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Mississippi Fred McDowell (12 Jan 1904 - 03 Jul 1972)

Male Person - United States

Releases (35)

Official

Album

  1. My Home Is in the Delta 1964
  2. Mississippi Delta Blues 1964
  3. Mississippi Delta Blues, Vol. 2 1966
  4. I Do Not Play No Rock 'n' Roll 1969
  5. Amazing Grace 1969 (as Fred McDowell)
  6. Mississippi Fred McDowell 1969
  7. Mississippi Fred McDowell in London, Volume 1 1970
  8. Mississippi Fred McDowell in London, Volume 2 1970
  9. Long Way From Home: The Blues of Fred McDowell 1990 (as Fred McDowell)
  10. The Train I Ride 1993
  11. Good Morning Little School Girl 01 Sep 1994
  12. Mississippi Fred McDowell 1995
  13. The First Recordings 09 Sep 1997
  14. Come and Found You Gone: The Bill Ferris Recordings 05 Aug 2010
  15. The Alan Lomax Recordings 2011 (as Fred McDowell)
  16. Mississippi Delta Blues Feb 2018 (as Fred McDowell)

Album - Live

  1. Live in New York 01 Mar 1972
  2. Standing at the Burying Ground 1996
  3. Live at the Gaslight: Set Two 2000
  4. Live at the Mayfair Hotel

Album - Compilation

  1. You Gotta Move 1994
  2. The Blues Collection: Mississippi Fred McDowell, Mississippi Blues 1995
  3. I Do Not Play No Rock 'n' Roll 02 May 1996
  4. The Best of Mississippi Fred McDowell 2001
  5. Down Home Blues 1959 22 Feb 2011
  6. Shake 'em on Down: The Alan Lomax Recordings, 1959 2019

Album - Compilation / Live

  1. Mojo Hand: Previously Unreleased 23 Nov 2022

Other

  1. This Ain't No Rock n' Roll 1995
  2. Levee Camp Blues 03 Feb 1998

Relationships (2)

Married

  1. Annie Mae McDowell

Siblings

  1. Fannie Davis

Recordings by (324)

  1. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning 2:45 (Nov 1960)
  2. Been Drinkin' Water Out of a Hollow Log 2:55 (1960)
  3. Freight Train Blues 3:03 (1960)
  4. Drop Down Mama 2:49 (1960)
  5. When You Get Home, Write Me a Few Little Lines 3:24 (1960)
  6. Waiting for My Baby 3:22 (1964)
  7. I'm In Jail Again 4:06 (1964)
  8. The Girl I'm Loving 2:54 (1964)
  9. Going Down South, Carry My Whip 3:05 (1964)
  10. Diving Duck Blues 4:35 (1964)
  11. The Sun Rose This Morning 4:56 (1964)
  12. Get Right, Church 3:01 (1964)
  13. Amazing Grace 3:21 (1964)
  14. Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed 2:31 (1964)
  15. Where Could I Go (But to the Lord)? 3:16 (1964)
  16. The Lord Will Make a Way 2:55 (1964)
  17. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning 2:52 (1964)
  18. When the Saints Go Marching In 2:19 (1964)
  19. Write Me a Few Lines ?:?? (1964)
  20. Louise ?:?? (1964)
  21. I Heard Somebody Call ?:?? (1964)
  22. 61 Highway ?:?? (1964)
  23. Mama Don't Allow Me ?:?? (1964)
  24. Kokomo Blues ?:?? (1964)
  25. Fred's Worried Life Blues ?:?? (1964)
  26. You Gonna Be Sorry ?:?? (1964)
  27. Shake 'em on Down ?:?? (1964)
  28. My Trouble Blues ?:?? (1964)
  29. Black Minnie ?:?? (1964)
  30. That's Alright ?:?? (1964)
  31. When I Lay My Burden Down ?:?? (1964)
  32. New Shake 'Em On Down 2:49 (1965)
  33. Louise Blues 3:41 (1965)
  34. When I Lay My Burden Down (My Trouble Blues) 3:42 (1965)
  35. I Ain't Gonna Be Bad No More ?:?? (1966)
  36. Where Were You ?:?? (1966)
  37. I Looked at the Sun ?:?? (1966)
  38. Do My Baby Ever Think of Me ?:?? (1966)
  39. Brooks Run Into the Ocean ?:?? (1966)
  40. Bull Dog Blues ?:?? (1966)
  41. I Walked All the Way From East St. Louis ?:?? (1966)
  42. Red Cross Store Blues ?:?? (1966)
  43. Gravel Road Blues ?:?? (1966)
  44. Frisco Lines ?:?? (1966)
  45. You Got to Move ?:?? (1966)
  46. I Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down ?:?? (1966)
  47. Jesus Is on the Mainline 3:38 (1969)
  48. Get Right Church 3:38 (1969)
  49. What's The Matter With Papa's Little Angel Child 3:30 (1969)
  50. Levee Camp Blues 5:53 (1969)
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On Recordings (50)

Instruments

  1. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning 2:45 Mississippi Fred McDowell (Nov 1960) guitar
  2. Shake ’em On Down 3:21 Mississippi Fred McDowell (1986) guitar
  3. I Want Jesus to Walk With Me 3:08 Mississippi Fred McDowell (20 Jul 1993) guitar
  4. Shake 'em on Down 3:24 Mississippi Fred McDowell, Miles Pratcher & Fannie Davis (20 Jul 1993) acoustic guitar
  5. Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed 0:55 Mississippi Fred McDowell (26 Apr 1994) guitar
  6. Traveling Through the Jungle 1:58 Napoleon Strickland ; Fred McDowell (1995) percussion
  7. All the Way From East St. Louis 3:09 Mississippi Fred McDowell (1995) guitar
  8. My Mother Died and Left Me 3:08 James Shorty & Fred McDowell (22 Apr 1997) guitar
  9. You Done Tol' Everybody 6:08 Mississippi Fred McDowell (22 Apr 1997) guitar
  10. I Wished I Was in Heaven 1:54 Denise Gardner, Mattie Gardner & Fred McDowell (22 Apr 1997) guitar
  11. Woke Up This Morning With My Mind on Jesus 3:18 Mississippi Fred McDowell (09 Sep 1997) guitar
  12. Wished I Was in Heaven Sitting Down 2:11 Mississippi Fred McDowell (09 Sep 1997) guitar
  13. Going Down the River 4:19 Mississippi Fred McDowell (09 Sep 1997) guitar
  14. When the Train Comes Along 2:51 Mississippi Fred McDowell (09 Sep 1997) guitar
  15. You're Gonna Be Sorry 6:41 Mississippi Fred McDowell (09 Sep 1997) guitar
  16. You Done Told Everybody 6:10 Mississippi Fred McDowell (09 Sep 1997) guitar
  17. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning (instrumental) 0:38 Mississippi Fred McDowell (09 Sep 1997) guitar
  18. What's the Matter Now 4:58 Mississippi Fred McDowell (09 Sep 1997) guitar
  19. Worried Mind 3:35 Mississippi Fred McDowell (09 Sep 1997) guitar
  20. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning 3:12 Mississippi Fred McDowell (09 Sep 1997) guitar
  21. Fred McDowell's Blues 4:12 Fred McDowell, Miles Pratcher & Fanny Davis (1997) slide guitar
  22. Lord Have Mercy 1:53 Mississippi Fred McDowell (1997) guitar
  23. Soon One Mornin' (Death Come A-Creepin' in My Room) 3:18 Mississippi Fred McDowell (1997) guitar
  24. Germany Blues 3:11 Mississippi Fred McDowell (1997) guitar
  25. Wished I Was in Heaven Sitting Down 2:18 Mississippi Fred McDowell (1997) guitar
  26. 61 Highway Blues 3:08 Mississippi Fred McDowell (1997) guitar
  27. Soon One Mornin’ (Death Come A‐Creepin’ in My Room) 3:13 Mississippi Fred McDowell (14 Nov 2000) guitar

Vocals

  1. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning 2:45 Mississippi Fred McDowell (Nov 1960)
  2. Back Back Train 1:48 Mississippi Fred McDowell (1969)
  3. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed & Burning 3:06 Mississippi Fred McDowell (1969)
  4. Shake ’em On Down 3:21 Mississippi Fred McDowell (1986) lead vocals
  5. Shake 'em on Down 3:24 Mississippi Fred McDowell, Miles Pratcher & Fannie Davis (20 Jul 1993)
  6. The Lord Will Make a Way 3:20 Mississippi Fred McDowell (26 Apr 1994)
  7. All the Way From East St. Louis 3:09 Mississippi Fred McDowell (1995)
  8. You Done Tol' Everybody 6:08 Mississippi Fred McDowell (22 Apr 1997)
  9. I Wished I Was in Heaven 1:54 Denise Gardner, Mattie Gardner & Fred McDowell (22 Apr 1997)
  10. Wished I Was in Heaven Sitting Down 2:11 Mississippi Fred McDowell (09 Sep 1997)
  11. You Done Told Everybody 6:10 Mississippi Fred McDowell (09 Sep 1997)
  12. What's the Matter Now 4:58 Mississippi Fred McDowell (09 Sep 1997)
  13. You're Gonna Be Sorry 6:41 Mississippi Fred McDowell (09 Sep 1997)
  14. Worried Mind 3:35 Mississippi Fred McDowell (09 Sep 1997)
  15. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning 3:12 Mississippi Fred McDowell (09 Sep 1997)
  16. Woke Up This Morning With My Mind on Jesus 3:18 Mississippi Fred McDowell (09 Sep 1997)
  17. Going Down the River 4:19 Mississippi Fred McDowell (09 Sep 1997)
  18. Soon One Mornin' (Death Come A-Creepin' in My Room) 3:18 Mississippi Fred McDowell (1997)
  19. 61 Highway Blues 3:08 Mississippi Fred McDowell (1997)
  20. Wished I Was in Heaven Sitting Down 2:18 Mississippi Fred McDowell (1997)
  21. Lord Have Mercy 1:53 Mississippi Fred McDowell (1997)
  22. Fred McDowell's Blues 4:12 Fred McDowell, Miles Pratcher & Fanny Davis (1997)
  23. Germany Blues 3:11 Mississippi Fred McDowell (1997)

Credited as (33)

  1. Mississippi Fred McDowell
  2. Mississippi Fred McDowell & Johnny Woods
  3. Mississippi Fred McDowell & Jo-Ann Kelly
  4. Mississippi Fred McDowell, Miles Pratcher & Fannie Davis
  5. James Shorty & Mississippi Fred McDowell
  6. Felix Dukes & Mississippi Fred McDowell
  7. Fred McDowell
  8. James Shorty & Fred McDowell
  9. Fred McDowell, Miles Pratcher & Fanny Davis
  10. Fred McDowell & Miles Pratcher
  11. Rose Hemphill & Fred McDowell
  12. Fred McDowell, Miles Pratcher & Fannie Davis
  13. Felix Dukes, Mississippi Fred McDowell
  14. Mississippi Fred McDowell, Fanny Davis & Miles Pratcher
  15. Mississippi Fred McDowell, Annie Mae McDowell & Rev. Robert Wilkins
  16. Felix Dukes & Fred McDowell
  17. Fred McDowell, The Hunter's Chapel Singers
  18. Unidentified Musician with Mississippi Fred McDowell
  19. Mississippi Fred McDowell and Annie Mae McDowell
  20. Mississippi Fred McDowell & M.RUX
  21. Johnny Woods & Fred McDowell
  22. Denise Gardner, Mattie Gardner & Fred McDowell
  23. Fred McDowell and Johnny Woods
  24. Mississippi Fred McDowell, Sidney Carter & Rose Hemphill,
  25. “Mississippi” Fred McDowell
  26. Fred “Mississippi” McDowell
  27. Napoleon Strickland ; Fred McDowell
  28. Annie Mae McDowell & Mississippi Fred McDowell
  29. Fred McDowell & Johnny Woods
  30. Mississippi Fred McDowell & Annie Mae McDowell
  31. Unidentified musician with Mississippi Fred McDowell
  32. Eli Green with Fred McDowell
  33. Mississippi Fred McDowell, Annie Mae McDowell & Reverend Robert Wilkins

Works (29)

Arranged

  1. Jesus Is on the Main Line

Wrote

  1. Kopaszkutya
  2. Louise
  3. Fred’s Worried Life Blues
  4. Kool, Iron Bed
  5. Done Left Here
  6. You Got to Move
  7. Back Back Train
  8. Soon One Mornin' (Death Come A-Creepin' in My Room)

Composed

  1. Frisco Lines
  2. Goin’ Down to the River
  3. Highway 61
  4. Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin’ Bed
  5. Louise
  6. Lonesome Road
  7. Write Me a Few of Your Lines
  8. Diving Duck Blues
  9. You Done Told Everybody
  10. 61 Highway

Lyrics

  1. 61 Highway
  2. Write Me a Few of Your Lines
  3. Lonesome Road
  4. Frisco Lines
  5. Goin’ Down to the River
  6. Louise
  7. Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin’ Bed
  8. Gravel Road
  9. Highway 61
  10. Diving Duck Blues

Links (14)

Other Databases

  1. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81127864
  2. https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81127864
  3. https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13950608k
  4. https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/mississippi_fred_mcdowell
  5. http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6r78fjn
  6. https://d-nb.info/gnd/134451198

Lyrics Page

  1. http://muzikum.eu/en/122-8484/mississippi-fred-mcdowell/lyrics.html

Last.Fm

  1. https://www.last.fm/music/Mississippi+Fred+McDowell

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/401272

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000898331

Imdb

  1. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2904043/

VIAF ID

  1. http://viaf.org/viaf/49413887

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q964219

Picture

  1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mississippi_Fred_McDowell.jpg