Important Recordings 1934 - 1949

Tracklist

• CD 1: Leadbelly & the Library of Congress: 1934 - 1938
• 1
  Western Cowboy
  3:40
• 2
  Blind Lemon Blues
  4:18
• 3
  Midnight Special
  2:58
• 4
  Irene
  4:52
• 5
  C.C. Rider
  4:14
• 6
  Governor O.K. Allen
  2:44
• 7
  Julie Ann Johnson
  2:10
• 8
  I'm Sorry Mama
  3:04
• 9
  Take a Whiff on Me
  2:08
• 10
  Boll Weevil
  3:38
• 11
  The Titanic
  4:46
• 12
  Green Corn
  2:16
• 13
  Po' Howard
  3:10
• 14
  De Kalb Blues
  5:10
• 15
  Frankie and Albert
  4:28
• 16
  Queen Mary
  4:55
• 17
  The Hindenburg Disaster, Part 1
  1:16
• 18
  The Hindenburg Disaster, Part 2
  2:13
• 19
  Leaving on the Morning Train Blues
  9:49
• 20
  The Bourgeois Blues
  5:46
• CD 2: Leadbelly in the Studio: 1935
• 1
  Roberta, Part 1
  3:01
• 2
  Roberta, Part 2
  3:04
• 3
  Packin' Trunk Blues
  2:56
• 4
  C.C. Rider
  2:59
• 5
  Becky Deem, She Was a Gamblin' Girl
  3:05
• 6
  Honey, I'm All Out and Down
  3:13
• 7
  Four Day Worry Blues
  3:07
• 8
  You Can't Lose Me, Charlie
  2:59
• 9
  New Black Snake Moan
  3:12
• 10
  Alberta
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Baby Don't You Love Me No More
  2:53
• 12
  Ox Drivin' Blues
  2:55
• 13
  Death Letter Blues, Part 1
  3:01
• 14
  Death Letter Blues, Part 2
  3:01
• 15
  Kansas City Papa
  2:50
• 16
  Red River Blues
  3:02
• 17
  Fort Worth and Dallas Blues
  3:02
• 18
  You Don't Know My Mind
  3:04
• 19
  Daddy I'm Coming Back to You
  2:50
• 20
  My Friend Blind Lemon
  3:06
• 21
  Mr Tom Hughes Town
  3:05
• 22
  Shorty George
  3:07
• 23
  Matchbox Blues
  3:03
• 24
  Yellow Jacket
  2:53
• 25
  T.B. Woman Blues
  3:08
• CD 3: Leadbelly in the Studio: 1935 - 1943
• 1
  Pig Meat Papa
  3:17
• 2
  Bull Cow
  2:45
• 3
  My Baby Quit Me
  2:54
• 4
  Frankie and Albert, Part 1
  2:51
• 5
  Frankie and Albert, Part 2
  3:07
• 6
  Poor Howard / Green Corn
  3:11
• 7
  The Gallis Pole
  3:01
• 8
  Pick a Bale of Cotton
  3:02
• 9
  Whoa Back, Buck
  3:07
• 10
  Midnight Special
  3:05
• 11
  Rock Island Line
  2:37
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Good Morning Blues
  2:53
• 13
  T.B. Blues
  3:09
• 14
  Red Cross Store Blues
  3:08
• 15
  Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On
  3:17
• 16
  I'm on My Last Go-Round
  3:11
• 17
  New York City
  3:02
• 18
  Grey Goose
  3:04
• 19
  Stew Ball
  3:00
• 20
  Take This Hammer
  3:01
• 21
  Can't You Line 'em
  2:56
• 22
  Ham an' Eggs
  2:57
• 23
  On a Monday
  1:47
• 24
  John Henry
  2:16
• 25
  How Long
  2:13
• 26
  Ain't You Glad
  2:03
• CD 4: Leadbelly, The Last Years: 1943 - 1949
• 1
  John Hardy
  4:18
• 2
  Where Did You Sleep Last Night
  3:01
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Pretty Flowers in Your Backyard
  2:45
• 4
  In New Orleans
  3:15
• 5
  Outskirts of Town
  2:40
• 6
  Mother's Blues (Little Children Blues)
  2:32
• 7
  In the Evenin' (When the Sun Goes Down)
  2:33
• 8
  Jim Crow Blues
  2:25
• 9
  Mr Hitler
  3:06
• 10
  Corn Bread Rough
  2:08
• 11
  Ella Speed
  2:45
• 12
  Rock Island Line
  2:55
• 13
  Tell Me Baby
  2:57
• 14
  Take This Hammer
  2:54
• 15
  Irene (Goodnight Irene)
  2:54
• 16
  On a Christmas Day
  2:52
• 17
  Backwater Blues
  2:58
• 18
  Eagle Rock Rag
  2:51
• 19
  Sweet Mary Blues
  2:57
• 20
  Grasshoppers in My Pillow
  2:48
• 21
  Diggin' My Potatoes
  2:35
• 22
  Defense Blues
  3:19
• 23
  Easy Rider
  2:50
• 24
  Pigmeat
  2:19
• 25
  Howard Hughes
  3:02
• 26
  Shine on Me
  4:12

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Release credits

• Alan Lomax
  recording [1-4, 6-9]
• Brownie McGhee
  acoustic guitar [21-24], guest [21, 21-24]
• George "Pops" Foster
  double bass [21-24], guest [21-24]
• John A. Lomax
  recording [1-4, 6-9]
• Josh White
  acoustic guitar [6], guest [6]
• Lead Belly
  acoustic guitar, vocal, acoustic guitar [1.1-20, 4.2-9, 4.11-13, 4.15-17, 4.19-26], concertina [1, 10], double bass [14], guitar [3.1-3, 3.11, 3.11-12, 3.12, 3.14-17, 3.21, 3.25, 2.1-10, 2.10-25, 4.19-20, 4.25], lead vocals [2.1-10, 2.10-25, 1.1-20, 3.1-3], piano [18], vocal [4.19-20, 4.25, 3.11, 3.11-12, 3.12, 3.14-17, 3.21, 3.25]
• Paul Mason Howard
  guest [11-20], zither [11-20]
• Sonny Terry
  guest [3.23-26, 4.5, 4.7, 4.21-24], harmonica [3.23-25, 3.25-26, 4.5, 4.7, 4.21-24], performer [25]
• The Golden Gate Quartet
  guest [8-11, 18-22], vocal [11, 17, 21]
• Willie “The Lion” Smith
  guest [21-24], piano [21-24]
• [unknown]
  background vocals [11-12], clarinet [11-12], percussion [11-12], piano [11-12], tenor saxophone [11-12], trumpet [11-12]

Issues

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  Important Recordings 1934 - 1949

  4x CD
  20 March 2006