I mean, you could just get the compilations only collecting Williams stuff, but come on:ĭaisy Martin: Daisy Martin & Ozie McPherson: Complete Recorded Works (1921-1926) in Chronological Order (DOCD-5522) (Williams is suspected to play on some tracks)Įva Taylor aka Irene Gibbons: In Chronological Order Volume 1 (c. I’m not going to point out whether Williams plays on one, two or four tracks etc. But since that series is about to become a bit elusive itself, it is probably not a more viable strategy than anything else.įirst, you need to get the complete recordings of the following other blues/jazz artists. I found some inconsistencies, but don’t be alarmed: If anything, there’s more stuff on the list below, not less.Īlso, if you focus only on the entire Williams-„Chronogical Classics Series“, you won’t have every little bit, but the overwhelming part of his issued recordings. I mostly used this discography as a reference: …s_clarence.pdf He was so important as a composer, leader, sideman and co-credited artist/performer that the available discographies AND compilations collect his work that was credited to another recording artist. I usually don’t track sideman-work for these entries, but with Williams, things are different. But never forget: A discography is but a list made by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. These lists tend to start out easy, as there was plenty of time to collect and compile most of the historically important early blues performers in a complete and sensible fashion. I mostly don’t bother with work done as „sidewoman/sideman“ – so the list does not contain any last recording that, say, Muddy Waters participated in, just his output as a recording artist. The list mostly busies itself with the great „pre-album“-era performers whose work is sometimes scattered and hard to cobble together, sometimes it’s easy.

I cross-reference professional and amateur discographies, I scout liner notes and label catalogues: I rely on second-hand information. Note also that almost none of this is original research. Note that this is a work in constant and continuous progress, there are far too many performers that could be on here for me to do this in any systematic or comprehensive way. The list is in chronological, not alphabetical order, priorising start of recording career over date of birth.

I started this list over at RateYourMusic, so look there for a more complete version (as of now). The point of this site is to collect the CDs and/or LPs you need to know and acquire in order to collect the entire available output of great blues performers in the leanest possible way.

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