Cleve Reed's guest appearances

Cleve Reed

BackAlleyBlues

Phil Jackson

Robert Johnson

Henry Thomas

John Hurt

Willie Johnson

Freddie King

Willie McTell

Robert Wilkins

Phil Lesh

Bob Lanza

Eric Bath

Josh Kirkland

Mike Musgrove

Cora Mae Bryant

Furious Slugs

OwlTail

in 1925, banjoist Papa Charlie Jackson’s “I’m Alabama Bound” showed the links between all three titles. “Elder Greene” would be featured on later recordings by Blind Lemon Jefferson Charlie Patton(1920s) and in 1958 by Mississippi singer/guitarist “Cat-Iron”. “Alabama Bound” was recorded by Leadbelly in 1935 and 1940 and cropped up c.1956 by Lonnie Donegan during the British skiffle craze! Whilst “Don’t Leave Me Here” was first recorded in 1927 by a Mississippi group who were sometimes billed as “Sunny Boy And His Pals” or “Long Cleve Reed” and “Little Harvey Hull”. Tampa Red and Georgia Tom backed each other’s vocals on “Mama Don’t Leave Me Here” (1931) and “Don’t Leave Me Here”(1932), respectively; but are 2 versions of an unrelated blues.

Long Cleve Reed and Little Harvey Hull