Nathan
'Beauregard'
b. Nathan Bogard, 1887, 1893 or 1896 [1863/67/69]
in Colbert [Ashland], Mississippi

d. May 15, 1970 in Memphis, Tennessee
discography
N A T H A N   B E A U R E G A R D; from inner gatefold of Blue Thumb BTS 6000; photographer: Jim Marshall
  source: Inner gatefold of Blue Thumb BTS 6000; photographer: Jim Marshall      
This discography is a non-commercial labor-of-love and is in no way associated with any business firm.
All I know about the resp. artist's / label's musical output is shown on this page. To purchase out-of-print records I recommend an ebay, gemm or google search. And - sorry for that - I have not the time to answer any e-mails asking me about further information, let alone duplicating out-of-print recordings I happen to own.

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Nathan 'Beauregard' LPs / CDs
#year
of release
titlelabel # / notes
11968The 1968 Memphis Country Blues Festival

Nathan Beauregard
- Highway 61
- Kid Gal Blues
Bukka White
- Hello Central, Give Me 49
- Baby, Please Don't Go
Furry Lewis
- Furry's Blues

Rev. Robert Wilkins
- In Heaven, Sitting Down
- What Do You Think About Jesus?
Joe Callicott
- You Don't Know My Mind
- Great Long Ways From Home
Bukka White
- My Mother Died

rec. at the Municipal Shell, Overton Park, Memphis, Saturday, July 20th, 1968; Nathan Beauregard, voc, amplified g; M.C.: Jim Crosthwait; prod. by Mike Vernon, exec. producer: Seymour Stein (Sire Records)

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Sire SES 97003

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= Blue Horizon 7-63210

(=) Blue Horizon CD
82876851232 (2006)

21969Memphis Swamp Jam

Booker White
- Christmas Eve Blues
- Columbus, Miss. Blues
- Sad Day Blues
Piano Red
- Mobile Blues
- Abel Street Stomp


Nathan Beauregard
- Nathan's Bumble Bee Blues #
- 'Bout A Spoonful #
Sleepy John Estes
- Need More Blues
- President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long


Furry Lewis
- Judge Boushay Blues
- Walking Blues
Fred McDowell
- Shake Em On Down
- Fred's Blues
Napoleon Strickland
- Back Water Rising

- Other's Piece
- Shimmy She Wobble
Watson & Jones [John Fahey & Bill Barth]
- Memphis Rag
- St. Louis Blues
- Praying On The Old Campground

# rec. June 9, 1969 in Memphis, Tennessee; with Mike Stewart, g

click to enlarge left page of inner gatefold !click to enlarge right page of inner gatefold and read track list !
inner gatefold of Blue Thumb BTS 6000

click to read first and second column of inner sleeve A !click to read third and fourth column of inner sleeve A ! click to read first column of inner sleeve B !click to read second column of inner sleeve B !click to read third column of inner sleeve B !
inner sleeves of Blue Thumb BTS 6000

DLP
notes by Pete Welding
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click to read track list !
Blue Thumb BTS 6000
= King SR-481 (Jp 1971)

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(=) Arhoolie 1084 (1979)
"Kings Of Country Blues
Vol. 1"

and Arhoolie 1085 (1979)
"Kings Of Country Blues
Vol. 2"


(=) Arhoolie CD 385
www.arhoolie.com


(=) Arhoolie CD 386
www.arhoolie.com
"Mississippi Delta Blues
Jam In Memphis
Vol. 1 & 2"

31971The 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 (* with Mike Stewart, g) and at the Peabody Hotel (Memphis) in June, 1970; prod. by Gene Rosenthal; cover drawing by Dick Bangham

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 of Adelphi AD 1009

notes by Stephan
Michaelson and Steve
LaVere with assistance
by Nick Perls and
Michael Stewart
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Adelphi AD 1009

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

Adelphi discography

41970All Day Thumb Sucker

Southwind
- Rootin & Tootin
Summy Lay
- Maggie's Farm
Fred McDowell
- Shake 'Em On Down
Robbie Basho
- Eagle Sails The Blue
Tyrannosaurus Rex
- Cat Black
Ike & Tina Turner
- Bold Soul Sister

Love
- Run To The Top

Nathan Beauregard
- 'Bout A Spoonful
Aynsley Dunbar
- Sugar On The Line
Albert Collins
- Frosty
Earl Hooker
- Cross Cut Saw
Chicago Bluestars
- Comin Home
Bossa Rio
- Blackbird

Blue Thumb BTS 8702




= Blue Thumb BTS 2000

[Blue Thumb BT3 7002
"All Day Thumb Sucker
Revisited" (1995) without
Nathan Beauregard track]

51979Kings Of Country Blues, Vol. 1

Booker White
- Christmas Eve Blues
- Columbus, Miss. Blues
- Sad Day Blues
Piano Red
- Mobile Blues
- Abel Street Stomp


Nathan Beauregard
- Nathan's Bumble Bee Blues #
- 'Bout A Spoonful #
Sleepy John Estes
- Need More Blues
- President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long

# rec. June 9, 1969 in Memphis, Tennessee; with Mike Stewart, g

reissue of LP 1 of (DLP)
Blue Thumb BTS 6000
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Arhoolie 1084


(=) Arhoolie CD 386
www.arhoolie.com
"Mississippi Delta Blues
Jam In Memphis Vol. 2"

61993Mississippi Delta Blues Jam In Memphis Vol. 2

Sleepy John Estes
- Need More Blues
- Little Laura #
- Rats #
- President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long

Nathan Beauregard
- Nathan's Bumble Bee Blues *
- 'Bout A Spoonful *
Booker White
- Christmas Eve Blues
- Columbus, Miss. Blues
- Sad Day Blues
- Stuttgart, Ark # - Mixed Water

# previously unreleased

* rec. June 9, 1969 in Memphis, Tennessee; with Mike Stewart, g


Arhoolie CD 386

www.arhoolie.com

71999Shake 'Em On Down
The Real Country Blues

- Shake 'Em On Down - Fred McDowell
- Sloppy Drunk Blues - Big Joe Williams
- Alabama Blues - Bukka White
- Need More Blues - Sleepy Joe Estes
- Judge Boushay Blues - Furry Lewis
- Pardon Denied Again - Robert Pete Williams
- Rabbit Blues - Smoky Babe
- Take Me Out Of The Bottom - Big Joe Williams
- Fred's Worried Life Blues - Fred McDowell
- Poor Black Mattie - R.L. Burnside
- Come Home To Me Baby - Joe Callicott
- Smokestack Lightning - Clarence Edwards
- Write Me A Few Lines - Fred McDowell
- Mississippi River - Smoky Babe
- Just Tippin' It - Robert Pete Williams
- She Left Me A Mule To Ride - Big Joe Williams
- Canned Heat - Houston Stackhouse
- Three O'Clock In The Morning - Johnny Woods

- 'Bout A Spoonful - Nathan Beauregard
- You Call Yourself A Cadillac - Robert Nighthawk
- Keep Your Nose Out Of My Business - Johnny Young & Otis Spann
- Oh Baby - Napeleon Strickland

Arhoolie/Ace CD 527
82006The 1968 Memphis Country Blues Festival
with Bukka White: The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions


disc 1

Nathan Beauregard
- Highway 61
- Kid Gal Blues
Bukka White
- Hello Central, Give Me 49
- Baby, Please Don't Go
Furry Lewis
- Furry's Blues
Rev. Robert Wilkins
- In Heaven, Sitting Down
- What Do You Think About Jesus?
Joe Callicott
- You Don't Know My Mind
- Great Long Ways From Home
Bukka White
- My Mother Died


rec. at the Municipal Shell, Overton Park, Memphis, Saturday, July 20th, 1968; Nathan Beauregard, voc, amplified g; M.C.: Jim Crosthwait; prod. by Mike Vernon, exec. producer: Seymour Stein (Sire Records)


disc 2

Bukka White
- Bed Spring Blues
- Aberdeen, Mississippi Blues
- Drifting Blues
- (Brand New) Decoration Day
- Baby Please Don't Go
- Give Me An Old, Old Lady
- Got Sick And Tired
- World Boogie
- School Learning
- Old Man Tom
- Gibson Town
- Drifting Blues [master version without reverb]
- Old Man Tom [complete master version without reverb]
reissue (remastered)
of 1968 Sire SES 97003 /
Blue Horizon 7-63210
"The 1968 Memphis
Country Blues Festival"

and Blue Horizon 7-63229
"Memphis Hot Shots"

2 CD set
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Blue Horizon CD
82876851232



Additional information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- eBay auctions
- Chris Smith: Trying to make a hundred (99 and a half ain't true).- Blues & Rhythm 217 (2007), p. 25
- diverse internet resources

source of left column picture: Back cover of Blue Horizon 7-63210

thanks to Patrice Champarou for drawing my attention to the Chris Smith article ("99 1/2 ain't true")

 

Nathan Beauregard at the 1968 Memphis Country Blues Festival; click to enlarge !
Nathan 'Beauregard' at the
1968 Memphis Country Blues Festival;
from back cover of Blue Horizon 7-63210
Nathan Beauregard; from front cover of Blue Thumb BTS 6000; click to enlarge !
Nathan 'Beauregard';
from front cover
of Blue Thumb BTS 6000
 

 

Bill Barth (1995):
The Real True Story of How I Found Nathan Beauregard
and Got Him to Play Music Again

Stefan Wirz


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