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Artist:Various Artists
Title:Big Road Blues
Label:  Saydisc
Country:UK
Catalogue:SDM 225
Date:1973
Format:Unreleased
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
A1Mott WillisPick And Shovel BluesRate
A2Robert JohnsonSo Soon I'll Be At HomeRate
A3Mott WillisDresser Drawer BluesRate
A4Isaac YoungbloodNo Place To GoRate
A5Mott WillisRiverside BluesRate
A6Mager JohnsonTravelling Man BluesRate
A7Willis Taylor (With Mott Willis)Mama Do RightRate
B1Roosevelt HoltsMaggie Campbell BluesRate
B2Willis Taylor (With Mott Willis)Trashy Gang BluesRate
B3Cary Lee SimmonsCatfish BluesRate
B4Arzo YoungbloodBig Road BluesRate
B5Mott WillisWho Is That Yonder Coming Down The RoadRate
B6Mager JohnsonMoustache BluesRate
B7Mott WillisIt Ain't Gonna Rain No MoreRate
B8Roosevelt HoltsSundown BluesRate
B9Mott WillisBad Night BluesRate


Notes

Two white label test pressings are confirmed as existing with SDM 225 matrix numbers and handwritten catalogue number on side 1 label. The LP is also listed as 'release pending' in Saydisc's 1972 catalogue.
However, the LP, made up of music from several informal sessions recorded by David Evans in Mississippi and Louisiana, between 1966 and 1971, was not subsequently issued. The test pressing includes a typewritten set of Evans' notes, which look to be prospective sleeve notes, and a photo of Mott Willis by Cheryl Evans (below). In his book, 'Big Road Blues' (published 1982, University of California Press) Evans makes no mention of a Saydisc Matchbox release and, instead, lists the LP as having been issued on the US Advent label (as 2815). However, this also went unissued when Advent was shut down.

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The Record Press
23rd Aug 2021
 Gef Lucena says that the normal number of supplied test pressings was three, so, that's all three accounted for now.
Also note that the photo of Mott Willis, mentioned in the notes above, had to be removed for copyright reasons. However, you can see a larger version of the photo at https://www.amazon.com/Big-Road-Blues-Tradition-Creativity/dp/0520034848 - the image with the LP was a cropped version showing only Willis and a pair of disembodied legs in the top, right-hand corner.
 

 
The Record Press
5th Apr 2021
 The full story of how the LP came to be unissued is included in my upcoming book, "Blues from the Avon Delta: the Matchbox Blues Story", which is to be published by The Record Press, August 2021, distributed by Nimbus/Wyastone.
The book covers all blues releases on (in order of appearance) Saydisc, Sunflower, Kokomo, Highway 51, Matchbox, Village Thing, Ahura Mazda, Flyright-Matchbox and Matchbox Bluesmaster - over 100 blues records in all between 1967 and 1987.
 

 
The Record Press
5th Apr 2021
 Update to the Notes section - there are now THREE known white label copies. Tony Russell, author of the influential November Books' Blues Paperbacks series book, 'Blacks, Whites and Blues', also has a copy (the LP was intended to support and illustrate an upcoming book from the same publisher).
 


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