Great stuff, Jim! Thank you for your efforts.

However, I am puzzled by this statement in your opening post to this thread: 'The set contains all his known extant recordings on the Bluebird label, a low-priced subsidiary of Victor. That is, 42 out of 230 recordings made in his entire career from 1934 to 1953'. There was another 2CD Tampa Red set before the bean counters at RCA put paid to the wonderful Bluebird reissue series: Tampa Red 'The Bluebird Recordings 1936-1938' RCA 07863 66722-2. This has 45 more Tampa Red Bluebirds covering sessions from 3 April 1936 to 14 March 1938. Presumably another set, which never eventuated, was intended to cover his Bluebird releases from sessions from 16 June 1936 to 28 July 1942 - that would have required more than a 2CD set as there were about 70 Bluebird issues in that period. 12 of these have been released on CD on: Tampa Red and Big Maceo 'Guitar and Piano Duets' Indigo Records IGOCD 2115. This latter CD has a further 12 tracks from sessions in 1945 and 1946 - I do not know whether or not they were Bluebirds as Dixon and Godrich don't list post-1943 recordings and there is no label release information in the album notes.

--Stewie.

--Stewie.