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“Treat Me Kind” Gold Star 641
“Somebody Got to Go” Gold Star 641
Vocal/electric guitar.
“Baby Please Don’t Go” Gold Star 646
“Death Bells” Gold Star 646
c. February 1949. Quinn Recording Company, 3104 Telephone Rd., Houston, TX. Producer: Bill Quinn
Vocal/electric guitar.
“Mad with You” Gold Star 652
“Airplane Blues” Gold Star 652
c. March 1949. Quinn Recording Company, 3104 Telephone Rd., Houston, TX. Producer: Bill Quinn
Vocal/electric guitar with unknown saxophone, piano, bass.
“Unsuccessful Blues” Gold Star 656/Lightning 104/Dart 123
“Rollin’ Woman Blues” Gold Star 656
Note: Lightning 104 dates from 1955. The Dart release is a 1960 reissue of Lightning 104.
c. July 1949. Quinn Recording Company, 3104 Telephone Rd., Houston, TX. Producer: Bill Quinn
Vocal/electric guitar with Harding “Hop” Wilson, steel guitar.
“Jail House Blues” Gold Star 662/Sittin’ In With 644
“T” Model blues” Gold Star 662/Sittin’ In With 644
“Traveler’s Blues” Dart LP 8000
c. October 1949. Quinn Recording Company, 3104 Telephone Rd., Houston, TX. Producer: Bill Quinn
Vocal/electric guitar with L. C. Williams, tap dancing*.
“Lightning Boogie”* Gold Star 664/Harlem 2324
“Unkind Blues” Gold Star 664
Note: “Lightning Boogie” retitled “Mad Man’s Boogie” on Harlem 2324.
Vocal/electric guitar
“Fast Life Woman” Gold Star 665/Harlem 2331
“European Blues” Gold Star 665
Note: “Fast Life Woman” retitled “Fast Life” on Harlem 2331.
Late 1949. Quinn Recording Company, 3104 Telephone Rd., Houston, TX. Producer: Bill Quinn
Vocal/electric guitar/electric organ*.
“Automobile” Gold Star 666/Jax 318
“Zolo Go”* Gold Star 666/Jax 318
‘Organ Boogie”* Arhoolie LP 2007
“Automobile Blues”* Arhoolie LP 2010
Note: “Zolo Go” retitled “Organ Blues” on Jax 318. Both issues omit the spoken introduction, which has been restored on the Arhoolie reissues. ”Automobile” retitled “Automobile Blues” on Jax 318.
Early 1950. Quinn Recording Company, 3104 Telephone Rd., Houston, TX. Producer: Bill Quinn
Vocal/electric guitar.
“Old Woman Blues” Gold Star 669/Harlem 2336
“Untrue Blues” Gold Star 669/Harlem 2336/
Lightning 104/Dart 123
Note: “Old Woman Blues” retitled “Good Old Woman” on Harlem 2336. “Untrue Blues” retitled ‘Untrue” on Harlem 2336 and mistitled “Grievance Blues” on Lightning 104 and Dart 123. Lightning 104 dates from 1955. The Dart release is a 1960 reissue of Lightning 104.
Early 1950. Quinn Recording Company, 3104 Telephone Rd., Houston, TX. Producer: Bill Quinn
Vocal/electric guitar.
“Henny Penny Blues” Gold Star 671
“Jazz Blues” Gold Star 671
Vocal/electric guitar.
“Jackstropper Blues” Gold Star 673/Harlem 2331
“Grievance Blues” Gold Star 673/Harlem 2324
Note: “Jackstropper Blues” retitled “The Jackstropper” on Harlem 2331. “Grievance Blues” retitled “Nobody Cares For Me” on Harlem 2324.
1947–1951. Quinn Recording Company, 3104 Telephone Rd., Houston, TX. Producer: Bill Quinn
Vocal/electric guitar
From previous Gold Star sessions and/or unissued Gold Star sessions.
“Goodbye Blues (Somebody’s Got to Go)” Arhoolie LP 2007
“Glory Be Blues (Blue bird Blues)” Arhoolie LP 2007
“Seems Funny Baby” Arhoolie LP 2007
“Cooling Board (Thunder and Lightnin’ Blues)” Arhoolie LP 2007
“Going Home Blues” Arhoolie LP 2007
“All I Got is Gone” Arhoolie LP 2010
“Grosebeck Blues” (take 2) Arhoolie LP 2010
“Grosebeck Blues” (take 3) Arhoolie LP 2010
“Grosebeck Blues (Penitentiary Blues)” (take 4) Dart LP 8000
“Racetrack Blues” Dart LP 8000
1947–1951. Quinn Recording Company, 3104 Telephone Rd., Houston, TX. Producer: Bill Quinn
Vocal/electric guitar/piano.
From previous Gold Star sessions and/or unissued Gold Star sessions.
“Beggin’ You to Stay” RPM 337
“Bad Luck and Trouble” RPM 337
“Bad Luck and Trouble” (incomplete take) P-Vine (Japan) CD 3056
“Jake Head Boogie” RPM 346
“Lonesome Dog Blues” RPM 346
“Jake Head Boogie” (alternate take) P-Vine (Japan) CD 3056
“Lonesome Dog Blues” (alternate take) P-Vine (Japan) CD 3056
“Don’t Keep My Baby Long” RPM 351
“Last Affair” RPM 351
“Don’t Keep My Baby Long” (unedited take)