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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.Stefan Wirz www.wirz.de |
Memphis Willie B. 78 rpm / LPs / CDs
| # | year
of release | title | label # / notes |
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| 1 | 1934 | Hattie Hart
- Coldest Stuff In Town (15952-1) #
- Happy-Go-Lucky Blues (15970-1) *
# rec. New York City, Sept. 13, 1934; Hattie Hart, voc; Allen Shaw, g, voc; prob. Willie Borum, g, voc
* rec. New York City, Sept. 17, 1934; Hattie Hart, voc; Allen Shaw, g; prob. Willie Borum, g |
Vocalion 02821 |
| 2 | 1934 | Hattie Hart
- I'm Missing That Thing (15898-1)
- I Let My Daddy Do That (15899-2)
rec. New York City, Sept. 13, 1934; Hattie Hart, voc; Allen Shaw, g; prob. Willie Borum, g |
Vocalion 02855 |
| | | Hattie Hart
- Down Home Shake (15950-)
- Runnin' Wild Blues (15951-)
rec. New York City, Sept. 13, 1934; Hattie Hart, voc; Allen Shaw, g; prob. Willie Borum, g |
Vocalion unissued |
| | | Willie Borum
- Ain't Gonna Worry My Life Any More (15963-)
- Didn't You Ever Treat Me Mean? (15964-)
- My V-8 Baby (15965-)
- Coon Can Mama (15966-)
rec. New York City, Sept. 17, 1934; Willie Borum, voc, g |
Vocalion unissued |
| | | Hattie Hart
- Mama, Easy Me Your Key
- Lucky Some Day
- Low Down Papa
- Drop Down Papa
- Didn't He Ramble
- Country Farm Blues
- Barrel House Mama
- Home Breakin' Blues
rec. New York City, Sept. 17, 1934; Hattie Hart, voc; Allen Shaw, g; prob. Willie Borum, g |
Vocalion unissued |
| | | Allen Shaw
- Gamblin' Man (15977-)
rec. New York City, Sept. 18, 1934; Allen Shaw, voc, g; prob. Willie Borum, 2nd g |
Vocalion unissued |
| 3 | 1934 | Allen Shaw
- I Coundn't Help It (15967-1) *
- Moanin' The Blues (15978-1) #
* rec. New York City, Sept. 17, 1934; Allen Shaw, voc, g
# rec. New York City, Sept. 18, 1934; Allen Shaw, voc, g; prob. Willie Borum, 2nd g |
Vocalion 02844 |
| 4 | 1961 | Introducing Memphis Willie B.
- Brownsville Blues
- Country Girl Blues #
- Highway 61
- Bad Girl Blues #
- The Stuff Is Here #
- Overseas Blues
- Stop Cryin' Blues
- Worried Man Blues
- Mailman Blues #
- Everyday I Have the Blues
- Mattie Mae #
- Grief Will Kill You
rec. August 12, 1961 in Memphis; Memphis Willie B., voc, g, # hca; prod. by Kenneth S. Goldstein & Samuel B. Charters | notes by Sam Charters
Prestige/Bluesville 1034= OBCCD-573-2
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| 5 | 1962 | Memphis Willie B.:
Hard Working Man Blues
- Lonesome Home Blues
- L & N Blues #
- Hardworking Man Blues
- Dying Mother Blues
- Honey Maker Blues #
- P 38 Blues
- Funny Caper Blues
- Good Potatoes
- I Have Found Something New
- Uncle Sam Blues #
- Wine Drinking Woman
- Car Machine Blues
rec. August 12, 1961 in Memphis; Memphis Willie B., voc, g, # hca; prod. by Kenneth S. Goldstein & Samuel B. Charters | notes by Sam Charters
Prestige/Bluesville 1048= OBCCD-578-2
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| 6 | 1962 | Bawdy Blues
Memphis Slim, Tampa Red and Lonnie Johnson
- Sweet Root Man
Memphis Slim, Tampa Red and Lonnie Johnson
- Let Me Play With Your Poodle
Victoria Spivey with Lonnie Johnson
- I'm A Red Hot Mama
Memphis Slim, Tampa Red and Lonnie Johnson
- Jelly Roll Baker
Memphis Slim, Tampa Red and Lonnie Johnson
- Churning Man Blues
Pink Anderson
- Try Some Of That
Memphis Slim, Tampa Red and Lonnie Johnson
- Steady Rollin' Blues
Tampa Red
- Jelly Whipping Blues
Victoria Spivey with Lonnie Johnson
- That Man
Memphis Willie B.
- Car Machine Blues
Memphis Slim, Tampa Red and Lonnie Johnson
- If You See Kay
Memphis Slim, Tampa Red and Lonnie Johnson
- Beedle Um Bum
rec. between 1956 and 1961 | 
Prestige/Bluesville 1055= OBCCD-544-2
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acerecords.co.uk Bluesville discography |
| 7 | 1967 | The Blues
Music from the Documentary Film by Samuel Charters
J.D. Short
- Introduction
Memphis Willie B.
- Alone In The Evening Blues # *
J.D. Short
- Slidin' Delta
Pink Anderson
- Old Cotton Fields of Home
Furry Lewis
- John Henry
Baby Tate
- Bad Blues
Memphis Willie B. & Gus Cannon
- Sitting Here Thinking # []
Sleepy John Estes
- Lonesome Ground
Baby Tate
- If I Could Holler Like a Mountain Jack
- When I First Started Hoboing
Pink Anderson
- Weeping Willow Blues
# rec. August 12, 1961 in Willie Borum's radio repair shop and rehearsal room in Memphis, Tn.; Memphis Willie B., voc, g, * hca; [] Gus Cannon, jug; prod. by Kenneth S. Goldstein & Samuel B. Charters | 
Asch A-101
=Folkways FA AS101
=Folkways F-ASCH101
= Blue Angel / Asch BA20011
(Zweitausendeins 1967 G)
www.folkways.si.edu download liner notes/
sound clips at
Smithsonian Global
Sound |
| 8 | 1979 | Way Back Yonder ...
Original Country Blues Volume 1
Memphis & Brownsville, Tennessee (1976-1978)
Charley Sangster
- The Dirty Dozen
- Peach Tree Blues
Hammie Nixon
- Viola Lee Blues
Walter Cooper
- Baby Please Don't Go
Hammie Nixon
- Ida Mae
Lum Guffin
- Roll And Tumble Blues
- Casey Jones
Willie Borum
- 61 Highway #
John Williams
- Cow Cow Blues
- How Long Blues
# rec. August 30, 1978 in Memphis, Tn. by Gianni Marcucci; Willie Borum, voc, g | notes by Gianni Marcucci
Albatros VPA 8453Albatros discography |
| 9 | 1988 | Bluesville Vol. 1
"Folk Blues"
Furry Lewis
- Judge Boushay Blues
Memphis Willie B.
- Country Girl Blues
K.C. Douglas
- Big Road Blues
Big Joe Williams
- Levee Camp Blues
Robert Curtis Smith
- Catfish Blues
Memphis Willie B.
- Highway 61 (CD only)
Furry Lewis
- Shake 'em On Down (CD only)
Sidney Maiden
- San Quentin Blues
Wade Walton
- Big Fat Mama
Pete Franklin
- Grievin' Me
Blind Willie McTell
- Dying Crapshooter's Blues
Blind Snooks Eaglin
- Alberta (CD only)
Lonnie Johnson
- Fine Booze and Heavy Dues
Scrapper Blackwell
- Blues Before Sunrise
Doug Quattlebaum
- You Is One Black Rat
Reverend Gary Davis
- You Got to Move
Blind Snooks Eaglin
- Brown Skin Woman
Baby Tate
- See What You Done Done (CD only)
Scrapper Blackwell
- Goin' Where The Monon Crosses The Yellow Dog (CD only)
Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry
- Pawn Shop
Lightnin' Hopkins (LP only)
- T-Model Blues
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Ace CH 247
Ace CD 247
Bluesville discography |
| 10 | 199? | Robert Wilkins - Tom Dickson - Allen Shaw: Memphis Blues (1928 - 1935)
Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order
Robert Wilkins (1928 - 1935)
- Rolling Stone - Part 1
- Rolling Stone - Part 2
- Jail House Blues
- I Do Blues
- That's No Way To Get Along
- Alabama Blues
- Long Train Blues
- Falling Down Blues
- Nashville Stonewall Blues
- Police Sergeant Blues
- Get Away Blues
- I'll Go With Her Blues
- Dirty Deal Blues
- Black Rat Blues
- New Stock Yard Blues
- Old Jim Canan's
- Losin' Out Blues
Tom Dickson (1928)
- Death Bell Blues
- Worry Blues
- Happy Blues
- Labor Blues
Allen Shaw (1934)
- I Couldn't Help It
- Moanin' The Blues #
# with prob. Willie Borum, 2nd g | 
Document DOCD-5014
Document DOCD-5014
"Memphis Blues Vol. 1"www.document-records.com
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| 11 | 1994 | Memphis Blues 1927 - 1938
Ollie Rupert (1927)
- I Raised My Window And Looked At The Risin' Sun
Ain't Goin' To Be Your Low Down Dog
Walter Rhodes (1927)
- The Crowing Rooster
- Leaving Home Blues
Pearl Dickson (1927)
- Twelve Pound Daddy
- Little Rock Blues
Madelyn James (1930)
- Stinging Snake Blues
- Long Time Blues
Charlie Bozo Nickerson (1930)
- What's The Matter Now? - Part 1
- What's The Matter Now? - Part 2
- Bozo's Blues - Part 1
- Bozo's Blues - Part 2
Sam Townsend (1930)
- I'm Missing That
- Lily Kimball Blues
Hattie Hart (1934)
- I'm Missing That Thing *
- I Let My Daddy Do That *
- Coldest Stuff In Town (Duet w. Allen Shaw) *#
- Happy-Go-Lucky Blues *
George Torey (1937)
- Married Woman Blues
- Lonesome Man Blues
John Henry Barbee (1938)
- Six Weeks Old Blues (take 1)
- Six Weeks Old Blues (take 2)
- God Knows I Can't Help It
- You'll Work Down To Me Someday
- Against My Will
* with prob. Willie Borum, g, # voc | 
Document DOCD 5159
"Memphis Blues Vol. 2"www.document-records.com |
| 12 | 1994 | Memphis Country Blues
Greatest Hits Vol. 1
- Ain't No Use You Trying To Tell Me - Memphis Minnie (1935)
- Walk Right In - Cannon's Jug Stompers (1929)
- Old Jim Cannan - Robert Wilkins, Kids Spoons (1935)
- Highway 61 Blues - Will Weldon (1927)
- Roll and Tumble Blues - Hambone Willie Newbern (1929)
- Coldest Stuff in Town - Hattie Hart, Allen Shaw, Willie Borum (1934)
- Jim Jackson's Jamboree - Jim Jackson, Tampa Red, Georgia Tom, Speckled Red (1929)
- New Frisco Town - Bukka White, Napoleon Harrison (1930)
- Shake 'Em on Down - Bukka White, Napoleon Harrison (1937)
- Someday Baby Blues - Sleepy John Estes, Hammie Nixon (1935)
- Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Frank Stokes, Dan Sane
- The Beale Street Sheiks (1925)
- Stealin', Stealin' & Whitewash Station Blues - Memphis Jug Band (1928)
- Everybody's Blues - Furry Lewis (1927)
- That's No Way to Get Along - Robert Wilkins ( 1929)
prod. by Richard Hite using selections from his personal 78 collection | 
Memphis Archives
MA-7001-CDwww.riverlark.com |
| 13 | 1995 | The Bluesville Years, Vol. 3
"Beale Street Get-Down"
Furry Lewis
- John Henry
- When My Baby Left Me
- Shake 'Em On Down
- Back On My Feet Again
- Goin' To Kansas City
- Casey Jones
- I Will Turn Your Money Green
Memphis Willie B.
- Brownsville Blues
- Country Girl Blues
- The Stuff Is Here
- Every Day I Have The Blues
- I Have Found Somebody New
- Dying Mother Blues
- Mailman Blues
Memphis Slim
- Steady Rolling Blues
- Mean Mistreatin' Mama
- Three-In-One Boogie
- Letter Home
- Two Of A Kind | rec. 1961 
Prestige PRCD-9907-2
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| 14 | 1996 | Uncle Sam Blues
- Army Blues - Bukka White
- G.I. Blues - Lightnin' Slim
- Red's Dream - Louisiana Red
- Vietnam Blues - J.B. Lenoir
- Stormy Desert - Cooper Terry
- Overseas Blues - Memphis Willie Borum
- Uncle Sam Don't Take My Man - Snooky Pryor
- Back To Korea Blues - Sunnyland Slim
- Vietcong Blues - Junior Wells
- Million Lonesome Women - Brownie McGhee
- '41 Blues - Dr. Clayton
- Pearl Harbour Blues - Dr. Clayton
- Give Me A 32-30 - Arthur Big Boy Crudup
- Win The War Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson
- The Army Blues - David Edwards
- Atomic Bomb Blues - Homer Harris
- So Cold In Vietnam - Johnny Shines
- Sad News From Korea - Lightnin' Hopkins | 
Blues Encore CD 52043 |
| 15 | 1998 | Slide Guitar - The Streamline Special
- Country Blues - Taj Mahal
- Packin' Trunk Blues - Leadbellly
- Preachin' Blues - Robert Johnson
- Don't Sell It - Buddy Woods, Kitty Gray
- Two Timin' Woman - Casey Bill Weldon
- Homesick & Lonesome Blues - Blind Boy Fuller
- Special Streamline - Bukka White
- Bottleneck Blues - Sylvester Weaver
- Moanin' The Blues - Allen Shaw
- High Sheriff Blues - Charley Patton
- Diddle-Da-Diddle - Georgia Cotton Pickers
- Decatur St. 81 - The Georgia Browns
- Travelin' Blues - Blind Willie McTell
- No Matter How She Done It - Tampa Red, Georgia Tom
- Hard Times - Curley Weaver, Buddy Moss
- You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond - Blind Willie Johnson
- Preachin' Blues - Son House
- I Feel Like Going Home - Muddy Waters
- Come On In My Kitchen - Jo-Ann Kelly
- I Can Stand To See You Die - Shuggie Otis
- I Feel So Bad - Michael Bloomfield And Friends
- Am I Wrong - Keb' Mo' | 
Columbia CK 65518 |
| 16 | 1999 | The Bluesville Years, Vol. 12
"Jump, Jumpin the Blues"
K.C. Douglas
- You Got A Good Thing Now
Sonny Terry
- My Baby Done Gone
- High Powered Woman
Memphis Willie B.
- Good Potatoes
Lightnin Hopkins
- Wine Spodee-o-Dee
Memphis Slim
- Frankie And Johnny Boogie
Willie Dixon with Memphis Slim
- Don't You Tell Nobody
Little Brother Montgomery
- Santa Fe
Billy Boy Arnold
- Get Out of Here
- You Better Cut That Out
Homesick James
- Working with Homesick
Otis Spann and James Cotton
- Lightnin
Shakey Jake
- It Won't Happen Again
Roosevelt Sykes
- Runnin The Boogie
- Hey Big Momma
Curtis Jones
- Good Time Special
Jimmy Witherspoon
- One Scotch One Bourbon One Beer
- Kansas City
- Drinking Beer
Mildred Anderson
- I'm Free
- Cool Kind Of Poppa
Sunnyland Slim
- Slim's Shout
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Prestige PRCD-9922-2
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| 17 | 1999 | The Greatest In Country Blues
- Moanin' The Blues - Willie Borum / Allen Shaw
| 3 CD set
GJM - 1201 Music 7002 |
| 18 | 2003 | The Truman And Eisenhower Blues
African-American Blues and Gospel Songs 1945-1960
Willie Borum
- Overseas Blues | 
Agram ABCD 2018presidentblues.talkin.nl |
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Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Robert M.W. Dixon & John Godrich: Blues & Gospel Records 1902 - 1943, 3rd ed. 1982, p. 104 (Borum), 306/307 (Hart), and 646 (Shaw)
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources
source of left column picture: Front cover of Bluesville 1048
thanks for a correction to 'Sam hopkins' and to Alan Balfour for add'l scans ;-)
 
Willie Borum on cover of Sam Charter's 2004 book
"Walking A Blues Road"
Sam Charters, Izzy Young, Willie Borum, Furry Lewis, Gus Cannon
in front of Izzy Young's Folklore Center at 110 MacDougal Street, Greenwich Village, New York, NY
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