Lonnie Pitchford LPs / CDs
| # | year
of release | title | label # / notes |
|---|
| 1 | 1980 | Living Country Blues USA
The Introduction
Guitar Frank
Lonesome Road Blues #
Memphis Piano Red
The Train Is Coming
Flora Molton & The Truth Band
- What's The Matter Now
- The Titanic
Lottie Murell
- Trouble Late Last Night #
Sam Chatmon
- Sittin' On Top Of The World #
James 'Son' Thomas
- Rock Me Mama #
Hammie Nixon
- Corinna, Corinna #
Cora Fluker & Ola Mae Bell
- Talkin' 'Bout Jesus
Walter Brown
- So Hard To See
Archie Edwards
- Bear Cat Mama Blues
Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins
- Reno Factory
Lonnie Pitchford
- My Babe
Sam "Stretch" Fields
- Bluebird Blues
Joe Savage
- Mean Ol' Frisco
Arzo Youngblood
- I Can't Be Successful
CeDell "Big G" Davis
- I Don't Know Why
Othar Turner & the Rising Star Five & Drum Band
- Tango Twist
Guitar Slim
- Come On In My Kitchen #
- Lula's Back In Town
Boyd Rivers
- You Got To Move #
Boogie Bill Webb
- Big Road Blues #
recorded 1980 by Siegfried Christmann and Axel Küstner; Lonnie Pitchford, voc, 1-str g
"none of the takes included in this double album will re-appear in further releases"
# tracks reissued on Evidence ECD 26105-2 | DLP
L + R 42.030
some tracks reissued on CD
Evidence ECD 26105-2 (1999)
Living Country Blues
- An Anthology
2 CD set
= L+R LRCD 711921 (2008)  L + R discography
|
| 2 | 1980 | Living Country Blues USA Vol. 7
Afro American Blues Roots
Sam "Stretch" Shields
- The Hounds
Lonnie Pitchford
- Boogie Chillun
Walter Brown
- Alberta
Cora Fluker
- Dry Bones In The Valley
Othar Turner & The Rising Star Five And Drum Band
- Granny Will Your Dog Bite
Walter Brown
- Roustabout Holler
Arzo Youngblood
- Goin' Up The Country Blues
Cora Fluker
- Move Daniel
Walter Brown & Joe Savage
- Raise 'Em Up Higher
Napoleon Strickland
- Banty Rooster
Othar Turner & The Rising Star Five And Drum Band
- When The Saints Go Marchin' In
Lonnie Pitchford
- Johnny Stole An Apple
Napoleon Strickland
- Cryin' Won't Make Me Stay
Othar Turner
- Father, I Stretch My Hands To Thee
recorded 1980 by Siegfried Christmann and Axel Küstner; Lonnie Pitchford, voc, 1-str g | 
L + R 42.037
some tracks reissued on CD
Evidence ECD 26105-2 (1999)
Living Country Blues
- An Anthology
= L+R LRCD 712522 (2008)
L + R discography |
| 3 | 1980 | Living Country Blues USA Vol. 9
Mississippi Moan
Boogie Bill Webb
- Maggie Campbell Blues #
Lonnie Pitchford
- My Baby Walked Away
James 'Son' Thomas
- Beefsteak Blues
Joe Savage
- Joe's Prison Camp Holler #
Arzo Youngblood
- Bye Bye Blues #
Sam "Stretch" Shields
- Mellow Peaches
Cora Fluker
- Out In The Woods
Arzo Youngblood
- Worried Blues
Walter Brown
- Levee Camp Holler #
Cora Fluker
- Look How This World Done A Change
Boogie Bill Webb
- Seven Sisters Blues
Walter Brown
- Mississippi Moan #
recorded 1980 by Siegfried Christmann and Axel Küstner; Lonnie Pitchford, voc, 1-str g
# tracks reissued on Evidence ECD 26105-2 | 
L + R 42.039
some tracks reissued on CD
Evidence ECD 26105-2 (1999)
Living Country Blues
- An Anthology
= L+R LRCD 712324 (2008)
L + R discography |
| 4 | 1980 | Living Country Blues USA Vol. 10
Country Boogie
Lottie Murrell
- Spoonful
Napoleon Strickland
- That's The Boogie
Guitar Slim
- Lovin' Blues
James "Son" Thomas
- Mama Don't 'Low No Guitar Playin' Here
Othar Turner & the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band
- Bouncin' Ball
Lonnie Pitchford
- One String Boogie #
Bowling Green John & Harmonica Phil Wiggins
- Burn Your Bridges
Memphis Piano Red
- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
Archie Edwards
- Sellin' That Stuff
Lonie Pitchford
- Shake Your Moneymaker *
Cora Fluker
- Swing, Swing
Cedell "Big G" Davis
- You Got To Do The Boogie Woogie
recorded 1980 by Siegfried Christmann and Axel Küstner; Lonnie Pitchford, voc, # 1-str g, * 6-str g | 
L + R 42.040
some tracks reissued on CD
Evidence ECD 26105-2 (1999)
Living Country Blues
- An Anthology
= L+R LRCD 712225 (2008)
L + R discography |
| 5 | 1983 | American Folk Blues Festival '83
In Memoriam Muddy Waters
Louisiana Red & His Chicago Blues Friends
- Louisiana Hot Sauce
"Sparky" Rucker
- Black Snake Moan
Louisiana Red & His Chicago Blues Friends
- Future Blues
Larry Johnson
- Confusion
Larry Johnson & Nat Riddles
- I Got The Blues
Lonnie Pitchford
- Johnny Stole An Apple
Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
- Delta Fish Market Blues
Lovie Lee
- Mine To Ramble
- Lovie Lee's Boogie
Queen Sylvia's Blues Band
- You Treat Me So Mean
 
 
  | tracks from other (L+R) LPs,
and unissued tracks
L+R 50.002
L + R discography |
| 6 | 1984 | American Folk Blues Festival Live '83
James "Sparky" Rucker
- Rock Me Baby
- Here Rattler Here *
- Crossroads
- Come On In My Kitchen *
Larry Johnson
- Midnight Hour
- That's The Wrong Woman
Louisiana Red
- Red's Tribute To Muddy Waters
- Boy From Black Bayou
- Gold Tail Bird *
- She Is Worse
Lonnie Pitchford
- One-String Boogie
- My Baby Walked Away
- C.C. Rider
- Why I Sing The Blues *
Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
- When I Lay Down To Rest
- Who's Louisiana Red
- Reagan Is For The Rich Man
Lovie Lee & Band
- Flip, Flop, And Fly
- Mind To Ramble
- Iko-Iko
Queen Sylvia Embry & Friends
- I Love You
- Baby, What Do I Do
- New York Bound *
* not on CD
rec. October 30th, 1983, at the Volksbildungsheim, Frankfurt a. M., and November 11th, 1983 at the Music Hall, Würzburg; Lonnie Pitchford, voc, g | 
L+R 42.063
= L+R CDLS 42063 (1992)
L + R discography |
| 7 | 1992 | Roots of Rhythm & Blues
A Tribute to the Robert Johnson Era
Johnny 'Ned' Shines & Kent DuChaine & ensemble
- Sweet Home Chicago
Lonnie Pitchford
- Come On In My Kitchen #
Moving Star Hall Singers
- You've Got To Move
Henry Townsend
- All My Money's Gone
Robert Jr. Lockwood & Gene Schwartz, b
- How Long, How Long Blues
David 'Honeyboy' Edwards
- That's Alright
Jesse Mae Hemphill
- Train, Train
Elder Roma Wilson
- This Train
Phil Wiggins
- Silver Comet Train
Railroad Maintenance Crew
- Captain Can't Read
Johnny 'Ned' Shines
- Satisfied
- Watermelons
David Savage
- I'm Going Home
John Cephas & Phil Wiggins
- Brownsville Blues
Johnny 'Ned' Shines & ensemble
- Loved And Lost
Lonnie Pitchford
- Walking Blues #
Johnny 'Ned' Shines
- Tell Me Daddy, How You Want Your Rolling Done
David Savage
- Bertha
Moving Star Hall Singers
- If You Miss Me
Johnny 'Ned' Shines & ensemble
- Moon Is Rising
Robert Jr. Lockwood
- Kindhearted Woman Blues
Toshi Reagon
- I Hate To See The Sun Go Down
Lonnie Pitchford
- Terraplane Blues #
Johnny 'Ned' Shines & ensemble
- Milk Cow Blues
- Fat Mama
# Lonnie Pitchford, voc, 6-str g | notes by
Barry Lee Pearson
with introduction by
Bernice Johnson Reagon
CBS 48584 |
| 8 | 1992 | Deep Blues
Music from the Original Soundtrack
R.L. Burnside
- Jumper On The Line
Junior Kimbrough
- Jr. Blues
Big Jack Johnson
- Catfish Blues
- Daddy, When Is Momma Coming Home
- Big Boy Now
Frank Frost
- Midnight Prowler
Jessie Mae Hemphill
- You Can Talk About Me
- Shame On You
R.L. Burnside
- Long Haired Doney
Roosevelt 'Booba' Barnes
- Heartbroken Man
- Ain't Gonna Worry About Tomorrow
- Love Like I Wanna
Lonnie Pitchford
- Terraplane Blues
- If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
Jack Owens with Bud Spires
- Devil Blues
movie prod. by Robert Palmer | 
Anxious 4509-91981-4
= Atlantic 82450-2
DVD (2000)
|
| 9 | 1994 | National Downhome Blues Festival - Volume One
Lonnie Pitchford
- That Train Coming Around The Bend # @ dailymotion.com
- My Babe #
- Mary Had A Little Lamb #
- One-String Boogie #
- Walking Blues *
- Last Fair Deal Going Down *
Precious Bryant
- Baby, Please Come Home To Me
- Ain't That Loving You, Baby?
- Black Rat Swing
- You Don't Have To Go
- Long Distance Call
- Precious Bryant Staggering Blues
rec. live at the Moonshadow, Atlanta, Georgia 1984; Festival Coordinator: George Mitchell; Associate Coordinator: David Evans; edited by George Mitchell; Lonnie Pitchford, voc, # 1-str g, * 6-str g
| 
Southland SLP-21
(=) Southland SCD-21 (1996)
Southland discography |
| 10 | 1994 | Lonnie Pitchford: All Around Man
- Elvira (Pitchford)
- All Around Man (Carter)
- If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day (Robert Johnson)
- Real Rock Music: Crawlin' Kingsnake (Hollins)
- My Babe (Dixon)
- 55 Blues (Pitchford)
- Bring It On Home (Dixon)
- This Is The Blues (Lockwood)
- The Ghetto (Hathaway/Hutson)
- See See Rider (Rainey)
- My Sunny (Hebb/Pitchford)
- Water In My Gas Tank (Pitchford/Stewart)
- Louisiana Blues (Morganfield)
- Lonesome Blues (Pitchford/Pitchford)
- Sweet Home Chicago (Robert Johnson)
- Don't You Do That No More (James)
- If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day [Band Version]
- All Around Man (Reprise) (Carter)
- Drinkin' Antiseptic (Pitchford)
| notes by Lonnie Pitchford,
Patty Johnson & Jim O'Neal
Rooster CD R2629
|
| 11 | 1994 | Big Jack Johnson
- Ice Storm Blues Part 1
- Ice Storm Blues Part 2
The Story of the Great Ice Storm of 1994, Clarksdale, Mississippi;
rec. March 4, 1994 at the Stackhouse Recording Studio in Clarksdale, Ms.; Big Jack Johnson, voc, lead g; Lonnie Pitchford, rhythm g; Kevin Brown, b, dr | cassette single
Rooster Blues R60-CP-Vine PCD-5291 (1997) |
| 12 | 1995? | The Star Lite Singers: Footprint of Jesus
- What Kind Of Man Jesus Is?
- Footprint Of Jesus
- He Touched Me
- Be Still And Know
- New Jerusalem
- Wold Condition
- Lord I've Tried
- One More River
- This Heart Of Mine
- Mother Kneeling
The Star Lite Singers (of Lexington, Ms.): Celatha Johnson, James R. Johnson, Rev. Ernest Deering, Rev. Charles Pitchford, Rev. Lee Johnson, Myron Smith, and Edward Johnson; Kelvin Johnson, Lonnie Pitchford, g, b (no instruments listed) | 
Hue WB-LP-384
|
| 13 | 1996 | National Downhome Blues Festival - Volume One
Lonnie Pitchford
- That Train Coming Around The Bend
- My Babe
- Mary Had A Little Lamb
- One-String Boogie
- Walking Blues
- Last Fair Deal
Precious Bryant
- Baby, Please Come Home To Me
- Ain't That Loving You Baby
- Black Rat Swing
- You Don't Have To Go
- Long Distance Call
- Precious Bryant Staggering Blues
Thomas Burt
- Hooks In The Water
- Hate To See The Evening Sun Go Down
- Ain't Got No Loving Baby Now
Jessie Mae Hemphill
- Train, Train
Junior Kimbrough and the Soul Blues Boys
- All Night Long
Sunnyland Slim
- You Put That Thing On Me
- She's Got Things Going On
Frank Edwards
- Chicken Raid
John Cephas and Phil Wiggins
- Burning Bridges
- Stagolee
|
Southland SCD-21Southland discography |
| 14 | 1996 | John Mellencamp: Mr. Happy Go Lucky
- Overture
- Jerry
- Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)
- Just Another Day
- This May Not Be The End Of The World
- Emotional Love
- Mr. Bellows
- The Full Catastrophe
- Circling Around The Moon
- Large World Turning
- Jackamo Road
- Life Is Hard
- What If I Came Knocking (live, bonus track)
rec. January 1995 & June 1996 at Belmont Mall Studio, Belmont, IN; Lonnie Pitchford, slide g | notes by John Mellencamp
Mercury 532896remastered 2005 |
| 15 | 1997 | Big Jack Johnson: The Oil Man Got Drunk
Rooster Blues Sessions 1990 1993 1994
- Rudolph Got Drunk Last Night
- The Things That I Used To Do (band version)
- Ice Storm Blues (Part 1)
- Ice Storm Blues (Part 2)
- Vampire Woman
- Close Shave Boogie
- The Spoonful
- Little Piggy
- Corrine,Corrina
- Fightin' Woman
- I'm A Lonely Woman
- Baby Please Don't Go
- Hummin' Blues (Part 1)
- Hummin' Blues (Part 2)
- Jingle Bell Boogie
- The Things That I Used To Do (solo version)
| 
P-Vine PCD-5291
|
| 16 | 1998 | The Harry Smith Connection: A Live Tribute To The Anthology Of American Folk Music
- East Virginia Blues - Roger McGuinn, Jeff Tweedy, And Jay Bennett
- I'm On The Battlefield For My Lord - Ethel Caffie-Austin
- John Henry - John Jackson
- A Lazy Farmer Boy - Greg Hooven String Band
- Old Dog Blue - Lonnie Pitchford
- Home Sweet Home - The New Lost City Ramblers
- The Butcher Boy - Ginny Hawker
- John The Revelator - Ethel Caffie-Austin
- His Tapes Roll On - Peter Stampfel
- Minglewood Blues - John Sebastian And The J-Band With Geoff Muldaur
- The Coo Coo Bird - Ella Jenkins
- Frankie And Johnny - John Jackson
- Sugar Baby - Roger McGuinn, Jeff Tweedy And Jay Bennett
- Le Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme - Balfa Toujours
- Spike Driver Blues - Dave Van Ronk
- Darling Corey - Greg Hooven String Band
- The Coo Coo Bird - Toshi Reagon
- James Alley Blues - Jeff Tweedy, Roger McGuinn, And Jay Bennett
- Nothing - The Fugs | 
Smithsonian Folkways
CD 40085 |
| 17 | 1999 | Living Country Blues: An Anthology
disc 1: Mississippi Moan
- Catfish Blues - James Thomas
- Bye Bye Blues - Arzo Youngblood
- Gonna Cut You Loose - Eddie Cusic
- You Gonna Take Sick And Die - Boyd Rivers
- Maggie Campbell Blues - Bill Webb
- Sittin' on Top Of The World - Sam Chatmon
- Move Daniel - Cora Fluker
- My Babe - Othar Turner
- Boogie Chillen - Lonnie Pitchford
- Bull Cow Blues - James Thomas
- Stop And Listen Blues - Sam Chatmon
- Swing, Swing - Arzo Youngblood
- Jazz Boogie Woogie - Stonewall Mays
- Jesus On The Mainline - Boyd Rivers
- Shake Your Money Maker - Lonnie Pitchford
- Rock Me Mama - James Thomas / Cleveland Jones
- Big Road Blues - Bill Webb
- My Daddy Was A Jockey - Sam Chatmon
- That's The Boogie - Napoleon Strickland
- Vicksburg Blues - Sam Chatmon
- Mississippi Moan - Walter Brown
- When I Lay Down My Burden - Othar Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band
disc 2: Lonesome Road Blues (East Coast)
- Lonesome Road Blues - Guitar Frank
- Baby Please Give Me A Break - Archie Edwards
- Road Is Rough And Rocky - Archie Edwards
- Come On In My Kitchen - Guitar Slim
- Bye And Bye, I'm Going To See The King - Flora Molton & The Truth Band
- Chimney Hill Breakdown - Guitar Frank
- Railroad Bill - Guitar Frank
- Chicken Can't Roost Too High For Me - John Cephas
- Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad - John Cephas, / Phil Wiggins
- Do Lord Remember Me - Archie Edwards
- Jelly Roll Baker - Guitar Frank
- I'm Feelin' Lonesome - Guitar Slim
- My Old Schoolmates - Archie Edwards
- Lonesome Home Blues - Guitar Slim
- T For Texas - Archie Edwards
- Diggin' My Potatoes - Guitar Frank
disc 3: You Got To Move (Tennessee, Arkansas & More)
- Vacation In Heaven - Flora Molton & The Truth Band
- Granny, Will Your Dog Bite? - Othar Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band
- I Laid And I Wondered - James Thomas / Cleveland Jones
- I Can't Stand It - Flora Molton & The Truth Band
- Mr. Freddie Blues - Memphis Piano Red
- Corine, Corrina - Hammie Nixon
- Rollin' And Tumblin' - Lottie Murrell
- She's Tailor Made - Charlie Sangster
- Hounds - Sam Shields
- You Got To Move - Boyd Rivers
- Let Me Play With Your Poodle - CeDell Davis
- Viola Lee Blues - Hammie NIxon
- Joe's Prison Camp Holler - Joe Savage
- When The Saints Go Marchin' In - Othar Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band
- Spoonful - Lottie Murrell,
- You Got To Do The Boogie Woogie - CeDell Davis
- Trouble Late Last Night - Lottie Murrell
- Dry Bones In The Valley - Cora Fluker
- I Got a Gal 'Cross The Bottom - Lottie Murrell
- Soon One Mornin' - Hammie Nixon
- Levee Camp Holler - Walter Brown
- Precious Lord - Boyd Rivers | 3 CD set
Evidence ECD 26105-2
with 48 page booklet
by Brett Bonner and
Axel Küstner
photos by Axel Küstner
 |
| 18 | 2000 | Rooster Blues Records
1980-2000 Sampler
- Fistful Of Dollars - Lonnie Shields
- Eatin' Dry Onions - Willie Cobbs
- Worried Dream - Larry Davis
- Down In The Delta - Johnson's Jazzers
- Rocking Daddy - Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes & The Playboys
- Elvira - Lonnie Pitchford
- Rollin' And Tumblin' - Carey Bell, Lurrie Bell
- I Wouldn't Lay My Guitar Down - Eddy Clearwater
- Eyesight To The Blind - Good Rockin' Charles
- Bad Avenue - Valerie Wellington
- King Of The Jungle - Eddie C. Campbell
- Give Me Back My Wig - Magic Slim
- Hummin' Blues, Pt. 1 - Big Jack Johnson
- How Much More/mama Talk To Your Daughter - Robert Walker
- Dunkin' Donut Woman - Eddie Shaw
- Can't Sleep At Night - L.C. Luckett, Johnny Rawls
- I Can't Leave You Alone - D.C. Bellamy
- James Alley Blues - Jerry Ricks
- Walkin' And Cryin' The Blues - Foree 'Guitar' Wells | notes by Jim O'Neal
Rooster CD R2637
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