Lead Belly- Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection [Box Set] (CD)
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is proud to present Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection the first in-depth, career-spanning box set of songs, photos, and essays dedicated to one of America s most treasured 20th-century icons.
Tracklist:
- Irene (Goodnight Irene)
- The Bourgeois Blues
- Fannin Street (Mister Tom Hughes Town)
- The Midnight Special
- John Henry
- Black Girl (Where Did You Sleep Last Night)
- Pick a Bale of Cotton
- Take This Hammer
- Cotton Fields
- Old Riley
- Rock Island Line
- The Gallis Pole
- Ha-Ha This a Way
- Sukey Jump
- Boll Weevil
- Scottsboro Boys
- Governor O.K. Allen
- Governor Pat Neef
- There's a Man Going Around Taking Names
- On a Monday
- You Can't Lose Me, Cholly
- Keep Your Hands Off Her
- We Shall Be Free
- Alabama Bound
- Almost Day
- Fiddler's Dram
- Green Corn
- Sally Walker
- Bring Me a Little Water, Silvy
- Julie Ann Johnson
- Linin' Track
- Whoa, Back, Buck
- Shorty George
- Ham and Eggs (Previously Unreleased)
- Moanin'
- Out On the Western Plain
- 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 (Previously Unreleased)
- The Hindenburg Disaster
- Ella Speed
- Haul Away Joe
- Old Man
- Sweet Jenny Lee
- Jean Harlow
- Laura
- Queen Mary
- Good Morning Blues
- Sail On, Little Girl
- Easy Rider
- Poor Howard
- Duncan and Brady
- How Long, How Long
- T.B. Blues
- Jim Crow Blues
- Pigmeat
- John Hardy
- Outskirts of Town
- 4, 5, and 9
- In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)
- Red Cross Store Blues
- Diggin' My Potatoes
- Blind Lemon
- When a Man's a Long Way from Home
- Alberta
- Excerpt from The Lonesome Train
- National Defense Blues
- Hitler Song (Mr. Hitler)
- Big Fat Woman
- Been So Long - Bellevue Hospital Blues (Previously Unreleased Original Song)
- WNYC Folk Songs of America Lead Belly (Previously Unreleased): a. Grey Goose, b. Boll Weevil, c. Yellow Gal, d. Ha-Ha This a Wa
- WNYC Folk Songs of America Lead Belly and the Oleander Quartet (Previously Unreleased): a. Almost Day, b. Blues in My Kitchen,
- If It Wasn t For Dicky (Previously Unreleased)
- What's You Gonna Do When the World s on Fire w/ Anne Graham (Previously Unreleased)
- Rock Me - Hide Me in Thy Bosom w/ Anne Graham (Previously Unreleased)
- Packin' Trunk Blues (Previously Unreleased)
- Leaving Blues
- How Come You Do Me Like You Do? (Previously Unreleased)
- One Dime Blues (Previously Unreleased)
- I'm Going to Buy You a Brand New Ford (Previously Unreleased Original Song)
- Jail-House Blues
- Shout On
- Come and Sit Down Beside Me
- Red River (Previously Unreleased)
- Yes, I Was Standing in the Bottom
- Ain't Going Down to the Well No More (Version 2)
- Everytime I Go Out (Previously Unreleased Original Song)
- Go Down, Old Hannah
- Black Betty
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out w/ Bessie Smith(Previously Unreleased)
- Stewball
- Ain't It a Shame to Go Fishin' on a Sunday
- Relax Your Mind
- Princess Elizabeth (Previously Unreleased Original Song)
- 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
> Due to the current limited nature of music titles, ALL CD & Vinyl purchases are limited to FOUR copies per customer, per item. If you place multiple orders for multiples of the same title, your subsequent orders will be canceled.
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is proud to present Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection the first in-depth, career-spanning box set of songs, photos, and essays dedicated to one of America s most treasured 20th-century icons.
Tracklist:
- Irene (Goodnight Irene)
- The Bourgeois Blues
- Fannin Street (Mister Tom Hughes Town)
- The Midnight Special
- John Henry
- Black Girl (Where Did You Sleep Last Night)
- Pick a Bale of Cotton
- Take This Hammer
- Cotton Fields
- Old Riley
- Rock Island Line
- The Gallis Pole
- Ha-Ha This a Way
- Sukey Jump
- Boll Weevil
- Scottsboro Boys
- Governor O.K. Allen
- Governor Pat Neef
- There's a Man Going Around Taking Names
- On a Monday
- You Can't Lose Me, Cholly
- Keep Your Hands Off Her
- We Shall Be Free
- Alabama Bound
- Almost Day
- Fiddler's Dram
- Green Corn
- Sally Walker
- Bring Me a Little Water, Silvy
- Julie Ann Johnson
- Linin' Track
- Whoa, Back, Buck
- Shorty George
- Ham and Eggs (Previously Unreleased)
- Moanin'
- Out On the Western Plain
- 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 (Previously Unreleased)
- The Hindenburg Disaster
- Ella Speed
- Haul Away Joe
- Old Man
- Sweet Jenny Lee
- Jean Harlow
- Laura
- Queen Mary
- Good Morning Blues
- Sail On, Little Girl
- Easy Rider
- Poor Howard
- Duncan and Brady
- How Long, How Long
- T.B. Blues
- Jim Crow Blues
- Pigmeat
- John Hardy
- Outskirts of Town
- 4, 5, and 9
- In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)
- Red Cross Store Blues
- Diggin' My Potatoes
- Blind Lemon
- When a Man's a Long Way from Home
- Alberta
- Excerpt from The Lonesome Train
- National Defense Blues
- Hitler Song (Mr. Hitler)
- Big Fat Woman
- Been So Long - Bellevue Hospital Blues (Previously Unreleased Original Song)
- WNYC Folk Songs of America Lead Belly (Previously Unreleased): a. Grey Goose, b. Boll Weevil, c. Yellow Gal, d. Ha-Ha This a Wa
- WNYC Folk Songs of America Lead Belly and the Oleander Quartet (Previously Unreleased): a. Almost Day, b. Blues in My Kitchen,
- If It Wasn t For Dicky (Previously Unreleased)
- What's You Gonna Do When the World s on Fire w/ Anne Graham (Previously Unreleased)
- Rock Me - Hide Me in Thy Bosom w/ Anne Graham (Previously Unreleased)
- Packin' Trunk Blues (Previously Unreleased)
- Leaving Blues
- How Come You Do Me Like You Do? (Previously Unreleased)
- One Dime Blues (Previously Unreleased)
- I'm Going to Buy You a Brand New Ford (Previously Unreleased Original Song)
- Jail-House Blues
- Shout On
- Come and Sit Down Beside Me
- Red River (Previously Unreleased)
- Yes, I Was Standing in the Bottom
- Ain't Going Down to the Well No More (Version 2)
- Everytime I Go Out (Previously Unreleased Original Song)
- Go Down, Old Hannah
- Black Betty
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out w/ Bessie Smith(Previously Unreleased)
- Stewball
- Ain't It a Shame to Go Fishin' on a Sunday
- Relax Your Mind
- Princess Elizabeth (Previously Unreleased Original Song)
- 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
> Due to the current limited nature of music titles, ALL CD & Vinyl purchases are limited to FOUR copies per customer, per item. If you place multiple orders for multiples of the same title, your subsequent orders will be canceled.