Illustrated Nathan 'Beauregard' discography (original) (raw)

# yearof release title / label / notes
1 1968 The 1968 Memphis Country Blues Festival@ youtube (full album) Nathan Beauregard- Highway 61- Kid Gal Blues Bukka White- Hello Central, Give Me 49- Baby, Please Don't Go Furry Lewis- Furry's Blues Rev. Robert Wilkins- In Heaven, Sitting Down- What Do You Think About Jesus? Joe Callicott- You Don't Know My Mind- Great Long Ways From Home Bukka White- My Mother Died rec. July 20, 1968 at the Municipal Shell, Overton Park in Memphis, TN [third annual festival]; Nathan Beauregard, voc, amplified g; M.C.: Jim Crosthwait; prod. by Mike Vernon, exec. producer: Seymour Stein (Sire Records)front cover photography by Margaret Tucker, back cover photos supplied by Randall Lyon, Lydia Saltzman and Blues Unlimitednotes by Mike Vernon Blue Horizon 7-63210 (mono) (UK 1968)notes by Mike Vernon Sire SES 97003 (stereo) (US 1968) (two slightly different labels)notes by Mike Vernon = Blue Horizon S 7-63210 (stereo) (UK 1969) (logo on front cover yellow)notes by Mike Vernon = Blue Horizon S 7-63210 (stereo) (Germany 1969) (logo on front cover black)= CBS SBP 473668 (stereo) (Australia 1969)_(=) Blue Horizon CD 82876851232 (2006)_Blue Horizon Records discographyBukka White discographyFurry Lewis discographyRobert Wilkins discographyJoe Callicott discography
2 1969 Memphis Swamp Jam LP 1: Booker White- Christmas Eve Blues- Columbus, Miss. Blues- Sad Day Blues Piano Red- Mobile Blues- Abel Street Stomp Nathan Beauregard- Nathan's Bumble Bee Blues (10:30) # @ youtube- 'Bout A Spoonful (3:20) # @ youtube Sleepy John Estes- Need More Blues- President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long LP 2: Furry Lewis- Judge Boushay Blues- Walking Blues Fred McDowell- Shake Em On Down- Fred's Blues Napoleon Strickland- Back Water Rising - Other's Piece- Shimmy She Wobble R.L. Watson & Josiah Jones [John Fahey & Bill Barth]- Memphis Rag- St. Louis Blues- Praying On The Old Campground # rec. June 9, 1969 at Ardent Recording Studios in Memphis, Tennessee; Nathan Beauregard, voc, el g [right channel]; Mike Stewart, ac g [left channel]; all sessions supervised by Chris Strachwitz; prod. by Chris Strachwitz; assistant producers: John Fahey and Bill Barth front cover photo of Blue Thumb BTS 6000 / Arhoolie 1084 taken at the Memphis Blues Festival by Jim MarshallDLPnotes (1969) by Pete Welding click to read track list ! click to enlarge left page of inner gatefold !click to enlarge right page of inner gatefold and read track list ! click to read first and second column of inner sleeve A !click to read third and fourth column of inner sleeve A ! click to read first column of inner sleeve B !click to read second column of inner sleeve B !click to read third column of inner sleeve B ! Blue Thumb BTS 6000 (US 1969)= King SR-481 (Jp 1971)notes (1969) by Pete Welding (=) Arhoolie 1084 (US 1981) "Kings Of Country Blues Vol. 1" and Arhoolie 1085 (US 1981) "Kings Of Country Blues Vol. 2" (=) Arhoolie CD 385 (US 1993) "Mississippi Delta Blues Jam In Memphis Vol. 1" (=) Arhoolie CD 386 (US 1993) "Mississippi Delta Blues Jam In Memphis Vol. 2"Arhoolie Records discography
3 1971 The Memphis Blues Again Vol. 1 Nathan Beauregard- Nobody's Business But My Own (2:47) # * @ youtube- Lonesome To Myself (4:59) # @ youtube Sam Clark & Dewey Corley and Richard Harney- Sunnyland Train Blues Earl Bell & Marshall "Memphis Sonny Boy" Jones- Catfish Blues Mose Vinson & Backwards Sam Firk and Dewey Corley- You Ain't Too Old Mose Vinson & Backwards Sam Firk- Bullfrog Blues Sweet Charlene Peeples & Mose Vinson- Tin Pan Alley- Scood Up Be Doop Day Furry Lewis- Natural Born Eastman No. 2 Furry Lewis & Willie Morris and Dewey Corley- New Turn Your Money Green Joe Dobbins & Backwards Sam Firk- Basin Street Blues- Sweet Patricia Gus Cannon- Mule Gallop Dewey Corley & Willie Morris and Furry Lewis- Dewey's Walkin' Blues Dewey Corley & Walter Miller- Step It Up And Go # rec. October 1969 in Memphis, TN; Nathan Beauregard, voc, g; * Mike Stewart, g; prod. by Gene RosenthalAdelphi AD 1009 cover drawing by Dick Banghamnotes by Stephan Michaelson and Steve LaVere with assistance by Nick Perls and Michael Stewart notes by Stephan Michaelson & Steve LaVere; click to enlarge!Nathan Beauregard; click to enlarge! Furry Lewis, Gus Cannon, Sam Clark; click to enlarge!Dewey Corley, Mose Vinson, Sweet Charlene; click to enlarge! Earl Bell & Memphis Sonny Boy, Joe Dobbing; click to enlarge!notes by Steve LaVere, track list; click to enlarge! gatefold notes; click to enlarge! Adelphi AD 1009 (US 1971)notes by Stephan Michaelson = Echo Music 801 (UK 1985) "Blues Anthology Vol. 1" "Memphis Blues"Adelphi Records discography
4 1970 All Day Thumb Sucker Southwind - Rootin & TootinSam Lay - Maggie's FarmFred McDowell - Shake 'Em On Down [Blue Thumb BTS 6000]Robbie Basho - Eagle Sails The BlueTyrannosaurus Rex - Cat BlackIke & Tina Turner - Bold Soul Sister Love - Run To The Top Nathan Beauregard - 'Bout A Spoonful [Blue Thumb BTS 6000] Aynsley Dunbar - Sugar On The LineAlbert Collins - FrostyEarl Hooker - Cross Cut Saw [Blue Thumb BTS 12]Chicago Bluestars - Comin HomeBossa Rio - Blackbird notes by John Mendelsohn Blue Thumb BTS 8702 (US 1970)notes by John Mendelsohn = Blue Thumb BTS 2000 (US 1970)[Blue Thumb BT3 7002 "All Day Thumb Sucker Revisited" (US 1995) without Nathan Beauregard track]
5 1981 Kings Of Country Blues, Vol. 1 Booker White- Christmas Eve Blues- Columbus, Miss. Blues- Sad Day Blues Piano Red- Mobile Blues- Abel Street Stomp Nathan Beauregard- Nathan's Bumble Bee Blues # [Blue Thumb BTS 6000]- 'Bout A Spoonful # [Blue Thumb BTS 6000] Sleepy John Estes- Need More Blues- President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long reissue of LP 1 of (DLP) Blue Thumb BTS 6000 Arhoolie 1084 (US 1981) (=) Arhoolie CD 386 (US 1993) "Mississippi Delta Blues Jam In Memphis Vol. 2"Arhoolie Records discography
6 1993 Mississippi Delta Blues Jam In Memphis Vol. 2 Sleepy John Estes- Need More Blues- Little Laura °°- Rats °°- President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long Nathan Beauregard- Nathan's Bumble Bee Blues * [Blue Thumb BTS 6000]- 'Bout A Spoonful * [Blue Thumb BTS 6000] Booker White- Christmas Eve Blues- Columbus, Miss. Blues- Sad Day Blues- Stuttgart, Ark °°- Mixed Water °° previously unreleased (=) Arhoolie CD 386 (US 1993) "Mississippi Delta Blues Jam In Memphis Vol. 2"Arhoolie Records discography
7 1999 Shake 'Em On DownThe Real Country Blues - Shake 'Em On Down - Fred McDowell- Sloppy Drunk Blues - Big Joe Williams- Alabama Blues - Bukka White- Need More Blues - Sleepy Joe Estes- Judge Boushay Blues - Furry Lewis- Pardon Denied Again - Robert Pete Williams- Rabbit Blues - Smoky Babe- Take Me Out Of The Bottom - Big Joe Williams- Fred's Worried Life Blues - Fred McDowell- Poor Black Mattie - R.L. Burnside- Come Home To Me Baby - Joe Callicott- Smokestack Lightning - Clarence Edwards- Write Me A Few Lines - Fred McDowell- Mississippi River - Smoky Babe- Just Tippin' It - Robert Pete Williams- She Left Me A Mule To Ride - Big Joe Williams- Canned Heat - Houston Stackhouse- Three O'Clock In The Morning - Johnny Woods- 'Bout A Spoonful - Nathan Beauregard [Blue Thumb BTS 6000] - You Call Yourself A Cadillac - Robert Nighthawk- Keep Your Nose Out Of My Business - Johnny Young & Otis Spann- Oh Baby - Napeleon Strickland Arhoolie/Ace CD 527 (US/UK 1999)Arhoolie Records discography
8 2006 The 1968 Memphis Country Blues Festivalwith Bukka White: The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions disc 1: Nathan Beauregard- Highway 61 [Sire SES 97003 / Blue Horizon 7-63210]- Kid Gal Blues [Sire SES 97003 / Blue Horizon 7-63210] Bukka White- Hello Central, Give Me 49- Baby, Please Don't Go Furry Lewis- Furry's Blues Rev. Robert Wilkins- In Heaven, Sitting Down- What Do You Think About Jesus? Joe Callicott- You Don't Know My Mind- Great Long Ways From Home Bukka White- My Mother Died disc 2: Bukka White- Bed Spring Blues- Aberdeen, Mississippi Blues- Drifting Blues- (Brand New) Decoration Day- Baby Please Don't Go- Give Me An Old, Old Lady- Got Sick And Tired- World Boogie- School Learning- Old Man Tom- Gibson Town- Drifting Blues [master version without reverb]- Old Man Tom [complete master version without reverb] reissue (remastered) of 1968 Sire SES 97003 / Blue Horizon 7-63210 "The 1968 Memphis Country Blues Festival" and Blue Horizon 7-63229 "Memphis Hot Shots" 2 CD setBlue Horizon CD 82876851232 (US 2006)Blue Horizon Records discography
Additional information appreciated !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- eBay auctions
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 213-214
- Chris Smith: Trying to make a hundred (99 and a half ain't true).- Blues & Rhythm 217 (2007), p. 25
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Patrice Champarou for drawing my attention to the Chris Smith article ("99 1/2 ain't true")

standing: Fred McDowell, Johnny Woods, Booker White; sitting: Nathan Beauregard, Furry Lewis, Sleepy John Estes; source: Front cover of Arhoolie 1084/1085; photographer: Jim Marshall; click to enlarge!
standing: Fred McDowell, Johnny Woods, Booker White
sitting: Nathan Beauregard, Furry Lewis, Sleepy John Estes
source: Front cover of Arhoolie 1084/1085; photographer: Jim Marshall

Bill Barth (1995): The Real True Story of How I Found Nathan Beauregard and Got Him to Play Music Again

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