ウォルター・デイヴィス Walter Davis

1912年3月1日にミシシッピー州グレナダで生まれ、13歳の時にセントルイスに移住しました。彼のピアノ演奏を聞いたルーズベルト・サイクスの口利きでRCAに紹介され、1930年に初吹き込みしたのが、有名な「M&O Blues」です。以降、1957年までビクター、ブルーバードに数多くの録音を残しました。彼はブギ・ウギはあまり弾かず、スロー・ブルースに持ち味を出しています。1963年にセントルイスで死去しました。
Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order, Vol. 2, 1935-1937
Walter Davis
[収録曲]
  1. Pearly May
  2. What Have I Done Wrong?
  3. I Can Tell by the Way You Smell
  4. Santa Claus
  5. Moonlight Is My Spread
  6. Don't the Clouds Look Lonesome?
  7. Katy Blues
  8. Ashes in My Whiskey
  9. Blues at Midnight
  10. Can't Get Along with You
  11. Just Wondering
  12. Fallin' Rain
  13. Well Diggin' Papa
  14. Carpenter Man
  15. Jacksonville, Pt. 1
  16. Jacksonville, Pt. 2
  17. Think You Need a Shot [The Needle]
  18. Angel Child
  19. Fifth Avenue
  20. I Ain't Got Changing Clothes
  21. West Coast Blues
  22. Shady Lane
  23. What Else Can I Do?
  24. Nightmare Blues
Walter Davis - Ashes In My Whiskey
Walter Davis
The Essential
Walter Davis
[収録曲]
Disk.1
  1. Mr. Davis' Blues
  2. Sloppy Drunk Again
  3. Biddle Street Blues
  4. That Stuff You Sell Ain't No Good
  5. M. and O. Blues
  6. Sweet Sixteen
  7. Come Back Baby
  8. Lonesome Hill Blues
  9. Good Gal
  10. Lay Around on Your D.B.A.
  11. Dentist Blues
  12. Cotton Club Blues
  13. Don't You Want to Go?
  14. Just Wondering
  15. I Hear My Baby Crying
  16. Railroad Man Blues
  17. Engineer's Blues
  18. Worried Man Blues
Disk.2
  1. Root Man Blues
  2. It's Been So Long
  3. Frisco Blues
  4. M. and O. Blues No. 3
  5. You Don't Smell Right
  6. You Are the One I Love
  7. Stop That Train in Harlem
  8. What May Your Trouble Be
  9. I Just Can't Help It
  10. I Think You Need a Shot
  11. Call Your Name
  12. Poor Grinder Blues
  13. Blue Ghost Blues
  14. Only Woman
  15. Jacksonville, Pt. 1
  16. Jacksonville, Pt. 2
  17. Oil Field Blues
  18. New B & O Blues
Walter Davis - Sloppy Drunk Again
Walter Davis - Poor Grinder Blues
M&Oブルース
ウォルター・デイヴィス
[収録曲]
  1. M&O Blues
  2. Sloppy Drunk Again
  3. Travelin’ This Lonesome Road
  4. Sweet Sixteen
  5. Root Man Blues
  6. What Have I Done Wrong?
  7. I Can Tell By The Way You Smell
  8. Santa Claus
  9. Think You Need A Shot (The Needle)
  10. Good Gal
  11. 13 Highway
  12. Just Tell Me Your Trouble
  13. Let Me In Your Saddle
  14. Cotton Farm Blues
  15. Call Your Name
  16. Save It All For Me
  17. Come Back Baby
  18. Can’t See Your Face
  19. Why Should I Be Blue?
  20. Don’t You Want To Go?
  21. One Sweet Letter From You
  22. I Feel All Right
Walter Davis - M & O Blues
Walter Davis - I Think You Need a Shot