The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

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
  4.0 ★
• 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

• Brownie McGhee
  guitar [9]
• Lead Belly
  arranger [1.6-8, 1.11, 2.4], button accordion [25], concertina [25], guitar [1.1-2, 1.4, 1.6-8, 1.8-11, 1.13-14, 1.20-21, 2.4-6, 2.10, 2.15, 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]
• Sonny Terry
  harmonica [3.1, 1.1, 1.20]
• The Oleander Singers
  background vocals [7]
• [unknown]
  bass [9]

Issues

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  Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways

  Digital Media
  24 February 2015
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  The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

  5x CD
  2015