VA - The George Mitchell Collection [13 CD, Fat Possum Records]

 

George Mitchell is an American music historian, writer, record producer, musician and photographer.

Born in Coral Gables, Florida, January 9, 1944 and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, from the 1960s until the 1980s he recorded blues musicians such as Jessie Mae Hemphill, Fred McDowell and Johnny Woods, George Henry Bussey and Jim Bunkley, Charlie Burse and Will Shade, Gus Cannon, Mississippi Joe Callicott, John Lee Ziegler, Jimmy Lee Williams, Furry Lewis, Houston Stackhouse, R. L. Burnside and Sleepy John Estes, later to be issued on Arhoolie Records (late 1960s), Revival Records (1971) and Rounder Records (from c. 1975) as 33 rpm albums, on Arhoolie Records (2000) and Fat Possum Records (2003 ff.) as CDs.

George Mitchell also plays the blues himself on an oil-can bass.


Big Joe Williams

1. Shake Your Williams
2. Everyone Got A Woman
3. Sugar Mama
4. Terraplane Blues
5. Limousine Blues
6. Baby Please Don't Go
7. Who's Been Foolin' You
8. What She Need With A Rooster
9. Sink Or Swim
10. Prison Bound

  • Big Joe Williams - guitar & vocal - rec. 1963


Bud Grant

1. Mean Ole Frisco
2. Rock Me Mama
3. Instrumental
4. Freight Train Blues
5. What's the Matter with the Mill
6. Trouble in Mind
7. Rattlesnake Moan
8. So Sweet
9. Blues Around My Bed
10. Bud Grant's Grunt

  • Bud Grant - guitar & vocal - 1969


Buddy Moss

1. In The Evening2. Amy
3. Hey Lawdy Mama
4. Cold Rainy Day
5. Blue Shadow Falling
6. Instrumental #1
7. Thousand Woman Blues
8. Unfinished Business
9. You Need A Woman
10. That Will Never Happen

  • Buddy Moss - guitar & vocal - 1963

Cecil Barfield

01 - Love Blues
02 - Sun Goin' Down
03 - Tell Me Rider
04 - See What You Made Me Do
05 - My Babe
06 - Left My Baby Crying
07 - Captain Had A Bulldog
08 - Lonesome House Blues
09 - I Woke Up Crying
10 - Lucy Mae Blues
11 - Big Legged Woman
12 - Five Long Years
13 - William Robertson Blues
14 - Talk To Your Daughter
15 - Root Blues
16 - Hooks In The Water
17 - I Told You Not To Do That
18 - Bottle Up And Go
19 - I Want Your Little Lovin'

  • Cecil Barfield - guitar & vocal   70's/80's


Jimmy Lee Harris - I Wanna Ramble

1. All Night Long
2. 16-20
3. Rock Me
4. Dark Cloud Rising
5. Rocking Brother Blues
6. I Wanna Ramble
7. Don't the Moon Look Lonesome
8. Bad Whiskey and Bad Women
9. Rabbit On A Log
10. Sitting Here Looking A 1000 Miles Away
11. Ain't Nobody to Hold My Aching Head

  • Jimmy Lee Harris - guitar & vocal - 1980


Leon Pinson

1. What Can God Do
2. Only Believe
3. Blessed Question
4. I Have A Savior I Can Depend On
5. Motherless Child
6. Hush - Somebody Is Calling Me
7. Search Me Lord
8. Pray For Me
9. What A Friend We Have In Jesus
10. Where's No Friend Like The Lonely Jesus
11. What To Die Easy When I Die
12. He'll Understand And Say Well Done

  • Leon Pinson - guitar & vocal - 1967

Lonzie Thomas

1 - Dragaround #12 - Red Cross Store
3 - Rabbit On A Log
4 - Dear Old Mother
5 - Tin Top Alley
6 - Raise A Ruckus Tonight #1
7 - Raise A Ruckus Tonight #2
8 - Struttin' That Thing
9 - Sitting Here Studying As The Time Roll On
10 - Hard Pill To Swallow
11 - Barnyard
12 - Dragaround #2
13 - My Three Women
14 - John Henry

  • Lonzie Thomas - guitar & vocal. - 1980

Teddy Williams

1. Shaggy Hound2. The Swing Blues
3. Catfish Blues #1
4. Down Home Blues
5. Going Away Blues
6. Catfish Blues #2
7. Black Mattie
8. Hard Time Blues
9. Sun Don't Shine
10. You See Me Laughing

  • Teddy Williams - guitar & vocal - 1967

Tom Turner

1. Old Breakdown2. Drop Down Mama #1
3. Howlin' at Your Door #1
4. Jack of Diamonds
5. Frankie, Johnny & Albert
6. Catfish Blues
7. 44 in My Hand
8. Gonna Bring Her Right Back Home
9. Black Rat
10. Ain't Gonna Rain No More
11. Howlin' at Your Door #2
12. My Baby's Gone and I'll Soon Be Gone Myself
13. I Been Here Before
14. Interview

  • Tom Turner - guitar & vocal - 1967

VA - Georgia Blues Today


1. William Robertson - Love Blues
2. William Robertson - Baby Please Don't Go
3. James Davis - Old Country Book
4. John Lee Ziegler - Poor Boy
5. John Lee Ziegler - John Henry
6. Jimmy Lee Williams - Hoot Your Belly Give Your Backbone Ease
7. Jimmy Lee Williams - Shortening Bread
8. John Lee Ziegler - Used To Be Mine But Look Who Got Her Now
9. James Davis - James' Boogie
10. William Robertson - My Babe
11. William Robertson - Hoochie Coochie Wagon
12. John Lee Ziegler - If I Lose Let Me Lose
13. James Davis - Good Morning Little School Girl


VA - Lower Chattahoochie Valley

1. Flat Foot Boogie - Alber Macon and Robert Thomas
2. Don't Nothing Hurt Me But My Back And Side - Alber
3. Jack of Diamonds - William Grant
4. Sitting Here 1000 Miles - Jimmy Lee Harris
5. All Night Long - Jimmy Lee Harris
6. I've Been Treated So Bad - Cliff Davis
7. Lonze Thomas Dragaround - Lonzie Thomas
8. Red Cross Store - Lonzie Thomas
9. When The Saints Go Marching In - Precious Bryant
10. Georgia Buck - Precious Bryant
11. True Love - Cecil Barfield
12. Lonesome House Blues - Cecil Barfield
13. Baby Please Don't Go - Eddie B. Hodge
14. Hambone - Ray Favors
15. If I Had My Way - Ray Favors and James Lloyd

VA - Rosa Lee Hill & Friends

1. Pork and Beans - Rosa Lee Hill2. Roll and Tumble - Rosa Lee Hill
3. Count The Days That I'm Gone - Rosa Lee Hill
4. Bullying Well - Rosa Lee Hill
5. Come Here Fairer - Rosa Lee Hill
6. Lord I Feel Better - Rosa Lee Hill and Jessie Mae Hemphill
7. I Wanna Be Ready - Jessie Mae Hemphill
8. Georgia Buck (instrumental) - Precious Bryant
9. That's The Way The Good Thing Go - Precious Bryant
10. Black Gal - Lottie Kate and Jim Bunkley
11. The Lord Will Make A Way - Lottie Kate and Jim Bunkley
12. Move On Up A Little - Essie Mae Brooks
13. Horn Going - Essie Mae Brooks
14. Won't You Ride With Me Tonight - Catherin Porter and Will Shade


VA - Tennessee Recordings

1. Sleepy John Estes - Floating Bridge
2. Sleepy John Estes - Special Agent
3. Sleepy John Estes - Mr. Pat
4. Sleepy John Estes - Rats in My Kitchen
5. Furry Lewis - Brownsville Blues
6. Furry Lewis - Mistreatin' Woman
7. Furry Lewis - Fare-Thee-Well, Old Tennessee
8. Will Shade - Kansas City Blues
9. Will Shade & Furry Lewis - The Train
10. Gus Cannon - Boll Weevil Blues
11. Will Shade - Wine Headed Woman
12. Furry Lewis & Will Shade - Furry Lewis Rag
13. Charlie Burse & Will Shade - Beale Street Shuffle
14. Jennie Mae Clayton & Will Shade - What Must I Do?
15. Will Shade - Jump & Jive