The George Mitchell Collection Keys and Positions
A consolidated sortable list of tracks is available at The George Mitchell Collection, Volumes 1-45 - Sortable Track Listing
Tuning / position column content varies depending on guitar tuning. Where the guitarist is in an open tuning it shows the common name, Vestapol (open D/E), Spanish (open G/A), Cross note (open Dm/Em). Where the guitar is in standard tuning the column shows the 1st position I chord.
Disc 1
Cecil Barfield
Albany, Georgia, 1976
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
1-01 | Lucy Mae Blues | G | A- |
1-02 | I Woke Up Crying | G | G# |
1-03 | Love Blues | E | D |
1-04 | I Told You Not to Do That | G | A |
Buddy Moss
Atlanta, Georgia, 1963
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
1-05 | In the Evening | E | D+ |
1-06 | Hey Lawdy Mama | E | C#+ |
1-07 | Thousand Woman Blues | A | G |
1-08 | Blue Shadow Falling | E | C#+ |
1-09 | Cold Rainy Day | E | C#+ |
1-10 | Amy | A | F#+ |
Leon Pinson
Cleveland, Mississippi, 9/18/67
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
1-11 | Motherless Child | Vestapol | C#- |
1-12 | Somebody is Calling My Name | Vestapol | C#- |
1-13 | What God Can Do | Standard | E |
1-14 | He'll Understand and Say Well Done | Vestapol | Eflat+ |
Houston Stackhouse
Dundee, Mississippi, 8/28/67
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
1-15 | Big Road Blues | Dropped-D | C#+ |
1-16 | Cool Water Blues | E | Eflat+ |
1-17 | Big Fat Mama Blues | A | Aflat+ |
1-18 | Take A Little Walk With Me | E | Eflat+ |
Big Joe Williams
Chicago, Illinois, 1963
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
1-19 | Everyone Got A Woman | Spanish | Bflat |
1-20 | What She Need with A Rooster | Spanish | Bflat |
1-21 | Sink or Swim | Spanish | Bflat |
1-22 | Prison Bound | Spanish | Bflat |
John Lee Ziegler
Kathleen, Georgia, late 1978
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
1-23 | Who's Gonna Be Your Man | Vestapol slide | G+ |
1-24 | If I Lose, Let Me Lose | Vestapol | G+ |
Other Turner
Como, Mississippi, 8/24/67
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
1-25 | Black Woman | Vestapol | C#+ |
1-26 | Bumble Bee | Vestapol | C#+ |
Disc 2
Lonzie Thomas
Lee County, Alabama, early 1980s
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
2-01 | Rabbit On A Log | Vestapol | D+ |
2-02 | Raise a Ruckus Tonight | Vestapol | D+ |
2-03 | My Three Women | Spanish | F# |
2-04 | Red Cross Store | Vestapol | D+ |
Sleepy John Estes
Brownsville, Tennessee, 1962
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
2-05 | Rats in the Kitchen | A | B+ |
2-06 | Special Agent | A | B+ |
2-07 | Trying To See | G | A+ |
2-08 | Mail Man Blues | G | A+ |
Teddy Williams
Canton, Mississippi, 9/16/67
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
2-09 | Down Home Blues | Dropped-D | E |
2-10 | Catfish Blues | E | D+ |
2-11 | Black Mattie | Vestapol | F- |
2-12 | Sun Don't Shine | A | Bflat+ |
Green Paschal
Talbotton, Georgia, 1969
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
2-13 | Trouble Brought Me Down | Vestapol slide | D- |
2-14 | My Lord | Vestapol slide | D- |
2-15 | Mother Is Dead | Vestapol slide | C#+ |
2-16 | Lay My Burden Down | Vestapol slide | C#+ |
2-17 | Your Close Friend | Vestapol slide | C#+ |
2-18 | I'm Going to Leave it . . * | Vestapol slide | C#+ |
'*' = full title is "I'm Going to Leave it in the Hands of the Lord"
William "Do Boy" Diamond
Canton, Mississippi, 9/15/67
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
2-19 | Hard Time Blues | Vestapol | B+ |
2-20 | Just Want to Talk With You | Spanish | F- |
Dewey Corley & Walter Miller
Memphis, Tennessee, Summer, 1967
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
2-21 | Just I Dream I got on my Mind | A | A |
2-22 | Memphis is a Wonderful City | A | Bflat |
2-23 | Down to Arkansas | A | Bflat |
Bud Grant
Thomaston, Georgia, 1969, Spring
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
2-24 | Rock Me Mama | E | F+ |
2-25 | Freight Train Blues | A | G# |
2-26 | So Sweet | A | G+ |
2-27 | Bud Grant's Grunt | E | F+ |
Disk 3
Bud White
Richland, Georgia, 2/2/69
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
3-01 | Go Ahead On | E | F+ |
3-02 | You've Been Gone So Long | E | F+ |
3-03 | White Horses | Cross-note | Eflat+ |
George Henry Bussey
Waverly Hall, Georgia, 1969
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
3-04 | When I'm Sober I'm Drunk Blues | G | F#- |
3-05 | Mean Mistreater | E | Eflat- |
3-06 | Blues Around My Bed | E | C# |
3-07 | Looking For My Woman | A | E+ |
Jim Bunkley
Geneva, Georgia, 1969
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
3-08 | Old Red #2 | Vestapol slide | D+ |
3-09 | Jack of Diamonds | Spanish | F+ |
3-10 | Them Greasy Greens | A | G+ |
3-11 | Rocking Chair | E | Eflat+ |
Tom Turner
Columbus, Mississippi, 9/6/67
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
3-12 | Old Breakdown | E | C#+ |
3-13 | Drop Down Mama # 1 | Spanish | G#+ |
James Shorter
Senatobia, Mississippi, 8/2/67
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
3-14 | Search Me Lord * | (a capella) | Aflat+ |
3-15 | My Mother Died and Left Me | (a capella) | E |
3-16 | Consolation | (a capella) | E+ |
3-17 | Home Going | (a capella) | G- |
'*' = w/Jessie Mae Hemphill
Abe McNeil
Memphis, Tennessee, 1962 & Friar's Point, Mississippi, Summer 1967
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
3-18 | Better Than Myself | G | Aflat+ |
3-19 | Steady Rollin' Man | G | Aflat+ |
3-20 | Drink, Drink, Drink * | Cross harp | E |
'*' = hambone, clapping w/Robert Diggs, harp and vcl
Joe Callicott
Nesbit, Mississippi, 9/1/67
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
3-21 | Country Blues | C | B+ |
3-22 | River Blues | E | Eflat- |
Johnny Woods w/ Fred McDowell
Senatobia, Mississippi, 8/26/67
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
3-23 | 3 O'Clock in the Morning | Cross harp, Vestapol slide | F- |
3-24 | I's Be Troubled | Cross harp, Vestapol slide | F- |
Disk 4
Robert Diggs
Friar's Point, Mississippi, Summer 1967
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
4-01 | Someday Baby | Cross harp | E |
4-02 | Racehorse Charleston | Cross harp | E |
4-03 | Done Lost My Health | Cross harp | E |
4-04 | Drive Your Car | E (gtr), cross harp | E |
Cliff Scott
Draneville, Georgia, 3/24/69
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
4-05 | Woke Up This Morning | Spanish, slide | Bflat |
4-06 | Long Wavy Hair | Vestapol slide | E |
4-07 | Please Come Home | A | G#- |
4-08 | Pole Pattin' | G | G#- |
Jimmy Lee Harris
Phenix City, Alabama, early 1980s
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
4-09 | I Wanna Ramble | Vestapol | E |
4-10 | Sitting Here Looking 1000 Miles Away | Vestapol | E- |
R. L. Burnside
Coldwater, Mississippi, 8/24/67
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
4-11 | Just Like a Bird Without A Feather | E | C+ |
4-12 | Skinny Woman | Spanish | G+ |
4-13 | Goin' Down South | E | C# |
4-14 | Poor Black Mattie | Spanish | F# |
Robert Johnson
Skene, Mississippi, 7/2/69
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
4-15 | Hold My Body Down | Vestapol slide | D- |
4-16 | Trying to Make It Home | Vestapol slide | D |
4-17 | Precious Lord | Vestapol slide | D |
4-18 | He'll Make a Way | Vestapol | D |
Robert Longstreet
Starkville, Mississippi, Summer 1967
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
4-19 | Sugar Mama | Cross harp | E |
4-20 | Black Gal | Cross harp | E |
4-21 | Sloppy Drunk | Cross harp | E |
4-22 | Decoration Day | Cross harp | E |
Fred McDowell w/Johnny Woods
Senatobia, Mississippi, 8/26/67
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
4-23 | Shake 'Em On Down | Vestapol slide, cross harp | E- |
4-24 | Mama Says I'm Crazy | Vestapol slide, cross harp | E- |
Disk 5
John Henry Barbee
Chicago, Illinois, 1963
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
5-01 | That Ain't It | E | E- |
5-02 | Gonna Lose Your Mind | E | E- |
Albert Macon & Robert Thomas
Society Hill, Alabama, early 1980s
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
5-03 | Flat Foot Boogie | E | Eflat |
5-04 | Mama Can I Lay It Down | E | Eflat+ |
5-05 | How Can You Do It | A | Aflat+ |
Jessie Clarence Gorman
Thomaston, Georgia, Spring, 1969
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
5-06 | John Henry | Vestapol slide | D- |
5-07 | Goin' Up to the Country #1 | Vestapol | E |
5-08 | Goin' Up to the Country #2 | Vestapol | E |
Will Shade
Memphis, Tennessee, 1962
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
5-09 | Dirty Dozens | E | E- |
5-10 | Won't You Send Me John | C | B+ |
5-11 | Wine Headed Man | E | E- |
5-12 | K. C. Blues * | G (tnr gtr), cross harp | G- |
'*' = w/Charlie Burse
Georgia Fife and Drum Band
Waverly Hall, Georgia, 1969
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
5-13 | Every Time I Come Around | n/a | Aflat+ |
5-14 | J. W.'s Special | n/a | Bflat/Dflat |
5-15 | Old Hen Cackle | n/a | A |
5-16 | Buck Dance | n/a | n/a |
Como Fife and Drum Band
Como, Mississippi, 1967
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
5-17 | Hey Freddie | n/a | E |
5-18 | Late in the Evening | n/a | E |
5-19 | Punky Tony | n/a | E |
5-20 | Shimmy She Wa | n/a | F#+ |
Maxwell Street Jimmy
Chicago, Illinois, 1963
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
5-21 | You Got to Reap What You Sow | E | E- |
5-22 | Everything's Gonna Be Alright | E | Eflat+ |
Precious Bryant
Waverly Hall, Georgia, 1969
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
5-23 | That's the Way the Good Thing Go | E | F# |
5-24 | Georgia Buck | C | Bflat |
5-25 | When the Saints Go Marching In | E | C#+ |
Rosa Lee Hill
Como, Mississippi, 8/23/67
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
5-26 | Pork & Beans | E | C# |
5-27 | Count the Days I'm Gone | Cross-note | Bflat+ |
5-28 | Roll & Tumble | Cross-note | C#+ |
5-29 | Bullying Well | Cross-note | E |
Disk 6
Furry Lewis
Memphis, Tennessee, 1962
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
6-01 | Good Morning Judge | Vestapol slide | C#+ |
6-02 | Furry Lewis' Careless Love | Vestapol slide | C |
Jimmy Lee Williams
Porlan, Georgia, 1977
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
6-03 | What Make Grandpa Love Grandma So | Vestapol slide | Eflat- |
6-04 | Have You Ever Seen Peaches | Vestapol slide | C# |
J.W. Warren
Ariton, Georgia, 1981 & 1982
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
6-05 | Hoboing Into Hollywood | Dropped-D | C#- |
6-06 | Sundown Blues | A | G#- |
6-07 | Rabbit On A Log | Vestapol | B- |
6-08 | You're Gonna Miss Me | Vestapol | F#- |
Eddie Harris
Phenix City, Alabama, early 1980s
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
6-09 | House on the Hill | E | E |
6-10 | I Have to Love Somebody | E | E |
James Davis
Henderson, Georgia, late 1970s
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
6-11 | Old Country Rock #1 | F | G |
6-12 | Instrumental #1 | E | G |
6-13 | Who Stole the Lock off the Henhouse Door | E | G |
6-14 | Instrumental #4 | E | G |
Robert Nighthawk
Dundee, Mississippi, 8/28/67
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
6-15 | Canned Heat | G | G |
6-16 | Nighthawk Boogie | E | Eflat+ |
6-17 | Down by the Woodshed | G | G- |
Jessie Mae Hemphill
Dundee, Mississippi, August, 1967
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
6-18 | Home Going | (a capella) | F# |
6-19 | I Want to be Ready | (a capella) | B- |
6-20 | Interview | n/a | n/a |
Disk 7
Jessie Lee Vortis
(Unknown location and date)
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
7-01 | Miss Maybelle | Spanish | F#- |
7-02 | When My Baby Got On Board | Spanish | F# |
George Hollis
(Unknown location and date)
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
7-03 | Them Greasy Greens #1 | F (gtr), unknown (vln) | Eflat |
7-04 | Rock and Roll to Milledgeville | unknown (vln) | Eflat |
Willie Rockomo, Bruce Upshaw
(Unknown location and date)
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
7-05 | Black Rat Swing | A | A |
7-06 | Tease Me Baby #2 | Cross harp | A |
7-07 | Someday Baby #1 | Cross harp | A |
7-08 | Wonder Why My Baby Treat Me so Bad | G | G |
7-09 | Rosa Lee | Cross harp | A |
Buddy Hubbard
(Unknown location and date)
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
7-10 | I Got A Woman | Vestapol slide | Eflat- |
7-11 | So Sweet | Vestapol | F#+ |
Ira "Tiny" Coney
(Unknown location and date)
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
7-12 | You're Gonna Miss Me | A | F#+ |
7-13 | Mamie | A | F#+ |
7-14 | I'm So Lonesome | A | F#+ |
Eddie Hodge
(Unknown location and date)
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
7-15 | Blood Red River | Cross-note | Eflat- |
7-16 | Sitting on Top of the World | Vestapol slide | D+ |
7-17 | Glory Hallelujah | Vestapol slide | D+ |
Pettis Sisters
(Unknown location and date)
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
7-18 | Jesus is Coming Back to Me | F | F |
7-19 | Bound for Zion | Eflat | Eflat |
Houston & Sara Mae Stovall
(Unknown location and date)
Track | Title | Tuning / position | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|
7-20 | You Told Me Baby | E | E |
7-21 | Sweet as an Apple on a Tree | Cross harp | E |
7-22 | Juke #2 | Cross harp | E |
7-23 | Woke Up this Morning | E | E |
7-24 | Tell Me You Love Me | A | A |