Ry solo:
Clean Up At Home - Sleepy John Estes
Rope Stretchin' Blues - Blind Blake
Too Tight Blues - ditto
All Hail The Power Of Jesus' Name - after Joseph Spence
Don't Take Everybody To Be Your Friend - ditto
Happy All The Time - ditto
Flat Foot Floogie - Slim Gaillard
Kentucky Blues (aka Like A Submarine) - Dennis "Little Hat" Jones
Preacher Song (aka You Shall) - Frank Stokes
You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond - Blind Willie Johnson
Rocks And Gravel / Railroad Blues - after Horace Sprott
Shotgun Slade - Ralph Stanley
Hard Ridin' Papa - unknown
Pigfoot Shuffle (with an unknown fiddle player aka Signor Piganini) - unknown
(possibly Lem Fowler)
Death Valley - unknown
Wild Bill Jr - unknown (not even sure of the title)
Ry with band:
Let It Shine - after Lead Belly
Chain Gang - Sam Cooke
Having A Party - ditto
I Found A Love / That's Where It's At - Wilson Pickett / Sam Cooke
Christians' Automobile - The Dixie Hummingbirds
I Am A Pilgrim - Merle Travis
He's A Mighty Good Leader - Skip James
Deep Ellum Blues - Trad.
Dunkin' Bagel - Slim Gaillard
Then there's an unnamed Hawaiian Slack Key instrumental
With David Lindley (numerous gigs between 1979 and 1995 [also
with son, Joachim and Mr Dave's daughter, Roseanne]):
Nobody's Fault But Mine - Blind Willie Johnson
I'll Be Rested - Blind Roosevelt Graves
I'm A Hog For You Baby - Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller
Wooly Bully - Sam The Sham Samudio
Whole Lotta Shakin' - Dave "Curlee" Williams/James Faye "Roy"
Hall
Sleepwalk - Santo and Johnny Farina
Mama's Got A Girlfriend Now - Ben Harper
The Twelve Year Old Boy - Elmore James
Bon Ton Roulet - Clarence Garlow
Old Coot From Tennessee - Shepard N. Edmonds
New Minglewood Blues - Noah Lewis
Oh Death - Ralph Stanley
Quarter Of A Man - Bob Fuller
Tiki Torches At Twilight - Bob Fuller
(some of these have been recorded by David Lindley)
Then there's Happy Birthday To You sung for John Lee Hooker
With The Golden Gate Quartet (Soundstage 1978):
Jezebel - Wayne Shanklin
Shadrack - Robert MacGimsey
Wade In The Water - Marlena Shaw/Trad.
There's No Restricted Signs In Heaven - Trad.
With Jackie DeShannon (Ash Grove 1963):
Key To The Highway - Charles 'Chas' Segar and William 'Big Bill' Broonzy
Frankie And Albert - variously attributed (Bill Dooley/Hughie Cannon/Frank and
Bert Leighton...)
Silver City Bound - Lead Belly
Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies - Trad.
Betty And Dupree - Trad.
Low Down Alligator - unknown
James Alley Blues - Richard “Rabbit” Brown
Trouble In Mind - Richard
M. Jones
Dink's Song (Fare Thee Well) - Trad.
House Of The Rising Sun - Trad.
With Pamela Polland (Ash Grove 1963/4):
Send Me To The Electric Chair - Bessie Smith
Oh Well I Wonder - Bessie Smith (?)
Goin' Away Blues - Big Joe Turner
Oh Papa - Ma Rainy
Young Woman Blues - Bessie Smith
Bed Bug Blues - Bessie Smith
Bill Bailey - Hughie Cannon
Instrumental Rag - unknown
Goin' To German - unknown
Leaving Blues - Lead Belly
Corrina - unknown (possibly Elmore James or Blind Lemon Jefferson or Peg Leg
Howell)
I'm A Rake And A Rambling Boy - Trad.
Grandfather's Clock - Henry Clay Work
With the Rising Sons (Ash Grove 1965):
Walkin' The Dog - Rufus Thomas
High Heel Sneakers - Robert Higginbotham
Little Red Rooster - Willie Dixon
Fanny Mae - Buster Brown
So Fine - Johnny
Otis
Too High To Fall - unknown
Got My Mojo Working - Preston Foster
Hush Hush - Jimmy Reed
Down In The Bottom - Willie Dixon
Who Do You Think You Is - unknown
I'll Always Be There - unknown
Blues In 3/4 Time - unknown
Hambone - unknown
With Buckwheat Zydeco, Lenny Kravitz and Irma Thomas (From
The Big Apple To The Big Easy, Madison
Square Garden, 2004):
My Girl Josephine - Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew
Rock Me Baby - Lil' Son Jackson
When The Levee Breaks - Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie
Backwater Blues - Bessie Smith
With Little Village (1992):
Crying In My Sleep - Nick Lowe
Half A Boy And Half A Man - Nick Lowe
(both of which Ry also played with Nick Lowe on their tours of Europe, Japan
and the Antipodes in 2009)
With Nick Lowe and Jim Keltner (2008):
Kidnapper - unknown
The Beast In Me - Nick
The Man In Love - Charlie Feathers, Quinton Claunch, William Cantrell
Lonely Just Like Me - Arthur Alexander
You Better Move On - Arthur Alexander
Soulful Wind - Nick
My Baby's Gone (also with Elvis Costello) - Hazel Houser & Herb Pedersen
Losing Boy* - Eddie Giles
One Of These Days You're Gonna Pay* - unknown
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding* - Nick
A Shrinking Man* - Ry
(*also played by Ry and Nick on their tours of Europe, Japan
and the Antipodes in 2009)
With Nick Lowe (2009):
Raining Raining - Nick
You're Biggest Fool - Ry
I'm not including:
Holy Spirit (Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon) or
Blind Man In The Tear Gas (Sleepy John)
on both of which Ry played with Sleepy John (and Hammie) on Down Home,
Jim Dickinson's first Delta Experimental Project (1988), or
Floating Bridge (Sleepy John)
which Ry played with Sleepy John on Jim Dickinson's third Delta Experimental
Project (2003), or a really scary live version of
You Can Leave Your Hat On (Randy Newman)
on which Ry played for Randy Newman's 1972 album Sail Away, or
8 Men And 4 Women ("Deadric Malone" a.k.a. Don Robey)
performed by John Hiatt when he was touring with Ry in 1980/81, or
Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb (Lee V. McCollum)
performed by Arnold McCuller, Bobby King, Terry Evans and Willie Greene on tour
with Ry and the Moula Banda Rhythm Aces in 1987/88, or
Hard Times (Stephen Foster)
which Ry has performed live but recorded with Syd Straw for her 1989 album Suprise,
or
The Battle Cry Of Freedom (George F. Root)
which Ry has performed live but an instumental version of which was included
in the soundtrack for Geronimo: An American Legend...
Nor am I including:
Mercury Blues (K. C. Douglas and Robert Geddins),
Afindrafindrao (Malagasy Trad.),
Si Bheag Si Mhor (Turlough O'Carolan, Irish, Trad.),
Me And My Chauffeur (Lester
Melrose),
About To Make me Leave Home (Bonnie Raitt),
I'm A Lonesome Fugative
(Merle Haggard),
Breaking Up Somebody's Home (Jackson Jr. Matthews),
5-10-15
Hours (Rudy Toombs),
Play It All Night Long (Warren Zevon),
The Promised Land (unknown; not Chuck Berry),
Talk To The Lawyer (David Lindley) and
Ain't No Way Baby (Bob
Fuller),
all of which were recorded live at the Vienna Opera House in 1995 and
subsequently released by David Lindley (you can obtain the 2 CD set through
Mr Dave's website, along with other titles he has released himself).
I've also left
out:
2.10 Train (Tom Campbell and Linda Albertano),
which Ry performed live with
Pamela Polland, but subsequently recorded with the Rising Sons and with Gentle
Soul,
Walkin' Blues (Robert Johnson),
performed by Ry and PP, versions of which
Ry recorded as the Walking Away Blues for the Crossroads soundtrack with Sonny
Terry and with Taj Mahal as The Celebrated Walking Blues for Taj's self-titled
1967 album, and
Chauffeur Blues (Lester Melrose),
performed by Ry and PP, which Ry later performed with David Lindley, son, Joachim
and Mr Dave's daughter, Roseanne at the Vienna Opera House (and elsewhere) as
Me And My Chauffeur (see above).
And I'm not including stuff that Ry's done live with other people - like the sets he's played with Duane Eddy (1983), Randy Newman (1983), John Hiatt (1983/4), T-Bone Burnett (1984), Flaco Jimenez (1989), Johnnie Johnson (1990), the Pahinui Brothers (1992), Carlos Santana [along with Steve Miller] (1992), Aerosmith (1993), Mark Guerrero, Lalo Guerrero and various others at the Tribute To Don Tosti (2004), Los Lobos (2005), or with John Lee Hooker (at various times), or with umpteen artists as house band guitarist at the Grammy Awards (1987) and at A Gathering Of The Clan (2000).
But I have included Chain Gang (Sam Cooke) which appears on the Les Blank film (Let's Have A Ball) of Ry's 1987 Santa Cruz show with the Moula Banda Rhythm Aces, because that can hardly be described as an official release (since it wasn't, er, released), and even if it does count as an official release, this number doesn't appear anywhere else in Ry's body of work (even though he and the boys have been performing it live since 1980).
I've also included the numbers from the official video release of From The Big Apple To The Big Easy (with Buckwheat Zydeco, Lenny Kravitz and Irma Thomas), since they don't appear anywhere else in Ry's body of work either.
I doubt this is an exhaustive list. Stuff keeps turning up.
If you have anything to add, please let me know.
G