The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

Compilation by Lead Belly

Released 24 February 2015

blues acoustic blues country blues

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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
4.0 ★
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

Brownie McGhee
guitar [58]
Lead Belly
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]
Sonny Terry
harmonica [1, 20, 50]
The Oleander Singers
background vocals [7]
[unknown]
bass [58]

Issues

L
Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways
Digital Media
24 February 2015
T
The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
5x CD
2015