AllenLowe

I saw Baker regularly in the '70s when he appeared in NYC at Strykers on 79th Street. He was sublime.

I recall the original LPs as sounding fine, though I always thought that Baker's playing was a bit sub-par on them; not horribly so, but just not quite settled.

there's a fair amount of that Pentecostal sound on CD; mosty old Document CDs. Incredible stuff.

just for the record, I have no objection to the way this thread has developed.

Keepnews was difficult. I once commented on some bulletin board that I didn't like Mabel Mercer and he went berserk. Berserk.

I guess I thought the hint that I was being ironic was that I said Appropriating Culture, as a opposed to cultural appropriation; it's supposed to sound like a "How To...." I agree, actually, that the title shouldn't be so abstract as to require cover-to-cover perusal (and the reader shouldn't have to know all of my work). But once I again, I do think the word-switch points clearly enough in the right direction.

yes - no problem. Well, I had no idea that this had blown up like it has. I am a bit under the weather these days, so don't have a lot of energy to respond; however, I will say: 1) I am amused at being called an academic. I have been excluded from my attempts to get access to that world for many, many years. I have gotten in some major trouble as well for my detailed criticisms of academics and academia in the past. I think academia has been the near-ruination of the study of American music. I am completely unaffiliated and have always worked without any institutional support. 2) The sound is rough on this collection, especially, of course, the early years. I did my best, as all materials are from my own collection. 3) The phrase 'turn me loose white man' comes from an early minstrel song as sung by two white men; the title of the book has to do with the ambiguity and outright strangeness of a white man, imitating a black man within a form that was certainly a matter of cultural theft and subterfuge - though hidden in plain sight - seeming to ask for freedom of expression. 4) I use the phrase 'cultural appropriation' with intended irony. I think the whole idea has become just another socio-speak cliche.

here we go: Vol. 1 1. Mr. Johnson Turn Me Loose Ben Harney 1891 2. Every Day’ll Be Sunday Bye and Bye Standard Quartette 1894 or 1895 3. Down Yonder in the Cornfield The Diamond Four 1897 4. Poor Mourner Cousins and Demoss 1897 5. Eli Green’s Cake Walk J. Cullen and W. Collins 5/98 6. Old Black Joe Thomas Craig 1898 7. Roll on de Ground Billy Golden 1899 8. Climb De Golden Fence Len Spencer late 1890s 9. Mr. Johnson Turn Me Loose Silas Leachman 1901 10. Whoa Dar Mule Silas Leachman 1901 11. My Little Zulu Babe Williams and Walker 1901 12. Creole Bells Metropolitan Orchestra ca. 1902 13. Mississippi River Song Tapioca Cantrell & Williams 10/2/02 14. Turkey in the Straw Billy Golden 1902 15. All C’s Look Alike to Me Arthur Collins 1902 16. You Been a Good Old Wagon Len Spencer 1902 17. Whistling Rufus Olly Oakley 3/12/03 18. Cakewalk Anonymous 1903 (NYC) 19. Nobody Bert Williams 1906 20. When You Ain’t Got No Money You Needn’t Come Around May Irwin 1907 21. Chicken Chowder Ossman/Duddley 7/06 22. Banjo Solo Bill Simons 1908 23. I Ain’t Had No Lovin’ In A Long Time Bob Roberts 1908 (Europe comp) 24. Arkansas Traveler 1908 Len Spencer ( 25. Rise and Shine Polk Miller and his Old South Quartette 12/09 26. Old Dog Tray Carroll Clark 1910 27. Camp Meeting Jubilee Male Quartette 1910 (rock and roll?) 28. De Devilin’ Tune Stella Mayhew 1911 29. Some of These Days Sophie Tucker 1911 30. Battle of San Juan Hill Mike Bernard 2/12/12 Volume 2 1. Florida rag Van Eps Trio 1912 2. Trinidad Paseo Lovey’s Trinidad String Band 6/20/12 3. Grizzly Bear Jack Charman 1912 (wr. Irving Berlin) 4. Land of Cotton The Hedges Brothers & Jacobson 1913 5. The Memphis Blues/Mr. Crump Prince’s Band 7/24/14 6. Carry Me Back to Old Virginny Alma Gluck 11/10/14 7. Swing Along Afro-American Folk Song Singers 1914 8. Good News Tuskegee Institute Singers 8/31/14 9. Castle House Rag James Europe Society Orch. 2/10/14 10. Breakin’ the Piano Veen Lawnhurst 1915 11. Exhortation The Right Quintette 12/24/15 12. I Ain’t Got Nobody Marion Harris 1916 13. Down Home Rag Wilbur Sweatman 12/16 14. Down Home Rag The Versatile Four 1916 15. Fuzzy Wuzzy Rag W.C. Handy’s Memphis Blues Band 9/21/17 16. Cute Little Wigglin’ Dance Frisco Jass Band 8/2/17 17. Some Jazz Blues Memphis Pickaninny Band, 1917 18. Iris Lionel Belasco’s Orchestra 9/27/18 19. Dallas Blues Wilbur Sweatman 7/10/18 20. Sensation Rag Original Dixieland Jazz Band 6/25/18 21. St. Louis Blues Al Bernard 1919 22. Go Down Moses Harry Burleigh 1919 23. River of Jordan Fisk University Jubilee Singers 12/21/20 24. I’m Wild About Moonshine Southern Negro Quartette 7/21 25. Baltimore Buzz Eubie Blake and His Shuffle Along Orch. 7/15/21 Volume 3 1. Goodnight Angeline Harmony Kings 1921 2. Daddy Won’t You Please Come Home Gertrude Saunders Tim Brym 5/21 3. Harlem Strut James P Johnson 1921 4. Ragtime Annie Eck Robertson 7/1/22 5. Ross’ Juba Black Face Eddie Ross 6/22 6. Kitchen Mechanic Blues Excelsior Quartette 3/22/22 7. Toot Toot Tootsie Al Jolson 9/11/22 8. The Christian Warfare The Original Sacred Harp Choir 7/22 9. Teasin’ the Frets Nick Lucas 1922 10. Stars in a Velvety Sky Herbert L. Clarke and Orch 11/22 11. Couldn't Hear Nobody Praying Jubilee Quartette 1923 12. Elephant’s Wobble Bennie Moten Band 9/23 13. When You and I Were Young Maggie Fiddlin’ John Carson 11/8/23 14. Mother’s Religion Kentucky Trio 11/2/23 15. Mr. Crump Rag Jessie Crump 1923 16. My Soul is a Witness Paramount Jubilee Singers 11/23 17. My Way is Clouded Manhattan Harmony Four 4/23 18. The Old hen cackled and the Rooster’s Gonna Crow Fiddlin’ John Carson 6/14/23 19. Guitar Rag Sylvester Weaver 11/2/23 20. Sly Mongoose Montrose String Orchestra 7/12/23 (Belasco piano) 21. Asheville Osey Helton 1924 22. I Can’t Use You Butterbeans and Susie 9/15/24 23. If You do What You Do Eddie Cantor and the Georgians 1/4/24 24. It Looks Like Rain Wendell Hall 1924 25. Old Liza Jane Uncle Am Stuart 6/24 Volume 4 1. The Waffleman’s Call Johnny Bayersdorffer 3/17/24 2. All Night Long Roba Stanley 12/24 3. The Pickanninnies’ Paradise Emmett Miller 1924 4. Any Time Emmett Miller 10/25/24 5. Brother Noah Built an Ark Alf Taylor’s Old Limber Quartet 1924 6. Go ‘long Mule Ukulele Bob Williams 1924 7. big eyed rabbit Samantha Baumgarner Eva Davis 4/24 8. Blues Just Blues, That’s All Old Southern Jug Band 11/24/24 9. Chicago Flip Whistler & His Jug Band 9/25/24 10. Climb Up Them Golden Stairs Ernest Thompson 4/24 11. Cool Kind of Daddy Blues Anna Lee Chisholm (Lasky) 4/24 12. Cripple Creek & Sourwood Mountain Stovepipe #1 8/20/24 13. The Girl Slipped Down Dr. D.D. Hollis 6/24 14. He’s the Hottest Man in Town Cliff Edwards 10/24 15. Laughing Song The Seven Musical Magpies 1924 16. West Indies Blues Ukulele Bob Williams 1924 17. Hen Cackle Bill Chitwood and Bud Landress 11/20/24 18. Single Life Roba Stanley 7/5/25 19. Hand Me Down the Silver Trumpet Sunset Jubilee Quartet 4/25 20. Following the Cow Trail Carl T. Sprague 8/5/25 21. I Ain’t Got Nobody Bessie Smith 8/19/25 22. Last Train to Arkansas Al Bernard 1925 23. Piney Woods Girl Emmett Lundy & Ernest Stoneman 5/27/25 24. Shake That Thing Papa Charlie Jackson 5/25 25. Sweet Georgia Brown Ethel Waters 1925 26. On Jordan’s Stormy Banks We Stand Seventh Day Adventists’ Choir 1/3/26 Volume 5 1. Pilgrim’s Journey Homer Quincy Smith 12/26 2. Pratt City Blues Bertha Chippie Hill Louis Armstrong 11/23/26 3. Reign Massa Jesus Reign Wesley Female Quartet 6/26 4. Lovin’s Been Here and Gone To Mecca Flat Jimmy Blythe 5/26 5. The Sinless Summerland Ernest Stoneman 9/21/26 6. Pistol Pete’s Midnight Special Otto Gray’s Oklahoma Cowboys 5/26 7. Goin’ Back to Jericho Dock Walsh 8/17/26 8. Befo’ This Time Another Year Odette and Ethel 9/30/26 9. Candy Girl Uncle Bunt Stephens 5/29/26 10. The Cross-Eyed Butcher and the Cacklin’ Hen Uncle Dave Macon 9/9/26 11. Crucifixion Arizona Dranes 1926 12. Bristol Tennessee Al Hopkins and his Buckle Busters 10/22/26 13. Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray Evelyn Dove 1926 14. Buckdancer’s Choice Sam McGee 4/14/26 15. Down Hearted Blues Virginia Childs 11/3/26 16. Franklin Street Blues Sam McGee 4/14/26 17. I’ve Got A Ride to the Tree of Life Sister Sallie Sanders 11/1/26 18. In the Pines Doc Walsh 4/17/26 19. McKeon’s Reel Frank Quinn 1/26 20. Shine for Jesus Paramount Ladies Four 11/26 21. Sleepy Time Gal Josephine Baker 1926 22. South Street Stomp South Street Trio 11/22/26 23. Rabbit Foot Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson 1926 24. Oh Molly Dear Go Ask Your Mother Kelly Harrell 6/9/26 25. The Freight Wreck of Altoona Vernon Dalhart Volume 6 1. Big Bend Gal Shelor Family 8/3/27 2. John Brown’s Dream DaCosta Woltz 5/27 3. Home Sweet Home Frank Jenkins 1927 4. I’m Comin’ Virginia Ethel Waters 9/18/26 5. There’s A City Built of Mansions Nugrape Twins 11/2/26 6. I Seen My Pretty Papa Standing on a Hill Eva Parker 12/18/26 7. The Crowing Rooster Walter Rhodes 12/10/27 8. Dixie Cowboy Aulton Ray ca. 4/26/27 9. Can’t Put a Bridle on that Mule This Morning Julius Daniels 10/24/27 10. Cluck Old Hen Al Hopkins & His Buckle Busters 5/13/27 11. Come Let Us Eat Together Rev. ED Campbell and Congregation 2/26/27 12. Down Home Special Henry Johnson and His Boys 4/20/27 13. Baptist Shout Frank Jenkins 1926 14. Stack O’ Lee Blues Ma Rainey 1926 15. G Rag Georgia Yellow Hammers 8/9/27 16. Goodbye, I’ve Left the Word Behind Rev. T.T. Rose 8/27 17. Her Name was Hula Lou Carolina Tar Heels 2/19/27 18. Hesitation Blues Crying Sam Collins 9/17/27 19. Hide Away Oscar Ford 10/14/27 20. I Don’t Love Nobody Earl Johnson & His Dixies Entertainers 3/23/27 21. Your Enemy Cannot Harm You Rev. E.W. Clayborn 12/8/26 22. I Love My Mountain Home Carolina Tarheels 8/15/27 23. It’s a Good Thing Frank Stokes 1927 24. James Alley Blues Richard Rabbit Brown 3/11/27 25. Ash Can Stomp Perry and His Stomp Band 1927 Volume 7 1. Bad Luck Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson 1927 2. Beyond the River Carolina Gospel Singers 8/25/27 3. Cluck Old Hen Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters 5/13/27 4. Cold Morning Shout South Street Trio 10/27/27 5. Come Down Jailor With the Keys Williams Black Patti Jubilee Singers 7/21/27 6. Country Blues Doc Boggs 3/10/27 7. Darling Cora BF Shelton 7/29/27 8. Deep Elm Willard Robson 10/27 9. Dixie Cowboy Alton Ray 4/26/27 10. Hey Lawdy Mama Papa Harvey Hull and Long Cleve Reed 4/3/27 11. I’m Comin’ Virginia Bix Beiderbecke 1927 12. Leather Breeches Earl Johnson & His Clodhoppers 10/2/27 13. Lonesome Road Blues Price Goodson/Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters 1927 14. Memphis Frolic Rag Williamson’s Beale Street Frolic Orchestra 2/27/27 15. The Moore Girl Andrew and Jim Baxter 8/2/27 16. Mr. Johnson Turn Me Loose The South Georgia Highballers 10/5/27 17. Muddy Water Bing Crosby w/Paul Whiteman 1927 18. My Daddy’s Got a Brand New Way to Love Alberta Hunter 2/26/27 19. On the Banks of the Old Tennessee Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Baker 8/27 20. Red Onion Drag Louis Dumaine’s Jazzola 8 3/5/27 21. Riley the Furniture Man The Georgia Crackers 3/21/27 22. Sadie Lee Blues Peg Leg Howell 1927 23. See That My Grave is Kept Clean Bela Lam & The Greene County Singers 7/28/27 24. Though Your Sins Be Scarlet Williams & Williams 3/29/27 25. Train on the Island J.P. Nestor & Norman Edmonds 9/26/27 Volume 8 1. Boll Weevil Rabbit’s Foot Williams 1927 2. Chicago Stomp Down Duke Ellington 11/3/27 3. Don’t Let Your Head Hang Down Leecan & Cooksey 1927 4. Hot Dog Blind Lemon Jefferson 1927 5. Damfino Stomp Sylvester Weaver 4/12/27 6. He Rose from the Dead Blind Lemon Jefferson 6/27 7. Hallelujah Cotton Belt Quartet 1927 8. I Believe I’ll Go Back Home William and Versey Smith 1927 9. If I Had My Way T.T. Rose and Gospel Singers 1927 10. It All Belongs to Me Ruth Etting 8/30/27 11. Jack Of Diamonds Ben Jarrell 5/27 12. Madison Rag Gus Cannon 1927 13. Mistreatin’ Mama Rabbit’s Foot Williams 3/31/27 14. Rocking Chair Blues Original Louisville Jug band 3/30/27 yodel at 1:00 15. Sugar Blackbirds of Paradise 7/9/27 16. Twill Be All Glory Over There The Deal Family 11/5/27 17. Traveling Coon Luke Jordan 8/16/27 18. Vol Stevens’ Blues Vol Stevens 10/20/27 19. We Are Journeying On Price Family Sacred Singers 3/22/27 20. Woke up With the Blues in My Fingers Lonnie Johnson 5/2/27 21. Will My Mother Know Me There L.V. Jones and His Virginia Singing Class 9/27/27 22. Georgia Stomp Andrew & Jim Baxter 1928 23. Ham Beats All Meat Dr. Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters 3/3/28 24. Don’t Speak to Me Lottie Kimbrough 1928 25. Canned Heat Blues Tommy Johnson 8/31/28 26. Don’t get One Woman on Your Mind Willard Hodgin 1927 or 1928 Volume 9 1. He’s the lily of The Valley Texas Jubilee singers 12/8/28 2. Alabama Jubilee Bill Helms and and His Upson County band 2/3/28 3. Alabama Strut Cow Cow Davenport 7/16/28 4. Blue Coat Blues T.C. Johnson Tom Nelson 1928 5. Candy Man Blues Mississippi John Hurt 12/28/28 6. Come Over Here Elder R. Bryant 2/28/28 7. Cumberland Gap Frank Hutchison 1928 8. I’m Gonna Run to the City of Refuge Blind Willie Johnson 12/5/28 9. Left Alone Blues Ishman Bracey 1928 10. Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane Uncle John Scruggs 11/8/28 11. In the Mornin’ Johnson, Nelson, Porkchop 2/17/28 12. Johnson City Blues Clarence Green 10/15/28 13. Lindy Proximity Quartet 14. Take Me Back Frank Stokes 8/30/28 15. Tom Cat Blues Otto Gray's Oklahoma Cowboys 9/28 16. Too Tight Blues #2 Blind Blake 8/17/28 17. Touch Me Light Mama George Bullet Williams 1928 18. Travelin’ Man Albert Hunt’s Texas ramblers 3/8/28 19. Up in Glory Dr. Smith 9/12/28 20. Groundhog Jack Reedy & His Walker Mountain String Band 2/28 (bluegrass) 21. A Little talk with Jesus Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Quartet 10/30/28 22. See that My Grave is kept Clean Blind Lemon Jefferson 2/28 23. Goin’ Up Town Dr. Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters 3/3/28 24. I Surely Understand that You Love Another Man Shortbuckle Roark and Family 1928 25. Shake it Down Lillian Glinn 4/28 Volume 10 1. Shrimp Man Moses Mason 1/28 2. Cryin’ for You Sammy Hill 1929 3. Ha Ha Blues Rosie Mae Moore 2/3/28 4. Ida Red Tweedy Brothers 3/28 5. In the Mornin’ Johnson, Nelson, Porkchop 2/17/28 6. These bones Gwine Rise Again Rutherford & Foster 4/10/29 7. Shine on Me Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers 10/29/28 8. Sister Maude Mule Alec Johnson 11/2/28 9. Skip the Gutter Louis Armstrong Earl Hines 6/27/28 10. Stealin’ Stealin’ Memphis Jug Band 9/15/28 11. Steamboat Man Roy Harvey 10/18/28 12. Old Country Stomp Henry Thomas 6/13/28 13. Papa’s ‘Bout to Get Mad Pink Anderson/Simmie Dooley 4/14/28 14. Poor Boy Gus Cannon 1928 15. San Tub Jug Washboard Band 1928 16. How Much Can I Stand? Gladys Bentley 11/15/28 17. Sunshine Special Frenchy’s String Band 12/25/28 18. I Ain’t Got Nobody Sophie Tucker 1928 19. I’ve Always Been A Rambler Grayson & Whittier 7/31/28 20. Trinity River Texas Tommy 10/28 21. Turkey Buzzard Blues Peg Leg Howell and Eddie Anthony 10/30/28 22. Wagoner’s Lad Buel Kazee 1/18/28 23. I Would If I Could Al Miller 12/28 24. Vacation in Heaven Missionary Josephine Miles& Sister Elizabeth Cooper 5/15/28 25. If You Want the Rainbow Lee Morse 11/3/28 Volume 11 1. Lafayette Joseph Falcon 4/27/28 2. Lay Down Baby, Take Your Rest carolina tarheels 10/11/28 3. Little David Play on Your Harp Joe Reed Family 6/28 4. King of Kings Rev. Johnny Blakey (Bessie Johnson) 12/6/28 5. Mississippi Jailhouse Groan Rube Lacy 3/28 6. Mill Man Blues Billy Bird 1928 7. Nobody Loves me Hershel Brown & His Washboard Band 2/24/28 8. How Long is that Train Been Gone? Roy Evans 6-18-28 9. Palolo Charlie Wilson 1928 10. Kiss Me Quick Georgia Yellow Hammers 10/18/28 11. Went Up in the Clouds of Heaven Ernest Phipps& His Holiness Singers 10/29/29 12. When I Woke Up This Morning She Was Gone Jim Jackson 8/27/28 13. When the Gates Bush 4/26/28 14. Wire Grass Drag Earl Johnson & His Clodhoppers 8/9/28 15. Yes I Know Rev. Calbert and Sister Billie Holstein 2/28 16. You’re Going to Leave the Old Home Jim Eva Parker 11/27/28 17. Back in the Alley Cow Cow Davenport 5/1/29 18. Blue Ridge Rambler's Rag H.M. Barnes' Blue Ridge Ramblers 1/28/29 19. Callahan Rag Roane Country Ramblers 10/21/29 20. Careless Love Slim Barton and Eddie Mapp 1929 21. The Cat’s Got The Measles Walter Smith 3/20/29 22. Cairo Blues Henry Spaulding 5/9/29 23. The Girl I Love She’s Got Long Curly Hair 9/24/29 24. Bathe in the Beautiful Pool Doc Walsh 9/25/29 25. I Wish That Gal Was Mine Hershel Brown & His Washboard Band 8/06/28 Volume 12 1. Alabama Breakdown Hershel Brown & His Happy Five 3/19/29 (DRUMS like JR EUROPE) 2. Get Up Off That Jazzophone the Bubbling Over Five 10/13/29 3. Give the World a Smile The Corley Family 12/4/29 4. Head Rag Hop Romeo Nelson 9/5/29 5. I’m Goin’ Up The Country Papa Eggshell 5/7/29 6. Jonestown Blues Gus Cannon (Banjo Joe) 11/27 7. Elder Green Blues Charlie Patton 10/29 8. Little Bessie Darby & Tarlton 10/31/29 9. Three in One Two Step East Texas Serenaders 10/27/29 10. Augusta Rag Melvin Dupree 4/2/29 11. Louisiana Glide Blind Leroy Garnett 10/12/29 12. Mississippi Bottom Blues Kid Bailey 9/25/29 13. Mon Chere Bebe Creole Dennis McGee 3/29 14. Mule Skinner Moan Ben Covington 1929 15. My Sportin’ Man Mamie Smith 1929 16. No 29 Wesley Wallace 1929 17. Roll and Tumble Blues Hambone Willie Newbern 3/14/29 18. Tom Brown Sits In His Prison Cell Luke Jordan 11/19/29 19. The Train’s Done Left Me (60s FOLK) carolina tarheels 4/3/29 20. Turn Away Lubbock texas Quartet 12/6/29 21. A Precious Sweetheart from Me Has Gone Dock Walsh 9/25/29 22. Rambling Lover Dick Rheinhart 10/27/29 23. Riffs James P. Johnson 1/29/29 24. Roving Cowboy Frank Jenkins 1929 25. Aunt Jemimah Stomp Kansas City Tin Roof Stompers 3/15/29 Volume 13 1. I Ain’t Got Nobody Louis Armstrong 12/10/29 2. I Got a Gal James Cole’s String Band 6/25/28 3. I Never Told a Lie Memphis Minnie Joe McCoy 5/29/30 4. I Want Someone to Love Me Tommy Johnson 12/29 5. Little Sadie Clarence Ashley 1929 6. My Kinda Love Bing Crosby 3/14/29 7. My Loved Ones Are Waiting Carolina Ladies Quartette 1929 8. Naptown Special Herve Duerson 8/28/29 9. Stone Mountain Rag Roanoke Jug Band 10/18/29 10. Sugar Blues Coley Jones and the Dallas String Band 12/6/29 11. Sur Le Chemin Chez Moi Soileau Couzens 11/7/29 12. What Wouldn’t I Do For That Man Anette Hanshaw 9/16/29 13. Don’t Put That Thing On Me Cliff Gibson 1929 14. Way Down in Arkansas Hambone Willie Newbern 3/14/29 15. Sweet Milk and Peaches Narmour & Smith 9/25/29 16. Oh What A Change Megginson Female Quartet ca. 1929 17. What Kind of Shoes You Gwine to Wear? William Rexroat’s Cedar Singer 1/8/29 18. Old Joe Clark Bradley Kincaid 10/8/30 19. Doggone That Train Jimmie Davis 1930 20. Dollar Bill Blues Charley Jordan 6/30 21. Don’t Think I’m Santa Claus Lil McLintock 12/4/30 22. Husking Bee The Yellow Jackets 7/28/30 23. I’ll Take It Now Pigmeat Pete and Wesley Wilson 1930 24. I’ll Play My Harp in Beulah Land Brothers Wright and Williams 12/9/30 25. Heat It Frankie Half Pint Jackson Tampa Read Georgia Tom Dorsey 6/11/29 Volume 14 1. Aunt Dinah’s Quilting Party 8/29/30 2. Bake That Chicken Pie Jackson County Barn Owls 5/17/30 3. Bring It With You When You Come Cannon’s Jug Stompers 11/24/30 4. Buy a Half Pint and Stay in the Wagon Earl Johnson 12/3/30 5. Day is Past Primitive Baptist Choir 3/25/30 6. Dollar Bill Charley Jordan 6/30 7. Don’t Think I’m Santa Claus Lil McClintock 12/4/30 8. Eight of January Ted Gossett’s Band 9/16/30 9. Fare Thee Well Blues Joe Callicott 1930 10. Georgia Wobble Blues Carroll County Revelers 3/21/30 11. Give Us Another Jug Piano Kid Edwards 12/30 12. Grandma’s Farm Big Bill Broonzy 4/9/30 13. I Know My Time Ain’t Long Delta Big Four (pattons friends) 5/25/30 14. I’m On My Way Kentucky Holiness Singers 3/28/30 15. I’ve Grown So Used to You Mcfarland and Gardner 4/3/30 16. In the Jailhouse Now Jimmie Rodgers 7/12/30 17. Jackson Stomp Mississippi Mud Stepper 12/15/30 18. Kentucky Blues Little Hat Jones 1930 19. Knox County Stomp Tennessee Chocolate Drops 4/3/30 20. Last Kind Words Blues Geeshie Wiley 1930 21. Let Your Light Shine for Jesus Rev. J.L. Hendrix 10/27/30 22. Lorena Blue Ridge Mountain Singers 4/21/30 23. Man Trouble Blues Jaybird Coleman 1930 24. Mississippi Farm County Blues Son House 5/28/30 25. Sister Mary Wore Three Lengths of Chain Slim Duckett and Pig Norwood 12/16/30 Volume 15 1. That Too, Do Bennie Moten Orch. Jimmy Rushing 10/28/30 2. South Carolina Rag William Walker 12/6/30 3. Speckled Red’s Blues Speckled Red 4/8/30 4. Sweet Sixteen Charlie Poole 1/23/30 5. Tallahatchie River Blues Mattie Delaney 2/21/30 6. This Song of Love Middle Georgia Singing Convention 12/10/30 7. Vicksburg Stomp Mississippi Mud Stepper 12/15/30 8. Walkin’ Cane Stomp Kentucky Jug Band ******WESTERN SWING 8/30 9. Walking With My King Middle Georgia Singing Convention 12/10/30 black SHaped note 10. The Whole World In His Hands Bessie Johnson 3/21/29 11. Your Low Down Ways Carolina Tarheels 11/19/30 12. Abrew’s Portuguese Jazz Abrew’s Portuguese Instrumental Trio 2/16/31 13. Atlanta Bound gene Autry 10/29/31 14. Bedside Blues Jim Thompkins 2/21/31 15. Darn Good Girl Buster Carter Preston Young 6/26/31 16. My Good Gal’s Gone Jimmie Rodgers 1931 17. Old Hen Cackle The Two Poor Boys Joe Evans and Arthur McClain 5/20/31 18. 4 O’Clock Blues Skip James 1931 19. Get Your head in Here Three ‘Baccer tags 5/29/31 20. Greenville Strut Stovepipe and Sarah 1931 21. I’ll Lead a Christian Life Golden P. Harris 3/19/31 22. It’s Hard to Love and Can’t Be Loved Buster Carter & Preston Young 6/26/31 pre bluegrass 23. Molly Put the kettle On The Skillet Lickers 10/24/31 24. Pick Poor Robin Clean Geeshie Wiley 1931 25. Please Don’t Wake it Up Mississippi Sheiks 10/24/31 Volume 16 1. Poor Jane Blues Jack Gowdlock 5/29/31 2. Reaching for the Moon Roy Smeck Trio 1931 3. Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms Buster Carter Preston Young 1931 4. Shout You Cats Hezekiah Jenkins 1/16/31 5. Swing Low Sweet Chariot 1931 Jules Bledsoe 1931 6. Take A Look at That Baby The Two Poor Boys Joe Evans and Arthur McClain 5/20/31 7. Try And Treat Her Right Ben Ferguson 6/16/31 8. Clanka A Lanka (Sleep on Mother) Famous Bluejay Singers of Birmingham 1/32 (LEAD!) 9. Gone Dead Train King Solomon Hill 1932 10. Hallelujah Side Tindley Quaker City Gospel Singers 3/8/32 11. The Laffing Rag Ben Curry 1/32 12. Long Tall Mama Big Bill Broonzy 3/30/32 13. Na Pua O Hawaii George Ku Trio 1932 14. Preacher Blues Henry Brown 1932 15. Sally Gooden W.M. Smith 10/1/32 16. Cold Iron Bed Jack Kelly and his South Memphis Jug Band 8/1/33 17. Miss Handy Hanks Archie Lewis 3/30/33 18. Ladies Quadrille The Happy Hayseeds 3/4/30 19. Market Street Stomp Frank Melrose 4/9/30 20. Deep Elm Blues The Lone Star Cowboys 8/4/33 21. Go ‘Long Mule Louisiana Lou 12/4/33 22. Hambone Am Sweet Southern Singers 2/23/33 23. I’ve Got the Big River Blues Delmore Brothers 12/6/33 24. Just Because the Lone Star Cowboys 8/5/33 25. Tampa Strut the Georgia Browns 1/19/33 Volume 17 1. Go Down Old Hannah Iron Head Baker and others 1933 2. Wait for Me Harold and Hazel 1933 3. Western Cowboy Huddle Ledbetter 16-20 July 1933 4. Sunset Amede Ardoin and Dennis McGee 1934 5. Ted’s Stomp Louie Bluie and Ted Bogan 3/25/34 black country 6. Throw Me In the Alley Peetie Wheatstraw And His Blue Blowers 8/24/34 7. After You’ve Gone Art Tatum 8/24/34 8. Cacklin’ Hen Blind Pete and Partner 9/27/34 9. I Believe I’ll Make a Change Leroy Carr Scrapper Blackwell 8/16/34 10. I Feel Like Dyin’ in this Army Austin Coleman, Joe Washington, & Group 7/34 11. I’m Walkin’ This Town The Spirits of Rhythm 9/4/34 12. J'Ai Fair Tout Le Tour Du Pays Jimmy Peters and the Ring Dance Singers 6/34 13. Little Liza Jane Wilson Stavin’ Chain Jones & Group 6/34 14. Le Blues Du Petite Chien Breaux Freres 10/9/34 15. Matchbox Blues Larry Hensley 1/25/34 16. Moon Country Hoagy Carmichael 3/9/34 (tommy Dorsey trumpet) 17. My Good Gal Has Thrown Me Down Homer Callahan 8/17/34 18. My Soul is a Witness Austin Coleman Joe Washington Brown, Group ca. 7/34 19. St. Louis Blues Cliff Edwards 10/19/34 20. How You Want Your Rollin’ Done Louis Lasky 4/2/35 21. I’m Troubled in Mind Southern University Quartet 1/22/35 22. Stack O’ Lee Blues King, Queen, and Jack 1935 23. Sugar Babe High and Shug’s Radio Pals 7/16/37 24. My Man’s Gone Now (Porgy and Bess) Ruby Elzy 1935 25. Sunshine Alley Stuart Hamblen 2/25/35 26. Field Mouse Stomp Minnie Wallace and her Night Hawks 1935 Volume 18 1. I’m Sitting on Top of the World The Shelton Brothers 12/19/35 2. Old Time Blues Carl Martin 7/27/35 3. Po' Laz'us Booker T. Sapps Roger Matthews 6_35 4. Podunk Toddle The Freeny Harmonizers 10/20/35 5. Baby Please Don’t Go Big Joe Williams 10/31/35 6. Coquette Boots and His Buddies 8/14/35 7. Les Bleues De Bosco Fats’ Raybo Ramblers, 8/10/35 8. Elm Street Woman Blues Dallas Jamboree Jug Band 9/20/35 9. Fiddler’s Dream Arthur Smith 1/22/35 10. Down by the Ohio Milton Brown and his Brownies 1/35 11. Magnolia Waltz Cherokee Ramblers 7/11/35 12. You Got To Go Down Blind Gary Davis 7/26/35 13. Shoeshine Boy Lester Young/Clayton/Basie/Page/Jo Jones 10/9/36 14. Somebody’s Been Using that Thing Callahan Brothers 12/22/36 15. Moonglow Mississippi Mud Mashers 1/21/35 16. Anytime Emmett Miller 9-1-36 17. What's the Matter Now? Lawrence Walker 1936 18. Blues in the Bottle Jimmy Revard and his Ok. Playboys 10-26-36 19. Farrish Street Jive Little Brother Montgomery 10/16/36 20. Give Me My Money Blue RIdge Playboys 11/36 21. Honky Tonk Train Meade Lux Lewis 5/7/36 22. Hittin’ The Bottle Stomp Mississippi Jook Band 1/20/36 23. Cripple Creek Jimmy Strothers 6/14/36 24. Guess who’s in town Bill Boyd cowboy ramblers 10/27/36 25. Last Fair Deal Gone Down Robert Johnson 11/27/36 26. Mayflower Stripling Brothers 3/12/36 (folk rag?) Volume 19 1. Mama Let Me Lay It On You 2/8/36 2. New Jelly Roll Blues Al Dexter 11/28/36 3. New River Train Monroe Brothers 2/17/36 4. Oh Lord, Don’t ‘low Me to Beat Em Willie Williams 1936 5. Soap Box Blue Jack Pierce (Slim Mays) 9/36 6. Watermelon on the Vine J.E. Mainer’s Mountaineers 6/15/36 7. Weave Room Blues The Dixon Brothers 2/12/36 8. Never No Mo’ Blues The Rhythm Wreckers 1937 9. One More River Sons of the Pioneers 12/14/37 10. Porquoi Que tu Laise Moi Clifford Breaux 2/15/37 11. Stay out of the South LC Doughboys 6/20/37 12. Sugar Babe High and Shug’s Radio Pals 7/16/37 13. Bell Clappin’ Mama Bill Carlisle 2/16/37 14. East Texas Drag East Texas Serenaders 2/20/37 15. Everybody’s Truckin’ Smokey Wood 3/1/37 16. I’m Moaning All Day For You Five Jinks 2/20/37 17. Moten Swing Carolina Cotton Pickers 3/24/37 18. Frankie and Johnny Alabama Boys 1937 19. Glory in the Meeting House Luther Strong1937 20. Golden Gate Gospel Train Golden Gate Quartet 8/7/37 21. John’s Idea Count Basie 7/7/37 22. She's Selling what She Used to Give Away Buddy Jones 9/21/38 23. Just Dream of You Norfolk Jazz Quarter 7/16/37 24. Knocking on the Hen House Door Lester ‘Pete’ Bivins 2/20/37 25. Little Maggie Wade Mainer & Zeke Morris 8/2/37 26. Milk Cow Blues Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers 2-5-37 27. Old Dad John Rector 1937 28. Coal Creek March Pete Steele 3/29/38 29. Cowboy Rhythm Patsy Montana 2/17/38 Volume 20 1. Fiddle and Guitar Running Wild Walter Hurdt 9/29/38 2. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love Adelaide Hall Fats Waller 8/28/38 3. Jivin’ Woman Blues Blind Boy Fuller 1938 4. Katie Dear The Blue Sky Boys 1/25/38 5. Memphis Blues the Nite Owls 1938 6. Mitchell Blues Wade Mainer 1938 7. Mollie Married A Travelin’ Man J.H. Howell 1/29/38 8. Pray for the Lights to Go Out Bob Wills 5/16/38 9. Sewing on the Mountain Coon Creek Girls 1938 10. St. Louis Stomp Speckled Red 12/17/38 11. Tiger Rag Jelly Roll Morton 1938 12. When the Sun is Setting on the Prairie Roy Rogers 13. Your Soul Never Dies Smith’s Carolina Crackerjacks 9/29/38 14. De Blind Man Stood on De Road and Cried Morris Brown Quartet 8/23/39 15. Down the Line Sister Rosetta Tharpe 1939 16. Orange Blossom Special Roy Hall and His Blue Ridge Entertainers 11/7/38 17. Footprints in the Snow Cliff Carlisle 1939 18. Headin’ for Texas and Home Roy Rogers/Sons of Pioneers 4/18/39 19. I’m Not Angry With You Darling Four Picked Pepper 8/22/39 20. Farther Along Pine Ridge Boys 8/22/39 21. Matzoh Balls Slim Gaillard 10/11/39 22. Hear De Lambs/Plenty Good Room Roland Hayes 1939 23. Plantation Blues The Sons of the Ozarks 12/8/39 24. Streamline Train Cripple Clarence Lofton 1939 25. Tu Peus Pas Me Fair Ca Alley Boys of Abbeville 6/30/39 26. Up Jumped the Devil Byron Parker and his Mountaineers, Snuffy Jenkins 2/9/40 27. Walk Around The Soul Stirrers 1939 Volume 21 1. I’d Rather Drink Muddy Water The Cats and the Fiddle 6/27/39 2. I’ll Get Mine in the Bye and Bye Buddy Jones Bob Dunn 3/4/39 3. Six White Horses Bill Monroe 10/7/40 4. Moten Swing Charlie Parker with Jay McShann 11/30/40 5. Gonna Ride ‘til the Sun Goes Down Johnny Barefield 2/5/40 6. I’m Through With You Big Joe and His Washboard Band 12/17/40 7. Key to the Highway Jazz Gillum 1940 8. Koko Duke Ellington 11/7/40 9. Laughing at Life Lewis Bronzeville Five 4/11/40 10. Muleskinner Blues Bill Monroe 10/7/40 11. Nobody’s Business Riley Puckett 10/11/40 12. A Chicken Ain’t Nothin’ But a Bird Louis Jordan 9/30/40 13. Yancey’s Bugle Call Jimmy Yancey 9/6/40 14. Nice Work If You Can Get It (Excerpt) Thelonious Monk Minton’s 5/41 15. I Never Loved But One The Carter Family 1941 16. Catfish Blues Robert Petway 4/28/41 17. Gallows Pole Leadbelly 1941 18. House of the Rising Sun Alamanac Singers (Seeger/Guthrie) 7/41 19. Mama Knows What Papa Wants Georgia White 3/41 20. I’m Gonna Lift Up a Standard for My King Church of God in Christ 8/41 21. Old Ship of Zion Paramount Juniors 11/10/41 22. Slewfoot on the Levee Light Crust Doughboys (Zeke Campbell) 2/27/41 23. Worried Life Blues Big Maceo 6/24/41 24. Stand By Me Sister Rosetta Tharpe 3/41 25. Why Don’t You Do Right? Lil Green 4/23/41 26. You Got To Roll David Honeyboy Edwards 7/42 27. You Got To Take Sick and Die Some of These Days Muddy Water 7/42 28. Eighth of January Nathan Frazier & Frank Patterson 3/42 29. Blues Trip Me This Morning Tommy McLennan 2/20/42 Volume 22 1. Born To Lose Ted Daffan 2/20/42 2. I Be Bound to Write To You Muddy Waters 7/24/42 3. Joe Turner Blues Son Simms 4 (Muddy Water) 7/24/42 4. Mean Old World T. Bone Walker 7/31/42 5. Missionary Sermon J.H. Terrell 7/23/42 6. Soon in the Mornin’ Sid Hemphill 8/15/42 7. I’m a Soldier in the Army of the Lord Rev. McGhee 7/42 8. Stormy Weather Ethel Waters 10/42 9. Walking the Floor Over You Ernest Tubb 1942 10. Tall Skinny Poppa Sister Rosetta Tharpe 11. Trouble Trouble Betty Roche 1943 12. West Kinney Street Blues Skoodle-Dum-Do and Sheffield 11/6/43 13. I Want Two Wings Utah Smith 1944 14. Downhearted Blues Miss Rhapsody (Viola Wells) 11/21/44 15. East of the Sun Sarah Vaughan Dizzy Gillespie 12/31/44 16. God’s Mighty Hand Utah Smith 1944 17. That’s the Stuff Sonny Terry Brownie McGhee 12/12/44 18. Remember Me T. Texas Tyler 1945 19. Shaw ‘Nuff Charlie Parker Dizzy Gillespie Al Haig 1945 20. Tent Show Rag Brun Campbell 1940s 21. The Honeydripper Part 1. Joe Liggins 1945 22. What Is This Thing Called Love? Lenny Tristano 1945 23. At the End of the Trail Blackwood Brothers Quartet 1940s 24. Indiana Don Byas Slam Stewart 1945 25. Coquette Leo Watson 1/24/45 26. I’ll Remember You Cecil Gant 1945 Volume 23 1. Don’t You Lie to Me Texas Ruby 1945 2. Love Me Or Leave Me Kay Starr 1945 3. Across the Sea Gribble, Lusk, York 9/46 4. Empty Bed Blues Ivy Anderson 10/46 5. I’m Talkin’ About You Bob Wills Junior Bernard 1946 6. Railroad Bill Hobart Smith 1946 7. The Reefer No. Jo Jo Adams 6/11/46 8. Trouble in Mind Tex Ritter 12/11/46 9. What’s New? June Christy 1/46 10. You Won’t Let Me Go Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers 1946 11. Pigmeat Strut Merle Travis 4/8/46 12. Did You Ever Try to Cry? Gatemouth Moore 12/26/47 13. I Just Keep Lovin’ Her Little Walter & Othum Brown 1947 14. It Never Entered My Mind Frank Sinatra 11/5/47 15. Milk Cow Blues Maddox Brothers and Rose 1947 16. New Mississippi River Blues York Brothers 9/1/47 17. Nobody In Mind Joe Turner 11/29/47 18. Placetas Chano Pozo and Orch -2/4/47 19. Sad and Disappointed Big Maybelle 12/47 20. Too Many Blues Bill Nettles 1947 21. Weird Lullaby Babs Gonzales 5/47 22. Unloved and Unclaimed Roy Acuff 11/19/47 23. Forgive Me Manny Nichols 1949 24. Life is a Problem Sister O.M. Terrell 1948 25. It’s Too Soon to Know The Orioles 1948 26. Stand By Me Sister Matthews 1948 27. Milk ‘em in the Morning Blues Tennessee Ernie Ford 1948 Volume 24 1. Grievin' Blues John Lee Hooker 1948 2. What Are They Doing in Heaven Today? Lily Brothers 1948 3. Fast Train Through Arkansas Wayne Raney 1948 4. Hallelujah We Shall Rise Sauceman Brothers late 1940s 5. Hard Times Will Soon Be Over Blue Ridge Quartet 1948 6. Little David Play on Your Harp Merle Travis 3/20/48 7. Lost on the River Hank Williams 1948 8. Goin’ to Virginia Ralph Willis 6/8/48 9. God Don’t Like It Elder A. Johnson ca. 1948 10. There is Another Mule in Your Stall Nellie Lutcher – 1948 11. What You Gonna Do Cavalry Quartet 1948 12. I’m Wondering and Wondering Ray Charles 1948 13. Lord Will Make a Way Elder A. Johnson ca. 1948 14. All Night Long Homer and Jethro 1948 15. Looking for a Woman Roy Brown 1948 16. We Will Know Roy Lanham and his Gospel Quartet 1948 17. Yodel Your Blues Away Bill Haley 1949 18. Night Watchman Blues Memphis Minnie 1949 (scream 1:36) 19. Poor Ellen Smith Molly O’Day 4/4/49 20. Prelude to a Nighmare Babs Gonzales 3/11/49 21. Sweet Georgia Brown Bud Powell 22. When Your Lover Has Gone Julia Lee 1949 23. Where the Sun Never Goes Down Willie Mae Williams 10/29/49 24. Cabin in Caroline Flatt and Scruggs 1949 25. Cuttin’ Out Annie Laurie 1949 26. Dallas Blues Floyd Dixon 1949 27. I Got to Cross the River Jordan Blind Willie McTell 1949 Volume 25 1. Hey Little Girl Professor Longhair 1949 2. I Almost Lost My Mind Ivory Joe Hunter 10/21/49 3. Trixie Curley Weaver 1949 4. Baby Don’t You Want to Go Dan Pickett 1949 (Scotty Moore) 5. For Old Times Sake Johnny and Jack 1949 6. Goin’ Back Home Dennis McMillon 8/49 7. I Ain't Got Nobody Peggy Lee 1949 8. I Wonder John Lee Hooker 1949 9. Baby Shame on You Wynonie Harris 10/19/49 10. In the Middle of the Night Amos Milburn 1949 11. Joe Turner Link Davis 1949 12. Jumpin’ At the Jubilee Joe Turner ca. 1949 13. Lou, Cindy Lou Walter Brown 10/31/49 14. In the Jailhouse Webb Pierce 1950 15. All In Down and Out Blues Uncle Dave Macon 1950 16. Release Me Eddie Miller 1950 17. Louisiana Blues Muddy Waters 1950 18. The Letter Harry Partch 1950 19. My Baby Left Me Arthur Crudup 11/8/50 scotty guitar 20. The Tree of Life is Waiting for Me Prophet Powers 1950 21. Joliet Blues Johnny Shines 10/23/1950 22. Love Her With A Feeling Tampa Red 7/3/50 23. Muskadine Blues Little Walter 1950 24. Pan American Boogie Delmore Brothers 1950 25. Rollin’ and Tumblin’ Part 1 Little Walter Muddy Waters Leroy Foster 1/50 26. Take Out Some Time Miss Sharecropper (Laverne Baker) 1950 27. Soony Roony (Song of Yxabat) Slim Gaillard and His Peruvians 3/5/51 28. Rockin’ With Red Piano Red 1950 Volume 26 1. I’ll Drown in My Own Tears Lula Reed 1951 2. I’ve Got Mine Pink Anderson 5/29/50 3. You’ve Gotta Lay Down Momma Johnny Beck 1950 4. Crying at Daybreak Howlin’ Wolf 1951 5. Travelin’ Blues Left Frizzell 6/1/51 6. Trouble in Mind Jerry Irby 1951 7. Walkin’ on Top of the World Peck Touchton 1951 8. Please Tell Me Baby Varetta Dillard 1/22/51 9. Wrong Road Blues Tommy Duncan 1951 10. She Done Moved Harmonica Frank 1951 11. Every Day Will Be Sunday By and By Dorothy Love Coates & the Orig. Gospel Harmonettes 7/5/51 12. Big Mama Blues Jimmy Murphy 1951 13. Black Gal Walter Horton 6/51 14. By and By Sister Jessie Mae Renfro 1951 15. Goin’ Away Walkin’ Harmonica Frank 1951 16. Good Lovin’ H Bomb Ferguson 12/12/51 17. Hi Tone Poppa Tillman Franks 1951 18. Don’t Jive Me Smiley Lews 4/51 19. Juiced Billy Love 6/51 20. Lone Town Blues Junior Brooks 1951 21. I Wanna Be Mama’d Jimmy Logsdon 1951 22. You Go To My Head Bob Graettinger Stand Kenton 9/15/52 23. Sparrow in the Barrel Johnny Sparrow 1952 24. Strange Things Henry Green 3/52 25. Take a Little Walk With Me Boyd Gilmore 1/23/52 26. Twice the Lovin’ (In Half the Time) Jean Shepard 1952 27. Walked All Night Charlie Booker 1952 28. Monkey Motion Houston Boines 1952 Volume 27 1. Please Find My Baby Elmore James 1/52 2. Reeling and Rocking Fats Domino 1/52 3. River’s Invitation Percy Mayfield 1/22/52 4. Satisfied Blue Ridge Quartet 1952 5. Fine Looking Woman BB King 1952 6. It Wasn’t God Who Make Honky Tonk Angels Rosalie Allen 7/52 7. Long Time No See Frank Hunter and his Black Mountain Boys 1952 8. I Was Praying Five Blind Boys of Mississippi 1952 9. I’m in the Mood for Love Doris Day 1952 10. Let Your Tears Fall Baby Big Mama Thornton 1952 11. Maggie Campbell Robert Nighthawk 10/25/52 12. Me and the Devil Rev. Chambers 1952 13. Have Mercy Baby Billy Ward & His Dominos (McPhatter) 1952 14. Holsten Valley Breakdown Ronnie Knittel and the Holsten Valley Ramblers Early 1950s 15. Dream Girl Jesse Belvin 1952 16. Easy Easy Baby Varetta Dillard 5/6/52 17. Goin’ Down Slow Billy Wright 10/8/52 18. Ain’t a Bump in the Road Roy Hogsed 11/17/52 19. Ain’t No More Texas Melody Boys early 1950s 20. Body and Soul Eddie Jefferson 7/11/52 21. Baby I'm Coming Home Charlie Booker 1952 22. Blue Midnight Little Walter 1952 LISTEN AT !:45+ 23. Crying Blue Smitty and his String Men 7/11/52 24. Darling Brown Eyes Church Brothers ca. 1950 25. Dial 110 Blues Country Jim Bledsoe 1952 26. Better Late Than Never Buster Pack and His Lonesome Pine Boys 1952 27. Catfish Blues Bobo Thomas Sonny Boy Williamson 7/52 28. Zindy Lou The Chimes 1953 29. There is Only One Four Leaf Clover Quartet 1953 Volume 28 1. Tran La Ezy The Musical Four Plus One early 1950s 2. The Story of My Life Guitar Slim 10/26/53 3. The Gypsy Louis Armstrong 10/22/53 4. She's All Right Muddy Waters 9/24/53 5. Just Can’t Stay Willie Nix 1953 6. Tempus Fugit Miles Davis 1953 7. A Million Mistakes Claude King 1953 8. My Baby Left Me Big Boy Spires 1/17/53 9. No Shoes Eddie Kirkland 1953 10. Old Grey Goose Red Belcher and the Kentucky Ridgerunners Early 1950s 11. Rock Me Lucky Joe Almond 1953 12. Saving My Love for You Johnny Ace 12/53 13. Arkansas Traveler Jimmy Bryant Speed West 12/8/53 14. Bye and Bye Bob Angliano Quartet 1953 15. Descent Into the Maelstrom Lenny Tristano 1953 16. Diggin’ My Potatoes Washboard Sam Bill Broonzy 1953 17. Feelin’ Bad Junior Parker 10/53 18. Grande Nuit Especial Iry LeJeune 1953 19. I Heard About You Charlene Arthur 1953 20. Have I Waited Too Long Faron Young 1953 21. I’m Crying Holy Unto the Lord Brother Claude Ely 10/53 22. It Don’t Hurt Anymore Hank Snow 12/16/53 23. Lonesome Old Jail D. A. Hunt 5/53 24. Love My Baby Junior Parker 1953 25. You Gotta Be My Baby George Jones 1954 26. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Thelonius Monkk 6/7/54 27. Thrice Upon a Theme (excerpt) Charles Mingus 12/54 28. What’s It All About? Little Leo 1954 Volume 29 1. Too Close to Heaven Bessie Griffin 1954 2. When the Saints Go Marching In Papa Lightfoot 4/17/54 3. I’m So Lonesome Hobo Jack 1954 4. Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down Caudill Family 1954 5. blue Moon of Kentucky Elvis Presley 1954 6. Bonus Pay Pat Hare 5/14/54 7. Don’t Explain Helen Merrill 12/54 8. Eva Lee James Walton ca. 1954 9. Hey Little Girl Billy Emerson 1/11/54 10. Honky Tonk Gal Carl Perkins 1954 11. I Could Love You All the Time Estill Stewart and the Flat Mountain Boys 1954 12. Jolie Tee Caitin Clarence Garlow 1954 13. Lovin’ You JB Hutto 1954 14. No Nights By Myself Sonny Boy Williams 12/12/54 (listen to 2:13!) 15. Prelude to a Kiss Billy Holiday/Jimmy Rowles 1954 16. Choose the One You Want Hoyle Nix 1955 17. Just a Lonely Boy Clifton Chenier 1955 18. Do Lord Deep South Quartet 1955 19. Don’t Cry Baby Little Jimmy Scott 4/22/55 20. Don’t Worry About Me Julie London 1955 21. Downbound Train Chuck Berry 1955 22. God’s Creation Those Golden Bells Gospel Song Birds ca. 1955 23. Hide Me Rock of Ages Speer Family 1955 24. Hidin’ Out Patsy Cline 6/1/55 25. I’m Just a Lonely Guy Little Richard 1955 26. You’re Fer Me Buck Owens 1955 27. Making Believe Kitty Wells 1955 28. Need a Hundred Dollars One String Sam 1955 Volume 30 1. Hottentot Potentate Bobby Short 1955 2. I Woke Up Screaming Bobby Blue Bland 1955 3. I’m in the Mood Nappy Brown 1955 4. Ruby Baby The Drifters 9/19/55 5. She’s Fine She’s Mine Bo Diddley 1955 6. Social Call Betty Carter 5/55 7. When They Ring Those Golden Bells Gospel Song Birds ca. 1955 8. What Happened Last Night Alec Wilder Mundell Lowe 1956 9. You Can Fly High Earl King 12/56 10. Just Wailing Louie Meyers 1956 11. You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To (excerpt) Cecil Taylor 1956 12. Lonesome Train on a Lonesome Track Johnny Burnette Trio 7/2/56 13. My Babe One String Sam 1956 14. No More Abbey Lincoln 1956 15. Ooh-Wow Roy Montrell 8/18/56 16. Sinner’s Cross Roads Slver Quintette ca. 1956 17. Slow Down Cochran Brothers 1956 18. Suzie Q Dale Hawkins 1956 19. There I’ve Said It Again Big Maybelle 7/20/56 20. Three Hours Past Midnight Johnny Guitar Watson 1956 21. The Train That Carried My Girl From Town Vernon Sutphin Cleve Sutphin 1/56 22. Uncloudy Day Staple Singers 9/11/56 23. All On Account of You Speckled Red 1956 24. Baby Don’t Say That No More Jimmy Reed 1956 25. Half as Good a Girl Wanda Jackson 26. Can’t Hardly Stand It Charlie Feathers 1956 27. Could It Be You The Four Tops 1956 28. Crazy Arms Jerry Lee Lewis 1956 Volume 31 1. Black Jack David Warren Smith 1956 2. Crazy Arms Ray Price 3/1/56 3. Death When You Come to Me Moondog 1956 4. East Virginia Blues Stanley Brothers 1956 5. I’m in Love Solomon Burke '56 6. I Don’t Know James Brown 1956 7. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Elizabeth Cotton 1957 8. You Can Bet Your Life (I DO) Esther Phillips 5/2/56 9. Lord I Come to Thee Deacon Leroy Shinault 1956 10. Groaning the Blues Otis Rush 1957 11. Let ‘Em Roll The Midnighters (Hank Ballard) 1957 12. I’ll Weep No More Betty Everett 1957 13. What is This ThIng Called Love Sonny Rollins 1957 14. Wilson Rag Elizabeth Cotton 1957 15. Searchin’ The Coasters 2/15/57 16. Everything Gonna Be All Right Magic Sam 1958 17. Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow Congregation of Mt. Olive Reg. Baptist Church 1959 18. You’ve got to Lose Jackie brenston Ike Turner 1958 19. Respectable Isley Brothers 1959 20. Images Sun Ra and His Arkestra 1958 21. Under the Double Eagle Cowboy Roy Brown ca. 1958 22. Step it Up and Go Ike Everley (unknown date) 23. This is The End Buddy Guy 1958 24. Black Pearls John Coltrane 1958 25. Holiday Hill Wallace Waters 1958 26. Crossroads Paul Bley Don Cherry Ornette Coleman 1958 27. Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby Link Wray 1958 28. Old Time Religion Stovepipe 1960

thanks, Mike.

this is all very interesting; about 70 percent of my collection is not downloadable in terms of either the actual recording or the sources, which are everything. Otherwise it is like having bad prints of paintings and thinking that that is sufficient. Which many people do believe.

ok. So I take it you don't want to pre-order?

sorry if it offends your sensibilities, but I ran it by a famous African American writer who loved it, calling it "audacious as hell." And, I have had $10,000 in pre-orders. So I will take my own sense of it above yours. And the quote itself, if I need to explain, is from an early minstrel song, and placed with both intended and unintended irony. Kind of a rhetorical double consciousness (feel free to look that up).

I realize that the trend is elsewhere, but if you want to do research in music it can best be done with physical media surrounding you; books, CDs, LPs, and means of ACCURATE playback. I have accumulated the best American music CD collection on earth, likely, for the span 1900-1970. I have written 6 books based on this collection and reissued something like 100 CDs. If this makes me a relic, so be it. Trying to do it differently results in gaps, mistakes, lack of personnel and credit, etc. You also need to know the sound quality of reissues, what's good, what's better, and what's not. This in itself is more than essential. When I die, if it's worth anything, my family can sell or donate. I know of one major library that has been begging me for this stuff, but for complex reasons, it's not gonna happen soon.

This is going to be a NEW 31 CD survey of American song, 1900-1960 - with a book - called: TURN ME LOOSE WHITE MAN: OR: APPROPRIATING CULTURE: HOW TO LISTEN TO AMERICAN MUSIC 1900-1960 (it will be done by late spring 2020; I have been a little delayed by cancer treatments, but have written 20,000 words so far; song mastering is completed) The pre-order price includes the book and shipping, at $125 ($140 to Europe). This will hold until November 1. After that, and at publication, this will go up to $160 plus shipping - ($185 to Europe) my paypal is allenlowe5@gmail.com

I loved Herb; probably the biggest mensch I ever met in the biz.

well, for one thing, a few more marriages would have stayed intact.

sorry guys, really bad day yesterday. Kind of like a cloud-over-a-brick-hitting-my-head without stopping for about 12 hours. (though my heightened sensitivity is also related to recent posts about Allison Miller). Feeling a little better at 4 AM (now if I could only sleep....) -

Please stop with the usual crap that we're jealous because he's making money. Good for him, I don't care. The music is horrible. Roland Kirk was nothing like him. Every time I dislike a musician here it's inevitable - the charge that it's all professional jealousy. Well, I am doing just fine, thanks. Check my web site. Lots happening. I help lots of musicians, release lots of material, employ a lot of people, lecture, play, so leave me the hell alone with this crap. I am really no longer in the mood.

that's hardly your only choices.

I saw you at the LA show watching her watching the show. And the FBI was watching me watch you watch her watching the the show.

is there no one else whom Carter's playing drives crazy? He's the Rip Taylor of jazz. I wish I had half his chops, plus a large dose of musical taste.

I seem to have heard my name

ohhhhhhhhh; I am done. Thanks for that, Dan.

this is a discussion about very little. Musicians act up, yes it can be entertaining, but just as entertaining to other musicians. Big nothing, and there are reams of hypocrisy innvoled. I mean, Jo Jones was drunk for about 40 years. I watched them dry him out every year in the '70s at NYU hospital but he remained insane and raving and nasty and just plain mean. Comportment? He comported himself like a mad man. I remember Randy Weston one night complaining about how his generation lived "clean," and then someone whispering to me that he had so many kids with so many different women that even he wasn't sure who was who. Face it - private AND public lives are messy and it has nothing to do with Minstrel Show entertainment. Not if you've heard the locker room talk. Jazz and most of black music started out from a 'disreputable' place, and stayed there for a long time. The best music in the old days was made by junkies and drunks, and we know Miles was an abuser and sexual predator. Bud was a mess, Bird was a mess, Prez was a mess. Duvivier was a gentleman and great artist. There's all kinds. Al Haig was tried for murder, Tony Fruscella was a mess, Stan Getz made plays for the other musicians' wives when they were on tour. Keith Jarrett is an asshole with a vengeance, Art Blakey ripped everybody off, Bill Triglia called me 'jewboy' (he suffered from horrible PTSD; I still loved him). Julius Hemphill told me his life had been out of control, and by the time he made a move to put things together it was too late. It's all music. It's not nice, but it's life. As for a 'class thing,' most of the jazz players I knew, black and white, were essentially middle class. Race is a deal-breaker, however, and clouds everything. A famous producer told me once (in the '70s) that he had only known ONE jazz musician who was a "grownup," and this guy knew everybody.

she is....shockingly bad. Reminds me of a singer who turns up at a jam session who won't stop singing. Jim is too kind. She has no taste, no dynamics, doesn't understand rhythm, she just screams crap that occurs to her. As you can tell, I find her aggressively offensive.