & Willie Dixon - Five Long Years (2:22) Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (5:12) disc 3 "Urban Blues": Junior Wells - Messin' With The Kid (2:21) Otis Rush - I Can't Quit You Baby (3:14) J.B. Hutto & The Hawks - Going Ahead (2:03) Otis Spann - Marie (2:28) James Cotton - Rocket 88 (2:03) Homesick James And His Dusters - Dust My Broom (3:17) Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band - One More Time (2:26) The Johnny Shines Blues Band - If I Get Lucky (3:23) Buddy Guy - One Room Country Shack (5:30) Muddy Waters with Otis Spann - Blow Wind Blow (3:09) Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby Please Don't Go (2:37) Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Blues With A Feeling (3:55) Charlie Musselwhite - Juke (4:18) Big Mama Thornton - Ball And Chain (6:48) John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom (3:01) compilation prod. by Tom Vickers; cover design by Ann Smalley; photography by David Gahr °° previously unreleased tracks
3-CD Set | |||
| 88 | 2004 | Windy City Blues Willie Dixon Band / Albert King - The Lovin'est Woman In Town - Put It All In There - Need More Mamma - Love Me To Death Otis Spann - Dust My Broom - Must Have Been The Devil Willie Dixon - Move Me - That's My Baby Billy Boy Arnold - Two Drinks of Wine - Playing With The Blues - Billy Boy's Blues Sunnyland Slim - The Devil Is A Busy Man - Every Time I Get To Drinking - Tired Of You Clowning Homesick James - Gotta Move (alt tk) [Prestige unissued] - The Cloud Is Cryin' (alt tk) [Prestige unissued] - Homesick's Shuffle (alt tk) [Prestige unissued]
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| 89 | 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 Shot @ 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 CD 2 tracks rec. May 1964 at Southerland Lounge, Chicago, IL Johnny Young track rec. May 23, 1964 at Southerland Lounge, Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, g; Slim Willis, hca; Otis Spann, p; Robert Whitehead, dr 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
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| 90 | 2006 | Otis Spann: The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions CD 1: - Can't Do Me No Good [Blue Horizon 57-3142] - Bloody Murder [Blue Horizon 57-3142] - Someday Soon Baby - Hungry Country Girl - My Love Depends On You - Walkin' - It Was A Big Thing - Temperature Is Rising (100.2°F) - Dig You - No More Doggin' - Ain't Nobody's Business - She Needs Some Loving - I Need Some Air - Someday Baby CD 2: - No More Doggin' (tk 1) [previously unreleased] - No More Doggin' (tk 2, false start plus tk 3) [previously unreleased] - I Need Some Air (tk 2, false start plus tk 2) [previously unreleased] - Walkin' (tk 1 & 2, false start plus tk 3) [previously unreleased] - Walkin' (tk 4) [previously unreleased] - Blues For Hippies (tk 1, complete master version/remix] - Temperature Is Rising (98.8°F) (tk 1, single master version/remix] - Someday Baby (tk 1, 2 & 3, false start plus tk 4) [previously unreleased] - Someday Baby (tk 5) [previously unreleased] - Someday Baby (tk 6) [previously unreleased] - She Needs Some Loving (tk 1) [previously unreleased] - Dig You (tk 1) [previously unreleased] - Dig You (tk 2, false start plus tk 3) [previously unreleased] - She's Out Of Sight (tk 1 & 2, false start plus tk 3) [previously unreleased] @ youtube prod. by Mike Vernon
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| 91 | 2011 | We're Gonna Boogie Lefty Dizz - We're Gonna Booogie John Littlejohn - Shake Your Money Maker Poor Bob - The Sun Is Rising West Virginia Slim Electric Blues Band - Only Sixteen Richard Riggins - Dust My Broom Willie Williams - Wine Head Woman Prez Kenneth - I Am The Man Downstairs Luke "Long Gone" Miles - Hello Josephine Prez Kenneth - I Am Looking For My Baby Model "T" Slim - Shake Your Boogie Cliff Jackson - Nine Below Zero Model "T" Slim - Jackson Tennessee Big Jack Reynolds - I Had A Little Dog Poor Bob - Ain't Got A Lousy Dime Otis Spann - You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone Johnny Young and Big Walter - Don't You Lie To Me Homesick James - Crutch And Cane John Littlejohn - Bloody Tears Alabama Watson - Cost Time West Virginia Slim Electric Blues Band - I Love You
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| 92 | 2012 | Otis Spann: Ebony And Ivory Blues CD 1: - It Must Have Been The Devil (2:44) [Checker 807] - Five Spot (2:46) [Checker 807] - I'm Leaving You (2:42) [Chess/P-Vine PLP-6022] - I'm In Love With You Baby (2:35) [Chess/P-Vine PLP-6022] - Worried Life Blues (4:19) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] - This Is The Blues (3:09) [Barnaby KZ 31290] - Beat-Up Team (5:59) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] - The Hard Way (5:03) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] - Country Boy (4:24) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] - My Home Is On The Delta (3:11) [Barnaby KZ 31290] - It Must Have Been The Devil (3:43) [Barnaby KZ 31290] - Rambling On My Mind [# 2] (4:03) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] - Take A Little Walk With Me (3:26) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] - Little Boy Blue (3:40) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] - My Daily Wish (4:26) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] - Great Northern Stomp (4:13) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] - Otis In The Dark (4:35) [Candid CJM 8001/CJS 9001] - Walkin' The Blues (4:56) [Barnaby KZ 31290] - Cow Cow Blues (4:16) ( - Spann And Bob (3:19) [Picc-A-Dilly 3488] CD 2: - Monkey Face Blues (4:56) [Barnaby KZ31290] [] - One Doggone Reason (2:40) [Mosaic MR5-139] - Strange Woman Blues (3:51) [Picc-A-Dilly 3488] - It Hurts Me Too (4:56) [Picc-A-Dilly 3488] - Baby Child (tk 5?) (4:04) [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488] - Talkin The Blues (tk 3?) (5:20) [Picc-A-Dilly PIC 3488] - Can't Stand Your Evil Ways (tk 2) (3:43) [Mosaic MR5-139] - Otis Blues (Spann piano blues) (4:15) [Barnaby KZ 31290] - Half Ain't Been Told (4:39) [Barnaby KZ 31290] - Going Down Slow (3:57) [Barnaby KZ 31290] - The Girl I Love (3:47) [Mosaic MR5-139] - Bad Condition (4:20) [Barnaby KZ31290] - Come Day, Go Day (tk 2?) (4:10) [Barnaby KZ31290] - Got My Mojo Working (4:27) (Muddy Waters, voc) - Evil (Is Going On) (2:51) (Howling Wolf, voc) [Chess 1575] - No Money Down (2:59) (Chuck Berry, voc, g) - I'm A Man (3:00) (Bo Diddley, voc, g; Billy Boy Arnold, hca) [Checker 814] - As Long As I Have You (2:39) (Walter Horton, voc, hca) - Let Me Love You Baby (2:52) (Buddy Guy, voc, g; Junior Wells, hca) - Don't Start Me Talking (2:36) (Sonny Boy Williamson II)
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| 93 | 2016 | Jimmy Rogers: Chicago Bound Complete Solo Chess Records As & Bs 1950-1959 @ youtube (full album)- That's All Right (with Little Walter) (2:46) - Ludella (with Little Walter) (2:50) - Goin' Away Baby (with Little Walter & Muddy Waters) (2:41) - Today Today Blues (with Little Walter & Muddy Waters) (3:07) - The World's In A Tangle (with His Rocking Four) (2:54) - She Loves Another Man (with His Rocking Four) (2:51) - Money, Marbles And Chalk (with Little Walter) (3:15) - Chance To Love (with Little Walter) (3:17) - I Used To Have A Woman (3:09) - Back Door Friend (3:08) - Last Time (with Muddy Waters & Willie Dixon) (2:41) - Out On The Road (with Muddy Waters & Willie Dixon) (2:50) - Left Me With A Broken Heart (with Little Walter & Muddy Waters) (2:54) - Act Like You Love Me (with His Rocking Four) (2:58) - Chicago Bound (with His Rocking Four) (2:38) - Sloppy Drunk (with His Rocking Four) (3:00) - Blues Leave Me Alone (with His Rocking Four) (3:05) - You're The One (with Little Walter & Willie Dixon) (2:28) - If It Ain't Me (Who Are You Thinking Of) (with Otis Spann & Willie Dixon) (2:01) - Walking By Myself (with Otis Spann & Willie Dixon) (2:45) - One Kiss (2:42) - I Can't Believe (2:43) - What Have I Done (with Otis Spann & Willie Dixon) (2:40) - Trace Of You (with Otis Spann & Willie Dixon) (2:28) - My Last Meal (with Otis Spann & Willie Dixon) (3:04) - Rock This House (with Otis Spann & Willie Dixon) (2:47)
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| 94 | 2017 | Down Home Blues - Chicago - Fine Boogie CD 1: James McCain - I Got To Check Up On My Baby(3:32) James McCain - Good Morning Mr. Roosevelt (2:40) Bluesboy Bill - Come On Babe (2:28) Johnny Shines - Tennessee Woman Blues (2:51) Muddy Waters - Jitterbug Blues (2:52) Muddy Waters - Burying Ground Blues (2:45) Muddy Waters - Hard Day Blues (2:50) John Sellers - Let Me Be Your Sidetrack (2:47) Willie "Long Time" Smith - My Buddy Doctor Clayton (3:04) Willie "Long Time" Smith - I Love You Baby Boogie (3:09) Little Walter with Othum Brown - Ora Nelle Blues (2:37) Little Walter - I Just Keep Loving Her (2:29) Jimmy Rogers - Little Store Blues (2:37) Johnny Young - Money Taking Woman (2:35) Johnny Temple - Old '98' Blues (2:25) Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied (2:43) St. Louis Jimmy - Florida Hurricane (2:57) Delta Joe aka Sunnyland Slim - Train Time (3:19) Delta Joe aka Sunnyland Slim - Roll Tumble And Slip (3:25) Floyd Jones - Stockyard Blues (2:54) Floyd Jones - Keep What You Got (2:22) Little Walter - Blue Baby (2:17) Little Walter - I Want My Baby (2:48) Robert Nighthawk with Ethel Mae Brown - Down The Line (2:50) The Nighthawks - She Knows How To Love A Woman (3:09 Big Maceo - One Sunday Morning (2:52) Big Maceo - Just Tell Me Baby (2:29) CD 2: Pete Franklin - Down Behind The Rise (3:12) Pete Franklin - Casey Brown Blues (3:15) Mildred White - Kind Hearted Woman (2:52) Mildred White - Cutting Out On Me (2:57) Muddy Waters - Last Time I Fool Around With You (2:39) Muddy Waters - You Gonna Need my Help (3:04) Baby Face Leroy - My Head Can't Rest Anymore (3:16) Baby Face Leroy - Take A Little Walk With Me (3:10) Gray Haired Bill - Gertrude (2:38) Gray Haired Bill - I'm A Hard Working Man (2:59) The Nighthawks - Black Angel Blues (3:05) Jimmy Rogers - Ludella (2:42) Muddy Waters - Rollin' Stone (3:03) Floyd Jones - Dark Road (3:15) Floyd Jones - Overseas (2:13) Floyd Jones - Playhouse (2:45) Muddy Waters - Long Distance Call (2:41) Muddy Waters - All Night Long (3:50) J.B. Lenoir - Let's Roll (2:52) Howlin' Wolf - Howling Wolf Boogie (2:40) Johnny Shines - Ramblin' (2:32) Johnny Shines - Ain't Doin' No Good (2:36) Snooky Pryor - Fine Boogie (3:04) Memphis Minnie - Conjur Man (2:59) Little Walter - Juke (3:00) Little Walter - Can't Hold Out Much Longer (2:55) CD 3: Elmore James - She Just Won't Do Right (3:04) Elmore James - My Best Friend (3:22) Elmore James - Whose Muddy Shoes (3:17) Baby Face Leroy - Blues Is Killin' Me (3:04) Baby Face Leroy - Late Hours At Midnight (3:11) Blue Smitty - Crying (3:03) Blue Smitty - Date Bait (2:37) Jimmy Rogers - Mistreated Baby (3:30) Jimmy Rogers - What's The Matter (3:17) Homesick James - Whiskey Headed Woman (2:48) Little Walter - Blue Midnight (3:04) Johnny Williams - Silver Haired Woman (2:47) Johnny Williams - Fat Mouth (2:39) Jimmy Reed - You Don't Have To Go (3:06) Jimmy Rogers - Act Like You Love Me (3:03) Homesick James - Homesick (3:08) Homesick James - Late Hours At Midnight (2:52) Billy Boy Arnold - Hello Stranger (2:53) Billy Boy Arnold - I Ain't Got No Money (2:31) Johnny Shines - Evening Shuffle (2:16) J.B. Lenoir - The Mojo (2:53) J.B. Lenoir - Slow Down Woman (3:24) Howlin' Wolf - You Gonna Wreck My Life (2:37) Big Boy Spires - Someday little Darling (3:11) Big Boy Spires - Rhythm Rock Boogie (2:38) Memphis Minnie - Kissing In The Dark (2:32) CD 4: Sonny Boy Williamson - Work With Me (2:56) Sonny Boy Williamson - You Killing Me (3:24) Sonny Boy Williamson - Don't Start Me Talkin' (2:36) John Brim - Ice Cream Man (2:49) John Brim - Life Time Baby (3:06) Lazy Bill - My Baby's Gone (2:45) Lazy Bill - I Can't Sleep, I Can't Eat (2:50) Albert King - Little Boy Blue (2:45) Albert King - Sweet Woman (2:59) Sunnyland Slim - Trouble Of My Own (3:04) Sunnyland Slim - Worried About My Baby (3:01) Henry Gray - I Declare That Ain't Right (3:09) Henry Gray - Matchbox Blues (3:25) J.B. Hutto - Price Of Love (3:02) Big Boy Spires - Tired Of Being Mistreated (2:30) Sunnyland Slim - I Done You Wrong (3:04) Sunnyland Slim - Be My Baby (2:55) Little Walter - Got To Find My Baby (3:09) J.B. Lenoir - Eisenhower Blues (2:32) Dusty Brown - Yes She's Gone (2:41) Dusty Brown - He Don't Love You (3:15) Dusty Brown - Rusty Dusty (2:47) Jimmy Rogers - You're The One (2:37) Billy Boy Arnold - Sweet On You Baby (2:36) Billy Boy Arnold - You Got To Love Me (2:29) Jimmy Reed - You Upset My Mind (2:53) Jimmy Reed - Come On Baby (2:40) CD 5: Elmore James - The Twelve Year Old Boy (3:07) Elmore James - Coming Home (2:27) Elmore James - It Hurts Me Too (3:06) John Brim -Go Away (2:45) John Brim - That Ain't Right (2:51) Birmingham Junior - Birmingham Late Hours (2:30) Birmingham Junior - You're Too Bad (2:31) Howlin' Wolf - Break Of day (2:48) Howlin' Wolf - Bluebird (3:35) Howlin' Wolf - You Ought To Know (3:22) Otis Spann - I'm Leaving You (2:42) Otis Spann - I'm In Love With You Baby (2:40) Snooky Pryor - Someone To Love Me (2:37) Snooky Pryor - Judgement Day (2:47) Snooky Pryor - You Tried To Ruin Me Baby (2:02) Po' Joe Williams - Kings Highway (2:27) Po' Joe Williams - Eula Mae (2:50) Sonny Boy Williamson - Don't Lose Your Eye (3:04) Sonny Boy Williamson - I Wonder Why (1:34) Sonny Boy Williamson - I Know What Love Is All About (2:42) Jimmy Reed - When You Left Me (2:37) Jimmy Reed - It's You Baby (2:27) Jimmy Reed - Do The Thing (2:47) Sonny Boy Williamson - The Key To Your Door (2:37) John Brim - I Would Hate To See You Go (2:46) John Brim - You Got Me Where You Want Me (3:02) Eddie Boyd - 24 Hours Of Fear (2:34) Eddie Boyd - Five Long Years (2:46) 88-pp. book by Mike Rowe
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| 95 | 2018 | Otis Spann: In Session - Diary Of A Chicago Bluesman 1953-1960 CD 1: MUDDY WATERS 1. BLOW WIND, BLOW 2. MAD LOVE MUDDY WATERS 3. I'M YOUR HOOCHIE COOCHIE MAN 4. SHE'S SO PRETTY THE HOWLIN WOLF 5. ROCKIN' DADDY JUNIOR WELLS 6. 'BOUT THE BREAK OF DAY 7. LAWDY! LAWDY! 8. SO, ALL ALONE LITTLE WALTER 9. I GOT TO FIND MY BABY HOWLIN WOLF 10. BABY HOW LONG? 11. EVIL IS GOIN' ON LITTLE WALTER 12. YOU'D BETTER WATCH YOURSELF HOWLIN' WOLF 13. I'LL BE AROUND OTIS SPANN 14. IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE DEVIL 15. FIVE SPOT BO DIDDLEY 16. I'M A MAN 17. BO DIDDLEY 'SONNY BOY' WILLIAMSON or SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON 18. DON'T START ME TALKIN' 19. ALL MY LOVE IN VAIN CHUCK BERRY 20. YOU CAN'T CATCH ME 21. NO MONEY DOWN 'SONNY BOY' WILLIAMSON or SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON 22. LET ME EXPLAIN 23. YOUR IMAGINATION OTIS SPANN 24. I'M LEAVING YOU 25. I'M IN LOVE WITH YOU BABY BO DIDDLEY 26. COPS AND ROBBERS CD 2: OTIS SPANN 1. BOOGIE WOOGIE 2. SLOW BLUES 3. JUMP BLUES JOHN LEE HOOKER 4. IT'S MY OWN FAULT 5. MAUDIE 6. I WANNA WALK 7. I WISH YOU WERE HERE OTIS SPANN 8. GREAT NORTHERN STOMP 9. OTIS IN THE DARK 10. WORRIED LIFE BLUES 11. COUNTRY BOY 12. THE HARD WAY 13. BEAT-UP TEAM 14. TAKE A LITTLE WALK WITH ME 15. I GOT RAMBLING ON MY MIND 16. LITTLE BOY BLUE 17. MY DAILY WISH
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| 96 | 7/2019 | Down Home Blues - Chicago Volume 2 - Sweet Home Chicago
CD 1: James Clark - Who But You (2:41) Memphis Jimmy - Drifting (3:20) Johnny Shines - Delta Pine Blues (3:03) Johnny Shines - Ride, Ride Mama (2:55) Johnny Shines - Evil-Hearted Woman Blues (2:50) Homer Harris - I'm Gonna Cut Your Head (2:56) Homer Harris - Tomorrow Will Be Too Late (3:06) Willie "Long Time" Smith - Due Respects To You (3:27) Willie "Long Time" Smith - No Special Rider Here (3:03) 'Blues Boy' Bill - "Little Boy" Blue (3:14) Muddy Waters - Burying Ground Blues (alt tk) (2:33) James (Beal Street) Clark - Come To Me Baby (2:51) James (Beal Street) Clark - You Can't Make The Grade (2:55) Herman Ray - Xmas Blues (2:44) Forest City Joe - Special Delivery Man (2:52) Forest City Joe -. Shady Lane Woman (3:02) Homer Harris - Atomic Bomb Blues (2:34) Homer Harris - Tomorrow Will Be Too Late (3:08) Willie "Long Time" Smith - Devilment On My Mind (2:57) Willie "Long Time" Smith - Homeless Blues (3:12) Forest City Joe - Mean Mistreatin' Woman (2:52) Forest City Joe - Lonesome Day Blues (2:51) Dirty Red - Mother Fuyer (2:28) Dirty Red - You Done Me Wrong (3:14) Pete Franklin - Mr. Charley (3:10) Big Bill Broonzy - Water Coast Blues (2:46) CD 2: Muddy Waters - Hard Days (2:41) Muddy Waters - Burying Ground (2:38 Floyd Jones - School Days (2:51 Tampa Red - Come On, If You're Coming (2:53) Tampa Red - I'll Find My Way (2:39) Johnny Temple - Between Midnight And Day (2:36) Johnny Temple - Sit Right On It (2:22) Jimmy Rogers - Hard Working Man (3:22) Jimmy Rogers - My Little Machine (3:12) Jimmy Rogers - Crying Shame (2:50) Robert Lockwood Jr. - Glory For Man (2:30) Robert Lockwood Jr. - My Daily Wish (2:43) Howling Wolf - How Many More Years (alt tk) (2:47) Howling Wolf - Just My Kind (2:53) Memphis Minnie - Broken Heart (2:37) Memphis Minnie - Lake Michigan (3:00) Memphis Minnie - Me And My Chauffeur (alt tk) (2:54) Muddy Waters - Lonesome Day (3:32) Muddy Waters - Stuff You Gotta Watch (2:52) Blue Smitty - Crying (2:45) Blue Smitty - Elgin Movement (3:27) Memphis Minnie - In Love Again (2:32) Memphis Minnie - What A Night (3:00) Rocky Fuller - Funeral Hearse At My Door (3:17) Little Walter - Driftin' (alt tk) (3:09) Little Walter - Off The Wall (alt tk) (2:59) CD 3: Honey Boy Edwards - Sweet Home Chicago (tk 2) (3:03) Honey Boy Edwards - Drop Down Mama (2:39) Henry Gray - I Declare That Ain't Right (tk 4) (2:34) Big Boy Spires - My Baby Left Me (2:36) Little Walter - That's It (3:14) Little Walter - That's It (edited) (2:47) Little Walter - Blues With A Feeling (alt tk) (2:57) Elmore James - I See My Baby (3:07) Elmore James - Country Boogie (2:43) Lazy Bill - I Had A Dream (alt tk) (2:57) Lazy Bill - She Got Me Walkin' (alt tk) (3:08) Albert King - Little Boy Blue (alt tk) (2:41) Albert King - Hand Me Down (Sweet Woman) (2:58) Albert King - Murder (2:59) Morris Pejoe - Untitled Instrumental (2:23) Morris Pejoe - Hurt My Feelings (2:55) Homesick James - Lonesome Blues (2:23) Homesick James - 12th St Station (2:44) Homesick James - Long Lonesome Days (2:26) Gus Jenkins - Eight Ball (3:12) Muddy Waters - (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man (alt tk) (2:48) Otis Spann - It Must Have Been The Devil (2:43) Otis Spann - Five Spot (2:45) Little Walter - I Love You So (Oh Baby) (2:35) Little Walter - Last Night (first tk) (2:56) Henry Gray - Goodbye Baby (3:19) Henry Gray - You Messed Up (2:53) CD 4: Chuck Berry - Wee Wee Hours (3:06) Chuck Berry - No Money Down (3:00) Chuck Berry - I've Changed (3:07) Billy Boy Arnold - I Was Fooled (2:53) Billy Boy Arnold - Don't Stay Out All Night (2:54) Bo Diddley - Little Girl (alt tk) (2:38) Bo Diddley - I'm A Man (alt tk) (3:08) Bo Diddley - You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care) (2:50) Henry Gray - Watch Yourself (2:45) Henry Gray - That Ain't Right (2:29) Muddy Waters - This Pain (3:10) Muddy Waters - I Want To Be Loved (alt tk) (2:46) Little Walter - Little Girl (3:07) Little Walter - Temperature (first tk) (2:02) Dusty Brown - Hurry Home (2:45) Sonny Boy Williamson - Good Evening Everybody (2:38) Sonny Boy Williamson - Have You Ever Been In Love (2:55) Herby Joe - Smokestack Lightning (2:53) Herby Joe - Dreamed (Last Night) (2:28) Harmonica "Blues King" Harris - I Need You Pretty Baby For My Own (2:47) Harmonica "Blues King" Harris - Blues King Mango (2:26) Po Joe Williams - Goin' Back (2:53) Po Joe Williams - My Baby Left (2:37) Billy Boy Arnold - You Got Me Wrong (2:41) Billy Boy Arnold - My Heart Is Crying (2:12) Sonny Boy Williamson - I Don't Know (2:56) Sonny Boy Williamson - Like Wolf (2:51) Sonny Boy Williamson - This Is My Apartment (2:41) CD 5: Jimmy Reed - I'm Gonna Ruin You (first tk) (2:49) Jimmy Reed - Honey, Where You Going? (2:41) Jimmy Reed - Little Rain (2:59) Sonny Boy Williamson - Hurts Me So Much (tk 2) (2:38) Sonny Boy Williamson - Fattening Frogs For Snakes (alt tk) (3:01) Elmore James - Knocking At Your Door (2:39) G. "Davy" Crockett - Look Out Mable (2:25) Jimmy Reed - Honey, Where You Going? (alt tk) (3:14) Jimmy Reed - Little Rain (alt tk) (3:12) Jimmy Reed - Signals Of Love (alt tk) (2:32) Dusty Brown - Well You Know (I Love You) (2:48) Freddie Hall - I Love This Carrying On (2:43) Freddie Hall - She's A Upsetter (2:35) Little Mack Simmons - My Walking Blues (3:12) Little Mack Simmons - Come Back (2:35) Eddie Boyd - Nothing But Trouble (2:34) Eddie Boyd - Her Picture In The Frame (3:28) Eddie Boyd - Five Long Years (3:05) Elmore James - I Can't Hold Out (2:18) Elmore James - The Sun Is Shining (2:47) Howling Wolf - Mr Airplane Man (2:47) Howling Wolf - Little Baby (2:45) Hound Dog Taylor - Baby's Coming Home (2:38) Hound Dog Taylor - Five, Take Five (2:05) Homesick James - Can't Afford To Do It (2:31) Homesick James - Set A Date (2:40) Slim Willis - Running Around (2:55) Slim Willis - No Feeling For You (3:02) essay by Mike Rowe
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Sources / Further reading: - own record collection - Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 195 - Bill Rowe (revised and updated by Chris Smith and Howard Rye): The Half Ain't Been Told - An Otis Spann Career Discography.- Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Micrography Discographical Publications), 2000, 136 pp. - https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/record-labels-guide/prestige/prestige-records-history/ - eBay auctions - diverse internet resources thanks to Craig Ruskey, Tony Rounce, Klaus Kilian, Keith Randall, Chris Smith, Mike Atherton, Hank Moore, Claes Parmland, Don Deering, Tom Morris, Victor Batwing, Jim Clay, Tom Wendt and Elbio Barilari for additional info / scans
 Muddy Waters, Jerome Green (maraccas), Otis Spann, Henry Strong, "Elga Edmonds" [Elga Edmonds], Jimmy Rogers (presumably from the early 1950s) source: Mike Rowe: Chicago Blues - The City and the Music.- New York (Da Capo Paperback) 1975, first published in 1973 as "Chicago Breakdown", p. 146 ("from Chess files")
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