Big Man: The Legend of John Henry

Album by Cannonball Adderley

Released 1975

Tracklist

  • 12" Vinyl 1
  • 1
    Overture
    2:17
  • 2
    Anybody Need a Big Man
    3:49
  • 3
    Who Bend the Rainbow
    3:42
  • 4
    Forty More Miles to Go / Rouster’s Chant
    1:17
  • 5
    Ten Mile of Mountain / Recitative: Who Up in Heaven
    3:00
  • 6
    Dialogue (Carolina)
    0:13
  • 7
    Gonna Give Lovin’ a Try
    3:15
  • 8
    The Broomstick Song
    1:24
  • 9
    Next Year in Jerusalem
    2:18
  • 10
    Dialogue (Carolina, John Henry)
    0:27
  • 11
    Stayin’ Place (intro)
    0:34
  • 12
    Stayin’ Place
    2:38
  • 13
    Dialogue (Carolina)
    0:19
  • 14
    A New Star Risin’
    2:02
  • 15
    The Steamdrill Race (intro)
    0:50
  • 12" Vinyl 2
  • 1
    Anybody Need a Big Man
    6:07
  • 2
    Grind You Own Coffee
    3:10
  • 3
    Anybody Need a Big Man / Dialogue (Deputy)
    0:47
  • 4
    Hundred an’ One Year / M’Ria
    1:29
  • 5
    River
    2:11
  • 6
    A New Star Risin’
    0:30
  • 7
    Dialogue (Carolina & Jassawa)
    0:21
  • 8
    Hundred an’ One Year / M’Ria
    1:15
  • 9
    Recitative: Born Black
    2:12
  • 10
    Dialogue (Jassawa)
    0:08
  • 11
    Poundin’
    3:04
  • 12
    Dialogue (John Henry & Bull Maree)
    0:38
  • 13
    The Steamdrill Race
    1:32
  • 14
    We Saved / Dialogue (Carolina)
    0:26
  • 15
    Jesus Where You Now?
    2:03
  • 16
    If I Was Jehovah
    2:36
  • 17
    On His Bones (Finale)
    1:23

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