The Definitive Lead Belly

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Midnight Special
  3:07
• 2
  John Hardy
  3:14
• 3
  Where Did You Sleep Last Night
  3:02
• 4
  T.B. Blues
  3:11
• 5
  Easy Rider
  3:13
• 6
  Alberta
  3:11
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Rock Island Line
  2:34
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Alanama Bound
  3:05
  4.0 ★
• 9
  You Cant Lose-A Me Cholly
  3:02
• 10
  New York City
  3:00
• 11
  Roberta
  3:07
• 12
  Leaving Blues
  3:02
• 13
  When the Boys Were Out in the Western Plain
  2:56
• 14
  I'm on My Last Go Round
  3:11
• 15
  Mothers Blues

  Lead Belly & Josh White
  2:32
• 16
  Pretty Flowers in My Back Garden

  Lead Belly & Josh White
  2:26
• 17
  Pick a Bale of Cotton
  2:58
• 18
  Sail on Little Girl
  3:14
• 19
  Fannin Steet
  2:36
• 20
  Packing Trunk Blues
  2:57
• 21
  The Bourgeious Blues
  3:23
• 22
  Good Morning Blues
  2:55
• 23
  The Boll Weevil
  3:03
• 24
  Shorty George
  5:05
• 25
  Goodnight Irene
  2:38
• CD 2
• 1
  Worried Blues
  3:15
• 2
  In New Orleans ( House of the Rising Sun)
  3:16
• 3
  Blue Tail Fly
  2:18
• 4
  Take This Hammer
  2:59
• 5
  Stewball
  3:01
• 6
  The Gallis Pole
  2:46
• 7
  C.C. Rider
  4:10
• 8
  Cotton Fields
  2:08
• 9
  Yellow Gal
  3:09
• 10
  Ham'n'Eggs
  2:59
• 11
  Don't You Love Your Daddy No More?
  3:06
• 12
  Howard Hughes
  3:03
• 13
  Looky Looky Yonder / Black Betty / Yellow Womans Doorbell
  3:08
• 14
  Whoa Back, Buck
  3:07
• 15
  Didnt Ol' John Cross the River
  3:09
• 16
  Julianne Johnson
  3:14
• 17
  Grey Goose
  2:57
• 18
  Red Cross Store Blues
  3:08
• 19
  Can't You Line Em
  2:55
• 20
  Swing Low Sweet Chariot
  0:50
• 21
  My Baby Quit Me
  2:54
• 22
  Black Betty
  1:55
• 23
  Bottle Up and Go
  1:13
• 24
  De Kalb Blues
  3:04
• 25
  Ain't Gonna Study War No More
  1:24

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Release credits

• Lead Belly
  acoustic guitar [12], guitar [1.6, 1.6-7, 1.7-8, 1.10, 1.14, 1.22, 2.12, 2.18-19], lead vocals [6], vocal [2.12, 2.18-19, 1.7, 1.7-8, 1.10, 1.14, 1.22]
• The Golden Gate Quartet
  guest [2.19, 1.7], vocal [2.19, 1.7-8, 1.10]
• [unknown]
  background vocals [7, 22], clarinet [7, 22], percussion [7, 22], piano [7, 22], tenor saxophone [7, 22], trumpet [7, 22]

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  The Definitive Lead Belly

  2x CD
  2008