# year of release | title | notes |
Boogie Disease Records Leroy Pierson's first (one record) label, 500 copies only |
BD 101/2 (1972) | Take A Little Walk With Me
The Blues in Chicago 1948-1957

J.B. Hutto
- Combination Boogie
Willie Nix
- All By Yourself
Floyd Jones
- Any Old Lonesome Day
Eddie Taylor
- Big Town Playboy
Little Willie Foster
- Little Girl
John Lee Henley
- Knockin' On Lula Mae's Door
Robert Nighthawk
- My Sweet Lovin' Woman
John Brim
- Gary Stomp

Lazy Bill Lucas
- She Got Me Walkin'
Willie Nix
- Nervous Wreck
Floyd Jones
- Skinny Woman
Grace Brim
- Going Down The Line
Johnny Young
- My Baby Walked Out
Little Walter
- Blue Baby
Jimmy Rogers
- Ludella No. 2
Baby Face Leroy
- Take A Little Walk With Me


Grace Brim
- Mean Man Blues
Robert Nighthawk
- Feel So Bad
Homesick James
- The Woman I Love
Lazy Bill Lucas
- I Had A Dream
Willie Nix
- No More Love
Floyd Jones
- Floyd's Blues
John Lee Henley
- Rhythm Rockin' Boogie
Memphis Minnie
- World Of Trouble

Johnny Young
- Let Me Ride Your Mule
Floyd Jones
- Big World
John Brim
- Drinking Woman
Memphis Minnie
- Kissing In The Dark
Willie Nix
- Just Can't Stay
Junior Wells
- Tomorrow Night
Little Willie Foster
- Crying The Blues
Johnny Shines
- Living In The White House
compiled, annotated and produced by Leroy Pierson | DLP notes by Leroy J. Pierson








 Boogie Disease BD 101/2 |
Nighthawk Records |
101 (1976) | Windy City Blues
The Transition: 1935 to 1953

Pinetop [Aaron 'Pinetop' Sparks]
- Every Day I Have The Blues
State Street Boys
- Sweet To Mama
Washboard Sam
- Easy Ridin' Mama
Robert Lee McCoy
- Prowlin' Nighthawk
Sonny Boy Williamson
- Sunnyland
- My Little Cornelius
Robert Lockwood
- Black Spider Blues
- I'm Gonna Train My Baby

Guitar Pete Franklin
- Down Behind The Rise
- Casey Brown Blues
Tampa Red
- Green And Lucky Blues
Robert Lockwood
- Gonna Dig Myself A Hole
- Dust My Broom
Tony Hollins
- Fishin' Blues
- Wino Woman
Johnny Shines
- Please Don't | notes by Leroy Pierson


 Nighthawk 101 |
102 (1976) | Chicago Slickers 1948-1953

Little Walter
- I Want My Baby
Floyd Jones
- School Days
- Hard Time
Forest City Joe
- A Woman On Every Street
Little Walter
- Just Keep Lovin' Her
John Brim
- Dark Clouds
- Lonesome Man Blues
Earl Hooker
- Sweet Angel

Johnny Shines
- Ramblin'
- Cool Driver
Homesick James
- Lonesome Ole Train
- Farmer's Blues
Delta Joe
- Train Time
Big Boy Spires
- About To Lose My Mind
Floyd Jones
- Early Morning
| notes by Leroy Pierson


 Nighthawk 102 |
103 (1976) | Lowdown Memphis Harmonica Jam 1950-1955

Hot Shot Love
- Harmonica Jam
- Wolf Call Boogie
Joe Hill Louis
- Street Walkin' Woman
- Walkin' Talkin' Blues
J. D. Horton
- Cadillac Blues
- Why Don't You Let Me Be
Mumbles
- Now Tell Me Baby
- Jumpin' Blues

Joe Hill Louis
- Gotta Let You Got
- Boogie In The Park
Willie Nix
- Seems Like A Million Years
- Bakershop Boogie
Woodrow Adams
- Wine Head Woman
- Baby, You Just Don't Know
Chicago Sunny Boy
- Love My Baby
- On The Floor | notes by Leroy Pierson


 Nighthawk 103 |
104 (1976) | Detroit Ghetto Blues 1948-1954

Slim Pickens
- Papa's Boogie
Walter Mitchell
- Pet Milk Blues
- Stop Messin' Around
L. C. Green
- Little School Girl
- Going Down To The River
Sam Kelly
- Ramblin' Around Blues
Playboy Fuller
- Gonna Play My Guitar
- Sugar Cane Highway

Rocky Fuller
- Soon One Morning
- Come On Baby Now
Robert Henry
- Something's Wrong
Baby Boy Warren
- Hello Stranger
Henry Smith
- Lonesome Blues
- Good Rockin' Mama
Baby Boy Warren
- Taxi Driver
- Bad Lover Blues | notes by Leroy Pierson


 Nighthawk 104 |
105 (197?) | Lake Michigan Blues 1934-1941

Robert Nighthawk
- Don't Mistreat Your Woman
Yank Rachell
- Lake Michigan Blues
Tampa Red
- Worried Devil Blues
Elijah Jones
- Stuff Stomp
Robert Nighthawk
- Lonesome World
Sonny Boy Williamson
- Bluebird Blues
Tampa Kid
- Baby Please Don't Go
Robert Nighthawk
- Take It Easy Baby

Robert Nighthawk
- G Man
Milton Sparks
- I Wake Up In The Morning
Tampa Red
- She Don't Know My Mind, Pt.2
Yank Rachell
- I'm Wild And Crazy As I Can Be
Robert Nighthawk
- Sweet Pepper Mama
Sonny Boy Williamson
- Jackson Blues
Robert Lockwood
- Little Boy Blue
Robert Nighthawk
- Friar's Point Blues | 

 Nighthawk 105 |
106 (197?) | Down Behind The Rise 1947-1953

Jesse Thomas
- Double Due Love You
- Same Old Stuff
Frankie Lee Sims
- Single Man Blues
- Don't Forget Me Baby
Jesse Thomas
- Gonna Write You A Letter
Lightnin' Hopkins
- Jazz Blues
- Henny Penny Blues
Beverly Scott
- Brownskin Woman

Jesse Thomas
- Another Friend Like Me
- I Wonder Why
Willie Lane
- Too Many Women Blues
Wright Holmes
- Good Road Blues
- Drove From Home Blues
Johnny Beck (aka The Blind Boy)
- Locked In Jail
- Lay Down Mama
Jesse Thomas
- Gonna Move To California
| 

 Nighthawk 106 |
107 (1980) | Various Chicago Slickers Vol. 2 1948-55

Little Walter
- Blue Baby
Man Young
- Let Me Ride Your Mule
- My Baby Walked Out
Robert Nighthawk
- My Sweet Lovin' Woman
Grace Brim
- Goin Down The Line
Johnny Shines
- Living In The White House
Willie Nix
- No More Love
- Nervous Wreck

Willie Nix
- Just Can't Stay
- All By Yourself
Floyd Jones
- Skinny Woman
John Brim
- Drinking Woman
Lazy Bill
- I Had A Dream
J. B. Hutto
- Combination Boogie
Floyd Jones
- Any Old Lonesome Day
- Floyd's Blue | 

 Nighthawk 107 |
108 (1980) | Professor Longhair Mardi Gras In New Orleans 1949-1957

- Bye Bye Baby
- She Ain't Got No Hair
- Mardi Gras In New Orleans
- Professor Longhair's Boogie
- Her Mind Is Gone
- Hadacol Bounce
- Oh Well
- Rockin' With Fes

- Curly Haired Baby
- Gone So Long
- East St. Louis Baby
- Boyd's Bounce
- Tipitina
- No Buts No Maybes
- Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand
- Misery
tracks on CD:
- She Ain't Got No Hair
- Mardi Gras in New Orleans
- Professor Longhair's Boogie
- Bye Bye Baby
- Big Chief
- Tipitina
- Doin' It
- Her Mind Is Gone
- How Long Has That Train Been Gone
- Doin' the Mess Around
- Bald Head
- Big Chief (version 2) |  Nighthawk 108 = Nighthawk NHCD-108 (1988)
|
109 (1980) | Downhome Delta Blues 1949-1952

Pee Wee Hughes
- Country Boy Blues
Little Sam Davis
- Goin Home Blues
- 1958 Blues
Earl Hooker
- On the Hook
Little Sam Davis
- Goin' To New Orleans
- She's So Good To Me
Joe Hill Louis
- Jealous Blues
- Joe's Jump

Sunny Blair
- Please Send My Baby Home
Baby Face Turner
- Blue Serenade
Junior Brooks
- Lone Town Blues
Luther Huff
- Dirty Disposition
- 1951 Blues
Bobo Thomas
- Catfish Blues
Big Joe Williams
- Jivin Woman
- She's A Married Woman | 

 Nighthawk 109 |
201 (1980) | Henry Townsend "Mule"

- Bad Luck Dice
- Nothing But Trouble
- Things Have Changed
- The Old Man's Soul
- Tears Come Rollin' Down
- It's A Hard Toad To Travel
- Talkin' Guitar Blues
- I'm Just An Ordinary Man
- Alley Strut
- Can't You See
- Dark Clouds Rising
- The Train Is At The Station
- Overstayed My Time | notes by Leroy Pierson
 Nighthawk 201 = Nighthawk NHCD-201 (1993)
Henry Townsend discography
|
202 (1988) | Leroy Jodie Pierson Rusty Nail

- Roll And Tumble
- Little Boy Blue
- Rusty Nail
- Long Lonesome Road
- Mole's Moan (Geoff Muldaur)

- Highway 61
- Write Me A Few Lines
- Easy Rider
- Steel Guitar Rag
- Catfish | notes by Barry Bergey


 Nighthawk 202 = Nighthawk NHCD-202 (1997)
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 Since 1980 Nighthawk Records specialise in Jamaican Music !
"Although Nighthawk is now synonymous with reggae, the label actually started as a blues-reissue label and was named after the legendary bluesman Robert Nighthawk, who lived in St. Louis for a time. In the beginning, Nighthawk was co-owned by St. Louis reggae/blues stalwart Leroy Pierson, who sold his share in 1979 to pursue a performing career...
The jump from blues to reggae may seem incongruous to some, but for Robert Schoenfeld, the jack-of-all-trades owner of Nighthawk and a self-proclaimed reggae fanatic, the connection between reggae and blues is tight, and draws a line directly from St. Louis, a blues city, to Jamaica."
from "Rasta Philosophy" by Matthew Hilburn
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