Illustrated Baby Tate discography (original) (raw)

Charles Henry 'B A B Y'   T A T E; source: Valerie Wilmer 1991, photo page no #source: Valerie Wilmer 1991, no pagination; photographer: Valerie Wilmer Baby TateCharles Henry Tateb. January 28, (1916, 1919) 1920 in (Elberton) Magnolia Township, Abbeville County, Georgiad. August 17, 1972 at Veterans Administration Hospital in Columbia, Richland County, South Carolinaburied at East Spartanburg Cemetery in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolinadiscography Charles Henry 'B A B Y'   T A T E; source: The Blues Collection #52 'Blind Boy Fuller'(Orbis Publishing, 1996), p. 622; photographer: Valerie Wilmersource: The Blues Collection #52 "Blind Boy Fuller" (Orbis Publishing, 1996), p. 622; photographer: Valerie Wilmer
# yearof release title / label / notes
Baby Tate early 1950s Atlanta sessions for Dave Kapp (08/07/1904 - 03/01/1976)[ever issued?]
1 1962 Pink Anderson: Carolina Medicine Show Hokum & Blueswith Baby Tate Pink Anderson- You Don't Know My Mind- That's No Way To Do- Weeping Willow Blues- Meet Me In The Bottom- I Got A Woman 'cross Town- Greasy Greens - Boweevil- Chicken- He's In The Jailhouse Now- The Titanic- The Boys Of Your Uncle Sam Baby Tate- See What You Done Done (2:30) # @ youtube # rec. August 14, 1961 in Spartanburg, SC by Samuel Charters; Baby Tate, voc, gcover photo by Samuel Chartersnotes by Samuel Charters Folkways FS 3588 (US 1962)Pink Anderson discography
2 1963 The Blues of Baby Tate: See What You Done Done - See What You Done Done [Folkways FS 3588] @ youtube- Dupree Blues @ youtube- What Have I Done To You? @ youtube - Baby, I'm Going @ youtube- Hey Mama, Hey Pretty Girl @ youtube- When Your Woman Don't Want You Around @ youtube - My Baby Don't Treat Me Kind @ youtube- Trucking Them Blues Away @ youtube- Baby, You Just Don't Know @ youtube- Lonesome Over There @ youtube- Thousand Woman Blues [sic] @ youtube- I Ain't Got No Loving Baby Now @ youtube rec. August 14, 1961 in Spartanburg, SC by Samuel Charters; Baby Tate, voc, g; LP prod. by Kenneth S. Goldsteinnotes by Samuel B. Charters Bluesville BVLP 1072 (US 1963)notes by Samuel B. Charters Prestige BVLP 1072 (US 196?) - trident label in use 1964 -1971notes by Samuel B. Charters = OBCCD-567-2 (US 1994)Bluesville Records discographyOBC Records discography
3 1967 The BluesMusic from the Documentary Film by Samuel Charters@ youtube (full album) J.D. Short- Introduction @ youtube **Memphis Willie B.**- Alone In The Evening Blues (instr) @ youtube @ Spotify J.D. Short- Slidin' Delta @ youtube @ Spotify Pink Anderson (with son "Little Pink")- Old Cotton Fields Of Home @ youtube @ Spotify Furry Lewis- John Henry @ youtube @ Spotify Baby Tate- Bad Blues (instr) # @ youtube @ Spotify Memphis Willie B. & Gus Cannon- Sitting Here Thinking @ youtube @ Spotify Sleepy John Estes- Lonesome Ground @ youtube @ Spotify Baby Tate- If I Could Holler Like A Mountain Jack # @ youtube @ Spotify- When I First Started Hoboing # @ youtube @ Spotify Pink Anderson- Weeping Willow Blues @ youtube @ Spotify rec. in the summer of 1962 by Samuel Barclay Charters with Ann Charters, technical assistant. "The Blues" was finished early in 1963, and was premiered at the University of Chicago Folk Festival in January, 1963.# rec. July 1962 in Spartanburg, SC; Baby Tate, voc, gphotography by Ann Chartersnotes by Samuel Charters Asch A-101 (US 1967)= Folkways FA AS101notes by Samuel Charters = Blue Angel BA20011 (Germany 1978/79?) (Zweitausendeins)CDrnotes by Samuel Charters = Smithsonian Folkways FW-ASCH101-CCD (US 2007)J.D. Short discographyMemphis Willie B. discographyPink Anderson discographyFurry Lewis discographyBaby Tate discographyGus Cannon discographySleepy John Estes discography
- Smokey Mountain Blues (001) *- Rag Mama Rag (003)- Ride To Your Funeral In A V8 (004) *- Down On Your Hands Again (005)- Married Woman Blues (007) #- Baby Please Don't Go (008)- Tate's Lonesome Blues (009)- See What You Done Done (010)- I Can't Be Satisfied (011)- So Sweet, So Sweet (012)- Truckin' My Blues Away (013)- Careless Love (015)- Mamie (016)- Sugar Bee/Babe [?] (019)- Skinny Woman Blues (020) #- Rock Me (021) # rec. August 2, 1970 in Spartanburg, SC by Peter B. Lowry; Baby Tate, voc, g, # hca; * McKinley Ellis, g; Peg Leg Sam, hca, [] voc Peter B. Lowry Febr. 09, 2003: "possible titles for proposed album"Trix label (should have been LP 3313, but wasn't released)Trix Records discography
- See What You Done Done (045) [Trix 4502]- Bad Gasoline Blues (049) [Flyright 528] @ youtube- Rasselin' Jacob (059)- I'll Fly Away (060) [] rec. August 7, 1970 in Spartanburg, SC by Peter B. Lowry; Baby Tate, voc, g; Peg Leg Sam, hca, [] voc Peter B. Lowry Febr. 09, 2003: "possible titles for proposed album"Trix label (should have been LP 3313, but wasn't released)Trix Records discography
- When The Saints Go Marchin' In (070)- My Hook's In The Water (071)- You Can Always Tell (074) [Flyright 528] @ youtube- Bumble Bee (075) rec. August 8, 1970 in Spartanburg, SC by Peter B. Lowry; Baby Tate, voc, g; Peg Leg Sam, hca Peter B. Lowry Febr. 09, 2003: "possible titles for proposed album"Trix label (should have been LP 3313, but wasn't released)Trix Records discography
- Who's That Left Here While Ago (072)- Bad Whiskey Blues (077) rec. August 8, 1970 in Spartanburg, SC by Peter B. Lowry; Peg Leg Sam, voc, hca; Baby Tate, voc, gTrix unissuedTrix Records discography
- Shotgun (080)- Weeping Willow (081)- I Ain't Got No Lover Now (082)- I Can Lay It On Down (083)- I Feel So Good (084)- Poor Boy, Long Way From Home (085)- Why Do You Treat Me Like You Do (087)- Whiskey Headed Woman (088)- I Got News For You (089)- Sugar Bee (090)- Red River Blues (091)- You Got To Go Down 095)- Don't Try To Mistreat Me (098)- Police Dog Blues (099) rec. August 15, 1970 in Spartanburg, SC by Peter B. Lowry; Baby Tate, voc, g Peter B. Lowry Febr. 09, 2003: "possible titles for proposed album"Trix label (should have been LP 3313, but wasn't released)Trix Records discography
- Meet Me In The Bottom (115)- Weeping Willow (116)- I Got Mine (17)- I Feel So Good (118)- Bad Gasoline Blues (119)- Tate's Boogie (120)- Wild & Reckless (121)- Late In The Evening (122) [Trix 4502]- Police Dog Blues(123) rec. December 30, 1970 in Spartanburg, SC by Peter B. Lowry; Baby Tate, voc, g Peter B. Lowry Febr. 09, 2003: "possible titles for proposed album"Trix label (should have been LP 3313, but wasn't released)Trix Records discography
4 1971 "BABY" TATE- Late In The Evening (122) (2:20) # @ youtube- See What You Done Done (045) (2:35) * @ youtube * rec. August 7, 1970 in Spartanburg, SC by Peter B. Lowry; Baby Tate, voc, g; Peg Leg Sam, hca# rec. December 30, 1970 in Spartanburg, SC by Peter B. Lowry; Baby Tate, voc, g7 inch 45 rpm Trix 4502 (US 1971)Trix Records discographyPeg Leg Sam discography
5 1978 Another Man Done Gone Baby Tate - You Can Always Tell @ youtube Jack Harp - After A While @ youtubeGuitar Shorty - Mother's Dead And Gone @ youtubeWillie Rockmore & Bruce Upshaw - Got The Stuff Right HereBuddy Boy Jenkins - Greasy GreensHenry Johnson - Rock Tonight Baby @ youtubeWillie Moore - Born In The Country @ youtubeJack Harp - You Got To MoveElbert Freeman & Nathaniel Ford - Worried Blues Henry Johnson - Can't Keep From Cryin' @ youtubeBud Grant - Rattlesnake MoanJack Harp - Glory Glory HallelujahBill Bryant - Black & TanEd Green - South Carolina Blues Baby Tate with Peg Leg Sam - Bad Gasoline @ youtube Dave Dickerson - When The War is OverWillie Moore - Goin' Away To Leave You @ youtubeElbert Freeman & Nathaniel Ford - John HenryElbert Freeman & Nathaniel Ford - Old Hen Cackled # rec. August 7, 1970 in Spartanburg, SC by Peter B. Lowry; Baby Tate, voc, g; Peg Leg Sam, hca* rec. August 8, 1970 in Spartanburg, SC by Peter B. Lowry; Baby Tate, voc, g; Peg Leg Sam, spnotes (16-pp. booklet) by Bruce Bastin Flyright FLY 528 (UK 1978)Flyright Records discographyPeg Leg Sam discography
6 1973 Peg Leg Sam: Medicine Show Man - Who's That Left Here 'While Ago # @ youtube - Greasy Greens- Reuben- Irene, Tell Me, Who Do You Love *- Skinny Woman Blues # - Lost John- Ode to Bad Bill - Ain't But One Thing Give A Man The Blues- Easy Ridin' Buggy # - Peg's Fox Chase- Before You Give It All Away *- Fast Freight Train # - Nasty Old Trail- Born in Hard Luck rec. August 7 & 8, 1970 in Spartanburg, SC by Peter B. Lowry; Peg Leg Sam, hca, voc; # Charles Henry "Baby" Tate, g, voc; * Henry "Rufe" Johnson, g, voc notes by Pete Lowry Trix 3302 (US 1973)original notes by Pete Lowry and add'l notes (1993) by Peter B. Lowry = Trix CD 3302 (US 1993) = 32 Blues CD 32211 (US 2000) "Kickin" It'Peg Leg Sam discographyTrix Records discography
7 1988 Bluesville Vol. 1 "Folk Blues" Furry Lewis - Judge Boushay Blues @ youtubeMemphis Willie B. - Country Girl Blues @ youtubeK.C. Douglas - Big Road Blues @ youtubeBig Joe Williams - Levee Camp Blues @ youtubeRobert Curtis Smith - Catfish Blues @ youtubeSidney Maiden - San Quentin Blues @ youtubeWade Walton - Big Fat Mama @ youtubePete Franklin - Grievin' Me @ youtube Blind Willie McTell - The Dying Crapshooter's Blues @ youtubeLonnie Johnson - Fine Booze and Heavy Dues @ youtubeScrapper Blackwell - Blues Before Sunrise @ youtubeReverend Gary Davis - You Got To Move @ youtubeBlind Snooks Eaglin - Brown Skinned Woman @ youtubeBrownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Pawn Shop @ youtubeLightnin' Hopkins - T-Model Blues @ youtubeDoug Quattlebaum - You Is One Black Rat @ youtube Ace CDCH 247 bonus tracks: Memphis Willie B - Highway 61 @ youtubeFurry Lewis - Shake 'em On Down @ youtubeBlind Snooks Eaglin - Alberta @ youtube Baby Tate - See What You Done Done @ youtube Scrapper Blackwell - Goin' Where The Monon Crosses The Yellow Dog @ youtube compiled by Ray Topping notes (8-pp. booklet) by John H. Cowley read liner notes, part 1read liner notes, part 2 Ace CH 247 (UK 1988) Ace CDCH 247 (UK 1988)Bluesville Records discography
8 1998 The Bluesville Years Vol. 6 "Blues Sweet Carolina Blues" Pink Anderson- Meet Me In The Bottom- Baby I'm Going Away- Mama Where Did You Stay Last Night- Baby, Please Don't Go Baby Tate- See What You Done Done [Prestige/Bluesville 1072]- Baby, You Just Don't Know [Prestige/Bluesville 1072]- Hey Mama [Prestige/Bluesville 1072]- Hey Pretty Girl [Prestige/Bluesville 1072]- What Have I Done To You? [Prestige/Bluesville 1072] Sonny Terry- Callin' My Mama- Ida Mae Baby Tate- Trucking Them Blues Away [Prestige/Bluesville 1072]- Lonesome Over There [Prestige/Bluesville 1072]- Dupree Blues [Prestige/Bluesville 1072] Pink Anderson- That's No Way To Do- Weeping Willow Blues- My Baby Left Me This Morning- Ain't Nobody Home But Me Reverend Gary Davis- The Boy Was Kissing The Girl (And Playing The Guitar At The Same Time)- Candy Man Larry Johnson- Tell You Women 'Bout Me- Whiskey Store Blues- Take These Blues Off My Mind Brownie McGhee- One Thing For Sure notes by Samuel Charters Prestige PRCD 9914-2 (US 1998)Bluesville Records discographyPink Anderson discographyReverend Gary Davis discographyLarry Johnson discography
9 2010 Classic Appalachian Blues from Smithsonian Folkways - My Baby's Gone - Sticks McGhee- Louise Blues - Big Chief Ellis with Cephas and Wiggins- Sitting On Top Of The World - Doc Watson- Railroad Bill - John Jackson @ youtube- Don't Let Your Deal Go Down - Bill Williams- You Don't Know My Mind - Pink Anderson- Blues Around My Bed - J.C. Burris- Hesitation Blues - Reverend Gary Davis- Pawn Shop Blues - Brownie McGhee- The Road Is Rough and Rocky - Archie Edwards- Hoodoo Blues - Martin, Bogan and Armstrong- Red River Blues - Lesley Riddle- Walking Cane - Peg Leg Sam Jackson- One Dime Blues - Etta Baker- Mississippi Heavy Water Blues - Roscoe Holcomb- Outskirts Of Town - Josh White- See What You Done Done - Baby Tate # [Folkways FS 3588] - I Got A Woman - Marvin and Turner Foddrell- Girl Dressed In Green - John Tinsley- Blues In The Morning - E.C. Ball- Wine Blues (Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee) - Sticks McGhee compiled by Barry Lee Pearson and Jeff Placenotes by Barry Lee Pearson and Jeff PlaceSmithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40198[read notes]
10 2014 The Roots Of It All: Acoustic Blues - The Definitive Collection, Vol. 3 disc 1: The 1960s Mance Lipscomb - Shake, Shake, Mama (2:50)John Lee Hooker - Tupelo (3:19)Rev. Gary Davis - Samson And Delilah (4:05)Robert Pete Williams - I've Grown So Ugly (2:48)Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand (3:03)Lonnie Johnson - Moaning Blues (4:01)Smoky Babe - Hottest Brand Goin' (4:06)Herman E. Johnson - I Just Keeps On Wanting You (2:45)Scrapper Blackwell - Shady Lane (5:27)Pink Anderson - I Got Mine (3:07)Pete Franklin - Prison Bound (4:21)Shirley Griffith - Bye Bye Blues (4:11)R.C. Smith - Please Don't Drive Me Away (2:25)Memphis Willie B. - Wine Drinking Woman (3:36) Baby Tate - What Have I Done To You (2:42) Leroy Dallas - She Caught The M & O (3:43)Sleepy John Estes - Vernita's Blues (2:19)J.D. Short - I'm Just Wastin' My Time (5:25)Muddy Waters - Feel Like Going Home (3:52)Buddy Moss - Amy (2:42)Johnny Young - Want My Lovin' (3:30)Arvella Gray - Corrine, Corrina (2:13)Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man (2:53)Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis - Alberta (2:56) disc 2: The 1970s Son House - Empire State Express (3:41)Mississippi Fred McDowell - Frisco Lines (3:59)J.B. Lenoir - If I Get Lucky (2:59)Skip James - Sickbed Blues (4:06)R.L. Burnside - Long Haired Doney (2:45)Furry Lewis - Old Original Furry Lewis Blues (3:46)Joe Callicott - Lonesome Katy Blues (3:04)John Jackson - Rocks And Gravel (3:15)Babe Stovall - Worried Blues (3:33)Howlin' Wolf - Ain't Goin' Down That Dirt Road #2 (4:20)Larry Johnson - Four Women Blues (2:33)Jack Owens - I Love My Baby (4:50)Johnny Shines - Your Troubles Can't Be Like Mine (4:18)Brownie McGhee - My Last Suit (3:53)Juke Boy Bonner - Tired Of The Greyhound Bus (2:26)Tarheel Slim - So Sweet, So Sweet (3:19)Tom Shaw - Baby Be A Boy Child Named Him After Me (5:44)Eddie Taylor - Bullcow Blues (3:10)Bill Williams - Salty Dog (4:37)Guitar Shorty - Jessie Jones (3:58)Rev. Pearly Brown - It's A Mean Old World To Try To Live In (2:24)Louisiana Red - Dead Stray Dog (3:56)David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Big Fat Mama (2:56)Henry Townsend - Can't You See (3:18) front cover photo (of Big Joe Williams) by Axel Küstner112-pp. booklet notes by Bill Dahl Bear Family BCD 17231 (Germany 2014)
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Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Bruce Bastin: Crying for the Carolines.- London (Studio Vista) 1971
- Bruce Bastin: Red River Blues - The Blues Tradition in the Southeast.- Chicago (University of Illinois Press) 1986
- Bruce Bastin: Truckin' My Blues Away - East Coast Piedmont Styles.- in: Lawrence Cohn: Nothing But The Blues - The Music and the Musicians.- New York, London, Paris (Abbeville Press) 1993, p. 205 - 231
- Ann Charters & Samuel Barclay Charters: Blues Faces - A Portrait of the Blues.- Boston (Imago Mundi Book) 2000, pp. 42-45
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 289
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver 2006, pp. 436-437, 518-519
- Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- p. 492
- Valerie Wilmer: The Face of Black Music.- New York (Da Capo Press) 1983, no pagination
- Val Wilmer: Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This - My Life in the Jazz World.- London (The Women's Press) 1991
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106407231
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Peter B. Lowry, Klaus Kilian and Gaile Welker for further info / scans

click to enlarge!source: Front cover of OBCCD-567-2; photographer: Samuel B. Charters Baby Tate, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1962; source: Ann & Samuel Charters 2000, p. 43; photographer: Ann Charters; click to enlarge!source: Ann & Samuel Charters 2000, p. 43; photographer: Ann Charters
Baby Tate, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1962(the guitar is a 1950s "Orpheum Leader", manufactured by Kay)
Baby Tate with his wife and son, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1962; source: Front cover of Asch LP A-101; photographer: Ann Charters; the guitar is a 1950s 'Orpheum Leader', manufactured by Kay; click to enlarge!source: Front cover of Asch LP A-101; photographer: Ann Charters Baby Tate, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1962; source: Ann & Samuel Charters 2000, p. 44/45; photographer: Ann Charters; click to enlarge!source: Ann & Samuel Charters 2000, p. 44/45; photographer: Ann Charters
Baby Tate with his wife and son, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1962(the guitar is a 1950s "Orpheum Leader", manufactured by Kay)
Baby Tate, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1970; source: Bruce Bastin: Crying for the Carolines, p. 75; photographer: Pete Lowry; click to enlarge!source: Bruce Bastin: Crying for the Carolines, p. 75photographer: Pete Lowry Baby Tate, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1970; source: Back cover of Trix LP 3302; photographer: Pete Lowry; click to enlarge!source: Back cover of Trix LP 3302photographer: Pete Lowry
Peg Leg Sam and Baby Tate, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1970; source: Bruce Bastin 1986, unpaginated photo pp. between pp. 286 & 287; photographer: Pete Lowry; click to enlarge!Peg Leg Sam and Baby Tate, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1970source: Bruce Bastin 1986, unpaginated photo pp. between pp. 286 & 287photographer: Pete Lowry Roosevelt 'Baby' Brooks with Baby Tate in the background, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1970; source: Bruce Bastin 1971, p. 73; photographer: Pete Lowry; click to enlarge!Roosevelt 'Baby' Brooks with Baby Tate in thebackground, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1970source: Bruce Bastin 1971, p. 73; photographer: Pete Lowry
Baby Tate, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1970(the guitar is Pete Lowry's Gibson SJ)

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Baby Tate, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1972
source: Wilmer 1983, no pagination; photographer: Valerie Wilmer

Charles Henry 'B A B Y'   TA T E;
source: Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who, p. 492
photographer: Sudy L. Bristol ("Courtesy Peter B. Lowry")

Southeast Blues further reading

Bastin, Bruce: Crying for the Carolines.- London (Studio Vista) 1971 Bastin, Bruce: Red River Blues - The Blues Tradition in the Southeast.- Chicago (University of Illinois Press) 1986 Bastin, Bruce: Truckin' My Blues Away - East Coast Piedmont Styles.- in: Cohn, Lawrence: Nothing But The Blues - The Music and the Musicians.- New York, London, Paris (Abbeville Press) 1993, p. 205 - 231