Jack Owens LPs / CDs
| # | year
of release | title | label # / notes |
|---|
| 1 | 1968 | Goin' Up The Country
Roosevelt Holts
- My Phone Keeps Ringing
Isaiah Chattman
- Found My Baby Gone
Arzo Youngblood
- Bye And Bye Blues
Cornelius Bright
- My Baby's Gone
Herb Quinn
- Casey, You Can't Ride This Train
Arzo Youngblood
- Four Women Blues
L.V. Conerly
- Bad Luck And Trouble
Mager Johnson
- Travelling Blues
O.D. Jones & Babe Stovall
- Got The Blues This Morning
Jack Owens
- B & O Blues #
Bill "Boogie Bill" Webb
- Dooleyville Blues
Roosevelt Holts
- Nowhere To Go
Mager Johnson
- Big Road Blues
Cornelius Bright
- Devil Got My Woman
Jack Owens
- Devil Got My Woman #
# rec. Bentonia, September 7, 1966 by David Evans; Jack Owens, voc, g | notes by David Evans
Decca LK 4931 (UK 1968)
= Decca BLK-16563-P (G)new notes (June 1975)
by David Evans
= Rounder 2012 (US 1975) shortened version of
original 1968 notes by David
Evans (english & italian)
Albatros VPA 8451 (It 1979)
"Bad Luck And Trouble"  Albatros discography
|
| 2 | 1971 | It Must Have Been The Devil
Mississippi Country Blues by Jack Owens & Bud Spires
- Can't See, Baby
- Jack Ain't Had No Water
- Cherry Ball #
- Nothin' But Notes
- Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl
- I Love My Baby #
- Catfish Blues
- It Must Have Been The Devil
- Hard Times #
- Ain't No Lovin', Ain't No Gettin' Along #
- I Won't Be Bad No More #
rec. Sept. 7, 1970 Bentonia, Miss. by David Evans
# CD only; previously unreleased cuts | 
Testament T-2222
= Testament TCD 5016
(1995)
Testament discography |
| 3 | 1979 | Jack Owens
Bentonia Country Blues
- Cherry Ball Blues
- Keep On Groaning
- Please Give Me Your Money
- Devil Got My Woman
- Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
- Don't Sell My Monkey | 
Albatros VPA 8443 (I)Albatros discography |
| 4 | 1979? | Way Back Yonder ...
Original Country Blues Volume 3
Flora, Canton, Bentonia, Crystal Springs, Mississippi & Bogalusa, Louisiana (1978)
- Sound Of The Yazoo river
Mott Willis
- Baby Please Don't Go
William Diamond
- Black Mattie
- Shaggy Hound
Jack Owens
- Cherry Ball Blues no. 2
Jacob Stuckey
- Devil Got My Woman
Lonzo Burkes
- Train I Ride
- Back Door Friend
- Smokestack Lightning
Roosevelt Holts
- Big Road Blues
- Look-A-Here Little Woman
rec. & ed. by Gianni Marcucci Aug. 1978
Do Boy Diamond discography
Roosevelt Holts discography | 
Albatros VPA 8460
Albatros VC4960Albatros discography |
| 5 | 1988 | Giants Of Country Blues Guitar (1967 - 1981)
Jessie Mae Hemphill #
- Eagle Bird #
- Shame, Shame #
Son House
- Baby Please Don't Dog Me 'Round
Sam Chatmon
- Stoop Down Baby
- Baby Please Come Back To Me
- Stop And Listen
Eugene Powell
- 44 Blues
- Suitcase Full Of Troubles
- Texas - Santa Fe
Furry Lewis
- Going To Brownsville
Jack Owens
- Hard Times
- Cherry Ball
- Give Me Your Money
- Devil Blues
Mager Johnson / Carey 'Ditty' Mason
- Traveling Man Blues
Mott Willis
- Traveling Man Blues
- Someday Blues
- Bad Night Blues
# rec. 1991 (on CD only) | 
Wolf 120.911
= Wolf CD 120.911
"Giants Of Country Blues
Guitar Vol. 1 (1967 - 1991)"
|
| 6 | 199? | Giants Of Country Blues Vol. 3
Jack Owens
- Leavin' Blues
Eugene Powell
- Blues In Texas
Son Thomas
- Walking Cane
LV Conerly
- Hard Headed Woman
Roosevelt Holts
- Big Road Blues
Arzo Youngblood
- I Don't Want No Woman
Sam Chatmon
- Talkin' Bout My Girl
Wade Walton
- Catfish Blues
Isaac Youngblood
- Big Road Blues
Mott Willis
- Long Tall Woman
Robert Shaw
- Ma Grinder Pt 2
- Mobile & KC Blues
- The Cows
- Rock Island
Lavada Durst
- Boogie Woogie
Alex Moore
- Henry 6 Mike
Memphis Piano Red
- Mama Likes Good Whiskey
- After Hours
Mose Vinson
- Blues Jumped A Rabbit
- Four O'Clock Blues
# rec. October 21, 1981 in Dallas, Tx. | 
Wolf 120.921not identical with Wolf CD
120.918 with same title !!! |
| 7 | 1991 | 50 Years: Mississippi Blues In Bentonia 1931 - 1981: Skip James and Jack Owens
Skip James
- Devil Got My Woman
- Cypress Grove Blues
- Cherry Ball Blues
- Illinois Blues
- 4 O'Clock Blues
- Hard-Luck Child
- Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
- Yola My Blues Away
- Jesus Is A Mighty Good Leader
- Be Ready When He Comes
- Drunken Spree
- I'm So Glad
- Special Rider Blues
- How Long Buck
- Little Cow And Little Calf Is Gonna Die Blues
- What Am I To Do Blues
- 22-20 Blues
- If You Haven't Any Hay, Don't Get On The Road
Jack Owens
- Hard Times
- Cherry Ball
- Give Me Your Money
- Devil Blues
- Leavin' Blues
Skip James rec. 1930; Jack Owens rec. 1981 | 
Wolf WBJ-CD-009 |
| 8 | 1992 | Deep Blues
Music from the Original Soundtrack
R.L. Burnside
- Jumper On The Line
Junior Kimbrough
- Jr. Blues
Big Jack Johnson
- Catfish Blues
- Daddy, When Is Momma Coming Home
- Big Boy Now
Frank Frost
- Midnight Prowler
Jessie Mae Hemphill
- You Can Talk About Me
- Shame On You
R.L. Burnside
- Long Haired Doney
Roosevelt 'Booba' Barnes
- Heartbroken Man
- Ain't Gonna Worry About Tomorrow
- Love Like I Wanna
Lonnie Pitchford
- Terraplane Blues
- I I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
Jack Owens with Bud Spires
- Devil Blues
movie prod. by Robert Palmer | 
Anxious 4509-91981-4
= Atlantic 82450-2
DVD (2000)
|
| 9 | 1993 | Jack Owens & Eugene Powell
The Last Giants Of Mississippi Blues
Jack Owens
- Cherry Ball
- Hard Times
- Devil
- You Leavin'
- No Lovin'
- Please Give Me Your Money
Eugene Powell
- 44 Blues
- Suitcase Full Of Troubles
- Police In Mississippi
- Born In Texas
- Good Mornin', Little Schoolgirl
- Blues In Texas
- Goin' Up The Country
- When I Leave Town
- Mississippi River
- Mean Mistreating Mama
Jack Owens & Bud Spires
- Hard Times
- My Baby's Gone
- Keep On Rumblin'
- Cool Water
- Devil
rec. 1981-91 | 
Wolf CD 120.931 |
| 10 | 1995 | Bottleneck Blues
Napoleon Strickland
- Key To The Bushes
Big Joe Williams
- Talking About Bottleneck
- Traveling Blues
Robert Night Hawk
- Crying Won't Help You
Mississippi Fred McDowell
- Six White Horses
Mott Willis
- Knife Instrumental
Robert Lee Granderson
- Flora Blues
J.B. Hutto & The Hawks
- Wild Wild Woman
Blind Connie Williams
- St. Louis Blues
David Honeyboy Edwards
- Worryin' Woman Blues
Robert Johnson
- I'm Coming, Lord, Please Don't Drive Me Away
Chicago Blues Band
- Verna Lee Blues
Mississippi Fred McDowell
- Wouldn't Mind Dying
John Littlejohn
- Dust My Broom
Blind Connie Williams
- Trouble In Mind
Big Joe Williams
- How Do You Want Your Rollin' Done
Mott Willis
- M & O Blues
Johnny Shines
- Crucial Moment
Jack Owens
- Train Time
Robert Johnson
- I Don't Know When Death Is Gonna Call Me
Herb Quinn
- Casey, You Can't Ride This Train
Napoleon Strickland
- Skake 'Em Down | [Testament LP 2216
announced, but not issued]
Testament TCD 5021
= P-Vine PCD-5576 (Jp)
|
| | | Blues From The Blue Front
A Bentonia, Mississippi Collection
(live juke-joint recordings by Jack Owens, Bud Spires, Tommy Lee West, Duck and Mookey Holmes, Cleo Pullman and Jacob Stuckey)
| rec. April 1996
acc. to Peter Redvers-Lee
(label owner) "Midnight
Creeper Records" closed
down before release
("... perhaps one day!")
|
| 11 | 2001 | Africa And The Blues
Gleno Faulkner
Othar Turner
Lemmy "Special" Mabaso
Napoleon Strickland
Robert Belfour
Daniel Kachamba
Ed Bell
Mose Vinson
Donald Kachamba
Ali Farka Toure
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Big Joe Williams
- (Garaya Plucked Lute, Nigeria)
- (One-Stringed Guitar)
- (Mono-Idiochord Zither, Central African Republic)
- Jitterbug
- Train Time (performed by Jack Owens)
- Kwa Chagoma (Limited Mfundo With Bangwe Zither,
Malawi)
- See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
- Granny Will Your Dog Bite
- Batal Dance (Nigeria)
- Nyawala Dance Song (Nigeria)
- Quittin Time Song
- (Zanganyi Girl's Solo Song, Nigeria)
- Stack O' Dollars
- (Gogé One-Stringed Fiddle, Cameroon)
- (Tikar Woman's Grinding Song)
- Hard Working Woman
- (Timbrh Lamellophone Performance, Cameroon)
- Poor Boy Long Way From Home
- (Algeita Court Music of the Lamido of Toungo, Nigeria)
- (Small Algeita)
- Hounds
- (Nyanga Panpipes)
- Emmaline, Take Y' Time
- Rock 'N' Roll Blues
- (Tikar Raphia Lamellophone Performance, Cameroon)
- (Double Bells, Nigeria)
- (Tikar Mourning Song With Poly-Idiochord Stick Zither)
- Mean Conductor Blues
- Ibaye Ibaye (Cameroon)
- 4th Avenue Blues
- Mafelo Twist (Malawi)
- Chipiloni Chanjamile (Malawi)
- (Untitled)
- Mwena Kaji Acitwa (South Africa)
- (Côte d'Ivoire, Dyula Popular Music)
- Yer Sabou Yerkoy | 
Neatwork CD 101Neatwork discography |
| 12 | 2003 | Alan Lomax - Blues Songbook
disc: 1
- Goin' Down The River - Mississippi Fred McDowell
- Rolled And Tumbled - Rosalie Hill
- Cherry Ball Blues - Jack Owens & Bud Spires
- Dust My Broom - Howlin' Wolf
- Boogie Children - Joe Lee
- Stagolee - Lucious Curtis
- Stop All The Buses - Cecil Augusta
- Worried Life Blues - David 'Honeyboy' Edwards
- The Pony Blues - Son House
- Tangle Eye Blues - Walter 'Tangle Eye' Jackson
- Trouble So Hard - Vera Ward Hall
- Worried Blues - Sonny Terry
- Beggin' The Blues - Bessie Jones
- John Henry - Gabriel Brown
- Country Blues - Dock Boggs
- Cherry Ball Blues - Skip James
- I Hate A Man Like You - Jelly Roll Morton
- Roll 'Em - Pete Johnson
- Kokomo - The Memphis Jug Band
- Life Is Like That - Big Bill Broonzy
disc: 2
- I Could Hear My Name A Ringin' - Big Bill Broonzy
- Dimples In Your Jaws - Joe Lee
- Catfish Blues - Jack Owens & Bud Spires
- Kill-It-Kid Rag - Blind Willie McTell
- You're Gonna Need My Help - Elinor Boyer
- The Army Blues - David 'Honeyboy' Edwards
- Blues De La Prison - Canray Fontenot
- I Been Drinnkin' - Vera Ward Hall
- I Been A Bad, Bad Girl - Ozella Jones
- I Be's Troubled - Muddy Waters
- Boogie Instrumental - R.L. Burnside
- Blind Lemon Blues - Lead Belly
- Sweet Patootie Blues - Albert Ammons
- The Last Time - Sam Chatmon
- Shorty George - Smith Casey
- Desert Blues - Hattie Ellis
- Joe Turner - Hobart Smith
- Joe Turner - Miles
- Joe Turner - Big Bill Broonzy
- See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Hobart Smith
- How Long Blues - Sonny Terry | 2 CD set
Rounder CD 1866 |
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