The Rough Guide to Blues Legends: Leadbelly

Tracklist

• CD 1: The Rough Guide to Blues Legends: Leadbelly
• 1
  The Bourgeois Blues
  5:37
• 2
  Midnight Special
  2:04
• 3
  Irene Goodnight
  1:54
• 4
  Frankie and Albert (Part One)
  2:51
• 5
  Frankie and Albert (Part Two)
  3:07
• 6
  Blind Lemon (My Friend Blind Lemon)
  3:06
• 7
  Pick a Bale of Cotton
  1:44
• 8
  Fannin’ Street
  3:26
• 9
  Gallis Pole
  3:01
• 10
  Rock Island Line
  2:36
  4.0 ★
• 11
  How Long Blues
  4:33
• 12
  Easy Rider/C.C. Rider
  2:59
• 13
  Backwater Blues
  3:25
• 14
  It’s Tight Like That
  3:11
• 15
  Death Letter Blues (Part One)
  3:00
• 16
  Death Letter Blues (Part Two)
  3:00
• 17
  In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down
  2:33
• 18
  Matchbox Blues
  3:03
• 19
  Packin’ Trunk Blues
  2:55
• 20
  Good Morning Blues
  2:53
• 21
  Alberta
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 22
  Leaving Blues
  3:33
• CD 2: Folk & Blues Legends
• 1
  Ramblin’ Round

  Woody Guthrie
  2:15
• 2
  TB Blues

  Josh White
  3:21
• 3
  Shake Down

  Sonny Terry
  2:51
• 4
  Key to the Highway

  Big Bill Broonzy
  3:03
  4.0 ★
• 5
  I Want Some of Your Pie

  Blind Boy Fuller
  2:44
• 6
  It Hurts Me Too

  Tampa Red
  2:29
• 7
  Diggin’ My Potatoes

  Washboard Sam
  2:55
• 8
  Bricks in My Pillow

  Bumble Bee Slim
  3:07
• 9
  I’m Gonna Dig Myself a Hole

  Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup
  3:14
• 10
  San Francisco Bay Blues

  Jesse Fuller
  3:29
• 11
  Black, Brown and White

  Brownie McGhee
  2:37

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Release credits

• Alan Lomax
  recording [1]
• Big Bill Broonzy
  guitar [4], vocal [4]
• Blind John Davis
  piano [6]
• Jazz Gillum
  harmonica [4]
• Josh White
  guitar [2], vocal [2]
• Lead Belly
  guitar [7, 10, 18, 20, 20-21, 21-22], lead vocals [7, 18, 21], vocal [10, 20, 22]
• Tampa Red
  guitar [6], kazoo [6], vocal [6]
• The Golden Gate Quartet
  guest [10], vocal [10]
• The Oleander Singers
  background vocals [7]
• Washboard Sam
  washboard [4]
• [unknown]
  background vocals [10, 20], bass [6], clarinet [10, 20], percussion [10, 20], piano [10, 20], tenor saxophone [10, 20], trumpet [10, 20]

Issues

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  The Rough Guide to Blues Legends: Leadbelly

  2x CD
  9 October 2010
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  The Rough Guide to Blues Legends: Leadbelly

  12" Vinyl
  24 September 2012