SESSION DISCOGRAPHY * ALBUMS DISCOGRAPHY * SINGLES DISCOGRAPHY

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Friday, October 12, 2012

Ronee Blakley


*24-08-1945 Nampa, ID
by Praguefrank
SESSIONS
ca early 1972 unknown – Ronee Blakley, * w. Linda Ronstadt (Ronee Blakley [vcl/piano] + unknown musicians. Producer: Robert W. Zachary, Jr.)
001 DUES Elektra EK-45812/EKL-75027  
002 SLEEPIN' SICKNESS BLUES Elektra EKL-75027  
003 ATTACHMENT Elektra EKL-75027  
004 DOWN TO THE RIVER Elektra EKL-75027  
005 GABRIEL Elektra EKL-75027  
006 I LIED Elektra EKL-75027  
007 ALONG THE SHORE Elektra EK-45786/EKL-75027  
008 FRED HAMPTON Elektra EK-45812/EKL-75027  
009 COCK O' THE WALK Elektra EKL-75027  
010 BLUEBIRD* Elektra EK-45786/EKL-75027  
011 GRADUATION TUNE Elektra EKL-75027   
1975 [soundtrack Nashville] unknown – Ronee Blakley,* w. Henry Gibson
012 TAPEDECK IN HIS TRACTOR  ABCD ABCD-893
013 DUES ABCD ABCD-893
014 ONE, I LOVE YOU* ABCD ABCD-893
015 MY IDAHO HOME ABCD ABCD-893
July 1975 The Music Mill Studio, 3614 Jackson Hwy, Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, AL – Ronee Blakley (Ronee Blakley [vcl/ac gt/keyboards], Reggie Young [gt], David Hood [bass instrument], Roger Hawkins [drums], Muscle Shoals Horns [horns]. Producer: Jerry Wexler)
016 AMERICAN BEAUTY WB BS-2890  
017 I WAS BORN TO LOVE YOU WB BS-2890  
018 PLEASE WB WBS8155/BS-2890  
019 YOUNG MAN WB BS-2890  
020 IDAHO HOME WB BS-2890  
021 SHE LAYS IT ON THE LINE WB BS-2890  
022 NOBODY'S BRIDE WB BS-2890  
023 IF I SAW YOU IN THE MORNING WB BS-2890  
024 TAPEDECK WB BS-2890  
025 NEED A NEW SUN RISING WB BS-2890  
026 LOCKED BEHIND MY TRUE LOVE'S DOOR WB BS-2890  
027 WELCOME WB BS-2890  
ca August 1977 Los Angeles, CA – Leonard Cohen and Ronee Blakley (Producer: Phil Spector)
028 VCA7361 TRUE LOVE LEAVES NO TRACKS  WBS 8527/BS-3125
029 VCA7362 IODINE WBS 8527 /BS-3125
WARNER BS 3125 LEONARD COHEN – DEATH OF LADIES’S MAN (1978)
1979 [soundrack Lightning Over Water] poss. Los Angeles, CA – Ronee Blakley
030 LIGHTNING OVER WATER  RPBI 0596-2   
031 NICK  RPBI 0596-2   
032 TEXAS  RPBI 0596-2   
033 REBEL  RPBI 0596-2 
034 IN DER FRUHE  RPBI 0596-2   
035 RAMA DAY  RPBI 0596-2   
036 RAMA NIGHT  RPBI 0596-2
Ronee Blakley returned in 2000s, info in albums list


ALBUMS
Elektra EKL-75027 Ronee Blakley: Dues; Sleepin' Sickness Blues; Attachment; Down To The River; Gabriel; I Lied; Along The Shore; Fred Hampton; Cock O' The Walk; Bluebird (w. Linda Ronstadt); Graduation Tune – 04-72 (reissued on Collector’s Choice Music CCM669-2 in 2006)
ABC ABCD-893 Nashville: It Don't Worry Me (Keith Carradine); Bluebird (Timothy Brown); For The Sake Of The Children (Henry Gibson); Keep A-Goin (Henry Gibson); Memphis (Karen Black); Rolling Stone (Karen Black); 200 Years (Henry Gibson ); Tapedeck In His Tractor (Ronee Blakley); Dues (Ronee Blakley); I'm Easy (Keith Carradine; One, I Love You (Henry Gibson And Ronee Blakely); My Idaho Home (Ronee Blakley); It Don't Worry Me (Barbara Harris And Keith Carradine ) – 75 (O.S.; Reissued On MCA 170 1733-2 In 2000)
Warner Brothers BS-2890 Welcome: American Beauty; I Was Born To Love You; Please; Young Man; Idaho Home; She Lays It On The Line; Nobody's Bride; If I Saw You In The Morning; Tapedeck; Need A New Sun Rising; Locked Behind My True Love's Door; Welcome – 75 (reissued on Collector’s Choice Music CCM670-2 in 2006)
RBPI 0260-2 I Played It for You: I Played It for You; Crazy; Just Like a Woman; River of No Return; Driven; Mama Lied; Love Is Like Glass; Waitin'; Can't Let You Be My Man; Over and Over  - 07
RBPI 0266-2 Ronee Blakley Live at the Mint: Intro (Solo ); Red River Valley; Fred Hampton; Bluebird; Alien Abduction; Shenendoah; Intro (Band); I'm Free; I Need a Man; Country Rhapsody; Lower Your Fist; 1200 Miles; Attachment; Prodigy - 08
RBPI 0267-2 Freespeak: Quinceanera; Take Me Down; Hyacinth; Gone But Not Forgotten; Past Perfect; Do Something; The Child; Leaves; Skiing; What Would Jesus Do; Thoughts On Katrina; Beauty Entered My Life; Village Room; Hold You Again; Like Noah; Gunmetal Clouds; Reunion; Solo; Remarks -  08 (spoken word with music)
RPBI 0596-2 Lightning Over Water: Lightning Over Water; Nick; Texas; Rebel; In Der Fruhe; Rama Day; Rama Night – 08 (Soundtrack, rec. 1979)
RBPI 0598-2 Naked Truth: (spoken word) - 08
RBPI 0597-2 River Nile: River Nile; Yippe Kai Yai Yay; Unfrozen; Aswan; Brand New Start; Grandpa Said; One Blood; Fresh Gardenias; Lu's Blues; Helmet Maker's Wife – 09 (recorded at Theta Studios, Burbank, CA)
RBPI ? (UPC015882071673) Grief Holes: (spoken word and instrumental) - 09
RBPI ?  (UPC015882000390) Live At The Bitter End: Introduction; Red River; Relativity; Prodigy; A Thing of Beauty; Introduction of David Mansfield and Paul Colby; Bluebird; Unfrozen; Idaho Home; Fresh Gardenias; Grandpa Said; I Need a Man; New Sun; River Nile; Dues; One Blood; Grief Holes - 11
RBPI ? (UPC015882000383)  Djerassi Collection: (spoken word, poetry) - 12
RBPI ? Atom Bomb Baby: Double Album:  Hurricane;  Into the Wind and Beyond;  Redux Little Joe;  Songs Round the Fire;  What Was the Reason;  A Thing of Beauty;  Atom Bomb Baby: Fear By Request;  George Floyd, Oh Mama – 11-12-20

SINGLES
Elektra (1972)
EK-45786  Bluebird / Along The Shore – 05-72
EK-45812  Dues / Fred Hampton – 09-72
Warner Brothers (1975-)
WBS 8155 Please / ? – 10-75
WBS 8527  Iodine / True Love Leaves No Tracks – 01-78


Eric Taylor


*25-09-1949 Atlanta, GA
by Praguefrank
SESSIONS
1976 Bickley Studio,1210 Tulane, Houston, TX - Eric Taylor [-1], Bill Cade [-2], Steven Jarrard [-3], Lynn Langham [-4], Don Sanders [-5] (+ Pete Gorrish/Bill Cade [bass]. Produced by Walter P. Spinks)
000 SWEET SHINE -3 Fair Retail 001
000 SINGER IN THE SUNSET -3  Fair Retail 001
000 PINEAPPLE AND RUM -3 Fair Retail 001
000 YOU AND ME  -5 Fair Retail 001
000 BAYOU SONG  -5 Fair Retail 001
000 MEAN ‘OL ALCOHOL -5 Fair Retail 001
000 RIPPED OFF -2  Fair Retail 001
000 TOO LONG IN THE CITY -2 Fair Retail 001  
000 TEXAS WAS MY HOME  -2 Fair Retail 001
001 MEMPHIS MIDNIGHT, MEMPHIS MORNING  -1 Fair Retail 001  
002 VIRGINIA’S PHOTOGRAPH -1 Fair Retail 001
003 RAINBOWS AND LIGHTNING, BEAUTIFUL AND FRIGHTENING -1 Fair Retail 001
000 QUICKFIRE -4 Fair Retail 001
000 NIGHTDRIFTS  -4 Fair Retail 001  -
1981 Loma Ranch Studio, Fredericksburg, TX – Eric Taylor
004 ONLY LOVERS Featherbed FB-901
005 GAME OF HEARTS Featherbed FB-901 
006 HEY LITTLE RYDER Featherbed FB-901
007 EAST TEXAS MOON Featherbed FB-901
008 JOSEPH CROSS Featherbed FB-901 
009 FEATHERBED Featherbed FB-901
010 SHERMANN KARMANN Featherbed FB-901 
011 COWGIRL'S HEEL Featherbed FB-901 
012 CHARLIE RAY MCWHITE Featherbed FB-901 
013 SHAMELESS LOVE Featherbed FB-901 
17 May-12 July 1995 Congress House Studios, Austin, TX – Eric Taylor (Eric Taylor [vcl/gt],  Denice Franke [vcl/bck vcl], Ian Matthews [vcl/bck vcl], Lyle Lovett [vcl/bck vcl], Kris McKay [vcl], Bradley Kopp [el gt/bck vcl], Robert McEntee [slide gt], Rafael Gayol [drums/ percussion], James Gilmer [percussion],  Gene Elders [violin], John Hagen [cello], Michael Ramos [piano], Ted Roddy [harmonica], Elias Haslanger [sax], Mark Hallman [bck vcl])
014 DEAN MORIARTY Watermelon WMCD-1040
015 PRISON MOVIE Watermelon WMCD-1040
016 HEY LITTLE RYDER Watermelon WMCD-1040
017 DEADWOOD Watermelon WMCD-1040
018 MISSION DOOR Watermelon WMCD-1040
019 TRACTOR SONG Watermelon WMCD-1040
020 VISITORS FROM INDIANA Watermelon WMCD-1040
021 ALL SO MUCH LIKE ME Watermelon WMCD-1040
022 WHOOPING CRANE Watermelon WMCD-1040
023 HEMINGWAY'S SHOTGUN Watermelon WMCD-1040
024 ALL DAY SATURDAY Watermelon WMCD-1040
025 SHOESHINE BOY Watermelon WMCD-1040  
January-March 1998 Red Shack Studios, Houston, TX – Eric Taylor (Eric Taylor [vcl/gt], Denice Franke [vcl], Rock Romano [bass/bck vcl], James Gilmer [percussion],  Gene Elders [violin], Mike Sumler [piano/organ], Eric Demmer [sax], Dennis Dotson [trumpet], Alena Richardson, Anne Lockhart [bck vcl])
026 WALKIN' BACK HOME Koch KOC-CD-8026
027 LOUIS ARMSTRONG'S BROKEN HEART Koch KOC-CD-8026
028 SWEET SUNNY SOUTH Koch KOC-CD-8026
029 TEXAS, TEXAS Koch KOC-CD-8026
030 TWO FIRES Koch KOC-CD-8026
031 BIRDLAND Koch KOC-CD-8026
032 STRONG ENOUGH FOR TWO Koch KOC-CD-8026
033 FOUR GREAT WHITE FATHERS Koch KOC-CD-8026
034 COMANCHE Koch KOC-CD-8026
035 RESURRECT Koch KOC-CD-8026
036 DEPOT LIGHT Koch KOC-CD-8026
July – September 2000 Red Shack Studios, Houston, TX – Eric Taylor (Eric Taylor [vcl/ac gt/el gt/bass], James Gilmer [percussion], Mike Sumler [piano/organ], Eric Demmer [sax], Denice Franke, Alaina Richardson, Rock Romano, Susan Lindfors, Tommie Lee Bradley [bck vcl])
037 HAPPY ENDINGS Eminent EM26001  
038 WHERE I LEAD ME Eminent EM26001  
039 ALL THE WAY TO HEAVEN Eminent EM26001  
040 CHICKEN PIE Eminent EM26001  
041 BLUE PIANO Eminent EM26001  
042 WHITE BONE Eminent EM26001  
043 DELIA / BAD NEWS Eminent EM26001  
044 YOUR GOD Eminent EM26001  
045 BREAD AND WINE Eminent EM26001
046 GAME IS GONE Eminent EM26001  
047 NOTHIN' Eminent EM26001  
2005 poss. Red Shack Studios, Houston, TX – Eric Taylor
048 THE GREAT DIVIDE  Blue Ruby 002
049 BIG LOVE  Blue Ruby 002
050 WHOREHOUSE MIRRORS AND PAWNSHOP KNIVES  Blue Ruby 002
051 MICKEY FINN  Blue Ruby 002
052 AIN'T BUT ONE THING GIVE A MAN THE BLUES  Blue Ruby 002
053 JUST SHORT OF THE LINE  Blue Ruby 002
054 MANHATTAN MANDOLIN BLUES  Blue Ruby 002
055 STORMS  Blue Ruby 002
056 SHOES  Blue Ruby 002
057 BRAND NEW COMPANION / LULU'S BACK IN TOWN / DIRTY DIRTY  Blue Ruby 002
058  BONNIE AND AVERY  Blue Ruby 002
2007 Red Shack Studios, Houston, TX – Eric Taylor
059 HOLLYWOOD POCKETKNIFE  Blue Ruby 003
060 CARNIVAL JIM AND JEAN  Blue Ruby 003
061 HIGHWAY KIND  Blue Ruby 003
062 JAIL WIDOW'S WALK  Blue Ruby 003
063 BETTER MAN  Blue Ruby 003 
064 OLNEY'S POISON AND THE HOUSTON BLUES  Blue Ruby 003
065 A MATTER OF DEGREES  Blue Ruby 003
066 POSTCARDS, 3 FOR A DIME  Blue Ruby 003
067 PEPPERCORN TREE  Blue Ruby 003
068 RALLY ROUND THE FLAG  Blue Ruby 003 
late May 2011 [live] Red Shack Studios, Houston, TX - Eric Taylor (Eric Taylor [ld vcl/ac gt], Marco Python Fecchio [el gt], James Gilmer [percussion],  Lyle Lovett, Denice Franke, Nanci Griffith, Susan Lindfors Taylor [vcl])
06801 INTRO CARNIVAL JIM AND DEAN  Blue Ruby 004 
06802 CARNIVAL JIM AND DEAN  Blue Ruby 004
06803 TEXAS, TEXAS  Blue Ruby 004
06804 INTRO LYLE LOVETT  Blue Ruby 004
06805 MEMPHIS MIDNIGHT, MEMPHIS MORNING  Blue Ruby 004
06806 TRACTOR SONG  Blue Ruby 004
06807 VISITORS FROM INDIANA  Blue Ruby 004
06808 BLUE PIANO  Blue Ruby 004
06809 INTRO DEAN MORIARTY  Blue Ruby 004
06810 DEAN MORIARTY  Blue Ruby 004
06811 INTRO NANCI GRIFFITH  Blue Ruby 004
06812 MISSION DOOR  Blue Ruby 004
06813  INTRO DOLLAR MATINEE  Blue Ruby 004
06814 DOLLAR MATINEE  Blue Ruby 004
06815 INTRO PYTHON   Blue Ruby 004
06816 DEADWOOD  Blue Ruby 004
06817 INTRO GIRLS  Blue Ruby 004
06818 PRISON MOVIE  Blue Ruby 004
06819 INTRO JAMES GILMER  Blue Ruby 004
06820 GOOD TIMES FICKLE FRIEND  Blue Ruby 004
06821 IS ROCK PRAYIN'?  Blue Ruby 004

2012 unknown – Eric Taylor (Eric Taylor [vcl/gt/ bass], Rock Romano [bass/ back vcl], Jame Gilmer [percussion], David Webb [keyboards], Susan Lindfors Taylor [hmny vcl])
069 MOLLY’S PAINTED PONY Blue Ruby 005
070 RENO Blue Ruby 005  
071 BILL Blue Ruby 005  
072 COVER THESE BONES Blue Ruby 005  
073 DARK CORNER ICE WATER Blue Ruby 005
074 FRANCESTOWN Blue Ruby 005  
075 ADIOS Blue Ruby 005  
076 TULLY’S TITLES Blue Ruby 005  
077 TULLY Blue Ruby 005  
078 STRING OF PEARLS Blue Ruby 005  

 


ALBUMS
Fair Retail 001 Through The Dark Nightly: Sweet Shine; Singer In The Sunset;  Pineapple and Rum;  You And Me; Bayou Song; Mean ‘Ol Alcohol; Ripped Off;  Too Long In The City;  Texas Was My Home; Memphis Midnight, Memphis Morning;  Virginia’s Photograph; Rainbows And Lightning, Beautiful And Frightening; Quickfire; Nightdrifts - 76
Featherbed FB-901 Shameless Love: Only Lovers; Game Of Hearts; Hey Little Ryder; East Texas Moon; Joseph Cross; Featherbed; Shermann Karmann; Cowgirl's Heel;  Charlie Ray Mcwhite; Shameless Love – 81 (reissued on Blue Ruby 001)
Watermelon WMCD-1040 Eric Taylor: Dean Moriarty; Prison Movie; Hey Little Ryder; Deadwood; Mission Door; Tractor Song; Visitors From Indiana; All So Much Like Me; Whooping Crane; Hemingway's Shotgun; All Day Saturday; Shoeshine Boy - 95
E1 Music/Koch KOC-CD-8026 Resurrect: Walkin' Back Home; Louis Armstrong's Broken Heart; Sweet Sunny South; Texas, Texas; Two Fires; Birdland; Strong Enough for Two; Four Great White Fathers; Comanche; Resurrect; Depot Light – 18-08-98
Eminent EM-26001 Scuffletown: Happy Endings; Where I Lead Me; All the Way to Heaven; Chicken Pie; Blue Piano; White Bone; Delia / Bad News; Your God; Bread and Wine; Game Is Gone; Nothin' - 20-03-01
Silverwolf 1031  The Kerrville Tapes: Sweet Sunny South; Texas, Texas; Where I Lead Me; Prison Movie; Walkin' Back Home; Louis Armstrong's Broken Heart; Hemingway's Shotgun; Two Fires; Birdland; Strong Enough for Two – 03-06-03 (live recordings from Kerville festivals)
Blue Ruby 002 The Great Divide: The Great Divide; Big Love; Whorehouse Mirrors and Pawnshop Knives; Mickey Finn; Ain't But One Thing Give a Man the Blues; Just Short of the Line; Manhattan Mandolin Blues; Storms; Shoes; Brand New Companion / Lulu's Back in Town / Dirty Dirty; Bonnie and Avery - 05                 
Blue Ruby 003 Hollywood Pocketknife: Hollywood Pocketknife;  Carnival Jim and Jean;  Highway Kind; Jail Widow's Walk; Better Man;  Olney's Poison and The Houston Blues;  A Matter of Degrees; Postcards, 3 for a Dime;  Peppercorn Tree; Rally Round the Flag - 07
Blue Ruby 004 Live at the Red Shack: Intro Carnival Jim and Dean;  Carnival Jim and Dean; Texas, Texas; Intro Lyle Lovett; Memphis Midnight, Memphis Morning; Tractor Song; Visitors from Indiana; Blue Piano; Intro Dean Moriarty; Dean Moriarty; Intro Nanci Griffith; Mission Door; Intro Dollar Matinee; Dollar Matinee; Intro Python; Deadwood; Intro Girls; Prison Movie; Intro James Gilmer; Good Times Fickle Friend; Is Rock Prayin'? - 11

Blue Ruby 005 Studio 10: Molly’s Painted Pony; Reno; Bill; Cover These Bones; Dark Corner Ice Water; Francestown; Adios; Tully’s Titles; Tully; String Of Pearls - 04-06-13

 

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Michel Ruppli, not only for his books which I use daily, but also for a large amount of rare and unpublished data from his giant archive.
Thanks to all my friends - country music fans - in Czech Republic - Vladimir Pikora, Michal Gololobov, Milos Holecek, Tony Foglar, Rene Pavlik and Petr Vitous.
Thanks to Mario Manciotti for sending session details daily
Thanks to Kurt Rokitta for a lot of session info
Thanks to Bill Daniels for sharing a lot of labels info
Thanks to Lillies Ohlsson for many western swing contributions.
Thanks to Dick Grant for many artists files
Thanks to Thieu Van De Vorst for a lot of additions and corrections
Thanks to Goran Adolph for many rare albums info
Thanks to Hans Sandberg for many rare session data
Thanks to Chris Huskey for many sessions info.
Thanks to Kittra Moore for musicians and recording data
Thanks to Dik de Heer for many additions on rockabilly.
Thanks to Luiz Roberto Costa for helping me with the western genre.
Thanks to Wolf Ruediger Sommer, who not only sent me additional data, but is also watch-dog, correcting my typos and other errors.
Thanks to Robert Platt for priceless info on Canadian (but not only) artists.
Thanks to Phil Watson for hard work on Crown Prince of country music discography. Thanks to Walter Gabriel for filling the gaps in track listings of rare albums and various artists compilations.
Thanks to Kent Heineman for many independent recordings info
Thanks to Ken Nelson for bluegrass and more additions.
Thanks to Tony Middleton for RCA session info.
Thanks to Xavier Maire for interesting additions and for info on his website www.bopping.org.
Thanks to Henk Scholts for long time cooperation.
Thanks to Richard Price for miscellaneous session information
Thanks to Carl G. Cederblad for additions to sessionographies
Thanks to Paul Urbahns, Marc Alesina, Bill Millet, Bengt Wahlström, John Morris, Dominique Anglares, Pierre Monnery, Jeremy Roberts, Ben Collins, Alex Frazer-Harrison, K.F.Raizor, Ed Tabor, Mario Wildner, Ole Skjoldhøj, Eileen Sisk, Per Kammersgaard, David Bussey, Bill Marks for rare info on their favorite artists.
Thanks to Reginald Bartlette for info and additions of Columbia custom numbers.
Thanks to Katarina Fromm for various singles info.
Thanks to many others who sent some info - all are important.
Thanks to Richard Weize for his idea to produce projects, which have small commercial potential, but huge value for collectors - I spend a lot of money buying boxes and CDs, sometimes mainly because of the accompanying discographies.
Thanks also to Patrick Milligan, who created many discographies for Bear Family projects
Thanks to Marek Bozickovic for picture in head
And last but not least I would like to thank all who visit this blog - they come from more than 100 countries.