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Wirz' AMERICAN MUSIC

M O S E   V I N S O N, November 1981; source: Notes of Adelphi AD 1009; photographer: Steve LaVere
Mose Vinson at his home 879 East Trigg Avenue, Memphis, TN,
November 1981; photographer: Michael Hortig
Sonny Blake, voc, hca, M O S E   V I N S O N, p & L.T. Lewis, dr; January 19, 1976, Memphis TN
Sonny Blake,voc, hca; Mose Vinson, p; L.T Lewis, dr; January 19, 1976, Memphis TN
 
Mose Vinson
b. June 2 or 6 or August 7, 1917 near Holly Springs, Marshall County, Mississippi
d. November 16, 2002 at Wesley Highland Manor Nursing Home in Memphis, Tennessee

buried at New Park Cemetery, 4536 Horn Lake Rd. in Memphis, TN
discography
M O S E   V I N S O N, 1972; source: Back cover of Albatros VPA 8261; photographer: Gianni Marcucci
Mose Vinson 1972
source: Back cover of Albatros VPA 8261
photographer: Gianni Marcucci

#year
of release
title / label / notes
16/1953JIMMY DeBERRY

- Take A Little Chance (U 73)   @ youtube
- Time Has Made A Change (U 74) #   @ youtube

rec. May 16, 1953 in Memphis, TN; Jimmy DeBerry, voc, g; Mose Vinson, p; # Raymond Jones, dr

 
Sun 185

   

- Time Has Made A Change (alt tk) °
- Party Line Blues °°   @ youtube

rec. May 16, 1953 in Memphis, TN; Jimmy DeBerry, voc, g; Mose Vinson, p; Raymond Jones, dr

° from a review by Neil Slaven in Blues & Rhythm #72 (1992), pp. 22-23: "DeBerry's alternate is little more than a fragment that affords Mose Vinson a chance for a ringing piano solo."

Sun unissued

° Charly CD SUN 38
°° Charly CR 30127

   

- Mistreatin' Boogie °   @ youtube
- Worry You Off My Mind (tk 1) # * °   @ youtube
- Worry You Off My Mind (tk 2) # * °°   @ youtube
- Reap What You Sow * °   @ youtube
- 44 Blues (tk 1, U 100) * °   @ youtube
- 44 Blues (tk 3) * °°   @ youtube
- My Love Has Gone (tk 1) * °°   @ youtube
- My Love Has Gone (tk 2, U 101) (Come See Me) * °   @ youtube
- My Love Has Gone (tk 3) * °°   @ youtube

rec. September 9, 1953 in Memphis, TN; Mose Vinson, voc, p; # Walter Horton, hca; Joe Hill Louis, * g; Kenneth Banks, b; Israel Franklin, dr

Sun unissued

° Sun Box 105
°° Bear Family BCD 15524

   

- Shine Boy

rec. September 9, 1953 (?) in Memphis, TN; Joe Hill Louis, g, sp; Mose Vinson, voc, p Albert Williams, p; prob. Walter Horton, hca

Sun unissued

Sun Box 105
(as by "Mose, Joe & Walter")

   

- Hydramatic Woman
- Tiger Man

rec. May or September 9, 1953 in Memphis, TN; Joe Hill Louis, voc, g; Walter Horton, hca; Mose Vinson, p Albert Williams, p; Kenneth Banks, b; Israel Franklin, dr

Sun unissued

Sun Box 105

21954HOT SHOT LOVE

- Wolf Call Boogie (F 12, tk 1)   @ youtube
- Harmonica Jam (F 13)   @ youtube

rec. January 8, 1954 in Memphis, TN; Coy Love Jr., voc, hca; Mose Vinson, p; Pat Hare, g; Kenneth Banks, b; Houston Stokes, dr

 
Sun 196

   

- Wolf Call Boogie (F 12, tk 2) // *
- Wolf Call Boogie (F 12, tk 3) // #
- Harpin On It (instr) []
- Cotton Patch Hop (instr) §


rec. January 8, 1954 in Memphis, TN; Coy Love Jr., voc, hca; // Mose Vinson, p; Pat Hare, g; Kenneth Banks, b; Houston Stokes, dr

Sun unissued

* Sun Box 105 / CD BOX 7

# Rounder SS 29

[] Sun LP 1060

§ Titanic CD 6006

   

- Blue Man (tk 1) #
- High (tk 1) #
- High (But High) (tk 2) *

rec. January 8, 1954 in Memphis, TN; Kenneth Banks, voc, b; Mose Vinson, p; Pat Hare, g; Houston Stokes, dr

Sun unissued

# Sun CD Box 7

* Krazy Kat KK 7427

37/1954JAMES COTTON

- Cotton Crop Blues (U120)   @ youtube
- Hold Me In Your Arms (U121) #   @ youtube

rec. May 14, 1954 in Memphis, TN; James Cotton, voc, # perc; Mose Vinson, p; Pat Hare, g; John Bowers, dr


Sun 206

= Sun 206 (repro 2013)

41971The Memphis Blues Again   Vol. 1

Nathan Beauregard
- Nobody's Business But My Own
- Lonesome To Myself
Sam Clark & Dewey Corley and Richard Harney
- Sunnyland Train Blues
Earl Bell & Marshall "Memphis Sonny Boy" Jones
- Catfish Blues

Mose Vinson & Backwards Sam Firk and Dewey Corley
- You Ain't Too Old
Mose Vinson & Backwards Sam Firk
- Bullfrog Blues
Sweet Charlene Peeples & Mose Vinson
- Tin Pan Alley
- Scood Up Be Doop Day

Furry Lewis
- Natural Born Eastman No. 2
Furry Lewis & Willie Morris and Dewey Corley
- New Turn Your Money Green
Joe Dobbins & Backwards Sam Firk
- Basin Street Blues
- Sweet Patricia
Gus Cannon
- Mule Gallop
Dewey Corley & Willie Morris and Furry Lewis
- Dewey's Walkin' Blues
Dewey Corley & Walter Miller
- Step It Up And Go


rec. October 1969 in Memphis, TN and June 1970 at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN; prod. by Gene Rosenthal
Adelphi AD 1009 cover drawing by Dick Bangham

notes by Stephan Michaelson and Steve LaVere with assistance by Nick Perls and Michael Stewart
notes by Stephan Michaelson & Steve LaVere; click to enlarge!Nathan Beauregard; click to enlarge! Furry Lewis, Gus Cannon, Sam Clark; click to enlarge!Dewey Corley, Mose Vinson, Sweet Charlene; click to enlarge! Earl Bell & Memphis Sonny Boy, Joe Dobbing; click to enlarge!notes by Steve LaVere, track list; click to enlarge!   gatefold notes; click to enlarge!    
Adelphi AD 1009 (US 1971)

notes by Stephan Michaelson

= Echo Music 801 (UK 1985) "Blues Anthology Vol. 1" "Memphis Blues"

Adelphi Records discography

51971The Memphis Blues Again   Vol. 2

Bukka White
- Fried Chicken
Willie Morris, g, voc & Dewey Corley, b
- New Stop And Listen Blues   @youtube (4:50 ff.)
Willie Morris
- My Good Woman Has Quit Me
- Tell Me Mama, Babe, On You
Hacksaw Harney & Dewey Corley, b
- Hacksaw's Down South Blues   @youtube (4:50 ff.)
- Can Can


Walter Miller, voc & Willie Morris, g and Mose Vinson, p
- I Don't Care What You Do
Memphis Piano Red John Williams
- Me And My Pal
Sleepy John Estes & Tom Gary, hca
- Drop Down Mama

Van Hunt & Mose Vinson, p
- Jelly Selling Woman
Van Hunt & Mose Vinson, p and Dewey Corley, b
- Lonesome Road Blues

rec. October 1969 in Memphis, TN and June 1970 at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN; prod. by Gene Rosenthal
Adelphi AD 1010 cover drawing by Dick Bangham

notes by Steve LaVere with assistance by Nick Perls & Michael Stewart

Adelphi AD 1010 (US 1971)


= Echo Music 802 (UK 1985) "Blues Anthology Vol. 2" "More Memphis Blues"

Adelphi Records discography

61974Blues Oggi

Booker T. Washington White - I'm Getting Ready   @ youtube
Dewey Corley - I Feel So Bad   @ youtube
Laura Dukes - Laura's Blues   @ youtube

Mose Vinson - Vicksburg Blues #   @ youtube
Hammie Nixon - I Told You Baby Long Time Ago   @ youtube
Dewey Corley - Yes, My Baby's Just Like A Dresser   @youtube
Sleepy John Estes - Corrina, Corrina   @ youtube

Laura Dukes - Got To Get Myself Somebody To Love   @ youtube
Sleepy John Estes - I Got A Pretty Little Flower   @ youtube
John "Piano Red" Williams - Baby I Need Your Love So Bad   @ youtube
Sleepy John Estes - I'll Be Glad When You Dead (You Rascal You)   @ youtube
John "Piano Red" Williams - Red Boogie   @ youtube
Booker T. Washington White - Brownsville, Tennessee   @ youtube


# rec. December 27, 1972 in Memphis, TN; Mose Vinson, voc, p; Dewey Corley, bull-fiddle; ed. by Franco Coggiola
photos by Gianni Marcucci (on front cover: Dewey Corley at the piano, two of Sleepy John Estes' children: son Charles & daughter Lucy; liner photo: Sleepy John Estes' children, daughters Lucy, Mae (with child), Virginia (Hammie Nixon's [future] wife), and son Charles)

notes (24-pp. booklet) by Gianni Marcucci and Lucio Maniscalchi

I Dischi Del Sole DS 526/28 (Italy 1974)


= Ala Bianca CD 128553718 (Italy 1996)

71975Dewey Corley / Mose Vinson: Tennessee Blues Vol. 2

- Stop And Listen *
- It Was A Dream *
- Fishing In The Dark *
- Blues Jumped The Rabbit * []
- Dewey's Blues (aka Dewey's Stomp) (instr) *
- Big Leg Woman *


- Memphis Boogie (instr) #
- So Long Blues #
- You May Be Old #
- I Can't (instr) #
- I Had A Dream Last Night #   @ youtube
- Rains All Night #

rec. August 22 & 27, 1972 in Memphis, TN by Gianni Marcucci & Lucio Maniscalchi

* Dewey Corley, voc, p; [] Gianni Marcucci, hca

# Dewey Corley, voc, kazoo, double b ["bull fiddle"]; Mose Vinson, voc, p

notes (18-pp. booklet) by Diego Carpitella

Albatros VPA 8261 (It 1975)
= Albatros VC 0741 (cassette)


(=) Dom disques Albatros CD DAF 101 (Fr 1997) (along with VPA 8240 "Tennessee Blues Vol. 1")

Mbirafon CD101

Albatros Records discography
Dewey Corley discography

81976The Devil's Music
from the BBC T.V. series

Red Lightnin' RL0033 track sequence:
LP 1: Mississippi and Memphis Blues@ youtube ([almost] full album LP 1)
Sam Chatmon - Stop And Listen
Big Joe Williams - Highway 49
Houston Stackhouse - Cool Drink Of Water
Sam Chatmon - Sam's Rag
Big Joe Williams - Watergate Blues
Sam Chatmon - Who Gonna Love You Tonight
Booker White - Aberdeen Mississippi


Mose Vinson - When You Got Rid Of My Mule ##   @ youtube
Sonny Blake - One Room Country Shack #*   @ youtube
Sonny Blake - Bring It On Home To Me
Joe Wilkins - Mr. Downchild #**   @ youtube
Houston Stackhouse - Mean Red Spider
Mose Vinson - Bugle Call Blues (instr) #   @ youtube
Laura Dukes - Crawdad   @ youtube


LP 2: Chicago Blues@ youtube ([almost] full album LP 2)
The Aces - Take A Little Walk With Me
Billy Boy Arnold - Somebody Help Me
Fenton Robinson - Somebody Loan Me A Dime
Good Rockin' Charles - Don't Start Me To Talkin'
Fenton Robinson - You Don't Know What Love Is
Joe Carter - It Hurts Me Too

Billy Boy Arnold - She Fooled Me
The Aces - Blue Shadows
Good Rockin' Charles - Shake Your Boogie
Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues
Edith Wilson - Yankee Doodle Blues
Little Brother Montgomery - I Ain't Got No Special Rider Now   @ Spotify


prod. & ed. by Maddalena Fagandini & Giles Oakley (BBC TV series)
sleeve design and illustration of Red Lightnin' RL0033 by G.M.W. Snow; photography by Axel Küstner

Indigo IGOTCD 2537 track sequence:
CD 1: The Devil's Music Part 1
Sam Chatmon - Stop And Listen
Big Joe Williams - Highway 49
Houston Stackhouse - Cool Drink Of Water
Sam Chatmon - Sam's Rag
Big Joe Williams - Watergate Blues
Sam Chatmon - Who Gonna Love You Tonight
Bukka White - Aberdeen, Mississippi

Mose Vinson - When You Got Rid Of My Mule ##
Sonny Blake - One Room Country Shack #*
Sonny Blake - Bring It On Home
Joe Willie Wilkins - Mr. Downchild #**
Houston Stackhouse - Mean Red Spider
Mose Vinson - Bugle Call Blues (instr) #
Laura Dukes - Crawdad
The Aces - Take A Little Walk With Me
Billy Boy Arnold - Somebody Help Me
Fenton Robinson - Somebody Loan Me A Dime
Good Rockin' Charles - Don't Start Me Talkin'
Fenton Robinson - You Don't Know What Love Is
Joe Carter - It Hurts Me Too


CD 2: The Devil's Music Part 2
Billy Boy Arnold - She Fooled Me
The Aces - Blue Shadows
Good Rockin' Charles - Shake Your Boogie
Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues
Edith Wilson - Yankee Doodle Blues
Little Brother Montgomery - I Ain't Got No Special Rider Now
James De Shay - Crossroads °°
James De Shay - Pony Blues °°
James De Shay - Mistake In Life °°
James De Shay - Evil Is Going On °°
James De Shay - Hold That Train, Conductor °°
James De Shay - Forty Four °°
Big Joe Williams - Providence Help The Poor People °°
Henry Townsend - Tears Came Rolling Down °°
Big Joe Williams - Sloppy Drunk °°
Henry Townsend - Wave My Hands Bye Bye °°
Big Joe Williams - Meet Me At The Bottom °°
Victoria Spivey - T.B. Blues °°


CD 3: Live 1963 European Blues Festival
Memphis Slim - Wish Me Well °°
Memphis Slim - I Wrote This Song °°
Memphis Slim - All By Myself °°
Sonny Boy Williamson - 99 °°
Sonny Boy Williamson - Bye Bye Bird °°
Memphis Slim - In The Evening °°
Matt Murphy - Grooving On Bounce °°
Matt Murphy - Taking Off °°
Sonny Boy Williamson - All My Love In Vain °°
Sonny Boy Williamson - Your Funeral And My Trial °°
Sonny Boy Williamson - Don't Start Me Talkin' °°


°° Indigo IGOTCD 2537 bonus tracks

# rec. January 19, 1976 in Memphis, TN; Mose Vinson, p, ## voc; Sonny Blake, hca, * voc; ** Joe Willie Wilkins, voc, g; ** Houston Stackhouse, g; L.T. Lewis, dr

DLP
notes by Giles Oakley
 
Red Lightnin' RL 0033 (UK 1976)

3 CD box set
notes by Neil Slaven

= Indigo IGOTCD 2537 (UK 2003) "The Devil's Music: The Soundtrack To The 1976 BBC TV Documentary Series"

Red Lightnin' Records discography

98/1977Union Avenue Breakdown
The Roots Of Rock   Vol. 12

Jimmy DeBerry
- Party Line Blues
Joe Hill Louis
- Treat Me Mean And Evil
Willie Nix
- Prison Bound Blues
- Take A Little Walk With Me
Walter Horton
- Walter's Boogie
Honeyboy Edwards [mistakenly credited to Albert (Joiner) Williams]
- Sweet Home Chicago
Albert (Joiner) Williams
- Rhumba Chillen

Woodrow Adams
- The Train Is Coming
William Stewart
- Rattlesnakin' Mama
- The Call Me Talkin' Boy
Dr. Ross with Henry Hill
- That Ain't Right
Dr. Ross
- Texas Hop
Pinetop Perkins
- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
Chris Booker [sic]
- Walked All Night (tk 2)
Boyd Gilmore & Earl Hooker
- Believe I'll Settle Down


notes by Martin Hawkins

Charly CR 30127 (UK 8/1977)

101978Mr. Boogie Woogie

- Hello Memphis
- Blues Jumped The Rabbit
- Why Do You Have To Cry
- You Aint Too Old
- Reach Across The Sea For You
- Memphis Blue
- Santa Fee
- Careless Love
- Bugle Call
- Just A Closer Walk
- Darktowns Strutters Ball

Short film (~ 30 minutes) featuring Mose Vinson, Memphis Slim (Peter Chatman), Sonny Blake and archival footage of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey
"Documents the life and music of Moses Vinson, Beale Street's outstanding blues pianist. Explores, through recollections of his employers, his sister, friends who 'made it' and Vinson himself, the complex causes of his current obscurity."
rec. in Memphis, TN; Mose Vinson, voc, p; prod. by A. Krasilowsky, Ann Rickey and Walter Baldwin

sample at www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV6MhdLoYdc

Real to Reel Productions (Orange, Calif.); Rafael Film, VHS cassette


DVD release alexiskrasilovsky.com

111979Forty-Four Blues
Piano Blues And Boogie Vol. 1

- Pinetop's Boogie - Mose Vinson   @ youtube
- Careless Love - Mose Vinson   @ youtube
- Early One Morning - Van Hunt & Mose Vinson   @ youtube
- Going Down Slow - John Williams
- Don't The Moon Look Lonesome - Mose Vinson   @ youtube
- Pinetop's Boogie No. 2 - Wallace Johnson
- Tommy Dorsey Boogie No. 2 - Wallace Johnson
- Pinetop's Boogie - John Williams

- The Honeydripper - Wallace Johnson
- One-Room Country Shack - Wallace Johnson
- Forty-Four Blues - Wallace Johnson

- Old Blue Jumped That Rabbit - Mose Vinson   @ youtube
- Rocky Mountain Blues - John Williams
- Mama Likes Good Whiskey - John Williams

- No More Dogging - Mose Vinson   @ youtube

rec. 1976/78 in Memphis & Mississippi by Gianni Marcucci

notes by Gianni Marcucci

Albatros VPA 8462 (It 1979)

Mbirafon CD101

121985Sun Records - The Blues Years   1950-1956

record six:
side 11 - Hoo Doo Man

L.B. Lawson
- Can't Love Me And My Money Too
Honeyboy Edwards
- Sweet Home Chicago
Albert Williams
- Rhumba Chillen
- Hoo Doo Man
Joe Hill Louis
- When I'm Gone
- We All Gotta Go Sometime
- She May Be Yours
- Keep Your Arms Around Me


side 12 - Mistreatin' Boogie
Mose Vinson
- Mistreatin' Boogie
- Worry You Off My Mind
Joe Hill Louis
- Hydramatic Woman
- Tiger Man
Mose, Joe & Walter
- Shine Boy

Mose Vinson
- Reap What You Sow
- 44 Blues
- Come See Me

9 LP box set

Charly Sunbox 105 (UK) Record Six

Sun Blues Boxes discography

131987Mempis [sic] Harp & Piano Jam

Hot Shot Love
- Harmonica Jam
- Wolf Call Boogie
Woodrow Adams
- Pretty Baby Blues
- She Done Moved
Dr. Ross
- Down Town Boogie
Woodrow Adams
- Last Time
- Train Time
Mose, Joe And Walter
- Shine Boy


Lost John Hunter
- Cool Down Mama
- School Boy
Charlie Burse
- Shorty The Barber

Mose Vinson
- Mistreatin' Boogie
- Worry You Off My Mind
Pinetop Perkins
- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie

Mose Vinson
- 44 Blues (unissued)
- Come See Me (unissued)

compiled by Hitoshi Koide


P-Vine PLP 350 (Jp 1987)

141987?Giants of Country Blues Piano

Whistlin' Alex Moore
- Boogie Woogie
- You Leave Me Walkin'
Robert Shaw
- Piggly Wiggly Blues #
- People People #
- She Used To Be My Baby #
- Ma Grinder #
- Santa Fe Blues #
- Jim Nappy #
- Low Down Dirty Shame #

Lavada Durst (Dr. Hepcat)
- Love You Baby
- Blues
"Memphis" Piano Red
- Baby Please
- Stormy Monday

Mose Vinson
- How Long *
- Memphis Stomp **
Isaac Youngblood
- Jesus Never Says No
Trenton Cooper
- Blues
- I'm Goin' To Chicago


* rec. May 7, 1980 in Memphis, TN by Michael Hortig; Mose Vinson, voc, p
** rec. November 11 in Memphis, TN by Michael Hortig, 1981; Mose Vinson, voc, p
# rec. October 21, 1981 in Dallas, TX by Michael Hortig; Robert Shaw, voc, p

notes by Michael Hortig
 
Wolf LP 120.910 (Austria 1987?)

Wolf CD 120.629

151992Giants Of Country Blues Vol. 3

Jack Owens
- Leavin' Blues
Eugene Powell
- Blues In Texas
Son Thomas
- Walking Cane
LV Conerly
- Hard Headed Woman
Roosevelt Holts
- Big Road Blues
Arzo Youngblood
- I Don't Want No Woman
Sam Chatmon
- Talkin' Bout My Girl
Wade Walton
- Catfish Blues
Isaac Youngblood
- Big Road Blues
Wade Walton
- Catfish Blues
Isaac Youngblood
- Big Road Blues
Mott Willis
- Long Tall Woman

Robert Shaw
- Ma Grinder Pt 2 #
- Mobile & KC Blues #
- The Cows #
- Rock Island #
Lavada Durst
- Boogie Woogie
Alex Moore
- Henry 6 Mike
Memphis Piano Red
- Mama Likes Good Whiskey
- After Hours

Mose Vinson
- Blues Jumped A Rabbit *
- Four O'Clock Blues *

* rec. November 11, 1981 in Memphis, TN by Michael Hortig; Mose Vinson, voc, p
# rec. October 21, 1981 in Dallas, TX by Michael Hortig; Robert Shaw, voc, p
cover drawing (of Robert Shaw) by Bernd Konrad

notes by Michael Hortig

Wolf 120.921 (Austria 1992)

not identical with Wolf CD 120.918 with same title !!!

161992Mose Vinson / Booker T. Laury: Memphis Piano Blues Today

Booker T. Laury - recorded Memphis Peabody Hotel 1990
- Next Time You See Me (4:29)
- Big Legged Women (3:59)
- Blues With A Feeling (3:08)
- Booker T.'s Memphis Blues (6:42)
- Night Time Is The Right Time (6:06)
- Sweet Root Man (3:54)
- You Can Go Your Way (4:35)
- Booker's Boogie (5:50)

Mose Vinson - recorded in Memphis October 1990
- Blues Jumped A Rabbit (1:45) [Wolf LP 120.921]
- Tell Me Like It Is (2:10) #
- Boogie Woogie Blues (1:43) #
- Good Morning Memphis (2:19) #
- 44 Blues (2:13) #
- 4 O'Clock Blues (1:43) [Wolf LP 120.921]
- You're Not Too Old (1:50) #
- Lost My Mule Blues (3:59) #

# rec. October 1990 in Memphis, TN by Michael Hortig; Mose Vinson, voc, p

notes by Michael Hortig and Herbert Pessiak

Wolf CD 120.928 (Austria 1992)

171992Joe Hill Louis with Walter Horton and Mose Vinson: The Be-Bop Boy

Joe Hill Louis
- She Treats Me Mean And Evil
- Dorothy Mae
- Sweetest Gal In Town
- Keep Your Arms Around Me
- Got A New Woman
- I'm A Poor Boy
Walter Horton
- In The Mood
- West Winds Are Blowing
- Little Walter's Boogie (tk 1)
- We All Got To Go (Sometime)
Joe Hill Louis
- We All Gotta Go Sometime (tk 3)
Walter Horton
- Little Walter's Boogie (tk 2)
Joe Hill Louis
- Tiger Man (demo)

Mose Vinson
- 44 Blues
- My Love Has Gone (tk 1)
- Mistreatin' Boogie
- My Love Has Gone (tk 3)
- Worry You Off My Mind
- Reap What You Sow
Walter Horton
- Walter's Instrumental
Joe Hill Louis
- Hydramatic Woman
- Tiger Man

- Keep Your Arms Around Me (Make My Love Stay Warm)
- She Comes To See Me Sometime
- We All Gotta Go Sometime (tk 2)
- Shine Boy


notes by Steve LaVere

Bear Family BCD 15524 AH (Germany 1992)

181992Too Blue To Cry
Rare and Unissued Tracks from the Sun Blues Years

Howling Wolf
- Dorothy Mae [previously unissued alt tk]
- Come Back Come [previously unissued alt tk]
- Oh Red [previously unissued alt tk]
- My Last Affair [previously unissued alt tk]
Ike and Bonnie Turner
- Old Brother Jack [reissue of deleted track]
- Love Is A Gamble [reissue of deleted track]
Shy Guy Douglas
- Hip Shakin' Mama [reissue of deleted track]
- Detroit Arrow Blues [reissue of deleted track]
Sleepy John Estes
- Policy Man [previously unissued alt tk]

Jimmy DeBerry
- Time Has Made A Change # [previously unissued alt tk]
Willie Nix
- Baker Shop Boogie [previously unissued alt tk]
Walter Bradford
- Too Blue To Cry [previously unissued]
Kenneth Banks
- Blue Man [previously unissued alt tk]
Erskine McLellan
- Got Me A Horse And Wagon [previously unissued]
Rosco Gordon
- I Don't Like It [previously unissued alt tk]
- Don't Take It Out On Me [previously unissued alt tk]
Johnny London
- Screamin' For Love (instr) [reissue of deleted track]
- Drivin' Slow [previously unissued alt tk]
Little Milton
- Oo-Wee Baby [reissue of deleted track]
Eddie Snow
- Sorry Little Baby [previously unissued]
- Who's Been Drinking My Wine [previously unissued]
- Got To Put You Down [previously unissued alt tk]
Big Lucky Carter
- Gonna Break That Lock [reissue of deleted track]
Unknown
- Oh Baby [previously unissued]


series concept, compilation and research by Hank Davis and Martin Hawkins

# from a review by Neil Slaven in Blues & Rhythm #72 (1992), pp. 22-23: "DeBerry's alternate is little more than a fragment that affords Mose Vinson a chance for a ringing piano solo."

notes by Hank Davis

Charly CD SUN 38 (UK 1992) (The Sun Blues Archives Vol. 6)

191994the spirit lives on
deep south country blues and spirituals in the 1990's

Robert Belfour - Poor Boy Long Way From Home (2:20)
Robert Belfour - Old Black Mattie (3:18)
Robert Belfour - Catfish Blues (3:45)
Glen Faulkner - Cotton Pickin' Blues (2:03)
David Evans - The Woman I Love (3:41)

Mose Vinson - Rock 'n' Roll Blues (1:57) ## °°
Robert Belfour - I Have Lots Of Bad Luck (3:47)
Robert Belfour - Boogie Chillen' (3:15)
Robert Belfour - Smokestack Lightnin' (3:06)
Big Lucky Carter - Don't Be A Fool (2:57)
Big Lucky Carter - Sugar Mama (3:00)
Glen Faulkner - Louisiana Blues (2:05)

Mose Vinson - You're Not Too Old (2:48) ##
Robert Belfour - Down The Road Of Love (3:25)
Robert Belfour - Holding My Pillow Crying (3:20)
Glen Faulkner - Glory, Glory Hallelujah (2:12)
Glen Faulkner - Get Right, Church, And Let's Go Home (1:55)
Big Lucky Carter - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (3:20)

Mose Vinson - What Is Your Life (3:30) #
David Evans - You've Got To Cross The River Of Jordan (3:41)

prod. by David Evans
# rec. January 4, 1994 in Memphis, TN; ## rec. January 5, 1994 in Memphis, TN; Mose Vinson, voc, p

notes by David Evans

Hot Fox HF-CD-005 (Germany 1994)

°° Neatwork CD AB 101 (Austria 2001)

201996Sun Records - The Blues Years   1950-1958

disc six:
Little Milton
- Beggin' My Baby
- Somebody Told Me
Johnny O'Neal
- Dead Letter Blues (tk 1)
- Johnny's Dream (tk 2)
- Ugly Woman (tk 3)

Mose Vinson
- Mistreatin' Boogie
- Worry You Off My Mind
Joe Hill Louis
- Hydramatic Woman
- Tiger Man (King of the Jungle)
Mose, Joe, and Walter
- Shine Boy

Mose Vinson
- Reap What You Sow
- 44 Blues
- Come See Me (My Love Has Gone)
Little Junior's Blue Flames
- Mystery Train
- Love My Baby
Doctor Ross
- Tailor Mae (Terra Mae)
- Come Back Baby
- Texas Hop (tk 1)
- Chicago Breakdown (tk 2)
- Cat Squirrel
- My Baby
- Straighten Up Baby
Houston Boines
- Carry My Business On (tk 1)
- Crying in the Courthouse (tk 1)


202 tracks including 31 previously unreleased sides plus 60 page booklet

8 CD box set
notes by Neil Slaven & Roger Dopson

Charly CDSUNBOX 7 (UK 1996)

Sun Blues Boxes discography

211997Big Bad Blues
25 Sun Blues Classics   Volume One

- Before Long - Jimmy & Walter
- We All Gotta Go Sometime - Joe Hill Louis
- Bear Cat - Rufus Thomas
- Carry My Business On - Houston Boines
- Baby I'm Coming Home - Charlie Booker
- Juiced - Billy Red Love
- My Real Gone Rocket - Jackie Brenston
- Greyhound Blues - D.A. Hunt
- Wolf Call Boogie - Coy 'Hot Shot' Love
- Prison Bound Blues - Willie Nix
- Blues Train - Tot Randolph
- Mystery Train - Little Junior'S Blue Flames
- Beggin' My Baby - Little Milton
- Red Hot - Billy 'The Kid' Emerson

- Cotton Crop Blues - James Cotton
- I'm Gonna Murder My Baby - Pat Hare
- Rattlesnakin Mama - William Stewart
- Tiger Man - "Mose Vinson"
- Gonna Leave You Baby - Willie Johnson
- Cool Down Mama - Lost John Hunter
- Come Back Home - Howlin' Wolf
- Come Back Baby - Doctor Ross
- Feel So Worried - Willie Johnson
- Lets Get High - Rosco Gordon
- Aint That Right - Eddie Snow



Charly CPCD 8100 (UK 1997)

221997Mose Vinson: Piano Man

- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie (2:15)
- Same Thing On My Mind (2:02)
- I've Been Playing Ever Since I Was Five Years Old - Dishrag, He's Dead Now (3:46)
- 4 O'clock In The Morning (3:05)
- What A Friend We Have In Jesus (1:29)
- Precious Lord, Take My Hand (1:30)
- Darktown Strutter's Ball (1:33)
- Just Because (1:33)
- My Mule (3:12)
- What Is Your Life (2:09)
- Three Hand Boogie (1:59)
- Boogie Woogie (1:20)
- Tell It Like Is, My Girlfriend Won't Be Still (2:58)
- My Father Was A Gambler / Gambler Blues (2:01)
- 44 Blues (2:09)
- Me And Booker T (1:35)
- That's All Right, Little Girl (2:21)
- Leaning On The Everlasting Arms (1:51)

rec. c. 1997 in Memphis, TN; Mose Vinson, voc, p; East Memphis Slim, p; Robert Gordon, Judy Peiser, interviewer; prod. by Jim Dickinson, Knox Phillips and Center for Southern Folklore; executive producer: Judy Peiser

notes by Robert Gordon and Judy Peiser

Center for Southern Folklore CD 1997-1 (US 1997)

231997Harp Legends II

- Step Back Baby - King Biscuit Boy
- All My Money Gone - Paul Delay Band
- Boogie Thing - Muddy Waters Band
- Alcoholic Man - Carey Bell with Willie Williams
- Annie Lee - Billy Boy Arnold
- All Nite Long - Todd Sharpville (with Paul Lamb)
- Hound Dog - Big Walter Horton

- When You Get Rid Of My Mule - Mose Vinson (with Sonny Blake) [Red Lightnin' RL 0033]
- Castin' My Spell - King Biscuit Boy
- Mean Mistreater - Big Walter Horton
- Pretty Baby - The Kingpins featuring Paul Orta
- Lester's Comet - Lester Davenport
- Down At The Grocery Stone - Jimmy Reed
- It Ain't Right - Martin Stone (with Billy Boy Arnold)
- Mean Old World - Little Walter
- John Henry - Big Walter Horton
- Lonesome For A Dime - Buster Benton (with Carey Bell)
- Everybody Needs Somebody - Charlie Musselwhite
- I Want To Be Loved - Paul Delay Band
- Bye Bye Bird - Sonny Boy Williamson [II]
- Let These Blues - Louisiana Red
- Shakey's Edmonton Blues - Big Walter Horton


notes by Michael Heatley

Catfish KATCD 105 (UK 1997)

Catfish Records (UK) discography

242001Africa And The Blues

Hausa Trader - Garaya plucked lute (Nigeria)
Glen Faulkner - One Stringed Guitar
Moise Mbongon, Maurice Djenda - Mono-idiochord zither (C.A.R)
Napoleon Strickland - Jitterbug
Jack Owens - Train Time
Limited Mfundo - Kwa chaGoma; Limited Mfunodo With Bangwe Zither (Malawi)
Blind Lemon Jefferson - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
Othar Turner - Granny Will Your Dog Bite
Chamba - Batal Dance (Nigeria)
Dija Garamba - Nyawala Dance Song (Nigeria)
Samuel Brooks - Quittin' Time Song
Unknown Artist - Zanganyi Girl's Solo Song (Nigeria)
Big Joe Williams - Stack O'Dollars
Adamou Meigogue Garoua - Gogé One-Stringed Fiddle By Adamou Meigogue Garoua (Cameroon)
Tikar - Tikar Woman's Grinding Song
Mississippi Matilda - Hard Working Woman
Omaru Sanda - Timbrh Lamellophone Performance (Cameroon)
Robert Belfour - Poor Boy Long Way From Home
Muhamadu Sarki Banbadawa - Algeita (oboes) Court Music Of The Lamido Of Toungo (Nigeria)
Amadou Meigogue Garoua - Small Algeita By Adamou Meigogue Garoua
Napoleon Strickland - The Hounds
Baba Chale Mafala - Nyanga Panpipes
Sid Hemphill - Ten-Hole Quills "Emmaline, Take Yo' Time"

Mose Vinson - Rock'n'Roll Blues [Hot Fox HF-CD-005]
Tikar - Tikar Raphia Lamellophone Performance (Cameroon)
Gonga Sarki Birgui, Hamadjam Sarki Siyawa - Double Bells (Nigeria)
Tikar - Tikar Mourning Song With Poly-Idiochord Stick Zither
Ed Bell - Mean Conductor Blues
Desiré Basil Fouda - Ibaye Ibaye (Cameroon)
Lemmy "Special" Mabaso - 4th Avenue Blues
The Kachamba Brothers - Mafelo Twist (Malawi)
The Kachamba Brothers - Chipiloni Chanjamile
Elvis Viyuyu - Choir (Malawi)
Gombani Lange, Lucas Shishonge - Mwena Kaji Acitwa, with mbira (South Africa)
Dyula - Dyula Popular Music
Ali Farka Touré - Yer Sabou Yerkoy


companion CD to the book by Gerhard Kubik; prod. by Riki Parth


Neatwork CD AB 101 (Austria 2001)

252003Jim Dickinson Field Recordings: Delta Experimental Project Vol. 3

Otha Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band
- My Babe

Mose Vinson
- Old Blue Jumped A Rabbit
Furry Lewis
- Furry's Blues
Sleepy John Estes
- Broke & Hungry
Alec Teal & Butter Biscuit
- Roll Me Over Slow
Johnny Woods
- So Many Cold Mornings
Furry Lewis
- Turkey In The Straw
Sleepy John Estes
- Floating Bridge
Johnny Woods
- Lonesome Feelin'

Mose Vinson
- Barrel House Blues   @ youtube
- Cryin' Won't Make Me Stay   @ youtube
Sleepy John Estes & Hammy Nixon
- Race That You Don't Run
Tate County Singers
- Jesus Is On The Mainline



Birdman BMR 047 (US 2003)

262006Memphis Blues
Important Postwar Blues

disc 1:
- Gotta Let You Go - Joe Hill Louis
- Boogie in the Park - Joe Hill Louis
- That Ain't Right (tk 1) - Henry Hill
- Little Soldier Boy (tk 2) - Doctor Ross
- Country Clown (tk 1) - Doctor Ross
- County Farm Blues - William Stewart
- They Call Me Talkin' Boy - William Stewart
- Easy - Jimmy & Walter
- Before Long - Jimmy & Walter
- Lonesome Ol' Jail - D.A. Hunt
- Greyhound Blues - D.A. Hunt
- Registration Day Blues - Sleepy John Estes
- Rats in My Kitchen - Sleepy John Estes
- Rattlesnake Mama - William Stewart
- Forty Four Blues - William Stewart
- I Feel Like a Million - Joe Hill Louis
- Heartache Baby - Joe Hill Louis
- Shorty the Barber - Charlie Burse
- Last Time, The - Woodrow Wilson Adams
- Train Is Comin' - Woodrow Wilson Adams
- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Pinetop Perkins
- Wolf Call Boogie - Sleepy John Estes
- Harmonica Jam - Coy "Hot Shot" Love
- Policy Man Blues (tk 1) - Coy "Hot Shot" Love
- Take a Little Chance - Jimmy DeBerry
- Tailor Made - Doctor Ross
- The Boogie Disease - Doctor Ross


disc 2:
- Moanin' at Midnight - Howlin' Wolf
- Bluebird - Howlin' Wolf
- Move on Down the Line - Earl Hooker
- Hucklebuck, The - Earl Hooker
- Walter's Instrumental - Walter Horton
- Grandmother Got Grandfather Told - Walter Horton
- Midnight Showers of Rain - Willie Nix
- Prison Bound Blues - Willie Nix
- Bear Cat - Rufus Thomas
- Married Woman - Rufus Thomas
- Roscoe's Boogie - Rosco Gordon
- City Women - Rosco Gordon
- Baby, Baby - Earl Forest
- Rock the Bottle - Earl Forest
- Bad Women, Bad Whiskey - Little Parker, Jr.
- You're My Angel - Little Parker, Jr.
- Good Lovin' - Bobby "Blue" Bland
- Drifting from Town to Town - Bobby "Blue" Bland
- My Baby - James Anthony Cotton
- Straighten Up Baby - James Anthony Cotton
- Work with Her Boy - Shy Guy Douglas
- Detroit Arrow Blues - Shy Guy Douglas
- Carry My Business On (tk 1) - Houston Boines
- Crying in the Courthouse (tk 1) - Houston Boines
- Walked All Night - Charley Booker
- Baby I'm Coming Home - Charley Booker
- I'm Gonna Murder My Baby - Pat Hare
- Bonus Pay - Pat Hare


disc 3:
- T Model Boogie - Rosco Gordon
- Saddled the Cow (And Milked the Horse) - Rosco Gordon
- Seems Like a Million Years (tk 1) - Willie Nix
- Riding in the Moonlight - Willie Nix
- Can't Love Me and My Money Too - L.B. Lawson
- Flypaper Boogie - L.B. Lawson
- Somebody Told Me - Little Milton
- If You Love Me Baby - Little Milton
- Feelin' Good - Little Junior
- Fussin' and Fightin' Blues - Little Junior
- Hart's Bread Boogie - Billy Love
- Blues Leave Me Alone - Billy Love
- She Comes to See Me Sometime (tk 1) - Joe Hill Louis
- We All Gotta Go Sometime - Joe Hill Louis
- Sweet Home Chicago (tk 1) - David Honeyboy Edwards

- Mistreatin' Boogie - Mose Vinson
- Worry You Off My Mind - Mose Vinson
- Lucy Done Moved - L.C. Hubert
- Don't Dog Me Around - Eddie Snow
- Skin and Bone (tk 1) - Eddie Snow
- Dead Letter Blues (tk 1) - Johnny O'Neal
- Ugly Woman (tk 3) - Johnny O'Neal
- You'll Be Sorry - Houston Stokes
- Blue and Lonesome - Houston Stokes
- Long Gone Raymond - Raymond Hill
- I'm Back Pretty Baby - Raymond Hill
- Blue Man (tk 1) - Kenneth Banks
- High (tk 1) - Kenneth Banks


disc 4:
- Tiger Man - Rufus Thomas
- Save That Money - Rufus Thomas
- Lookin' for My Baby - Little Milton
- Homesick for My Baby - Little Milton
- Feel So Worried - Sammy Lewis/Willie Johnson
- So Long Baby Goodbye - Sammy Lewis/Willie Johnson
- Cotton Crop Blues - James Anthony Cotton
- Hold Me in Your Arms - James Anthony Cotton
- Come Back Home (tk 1) - Howlin' Wolf
- Chocolate Drop - Howlin' Wolf
- Blue Guitar - Earl Hooker
- Believe I'll Settle Down - Boyd Gilmore
- We All Gotta Go Sometime - Walter Horton
- Off the Wall - Walter Horton
- Love My Baby - Little Junior
- Mystery Train - Junior Parker
- Dry Up Baby - Bobby "Blue" Bland
- Crying All Night Long - Bobby "Blue" Bland
- Way After Midnight (tk 1) - Billy Love
- Hey Now (tk 1) - Billy Love
- I Wronged a Woman - Earl Forest
- I Can't Forgive You - Earl Forest
- Midnight Hours Journey - Johnny Ace
- My Baby Left Me - Raymond Hill
- You're Driving Me Insane - Ike Turner
- Trouble and Heartaches - Ike Turner
- When It Rains It Pours - Billy "The Kid" Emerson
- Move Baby Move - Billy "The Kid" Emerson


4 CD set

JSP JSPCD 7777 (UK 2006)

272007Van Hunt: Field Recordings from Memphis, Tennessee   (1976-1982)
Blues At Home   Volume 1

Sweet Charlene & Mose Vinson - Sitting Here Drinking [previously unissued]   @ youtube
Mose Vinson - No More Dogging [Albatros VPA 8462]
Van Hunt & Mose Vinson - Early In The Morning About The Break Of Day - tk 1 [previously unissued]
Van Hunt & Mose Vinson - Early In The Morning About The Break Of Day - tk 2 [Albatros VPA 8462]
Mrs. Van Hunt discusses Early In The Morning [previously unissued]
Van Hunt - Nobody's Business But Mine [previously unissued]
Van Hunt - That's All Right [previously unissued]

Sweet Charlene & Mose Vinson - Forty Four Blues [previously unissued]
Sweet Charlene & Mose Vinson - Tin Pan Alley [previously unissued]
Van Hunt - Mississippi River Blues tk 1 [Albatros VPA 8461]
Mrs. Van Hunt discusses Mississippi River Blues [previously unissued]
Mose Vinson - Don't The Moon Look Lonesome [Albatros VPA 8462]
Mose Vinson, Van Hunt & Ruth Ogilvie - Just A Closer Walk With Thee [previously unissued]
Mose Vinson - Untitled Blues [previously unissued]
Van Hunt & Mose Vinson - I Never Knew Just What Our Love Would Do [previously unissued]
Van Hunt & Mose Vinson - Lonesome Road Blues [previously unissued]
Mrs. Van Hunt and Mrs. Ruth Ogilvie discuss repertoire [previously unissued]
Mose Vinson - Careless Love [Albatros VPA 8462]
Van Hunt & Mose Vinson - Corinna Corinna [previously unissued]
Mose Vinson - Old Blue Jumped A Rabbit tk 2 [previously unissued]
Mose Vinson discusses Old Blue Jumped A Rabbit [previously unissued]
Mose Vinson - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie [Albatros VPA 8462]
Van Hunt & Mose Vinson - The Darktown Strutters Ball [previously unissued]
Van Hunt - Crump And Jim Kinnane [Albatros VPA 8387]
Mrs. Van Hunt discusses Crump and Jim Kinnane [previously unissued]
Mrs. Van Hunt discusses bottleneck technique [previously unissued]
Van Hunt & Mose Vinson - Selling The Jelly Boogie [previously unissued]
Van Hunt - Troubled World [previously unissued]
Van Hunt & Mose Vinson - Sunnyland Special [previously unissued]

rec. during the late 1970s by Giambattista Marcucci; Van Hunt, voc, p, g; Mose Vinson, voc, p
photos by Giambattista Marcucci

36-pp. booklet

Mbirafon CD101 (It 2007)

282010The Sun Records Story

LP 1 - Roots (2xLP)
Lost John Hunter - Cool Down Mama
Joe Hill Louis - Boogie In The Park
Harmonica Frank Floyd - Howling Tom Cat
Howlin' Wolf - Highway Man
Billy Love - Juiced
Roscoe Gordon - T. Model Boogie
Rufus Thomas - Tiger Man
Little Junior Parker - Love My Baby

Doctor Ross - Come Back Baby

James Cotton - Cotton Crop Blues
Pat Hare - I'm Gonna Murder My Baby
Jimmy DeBerry - Time Has Made A Change
Billy 'The Kid' Emerson - Red Hot
The Jones Brothers - Look To Jesus
Billy Lee Riley - Dark Muddy Bottom


LP 2:
Jerry Lee Lewis - Hello, Hello Baby
Smokey Joe Baugh - Listen To Me, Baby
Earl Peterson - Boogie Blues
Howard Serratt - Troublesome Waters
Hardrock Gunter - Gonna Dance All Night
Slim Rhodes - Don't Believe
Charlie Feathers - Defrost Your Heart

Carl Perkins - Sure To Fall
Mack Vickery - Fool Proof
Doug Pointdexter - Now She Cares No More For Me
Onie Wheeler - Jump Right Out Of The Jukebox
Jerry Lee Lewis - You're The Only Star In My Blue Heaven
Jack Earls - A Fool For Lovin' You
Warren Smith - I'd Rather Be Safe Than Sorry
Johnny Cash - Come In Stranger


LP 3 - Good Rockin' Daddies (2xLP)
Eddie Bond - Rockin' Daddy
Jerry Lee Lewis - Crazy Arms
Roy Orbison - Mean Little Mama
Warren Smith - Got Love If You Want It
Jerry Lee Lewis - Crawdad Song
Carl Perkins - Her Love Rubbed Off
Jimmy Wages - Mad Man
Hayden Thompson - Love My Baby
Warren Smith - Miss Froggie

Billy Lee Riley - Pearly Lee
Jerry Lee Lewis - Deep Elem Blues
Carl Perkins - That Don't Move Me
Glenn Honeycutt - All Night Rock
Ray Harris - Come On Little Mama
Billy Lee Riley - Rock With Me Baby
Dick Penner - Fine Little Baby
Malcolm Yelvington - Rock With My Baby


LP 4:
Edwin Bruce - Baby That's Good
Carl Perkins - That's Right
Luke McDaniel - My Baby Don't Rock
Jimmy Wages - Miss Pearl
Sonny Burgess - So Glad You're Mine
Ray Smith - Willing And Ready
Tommy Blake - Shake Around
Gene Simmons - Crazy Woman

Rudy Grayzell - Judy
Jerry Lee Lewis - Good Rockin' Tonight
Carl McVoy - A Woman's Love (Thrill Of Your Love)
Andy Anderson - Tough, Tough, Tough
Jimmy Wages - (Take Me From This) Garden Of Evil
Alton & Jimmy - Faith In My Love
Jerry Lee Lewis & Elvis Presley - Walk That Lonesome Valley
Glenn Honeycutt - Search For Me


LP 5 - Hits And Then Some (2xLP)
Jackie Brentson - Rocket 88
Rufus Thomas - Bear Cat
The Prisonaires - Just Walkin' In The Rain
Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes
Billy 'The Kid' Emerson - When It Rains It Pours
Little Junior Parker - Mystery Train
Carl Perkins - Boppin' The Blues

Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
Billy Lee Riley - Flyin' Saucer Rock Roll
Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line
Roy Orbison - Ooby Dooby
Sonny Burgess - We Wanna Boogie
Carl Perkins - Dixie Fried
Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls Of Fire
Billy Lee Riley - Red Hot


LP 6:
Johnny Cash - Big River
Warren Smith - Rock'n'roll Ruby
Jerry Lee Lewis - Breathless
Carl Perkins - Honey Don't
Sonny Burgess - Red Headed Woman
Johnny Cash - Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
Jerry Lee Lewis - High School Confidential
Carl Perkins - Matchbox

Charlie Rich - Lonely Weekends
Carl Mann - I'm Coming Home
Charlie Rich - Who Will The Next Fool Be?
Jerry Lee Lewis - What'd I Say
Johnny Cash - Guess Things Happen That Way
Bill Justis - Raunchy
Carl Mann - Mona Lisa
Charlie Rich - Whirlwind


pressed in Germany for Charly, marketed and distributed by Cargo Records Germany GmbH

three 180g DLP box set
notes by Clive Anderson

Sun CLYCAR 713-8 (UK 2010)

= Charly CHALP 7138

292012The Sun Blues Story

CD 1:
B.B. King - Fine Looking Woman
Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' At Midnight
Hot 'Shot' Love - Harmonica Jam
Joe Hill Louis - Boogie In The Park
Rufus Thomas, Jr. - Save That Money
Willie Nix - Lonesome Bedroom Blues
D.A. Hunt - Greyhound Blues
'Harmonica' Frank - Howlin' Tom Cat
Little Junior's Blue Flames - Fussin' & Fightin' Blues
Lost John Hunter - Cool Down Mama
Jimmy & Walter - Easy
B.B. King - Don't You Want A Man Like Me
James Cotton - My Baby
Billy Emerson - Something For Nothing
Willie Nix - Truckin' Little Woman
Doctor Ross - Jukebox Boogie
Handy Jackson - Got My Application, Baby

Jimmy De Berry - Take A Little Chance
Little Milton - Lookin' For My Baby
Rufus Thomas Jr - Night Workin' Blues
CD 2:

Doctor Ross - Come Back Baby
Rosco Gordon - Shoobie Oobie
Ike Turner & The Kings Of Rhythm - I'm Lonesome Baby
B.B. King - Hard Working Woman
Billy Emerson - When It Rains It Pours
Billy Love - Juiced
James Cotton - Straighten Up Baby
Willie Nix - Baker Shop Boogie
Joe Hill Louis - We All Gotta Go Sometime
Little Milton - If You Love Me
Little Junior's Blue Flames - Feelin' Good
Billy Emerson - Little Fine Healthy Thing
Sammy Lewis & Willie Johnson - Feel So Worried
Big Memphis Ma Rainey - Baby, No No!
Willie Nix - Try One More Time
Billy 'Red' Love - Drop Top
Rufus Thomas Jr - Why Did You Deegee?
B.B. King - She's Dynamite
Eddie Snow - Bring Your Love Back Home To Me
Howlin' Wolf - How Many More Years?
CD 3:

Little Milton - Beggin' My Baby
Jimmy & Walter - Before Long
Little Junior's Blue Flames - Love My Baby
Howlin' Wolf - The Wolf Is At Your Door
James Cotton - Hold Me In Your Arms
D.A. Hunt - Lonesome Ol' Jail
B.B. King - Mistreated Woman
Rosco Gordon - Wise To You Baby
Doctor Ross - Country Clown
Joe Hill Louis - Gotta Let You Go
Lost John Hunter - Schoolboy
Little Milton - Somebody Told Me
Willie Nix - Seems Like A Million Years
Rosco Gordon - Too Many Women
Lou Sargent - Ridin' The Boogie

James Cotton - Cotton Crop Blues
Jimmy De Berry - Time Has Made A Change
58. Ike Turner & The Kings Of Rhythm - Heartbroken And Worried
Rufus Thomas Jr - Walkin' In The Rain
Johnny London - Drivin' Slow


3 CD set

One Day Music 150996 (UK 2012)

302013The Sun Blues Box   1950-1958

disc 5:
Walter Bradford & The Big City Four
- Reward For My Baby
- Love For My Baby
- Too Blue To Cry
L.C. Hubert & The Big City Four
- Lucy Done Moved
Honeyboy Edwards
- Sweet Home Chicago
Albert Williams
- Rumble Chillen
- Hoo Doo Man (Memphis Al)
Joe Hill Louis
- When I Am Gone (She Treats Me Mean And Evil)
- Dorothy Mae
- Keep Your Arms Around Me
- I'm A Poor Boy
- She May Be Yours (Sweetest Gal In Town)
- Hydramatic Woman
- Tiger Man
Joe Hill Louis & Willie Albert
- Shine Boy

Mose Vinson
- Mistreatin' Boogie
- Worry You Off My Mind
- Reap What You Sow
- 44 Blues
- Come See Me (aka My Love Has Gone)
Little Junior's Blue Flames
- Feelin' Bad
James Cotton
- My Baby
- Straighten Up Baby
- Cotton Crop Blues
- Hold Me In Your Arms
Pat Hare
- Cheating And Lying Blues (aka I'm Gonna Murder My Baby)
- Bonus Pay
Hot Shot Love
- Harpin' On It
Houston Stokes
- Blue And Lonesome
- Baby's Gone And Left Me
Kenneth Banks
- High
- Blue Man



Bear Family BCD 17310 (Germany 2013)

Sun Blues Boxes discography

3110/2013Story of Piano Blues
From the Country to the City

Pinetop Perkins - Five Long Years (4:06)
Henry Gray - Cold Chills (4:15)
James Crutchfield - Sittin On Top of the World (5:29)
Abie "Boogaloo" Ames - Tommy Dorsey's Boogie Woogie (3:17)
Jimmy Walker - Come On, Get Your Morning Exercise (5:22)
Pinetop Perkins - Everyday I Have the Blues (3:53)
Robert Shaw - Cows (2:38)
Henry Gray - Blues Won't Let Me Rest (4:03)
Abie "Boogaloo" Ames - After Hours (3:54)

Mose Vinson - Good Morning Memphis (2:18) [Wolf CD 120.928]
Big Joe Duskin - If You Want To Be My Woman (4:23)
Pinetop Perkins - Kansas City (4:46)
Booker T. Laury - Big Legged Woman (3:59)
Henry Gray - When My First Wife Left Me (4:30)
Pinetop Perkins - Kidney Stew (4:00)
Big Joe Duskin - Key To the Highway (4:12)
Jimmy Walker - I Had Lots of Troubles (2:24)
Booker T. Laury - You Can Go Your Way (3:56)
Detroit Junior - Call My Job (4:00)


ed. & remastered by Gerhard Wessely; associate producer: Matt Block
cover photo by James Fraher; photography by Dr. Herbert Pessiak, Matt Block, Michael Hortig, Frank Prchal and Hannes Folterbauer

notes by Matt Block

Wolf CD 120.106 (Austria 10/2013)



Additional information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Jean-Claude Arnaudon: Dictionnaire du Blues.- Paris, France (Filipacci) 1977, p. 255
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, pp. 224, 457
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970 (2nd edition).- Vancouver 2012, pp. 127, 149, 635
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, pp. 993-994
- Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 2011, p. 471
- David Whiteis: Mose Vinson.- in Edward Komara (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Blues Vol. 2 (K-Z).- New York/London (Routledge) 2005, p. 1037
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Gilbert Guyonnet, Klaus Kilian, Michael Hortig and Max Hoeffner for additional info / scans

 

M O S E   V I N S O N, 1969; source: Inner gatefold of Adelphi AD 1009; photographer: Steve LaVere
Mose Vinson 1969
source: Inner gatefold of Adelphi AD 1009
photographer: Steve LaVere

 

Richard Harney and Mose Vinson on the grounds of the 33rd National Folk Festival 1971; source: Sing Out! vol. 20 # 6 (1971), p. 7; photographer: Herbert Wise
Earl Bell and Mose Vinson on the grounds of the 33rd National Folk Festival 1971
source: Sing Out! vol. 20 # 6 (1971), p. 7; photographer: Herbert Wise

 

M O S E   V I N S O N, 1972; source: Notes accompanying Albatros LP VPA 8261; photographer: Gianni Marcucci
Mose Vinson 1972
source: Notes accompanying Albatros LP VPA 8261; photographer: Gianni Marcucci

 

M O S E   V I N S O N   headstone, placed by The Killer Blues Headstone Project; source: http://www.killerblues.net/Headstones-Placed.html
Mose Vinson's headstone
placed by The Killer Blues Headstone Project
source: www.killerblues.net/Headstones-Placed.html

 

 

 

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