Bert Williams, other 78s at Archive.org

http://www.archive.org/details/BertWilliams Collected Works of Bert Williams

1 BertWilliams-AllGoingOutandNothingComingIn
2 BertWilliams-BorrowfromMe
3 BertWilliams-BringBackThoseWonderfulDays
4 BertWilliams-BrotherLowDown
5 BertWilliams-CheckersItsYourMoveNow
6 BertWilliams-Constantly
7 BertWilliams-ElderEatmoresSermononGenerosity
8 BertWilliams-ElderEatmoresSermononThrowingStones
9 BertWilliams-EveCostAdamJustOneBone
10 BertWilliams-Everybody
11 BertWilliams-EverybodyWantsaKeytoMyCellarProhibitionSong
12 BertWilliams-GetUp
13 BertWilliams-HereItComesAgain
14 BertWilliams-HesaCousinofMine
15 BertWilliams-HesaCousinofMine_2
16 BertWilliams-HowFried
17 BertWilliams-ICertainlyWasGoingSome
18 BertWilliams-IWanttoKnowWhereTostiWentWhenHeSaidGoodbye
19 BertWilliams-IllLendYouAnything
20 BertWilliams-ImGoneBeforeIGo
21 BertWilliams-ImGonnaQuitSaturday
22 BertWilliams-ImNeutral
23 BertWilliams-ImSorryIAintGotItYouCouldHaveItifIHadItBlues
24 BertWilliams-ImTiredofEatingIntheRestaurants
25 BertWilliams-IndoorSports
26 BertWilliams-ItsNobodysBusinessButMyOwn
27 BertWilliams-ItsNobodysBusinessbutMyOwn
28 BertWilliams-IveSuchaFunnyFeelingWhenILookatYou
29 BertWilliams-LetItAlone
30 BertWilliams-LonesomeAlimonyBlues
31 BertWilliams-MississippiStoker
32 BertWilliams-MyLandlady
33 BertWilliams-MyLastDollar
34 BertWilliams-NeverMo
35 BertWilliams-NoPlaceLikeHome
36 BertWilliams-Nobody
37 BertWilliams-Nobody_2
38 BertWilliams-Nobody_3
39 BertWilliams-NotLately
40 BertWilliams-ODeathWhereisThySting
41 BertWilliams-OhLawdySomethingsDoneGotBetweenEbecaneezerandMe
42 BertWilliams-OntheRightRoad
43 BertWilliams-PlayThatBarber-ShopChord
44 BertWilliams-Purpostus
45 BertWilliams-Samuel
46 BertWilliams-SaveaLittleDramforMeProhibitionSong
47 BertWilliams-Somebody
48 BertWilliams-SomethingYouDontExpect
49 BertWilliams-TenLittleBottlesProhibitionSong
50 BertWilliams-TheDarktownPokerClub
51 BertWilliams-TheLeeFamily
52 BertWilliams-TheMoonShinesontheMoonshineProhibitionSong
53 BertWilliams-ThePhrenologistCoon
54 BertWilliams-TwentyYears
55 BertWilliams-Unexpectedly
56 BertWilliams-UnluckyBlues
57 BertWilliams-WhenIReturn
58 BertWilliams-WhentheMoonShinesontheMoonshineProhibitionSong
59 BertWilliams-WoodmanWoodmanSpareThatTree
60 BertWilliams-WoodmanWoodmanSpareThatTree_2
61 BertWilliams-YouCantDoNothingTillMartinGetsHere
62 BertWilliams-YouCantGetAwayfromIt
63 BertWilliams-YouCantTrustNobody
64 BertWilliams-YoullNeverNeedaDoctorNoMore

http://www.archive.org/details/Creek Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers-Shootin' Creek (July 23, 1928). This tune is clearly related, if not the same tune, to the old-timey and bluegrass standard "Cripple Creek." Alan Jabbour has speculated that the "Cripple Creek" title may be related to certain labor disputes in the Cripple Creek area of Colorado during 1903 and 1904. On the other hand, a Cripple Creek flows through Grayson and Carroll Counties in Southwest Virginia. As for the title "Shootin' Creek," there exists a Shooting Creek region in Franklin County also in Southwest Virginia. This area was famous as a center for distilling homemade whiskey and it appears that Poole was a frequent visitor.

http://www.archive.org/details/Deal Charlie Poole & The North Carolina RamblersCharlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers-Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues (July 25, 1925) The Ramblers on this recording includes Poole on vocals and banjo, Posey Rorer on fiddle and Norman Woodlief on guitar. This a gambling tune, with many floating lines that have appeared in older tunes. It is thought that the phrase "let your deal go down" refers to a popular card game among gamblers during the early part of the 20th Century called the Georgia Skin Game.


http://www.archive.org/details/Collins Mississippi John Hurt-Louis Collins (December 21, 1928). Recorded on December 21, 1928 in New York City. Hurt said, when asked about this sweet murder ballad, that he "made it up from hearing people talk. He was a great man, I know that, and he was killed by two men named Bob and Louis. I got enough of the story to write me a song." [Covered by Jerry Garcia and "Dawg" Grisman in the early 90s. "... angels laid him away ..."]

http://www.archive.org/details/AlbertaHunter-DarktownStruttersBall Alberta Hunter - Darktown Strutters Ball 1920s [No text: Vocal with piano and dixieland band backup.]

http://www.archive.org/details/Dove Bascom Lamar Lunsford-Little Turtle Dove () Recorded in 1928 most likely in Ashland, Kentucky. Lunsford was known as "The Minstrel of the Appalachians." In addition ot banjo player and collector of mountain tunes, Lunsford was also a country lawyer. This particular tune is a composite of various tunes, many of which have no relation one to the other. Some of the lines of this tune may be from "The Storms Are On The Ocean" and "Fare You Well, My Own True Love."

http://www.archive.org/details/Mindreader Bertha Lee w. Charley Patton Mind Reader Blues (January 31, 1934). This tune, along with "Yellow Bee," was recorded at Patton's last recording session. He died two months later. Bertha Lee was Patton's common-law wife at the time. Lee appears to be lecturing Patton, who was an inveterate womanizer, with her sultry voice. In the fourth verse Lee sings: "I remember a day when I were livin' at Lula town, I remember a day when I were livin' at Lula town, my man did so many wrong things 'til I had to leave the town." Lee was from Lula, Mississippi and Patton lived there with her for a period of time. One can only wonder what Patton did that they had to leave.