Complete Blues: The Definitive Leadbelly

Compilation by Lead Belly

Released 21 May 2002

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Grasshopper in My Pillow
    2:47
  • 2
    Tight Like That
    3:11
  • 3
    C.C. Rider
    2:58
  • 4
    Well You Know I Had to Do It
    2:54
  • 5
    Alberta
    3:07
    4.0 ★
  • 6
    Sweet Mary Blues
    2:57
  • 7
    New Orleans
    3:15
  • 8
    New York City
    3:02
  • 9
    Baby, Don't You Love Me No More?
    2:53
  • 10
    Thirty Days in the Work House
    2:32
  • 11
    You Cain' Loose-A-Me Cholly
    2:59
  • 12
    Midnight Special
    2:04
  • 13
    I'm Leavin' on the Midnight Train
    4:18
  • 14
    Fannin' Street
    3:26
  • 15
    Goodnight Irene
    1:53
  • 16
    Pick a Bale of Cotton
    Lead Belly & The Golden Gate Quartet
    1:45
  • 17
    Black Girl
    2:09
  • 18
    Turn Yo' Radio On
    2:12
  • 19
    Children's Blues
    2:27
  • 20
    John Henry
    4:01
  • 21
    Corn Bread Rough
    2:07
  • 22
    Can't You Line 'em
    Lead Belly & The Golden Gate Quartet
    2:56
  • 23
    Ella Speed
    2:45
  • 24
    Tell Me Baby
    2:56
  • 25
    Go Down, Old Hannah
    4:58
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Somebody's Digging My Potatoes
    3:59
  • 2
    Dancing With Tears in My Heart
    2:45
  • 3
    Salty Dog
    3:01
  • 4
    Whoa Back Up
    2:12
  • 5
    Sukey Jump
    1:06
  • 6
    How Long
    Lead Belly & Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
    4:33
  • 7
    Eagle Rock Rag
    2:46
  • 8
    Laura
    1:40
  • 9
    Big Fat Woman
    1:11
  • 10
    My Friend Blind Lemon
    3:05
  • 11
    Easy Mr Tom
    2:04
  • 12
    New Black Snake
    3:11
  • 13
    Matchbox Blues
    3:03
  • 14
    Death Letter Blues 1
    3:00
  • 15
    Death Letter Blues 2
    3:00
  • 16
    Bourgeois Blues
    5:36
  • 17
    We're in the Same Boat, Brother
    2:20
  • 18
    Jean Harlow
    2:28
  • 19
    Howard Hughes
    3:02
  • 20
    Cow Cow Yickety, Yickety, Yea
    1:33
  • 21
    When I Was a Cowboy
    2:15
  • 22
    TB Blues
    3:09
  • 23
    Alabama Bound
    Lead Belly & The Golden Gate Quartet
    3:05
    4.0 ★
  • 24
    Shout On
    2:11
  • 25
    He Never Said a Mumbling Word
    2:49
  • CD 3
  • 1
    It Was Early One Morning
    2:25
  • 2
    Good Morning Blues
    2:53
  • 3
    Tom Hughes Town
    3:04
  • 4
    Bull Cow
    2:44
  • 5
    Looky Looky Yonder
    2:59
  • 6
    The Blood Done Sign My Name
    2:20
  • 7
    Tell Me Baby, What Was Wrong With You
    3:16
  • 8
    Birmingham Jail (Down in the Valley)
    1:50
  • 9
    Red Cross Store Blues
    3:07
  • 10
    Sail on, Little Girl, Sail On
    3:16
  • 11
    Roberta
    2:59
  • 12
    Jim Crow Blues
    2:25
  • 13
    Gray Goose
    1:57
  • 14
    I'm on My Last Go-Round
    3:12
  • 15
    Stewball
    2:25
  • 16
    Spring Time in the Rockies
    3:04
  • 17
    Ain't Going Down to the Well No More
    1:06
  • 18
    Take This Hammer
    2:15
  • 19
    Rock Island Line
    Lead Belly & The Golden Gate Quartet
    2:36
    4.0 ★
  • 20
    Midnight Special
    Lead Belly & The Golden Gate Quartet
    3:05
  • 21
    Sylvie
    0:59
  • 22
    I'll Be Down on the Last Bread Wagon
    3:21
  • 23
    Chinatown
    1:07
  • 24
    I'm Alone Because I Love You
    2:53
  • 25
    Leaving Blues
    3:34

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Release credits

  • recording [16]
  • acoustic guitar [1.1, 1.6, 1.24, 2.19, 3.12], arranger [18], button accordion [8], concertina [2.8, 1.21], guitar [1.1, 1.5, 1.5-6, 1.8-9, 1.16-18, 1.20, 1.22-23, 2.5, 2.10, 2.13, 2.18-19, 2.23, 3.2, 3.4, 3.7-10, 3.14, 3.18, 3.18-19, 3.19-20, 3.25], lead vocals [1.5, 1.9, 1.16, 2.8-10, 2.13, 3.4], piano [7, 9], vocal [2.5, 2.8-9, 2.18-19, 2.23, 1.1, 1.6, 1.8, 1.17-18, 1.20, 1.22-23, 3.2, 3.7-10, 3.14, 3.17-18, 3.18-19, 3.19-20, 3.25]
  • guest [2.7, 1.1, 1.6, 1.24], zither [2.7, 1.1, 1.6, 1.23-24]
  • guest [1.22, 3.19], vocal [3.19-20, 1.8, 1.22, 2.23]
  • background vocals [16]
  • background vocals [1.20, 3.2, 3.19], clarinet [1.20, 3.2, 3.19], percussion [1.20, 3.2, 3.19], piano [3.2, 3.19, 1.20], tenor saxophone [3.2, 3.19, 1.20], trumpet [1.20, 3.2, 3.19]

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