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Recommended Discography

    By Frank Matheis

    Archie Edwards – Blues ‘N Bones – Mapleshade Productions 1994– 56952

    Archie Edwards – Original Field Recordings- Vol.6 Living Country Blues USA – L&R Records 1981– CDLR 712621

    Archie Edwards – The Toronto Sessions – Northern Blues 2001 – NBM0006

    Big Chief Ellis – Trix 1995 – 3316

    Bowling Green John & Harmonica Phil Wiggins – Original Field Recordings- Vol.1 Living Country Blues USA – L&R Records 1981 – CDLR 713123

    Cephas & Wiggins – Cool Down – Alligator Records 1995 – ALCD4838

    Cephas & Wiggins – Dog Days of August – Flying Fish Records 1984– FF70394

    Cephas & Wiggins – Flip, Flop & Fly – Flying Fish 1992 – FF70580

    Cephas & Wiggins – Guitar Man – Flying Fish 1989 (W.C. Handy award winner) – FF70470

    Cephas & Wiggins – Homemade – Alligator Records 1999 – ALCD4863

    Cephas & Wiggins – Master of the Piedmont Blues – Cracker Barrel Series 2002 – CB110

    Cephas & Wiggins – Richmond Blues –Smithsonian Folkways Records 2008 – SFW CD 40179

    Cephas & Wiggins – Shoulder to Shoulder – Alligator Records 2006– ALCD4910

    Cephas & Wiggins – Somebody Told The Truth – Alligator Records 2002 –ALCD4888

    Cephas & Wiggins – Sweet Bitter Blues – Evidence Music 1994 – ECD 26050-2

    Cephas & Wiggins –Bluesmen – Chesky Records 1993 – JD89

    Cephas & Wiggins –From Richmond to Atlanta– Bullseye Blues 2000 – 11661-9633-2

    Doc Watson – Country Blues Collection – Sugar Hill Records 2003 – SUG CD 3966

    Eleanor Ellis – Backyard Blues – Independently produced 2014 – No code

    Eleanor Ellis – Comin’ A Time – Patuxent Records 2007 – CD 138

    Erin and Neil Harpe – Delta Blues Duets – Juicy Juju Records 2008 – JJR-006

    Erin Harpe – Blues Roots – Juicy Juju Records 2002 – JJR-002

    Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers – Live at Rosy’s Place – Juicy Juju Records

    Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers – Love Whip Blues – VizzTone/Juicy Juju Records 2014 – VTJJ-001

    Flora Molton – I Want To be Ready to Hear God When He Calls – Patuxent 2014 – CD257

    Flora Molton and the Truth Band – Original Field Recordings- Vol.3 Living Country Blues USA – L&R Records 1981 – CDLR 712928

    Frank Hovington – Gone With the Wind – Flyright Fly 2000 – CD66

    Franklin & Baytop – Searching for Frank – Patuxent Music 2007 – CD 156

    Franklin & Harpe – Doin’ the Dozens – Patuxent Music 2007 – no number

    Franklin, Harpe and Usilton – Hokum Blues – Patuxent Music 1999 – CD 022

    John Jackson – Country Blues & Ditties – Arhoolie 1968 CD 471

    John Jackson – Don’t let Your Deal Go Down – Arhoolie 1965 CD 378

    John Jackson – Front Porch Blues – Alligator Records 1999 – ALCD 4867

    John Jackson – Rappahannock Blues – Smithsonian Folkways 2010 – SW CD40181

    Lauren Sheehan –  Rose City Ramble – Wilson River Records 2011 – no number

    Lauren Sheehan – Some Old Lonesome day – independently released 2016 – no number

    Lauren Sheehan – The Light Still Burns – Wilson River Records 2013 – no number

    Lauren Sheehan – Two Wings – Wilson River Records 2005 – no number

    Lauren Sheehan & Zoe Carpenter – Tillamook Burn – independently released – no date– no number

    Lightnin’ Wells – O Lightnin’ Where Art Thou? – Blind Lemon Records 2017 – 29348

    M.S.G. Acoustic Blues Trio – The Flood – independently released 2016 – no number

    Mike Baytop & Jay Summerour – (same title) – Patuxent Music 2018 – CD 314

    Mississippi John Hurt – Avalon Blues 1963 – Rounder Records 1991 – CD 1081

    Mississippi John Hurt – Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 OKEH Recordings – Columbia Records 1996 – CK 64986

    Mississippi John Hurt – Legend – Rounder Records 1997 – CD 1100

    Moses Rascoe – Blues Live at Godfrey Daniels – Flying Fish 1990 – FF70454

    Neil Harpe – Hokum Blues – Hokum Blues 2007 – HB 1002

    Neil Harpe & Max Ochs – “Got These Blues” – 2007

    Phil Wiggins & Dom Turner – Independently produced 2014 – PWDT001

    Phil Wiggins & The Chesapeake Sheiks – Live at Montpelier – Silverbirch Records 2014

    Piedmont Blūz – Country Blues Selections – independently released 2015 – no number

    Rick Franklin & Tom Mindte – Dancing with My Baby – Patuxent Music 2013 – CD 246

    Roy Dunn – Know’d Them All – Trix 1993 – 3312

    Skip James – Blues from the Delta – Vanguard 1998 – 79517-2

    Skip James – The Complete Early Recordings – Yazoo 1998 – Yazoo 2009

    The Blues Rider Trio – Early Morning Blues – Mapleshade Productions 2007 – 12132

    Various Artists – American Folk Blues Festival ’81 – L&R Records 1981 –CDLS 42022

    Various Artists – American Folk Blues Festival ’82 – L&R Records 1982 –LR CD 2052

    Various Artists – Barbershop Blues Vol.2 : Don’t You Weep and Moan – Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation 2012 – No code

    Various Artists – Classic African American Ballads – Smithsonian Folkways 2015 – SFW 40215

    Various Artists – Classic African American Songsters – Smithsonian Folkways 2014 – SFW 40211

    Various Artists – Classic American Ballads – Smithsonian Folkways 2006 – SFW 40191

    Various Artists – Classic Appalachian Blues – Smithsonian Folkways 2010 – SFW 40198

    Various Artists – Classic Harmonica Blues – Smithsonian Folkways 2012 – SFW 40204

    Various Artists – Classic Piedmont Blues – Smithsonian Folkways 2017 – SFW 40221

    Various Artists – Living Country Blues: An Anthology – Evidence 1991 – ECD26105

    Various Artists – Roots Of Rhythm And Blues: A Tribute To The Robert Johnson Era – Columbia 1992 – CK 48584

    Various Artists – True Blues – Telarc – 33815-02

    Various Artists – Virginia Traditions: Western Piedmont Blues – Smithsonian Folkways Archival – BR 100003

    Warner Williams & Jay Summerour – Blues Highway – Smithsonian Folkways 2004 – SFW 40120

    Warner Williams & Jay Summerour – Down ‘N’ Dirty – Patuxent Music 2007 – CD 163

    Warner Williams & Jay Summerour – Little Bit a Blues – Patuxent Music 1999 – CD 038

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