Lead Belly The Smithsonian Folkways collection
Music - 2015
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Washington, DC :
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
2015.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- Blues, folk songs, and gospel music.
Principally previously released material; includes 15 previously unreleased tracks. - Physical Description
- 5 audio discs ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (139 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm)
- Bibliography
- Booklet comprises essays: Lead Belly : a man of contradiction and complexity, by Robert Santelli; and The life and legacy of Lead Belly, by Jeff Place; with bibliographical references and discographies.
- ISBN
- 9780970494252
- disc 1-3. Irene (Goodnight Irene) (Sonny Terry, harmonica)
- The bourgeois blues
- Fannin Street (Mister Tom Hughes Town)
- The midnight special
- John Henry (Brownie McGhee, guitar; Sonny Terry, harmonica)
- Black girl (Where did sleep last night)
- Pick a bale of cotton (the Oleander Quartet)
- Take this hammer
- Cotton fields
- Old Riley
- Rock Island Line
- The gallis pole
- Ha-ha this a way
- Sukey jump (Lead Belly, vocals, accordion)
- Boll weevil
- Scottsboro boys
- Governor O.K. Allen
- Governor Pat Neff
- There's a man going around taking names
- On a Monday (Sonny Terry, harmonica)
- You can't lose me, Cholly
- Keep your hands off her
- We shall be free (Woody Guthrie, vocals; Sonny Terry, harmonica)
- Alabama bound (Woody Guthrie, vocals and mandolin; Cisco Houston, vocals and guitar)
- Almost day
- Fiddler's dram (Woody Guthrie, vocals and mandolin; Cisco Houston, vocals and guitar)
- Green corn
- Sally Walker
- Bring me a little water, Silvy (Anne Graham, vocals)
- Julie Ann Johnson
- Linin' track
- Whoa, back, buck
- Shorty George
- Ham and eggs
- Moanin'
- Out on the western plains
- Noted rider
- Meeting at the building
- Good, good, good (Talking preaching) ; We shall walk through the valley
- Ain't you glad (the blood done signed my name)
- I'm so glad, I done got over
- The Hindenburg disaster
- Ella Speed
- Haul away Joe
- Old man
- Sweet Jenny Lee
- Jean Harlow
- Laura (Lead Belly, vocals, accordion)
- Queen Mary
- Good morning blues (Sonny Terry, harmonica)
- Sail on, little girl
- Easy rider
- Poor Howard (Sonny Terry, harmonica; Brownie McGhee, guitar; Pops Foster, bass)
- Duncan and Brady
- How long, how long (Sonny Terry, harmonica)
- T.B. blues
- Jim Crow blues
- Pigmeat (Brownie McGhee, guitar; unknown bass player)
- John Hardy (Lead Belly, vocals, accordion)
- Outskirts of town (Sonny Terry, harmonica)
- 4, 5, and 9 (Sonny Terry, harmonica; Brownie McGhee, guitar; Pops Foster, bass; Willie "the Lion" Smith, piano)
- In the evening (when the sun goes down)
- Red Cross store blues
- Diggin' my potatoes (Sonny Terry, harmonica; Brownie McGhee, guitar; Pops Foster, bass; Willie "the Lion" Smith, piano)
- Blind Lemon
- When a man's a long way from home
- Alberta
- Excerpt from "The lonesome train"
- National defense blues (Sonny Terry, harmonica; Brownie McGhee, guitar; Willie "the Lion" Smith, piano; Pops Foster, bass)
- Hitler song (Mr. Hitler)
- Big fat woman (Lead Belly, vocals, piano)
- Been so long (Bellevue Hospital blues)
- disc 4, Radio. WNYC--Folk songs of America--Lead Belly. Grey goose ; Boll weevil ; Yellow gal ; Ha-ha this a way ; Leaving blues ; Irene (outro)
- WNYC--Folk songs of America--Lead Belly and the Oleander Quartet. Almost day ; Blues in my kitchen ; Blues in my dining room ; I went up on the mountain ; Good morning blues ; Baby, don't you love me no more ; T.B. Blues ; Irene (outro)
- If it wasn't for Dicky
- What's you gonna do when the world's on fire (Anne Graham, vocals)
- Rock me (Hide me in thy bosom) (Anne Graham, vocals)
- Packin' trunk blues
- Leaving blues
- How come you do me like you do?
- One dime blues
- I'm going to buy you a brand new Ford
- Jail-house blues
- Shout on
- Come and sit down beside me
- Red River
- disc 5, Last sessions. Yes, I was standing in the bottom
- Ain't going down to the well no more (version 2)
- Everytime I go out
- Go down, Old Hannah
- Black Betty
- Nobody knows you when you're down and out (Bessie Smith)
- Stewball
- Ain't it a shame to go fishin' on a Sunday
- Relax your mind
- Princess Elizabeth
- Silver City bound
- The Titanic
- House of the rising sun
- It's tight like that
- Diggin' my potatoes
- Springtime in the Rockies
- Backwater blues
- Didn't Old John Cross the water
- De Kalb blues
- They hung him on the cross (version 1)
- They hung him on the cross (version 2)
- In the world.