Little Eric – On the Rocks

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I found Willie’s complete Discogs catalog, but I couldn’t get the track lists. Opening each album’s page needs your OK, and those approval requests timed out before you saw them. If you approve them when they pop up (they’re all on api.discogs.com), I’ll pull every tracklist. If you’d rather not, I’ll search album by album instead, which is slower and will leave some gaps.

Albums still needing track lists (34 releases)

1985 – Not A Butterfly (with the Shadowlords)
1987 – Is Mr. Dylan Home (cassette)
1988 – Flower Machine, and a cassette version, Flower Machine – Incense
1991 – Radio Simplicity (with True Soul Rockers)
1994 – Nothin But Rock N Roll
1996 – Dance... Or Else (Willie and the Voodooz)
1998 – Medicine Man (with the Voodooz)
1999 – Have You Seen My Tambourine?
2000 – A Zillion Miles Gone, Eight Track Spider, Dream 17
2001 – Between The Truth And Nowhere
2003 – Last Sound Check In Memphis
2004 – Blues Reaction
2005 – Quick N’ Dirty, Mojo 6
2007 – Plastic Blues And Grooves
2009 – Revolution In The Basement
2011 – Blues Hippy, Magic Black Umbrella
2015 – Captain Psychedelic (with the Soul Underground)
2016 – Blues My Soul (with the Soul Underground)
2017 – Garage Blues Band (with the Soul Underground)
2019 – Backstage Rain (with the Soul Underground)
2020 – This Ain’t 1968
2021 – 3 Chords Maybe 4, Heavy Bubblegum, Poster Noise, Bomb Shelter 13
2022 – Magic In The Dark
2024 – Save the Angels, Soul Bender
2025 – Happy Vibrations, Friends
2026 – The Blues Ain’t Pretty

New song titles from singles and compilations

I Saw Superman (1979)
One More Try Tonight (1982)
Man At The Window (1984)
Ball And Chain (1993)
Gasoline (2001)
Garage Rock (2001)
Let Me Fly (1971, with the Young Fostorians)

He also covered “No Woman No Cry” on a 1998 compilation.

His other bands, which you may want included

Romantic Noise
- I Fell In Love With A Baby / Dead Flowers (In My Yard) (1977)
- ‘78 Affair EP (1978), titles not yet pulled
The Buttons
- Blue Bicycle / Hey Little Girl (1980)
Magical Soul: a late-’60s 45, titles unknown so far

Once the tracklists come in, I’ll put everything into one sorted spreadsheet with the album and year for each song, so you can keep it.

Here’s what I could confirm. One caveat up front: Willie Phoenix has recorded a lot (Discogs lists about 36 albums, and he says himself he’s lost count), so the solo section below covers only the releases with tracklists I could verify.

Eric / Little Eric (Marion, Ohio; the only album, a 1970 private pressing reissued by Soft Estate Records)

Bye Cowgirl
Satcho’s Revival
Goldrush (Willie later remembered it as “Gold Rush, 1849”)
Sunshine Heartache
Waiting
Be Good To Your Woman
April
Last Summers Dream
Somewhere There Is Music
Morning Lighthouse

A 1973 newspaper item says Little Eric signed with Laytra Records and planned an album for November 12. I couldn’t confirm whether that is the same record or a second one.

The Boppers (two singles, both written by Willie)

Dancing in Rocket City / Cleveland Dolls (Kare Records)
Catrina / Let’s Go Bad

Willie Phoenix (solo, A&M Records, 1982)

Kiss Quick Say Goodnight
Talk So Loud
No Signs of Joanna
The Sketch
Maybe It Won’t Rain
Dead From a Broken Heart
Mary
Rough Kiss
New York Is Burning

Willie Phoenix and the Shadowlords – We Love Noise (Shadow Records, 1983)

My Apartment
I’m On Fire
Slow Children
Rebel in the Making
Please Save the Boat
My Lucky Day
Sneakin’ Sneakers
Wanna See Ya Change Me

Other recorded Willie Phoenix songs (from later albums such as Plastic Blues and Grooves, Quick n’ Dirty, and his Soul Underground releases; I couldn’t match them to specific albums)

I Got a Bible Belt Lover
The Spirit’s Gotta Move Ya
New Shelter
Harperstown
American Blues
Evil Baby
Black Smokin’ Train
Alice Jane from the Flatlands (Marry Me)
She’s Got a Rainbow Soul
Good Girls Love Bad Guys
Tangerine
I’m Flying
Happy Blues
Drivin’ with the Blues
The Sun
White Rabbit Flys an Airplane
It’s Gonna Rain
Tell the World About Love
Boogie Loud
Mama
Back to the Fillmore
Big Whiskey Woman
Johnny Pulled a Gun
Misunderstanding

His later bands (Romantic Noise, The Buttons, Magical Soul’s late-’60s 45) and albums like Crazy Velvet Horses aren’t included yet. I can keep digging album by album if you want a fuller catalog.

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