B.C. Williamson - The Official Website
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Giraffe (1953)
BC Williamson: guitar, harmonica, vocals
Tick Tock Turner: drums
Sam Skinns: bass
Ray Jay Robertson: rhythm guitar
Joseph Johnson: organ, piano
1 I (Went Down This Morning &) Got Myself a Gun
2 Shotgun Blues
3 Old Crossed Paths And Lines
4 Rock All Night
5 Picasso Was Never As Blue As Me, Baby
6 Blue Is Just a Colour (But It's My Colour)
7 Nothing More Than a Simple 12 Bar Jam
Loaded Weapon (1955)
Tick Tock Turner: drums
Woody Markson: bass
Christopher Bennett: rhythm guitar
Graham Taylor: organ, piano
1 Blues 1
2 Love Celebration Song
3 War
4 There's A Revolution Tomorrow
Fatal Discharge (1960)
BC Williamson: guitar, harmonica, vocals
Tick Tock Turner: drums
David Norman: bass
JJ Smith: rhythm guitar
Joseph Johnson: organ, piano
1 I'll Explode (I'm So Mad At You)
2 Ready To Leave
3 Staring Down The Barrel
4 Twisting and Turning
5 I Never Could Understand (The Way You Look At Me)
6 Waiting By My Door
7 If You Could Only Love Me More
8 I Feel So Bad
9 Turning Down The Heat
10 Fatal Discharge
And That's Why They Call Me Johnny (1965)
BC Williamson: guitar, harmonica, vocals
Tick Tock Turner: drums
Phillip Banson: bass
Shorty Lawrence: rhythm guitar
Blind Martin Yancey: organ, piano
1 Standin' Tall And Straight
2 Violence In The Street Blues
3 I'm So Blue Again
4 The King Of The World
5 Your Eyes Look At Me So Much Colder (These Days)
6 Is Love All There Is?
Rise (1966)
Tick Tock Turner: drums, percussion
Phillip Banson: bass, piano bass
Shorty Lawrence: rhythm guitar, Mellotron
David 'Kandinsky' Wolf: organ, piano, Ondes Martenot
1 Pale Man's Blues
2 Someday (He Will Get His Justice)
3 Stand Up (Let's Have A Revolution)
4 Alabama
5 Are You Trying To Start A Fight?
6 Rise
LIVE! (1967)
Tick Tock Turner: drums
Phillip Banson: bass
Shorty Lawrence: rhythm guitar
1 Introduction
2 Shotgun Blues
3 I (Went Down This Morning &) Got Myself A Gun
4 What'd I Say
5 Band Introduction
6 Untitled Jam
7 Fatal Discharge
8 Standing Tall And Straight
9 Dust My Broom
10 Picasso Was Never As Blue As Me, Baby [Encore]
Ready For The Stars (1969)
BC Williamson: guitars, harmonica, vocals, theremin
Tick Tock Turner: drums
Henry 'Box' James: bass
Harold Paine: organ, piano, signal generator
1 The Eagle Has Landed (Upon You)
2 You Will Lose Your Mind
3 400 Light Years
4 Blues In Amber
5 Celeste Humana
6 Ready For Re-Entry
7 Bible
8 In Water (Over and Over Again)
9 Ready For Re-Entry [Reprise]
White Not Blue (1970)
BC Williamson: guitar, harmonica, vocals
Tick Tock Turner: drums
Francis Parkes: bass
Duke Singer: rhythm guitar
Benny Newport: backing vocals
Robert Bradley: organ/piano
1 In The Key of B
2 Jazz (I'm Fine)
3 Your Eyes Are Like Spaceships
4 Atonal No.7
5 You Will Be Heard
6 Untitled Song 5
7 Contour Drift
8 Collage In My Mind
9 Memory Farewell
10 The Word Love And Its Uses
11 Rambling
12 The Sea Of Experience (Or Everything That Was Once Mine But No Longer)
13 No Islands
14 Voodoo Island Sound
Sounds From A Dark Room (1970)
1 The Syrens Of Eden
2 Yes
3 From A Window
4 The Old Man and the Universe
5 And God Spoke
6 No
7 Ulysses
8 Sunday Afternoon
9 The Sea of Sound
10 Africa
11 First Footsteps
12 Don Quixote
Come Back (1975)
BC Williamson: guitar, harmonica, vocals
Tick Tock Turner: drums
Franklin Coulter: bass
Sammy Dee: rhythm guitar
Carson Twain: organ/piano
1 I'm Back
2 Long Time No See
3 Driving Through The Tunnel
4 Mississippi Blues
5 Cantonese Blues
6 Improvisation
7 Sweet Columbia (You Were So Wrong)
8 Let Me Climb That Mountain With You
9 Believe Her 'Till I Leave Her
Me And The Blues (1977)
BC Williamson: guitar, organ, vocals
Tick Tock Turner: drums
Bobby Johnstone: bass
Jimmy Boxsman: rhythm guitar
1 Dust My Broom (Johnson)
2 Love In Vain (Johnson)
3 Worried Life Blues
4 Rambling On My Mind (Johnson)
5 Key To The Highway (Broonzy)
6 Everyday I Have The Blues
7 (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man (Dixon)
8 Mannish Boy (Morganfield/London/McDaniel)
9 The Sky Is Crying (James)
10 I'm In The Mood (Hooker)
11 Little Red Rooster (Dixon)
12 Crawling King Snake (Hooker)
All selections not credited are traditional songs. Arrangements: B.C. Williamson
Lamp Post Blues (1985)
BC Williamson: guitar, harmonica, vocals
Tick Tock Turner: drums
Andy James: bass, rhythm guitar
Bud Jackson: organ, piano
1 Lamp Post Music
2 Falling (From Above)
3 The Streets Are Black & White & Over
4 Ain't Nothing To See
5 Get Me A Drink
6 Film Music For An Unknown Generation
Bluestown Music (1987)
BC Williamson: guitar, vocals
Tick Tock Turner: drums
David Samson: bass
James Thompson: rhythm guitar
Dylan Jonestown: organ, piano
1 Rolling And Tumbling (Newbern/Morganfield)
2 Baby, Please Don't Go
3 Born Under A Bad Sign (King)
4 Caldonia (Jordan)
5 Catfish Blues (Petway)
6 Cross Road Blues (Johnson)
7 Going Down Slow (Oden)
8 Kansas City (Leiber/Stoller)
9 Killing Floor (Burnett)
10 Sweet Little Angel
11 Walkin' Blues (Johnson)
All selections not credited are traditional songs. Arrangements: B.C. Williamson
Lease Of Life (1989)
BC Williamson: guitar, harmonica, vocals
The Reasons: backing vocals
Tick Tock Turner: drums
Ian Steveson: rhythm guitar
Charles Davies: organ, piano bass
1 Go Down Moses
2 Go Rest High Upon That Mountain
3 Can The Circle Be Unbroken?
4 The Redeemer
5 Hear The News
6 Heretic (Jesus Died For Your Sins)
7 True Believer
8 Have You Seen The Light? (The Light Of The Lord)
9 Took Me So Long (But I Was Saved)
Larger Than Life (2008)
BC Williamson: Guitars, harmonica, vocals, bass, percussion, keyboards
Tick Tock Turner: drums
The Reasons : backing vocals
1 Still In Love With You (After All These Years)
2 Long Long Time
3 Talking About Nothing
4 Old Man, Lonely Corner
5 Colours & Canvas & You
6 Why Don't You Love Me (After All These Years)
7 Preachin' (Not Teachin')
Back To Africa (2009)
BC Williamson: guitar, vocal
Tick Tock Turner: drums
Marcel Price: bass
David Muhammad Jones: rhythm guitar, thumb piano
Zilo "Legs" Maphrosa: percussion
1 Going Back (Back To Africa)
2 Amazing Race
3 Inkosi Sikalele Africa
4 (I Am) Home Again
5 We're (Back) In The Slave Ships
6 Afrika Jam
7 The First Time (I Saw Africa)
8 Sing The Gospel (High And Wide)
9 Out Of The Townships, Into The Ghetto
Scraping The Barrel: Rare And Unreleased 1953 - 2010 (2011)
1 Your Eyes Look At Me So Cold (These Days) [Live]
2 Fatal Discharge
3 Standin' Tall And Straight
4 Redemption
5 Waiting For The Man [Live]
6 I Wanna Get Paid (Take 1)
7 I Wanna Get Paid (Take 2)
8 Lonely Dub
9 Ain't Nothing To See
10 Glass Mountain
11 Graveyard Blues
12 Redemption (Ambient House Mix)
Nowhere Is Now Here (2012?)
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Express permission must be sought to reproduce them in any form.
