Illustrated Advent Records discography (original) (raw)
US Advent label founded / owned by Frank Scott
year of
release
title / notes
2801
(1972)
Thomas Shaw: Born In Texas
LP track sequence:
- Born In Texas // @ youtube
- Stop And Listen // @ youtube
- Worried Blues |||
- Hungry Wolf || @ youtube
- Motherless Children || @ youtube
- Richard Nixon's Welfare Blues [] @ youtube
- Tom Shaw's Penitentiary Blues []
- Let's Rock \\
- Old Original Penitentiary Blues ||
- Worried Life ||
- Dirty Mistreater ||
CD track sequence:
- Born In Texas //
- Stop And Listen //
- Worried Blues |||
- Hungry Wolf ||
- Last Year Was A Mighty Fine Year # @ youtube
- Working Man Blues #
- Motherless Children ||
- Richard Nixon's Welfare Blues []
- Tom Shaw's Penitentiary Blues []
- Let's Rock \\
- Sinners Prayers #
- All Out And Down # @ youtube
- Old Original Penitentiary Blues ||
- Worried Life ||
- Dirty Mistreater ||
- Milky Highway #
- If Jesus Had To Pray #
- Stocking Feet Blues #
- Mocking The Trains #
# CD bonus tracks
prod. by Frank Scott
// rec. May 29, 1971 in San Diego, CA; Thomas Shaw, voc, g
|| rec. May 30, 1971 in San Diego, CA; Thomas Shaw, voc, g, ||| Bob Jefferey, p
\\ rec. May 31, 1971 in San Diego, CA; Thomas Shaw, voc, g
[] rec. June 5, 1971 in San Diego, CA; Thomas Shaw, voc, g
rec. 1972 in Los Angeles, CA; Thomas Shaw, voc, g
photos by Frank Scott
notes by Frank Scott
Advent 2801 (US 1972)
notes by Frank Scott
= XTRA 1132 (UK 1972)
original notes by Frank Scott
(=) Testament TCD-5027 (US 1995)
Testament Records discography
XTRA Records discography
Thomas Shaw discography
2802
(1972)
Eddie Taylor: I Feel So Bad
The Blues of Eddie Taylor
- I Feel So Bad # @ Spotify
- Jackson Town Blues # @ youtube @ Spotify
- Stop Breaking Down # @ youtube @ Spotify
- 13 Highway (Highway 13) # @ Spotify
- Stroll Out West * @ youtube @ Spotify
- Sittin' Here Thinkin' # @ Spotify
- Going Upside Your Head # @ youtube @ Spotify
- Twelve Year Old Boy # @ Spotify
- There'll Be A Day # @ Spotify
- Bullcow Blues * @ Spotify
- Wreck On 83 Highway * @ Spotify
- Blues In The Rain (instr) # @ Spotify
P-Vine PCD-24118 / P-Vine PCD-93223 bonus tracks:
- Mean Old Spider °
- Big Town Playboy °
- Greyhound Bus °
# rec. June 1972 at Eldorado Studios in Hollywood, CA; Eddie Taylor, voc, g; George Smith, hca; Phillip Walker, g; David Li, ten, bar, perc; Jimmy Jones, p; Chuck Jones, bs; Johnny Tucker, dr; Little H. Williams, tamb
* rec. June 1972 at Advent Studios in Glendale, CA: Eddie Taylor, voc, g
° rec. June 1972 in Hollywood, CA; Eddie Taylor, voc, g; unknown acc.
prod. by Frank Scott with assistance from Bruce Bromberg; cover design by Mike Faye; photos by John Sullivan
notes by Eddie Taylor
Advent 2802
= DJM 22065 (UK 1977)
= Advent/Vivid VS-1051 (Jp 1985)
= Hightone HCD 8027 (US 1991)
= P-Vine PCD 2102 (Jp)
(=) P-Vine PCD-24118 (Jp 2002)
(=) P-Vine PCD-93223 (Jp 2009)
2803
(1974)
Johnny Shines
- Give My Heart A Break
- Too Lazy
- Moaning And Groaning
- Just A Little Tenderness
- I Know The Winds Are Blowing
- Just Call Me
- My Love Can't Hide
- Skull And Crossbones Blues
- Vallie Lee
- Can't Get Along With You
- Have To Pay The Cost
CD bonus track:
- Ramblin'
rec. 1970 at Vault Studios, Los Angeles, Ca.; Johnny Shines, voc, g; Philip Walker, g; David Li, bs; Nathaniel Dove, p; Charles Jones, b; Downy Murl, dr (Phillip Walker Band); prod. by Bruce Bromberg, John Harmer & Frank Scott
CD bonus track rec. June 1974 at radio station KPFK
Advent 2803 (US 1974)
= Trio PA-3040 (Jp 1975)
= P-Vine PCD 2103 (Jp 1989)
notes by Peter Guralnick
(=) Hightone HCD 8028 (US 1991)
Johnny Shines discography
2804
(1974)
San Diego Blues Jam
Advent 2804 track sequence:
Tom Courtney & Henry Ford Thompson - Somebody's Been Knockin'
Bob Jefferey & Sam Chatmon - Watergate Blues
Thomas Shaw - Jack of Diamonds
Sam Chatmon - She's My Baby @ youtube
Tom Courtney & Louis Major - Early One Morning
Bonnie Jefferson - Take Me Back @ youtube
Louis Major - Handy Brandy
Thomas Shaw - Hey Mr. Nixon
Bonnie Jefferson - Got The Blues So Bad
Bob Jefferey - 73 Hop
Louis Major - Shotgun Blues
Bob Jefferey & Sam Chatmon - Ashtray Taxi
Tom Courtney & Henry Ford Thompson - Just Goes To Show You (The World Is Mad)
Testament TCD-5029 track sequence:
Tom Courtney & Henry Ford Thompson - Somebody's Been Knockin'
Bob Jefferey & Sam Chatmon - Watergate Blues
Thomas Shaw - Jack of Diamonds
Sam Chatmon - She's My Baby
Bob Jefferey - Toe Shakin' #
Bob Jefferey - Handsome Stranger #
Tom Courtney & Louis Major - Early One Morning
Bonnie Jefferson - Take Me Back
Louis Major - Handy Brandy
Thomas Shaw - Hey Mr. Nixon
Tom Courtney and Henry Ford Thompson - Dust My Blues #
Sam Chatmon - Sweet Old San Diego #
Bonnie Jefferson - Got The Blues So Bad
Bob Jefferey - 73 Hop
Louis Major - Shotgun Blues
Bob Jefferey & Sam Chatmon - Ashtray Taxi
Bonnie Jefferson - Crow Rooster Crow # @ youtube
Tom Courtney & Henry Ford Thompson - Just Goes To Show You (The World Is Mad)
Sam Chatmon & Bob Jefferey - Shake 'Em All Down #
# CD bonus tracks
notes (January 1974) by Lou Curtiss
Advent 2804 (US 1974)
original notes by Lou Curtiss
(=) Testament TCD-5029 (US 1995)
Testament Records discography
2805
(1975)
Sorrow, Come Pass Me Around
A Survey Of Rural Black Religious Music
Ephram Carter and his Fife & Drum Band
- Sorrow, Come Pass Me Around
Willard Artis 'Blind Pete' Burrell
- Do Remember Me
Babe Stovall
- The Ship Is At The Landing
Annie Lee & Oscar Crawford
- You Don't Know What The Lord Has Done For Me
Rev. Rubin Lacey
- Talk About A Child That Do Love Jesus 
Robert 'Nighthawk' Johnson
- Can't No Grave Hold My Body Down
Dorothy Lee, Norma Jean & Shirley Marie Johnson
- You Got To Give An Account
Katie Mae Young
- By The Grace Of My Lord, I've Come A Long Way
Eddie Lee 'Mustright' Jones
- My Sun Don't Never Go Down
Robert 'Nighthawk' Johnson
- Climbing High Mountains
Chester Davis and Congregation; Compton Jones & Group; Furry Lewis
- Glory, Glory Hallelujah
Willard Artis 'Blind Pete' Burrell
- A Little Talk With Jesus Makes It Right
Pattie Rosemon
- I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say
Babe Stovall
- When The Circle Be Unbroken
Napoleon Strickland
- Motherless Children
Willard Artis 'Blind Pete' Burrell
- I Shall Not Be Moved
rec. by David Evans
"Among my more treasured possessions is a general survey of black rural religious singing, which he produced several years before the disc under consideration. It is called Sorrow Come Pass Me Around, and in terms of superb it is completely off the scale. If nobody has had the foresight to re-issue that LP, and you happen to see it in some expensive second-hand vinyl catalogue, do not pause to worry about how you are going to raise the asking price. Once you have the disc home and on your turntable, all qualms about the bank you so rashly decided to stick up, will be utterly dissipated."
notes (November 1974, 12-pp. brochure) by David Evans
Advent 2805 (US 1975)
= P-Vine PCD-2104 (Jp 1991)
16-pp. booklet by David Evans
= Dust-To-Digital LP PT-3001 (US 2013)
32-pp. booklet by David Evans
= Dust-To-Digital CD DTD-3001 (US 2013)
Babe Stovall discography
Rube Lacey discography
Furry Lewis discography
2806
(1977)
Chicago Blues At Home
Louis Myers - Going Back To The Ghetto @ youtube
John Littlejohn - Mean Old World @ youtube
Eddie Taylor - Greyhound Bus @ youtube
Louis Myers - Stop Breaking Down @ youtube
Bob Myers - Train Fare Home °° @ youtube
Jimmy Rogers - Ludella @ youtube
Johnny Shines - Ramblin' @ youtube
John Littlejohn - The Moon Is Rising °° @ youtube
Homesick James Williamson - Tell Me Who @ youtube
Louis Myers - Short Haired Woman °° @ youtube
Jimmy Rogers - Back Door Friend °° @ youtube
Bob Myers - Right Kind Of Life @ youtube
John Littlejohn - Slidin' @ youtube
Louis Myers - Mean Red Spider @ youtube
Louis Myers - Just a Snap Boogie °° @ youtube
Jimmy Rogers - What Have I Done °° @ youtube
Eddie Taylor - Jackson Town @ youtube
Eddie Taylor - Tell Me Baby °° @ youtube
John Littlejohn tracks rec. August 21, 1970 at John Littlejohn's home in Chicago, IL by Frank Scott; John Littlejohn, voc, g; Jimmy Rogers, g
Jimmy Rogers tracks rec. August 21, 1970 in Chicago, IL; Jimmy Rogers, voc, g; John Littlejohn, g
Johnny Shines track rec. June 1974 at KPFK Radio, North Hollywood, CA; Johnny Shines, voc, g
Homesick James track rec. March 8, 1973 in Chicago, IL by Jim O'Neal; Homesick James, voc, g; Andrew McMahon, g; Lou Ella Smith, conga
photography (Louis & Bob Myers) by Amy O'Neal, all other photos by Frank Scott
°° CD bonus tracks, previously unissued
notes by Frank Scott
Advent 2806 (US 1977)
notes by Frank Scott
(=) Testament TCD-5028 (US 1995)
Advent Records discography
Testament Records discography
John Littlejohn discography
Jimmy Rogers discography
Johnny Shines discography
Homesick James discography
2807
(1976)
Robert Jr. Lockwood & The Aces: Blues Live In Japan
Trio PA-6024 / Advent 2807 tracks (LP):
- Sweet Home Chicago
- Going Down Slow
- Worried Life Blues
- Anna Lee #
- One Room Country Shack #
- Stormy Monday
- Feel All Right Again
- Honky Tonk (instr)
- Mean Black Spider
- Little And Low
Vivid VSCD-011 bonus tracks:
- You Upset Me Baby
- Sweet Little Angel
- Just Like A Woman
- Juke (instr)
Vivid VSCD-033 tracks:
- Everyday I Have The Blues
- Early In The Morning
- Guitar Instrumental
- Route 66
- Things Happening
- Money Marbles And Chalk
- Hide Away (instr)
- Reconsider Baby
- Harp Instrumental
- New Orleans
- Hoochie Koochie Man
- Steal Away
- Got My Mojo Working
Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon
- Corina Corina
Vivid VSCD-3107/08 bonus tracks (= CD 3):
- Work Song
- Caldonia
- What'd I Say
Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon
- Corina Corina
- When The Saints Go Marchin' In
rec. November 27 and 28, 1974 live at Yubin Chokin Hall, Tokyo, Japan; Robert Jr. Lockwood, voc, g; Louis Myers, g, # voc; Dave Myers, b; Fred Below, dr
Trio PA-6024 (Jp 1975)
"Blues Live"
notes by Steve Tomashevsky
= Advent 2807 (US 1976) "Blues Live In Japan"
= Art Union/Vivid KEN-2001 (Jp 1999)
(=) Vivid VSCD-011 (Jp 20??)
3 CD set
(=) Vivid VSCD-3107/08 (Jp 2008) (VSCD-011 plus VSCD-033 plus bonus CD 3)
Robert Lockwood discography
2808
(1978)
Sonny Rhodes: I Don't Want My Blues Colored Bright
- One More Drink
- Take The Bitter With The Sweet
- Just Got It
- All Night Long They Play The Blues *
- Killing Floor
- I'm So Lonely *
- Country Boy *
- How Long
- J.J.'s Blues In G
- Stranded *
- Sitting And Thinking
Black Magic CD9024 bonus tracks:
- Worried Time, Hard Time
- Next Time You See Me
rec. August 16-17, 1976 at Blossom Studios, San Francisco, Ca.
* rec. March 20, 1977
Sonny Rhodes, voc, g; Gary Smith, hca; Mike 'Junior" Watson, g; Ken Baker, ts; Brad Johnson, as; Michael Marcus, bs; Harold Attyberry, tp; J.J. Malone, p; Steve Gomes, b; Charles Banks, b; Harold Banks, dr; Richard Milton, dr; prod. by Sonny Rhodes, J.J. Malone & Gary Smith
notes by Tommy Löfgren
Amigo AMLP 821 (Sweden 1977) "sonny rhodes san francisco blues man"
notes by Tommy Löfgren
= Advent 2808 (US 1978)
(=) Black Magic CD9024 (NL 1994)
2809
(1978)
Louis Myers: I'm A Southern Man
- I'm A Southern Man
- Short Haired Woman
- Woman's Lib
- Just Woke Up
- Woman Trouble
- Hello Stranger
- Southbound Blues
- All My Love In Vain
- Kind Hearted Woman
- Old Black Mattie
rec. March 1978 in Hollywood, CA; Louis Myers, voc, g, hca; Freddy Robinson, g; Tony Mathews, g; Larry Taylor, b; Dennis Walker, b; Nathaniel Dove, p; Buster Jones, dr; David Li, ts; Chuck Garbett, tp; prod. by Frank Scott
notes by Frank Scott
Advent 2809 (US 1978)
= Testament TCD-5026 (US 1995)
Testament Records discography
2815
Big Road Blues
Roosevelt Holts
- Sundown Blues #
- Maggie Campbell Blues #
- 2 more tracks
Mager Johnson
- 3 tracks
Robert "Nighthawk" Johnson
- 1 track
Carey Lee Simmons
- 2 tracks
Babe Stovall
- 1 track
Willis Taylor
- Mama Do Right
Willis Taylor & Mott Willis
- The Trashy Gang Blues
Mott Willis
- Riverside Blues
- It Ain't Gonna Rain No More
- Bad Night Blues
- Who Is That Yonder Coming Down The Road?
- Pick And Shovel Blues
- Dresser Drawer Blues
Arzo & Isaac Youngblood
- No Place To Go
# rec. April 2, 1969 in Bogalusa; Roosevelt Holts, voc, g
announced in David Evans' 1982 book (p. 322) by the same title, but obviously never issued; information about contents from http://www.deltahaze.com and EVANS 1982
Additional information appreciated !!!
Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- David Evans: Big Road Blues, Tradition and Creativity in the Folk Blues.- Berkeley (University of California Press) 1982
- Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 2011, pp. 406/407
- http://www.ne.jp/asahi/ko-1/crossroads/blues/r/lockwood.htm
- http://www.beautiful-records.com/discographies/AMIGO/AMLP8.htm
- diverse internet resources
- eBay auctions
thanks to Dave Sax, Jim Clay, Alan Balfour, Paul Vernon, Görgen Antonsson,Klaus Kilian and Wilson Fabian Ruales Villalva for additional info / scans