Complete Blues: The Definitive Leadbelly

Compilation by Lead Belly

Released 21 May 2002

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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

Alan Lomax
recording [16]
Lead Belly
acoustic guitar [1.1, 1.6, 1.24, 2.19, 3.12], arranger [18], button accordion [8], concertina [1.21, 2.8], guitar [3.2, 3.4, 3.7-10, 3.14, 3.18, 3.18-19, 3.19-20, 3.25, 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], lead vocals [1.5, 1.9, 1.16, 3.4, 2.8-10, 2.13], piano [7, 9], vocal [3.2, 3.7-10, 3.14, 3.17-18, 3.18-19, 3.19-20, 3.25, 1.1, 1.6, 1.8, 1.17-18, 1.20, 1.22-23, 2.5, 2.8-9, 2.18-19, 2.23]
Paul Mason Howard
guest [1.1, 1.6, 1.24, 2.7], zither [1.1, 1.6, 1.23-24, 2.7]
The Golden Gate Quartet
guest [1.22, 3.19], vocal [1.8, 1.22, 2.23, 3.19-20]
The Oleander Singers
background vocals [16]
[unknown]
background vocals [3.2, 3.19, 1.20], 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]

Issues

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(Combined release view)
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Complete Blues: The Definitive Leadbelly
3x CD
21 May 2002
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The Definitive Leadbelly
3x CD
2002
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The Definitive Leadbelly
3x CD
2005