Ray Flerlage

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American photographer of blues musicians. Also a writer, lecturer, disc jockey and record wholesaler.

APPEARANCES +

2024, 2xCD, Comp, Sunset Blvd Records

Lightnin' Hopkins

Live From The Ash Grove…Plus!

His Greatest Sides, Volume One

2016, LP, Comp, Ltd, Promo, RE, Red, Jackpot Records (3)

Deep South Piano: The Music Of Little Brother Montgomery, His Family, Friends And Peers

2014, 3xCD, Album, Agram Blues

Remembering Little Walter

2013, CD, Album, Blind Pig Records,

Harmonica Blues

John Lee Hooker

King Of The Delta Blues

2004, CD, Comp, Fuel 2000

Are You Ready For Freddie?

2004, CD, Fuel 2000

Albert King / Otis Rush

2004, CD, Comp, Mono, Ltd, RE, Chess

The Stanley Brothers

An Evening Long Ago

Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues - Piano Blues

Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues

I Wanna Go Home

Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues - Godfathers And Sons

Rhythm & Blues/Electric Blues

Classic Masters

2002, CD, Comp, RM, Virgin

Moanin' At Midnight - The Memphis Recordings

Preachin' The Blues: The Music Of Mississippi Fred McDowell

Rockin' Wild In Chicago

Lightnin' Hopkins

Live At Newport

Newport Folk Festival: Best Of The Blues 1959 - 68

Chicago Blues/Delta Blues/Electric Blues

Avalon Blues (A Tribute To The Music Of Mississippi John Hurt)

The Essential Magic Sam - The Cobra And Chief Recordings 1957-1961

Reverend Gary Davis*

Live At Newport

Country Blues/Gospel

The Folkways Years 1959-1973

2000, HDCD, Comp, Smithsonian Folkways

Frett'n The Blues (Best Of The Great Blues Guitarists)

2000, CD, Comp, RM, Vanguard

Blow'n The Blues (Best Of The Great Harp Players)

2000, CD, Comp, RM, Vanguard

Blow'n The Blues (Best Of The Great Harp Players)

2000, CD, Comp, Vanguard,

Harmonica Blues/Electric Blues/Chicago Blues

I Can't Quit You Baby: The Cobra Sessions 1956-58

Chicago / The Blues / Today!

Mississippi John Hurt

The Complete Studio Recordings

Delta Blues/Country Blues

John Coltrane & Don Cherry

The Avant-Garde

Hard Bop/Free Jazz

Blues Masters, Volume 18: More Slide Guitar Classics

1998, CD, Comp, RM, Rhino Records (2),

Chicago Blues/Texas Blues/Delta Blues

Memphis Slim And His House Rockers* Featuring Matt "Guitar" Murphy*

1998, Cass, Album, Comp, Delmark Records,

Chess Blues Guitar (Two Decades Of Killer Fretwork 1949 To 1969)

Backtracking: The Duke Recordings, Vol. Two

Electric Blues/Harmonica Blues/Rhythm & Blues

Blues Hit Big Town

Harmonica Blues/Chicago Blues

Greatest Hits Volume One - The Duke Recordings

Rhythm & Blues/Soul

Chess Blues Piano Greats

1997, 2xCD, Comp, Chess, MCA Records,

The Chess Blues-Rock Songbook: The Classic Originals

Chicago Blues/Rock & Roll

Live At The Regal

Chess Soul - A Decade Of Chicago's Finest

Soul/Rhythm & Blues

Delta Blues/Chicago Blues

Chess Blues Classics 1947 To 1956

How Blue Can You Get? (Classic Live Performances 1964 To 1994)

Fred & Annie Mae McDowell*

My Home Is In The Delta (Blues And Spirituals)

The Johnny Shines Band*

Masters Of Modern Blues Volume 1

Blues Masters, Volume 6: Blues Originals

Country Blues/Chicago Blues/Texas Blues

Blues Masters - The Essential Blues Collection

Blues Rock/Electric Blues/Rhythm & Blues

Blues Masters, Volume 15: Slide Guitar Classics

Electric Blues/Country Blues

Blues Masters, Volume 2: Postwar Chicago Blues

Chicago Blues/Rhythm & Blues

Little Brother Montgomery

Cold Day In Hell

Sunnyland Slim Featuring Jimmy Rogers, Willie Mabon, St. Louis Jimmy*

House Rent Party

Chicago Blues/Country Blues/Delta Blues/Electric Blues

Blues Masters, Volume 4: Harmonica Classics

Harmonica Blues/Rhythm & Blues/Blues Rock

The Magic Sam Legacy

The Blues World Of Little Walter

Otis Spann, Professor Longhair, Little Brother Montgomery, Lyin' Joe Holley

Piano Blues Legends

1983, LP, JSP Records

His Greatest Sides, Volume One

"Sleepy" John Estes*

Down South Blues (1935-1940)

Robert Nighthawk

Live On Maxwell Street - 1964

Electric Blues/Chicago Blues

Memphis Slim And His House Rockers* Featuring Matt "Guitar" Murphy*

Confessin' The Blues

Roosevelt Sykes & Little Brother Montgomery

I Was Walking Through The Woods

Anthony Braxton

3 Compositions Of New Jazz

Blues Piano Orgy

Big Joe Williams

Nine String Guitar Blues

Standing At The Crossroads

Elmore James, Eddie Taylor (2) & Jimmy Reed

South Side Blues

Southside Blues Jam

Jazz Gillum / Arbee Stidham / Memphis Slim

Blues By Jazz Gillum

Goin' To Chicago

1969, LP, Yel, Testament Records,

Slim's Got His Thing Goin' On

Albert King / Otis Rush

Fred McDowell With The Hunter's Chapel Singers

Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup

Hate To See You Go

1969, Vinyl TH,

John Littlejohn

John Littlejohn's Chicago Blues Stars

Barney Bigard / Art Hodes All Star Stompers

Bucket's Got A Hole In It

Little Brother Montgomery

Farro Street Jive

As If It Were The Seasons

Memphis Slim And The Real Honky Tonk

The New Folk Sound Of Terry Callier

Modern Chicago Blues

Blues On The South Side

The Blues Never Die!

Dr. Isaiah Ross*

Call The Doctor

Music Down Home: An Introduction To Negro Folk Music, U.S.A.

1965, 2x Vinyl,

J.D. Short* And Big Joe Williams

Stavin' Chain Blues

Billy Boy Arnold

More Blues On The South Side

Clancy Hayes & The Salty Dogs

Sleepy John Estes

Broke And Hungry

Big Joe Williams With Jimmy Brown (5) And Willie Lee Harris

Back To The Country

Mike Seeger, Tom Paley, John Cohen

Sing Songs Of The New Lost City Ramblers

Rhythms Of Childhood

Traditional Singer

1962, LP, Album, Folkways Records

Frank Hamilton Sings Folk Songs

1962, LP, Mono, Folkways Records

Big Joe Williams

Mississippi's Big Joe Williams And His Nine String Guitar

Ella Jenkins And The Goodwill Spiritual Choir Of The Monumental Baptist Church*

American Negro Folk And Work Song Rhythms

How To Play The 5-String Banjo

Ella Jenkins And The Goodwill Spiritual Choir Of Monumental Baptist Church*

African American Folk Rhythms

Cass, Album, Smithsonian Folkways,

Mississippi John Hurt

Volume II Of The Original Piedmont Recordings "Worried Blues"

The Impressions

The Greatest Hits

Roosevelt Sykes

Roosevelt Sykes In Europe

Rev. Robert Wilkins*

Memphis Gospel Singer

Mississippi John Hurt

Mississippi John Hurt, 1963 Volume I Of The Original Piedmont Recordings "Folksongs And Blues"

3x CD, Box Set,

The Rainbow Quest

Big Joe Williams

Blues On Highway 49

The Definitive Collection

Chicago Blues/Electric Blues

Deep Are The Roots

Yank Rachell And His Tennessee Jug-Busters

I Wanna Go Home

Cold Day In Hell