The Smithsonian Folkways CollectionThe Smithsonian Folkways Collection
The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

Compilation by Lead Belly

Released 24 February 2015
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Tracklist

  • 1
    Irene (Goodnight Irene)
    1:52
  • 2
    The Bourgeois Blues
    2:18
  • 3
    Fannin Street (Mister Tom Hughes Town)
    3:30
  • 4
    The Midnight Special
    2:03
  • 5
    John Henry
    3:09
  • 6
    Black Girl (Where Did You Sleep Last Night)
    2:06
  • 7
    Pick a Bale of Cotton
    1:33
  • 8
    Take This Hammer
    2:14
  • 9
    Cotton Fields
    2:06
  • 10
    Old Riley
    1:58
  • 11
    Rock Island Line
    2:02
  • 12
    The Gallis Pole
    2:44
  • 13
    Ha-Ha This a Way
    1:33
  • 14
    Sukey Jump
    1:04
  • 15
    Boll Weevil
    3:06
  • 16
    Scottsboro Boys
    4:31
  • 17
    Governor O.K. Allen
    2:36
  • 18
    Governor Pat Neff
    3:39
  • 19
    There's a Man Going Around Taking Names
    1:24
  • 20
    On a Monday
    1:46
  • 21
    You Can't Lose Me, Cholly
    2:36
  • 22
    Keep Your Hands Off Her
    2:51
  • 23
    We Shall Be Free
    Lead Belly with Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston
    2:34
  • 24
    Alabama Bound
    2:16
  • 25
    Almost Day
    1:04
  • 26
    Fiddler's Dram
    2:27
  • 27
    Green Corn
    1:14
  • 28
    Sally Walker
    2:39
  • 29
    Bring Me a Little Water, Silvy
    0:48
  • 30
    Julie Ann Johnson
    0:40
  • 31
    Linin' Track
    1:11
  • 32
    Whoa, Back, Buck
    2:09
  • 33
    Shorty George
    1:28
  • 34
    Ham and Eggs
    1:42
  • 35
    Moanin'
    0:59
  • 36
    Out on the Western Plains
    1:31
  • 37
    Noted Rider
    2:50
  • 38
    Meeting at the Building
    0:59
  • 39
    Good, Good, Good (Talking, Preaching) / We Shall Walk Through the Valley
    2:10
  • 40
    Ain't You Glad (The Blood Done Signed My Name)
    2:19
  • 41
    I'm So Glad, I Done Got Over
    1:21
  • 42
    The Hindenburg Disaster
    3:21
  • 43
    Ella Speed
    5:47
  • 44
    Haul Away Joe
    2:47
  • 45
    Old Man
    2:34
  • 46
    Sweet Jenny Lee
    1:51
  • 47
    Jean Harlow
    1:39
  • 48
    Laura
    1:40
  • 49
    Queen Mary
    4:46
  • 50
    Good Morning Blues
    2:23
  • 51
    Sail On, Little Girl
    3:14
  • 52
    Easy Rider
    2:50
  • 53
    Poor Howard
    1:36
  • 54
    Duncan and Brady
    4:06
  • 55
    How Long, How Long
    2:13
  • 56
    T.B. Blues
    3:43
  • 57
    Jim Crow Blues
    3:30
  • 58
    Pigmeat
    2:32
  • 59
    John Hardy
    2:42
  • 60
    Outskirts of Town
    2:39
  • 61
    4, 5, and 9
    2:19
  • 62
    In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)
    3:28
  • 63
    Red Cross Store Blues
    3:08
  • 64
    Diggin' My Potatoes
    2:33
  • 65
    Blind Lemon
    1:39
  • 66
    When a Man's a Long Way From Home
    2:57
  • 67
    Alberta
    3:10
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  • 68
    Excerpt From "The Lonesome Train"
    3:11
  • 69
    National Defense Blues
    3:13
  • 70
    Hitler Song (Mr. Hitler)
    4:31
  • 71
    Big Fat Woman
    1:10
  • 72
    Been So Long (Bellevue Hospital Blues)
    2:44
  • 73
    Irene (intro) [WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 1]
    0:54
  • 74
    Grey Goose (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 2)
    1:55
  • 75
    Boll Weevil (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 3)
    3:19
  • 76
    Yellow Gal (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 4)
    1:41
  • 77
    Ha-Ha This a Way (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 5)
    2:12
  • 78
    Leaving Blues (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 6)
    3:51
  • 79
    Irene (outro) [WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 7]
    0:47
  • 80
    Irene (intro) [WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 1]
    0:53
  • 81
    Almost Day (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 2)
    0:59
  • 82
    Blues in My Kitchen, Blues in My Dining Room (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 3)
    2:35
  • 83
    I Went Up on the Mountain (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 4)
    1:41
  • 84
    Good Morning Blues (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 5)
    2:30
  • 85
    Baby, Don't You Love Me No More (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 6)
    2:50
  • 86
    T.B. Blues (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 7)
    2:40
  • 87
    Irene (outro) [WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 8]
    0:33
  • 88
    If It Wasn't for Dicky
    2:18
  • 89
    What's You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire
    Lead Belly with Anne Graham
    2:16
  • 90
    Rock Me (Hide Me in Thy Bosom)
    Lead Belly with Anne Graham
    2:22
  • 91
    Packin' Trunk Blues
    2:39
  • 92
    Leaving Blues
    3:02
  • 93
    How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
    3:30
  • 94
    One Dime Blues
    2:29
  • 95
    I'm Going to Buy You a Brand New Ford
    1:43
  • 96
    Jail-House Blues
    2:26
  • 97
    Shout On
    2:13
  • 98
    Come and Sit Down Beside Me
    1:05
  • 99
    Red River
    2:12
  • 100
    Yes, I Was Standing in the Bottom
    1:40
  • 101
    Ain't Going Down to the Well No More
    1:23
  • 102
    Everytime I Go Out
    1:25
  • 103
    Go Down, Old Hannah
    4:58
  • 104
    Black Betty
    1:53
  • 105
    Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
    Lead Belly with Bessie Smith
    3:41
  • 106
    Stewball
    2:34
  • 107
    Ain't It a Shame to Go Fishin' on a Sunday
    1:21
  • 108
    Relax Your Mind
    4:05
  • 109
    Princess Elizabeth
    3:32
  • 110
    Silver City Bound
    6:01
  • 111
    The Titanic
    5:11
  • 112
    House of the Rising Sun
    2:24
  • 113
    It's Tight Like That
    3:09
  • 114
    Diggin' My Potatoes
    3:56
  • 115
    Springtime in the Rockies
    3:02
  • 116
    Backwater Blues
    3:22
  • 117
    Didn't Old John Cross the Water
    1:55
  • 118
    De Kalb Blues
    3:50
  • 119
    They Hung Him on the Cross (version 1)
    2:25
  • 120
    They Hung Him on the Cross (version 2)
    2:49
  • 121
    In the World
    2:02

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Release credits

  • guitar [58]
  • arranger [6-8, 11, 27], button accordion [48], concertina [48], guitar [1-2, 4, 6-8, 8-11, 13-14, 20-21, 27-29, 33, 38, 50, 54, 58, 62-63, 65, 67], lead vocals [48, 67, 71], piano [71], vocal [1-2, 4, 6-8, 8-11, 13-14, 20-21, 27-29, 33, 38, 48, 50, 54, 58, 62-63, 65, 71]
  • harmonica [1, 20, 50]
  • background vocals [7]
  • bass [58]

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