Complete Blues: Take This Hammer

Tracklist

• 1
  Can't You Line 'em
  2:57
• 2
  Fannin' Street
  3:26
• 3
  Rock Island Line
  2:37
  4.0 ★
• 4
  C.C. Rider
  2:59
• 5
  New York City
  3:03
• 6
  Goodnight Irene
  1:52
• 7
  Pick a Bale of Cotton
  1:44
• 8
  TB Blues
  3:09
• 9
  Good Morning Blues
  2:54
• 10
  Alberta
  3:08
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Midnight Special
  2:03
• 12
  Take This Hammer
  2:16
• 13
  Bourgeois Blues
  5:37
• 14
  Salty Dog
  3:01
• 15
  Matchbox Blues
  3:03
• 16
  Tell Me Baby
  3:17
• 17
  Black Gal
  2:09
• 18
  Somebody's Diggin' My Potatoes
  3:59
• 19
  Tight Like That
  3:11
• 20
  Leaving Blues
  3:36

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Release credits

• Alan Lomax
  recording [13]
• Lead Belly
  arranger [12], guitar [1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 9-10, 10, 12, 15, 20], lead vocals [7, 10, 15], vocal [1, 3, 5, 9, 12, 20]
• The Golden Gate Quartet
  guest [1, 3], vocal [1, 3, 5]
• The Oleander Singers
  background vocals [7]
• [unknown]
  background vocals [3, 9], clarinet [3, 9], percussion [3, 9], piano [3, 9], tenor saxophone [3, 9], trumpet [3, 9]

Issues

• C
  Complete Blues: Take This Hammer

  CD
  2004