Illustrated Nathan 'Beauregard' discography (original) (raw)
# | yearof release | title / label / notes |
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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 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 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
Bill Barth (1995): The Real True Story of How I Found Nathan Beauregard and Got Him to Play Music Again
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