Jack Owens at 'Blues Estaffette 1995' source: Block 97 (1996); photographer: Pierre Degeneffe |
Jack Owens né L.F. Nelson b. November 17, 1904 in d. February 9, 1997 at King's Daughter's Hospital in Yazoo City, Mississippi buried at Days Cemetery in Bentonia, MS discography |
Jack Owens 1973 source: Valerie Wilmer: The Face of Black Music |
# | year of release |
title / label # / notes |
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1 | 1968 | Goin' Up The Country Roosevelt Holts - My Phone Keeps Ringing # Isaiah Chattman - Found My Baby Gone @ youtube Arzo Youngblood - Bye And Bye Blues @ youtube Cornelius Bright - My Baby's Gone @ youtube Herb Quinn - Casey, You Can't Ride This Train @ youtube Arzo Youngblood - Four Women Blues L.V. Conerly - Bad Luck And Trouble Mager Johnson - Travelling Blues @ youtube O.D. Jones & Babe Stovall - Got The Blues This Morning Jack Owens - B & O Blues # Bill "Boogie Bill" Webb - Dooleyville Blues Roosevelt Holts - Nowhere To Go Mager Johnson - Big Road Blues Cornelius Bright - Devil Got My Woman @ youtube Jack Owens - Devil Got My Woman # @ youtube # rec. Bentonia, September 7, 1966 by David Evans; Jack Owens, voc, g notes (January 1968) by David Evans notes (January 1968) by David Evans new notes (June 1975) by David Evans shortened version of original 1968 notes by David Evans (english & italian) Rounder Records discography |
2 | 1971 | It Must Have Been The Devil Mississippi Country Blues by Jack Owens & Bud Spires - Can't See, Baby @ youtube - Jack Ain't Had No Water @ youtube - Cherry Ball °° @ youtube - Nothin' But Notes @ youtube - Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl @ youtube - I Love My Baby °° @ youtube - Catfish Blues @ youtube - It Must Have Been The Devil @ youtube - Hard Times °° @ youtube - Ain't No Lovin', Ain't No Gettin' Along °° @ youtube - I Won't Be Bad No More °° @ youtube rec. September 7, 1970 in Bentonia, MS by David Evans; Jack Owens, voc, g; Benjamin "Bud" Spires, hca °° CD only; previously unreleased cuts notes (May 1971) by David Evans notes (May 1971) by David Evans original notes by David Evans Testament Records discography |
3 | 1979 | Jack Owens: Bentonia Country Blues - Cherry Ball Blues (2:52) @ Spotify - Keep On Groaning (4:32) @ Spotify - Please Give Me Your Money (1:58) @ Spotify - Devil Got My Woman (4:38) @ Spotify - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues (2:43) @ Spotify - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues Nr. 2 (2:47) @ Spotify - Don't Sell My Monkey (5:38) @ Spotify rec. August 13 & 16, 1978 in Bentonia, MS by Gianni Marcucci; Jack Owens, voc, g photos by Gianni Marcucci notes by Gianni Marcucci Albatros Records discography |
4 | 1979? | Way Back Yonder ... Original Country Blues Volume 3 Flora, Canton, Bentonia, Crystal Springs, Mississippi & Bogalusa, Louisiana (1978) - Sound Of The Yazoo river (0:55) @ Spotify Mott Willis - Baby Please Don't Go (2:10) @ Spotify William Diamond - Black Mattie (2:31) @ Spotify - Shaggy Hound (2:35) @ Spotify Jack Owens - Cherry Ball Blues no. 2 (3:42) @ Spotify Jacob Stuckey - Devil Got My Woman (1:57) @ Spotify Lonzo Burkes - Train I Ride (2:36) @ Spotify - Back Door Friend (2:31) @ Spotify - Smokestack Lightning (2:16) @ Spotify Roosevelt Holts - Big Road Blues (2:30) @ Spotify - Look-A-Here Little Woman (3:41) @ Spotify rec. August 1978 by Gianni Marcucci depicted on the front cover is Charley Taylor (not mentioned in credits!) notes by Gianni Marcucci Albatros Records discography |
5 | 1988 | Giants Of Country Blues Guitar 1967-81 Jessie Mae Hemphill - Eagle Bird °° @ youtube - Shame, Shame °° @ youtube Son House - Baby Please Don't Dog Me 'Round @ youtube Sam Chatmon - Stoop Down Baby @ youtube - Baby Please Come Back To Me @ youtube - Stop And Listen @ youtube Eugene Powell - 44 Blues @ youtube - Suitcase Full Of Troubles @ youtube - Texas - Santa Fe @ youtube Furry Lewis - Going To Brownsville @ youtube Jack Owens - Hard Times # @ youtube - Cherry Ball # @ youtube - Give Me Your Money # @ youtube - Devil Blues # @ youtube Mager Johnson / Carey 'Ditty' Mason - Traveling Man Blues @ youtube Mott Willis - Traveling Man Blues @ youtube - Someday Blues @ youtube - Bad Night Blues @ youtube °° CD bonus tracks, rec. September 1991 in Senatobia, MS; Jessie Mae Hemphill. voc, g # rec.June 17, 1981 in Bentonia, MS by Ulrich Hahn; Jack Owens, voc, g Wolf LP 120.911 photography by Michael Hortig Wolf CD 120.911 photography by Michael Hortig and Hannes Folterbauer notes by Daniel Gugolz notes by Daniel Gugolz & Hannes Folterbauer |
6 | 1991 | 50 Years: Mississippi Blues In Bentonia 1931 - 1981: Skip James and Jack Owens Skip James - Devil Got My Woman - Cypress Grove Blues - Cherry Ball Blues - Illinois Blues - 4 O'Clock Blues - Hard-Luck Child - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues - Yola My Blues Away - Jesus Is A Mighty Good Leader - Be Ready When He Comes - Drunken Spree - I'm So Glad - Special Rider Blues - How Long Buck - Little Cow And Little Calf Is Gonna Die Blues - What Am I To Do Blues - 22-20 Blues - If You Haven't Any Hay, Don't Get On The Road Jack Owens - Hard Times - Cherry Ball - Give Me Your Money - Devil Blues - Leavin' Blues Skip James rec. 1930; Jack Owens rec. 1981 |
7 | 1992 | Giants Of Country Blues Vol. 3 Jack Owens - Leavin' Blues Eugene Powell - Blues In Texas Son Thomas - Walking Cane LV Conerly - Hard Headed Woman Roosevelt Holts - Big Road Blues Arzo Youngblood - I Don't Want No Woman Sam Chatmon - Talkin' Bout My Girl Wade Walton - Catfish Blues Isaac Youngblood - Big Road Blues Mott Willis - Long Tall Woman Robert Shaw - Ma Grinder Pt 2 - Mobile & KC Blues - The Cows - Rock Island Lavada Durst - Boogie Woogie Alex Moore - Henry 6 Mike Memphis Piano Red - Mama Likes Good Whiskey - After Hours Mose Vinson - Blues Jumped A Rabbit - Four O'Clock Blues # rec. October 21, 1981 in Dallas, TX by Ulrich Hahn; Jack Owens, voc, g cover drawing (of Robert Shaw) by Bernd Konrad notes by Michael Hortig not identical with Wolf CD |
8 | 1992 | Deep Blues Music from the Original Soundtrack R.L. Burnside - Jumper On The Line °° Junior Kimbrough - Jr. Blues (aka "Junior, I Love You") °° @ youtube Big Jack Johnson - Catfish Blues °° @ youtube - Daddy, When Is Momma Coming Home °° @ vimeo - Big Boy Now @ youtube Frank Frost - Midnight Prowler @ youtube Jessie Mae Hemphill - You Can Talk About Me °° @ vimeo - Shame On You R.L. Burnside - Long Haired Doney @ youtube Roosevelt 'Booba' Barnes - Heartbroken Man °° @ youtube - Ain't Gonna Worry About Tomorrow °° @ youtube - Love Like I Wanna @ youtube Lonnie Pitchford - Terraplane Blues - If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day °° Jack Owens with Bud Spires - Devil Blues °° @ vimeo movie directed & edited by Robert Mugge; written & narrated by Robert Palmer °° only eight of the 15 songs on the CD appear in the movie! CD CD / cassette
Deep Blues 91 min. video |
9 | 1993 | Jack Owens & Eugene Powell: The Last Giants Of Mississippi Blues Jack Owens - Cherry Ball - Hard Times - Devil - You Leavin' - No Lovin' - Please Give Me Your Money Eugene Powell - 44 Blues - Suitcase Full Of Troubles - Police In Mississippi - Born In Texas - Good Mornin', Little Schoolgirl - Blues In Texas - Goin' Up The Country - When I Leave Town - Mississippi River - Mean Mistreating Mama Jack Owens & Bud Spires - Hard Times - My Baby's Gone - Keep On Rumblin' - Cool Water - Devil rec. 1981-91 photos by Rien Wisse [not "Rien Wiaaw"], Dr. Herbert Passiak, Andrea Maria & Hannes Folterbauer |
10 | 1995 | Bottleneck Blues Napoleon Strickland - Key To The Bushes Big Joe Williams - Talking About Bottleneck - Traveling Blues Robert Night Hawk - Crying Won't Help You Mississippi Fred McDowell - Six White Horses Mott Willis - Knife Instrumental Robert Lee Granderson - Flora Blues J.B. Hutto & The Hawks - Wild Wild Woman Blind Connie Williams - St. Louis Blues David Honeyboy Edwards - Worryin' Woman Blues Robert Johnson - I'm Coming, Lord, Please Don't Drive Me Away Chicago Blues Band - Verna Lee Blues Mississippi Fred McDowell - Wouldn't Mind Dying John Littlejohn - Dust My Broom Blind Connie Williams - Trouble In Mind Big Joe Williams - How Do You Want Your Rollin' Done Mott Willis - M & O Blues Johnny Shines - Crucial Moment Jack Owens - Train Time Robert Johnson - I Don't Know When Death Is Gonna Call Me Herb Quinn - Casey, You Can't Ride This Train Napoleon Strickland - Skake 'Em Down [Testament T-2216 notes by David Evans = P-Vine PCD-5576 (Jp) Testament Records discography |
Blues From The Blue Front A Bentonia, Mississippi Collection (live juke-joint recordings by Jack Owens, Bud Spires, Tommy Lee West, Duck and Mookey Holmes, Cleo Pullman and Jacob Stuckey) rec. April 1996 |
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11 | 2001 | Africa And The Blues Hausa Trader - Garaya plucked lute (Nigeria) Glen Faulkner - One Stringed Guitar Moise Mbongon, Maurice Djenda - Mono-idiochord zither (C.A.R) Napoleon Strickland - Jitterbug Jack Owens - Train Time Limited Mfundo - Kwa chaGoma; Limited Mfunodo With Bangwe Zither (Malawi) Blind Lemon Jefferson - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean Othar Turner - Granny Will Your Dog Bite Chamba - Batal Dance (Nigeria) Dija Garamba - Nyawala Dance Song (Nigeria) Samuel Brooks - Quittin' Time Song Unknown Artist - Zanganyi Girl's Solo Song (Nigeria) Big Joe Williams - Stack O'Dollars Adamou Meigogue Garoua - Gogé One-Stringed Fiddle By Adamou Meigogue Garoua (Cameroon) Tikar - Tikar Woman's Grinding Song Mississippi Matilda - Hard Working Woman Omaru Sanda - Timbrh Lamellophone Performance (Cameroon) Robert Belfour - Poor Boy Long Way From Home Muhamadu Sarki Banbadawa - Algeita (oboes) Court Music Of The Lamido Of Toungo (Nigeria) Amadou Meigogue Garoua - Small Algeita By Adamou Meigogue Garoua Napoleon Strickland - The Hounds Baba Chale Mafala - Nyanga Panpipes Sid Hemphill - Ten-Hole Quills "Emmaline, Take Yo' Time" Mose Vinson - Rock'n'Roll Blues Tikar - Tikar Raphia Lamellophone Performance (Cameroon) Gonga Sarki Birgui, Hamadjam Sarki Siyawa - Double Bells (Nigeria) Tikar - Tikar Mourning Song With Poly-Idiochord Stick Zither Ed Bell - Mean Conductor Blues Desiré Basil Fouda - Ibaye Ibaye (Cameroon) Lemmy "Special" Mabaso - 4th Avenue Blues The Kachamba Brothers - Mafelo Twist (Malawi) The Kachamba Brothers - Chipiloni Chanjamile Elvis Viyuyu - Choir (Malawi) Gombani Lange, Lucas Shishonge - Mwena Kaji Acitwa, with mbira (South Africa) Dyula - Dyula Popular Music Ali Farka Touré - Yer Sabou Yerkoy companion CD to the book by Gerhard Kubik; prod. by Riki Parth |
12 | 2003 | Alan Lomax - Blues Songbook disc: 1 - Goin' Down The River - Mississippi Fred McDowell - Rolled And Tumbled - Rosalie Hill - Cherry Ball Blues - Jack Owens & Bud Spires - Dust My Broom - Howlin' Wolf - Boogie Children - Joe Lee - Stagolee - Lucious Curtis - Stop All The Buses - Cecil Augusta - Worried Life Blues - David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - The Pony Blues - Son House - Tangle Eye Blues - Walter 'Tangle Eye' Jackson - Trouble So Hard - Vera Ward Hall - Worried Blues - Sonny Terry - Beggin' The Blues - Bessie Jones - John Henry - Gabriel Brown - Country Blues - Dock Boggs - Cherry Ball Blues - Skip James - I Hate A Man Like You - Jelly Roll Morton - Roll 'Em - Pete Johnson - Kokomo - The Memphis Jug Band - Life Is Like That - Big Bill Broonzy disc: 2 - I Could Hear My Name A Ringin' - Big Bill Broonzy - Dimples In Your Jaws - Joe Lee - Catfish Blues - Jack Owens & Bud Spires - Kill-It-Kid Rag - Blind Willie McTell - You're Gonna Need My Help - Elinor Boyer - The Army Blues - David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - Blues De La Prison - Canray Fontenot - I Been Drinnkin' - Vera Ward Hall - I Been A Bad, Bad Girl - Ozella Jones - I Be's Troubled - Muddy Waters - Boogie Instrumental - R.L. Burnside - Blind Lemon Blues - Lead Belly - Sweet Patootie Blues - Albert Ammons - The Last Time - Sam Chatmon - Shorty George - Smith Casey - Desert Blues - Hattie Ellis - Joe Turner - Hobart Smith - Joe Turner - Miles - Joe Turner - Big Bill Broonzy - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Hobart Smith - How Long Blues - Sonny Terry Rounder Records discography |
13 | 2013 | Jack Owens: Blues at home 8 @ youtube (full album) - Hard Times (tk 1) (2:48) [Albatros VPA 8443] - Hard Times (tk 2) (2:49) [Albatros VPA 8443] - Hard Times (tk 4) (3:25) °° - Catfish Blues (tk 1) (2:58) °° - Catfish Blues (tk 2) (3:28) °° - Cherry Ball (tk 1) (3:00) [Albatros VPA 8443] - Cherry Ball (tk 2) (3:48) [Albatros VPA 8460] - Cherry Ball (tk 3) (3:50) °° - Cherry Ball (tk 4) (6:33) °° - Don't Sell My Monkey (tk 1) (2:22) [Albatros VPA 8443] - Don't Sell My Monkey (tk 2) (3:21) [Albatros VPA 8443] - The Devil (tk 1) (4:44) [Albatros VPA 8443] - The Devil (tk 2) (3:57) °° - The Devil (tk 3) (3:49) °° - The Devil (tk 4) (3:37) °° - Keep On Grumbling (tk 1) (4:33) [Albatros VPA 8443] - Can't See, Baby (3:40) °° - Keep On Grumbling (tk 2) (3:46) °° - Keep On Grumbling (tk 3) (3:21) °° - Give Me Your Money, Baby (tk 2) (2:02) [Albatros VPA 8443] - Give Me Your Money, Baby (tk 3) (3:08) °° - Ain't No Loving, Ain't No Getting Along (tk 4) (1:53) °° rec. 1978, 1980 & 1982 in Bentonia by Gianni Marcucci °° previously unissued |
14 | 2014 | The Roots Of It All: Acoustic Blues - The Definitive Collection, Vol. 3 disc 1: The 1960s Mance Lipscomb - Shake, Shake, Mama (2:50) John Lee Hooker - Tupelo (3:19) Rev. Gary Davis - Samson And Delilah (4:05) Robert Pete Williams - I've Grown So Ugly (2:48) Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand (3:03) Lonnie Johnson - Moaning Blues (4:01) Smoky Babe - Hottest Brand Goin' (4:06) Herman E. Johnson - I Just Keeps On Wanting You (2:45) Scrapper Blackwell - Shady Lane (5:27) Pink Anderson - I Got Mine (3:07) Pete Franklin - Prison Bound (4:21) Shirley Griffith - Bye Bye Blues (4:11) R.C. Smith - Please Don't Drive Me Away (2:25) Memphis Willie B. - Wine Drinking Woman (3:36) Baby Tate - What Have I Done To You (2:42) Leroy Dallas - She Caught The M & O (3:43) Sleepy John Estes - Vernita's Blues (2:19) J.D. Short - I'm Just Wastin' My Time (5:25) Muddy Waters - Feel Like Going Home (3:52) Buddy Moss - Amy (2:42) Johnny Young - Want My Lovin' (3:30) Arvella Gray - Corrine, Corrina (2:13) Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man (2:53) Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis - Alberta (2:56) disc 2: The 1970s Son House - Empire State Express (3:41) Mississippi Fred McDowell - Frisco Lines (3:59) J.B. Lenoir - If I Get Lucky (2:59) Skip James - Sickbed Blues (4:06) R.L. Burnside - Long Haired Doney (2:45) Furry Lewis - Old Original Furry Lewis Blues (3:46) Joe Callicott - Lonesome Katy Blues (3:04) John Jackson - Rocks And Gravel (3:15) Babe Stovall - Worried Blues (3:33) Howlin' Wolf - Ain't Goin' Down That Dirt Road #2 (4:20) Larry Johnson - Four Women Blues (2:33) Jack Owens - I Love My Baby (4:50) Johnny Shines - Your Troubles Can't Be Like Mine (4:18) Brownie McGhee - My Last Suit (3:53) Juke Boy Bonner - Tired Of The Greyhound Bus (2:26) Tarheel Slim - So Sweet, So Sweet (3:19) Tom Shaw - Baby Be A Boy Child Named Him After Me (5:44) Eddie Taylor - Bullcow Blues (3:10) Bill Williams - Salty Dog (4:37) Guitar Shorty - Jessie Jones (3:58) Rev. Pearly Brown - It's A Mean Old World To Try To Live In (2:24) Louisiana Red - Dead Stray Dog (3:56) David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Big Fat Mama (2:56) Henry Townsend - Can't You See (3:18) front cover photo (of Big Joe Williams) by Axel Küstner 112-pp. booklet notes by Bill Dahl |
Sources/Further reading: - own record collecion - Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 218 - http://www.mastersoftraditionalarts.org/artists/257?selected_facets=name_initial_last_exact:O - http://www.hutten.org/rob/writing/remembering_jack.html - Ebay auctions - diverse internet resources thanks to Simone Scarpa and Larry Hoffman for additional info / scans
Jack Owens 1973 source: The Transatlantic Blues Book, compiled by Mike Leadbitter, photographs by Valerie Wilmer.- London (Transatlantic Group), no date [1973], no pagination (scanned and photoshopped [all illustrations in this booklet originally are reddish] by Stefan Wirz) photographer: Val Wilmer
Rob Hutten 'Remembering Jack Owens'
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