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This discography is a non-commercial labor-of-love and is in no way associated with any business firm. All I know about the resp. artist's / label's musical output is shown on this page. To purchase out-of-print records I recommend an ebay, gemm or google search. And - sorry for that - I have not the time to answer any e-mails asking me about further information, let alone duplicating out-of-print recordings I happen to own.Stefan Wirz www.wirz.de |
Willie Guy Rainey LPs
| # | year of release | title | label # / notes |
| 1 | 1978 | Georgia Grassroots Music Festival

The Eller Brothers
- Going To Georgia
The Female Nightingales
- I'm Wrapped Up, Tied Up, And Tangled Up In His Love
Eddie Kirkland
- Mojo Hand
Betty Smith
- Little Margaret
Ed Hoover & Burt Williamson
- Sugar Foot Rag
John Lee Ziegler
- Used To Be Mine, But Look Who Got Her Now
The Jazzology All-Stars
- Walking Stick
Willie Guy Rainey
- Temper Blues #
James 'Tip' Neal
- Jews Harp Jump

Brother Theotis Taylor
- If I Could Just Hold Out Till Tomorrow Comes
Clint Carter & His Old-Time Fiddle Band
- Sally Goodin
Embry Raines
- All Night Boogie
Uncle John Patterson
- Snowbird In Ashbank
The Washboard Band
- Toddy For The Body Song
Joe Parr
- Indian Chief Blues
Grandpa Lester Smallwood
- Cripple Creek
Golden Bailey
- The Dog
Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers
- I'm Gonna Lay Down My Life For My Lord

rec. 1976 and 1977 at the Georgia Grassroots Festival, Atlanta, GA; produced and edited by George Mitchell
# rec. September 1976 at the Georgia Grassroots Festival, Atlanta Civic Center, Atlanta, GA;; Willie Guy Rainey voc, p

front cover illustration by Art Rosenbaum | 

 Georgia Grassroots Music Festival Records HY 1346 |
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rec. November 4, 1978 at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC by Bob Jordan & Laura Boosinger; Willie Guy Rainey voc, g, sp, hca; Bob Jordan, g, sp; Laura Boosinger, sp | unissued sound clips at www.aca-dla.org |
| 2 | 197? | Willie Guy Rainey

- So Sweet *
- Keep On Trucking #
- Sitting On Top Of The World
- Old-Time Religion $
- Step It Up And Go

- Don't You Lie To Me
- Kansas City Blues
- Somebody's Calling My Name
- Bottle It Up And Go #
- New York Waltz $
- John Henry

Willie Guy Rainey, voc, ac g

* Willie Guy Rainey, voc, el g

$ Willie Guy Rainey, voc, p

# Willie Guy Rainey, voc, el g; Albie Scholl, hca; Tommy Dean, b; Don Shackleford, dr

rec. 1978 prob. in Palmetto near Atlanta, GA by Bruce Baxter (Stone Mountain Music, Inc.); produced & edited by George Mitchell | notes by George Mitchell


 Southland SLP-7 Southland discography
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Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, p. 824
- Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 201, p. 369
- Robert Springer: Georgia blues today.- Blues Unlimited 131/132, 1978, p.36-37
- Robert Springer: Review 'Georgia Grassroots Music Festival' (Album without label, not for sale commercially)
Blues Unlimited 133 (1979), p. 27-28
- Val Wilmer: Still got the blues - Georgia bluesmen talking to Val Wilmer.- Blues Unlimited 133 (1979), p. 16-20
- Robert Springer: Review of Southland SLP-7 in Blues Unlimited 137/138, 1980, p. 47-48
- Jim O'Neal: Willie Guy Rainey.- Living Blues 58 (1983), p. 44
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources
source of left column picture: Front cover of Blues Unlimited 133, 1979
 source: Blues Unlimited 131/132 (1978), p. 55; photographer: Valerie Wilmer
 cover of Blues Unlimited 133, 1979 photographer: Valerie Wilmer
 source: back cover of Southland SLP-7; photographer not named
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