The Essential Recordings

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Goodnight, Irene
  2:39
• 2
  Rock Island Line
  2:33
• 3
  Alabama Bound
  3:05
• 4
  Cotton Fields
  2:08
• 5
  Packin' Trunk Blues
  2:57
• 6
  The Bourgeois Blues
  3:24
• 7
  The Boll Weevil
  3:03
• 8
  The Gallis Pole
  2:46
• 9
  Fannin Street
  2:36
• 10
  De Kalb Blues
  3:04
• 11
  Looky Looky Yonder/Black Betty/Yellow Woman's Doorbell
  3:08
• 12
  Easy Rider
  3:14
• 13
  New York City
  3:02
• 14
  Roberta
  3:07
• 15
  Leaving Blues
  3:02
• 16
  Good Morning, Blues
  2:56
• 17
  Worried Blues
  3:13
• 18
  Whoa Back, Buck
  3:08
• 19
  Alberta
  3:09
• 20
  You Can't Lose-A Me, Cholly
  3:04
• CD 2
• 1
  Midnight Special
  3:06
• 2
  In New Orleans (House Of The Rising Sun)
  3:16
• 3
  Pick A Bale Of Cotton
  2:58
• 4
  T.B.Blues
  3:10
• 5
  Sail On, Little Girl
  3:14
• 6
  Stewball
  3:02
• 7
  Don’t You Love Your Daddy No More?
  3:07
• 8
  I’m On My Last Go Round
  3:12
• 9
  Red Cross Store Blues
  3:09
• 10
  John Hardy
  3:15
• 11
  Where Did You Sleep Last Night
  3:03
• 12
  Take This Hammer
  3:00
• 13
  Hitler Song
  4:36
• 14
  Pretty Flowers In My Back Yard (with Josh White)
  2:27
• 15
  Jim Crow Blues
  2:26
• 16
  Mother’s Blues (Little Children Blues) (with Josh White)
  2:33
• 17
  Sweet Mary
  2:55
• 18
  Digging My Potatoes
  3:59
• 19
  How Long
  4:32
• 20
  When The Boys Were Out On The Western Plains
  2:58

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Issues

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  The Essential Recordings

  2x CD
  2018