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

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Irene (Goodnight Irene)
    1:56
  • 2
    The Bourgeois Blues
    2:21
  • 3
    Fannin Street (Mister Tom Hughes Town)
    3:34
  • 4
    The Midnight Special
    2:05
  • 5
    John Henry
    3:13
  • 6
    Black Girl (Where Did You Sleep Last Night)
    2:10
  • 7
    Pick a Bale of Cotton
    1:33
  • 8
    Take This Hammer
    2:18
  • 9
    Cotton Field
    2:09
  • 10
    Old Riley
    2:01
  • 11
    Rock Island Line
    2:07
  • 12
    The Gallis Pole
    2:48
  • 13
    Ha-Ha This a Way
    1:37
  • 14
    Sukey Jump
    1:07
  • 15
    Boll Weevil
    3:09
  • 16
    Scottsboro Boys
    4:35
  • 17
    Governor O.K. Allen
    2:38
  • 18
    Governor Pat Neff
    3:41
  • 19
    There's a Man Going Around Taking Names
    1:28
  • 20
    On a Monday
    1:50
  • 21
    You Can't Lose Me, Cholly
    2:40
  • 22
    Keep Your Hands Off Her
    2:55
  • 23
    We Shall Be Free
    2:34
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Alabama Bound
    2:20
  • 2
    Almost Day
    1:08
  • 3
    Fiddler's Dram
    2:31
  • 4
    Green Corn
    1:18
  • 5
    Sally Walker
    2:43
  • 6
    Bring Me a Little Water, Silvy
    0:51
  • 7
    Julie Ann Johnson
    0:44
  • 8
    Linin' Track
    1:13
  • 9
    Whoa, Back, Buck
    2:13
  • 10
    Shorty George
    1:31
  • 11
    Ham and Eggs
    1:46
  • 12
    Moanin'
    1:04
  • 13
    Out on the Western Plains
    1:35
  • 14
    Noted Rider
    2:53
  • 15
    Meeting at the Building
    1:02
  • 16
    Good, Good, Good (Talking, Preaching) / We Shall Walk Through the Valley
    2:15
  • 17
    Ain't You Glad (The Blood Done Signed My Name)
    2:23
  • 18
    I'm So Glad, I Done Got Over
    1:24
  • 19
    The Hindenburg Disaster
    3:25
  • 20
    Ella Speed
    5:52
  • 21
    Haul Away Joe
    2:52
  • 22
    Old Man
    2:38
  • 23
    Sweet Jenny Lee
    1:54
  • 24
    Jean Harlow
    1:43
  • 25
    Laura
    1:44
  • 26
    Queen Mary
    4:46
  • CD 3
  • 1
    Good Morning Blues
    2:26
  • 2
    Sail On, Little Girl
    3:17
  • 3
    Easy Rider
    2:53
  • 4
    Poor Howard
    1:40
  • 5
    Duncan and Brady
    4:09
  • 6
    How Long, How Long
    2:16
  • 7
    T.B. Blues
    3:46
  • 8
    Jim Crow Blues
    3:33
  • 9
    Pigmeat
    2:35
  • 10
    John Hardy
    2:47
  • 11
    Outskirts of Town
    2:43
  • 12
    4, 5 and 9
    2:23
  • 13
    In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)
    3:31
  • 14
    Red Cross Store Blues
    3:12
  • 15
    Diggin' My Potatoes
    2:36
  • 16
    Blind Lemon
    1:43
  • 17
    When a Man's a Long Way From Home
    3:03
  • 18
    Alberta
    3:14
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  • 19
    Excerpt From "The Lonesome Train"
    3:14
  • 20
    National Defense Blues
    3:17
  • 21
    Hitler Song (Mr. Hitler)
    4:34
  • 22
    Big Fat Woman
    1:13
  • 23
    Been So Long (Bellevue Hospital Blues)
    2:44
  • CD 4: Radio
  • 1
    W.N.Y.C. - Folk Songs of America - Lead Belly
    14:44
  • 2
    W.N.Y.C. - Folk Songs of America - Lead Belly and the Oleander Quartet
    14:48
  • 3
    If It Wasn't for Dicky
    2:18
  • 4
    What's You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire
    2:16
  • 5
    Rock Me (Hide Me in Thy Bosom)
    2:22
  • 6
    Packin' Trunk Blues
    2:39
  • 7
    Leaving Blues
    3:02
  • 8
    How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
    3:30
  • 9
    One Dime Blues
    2:29
  • 10
    I'm Going to Buy You a Brand New Ford
    1:43
  • 11
    Jail-House Blues
    2:26
  • 12
    Shout On
    2:13
  • 13
    Come and Sit Down Beside Me
    1:05
  • 14
    Red River
    2:12
  • CD 5: Last Sessions
  • 1
    Yes, I Was Standing in the Bottom
    1:44
  • 2
    Ain't Going Down to the Well No More (version 2)
    1:26
  • 3
    Everytime I Go Out
    1:28
  • 4
    Go Down, Old Hannah
    5:01
  • 5
    Black Betty
    1:56
  • 6
    Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
    3:46
  • 7
    Stewball
    2:38
  • 8
    Ain't It a Shame to Go Fishin' on a Sunday
    1:25
  • 9
    Relax Your Mind
    4:08
  • 10
    Princess Elizabeth
    3:36
  • 11
    Silver City Bound
    6:04
  • 12
    The Titanic
    5:13
  • 13
    House of the Rising Sun
    2:27
  • 14
    It's Tight Like That
    3:12
  • 15
    Diggin' My Potatoes
    4:01
  • 16
    Springtime in the Rockies
    3:06
  • 17
    Backwater Blues
    3:26
  • 18
    Didn't Old John Cross the Water
    1:59
  • 19
    De Kalb Blues
    3:54
  • 20
    The Hung Him on the Cross (version 1)
    2:29
  • 21
    The Hung Him on the Cross (version 2)
    2:53
  • 22
    In the World
    2:02

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Release credits

  • guitar [9]
  • arranger [2.4, 1.6-8, 1.11], button accordion [25], concertina [25], guitar [2.4-6, 2.10, 2.15, 1.1-2, 1.4, 1.6-8, 1.8-11, 1.13-14, 1.20-21, 3.1, 3.5, 3.9, 3.13-14, 3.16, 3.18], lead vocals [2.25, 3.18, 3.22], piano [22], vocal [2.4-6, 2.10, 2.15, 2.25, 3.1, 3.5, 3.9, 3.13-14, 3.16, 3.22, 1.1-2, 1.4, 1.6-8, 1.8-11, 1.13-14, 1.20-21]
  • harmonica [3.1, 1.1, 1.20]
  • background vocals [7]
  • bass [9]

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