Blues Classics Album Discography
By David Edwards and Mike Callahan
Last update: July 18, 2025





The Blues Classics label was one of several labels Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records founded to reissue older music from 78 rpm singles. He had collected this material all his life, and from his collection, sometimes augmented with rare releases from other collectors, he has presented a wide range of music styles and historically important performers.

Most, if not all, of the labels on the original pressings are blue with black print (far left). Many issues also are known with grey labels with black print as shown at near left. These grey labels are thought to be second pressings, but may just be pressings at a different plant, since most releases with the grey labels are also known to exist with blue labels.

We would appreciate any additions or corrections to this discography. Just send them to us via e-mail. Both Sides Now Publications is an information web page. We are not a catalog, nor can we provide the records listed below. We have no association with Blues Classics Records. Should you be interested in acquiring albums listed in this discography (which are all out of print), we suggest you see our Frequently Asked Questions page and follow the instructions found there. This story and discography are copyright 2025 by Mike Callahan.

BLUES CLASSICS ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY

Cover	Number - Title - Artist - [Release Date] Contents
	Blues Classics BC-1 Series:
	BC-1 - Memphis Minnie - Memphis Minnie [1964] In My Girlish Days/Black Rat Swing/Lonesome Shack Blues/It's Hard To Please My Man/I'm So Glad/Nothing In Rambling/Me And My Chauffeur Blues/Joe Louis Strut//It's Hard To Be Mistreated/Man You Won't Give Me No Money/Boy Friend Blues/Moonshine/My Baby Don't Want Me No More/When The Levee Breaks/You Got To Move
	BC-2 - The Jug, Jook And Washboard Bands - Various Artists [1964] Rukus Juice And Chittlin' - Memphis Jug Band/Elm Street Woman Blues - Dallas Jamboree Jug Band/Hen Party Blues - Dixieland Jug Blowers/Thirty Eight - Walter Taylor's Washboard Band/Hittin' The Bottle Stomp - Mississippi Jook Band/Atlanta Town - Chasey Collins' Washboard Band/Bucket's Got A Hole In It - Washboard Sam And His Washboard Band//Brown Skin Mama - Washboard Rhythm Kings/Cocaine Habit - Memphis Jug Band/Wild Cat Squall - Birmingham Jug Band/Shim Shamming - Ed Kelly's Washboard Band/Stonewall Blues - Memphis Jug Band/Sophisticated Mama - Washboard Sam And His Washboard Band/Jazzbo Stomp - Memphis Jug Band
	BC-3 - Sonny Boy Williamson - Sonny Boy Williamson [1964] Groundhog Blues/Collector Man/Until My Love Comes Down/You Give An Account/Western Union Man/Shotgun Blues/Welfare Store/She Don't Love Me That Way//Black Panther Blues/Bad Luck Blues/My Black Name/Jivin' The Blues/My Little Machine/Joe Louis And John Henry/Sloppy Drunk Blues/Check Up On My Baby
	BC-4 - Peetie Wheatstraw And Kokomo Arnold - Peetie Wheatstraw/Kokomo Arnold [1964] Peetie Wheatstraw Stomp - Peetie Wheatstraw/Mama's Advice - Peetie Wheatstraw/Ice And Snow Blues - Peetie Wheatstraw/Peetie Wheatstraw Stomp #2 - Peetie Wheatstraw/Road Tramp Blues - Peetie Wheatstraw/Working On The Project - Peetie Wheatstraw/Shack Bully Stomp - Peetie Wheatstraw/Working Man - Peetie Wheatstraw//Old Original Kokomo Blues - Kokomo Arnold/Mean Old Twister - Kokomo Arnold/Front Door Blues - Kokomo Arnold/Milk Cow Blues - Kokomo Arnold/Head Cutting Blues - Kokomo Arnold/Let Your Money Talk - Kokomo Arnold/Red Beans And Rice - Kokomo Arnold/Stop, Look And Listen - Kokomo Arnold
	BC-5 - Country Blues Classics, Volume 1 - Various Artists [1965] No, No Blues - Willie Baker/Dekalb Chain Gang - Fred McMullen/Ticket Agent - Curley Weaver/Brown Skin Girls - Cripple Clarence Lofton/Flying Crow - Black Ivory King/Blind's Blues - John Lee/Go Away From My Door - Munroe Moe Jackson/Dust My Broom - Elmo James//Evil Devil Woman - Joe McCoy/I Heard The Voice Of A Porkchop - Jim Jackson/Southern Casey Jones - Jesse James/Dirty Deal Blues - Tim Wilkins/Window Pane Blues - Tommie Bradley & James Cole/Downtown Blues; 'Tain't Nobody's Buisness - Frank Stokes/Stamp Blues - Tony Hollins
	BC-6 - Country Blues Classics, Volume 2 - Various Artists [1965] Frisco Blues - Bayless Rose/I Got Mine - Frank Stokes/I'm Getting Wild About Her - Big Joe Williams/Good Gin Blues - Bukka White/Bukka's Jitterbug Swing - Bukka White/How Long - Frank Stokes/Democrat Blues - Bobo Jenkins/We Got To Get Together - Frank Edwards//Sundown Blues - Blind Norris/Rambling Blues - Scrapper Blackwell/Applejack Boogie - Pinetop Slim/Erie Train Blues - Milton Sparks/Rag Mama Rag - Blind Boy Fuller/Baby, How Long - Dan Picket/Terraplane Blues - Frank Edwards/Ramblin' - Johnny Shines
	BC-7 - Country Blues Classics, Volume 3 - Various Artists [1965] Old Rock Island Blues - Lonnie Coleman/Little Boy Blue - Robert Lockwood/Alley Blues - Wright Holmes/You Shouldn't Say That - The Delta Boys/Ease It To Me Blues - Barbecue Bob/45 Pistol Blues - Walter Roland/Every Morning Blues - Walter Roland/Kill It Kid - Willie McTell//Short Haired Blues - Kid Stormy Weather/WPA Blues - Casey Bill/Tom Cat Blues - Harmonica Frank/Bumble Bee Blues - Memphis Minnie/Black Gal Swing - The Delta Boys/Sugarland Blues - Black Boy Shine/80 Highway - Son Bond/Broke Down Engine - Willie McTell
	BC-8 - Chicago Blues: The Early 1950's - Various Artists [1965] Homesick - Homesick James Williamson, Lazy Bill Lucus, Alfred Erskine/Boll Weevil - "Baby Face" Leroy Foster, Muddy Waters, Little Walter/Rollin' & Tumblin' - Part I - Baby Face Leroy/Muskadine - Little Walter Jacobs/Dim Lights - J. B. Hutto, George Mayweather/Things Are So Slow - J.B. Hutto/Five Long Years - Eddie Boyd/Rollin' & Tumblin' - Part II//Hoodoo Man - Junior Wells, Muddy Waters, David Miles, Henry Gray, Fred Below/Falling Rain Blues - Little Willie Foster/Stockyard Blues - Snooky Pryor, Floyd Jones, Moody Jones/Money Taking Woman - Johnny Young, Johnny Williams/Dark Road - Floyd Jones/Hard Hearted Woman - Big Walter "Shaky" Horton, Red Holloway, John Cameron, Lafayette Leake, Robert Lockwood Jr., Willie Dixon, Fred Below/Kansas City Blues - Robert Nighthawk/Tough Times - John Brim, Jimmy Reed, Eddie Taylor, Grace Brim
	BC-9 - Blues Classics By "The Original" Sonny Boy Williamson - Sonny Boy Williamson [1966] Do It If You Wanna/Cool Cool Blues/Come On Back Home/Stop Crying/Eyesight To The Blind/West Memphis Blues/I Cross My Heart/Crazy About You Baby//Nine Below Zero/Mighty Long Time/She Brought Life Back/Stop Now/Mr. Downchild/Sonny Boy's Christmas Blues/Pontiac Blues/Too Close Together
	BC-10 - Blues Classics By Washboard Sam - Washboard Sam [1967] Mama Don't Allow/Jesse James Blues/Mama Don't Allow #2/Big Woman/We Gonna Move/Back Door/Lowland Blues/Out With The Wrong Woman//Save It For Me/I'm On My Way/Levee Camp Blues/Low Down Woman/I'm Going To St. Louis/Lovers Lane Blues/Flying Crow Blues/Digging My Potatoes
	BC-11 - Blind Boy Fuller With Sonny Terry And Bull City Red - Blind Boy Fuller [1967] Shake It Baby/Bye Bye Baby Blues/You've Got Something There/Pistol Slapper Blues/Step It Up And Go/Good Feeling Blues/Jitterbug Rag//Careless Love/Bus Rider Blues/I'm A Rattlesnakin' Daddy/Big House Bound/Piccolo Rag/Three Ball Blues/Stealin' B-Hog
	BC-12 - Detroit Blues: The Early 1950s - Various Artists [1967] Sanafee - Baby Boy Warren/Baby Boy Blues - Baby Boy Warren/Mattie Mae - Baby Boy Warren/Chicken - Baby Boy Warren/Thirty Two Twenty - Dr. Ross/10 Below Zero - Bobo Jenkins/Baby Don't Want You To Go - Bobo Jenkins/No Shoes - Eddie Kirkland//Hastings Street Opera - Detroit Count/Remember Way Back - L. C. Green/Big City Blues - Big Maceo/House Rent Boogie - John Lee Hooker/I Need $100 - One String Sam/Alabama Bus - Brother Will Hairston
	BC-13 - Memphis Minnie, Volume 2: Early Recordings With "Kansas Joe" McCoy - Memphis Minnie [1967] Frankie Jean/New Bumble Bee/Picking The Blues/Plymouth Rock/I Called You This Morning/Preacher's Blues/New Dirty Dozen//After While Blues/Let's Go To Town/Crazy Crying Blues/What's The Matter With The Mill/Memphis Minnie Itis Blues/North Memphis Blues/She Put Me Outdoors
	BC-14 - Country Blues Classics, Volume 4 - Various Artists [1968] I'm Going Away - Leroy Dallas/Good Morning Blues - Leroy Dallas/I'm Down Now - Leroy Dallas/Jump Little Children - Leroy Dallas/His Spirit Lives On - Joe Williams/Morning Train Blues - Peter Warfield/Going Back Home - Dennis McMillon//Six Week Old Blues - John Henry Barbee/Let's Have A New Deal - Carl Martin/Swimming Pool Blues - Sonny Boy Johnson/Black Jack Blues - Gabriel Brown/Y-M & V Blues - Lost John Hunter/Good Mr. Roosevelt - James McCain/Mean Black Snake - Pete McKinley
	BC-15 - Memphis And The Delta 1950's - Various Artists [1968] Relation Blues - Houston Boines/Bull Dog Blues - Luther Huff/She's A Little Girl - Junior Brooks/Going Away Walking - Harmonica Frank/Memory Of Sonny Boy - Forest City Joe/West Helena Blues - Roosevelt Sykes/I Feel Like A Million - Joe Hill Louis//Going Back To Memphis - Sunnyland Slim/Rambling On My Mind - Boyd Gilmore/Good Morning Baby - Drifting Slim/Seventy Four Blues - Willie Love/Cotton Crop Blues - James Cotton/Gonna Let You Go - Baby Face Turner/Please Find My Baby - Elmore James
	BC-16 - Texas Blues: The Early '50s - Various Artists [1968] Penitentiary Blues - Smokey Hogg/Lonesome Cabin Blues - Mercy Dee/Lucy Mae Blues - Frankie Lee Sims/West Texas Blues - John Hogg/Black Snake Blues - John Hogg/I'm Long, Long Gone - Frankie Lee Sims//Mistreated Blues - Buddy Chiles/Tom Moore's Farm - Anonymous/Trying, Trying - L.C. Williams/Crossroads - Texas Alexander/Hole In The Wall - L.C. Williams/Late In The Evening - Lightning Hopkins
	BC-17 - Negro Religious Music: Sanctified Singers, Part One - Various Artists [1968] Both grey and blue labels are known. I Wish My Mother Was On That Train - Blind Joe & Emma Taggart/God's Gonna Separate The Wheat From The Tares - Blind Joe Taggart/God Moves On The Water - Blind Willie Johnson/Then We'll Need That True Religion - Rev. Edward W. Clayborn/I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore - Two Gospel Keyes/Stand By Me - Elder Wilson/Mother Called Her Child To Her Dying Bed - Lil McClintock//Take Your Burden To The Lord - Blind Roosevelt Graves/I'll Be Rested - Blind Roosevelt Graves/Blessed Are The Poor - Luther Magby/Pure Religion - Blind Gussie Nesbit/Sow Good Seeds - Lil McClintock/I'll Go Where You Want Me To Go - Arizona Dranes/Canaan Land - Blind Gussie Nesbit
	BC-18 - Negro Religious Music: Sanctified Singers Part Two - Various Artists [1968] Both grey and blue labels are known. Take Your Burden To The Lord - Blind Willie Johnson/Wouldn't Mind Dying - Blind Mamie Forehand/Denomination Train, Part 1 - Washington Phillips/Denomination Train, Part 2 - Washington Phillips/Just Look - Arizona Dranes/I See The Sign Of The Judgement - Blind Boy Fuller/Where The Sun Never Goes Down - Willie Mae Williams//Don't Want To Go There - Willie Mae Williams/He Knows How Much We Can Bear - Andrew "Smokey" Hogg/Needed Time - Sam "Lightning" Hopkins/You've Got To Move - Two Gospel Keyes/The Gambling Man - Sister O. M. Terrell/Take A Trip - Rev. Utah Smith/Two Wings - Rev. Utah Smith
	BC-19 - Negro Religious Music, Vol. 3: Singing Preachers And Their Congregations - Various Artists [1968] Both grey and blue labels are known. Testify - Rev. D.C. Rice/Nothing To Do In Hell - Rev. F. McGhee/Oh, Lord I'm Your Child - Elder Otis Jones/Where Is The Lion In The Tribe Of Judea - Rev. Kelsey/Heaven Is Mine - Rev. Kelsey/Little Boy - Rev. Kelsey/Tell Me How Long - Rev. Kelsey//I'm So Happy - Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux/Living Water - Rev. Rimson/Believe On Me - Rev. Rimson/Lord, I Come To Thee - Deacon L. Shinault/I Can Not Live In Sin - Deacon L. Shinault/On My Way, Part 1 - Rev. C.C. Chapman/On My Way, Part 2 - Rev. C.C. Chapman
	BC-20 - Sonny Boy Williamson Volume 2 - Sonny Boy Williamson [1968] Skinny Woman/T.B. Blues/Train Fare Blues/She Was A Dreamer/Big Apple Blues/You Got To Step Back/Shady Grove Blues//My Baby's Made A Change/Broken Heart Blues/Stop Breaking Down/G.M. & O. Blues/Shake The Boogie/Hoodoo Hoodoo/Mean Old Highway
	BC-21 - Big Joe Williams And Sonny Boy Williamson - Big Joe Williams & Sonny Boy Williamson [1969] King Biscuit Stomp/I'm A Highway Man/Don't You Leave Me Here/Banta Rooster Blues/P Vine Blues/Mellow Apples/House Lady Blues//Baby Please Don't Go/Stack Of Dollars/Break 'Em On Down/Wild Cow Moan/Rootin' Ground Hog/Somebody's Been Borrowing/I Won't Be In Hard Luck No More
	BC-22 - Carolina Blues - Ralph Willis With Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry [1970] So Many Days/That Gal's No Good/I Will Never Love Again/Goin' To Chattanooga/Church Bells/Cold Chills/Mama Mama Blues/Amen Blues/Good Bye Blues/Salty Dog/Blues, Blues, Blues/Cool That Thing/Every Day I Weep And Moan/Income Tax Blues
	BC-23 - Juke Joint Blues - Various Artists [1970] Bad Woman Blues - Eddie Burns, John T. Smith/Lonesome Bedroom - Ernest "Buddy " Lewis/She Fooled Me - Harvey Hill Jr./Build A Cave - Mr. Honey (i.e., David Edwards)/The Lazy J - L.C. Williams, Lightning Hopkins, Donald Cooks/Reposession Blues - Lightning Leon/On My Way - Alvin Smith//Hattie Green - Dr. Hepcat (i.e., Lavada Durst)/The $64 Question - Sonny Boy Holmes/Which One Do I Love - Arthur "Big Boy" Spires/Harmonica Train - Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Bob Gaddy Or Wilbur Ellis/TNT Woman - Sonny Boy Holmes/Trouble, Trouble - Jimmy Wilson, Lafayette Thomas/Bad Hangover - Square Walton, Sonny Terry
	BC-24 - Sonny Boy Williamson Volume 3 - Sonny Boy Williamson [1972] My Little Baby/Up The Country Blues/Something Going On Wrong/Mattie Mae Blues/I Have Got To Go/Springtime Blues. Love Me Baby/Win The War Blues//Miss Stella Brown/Desperado Woman/Sonny Boy's Jump/Sonny Boy's Cold Chills/Alchohol Blues/The Big Boat/Wonderful Time/Little Girl
	BC-25 - The Guitar Wizard (1935-1953) - Tampa Red [1974] You Missed A Good Man/Love With A Feeling/Bessemer Blues/It Hurts Me Too/She's Love Crazy/Hard Road Blues/She Want To Sell My Monkey//Detroit Blues/Let Me Play With Your Poodle/Crying Won't Help You/Sweet Little Angel/But I Forgive You/So Much Trouble/Big Stars Falling Blues
	BC-26 - When Women Sang The Blues - Various Artists [1976] Shreveport Blues - Lillian Glinn/Cravin' A Man Blues - Lillian Glinn/Shake It Down - Lillian Glinn/Carbolic Acid Blues - Bobby Cadillac/Lonesome Trail Blues - Emma Wright/Christmas Man Blues - Chippie Hill/Weary Money Blues - Chippie Hill//Bogey Man Blues - Bessie Tucker/Key To The Bushes - Bessie Tucker/Mean Old Stropper Blues - Bessie Tucker/B.D. Woman's Blues - Bessie Jackson/Your Worries Ain't Like Mine - Georgia White/I've Been Treated Wrong - Memphis Minnie/I've Been Thinkin' And Thinkin' - Willie B. Huff
	BC-27 - The King Of Boogie Woogie - Albert Ammons [1981] Monday Struggle/Boogie Woogie/Boogie Woogie Blues/Boogie Woogie Stomp/Chicago In Mind/Bass Goin' Crazy//Boogie Woogie At The Civic Opera/I Don't Want To See You/Swanee River Boogie/The Clipper/Ammons Stomp/Why I'm Leaving You/Tuxedo Boogie/Baltimore Breakdown
	BC-28 - Big Maceo: The King Of Chicago Blues Piano, Volume One - Big Maceo (Maceo Merriweather) [1984] Worried Life Blues/Ramblin' Mind Blues/County Jail Blues/Can't You Read/So Long Baby/Texas Blues/Tuff Luck Blues/I Got The Blues//It's All Up To You/Bye Bye Baby/Why Should I Hang Around/Poor Kelly Blues/Some Sweet Day/Anytime For You/My Last Go Round/Since You Been Gone
	BC-29 - Big Maceo: The King Of Chicago Blues Piano, Volume Two - Big Maceo (Maceo Merriweather) [1984] Kidman Blues/I'm So Worried/Things Have Changed/My Own Troubles/Maceo's 32-20/Come On Home/Texas Stomp/Detroit Jump/Flyin' Boogie//Winter Time Blues/Won't Be A Fool No More/Big Road Blues/Chicago Breakdown/Broke And Hungry Blues/If You Ever Change Your Ways/It's All Over Now/I Lost My Little Woman
	BC-30 - Lightning Hopkins Houston's King Of The Blues, Historic Recordings, 1952-1953 - Lightning Hopkins [1984] Sad News Form Korea/Let Me Fly Your Kite/She's Almost Dead/Gone With The Wind/Ain't It A Shame/My Mama Told Me/Moanin' Blues//The War Is Over/Highway Blues/Bad Things On My Mind/I'm Wild About You Baby/Merry Christmas/Policy Game/Happy New Year/Leavin' Blues

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