Richard 'Hacksaw' Harney 78 rpm / LPs / CDs

Richard Harney ("Can") recorded with his brother Maylon ("Pet") for Columbia in 1927 accompanying accordionist Walter Rhodes and vocalist Pearl Dickson source: Steve LaVere 1971 liner notes to Adelphi AD 1010
#	year of release	title	label # / notes
1	1927	PEARL DICKSON - Twelve Pound Daddy (145370-3) - Little Rock Blues (145371-2) rec. December 12, 1927 in Memphis, TN; Pearl Dickson, voc; 'Pet' & 'Can' (Maylon & Richard Harney). g duet	Columbia 14286-D
		- High Yellow Blues (145369-2) - Guitar Rag (145372-2) rec. December 12, 1927 in Memphis, TN; Pearl Dickson, voc; 'Pet' & 'Can' (Maylon & Richard Harney). g duet	Columbia unissued
2	1927	WALTER RHODES WITH "PET" AND "CAN" - The Crowing Rooster (145358-2) # - Leaving Home Blues (145359-2) rec. Dec. 10, 1927, Memphis, Tenn.; Walter Rhodes, voc, # voc effects, accordion; 'Pet' & 'Can' (Maylon & Richard Harney). g, sp	Columbia 14289-D
		- She's A Girl Of Mine (145357-2) - Left My Baby Blues (145360-2) rec. Dec. 10, 1927, Memphis, Tenn.; Walter Rhodes, voc, accordion; 'Pet' & 'Can' (Maylon & Richard Harney). g, sp	Columbia unissued
3	1964	The Country Girls! 1927 - 1935 Lottie Kimbrough - Wayward Girl Blues - Rolling Log Blues Geeshie Wiley - Pick Poor Robin Clean Rosie Mae Moore - Stranger Blues Lulu Jackson - Careless Love Blues Lillian Miller - Dead Drunk Blues Lucille Bogan - I Hate That Train Called The M & O Elvie Thomas - Motherless Child Blues Nellie Florence - Jacksonville Blues - Midnight Weeping Blues Pearl Dickson - Little Rock Blues [Columbia 14286-D] Memphis Minnie - Where Is My Good Man - Can't I Do It For You Mae Glover - Shake It Daddy Lottie Kimbrough - Going Away Blues - Lost Lover Blues	Origin Jazz Library OJL-6 OJL discography
4	1970	Country Blues Obscurities Vol. 1 (1926 - 1936) Williams & Versey Smith - When That Great Ship Went Down 'Big Boy' George Owens - The Coon Crap Game Smith And Harper - Poor Girl - Insurance Policy Blues Big Boy Cleveland - Quill Blues John D. Fox & Sam Collins - The Moanin' Blues Johnnie Head - Fare Thee Blues - pts. 1 & 2 "Bill" Wilber with Willie Lofton - Greyhound Blues Alfred Lewis - Friday Moan Blues Walter Rhodes - Leaving Home Blues [Columbia 14289-D] Will Bennett - Real Estate Blues Whistlin' Rufus - (Who's Gonna Do Your) Sweet Jelly Rollin' Archie Lewis - Miss Handy Hanks Shreveport Home Wreckers with Ed Schaffer & Oscar Woods - Fence Breakin' Blues	Roots RL-334 Roots discography
5	1971	The Memphis Blues Again, Vol. 1 Nathan Beauregard - Nobody's Business But My Own - Lonesome To Myself 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 and June, 1970 at the Peabody Hotel (Memphis, TN); prod. by Gene Rosenthal; cover drawing by Dick Bangham gatefold notes of Adelphi AD 1009	notes by Stephan Michaelson and Steve LaVere with assistance by Nick Perls and Michael Stewart Adelphi AD 1009 = Echo Music 801 (1985) "Blues Anthology Vol. 1" "Memphis Blues" Adelphi discography
6	1971	The Memphis Blues Again Vol. 2 Bukka White - Fried Chicken Willie Morris, g, voc & Dewey Corley, b - New Stop And Listen Blues Willie Morris - My Good Woman Has Quit Me Hacksaw Harney & Dewey Corley - Hacksaw's Down South Blues #   @ youtube - Can Can * Walter Miller, voc & Willie Morris, g and Mose Vinson, p - I Don't Care What You Do Memphis Piano Red John Williams - Me And My Pal Sleepy John Estes & Tom Gary, harm - Drop Down Mama Van Hunt & Mose Vinson, p - Jelly Selling Woman Van Hunt & Mose Vinson, p and Dewey Corley, b - Lonesome Road Blues # Hacksaw Harney, g; Dewey Corley, b * Hacksaw Harney, p; Dewey Corley, b rec. October 1969 in Memphis, TN and June 1970 at the Peabody Hotel (Memphis TN); prod. by Gene Rosenthal	notes by Steve LaVere with assistance by Nick Perls & Michael Stewart Adelphi AD 1010 = Echo Music 802 (1985) "Blues Anthology Vol. 2" "More Memphis Blues" Adelphi discography
7	1987	Memphis Blues (1927 - 1937) Ollie Rupert - I Raised My Window ... - Ain't Goin' To Be Your Low Down Dog Big Boy Cleveland - Quill Blues - Goin' To Leave You Blues Walter Rhodes - The Crowing Rooster [Columbia 14289-D] - Leaving Home Blues [Columbia 14289-D] Frank Stokes - Downtown Blues (tk. 1) Tom Dickson - Death Bell Blues - Worry Blues Tom Dickson - Happy Blues - Labor Blues Robert Wilkins - Rolling Stone - Part 2 (tk. 1) Sam Townsend - I'm Missing That - Lily Kimball Blues Allen Shaw - I Couldn't Help It - Moanin' The Blues George Torey - Married Woman Blues - Lonesome Man Blues	HK Records HK 4002
8	1994	Memphis Blues 1927 - 1938 Ollie Rupert (1927) - I Raised My Window And Looked At The Risin' Sun - Ain't Goin' To Be Your Low Down Dog Walter Rhodes (1927) - The Crowing Rooster [Columbia 14289-D] - Leaving Home Blues [Columbia 14289-D] Pearl Dickson (1927) - Twelve Pound Daddy [Columbia 14286-D] - Little Rock Blues [Columbia 14286-D] Madelyn James (1930) - Stinging Snake Blues - Long Time Blues Charlie Bozo Nickerson (1930) - What's The Matter Now? - Part 1 - What's The Matter Now? - Part 2 - Bozo's Blues - Part 1 - Bozo's Blues - Part 2 Sam Townsend (1930) - I'm Missing That - Lily Kimball Blues Hattie Hart (1934) - I'm Missing That Thing - I Let My Daddy Do That - Coldest Stuff In Town (Duet w. Allen Shaw) - Happy-Go-Lucky Blues George Torey (1937) - Married Woman Blues - Lonesome Man Blues John Henry Barbee (1938) - Six Weeks Old Blues (take 1) - Six Weeks Old Blues (take 2) - God Knows I Can't Help It - You'll Work Down To Me Someday - Against My Will	Document DOCD 5159
9	1994	Houston Stackhouse: Cryin' Won't Help You - Kind Hearted Woman Blues - Bricks In My Pillow - Bye Bye Blues - My Babe - Sweet Black Angel Blues - Pony Blues # - Cry On! Cry On! - Sweet Home Chicago - Cryin' Won't Help You - I Got Something - Maggie Campbell Blues # - I'm Gettin' Tired # - Big Road Blues rec. February 1972 at Adelphi Studios in Silver Spring, MD; Houston Stackhouse, voc, g; # poss. Richard Harney, 2nd g; ; prod. & engineered by Gene Rosenthal; photographer: David Gahr	notes by Steve LaVere Genes/Adelphi GCD 9904 = Edsel EDCD 383 (UK)
10	1996	Richard "Hacksaw" Harney: Sweet Man - Ragtime Blues - 12 Pound Rag no. 2 - Five Foot Two # - Adelphi Ramble - Laughing Ballet - Little Rock Blues II - Home Skeen Ball - Sweet Man - Oh Red # - The Delta Eagle rec. February 1972 at Adelphi Studios in Silver Spring, MD; Richard Harney, g, # voc; prod. & engineered by Gene Rosenthal; photographer: David Gahr	notes by Larry Hoffman and Denise Tapp Genes/Adelphi GCD 9909 = Edsel EDCD 483 (UK)
11	2001	Screamin' and Hollerin' The Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton disc 6: Charley's Orbit - Songs Walter Rhodes - The Crowing Rooster [Columbia 14289-D]	7-CD album Revenant RVN-CD-212
Other CD compilations containing one or both of the two issued Pearl Dickson recordings
Additional information appreciated !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Robert M.W. Dixon & John Godrich: Blues & Gospel Records 1902 - 1943, 3rd ed. 1982, p. 201 (Pearl Dickson) & p. 617 (Walter Rhodes)
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography.- Bromley 1999, pp. 76-77
- Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 2011, pp. 182, 424
- Steve LaVere: Hacksaw Harney.- Living Blues # 18 (1974), p. 7
- Pete Lowry: Holy Blues.- Blues Unlimited # 95 (1972), p. 18
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

source of left column picture: liner notes to Adelphi AD 1010; photographer: G. L. Moore

thanks for additional info / correction to Harry Scurfield and Steve LaVere, and to Chris Smith for drawing my attention to http://www.rockinfifties.de/auktionen78.html

 
"Richard Harney * and Mose Vinson on the grounds of the 33rd National Folk Festival 1971"
(source: Sing Out! vol. 20 # 6 (1971), p. 7; photographer: Herbert Wise)
* Steve LaVere informed me that this is not Richard Harney but Earl Bell

 

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