MAGGIE JONES — Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Volume 1 · 1923-1925 (1995) DOCD-5348 | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Collecting up all of Maggie Jones' earliest recordings from August 1923 to April 1925, this 24-track compilation features her in a variety of settings. Starting out with simple piano accompaniment from Don Redman or Fletcher Henderson, her later sides in the set find her working with fuller combos counting up at various times contributions from Louis Armstrong and guitarists Sam Clark and Roy Smeck. Taken from rarer-than-rare original 78s in fairly battered shape, two of the tracks have skips in them that no amount of noise reduction can fix. A seasoned theater performer, Jones had a classic blues style that wears well. Here's where her story begins. Cub Koda

Tracklist :
1.    Fae Barnes–    Do It Long Time Papa    2:54
2.    Fae Barnes–    I Just Want A Daddy    3:03
3.    Maggie Jones–    You Can't Do What My Last Man Did    2:39
4.    Maggie Jones–    Don't Never Tell Nobody What Your Good Man Can Do    2:41
5.    Fae Barnes–    You Don't Know My Mind (take 1)    3:00
6.    Fae Barnes–    You Don't Know My Mind (take 3)    3:02
7.    Fae Barnes–    Good-Bye Blues (take 1)    3:05
8.    Fae Barnes–    Good-Bye Blues (take 2)    2:58
9.    Maggie Jones–    Four Flushing Papa (What Kind A Man Is You)    3:11
10.    Maggie Jones–    Jealous Mama Blues    3:09
11.    Maggie Jones–    Box Car Blues    3:03
12.    Maggie Jones–    Western Union Blues    3:00
13.    Maggie Jones–    Poor House Blues    3:01
14.    Maggie Jones–    Anybody Here Want To Try My Cabbage    3:14
15.    Maggie Jones–    Thunderstorm Blues    2:57
16.    Maggie Jones–    If I Lose, Let Me Lose (Mamma Don't Mind)    3:13
17.    Maggie Jones–    Screamin' The Blues    3:13
18.    Maggie Jones–    Good Time Flat Blues    3:05
19.    Maggie Jones–    You May Go, But You'll Come Back Some Day    3:00
20.    Maggie Jones–    Early Every Morn' (I Want My Lovin')    3:02
21.    Maggie Jones–    Dangerous Blues    3:07
22.    Maggie Jones–    Suicide Blues    3:05
23.    Maggie Jones–    Undertaker's Blues    3:12
24.    Maggie Jones–    North Bound Blues    3:09
Credits :
Compilation Producer – Johnny Parth
Cornet – Louis Armstrong (tracks: 13 to 20)
Effects – Unknown Artist (tracks: 15)
Guitar – Alabama Joe (J. M. "Doc" Miller Or Roy Smeck) (tracks: 21, 22), Sam Clark (tracks: 5 to 8)
Liner Notes – John Wilby
Piano – Donald M. Redmond (Don Redman?) (tracks: 1, 2), Fletcher Henderson (tracks: 3, 4, 11 to 20, 23, 24), Lemuel Fowler (tracks: 9, 10)
Remastered By – Gerhard Wessely
Trombone – Charlie Green (tracks: 11, 12, 23, 24)
Vocals – Maggie Jones  

SARA MARTIN — In Chronological Order Volume 3 (1924-1925) DOCD-5397 (1995) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

The third of four Document CDs that reissue all of the classic blues singer Sara Martin recordings (except for a few numbers with famous musicians that have been reissued elsewhere) has the bulk of her 1924-25 performances. Martin is heard in several different settings: duets with guitarist Sylvester Weaver, small group dates with Clarence Williams, duets with Williams or pianist Lemuel Fowler and backing by a violin-guitar-banjo trio. Sara Martin's voice and emotional range grew gradually throughout the '20s and such numbers as "Got to Leave My Home Blues," "Some Blues," "I'd Rather Be Blue Than Green," "I Can Always Tell When a Man Is Treatin' Me Cool" and "Mournful Blues" are among the finest recordings of her career.  Scott Yanow
Tracklist :
1.    Pleading Blues    3:05
2.    Every Woman Needs A Man    3:07
3.    Got To Leave My Home Blues    2:41
4.    Poor Me Blues    2:41
5.    If I Don't Find My Brown I Won't Be Back At All (take A)    2:52
6.    Too Late Now To Get Your Baby Back    3:04
7.    He's Never Gonna Throw Me Down  3:04
Orchestra – Clarence Williams' Harmonizers
8.    What Kinda Man Is You    3:08
9.    Some Blues (No Name Blues)    3:12
10.    Old Fashioned Sara Blues    2:48
11.    Sobbin' Hearted Blues    3:00
12.    I'd Rather Be Blue Than Green    2:58
13.    Cage Of Apes    2:32
14.    Things Done Got Too Thick    2:51
Orchestra – Clarence Williams' Blue Five
15.    Eagle Rock Me, Papa  2:48
Orchestra – Clarence Williams' Blue Five
16.    Can't Find Nobody To Do Like My Old Daddy Do    2:31
17.    I'm Sorry Blues    3:01
18.    Daddy, Ease This Paine Of Mine    2:28
19.    Strange Lovin' Blues    2:56
20.    I Can Always Tell When A Man Is Treatin' Me Cool    3:09
21.    Down At The Razor Ball    2:38
22.     Mournful Blues    3:20
23.     Georgia Stockade Blues    2:54
24.     I'm Gonna Hoodoo You  3:04
Orchestra – Clarence Williams' Blue Five
Credits : 
Alto Saxophone – Unknown Artist (tracks: 14, 15, 24)
Banjo – Buddy Christian (tracks: 14, 15), Charles Washington (tracks: 16 to 20)
Banjo [Prob.] – Buddy Christian (tracks: 24)
Compilation Producer – Johnny Parth
Cornet – ... Thomas (tracks: 24), June Clark (tracks: 21 to 23), Tom Morris (tracks: 7), Unknown Artist (tracks: 14, 15)
Guitar – Sylvester Weaver (tracks: 1 to 5, 16 to 20)
Liner Notes – Pen Bogert
Piano – Clarence Williams (tracks: 6, 7, 10 to 15, 21 to 24), Lemuel Fowler (tracks: 8, 9)
Soprano Saxophone [Poss.] – Ernest Elliott (tracks: 7)
Trombone – Charlie Irvis (tracks: 7), Unknown Artist (tracks: 14, 15)
Trombone [Poss.] – Charlie Irvis (tracks: 24)
Trombone [Prob.] – Jimmy Harrison (tracks: 21 to 23)
Violin – E. L. Coleman (tracks: 19, 20)
Vocals – Clarence Williams (tracks: 24), Sara Martin