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Online 1. American folksay ballads and dances [sound recording]. [1920 ... 1950]

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  • Asch Records, [19--]
Description
Music recording — 4 audio discs ; 10 in. Sound: analog; 78 rpm; coarse groove; mono.
Summary
  • Mule skinner blues; work blues.--900 miles; railroad song.--Glory; spiritual.--Poor Lazarus; bad man ballad.--Don't lie, buddy; answer back song.--Biggest thing; nonsense ballad.--Cincy; country dance.--Who's gonna shoe your pretty little feet; Tennessee mountain song.
Also online at
Archive of Recorded Sound, SAL3 (off-campus storage)

2. Back to New Orleans [1959]

Description
Music recording — 1 audio disc (77 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  • Let me be your big dog
  • Pawn shop
  • You don't know
  • Betty and DuPree's blues
  • Back to New Orleans
  • Stranger here
  • Fox hunt
  • I'm prison bound
  • Louise, Louise
  • Baby, how long
  • Freight train
  • I got a woman
  • Hold me in your arms
  • The C.C. and O. blues
  • The devil's gonna get you
  • Don't you lie to me
  • That's why I'm walking
  • Wrong track
  • Blue feeling
  • House lady
  • I know better.
Online
Archive of Recorded Sound

3. Blues all around my head [1950]

Description
Music recording — 1 audio disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono ; 12 in.
Summary
  • Blues all around my head
  • East coast blues
  • Muddy water
  • Beggin' and cryin'
  • My plan
  • Trying to destroy me
  • Everything I had is gone
  • Jealous man
  • Understand me
  • Blues of happiness.
Online
Archive of Recorded Sound

4. Blues classics [sound recording]. [1973]

  • Los Angeles : Bluesway, p1973.
Description
Music recording — 2 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in.
Summary
  • Volume I : Let's go get stoned / Simpson ; Ashford ; Armstead (Ray Charles) (2:59)
  • I'm bad like Jesse James / Hooker (John Lee Hooker) (5:21)
  • Baby Talk / Walker (Johnny "Big Moose" Walker) (3:44)
  • Stormy Monday / Walker (T-Bone Walker) (2:24)
  • Scorpio / Brown (Mel Brown) (6:32)
  • Got my mojo working / Foster (George "Harmonica" Smith) (3:15)
  • No rolling blues / Witherspoon (Jimmy Witherspoon) (4:05)
  • Take me back to East St. Louis / Odom ; Mosby ; DeRobey (Andrew "Voice" Odom) (4:32)
  • Hard times / Brown (Roy Brown) (3:03)
  • Attica blues / Shepp ; Harris (Archie Shepp) (2:56) --
  • Volume II : Big boss man / Dixon ; Smith (Jimmy Reed) (2:47)
  • Drifting blues / Moore ; Williams ; Brown (Charles Brown) (6:32)
  • Piney brown blues / Turner ; Johnson (Joe Turner) (4:10)
  • Midnight / King (B.B. King) (7:34)
  • Cherry red / Johnson ; Turner (Eddie "Clearhead" Vinson) (3:08)
  • Blue guitar / Hooker (Earl Hooker) (3:51)
  • Ridin' on empty / Robert (Clifford Coulter) (4:24)
  • 'Tain't nobody's bizness if I do / Grainger ; Prince ; Williams (Otis Spann) (4:02)
  • Long way from home / Terry (Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry) (1:54)
  • Bad loser / McCoy ; Rushing (Jimmy Rushing) (4:15).
Online
Archive of Recorded Sound

5. Blues [electronic resource] [1959]

Description
Music recording — 1 online resource
Summary
  • Keys to the highway (3:17)
  • What are the blues (3:19)
  • Red River blues (Brownie's blues) (1:17)
  • Crow Jane blues (2:41)
  • Willie May (4:39)
  • Daisy (6:44)
  • Louise (2:05)
  • Blues (6:37)
  • Talk on the blues (1:24)
  • Talk on the spirituals (0:34)
  • Beautiful city (2:36)
  • I'm gonna tell God how you treat me (4:13)
  • Hush, somebody is calling me (4:20)
  • When the saints go marching in (3:41)
Online

6. Blues [electronic resource] [1959]

Description
Music recording — 1 online resource.
Summary
  • Keys to the highway (3:17)
  • What are the blues (3:19)
  • Red River blues (Brownie's blues) (1:17)
  • Crow Jane blues (2:41)
  • Willie May (4:39)
  • Daisy (6:44)
  • Louise (2:05)
  • Blues (6:37)
  • Talk on the blues (1:24)
  • Talk on the spirituals (0:34)
  • Beautiful city (2:36)
  • I'm gonna tell God how you treat me (4:13)
  • Hush, somebody is calling me (4:20)
  • When the saints go marching in (3:41).
Online

7. Blues [sound recording]. [1940]

  • New York : Asch Recordings, [194-?]
Description
Music recording — 3 audio discs ; 12 in. Sound: analog; 78 rpm; coarse groove; mono.
Summary
  • T.B. blues; Careless love (Josh White, vocals, with guitar)
  • Until my baby comes home (Nora Lee King, vocal; Mary Lou Williams, piano)
  • Too evil to cry (Champion Jack Dupree, vocals, piano)
  • Lonesome train (Sonny Terry, vocals, harmonica; Woody Guthrie, guitar)
  • Ain't gonna be treated this way (Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, vocals, with guitars).
Online
Archive of Recorded Sound, SAL3 (off-campus storage)

8. Brownie and Sonny

  • Everest FS 242. [19--]
Description
Music recording — 2s. 12in. 33.3rpm.
Online
SAL3 (off-campus storage)

9. Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry at the 2nd Fret [electronic resource] [1962]

Description
Music recording — 1 online resource
Summary
  • Evil hearted me
  • Sick man
  • Barking bull dog
  • Spread the news
  • Backwater blues
  • Custard pie
  • Wholesale dealin' papa
  • Motorcycle blues
  • Hand in hand
  • I woke up one morning and I could hardly see
Online

10. Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry sing [electronic resource] [1958]

Description
Music recording — 1 online resource
Summary
  • Better day (3:01)
  • Confusion (3:17)
  • Dark road (2:41)
  • John Henry (4:02)
  • Make a little money (3:44)
  • Old Jabo (2:10) --If you lose your money (2:41)
  • Guitar highway (2:34)
  • Heart in sorrow (2:57)
  • Preachin' the blues (2:31)
  • Can't help myself (3:16)
  • Best of friends (3:10)
  • Boogie baby (2:30)
Online

11. Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry sing [electronic resource]. [1958]

Description
Music recording — 1 online resource.
Summary
  • Better day (3:01)
  • Confusion (3:17)
  • Dark road (2:41)
  • John Henry (4:02)
  • Make a little money (3:44)
  • Old Jabo (2:10) --If you lose your money (2:41)
  • Guitar highway (2:34)
  • Heart in sorrow (2:57)
  • Preachin' the blues (2:31)
  • Can't help myself (3:16)
  • Best of friends (3:10)
  • Boogie baby (2:30).
Online

12. Brownie's blues [1960]

Description
Music recording — 1 audio disc (40 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  • Jump, little children (4:33)
  • Lonesome day (5:23)
  • One thing for sure (3:17)
  • The killin' floor (3:38)
  • Little black engine (3:42)
  • I don't know the reason (4:01)
  • Trouble in mind (4:51)
  • Everyday I have the blues / Peter Chatman (5:12)
  • Door to success (4:10).
Online
Archive of Recorded Sound

13. Brownie's blues [electronic resource] [1970 ... 1979]

Description
Music recording — 1 online resource
Summary
  • Jump, little children (4:33)
  • Lonesome day (5:23)
  • One thing for sure (3:17)
  • The killin' floor (3:38)
  • Little black engine (3:42)
  • I don't know the reason (4:01)
  • Trouble in mind (4:51)
  • Everyday I have the blues / Peter Chatman (5:12)
  • Door to success (4:10)
Online

14. Carolina blues [sound recording] ; Watch-out [1944]

Description
Music recording — 1 sound disc : analog, 78 rpm ; 10 in. Sound: analog; 78 rpm; coarse groove; mono.
Online
Archive of Recorded Sound

15. Classic African-American ballads [electronic resource] : from Smithsonian Folkways [2006]

  • Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways, p2006.
Description
Music recording — 1 online resource.
Summary
  • Mouse on the hill (Warner Williams) (3:44)
  • Casey Jones (K.C. Douglas) (1:23)
  • John Hardy (Lead Belly) (2:43)
  • Railroad Bill (John Jackson) (3:33)
  • Stewball (Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon) (3:33)
  • John Henry (Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) (4:04)
  • St. James Infirmary (Snooks Eaglin) (2:20)
  • Staggerlee (Stackolee) (John Cephas and Phil Wiggins) (5:03)
  • Lost John (convicts at the Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms) (4:54)
  • Betty and Dupree (Josh White) (3:45)
  • Old Riley (Lead Belly) (1:58)
  • The race of the Jim Lee and Katy Adam (Jazz Gillum, Memphis Slim, and Arbee Stidham) (2:27)
  • The Titanic (Pink Anderson) (2:49)
  • Frankie and Johnny (Big Bill Broonzy) (2:07)
  • White House blues (Earl Taylor and the Stony Mountain Boys) (1:59)
  • Louis Collins (John Jackson) (3:18)
  • Bad Lee Brown (Woody Guthrie) (2:14)
  • Luke and Mullen (Horace Sprott) (2:25)
  • Duncan and Brady (Dave Van Ronk) (3:00)
  • Gallis Pole (Lead Belly) (2:45) -- Boll weevil (Pink Anderson) (3:04)
  • Delia's gone (Josh White, Jr.) (3:45).
Online

16. Classic African-American ballads : from Smithsonian Folkways [2006]

  • Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways, ℗2006
Description
Music recording — 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  • Mouse on the hill (Warner Williams) (3:44)
  • Casey Jones (K.C. Douglas) (1:23)
  • John Hardy (Lead Belly) (2:43)
  • Railroad Bill (John Jackson) (3:33)
  • Stewball (Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon) (3:33)
  • John Henry (Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) (4:04)
  • St. James Infirmary (Snooks Eaglin) (2:20)
  • Staggerlee (Stackolee) (John Cephas and Phil Wiggins) (5:03)
  • Lost John (convicts at the Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms) (4:54)
  • Betty and Dupree (Josh White) (3:45)
  • Old Riley (Lead Belly) (1:58)
  • The race of the Jim Lee and Katy Adam (Jazz Gillum, Memphis Slim, and Arbee Stidham) (2:27)
  • The Titanic (Pink Anderson) (2:49)
  • Frankie and Johnny (Big Bill Broonzy) (2:07)
  • White House blues (Earl Taylor and the Stony Mountain Boys) (1:59)
  • Louis Collins (John Jackson) (3:18)
  • Bad Lee Brown (Woody Guthrie) (2:14)
  • Luke and Mullen (Horace Sprott) (2:25)
  • Duncan and Brady (Dave Van Ronk) (3:00)
  • Gallis Pole (Lead Belly) (2:45) -- Boll weevil (Pink Anderson) (3:04)
  • Delia's gone (Josh White, Jr.) (3:45)
Online
Music Library

17. Classic blues from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [electronic resource]. [2003]

  • Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, p2003.
Description
Music recording — 1 online resource.
Summary
  • Old Jabo (Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) (2:11)
  • Mule-ridin' blues (Big Bill Broonzy) (3:43)
  • Joggie boogie (Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon) (3:25)
  • Black woman (Vera Hall) (1:24)
  • Mercury blues (K.C. Douglas) (2:18)
  • Ran the blues out of my window (Roosevelt Sykes) (2:54)
  • Leaving blues (Lead Belly) (2:21)
  • One dime blues (Etta Baker) (3:43)
  • County farm blues (Son House) (2:08)
  • Clog dance (Stomping blues) (Champion Jack Dupree) (1:59)
  • Boll weevil (Pink Anderson) (3:03)
  • Nickel's worth of liver (Edith North Johnson & Henry Brown) (2:40)
  • Don't leave me here (Big Joe Williams) (2:40)
  • Jimmy Bell (Cat Iron) (2:17)
  • Candy man (Reverend Gary Davis) (2:32)
  • Beer drinking woman (Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon) (2:30)
  • Come go home with me (Lightnin' Hopkins) (3:51)
  • Careless love (Josh White) (3:20)
  • I asked her if she loved me (Henry Townsend) (2:52)
  • Rising sun (Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry) (2:40)
  • Pony blues (David "Honeyboy" Edwards) (3:26)
  • Vicksburg blues (Little Brother Montgomery) (3:59)
  • Vastapol (Elizabeth Cotten) (2:09)
  • Drifting along blues (Lonnie Johnson) (2:56)
  • Oh baby, you don't have to go (the Chambers Brothers) (2:46)
  • Don't lie buddy (Lead Belly and Josh White) (2:21).
Online

18. Classic blues from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [electronic resource] [2003]

  • Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, p2003
Description
Music recording — 1 online resource
Summary
  • Old Jabo (Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) (2:11)
  • Mule-ridin' blues (Big Bill Broonzy) (3:43)
  • Joggie boogie (Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon) (3:25)
  • Black woman (Vera Hall) (1:24)
  • Mercury blues (K.C. Douglas) (2:18)
  • Ran the blues out of my window (Roosevelt Sykes) (2:54)
  • Leaving blues (Lead Belly) (2:21)
  • One dime blues (Etta Baker) (3:43)
  • County farm blues (Son House) (2:08)
  • Clog dance (Stomping blues) (Champion Jack Dupree) (1:59)
  • Boll weevil (Pink Anderson) (3:03)
  • Nickel's worth of liver (Edith North Johnson & Henry Brown) (2:40)
  • Don't leave me here (Big Joe Williams) (2:40)
  • Jimmy Bell (Cat Iron) (2:17)
  • Candy man (Reverend Gary Davis) (2:32)
  • Beer drinking woman (Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon) (2:30)
  • Come go home with me (Lightnin' Hopkins) (3:51)
  • Careless love (Josh White) (3:20)
  • I asked her if she loved me (Henry Townsend) (2:52)
  • Rising sun (Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry) (2:40)
  • Pony blues (David "Honeyboy" Edwards) (3:26)
  • Vicksburg blues (Little Brother Montgomery) (3:59)
  • Vastapol (Elizabeth Cotten) (2:09)
  • Drifting along blues (Lonnie Johnson) (2:56)
  • Oh baby, you don't have to go (the Chambers Brothers) (2:46)
  • Don't lie buddy (Lead Belly and Josh White) (2:21)
Online

19. Classic blues from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Vol. 2 [electronic resource]. [2003]

  • Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, p2003.
Description
Music recording — 1 online resource.
Summary
  • Dark road (Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry) (2:42)
  • Step it up and go (Warner Williams) (2:35)
  • It was early one morning (Lead Belly) (2:24)
  • Blues, until my baby comes back home (Nora Lee King and Mary Lou Williams) (2:52)
  • That's no way to do (Pink Anderson) (2:22)
  • Farro Street jive (Little Brother Montgomery) (2:16)
  • I ain't gonna cry no more (Depot blues) (Son House) (2:55)
  • Graveyard blues (Roscoe Holcomb) (2:58)
  • 44 blues (Roosevelt Sykes) (2:41)
  • Big fat mama (Honeyboy Edwards) (2:55)
  • Make me a pallet on your floor (Lucinda Williams) (3:50)
  • Lieutenant blues (Barrelhouse Buck) (2:36)
  • The woman is killing me (Sonny Terry and friends) (2:23)
  • Little drops of water (Edith North Johnson and Henry Brown) (3:05)
  • When things go wrong (it hurts me too) (Big Bill Broonzy) (2:58)
  • Poor boy a long, long way from home (Cat-Iron) (2:43)
  • My jack don't drink water no more (Shortstuff Macon) (3:40)
  • 'Way behind the sun (Barbara Dane) (3:49)
  • Tell me, baby (Lightnin' Hopkins) (2:32)
  • Just a dream (Memphis Slim) (4:11)
  • Jelly jelly (Josh White) (2:26)
  • Down in the alley (Chambers Brothers) (3:08).
Online

Online 20. Defense blues

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  • Tempo, [19--]
Description
Music recording — 1 audio disc : analog, 78 rpm ; 10 in Sound: analog.78 rpm.mono.
Also online at
Archive of Recorded Sound