"Washboard Sam (Vol. 1) (1935-1947).
? © 1991 Alligator Records & Artist Management, Inc.
1996. Recorded at Streeterville Studios, Chicago, IL
Mastered at Monster Disc, Chicago, IL
Le strade di Roscoe Shelton si sono spesso incrociate con quelle del grande cantante rhythm'n'blues Earl Gaines (entrambe registravano per l'etichetta Excello negli anni '50 e '60), ma è la prima volta che realizzano un disco insieme con un intreccio di voci davvero esaltante.

Digipak.
Ospite Sean Costello
© 1995 Testament Records
This album was originally released on Advent in 1972.
Tracks 1 to 11 recorded in Austin, Texas in March, 1963.
Tracks 12 to 17 recorded in Austin, Texas on May 1, 1977 (tracks 12 to 14) and April 23-24, 1973 (tracks 15 to 17).
Tracks 12 to 17 are previously unreleased.
Recorded November 14 + 15, 1996 at ACME Recording, Chicago, Ill.
© (P) 1993 Wild Dog Records
Distributed by Ichiban Records, Inc.
Recorded and mixed at Kala Studios, Atlanta, G.A.
Recorded 1991 at Trails End Studio, Leander, Texas by the East Side Flash
La band di Russell Jackson, Mel Brown e Tony Coleman
Recorded In Elm City, North Carolina on October 10, 1972 (tracks 2, 3, 4, 6, 10, 11),
and on October 27, 1972 (tracks 5, 7, 8)
and on April 23, 1973 (tracks 1, 9)
Recorded at Morrisound Studios except tracks 8 and 12 recorded at Creative Workshop.
1996 Fantasy, Inc., printed in the USA.
Recorded at The Les Trois Mailletz, Paris; November 1962.
Remastering 1996 (AAD)
Il classico del pianista blues
Tracks 6, 16, 21 previously unreleased.
Digitally remastered on 24-bit.
Recorded November 15 and 16, 1962 at "Les Trois Mailletz", Paris.
Ristampa rimasterizzata con 5 bonus tracks.
Tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 27, 28, 29 previously re-released on Arhoolie LP R 2005
Original acetates recorded in New York City -- circa 1944.
Recorded at "Double D" Music, Fresno, CA on August 16, 1999.
Published by Lizbar Music BMI except track 7 published by Blues Man Music BMI and 10 published by EMI Unart Catalog BMI.
© ? 2000 Fedora Records
Recorded at the Center for Comparative Study of Folklore and Mythology, University of California at Los Angeles, December 3, 1966 and January 7, 1967 (tracks 2, 4, 5, 10 to 12, 14, 15).
Recorded unknown location, June 26, 1967 (tracks 1, 3, 6, 9, 13).
"Questa è la prima uscita da solista di James Solberg, che è ben noto a molti fan del blues in tutto il mondo per la sua associazione di lunga data con Luther Allison. Altri lo conoscono per i suoi periodi come chitarrista principale per Nighthawks di Washington, D.C., Legendary Blues Band di Muddy Waters, Elvin Bishop e i preferiti dell'area di Milwuakee, Short Stuff.

Prodotto da Paolo Bonfanti
Recorded in Chicago, 1993 at Chicago Trax by Julian Herzfeld and Al Ursini
Mixed at Chicago Trax by Julian Herzfeld, supervised by Dick Shurman and Little Smokey Smothers
Tracks 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 21, 23 previously unissued
Tracks 16, 19 previously unissued alternate takes.
Recorded and mixed at Studio Six, Memphis, Tennessee, July 1992
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ; August 11, 1960
Track 13 is a Bonus Track.
Titles 1-11 recorded in Crystal Springs, Miss., September 1967
Titles 12-13 recorded in Vienna, Austria, October 1976
Title 14 recorded in Perchtoldsdorf, Austria, October 1976
Title 15 recorded in Crystal Springs, Miss., July 1975
All selections recorded in 1965 by Peter K Siegel and Jody Stecher in Nassau, Bahamas and New York, NY.
Album Produced by Peter K Siegel, 1991.
Manufactured in USA
Recorded May 16, 1971 (Cambridge, MA.)
Tracks 9-18 previously unissued. All other selections originally issued on Arhoolie 1061
© & ? 1972 & 1990
Printed in Canada

Track 4 previously released as part of the Smithsonian Folkways box set Friends of Old Time Music.
Tracks 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 12 recorded May 14, 1965 at the home of Peter K. Siegel, New York.
Tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 11 recorded May 16, 1965 at a concert by the Friends of Old Time Music and the Newport Folk Foundation at the New School, New York.
Track 9 recorded June 1965 at the home of Joseph and Louise Spece, Nassau, Bahamas.
Track 13 recorded June 1965 at the home of Edith, Raymond and Geneva Pinder, Nassau, Bahamas.
Recorded on a Nagra III-B tape recorder with a Sony C37-A microphone.

Tracks 1 to 7 originally released in 1973
Tracks 8 to 15 originally released in 1975
Tracks 8 to 15 recorded at Artie Fields Studios, Detroit, MI.

