This is an updated reprint of a piece I compiled in 1985 & 1986, with help from the Country Music Foundation (Nashville) and a couple of fellow collectors. It was first published in the November 1986 issue of the French mag - LATCH ON - then run by Jean-Guy Meunier.
Many thanks to Steve Wisner, Jeff Porterfield, Martin Thomas, Bobby Gibson
and Pasi Koskela for their additions.

JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS

US DISCOGRAPHY & SESSIONOGRAPHY

Part 1 : 45's & EPs

COUSIN JOE MAPHIS & THE TOP HANDS LARIAT 1106 Lonesome Train Boogie Square Dance Boogie JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS LARIAT 1203 Let's Fly Away You Can't Take The Heart Out Of Me JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS OKEH 18013 RHCO 10484 Dim Lights, Thick Smoke RHCO 10486 Black Mountain Rag JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS OKEH 18024 RHCO 10604 I'm A Stranger In My Home RHCO 10605 Please Mister Mailman JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS OKEH 18029 RHCO 10606 Cold Heart Of Steel RHCO 10607 Henhouse Serenade JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS OKEH 18041 RHCO 10485 Dream House For Sale RHCO 10487 The Go'Fer Song JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS OKEH 18051 RHCO 10864 Let's Talk About Love RHCO 10865 Devil's Doll JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS OKEH 18059 RHCO 10866 Honky Tonk Love Affair RHCO 10867 Quicksand JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS COLUMBIA 21389 RHCO 33347 The Parting Of The Ways RHCO 33349 Honky Tonk Down Town JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS COLUMBIA 21427 RHCO 33346 You Ain't Got The Sense (You Were Borned With) (sic) RHCO 33348 Your Old Love Letters JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS COLUMBIA 21479 RHCO 33561 I Love You Deeply RHCO 33564 Fire On The Strings JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS COLUMBIA 21568 RHCO 33562 Let's Pull Together RHCO 33563 I'm Willin' To Try JOE MAPHIS COLUMBIA 21518 RHCO 33731 Guitar Rock And Roll RHCO 33733 Tennessee Two Step JOE MAPHIS COLUMBIA 21547 RHCO 33732 Floggin' The Banjo RHCO 33734 Bully Of The Town JOE MAPHIS COLUMBIA 40882 RHCO 33943 Town Hall Shuffle RHCO 33946 Sweet Fern JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS COLUMBIA 41004 RHCO 40147 A Picture, A Ring & A Curl RHCO 40148 I Gotta Lotta Lovin' JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS RHCO 40345 Sweet Lips RHCO 40346 Nothing In This World RHCO 40347 Oh, How I Miss You RHCO 40348 I Want To Go Steady (the above four titles are unreleased) JOE MAPHIS COLUMBIA 41353 CO 62227 / RHCO 45777 Short Recess CO 62229 / RHCO 45779 Moonshot CO 62228 / RHCO 45778 Big Doll (the above track is unreleased) RHCO 46424 Marching Through Georgia RHCO 46426 Navajo (War Party) (the above two tracks were first issued by Bear Family - BCD 16103) JOE MAPHIS COLUMBIA 41579 RHCO 46423 Jubilo RHCO 46425 Del Rio JOE MAPHIS REPUBLIC 2006 1012 Water Baby Boogie 1013 Black Sombrero JOE MAPHIS MAC GREGOR 8505 A Green River Rag B Bill Cheatum JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS CAPITOL 5077 50718 Maple On The Hill 36996 Whiskey Is Is The Devil In Liquid Form JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS STARDAY 675 6954 Remember (I'm Just As Close ...) 6960 Hoot 'n' Annie

JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS STARDAY 683 6962 Lonesome Jailhouse Blues 6969 Hot Rod Guitar (w/Pete Drake) JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS STARDAY 710 6956 I've Come To Take You Home 6966 Hot Time In Nashville Tonight JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS STARDAY 728 7624 Don't Pass Me By 7625 Your Little Black Book JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS STARDAY 745 6971 Ridin' Down Ole '99 7623 Turn On The Bright Lights JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS MOSRITE 150 M 150 Send Me Your Love A. P. O. M 160 Write Him A Letter JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS MOSRITE 290 T3KM-8425-2 Tunin' Up For The Blues T3KM-8426-2 A Lifetime Of Love JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS MOSRITE 319 Country Girl Courtship Pickin' And Guitin' JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS CHART 5029 CH-752 Gee, Aren't We Lucky CH-753 Guitar Happy ROSE LEE MAPHIS CHART 5074 CH-908 I Don't Care CH-909 Run That By Me One More Time JOE & JODY MAPHIS CHART 5122 CH-1047 Sippin', Pickin' & Flippin' CH-1046 If I'm Gonna Have Your Lovin' JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS OUTREACH 102 Let Your Love Show [Same flip] JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS CMH 1517 My Baby's Doin' Alright Eighteen Wheels JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS CMH 1520 5792 Somewhere Between 5797 Fiddle Pickin' ROSE LEE MAPHIS RIPCORD 009 009-1 You 009-2 Kiss A Day JOE & THE CHUCK WAGON TEAM Featuring Fiddlin' Kate WINDSOR 4167 Gitdown #1 Long Journey JOE & THE CHUCK WAGON TEAM Featuring Fiddlin' Kate WINDSOR 4172 WC-4172-A We'll Build A Bungalow WC-4172-B Left-Right (Joe plays banjo on top side. B-side, written Shuman-Garson, is by The Sundowners Band and does not feature Joe Maphis) JOE MAPHIS COLUMBIA EP B-10051 RHCO 33564 Fire On The Strings RHCO 33731 Guitar Rock And Roll RHCO 33944 Flying Fingers RHCO 33945 Twin Banjo Special JOE MAPHIS & LARRY COLLINS COLUMBIA EP B-2141 RHCO 40372 Early American RHCO 40373 The Rockin' Gipsy RHCO 40374 Bye, Bye RHCO 40375 Hurricane JOE MAPHIS STARDAY SEP-242 7933 Dixie Guitar 7935 Y'All Come 7938 Tennessee Guitar Polka 7939 Cannonball Guitar 7937 Bonaparte's Guitar (sic) 7943 Maybelle

The Lariat cuts feature Billy Liebert & his band and were cut in 1951/1952. The Okeh sessions took place as follows : * RHCO 10484 to 10487 : April 27, 1953 * RHCO 10604 to 10607 : October 8, 1953 * RHCO 10864 to 10867 : April 27, 1954 . The Columbia sessions were cut as follows : * RHCO 33346 to 33349 : February 22, 1955 * RHCO 33561 to 33564 : October 3, 1955 * RHCO 33731 to 33734 : February 28, 1956 * RHCO 33943 to 33946 : August 23, 1956 * RHCO 40147 to 40148 : March 12, 1957 * RHCO 40345 to 40348 : August 26, 1957 * RHCO 40372 to 40375 : September 25, 1957 * RHCO 45777 to 45779 : January 30, 1959 * RHCO 46423 to 46426 : January 5, 1960 . Nigel Burlinson has kindly given me the explanation for that 'RHCO' prefix : R=Radio Recorders, H= Hollywood, CO=Columbia. The Republic sides were cut on February 2, 1960. The previously unreleased stereo mix (where Joe's wonderful overdubs can be clearly heard) appears on two Sundazed CDs : 'Wild Men Ride Wild Guitars' (HC 12001) & 'Sundazed Sampler' (SC PRO 01). The Mac Gregor stuff dates back probably to 1960/61 (or earlier). The above Capitol sides were recorded circa 1962. Most of the above sessions were done in Hollywood (Radio Recorders, etc), although a few may have been cut in Nashville. After Capitol, Joe was signed to Starday Records. The Starday sides are all from the 1964-1966 period and were cut in Nashville. I think that other promo EPs culled from Joe's Starday LPs exist. The Mosrite and Chart outings are also late '60s / early '70s recordings. The Outreach single was released on that Nashville label in 1975 (song written by Joe & Rose Lee). The second CMH release is from 1979. The rare Ripcord single was recorded at The Ripcord Recording Studios in Vancouver, Washington. Musician & label owner, Bobby Gibson, co-produced the record with Rick Keefer ; Joe definitely played on it and the string section (on 'You') was from the Portland Symphony Orchestra in Oregon. The Windsor label was out of Temple City, California. Most tracks are 'square dance instrumentals'.