Robert Pete Williams LPs / CDs
| # | year
of release | title | label # / notes |
|---|
| 1 | 1959 | Robert Pete Williams, Guitar Welch, Hogman Maxey: Angola Prisoners' Blues
Robert Pete Williams
- Levee Camp Blues §
- Prisoner's Talking Blues #
- Motherless Children Have A Hard Time §
- Some Got Six Months #
- I'm Lonesome Blues #
Hogman Maxey
- Stagolee #
- Black Night Fallin' #
Guitar Welch
- Electric Chair Blues #
- I'm Gonna Leave You Mama #
§ on Arhoolie CD 394
# on Arhoolie CD 419
rec. 1959 at Angola State Penitentiary, Louisiana by Harry Oster | 
Louisiana Folklore Society
LFS A-3
= Collector JGN 1003
(UK 1961)
= Arhoolie R 2011 (1970)
Angola Prisoner's Blues
Arhoolie CD 419
|
| 2 | 1959 | Prison Worksongs
Rodney Mason, Rev. Rogers & Roosevelt Charles
- Berta
Guitar Welch, Hogman Maxey & Andy Mosley
- Take This Hammer
Rev. Rogers, Rodney Mason & Smith
- Stewball
Odea Mathews
- Five Long Years for One Man
Guitar Welch, Hogman Maxey & Andy Mosley
- Alberta Let Your Bangs Grow Long
James Russel & Gang
- I Had Five Long Years
Johnny Butler & Gang
- Early In The Mornin'
Roosevelt Charles, Davis & Rodney Mason
- All Teamed Up in Angola's Mule Lot
Willy Rafus & Gang
- I Got a Hurtin' In My Right Side
Rodney Mason, Willy Rafus & Davis
- Let Your Hammer Ring
Willy Rafus, Andy Mosley & Johnny Butler
- Cleaning This Highway
Guitar Welch, Hogman Maxey & Robert Pete Williams
- John Henry
Odea Mathews
- Something Within Me
Murray Macon
- Jesus Cares
on CD only:
Emanuel Dunn
- Working On The Levee (Part 1)
- Working On The Levee (Part 2)
Big Louisiana
- Take This Hammer
Creola Scott/Ceola Scott
- Pickin' Cotton All Day Long
Emanuel Dunn
- My Mule "Grey" | rec. 1959
Angola State Penitentiary
Louisiana
by Harry Oster
notes by Harry Oster
& Chris Strachwitz
Louisiana Folklore Society
LFS A-5
= Collector JGN 1006
(UK 196?)
= Arhoolie R 2012
Arhoolie CD 448
www.arhoolie.com |
| 3 | 1959 | Angola Prison Spirituals
Andy Mosely & Robert Pete Williams
- I'm On My Way
Robert Pete Williams
- Church On Fire With The Word Of God
Robert "Guitar" Welch
- What Shall I Do
Angola Quartet
- Brother Norah
Tom Dutson & Robert Pete Williams
- Little School Song
Robert Pete Williams
- Dyin' Soul
Roosevelt Charles
- Let My People Go
Robert Pete Williams
- So Much Is Happenin' In The News
Tom Dutson & Robert Pete Williams
- Dig My Grave With A Silver Spade
Andy Mosely & "Hogman" Maxey
- Brother Mosely Crossed The Water
Angola Quartet No. 2
- I'm Stranded On The Banks Of Jordan
Robert Pete Williams
- I'm Goin' Back With Him When He Comes
Rev. Benjamin E. Osborne
- The Old Ship Of Zion
on CD only:
Robert Pete Williams
- When I Lay My Burden Down
Angola Quartet
- See How They Done My Lord
- Be With Me Jesus
Angola Vocal Group
- Rise And Fly
Andy Mosely & "Hogman" Maxey
- I Know I Got Religion
- Jesus
Angola Choir
- I Take Jesus (Do Lord, Remember Me)
- Each Day (Life's Evening Sun)r
- Steal Away | rec. 1959
Angola State Penitentiary
Louisiana
by Harry Oster
notes by Harry Oster
& Chris Strachwitz
Louisiana Folklore Society
LFS A-6
= 77 LA 12/13 (UK 196?)
= Arhoolie CD 9036 (2003)
www.arhoolie.com |
| 4 | 19?? | Robert Pete Williams:
Those Prison Blues
Folk Lyric FL 109 = 77 LA 12/17
- I'll Be Glad When I'm From Behind Iron Walls
- Louise #
- Blue In Me §
- Come Here Baby, Tell Me What Is Wrong With You #
- I Got The Blues So Bad §
- Boogy Woman (+ Hogman Maxey, 12-str. g)
- Pardon Renied Again #
- Army Blues (+ Hogman Maxey, 12-str. g)
- Blues In The Dark
- Make Me A Pallet On The Floor
- Angola Special #
Arhoolie R 2015
- Pardon Denied Again #
- This Wild Old Life #
- Texas Blues #
- Up And Down Blues #
- I'm Blue As A Man Can Be #
- Louise #
- Blue In Me §
- I Got The Blues So Bad §
- Come Here Baby, Tell Me What Is Wrong With You #
green = track on both LPs
# on Arhoolie CD 394
§ on Arhoolie CD 395
rec. 1959 & 1960 in Angola State Penitentiary, La. by Harry Oster and Richard Allen; Robert Pete Williams, voc, 6- or 12-str. g | notes by Harry Oster
Folk Lyric FL 109notes by Harry Oster
= 77 LA 12/17 (UK 1963) 
Arhoolie R 2015 (1971)
Arhoolie CD 394
“I'm Blue as a Man Can Be”
www.arhoolie.com
Arhoolie CD 395
"When A Man Takes The Blues"
|
| 5 | 196? | Country Negro Jam Session
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas
- 44 Blues
- Who Broke The Lock
- It's The Sign Of The Judgement
- Jelly Roll
- Brown Skin Woman
Robert Pete Williams
- Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
Clarence Edwards
- Smokes Like Lightning
- You Don't Love Me
Ben Douglas
- Foxhunt
Sally Dotson
- Your Dice Won't Pass
Rebecca Smith etc.
- I've Got Religion
Smokey Baby
- Going Downtown Boogie
Leon Strickland
- I Won't Be Your Low Down Dog No More
on CD only:
Butch Cage & Willie B Thomas
- The Piano Blues
Smoky Babe
- Cotton Field Blues
Otis Webster
- The Farm Blues
- The Boss Man Blues
Butch Cage & Willie B Thomas
- Whoa Mule!
Otis Webster
- Boll Weevil Blues
Clarence Edwards/Cornelius Edwards/Butch Cage
- Thousand Miles From Nowhere
Butch Cage & Willie B. Thomas
- Dead And Gone
- Called For You Yesterday
- Me & My Chauffeur
- Baby Please Don't Go | rec. by Harry Oster 
Folk Lyric FL 111
= Arhoolie R 2018
Arhoolie CD 372
|
| 6 | 1961 | Robert Pete Williams: Free Again
- Free Again
- Almost Dead Blues
- Rolling Stone
- Two Wings
- A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
- Thumbing A Ride
- I've Grown So Ugly
- Death Blues
- Hobo Worried Blues
- Hay Cutting Song
| rec. by Harry Oster 
Bluesville 1026
= Prestige 7808
= OBCCD-553-2
fantasyjazz.com
= Fantasy F24716 (1973)
(along with BVLP 1046
Snooks Eaglin)
"Rural Blues"
= Ace CD CHD 705
acerecords.co.uk
 Bluesville discography
|
| 6a | 1964 | Country Spirituals
Snooks Eaglin
- Down By The Riverside
Butch Cage, Willie Thomas & crowd
- Whe I See The Blood
Della Williams
- Motherless Children
New Orleans Street Gospel Singers
- I Will Be Your God
Otis Webster
- In My Saviours Care
Charles Henderson, Butch Cage, Willie Thomas & crowd
- Jesus On The Main Line
Rev. Pearly Brown
- If I Never See You Anymore
Andy Mosely, George Williams & Hogman Maxey
- I Know I Got Religion
Otis Webster
- This Little Light Of Mine
Angola Quartet
- Be With Me Jesus
Robert Pete Williams
- I'm Glad My Mother Teached Me How To Pray
Rev. Pearly Brown
- Nobody's Fault But Mine
Butch Cage, Willie Thomas & crowd
- If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again | rec. by Paul Oster
notes by Paul Oster
Storyville SLP 135 |
| 7 | 1965 | The Blues at Newport 1964 Part 1
Fred McDowell
- Lord I'm Going Down South
- Highway 61
- If The River Was Whiskey
Sleepy John Estes
- Sleepy John's Twist
- Mailman Blues
- Drop Down Mama
- Clean Up At Home
Doc Reese
- Old Hannah
- Hey Rattler
- Oh My Lord
Robert Pete Williams
- Levee Camp Blues
- On My Way From Texas
- Midnight Boogie
| rec. live at the Newport Folk
Festival July 23-26 1964
Vanguard VRS 9180 (mono)
= VSD 79180 (stereo)
|
| 8 | 1965 | Traditional Music at Newport 1964 - Part 2
Clayton McMichen with Frank Wakefield
- Old Joe Clark
- Bile Them Cabbage Down
Phipps Family
- Anchored His Love
- God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign
Robert Pete Williams
- Bull Dog Blues
Seamus Ennis
- Did The Rum-Do-Daddy
- Piper On The Hearth
- What'll Ye Do
- Father's Maid
Prank Proffitt
- My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains
- Poor Man
Georgia Sea Island Singers
- Down In The Mire
Mississippi John Hurt
- Coffee Blues
Glenn Ohrlin
- Montana Is My Home
- The Chickens They Grow Tall
Jean Ritchie
- 'Tis The Gift To Be Simple
- Goin' To Boston
Almeda Riddle
- The Hangman
Phoeba and Roscoe Parsons
- Sourwood Mountain
- Shortening Bread
Reverend Robert Wilkins
- I Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down
- Thank You Jesus (with the Georgia Sea Island Singers) | rec. live at the Newport Folk
Festival July 23-26 1964
Vanguard VRS 9183 (mono)
= VSD 79183 (stereo)
|
| 9 | 1966 | Robert Pete Williams:
Louisiana Blues
Takoma LP track sequence:
- Somebody Help Poor Me
- Freight Train Blues
- It's Hard To Tell
- I'm Going Down Slow
- Motherless Children Have A Hard Time
- Ugly
- So Long Boogie
- This Is A Mean Old World To Me
- High As I Want To Be
- It's A Long Road
Vanilla OMP track sequence:
- Freight Train Blues
- High As I Want To Be
- I'm Going Slow
- It's A Long Old Road
- It's Hard To Tell
- Motherless Children Have A Hard Time
- So Long Boogie
- Somebody Help Poor Me
- This Is A Mean Old World To Me
- Ugly
rec. July 1966 in Berkeley, Ca.; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g | 
Takoma B 1011
= Takoma ST-72711
= Ace CDTAK 1011
Takoma discography 
= AIM CD 1014
(Australia 1999)
"It's A Long Old Road"
= Vanilla OMP (2010)
"Freight Train Blues"
|
| 9a | 1966 | Son House & Robert Pete Williams: Live!
Son House (1965)
- Depot Agent Blues
- County Farm Blues
- The Pony Blues
- Death Letter Blues
Robert Pete Williams (1966)
- I'm A Poor Boy Long Ways From Home
- Workin' Woman Blues
- I'm Down On My Knees
- Oh Lord Please Help Me On My Way
- I'm Drunk Now | rec. live Rochester, NY 
Roots SL 501 (Austria)
= Autogram
|
| 10 | 1966 | American Folk Blues Festival '66
Vol. 1: Amiga 855114
Roosevelt Sykes
- Running The Boogie
Otis Rush
- All Your Love
Little Brother Montgomery
- I Keep On Drinking
Sleepy John Estes
- You Shouldn't Do It
Big Joe Turner
- Roll 'Em Pete
Junior Wells
- Sheckin' (sic!) On My Baby
- Vietnam Blues #
Sippie Wallace
- Suitcase Blues
Robert Pete Williams
- Midnight Boogie #
Big Joe Turner
- Flip, Flop And Fly
Vol. 2: Amiga 855126
Otis Rush
- It Takes Time #
Roosevelt Sykes
- Night Time Is The Right Time #
Otis Rush
- My Own Fault
Little Brother Montgomery
- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie #
Sleepy John Estes
- Yellow Jam Blues #
Junior Wells
- Over Yonders Walls #
Sippie Wallace
- Women Keep Your Mouth Shut #
Junior Wells
- A Tribute To Sonny Boy Williamson
Robert Pete Williams
- Louise
Big Joe Turner
- Feeling Happy #
# not on Fontana 885 431 BY
Fontana 885 431 BY
Roosevelt Sykes
- Running The Boogie
Otis Rush
- All Your Love
Little Brother Montgomery
- I Keep On Drinking
Sleepy John Estes
- You Shouldn't Do It
Otis Rush
- My Own Fault
Junior Wells
- Checkin' On My Baby
- A Tribute To Sonny Boy Williamson
Sippie Wallace
- Suitcase Blues
Robert Pete Williams
- Louise
Big Joe Turner
- Flip, Flop And Fly
- Roll 'Em Pete
rec. October 16, 1966 at the Friedrichstadt-Palast, East-Berlin | notes by Karlheinz Drechsel
Vol. 1 Amiga 855114
(DDR 1969)= Amiga CD 82876-63060-2
(2004) notes by Karlheinz Drechsel
Vol. 2 Amiga 855126
(DDR 1969) 
= Amiga CD 82876-63061-2
(2004)
Fontana 885 431 BY
Philips/Phonogram
SFL-7386 (1969)
American Folk Blues
Festival 65-66
L+R 42.069
= LR CD-2069
L + R discography |
| 11 | 1969 | Up The Country
Robert Pete Williams
- Don't The Moon Look Lonesome
Yank Rachell
- Yellow Jam Blues
Sippie Wallace
- Up The Country
Sleepy John Estes
- I'm A Tearing Little Daddy
Magic Sam Blues Band
- Back Door Friend
Roosevelt Sykes
- Boot That Thing
Roosevelt Sykes
- Night Time Is The Right Time
Sippie Wallce
- Women Be Wise
Magic Sam Blues Band
- Feeling Good
Joe Turner
- Chains Of Love
Joe Turner with Otis Rush's Blues Band
- Well Oh Well | 
Scout Sc-3Scout discography |
| 12 | 1971 | Robert Pete Williams
- Farm Blues
- Goodbye Slim Harpo #
- Rub Me Until My Love Comes Down
- Freight Train Blues
- Got Me Way Down Here
- Matchbox Blues
- Railroad Blues
- Tombstone Blues
- Sweep My Floor
- You Used To Be A Sweet Cover Shakin' Woman
- Vietnam Blues
rec. during the week of Christmas, 1970 at Maringouin, LA
# bonus track on Fat Possum CD 80349 | 
Ahura Mazda AMS 2002Ahura Mazda
discography 
= Fat Possum CD 80349
(2001)
|
| 13 | 1971 | Robert Pete Williams
- Goodbye Slim Harpo
- Vietnam Blues | 7 inch 45 rpm
Ahura Mazda 45-AMS-101Ahura Mazda
discography
re-released on
Fat Possum CD 80349
(2001)
|
| 14 | 1971 | Robert Pete Williams & Roosevelt Sykes: Blues From The Bottoms
- Gonna Stand No Quittin' #
- Broken Hearted Man #
- Salty Woman #
- Whiskey Head Man #
- I'm The Sweet Root Man *
- Spontaneous Conversation *
- Lord Help Poor Me #
- Goodbye Faye And John #
# rec. December 12, 1971 at 1213 Bourbon Street, New Orleans by John Bentley; Robert Pete Williams, voc, g
* rec. December 30, 1971 at 1213 Bourbon Street, New Orleans by John Bentley; Roosevelt Sykes, voc, g | notes by John Bentley
77 LEU 12/50 (UK)77 discography |
| 15 | 1972 | Robert Pete Williams
with Big Joe Williams
- Doctor Blues
- Got On His Mind
- Meet Him Over In Paradise
- Goodbye Baby
- It's Gotta Be Jelly 'Cause Jam Don't Shake Thataway
- Texas Blues
- Talkin' Blues
- Greyhound Blues
CD bonus tracks:
- She Walked Around With Her Mouth Poked
- I Need to Be Loved
- Blues Leave Me Alone
- Put On A Show
- Take It Along With You Everywhere You Go
- Late Night Boogie
rec. March 20, 1972 in Copenhagen, Denmark | notes by
Derrick Stewart-Baxter
Storyville SLP 225
= Storyville ST 21023 (Fr)
(=) Storyville CD 8001 (1991)
Blues Masters, Vol. 1
Storyville discography 
Pure Pleasure SLP 225 (2012)
(180 g LP)
|
| 167 | 1972 | The Great Blues Men
Homesick James
- Set A Date
John Lee Hooker
- Dusty Road
Sleepy John Estes
- Corinna #
Muddy Waters
- Nineteen Years Old
Jesse Fuller
- San Francisco Bay Blues
Mance Lipscomb
- Blues In G
Rev. Gary Davis
- If I Had My Way #
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
- Key To The Highway
Otis Spann
- Burning Fire
Lightnin' Hopkins
- Cotton Field Blues
Big Bill Broonzy
- Louise, Louise Blues
Johnny Young
- Tighten Up On It
James Cotton
- Ain't Nobody's Business
Mississippi John Hurt
- Moanin' The Blues
Junior Wells
- Stormy Mnday Blues #
Johnny Shines
- Dynaflow Blues
Son House (+ Al Wilson)
- Empire State Blues #
Sonny Terry
- Mountain Blues
Joe Turner & Pete Johnson
- It's All Right, Baby
Jimmy Rushing
- How Long, How Long Blues
Skip James
- Cypress Grove Blues
J. B. Hutto
- Please Help
Fred McDowell
- Fred's Ramblin' Blues
Ida Cox
- Four Day Creep #
Robert Pete Williams
- On My Way From Texas
Otis Rush
- I't's A Mean Old World
# not on CD | DLP
Vanguard VSD 25/26Vanguard / King GW-203/4
(Jp 1972) (=) Vanguard CD 25/26 (1988) |
| 17 | 197? | Robert Pete Williams:
When I Lay My Burden Down
- Straighten Up
- Your Troubles Gonna Be Like Mine
- Ramblin' Man
- No One To Care For Me
- Frisky Woman
- Promise Me That
- When I Lay My Burden Down
- Sick And Lonesome
- May Rise Out Of My Tomb
- Tippin' In On Me | notes by John Bentley
Southland SLP-4Southland discography |
| 18 | 1973 | American Folk Blues Festival '72
Bukka White
- I'm Gettin' Ready
- World Boogie *
- Aberdeen Blues
Big Joe Williams
- My Baby Is Gone
- My Boots & Shoes
- Louise *
Robert Pete Williams
- Look Here Woman
Roosevelt Sykes
- Driving Wheel *
- Sweet Home Chicago
- Boot That Thing *
Memphis Slim
- Baby Please Come Home *
- Lonesome Traveller
- Boogin' And Bluesin'
Johnny Young, W.D.Kent, Billy Davenport
- Instrumental Boogie
Big Mama Thornton
- Tell Me Baby
- Ball In (!) Chain
T-Bone Walker
- Shake It Baby
- Goin' Back To Church
Jimmy Rogers & Whispering Smith
- Chicago Bound *
- Tricky Woman
Lightnin' Slim & Whispering Smith
- Winter Time Blues
Jimmy Dawkins Chicago Blues Band
- Don't Ever Leave Me
- Got My Mojo Workin'
* not on CD
rec. March 16, 1972 at Hilpert Theatre, Lünen, Germany, and October 26, 1972 at Circus-Krone-Bau, München, Germany | DLP notes by
Siegfried Schmidt-Joos
Atlantic 60036 (1973)
The 10th American Folk
Blues Festival Blues
Giants - Rock CreatorsDLP
= L+R 42.018 
(=) L+R CDLS-2018
L+R discography |
| 19 | 1973 | Robert Pete Williams:
The Legacy Of The Blues Vol. 9
- Woman Ain't No Good
- Come Here Sit Down On My Knee
- Angola Penitentiary Blues
- Late Night Boogie
- Goin' Out Have Myself A Ball
- Poor Girl Out Of The Mountain
- Grave Yard Blues
- You're My All Day Steady And My Mid-Nite Dream
- Keep Your Bad Dog Off Me | prod. by Samuel Charters 
Sonet SNTF 649
= GNP1 Crescendo
GNPS-10019 (1992)
|
| 19a | 1974 | The Legacy Of The Blues Sampler
- Aberdeen Mississippi Blues - Bukka White
- Funky Malaguena - Snooks Eaglin
- Found My Baby Gone - Champion Jack Dupree
- Wishy Washy Woman - Mighty Joe Young
- I'm A Bluesman - Juke Boy Bonner
- Black Gal You're Sure Looking Warm - Big Joe Williams
- Long Time Gone, A - Memphis Slim
- Starry Crown Blues - J.D. Short
- I'm Going To Have Myself A Ball - Robert Pete Williams
- The Cannonball - Eddie Boyd
- She's So Mellow - Sunnyland Slim
- Please Help Poor Me - Lightnin' Hopkins
"Maxi Sampler" bonus tracks:
- Poor Boy Long Way From Home - Bukka White
- Drive It Home - Snooks Eaglin
- You're The One - Champion Jack Dupree
- Early In The Morning - Mighty Joe Young
- Lonesome Ride Back Home - Juke Boy Bonner
- I Been Wrong But I'll Be Right - Big Joe Williams
- Lets Get With It - Memphis Slim
- Make Me Down A Pallet - J.D. Short
- You're My All Day Steady And My Midnight Dream - Robert Pete Williams
- It's A Mellow Day - Eddie Boyd
- Get Hip To Yourself - Sunnyland Slim
- Water Fallin' Boogie - Lightnin' Hopkins | 
Sonet SNTX 1
= Crescendo GNPS 10010
(1976)
(=) Sonet SNTCD 1 (1989)
"The Legacy Of The Blues
Maxi Sampler" 
= GNP Crescendo (1992)
|
| 20 | 1976 | Great Bluesmen Newport
Robert Pete Williams
- Midnight Boogie
- Levee Camp Blues
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
- My Baby Done Changed The Lock On The Door
John Lee Hooker with Bill Lee on bass
- Tupelo
- Bus Station Blues
Son House
- Son's Blues
- Death Letter Blues #
- Pony Blues
Sleepy John Estes
- Mailman Blues
- Clean Up At Home
Doc Reese
- Hey Rattler / Oh My Lord
Mississippi John Hurt
- Sliding Delta
- Trouble, I've Had It All My Day
Skip James
- Hard Times Killing Floor Blues
- Cherry Ball Blues #
- Illinois Blues
The Reverend Gary Davis
- Death Don't Have No Mercy
Willie Doss
- Catfish Blues
- I Had A Woman
Mississippi Fred McDowell
- Lord, I'm Going Down South
- If The River Was Whiskey
Lightnin' Hopkins with Samuel Lay
- Cotten Fields Blues
- Shake That Thing
gatefold inner sleeve of Vanguard VSD 77/78
 
# note on CD 77/78: "due to compact disc time restrictions some songs on the original album are not included in this package" | DLP
notes by Maynard Solomon
Vanguard VSD 77/78
King/Vanguard LAX-155
(Jp 1976)
notes by Samuel Charters
= Vanguard CD 77/78 (1991)
2 LPs on 1 CD #
Great Bluesmen At
Newport 1959-1965 |
| 21 | 1978 | 10th Anniversary New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
- Caledonia - Clifton Chenier
- Brown Skin Girl - Irving McLean
- Ice Cream Freezer - Roosevelt Sykes
- The Breaks - Henry Butler
- Baby What You Want Me To Do - Ironing Board Sam
- Paul Barbarin's Second Line - Onward Brass Band
- Rock Me Mama - Robert Pete Williams
- Jolie Blonde - Mamou Hour Cajun Band
- Charleston Rag - Eubie Blake
- Darktown Strutter's Ball - New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra
- Themes From A Movie - Charles Mingus solo performance & 6. Doxology - The Youth Inspirational Choir, Lois Dejean, Soloist. | 
Flying Fish FF099 |
| 21a | 1978 | Il Blues Di Robert "Pete" Williams
- Wrong
- Big Fat Mama
- Chicago
- Must Be Another Man
- Promise Land
- Louise
- Gamblin Man
- Talking Blues
- Matchbox Blues
- Watch Yourself Boy Round By That Deep Blue Sea
- Medley: Monologue by Robert Pete Williams
- Greyhound Blues | 
D.D.Q. Q28004 (It)
"Dischi della Quercia" |
| 21b | 1979 | Butch Cage: Raise A Rukus Tonight
Butch Cage with Willie Thomas
- Mean Old Frisco
Robert 'Pete' Williams
- Black Cat Bone
Clarence Edwards
- Awful Blue
Butch Cage with Willie Thomas
- If I Had My Way
Charles Henderson
- She Was A Woman Didn't Mean No Man No Good
Clarence Edwards
- Come On Baby, Don't You Want To Go
Butch Cage with Willie Thomas
- Tomorrow Gonna Be My Trying Day
- Raise A Ruckus Tonight
Butch Cage with Willie Thomas
- Let Your Light Shine On Me
Charles Henderson
- Rock Island Blues
Clarence Edwards
- I Got A Coal Black Mare
Charles Henderson
- Corrine, Corrina
Butch Cage with Willie Thomas
- I Shall Not Be Moved
Robert 'Pete' Williams
- Hoodoo Blues
Clarence Edwards
- Can't Stand To Be Your Dog
Butch Cage with Willie Thomas
- I Take The Blues When It Rains
field recordings made in Louisiana in 1960 and 1961 by Harry Oster | 
Flyright LP 545 |
| 22 | 1978 | Rare Gems
Little Brother Montgomery
- Ain't Nobody Here But Me #
- Buddy Bolden's Blues #
- Prescription For The Blues #
- Salty Dog #
John Lee Granderson
- Bumble Bee #
Robert Nighthawk
- Murderin' Blues #
- Medley: Annie Lee & Sweet Black Angel #
Otis Spann
- Hotel Lorraine #
- Blues For Martin Luther King #
Johnnie Jones * with Billy Boy Arnold
- Worried Life Blues #
- I Hear My Black Name Ringing # *
Rev. Robert Wilkins
- Glory Glory Hallelujah #
- Just A Closer Walk With Thee
Big Joe Williams
- Wild Cow Moan #
- Screamin' And Cryin' #
James Cotton with Elvin Bishop *, Paul Butterfield $ and Billy Boy Arnold +
- So Glad You're Mine # *
- Diggin' My Potatoes # *$
- Three Harp Boogie # *$+
Robert Pete Williams
- Ugly Man Blues #
J. B. Lenoir
- My Dear Old Mother
Maxwell Street Jimmy
- Someday Baby #
# on Rounder CD
rec. early to mid 1960s in Chicago by Norman Dayron
| Roots TR 1005 (US) 
= TK Records TKR 82539
(UK)
notes by Pete Welding
reissued on Bullseye/
Rounder CD BEYE9530
(1993) "Rare Chicago Blues
1962-68" |
| 23 | 1980 | Dick Annegarn - Robert Pete Williams:
Ferraillages
Dick Annegarn
- duduche's blues
- françoise parodie
- johnny johnny
- désolé
Robert Pete Williams
- I Wrote My Woman A Letter
- Drag For You, Baby
Robert Pete Williams
- Baby Please Don't Go
- Mama Had A Shotgun
- I'm Goin' Away
Dick Annegarn
- le blues de londres
- traversin
- albert
- qua-dri-pho-nie
rec. November 23 & 24, 1979 live au théâtre de Sartrouville, France | 
Spalax 86818 (Fr) |
| 24 | 1980 | Robert Pete Williams:
Santa Fe Blues
- Santa Fe Blues
- Cow Bell Mourn
- Late Las' Nite
- Time's So Hard With Me
- Goin' Thru' The Bushes Like A Turkey Again
- Candy Man
- I'm Gonna Go To The River
- My Baby Leant Out With Another Man
- The Woman I Got
- Santa Fe Kazoo Blues
- C'Mon Babe, Let's Have A Ball
- I'm Gonna Leave You Baby
rec. November 19, 1979 in Paris; prod. by Larry Martin & Paul Pechenaert | 
Paris PLB 2.28504
= EPM Musique
BC 157832 (1996)
"Last Recordings"
|
| 25 | 1981 | Robert Pete Williams:
Sugar Farm
- Better Have Your Way *
- Louise
- When I Was Young
- My Shoes Turn Up My Feet
- The New Talking Blues Of Angola
- Two White Horses In A Line /
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
* track not on Blues Beacon 631000 (1981)
rec. March 11 & 12, 1972 at the Meilhaus Studio in Munich; prod. by Peter Gleissner during the American Folk Blues Festival 1972 | 
Blues Beacon 1932 101 (D)
Blues Beacon 631000 (1981)
= CD BLU-1000 |
| 25a | 1988 | Country Blues Live
Mississippi John Hurt (recorded at Joel Jacobson's, Washington, D.C., 1960's)
- I Shall Not Be Moved
- Avalon Blues
- I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down
- Payday
- Casey Jones
- Spanish Flang Dang
- Welcome
Robert Pete Williams (at Johnny's, Hinterbruhl, Austria, October 1966)
- I'm So Worried
John Jackson (at Washington Folk Festival)
- John Henry
- Poor Boy
- Buck Dancer's Choice
- Tell Me Pretty Mama
Sleepy John Estes & Yank Rachell (In Vienna, Austria, October 1966, TV show)
- I'm A Tearing Little Daddy
- 80 Highway
- Mailman Blues | 
Document DLP 525
Limited Edition |
| 26 | 199? | Robert Pete Williams Live 1974: Out On The Highway
LP tracks:
- Big Fat Mama
- Mr. Charlie
- I Got The Blues
- Have Mercy On Me
- Out On The Highway
- My Woman Left Me
- Greyhound Blues
- Railroad Slide
CD tracks:
- Louise
- Big Fat Mama
- Mr. Charlie
- I Got The Blues
- Glory Hallelujah
- You Don't Have To Go
- Have Mercy On Me
- Greyhound Blues
- Out On The Highway
- My Woman Left Me
- Dying Bed
- Railroad Slide
live at the University of Miami, Fl., 1974 | 
Wolf 120.919(=) Wolf CD 120.912 (2007)
"Louise" |
| 27 | 1991 | Blues At Newport
Recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival 1959-64
Mississippi John Hurt
- Candy Man
- Coffee Blues
- Stagolee
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
- Long Gone
- Key To The Highway
Reverend Gary Davis
- Samson And Delilah
- I Won't Be Back No More
Reverend Robert Wilkins
- The Prodigal Son
- (I Wish I Was In) Heaven Sitting Down
Skip James
- Devil Got My Woman
Sleepy John Estes, Yank Rachel & Hammy Nixon
- Clean Up At Home
Robert Pete Williams
- On My Way From Texas
- Bulldog Blues
Jesse Fuller
- I Double Double Do Love You
- San Francisco Bay Blues
John Hammond
- Me And The Devil
John Lee Hooker
- Sometimes You Make Me Feel So Bad
- Hobo Blues
Dave Van Ronk
- That Will Never Happen No More | 
Vanguard CD 70115-2 |
| 28 | 1993 | Blues With A Feeling
Robert Pete Williams
- Levee Camp Blues | 
Vanguard VCD2-77005
(Recorded live at the
Newport Folk Festival) |
| 29 | 1994 | Robert Pete Williams:
I'm Blue As A Man Can Be
- Pardon Denied Again
- This Wild Old Life
- Just Tippin' In #
- Louise
- Church On Fire No. 2 #
- Texas Blues
- I'm Blue As A Man Can Be
- Up and Down Blues
- So Much Is Happenin' In This Wicked World #
- Come Here Baby
- Levee Camp Blues
- Two Wings #
- Angola Special
- Motherless Children Have A Hard Time
- Please Lord, Help Me on My Way #
# previously unreleased |
Arhoolie CD 394 |
| 30 | 1994 | Robert Pete Williams:
When A Man Takes The Blues
- When A Man Takes The Blues *#
- I Had Trouble *#
- All Night Long #
- Dyin' Soul
- I Got The Blues So Bad
- Sinner Don't You Know #
- Hot Springs Blues #
- This Train Is Heaven Bound #
- Sant Fe Blues
- Blue In Me
- Death Comes Creepin' In Your Room #
- Wife And Farm Blues #
- I Want To Die Easy #
- Robert Pete Williams Monologue *#
# previously unreleased
* recorded by Chris Strachwitz in Berkeley, Ca., April 1970 |
Arhoolie CD 395 |
| 31 | 1994 | Angola Prisoners' Blues
Robert Pete Williams
- Prisoner's Talking Blues #
Hogman Maxey
- Stagolee #
Guitar Welch
- Electric Chair Blues #
Hogman Maxey
- Black Night Is Fallin' #
Robert Pete Williams
- Some Got Six Months #
Guitar Welch
- I'm Gonna Leave You Mama #
Robert Pete Williams
- I'm Lonesome Blues #
A Capella Group
- Angola Bound
Hogman Maxey
- Worried Blues
Guitar Welch
- Josephine
Clara Young
- Soldier's Plea
Odea Mathews
- The Moon Is Rising
Thelma Mae Joseph
I'm Still In Love With You
Vocal Group
I Miss You So
Butterbeans
Hello, Sue
Hogman Maxey
Fast Life Woman
Otis Webster
Careless Love
Roosevelt Charles & Otis Webster
- Have You Ever Heard The Church Bells Tone
Guitar Welch
- 61 Highway
Roosevelt Charles
- Strike At Camp I
# previously released on Arhoolie 2011
all others previously unreleased |
Arhoolie CD 419 |
| 31a | 1996 | Arhoolie Presents American Masters, Vol. 1
15 Down Home Country Blues Classics
- Frisco Line - Mississippi Fred McDowell
- Have You Ever Loved A Woman - Lightning Hopkins
- Going Down In Georgia On A Horn - John Jackson
- Cairo Blues - Melvin "Lil' Son" Jackson
- 'bout A Spoonful - Mance Lipscomb
- Drink On Little Girl - Black Ace
- Country Boy Down In New Orleans - Snooks Eaglin
- Columbus, Mississippi Blues - Bukka White
- Shake 'em On Down - Dr. Ross
- Just Trippin' In - Robert Pete Williams
- Hump In My Back - Jesse Fuller
- Brother James - Big Joe Williams
- I'm Broke And I'm Hungry - Smoky Babe
- Poor Black Mattie - R.L. Burnside
- Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas
| 
Arhoolie CD 101
|
| 32 | 2001 | Newport Folk Festival
Best of Blues 1959-68
Robert Pete Williams
- Levee Camp Blues
- Midnight Boogie
- On My Way From Texas
| 
Vanguard CD 70193-2 |
| 33 | 2003 | Roots Of The Blues
Robert Pete Williams
- Midnight Boogie
| 3-CD Set 
Vanguard CD 79715
|
| 34 | 2004 | Robert Pete Williams:
Poor Bob's Blues
disc 1
- My Mind Wandering Around (a capella)
- Cane Cut Man
- My Daddy Was A Hoodoo Man
- No More Sweet Potatoes
- Poor Bob's Blues
- Cows Love Music
- Can't Yo-Yo No More
- Shake, Shake Baby
- Lord, I Done You Wrong
- Been Mistreated So Long
disc 2
- Things All Wrong With Me
- Matchbox Blues
- Sad News From Korea
- What A Shape I'm In
- Poor Boy, Long Way From Home
- Out All Night Long
- Crying Won't Make Me Stay
- All Out And Down
- Tom And Old Master | rec. by Dr. Harry Oster 
Arhoolie CD 511
|
| 35 | 2004 | Robert Pete Williams:
Long Ol' Way From Home
(The Chicago Sessions)
- It's So Cold In Chicago
- Bye, Bye Baby
- Greyhound Bus Blues
- Louise
- Freight Train Blues
- Lord, I'm Going Back Home Soon
- Kazoo Blues
- Jessie James
- Feel Like Blowing My Horn
- Motherless Child
- Ugly Man Blues
- Lonesome Blues
- I Just Can't Stand It No More
- My Mother Prayed In The World One Day
- Poor Boy Long Ol' Way From Home | rec. at The University
Of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
and Lake Forest College
in early 1965
prod. by Norman Dayron
liner notes by Bill Dahl
Fuel 2000 CD 061391 |
| 36 | 2005 | Blues With A Message
1. I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatman
2. John Henry - John Jackson
3. Walked Down So Many Turn Rows - Mercy Dee
4. Tom Moore's Farm - Mance Lipscomb
5. Tom Moore Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
6. River Blues - Lowell Fulson
7. Levee Camp Blues - Fred McDowell
8. The 1919 Influenza Blues - Essie Jenkins
9. Why I Like Roosevelt - Willie Eason
10. Little Soldier Boy - Doctor Ross
11. Prisoner's Talking Blues - Robert Pete Williams
12. I Got To Climb A High Mountain - Johnie Lewis
13. Depression Blues - Herman E. Johnson
14. Stockyard Blues - Johnny Young/Big Walter Horton
15. What Will I Tell The Children - Juke Boy Bonner
16. It's Enough - Juke Boy Bonner
17. Things Gonna Get Better - Bee Houston
18. Back Home Blues - Big Joe Williams | notes by Paul Oliver
Arhoolie CD 510 |
| 37 | 2007 | Robert Pete Williams: Louise
Live at the University of Miami Fl.orida, 1974
- Louise
- Big Fat Mama
- Mr. Charlie
- I Got The Blues
- Glory Hallelujah
- You Don't Have To Go
- Have Mercy On Me
- Greyhound Blues
- Out On The Highway
- My Woman Left Me
- Dying Bed
- Railroad Slide | (=) Wolf 120.919 (199?)
"Out On The Highway"
Wolf CD 120.912
|
| 38 | 2009 | Robert Pete Williams
Broken-Hearted Man
- Broken-Hearted Man
- May Rise Out Of My Tomb
- Lord, Help Poor Me
- No One To Care For Me
- Sick And Lonesome
- Ramblin' Man
- Tippin\' In On Me
- Straughten Up
- When I Lay My Burden Down
- Whisked Head Man
- Your Troubles Gonna Be Like Mine
rec. December 1971 | 
Southland SCD-004 |
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