This is an addendum to my other question.
If you have any black fife & drum band, field hollers, work gangs, griot singers, etc..please mention them also.
Thanks.
P.S. Women also on this one. Edit: Please confine answers to pre-1930s. Robert Johnson is post 1930s.
Thanks! Martin: My stuff is mostly CD's and MP3s. Although there is a wonderful warmth about vinyl (especially 78's) it is the songs I am interested in, not so much the format. I have a lot more, like more Blind Blake and Bessie Smith etc ... figured I'd list stuff I more regularly listen to.
Dates are approximate. The pre-1920 stuff is Vaudeville, proto-blues and jazz stuff.
1916 - Homesickness Blues - Nora Bayes
1916 - New York Blues - Pietro Frosini
1917 - Fox Trot - Johnson 'Jass' Blues
1918 - No Time To Have The Blues - Louisiana Five
1918 - Ringtail Blues - Wilbur Sweatmans Original Jazz Band
1919 - Suicide Blues - Arthur Collins
1920 - Crazy Blues - Mamie Smith
1920 - Everybody's Blues - Lucille Hegamin
1921 - Crazy Blues - Mary Stafford
1921 - Im Gonna Jazz My Way - Mary Stafford
1922 - Struttin_Blues - Leona Williams
1923 - Four O'Clock Blues - Original Memphis Five
1923 - Guitar Rag - Sylvester Weaver
1923 - St. Louis Blues - W.C. Handy
1923 - T'ain't Nobody's Business if I Do - Bessie Smith
1924 - Don't Advertise your Man - Clara Smith
1924 - Down Hearted Blues - Bessie Smith
1924 - Southern Blues - Ferera and Paalihu
1925 - Careless Love Blues - Bessie Smith & Louis Armstrong
1925 - Slave to the Blues - Ma Rainey
1925 - Song From Cotton Field - Bessie Brown
1925 - Taint None o Your Business - Butter Beans & Susie
1926 - Black Snake Moan - Blind Lemon Jefferson
1926 - West Coast Blues - Blind Blake
1927 - A Handful of Riffs - Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang
1927 - Backwater Blues - Bessie Smith
1927 - Billy Lyons & Stack-O-Lee - Furry Lewis
1927 - Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson
1927 - France Blues - Papa Harvey Hull
1927 - High Sheriff Blues - Charley Patton
1927 - If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down - Blind Willie Johnson
1927 - In My Time of Dying - Blind Willie Johnson
1927 - Ma Rainey's Big Black Bottom - Ma Rainey
1927 - Match Box Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
1927 - Mother's Children Have a Hard Time - Blind Willie Johnson
1927 - Muddy Water [A Mississippi Moon] - Bessie Smith
1927 - Nobody's Fault but Mine - Blind Willie Johnson
1927 - Savoy Blues - Louis Armstrong
1927 - Stack O'Lee Blues - Long Cleve Reed & Little Harvey Hull
1927 - Texas Easy Street - Henry Thomas
1927 - You Gonna Quit Me Blues - Blind Blake
1928 - Big Leg Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
1928 - Big Road Blues - Tommy Johnson
1928 - Canned Heat Blues - Sloppy Henry
1928 - Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson
1928 - Chump Man Blues - Blind Blake
1928 - Corrina Corrina - Bo Carter
1928 - Downtown Blues - Frank Stokes
1928 - Fishin' Blues - Henry Thomas
1928 - Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt
1928 - How Long, How Long Blues - Leroy Carr
1928 - It's Tight Like That - Tampa Red and Georgia Tom
1928 - Louis Collins - Mississippi John Hurt
1928 - Nobody's Dirty Business - Mississippi John Hurt
1928 - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Pine Top Smith
1928 - Praise God I'm Satisfied - Blind Willie Johnson
1928 - Stack O Lee Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
1928 - Statesboro Blues - Blind Willie McTell
1928 - Wayward Girl Blues - Lottie Kimbrough
1929 - Cocaine - Dick Justice
1929 - Diddie Wah Diddie - Blind Blake
1929 - God Moves on the Water - Blind Willie Johnson
1929 - Guitar Blues - Lonnie Johnson
1929 - K.C. Moan - Memphis Jug Band
1929 - Pony Blues - Charley Patton
1929 - St. Louis Blues - Bessie Smith
1929 - The (New) Call of the Freaks - Luis Russell
1929 - When the Levee Breaks - Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie
1930 - A Spoonful Blues - Charlie Patton
1930 - Bye Bye Baby - Little Hat Jones
1930 - He Treats Me Like A Dog - Bessie Mae Smith
1930 - How Can You Have the Blues - Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom
1930 - I'll Go With Her Blues - Robert Wilkins
1930 - My Black Mama - Son House
1930 - No More Troubles Now - Lonnie Johnson
1930 - Paddlin Blues - Gitfiddle Jim
1930 - Preachin' the Blues - Son House
1930 - Rope Stretching Blues, Pt. 1 - Blind Blake
1930 - Sitting on Top of the World - Mississippi Sheiks
1930 - Standin' on the Corner (Blue Yodel, No. 9) - Jimmie Rodgers
1930 - Ten and Four Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
1930 - Walk Right In - Cannons Jug Stompers Ella fitzgerald
miles davis Blind Willie McTell.....Sleepy John Estes.....Blind Lemon Jefferson.....Charlie Patton....Blind Willie Johnson ( if you haven't heard him you won't believe his voice ).....Memphis Minnie....Ma Rainey . & ..Bessie Smith....and others Well, I don't have any originals, but I do have covers of these Robert Johnson songs :~
Cross Road Blues {Crossroad ~ Cream}
Travelling Riverside Blues {Led Zeppelin}
Dust My Broom {Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac}
And I know that Robert Palmer was inspired to record his final album 'Drive' after contributing to a Robert Johnson tribute. Mississippi John Hurt 1929 sessions. A few Charlie Patton discs. Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, John Hurt, Blind Lemon Jefferson--I know some of that is from the '20s but they all recorded later too. Af few more individual songs--W.C. Handy, Louis Armstrong (really played jazz but some blues too in those days). I am not sure about the years for Lonnie Johnson and Blind Willie McTell | 