Some of the sides our quartet made for Fonotone were reissued as LP records by small record companies. This info isn’t readily found anywhere, so here are the tracklists for the two commercial LPs.

JOLLY JOE AND HIS JUG BAND. Piedmont LP.   c. 1963
Borrow Love and Go
Jug in the Shade
Cider Time Rag
Black Cat Moan
Coal Tipple Blues
Scattin’ Rag
High Sheriff Blues
Goofus Rag
Jolly Jug Blues
Careless Love Blues
What She’s Got
Basement Blues

WEST MARYLAND HIGHBALLERS    Biograph RC-6001   c. 1965
Rockingham
Rome, Georgia Bound
Jolking Georgia Rag. (sic)
Ain’t Gonna Lay My Armor Down
See That My Grave Is Kept Green
Do Lawd Remember Me
The Death of John Kennedy
Susie
Flat Pine Waltz
All On Account of Somebody
Town Bully
Atlanta Rag
Rabbit in the Pea Patch
Sourwood Mountain

The best idea of the diversity and grand music available on Joe’s Fonotone music label was issued as a 5-CD set in a commemorative cigar box (Joe was rarely without his cigar) by the Dust-to-Digital company of Atlanta. It incorporates a 160-page booklet with valuable information about Joe, his times, his music and the songs, including the true identity of the Mash Mountain Boys, Carolina Pine Knots, Possum Holler Boys, Jackson Jug Jumpers, Back Alley Boys, Bald Knob Chicken Snatchers and others. All are reissues of Fonotone original 78 rpm recordings.

FONOTONE RECORDS: FREDERICK, MARYLAND (1956-1969) Dust to Digital issued 2005?2006?
Still available $35 see
https://dust-digital.com/products/fonotone-records-frederick-maryland-1956-1969?_pos=2&_sid=ba8ac4639&_ss=r

For the tracklist of this monumental collection that illustrates the diversity and reach of Joe’s record company, see

https://dust-digital.com/pages/fonotone-records-frederick-maryland-tracklist

Now I’ll get out of your hair. But just give a listen to those fine Fonotones. Joe would want you to.

Bob