Important Recordings: 1934-1949

Leadbelly

Genre: music4me > Jazz & Blues > Blues

Format: 4 CD

Released: Tue 25 Apr 2006

Catalogue Number: JSP7764.2

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Description:
Despite its sensational cover art, which plays up the American folk legend's time served in jail, this U.K. four-CD box set is a comprehensive overview of Leadbelly's best-known recordings, including John and Alan Lomax's 1930s tapes made for the Library of Congress and the artist's later 1940s recordings, done with a quartet and the harmonica player Sonny Terry. Favorites like "Goodnight Irene," "Rock Island Line," and "Pick a Bale of Cotton" sit alongside more contemporary material like "Howard Hughes," about the eccentric millionaire's flying exploits, and "The Bourgeois Blues" (later recorded by Ry Cooder, among others) about Leadbelly's racially charged visit to the nation's capital.

Details:

Distributor: Proper
Discs: 4
Release Year: 2006

Track Listing:

Disk 1
1.	Western Cowboy
2.	My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean
3.	Midnight Special
4.	Goodnight Irene
5.	C.C. Rider
6.	Governor O.K. Allen
7.	Julie Ann Johnson
8.	I'm Sorry Mama
9.	Take a Whiff On Me
10.	Boll Weevil
11.	Titanic
12.	Green Corn
13.	Po' Howard
14.	De Kalb Blues
15.	Frankie and Albert
16.	Queen Mary
17.	Hindenburg Disaster, Pt. 1
18.	Hindenburg Disaster, Pt. 2
19.	Leaving On the Morning Train Blues
20.	Bourgeois Blues
Disk 2
21.	Roberta, Pt. 1
22.	Roberta, Pt. 2
23.	Packin' Trunk Blues
24.	C.C. Rider
25.	Becky Deem, She Was a Gamblin' Girl
26.	Honey, I'm All Out and Down
27.	Four Day Worry Blues
28.	You Can't Lose Me, Charlie
29.	New Black Snake Moan
30.	Alberta
31.	Baby, Don't You Love Me No More
32.	Ox Drivin' Blues
33.	Death Letter Blues, Pt. 1
34.	Death Letter Blues, Pt. 2
35.	Kansas City Papa
36.	Red River Blues
37.	Fort Worth and Dallas Blues
38.	You Don't Know My Mind
39.	Daddy I'm Coming Back to You
40.	My Friend Blind Lemon
41.	Mr Tom Hughes' Town
42.	Shorty George
43.	Matchbox Blues
44.	Yellow Jacket
45.	T.B. Woman Blues
Disk 3
46.	Pig Meat Papa
47.	Bull Cow
48.	My Baby Quit Me
49.	Frankie and Albert, Pt. 1
50.	Frankie and Albert, Pt. 2
51.	Poor Howard/Green Corn
52.	Gallis Pole
53.	Pick a Bale of Cotton
54.	Whoa Back, Buck
55.	Midnight Special
56.	Rock Island Line
57.	Good Morning Blues
58.	T.B. Blues
59.	Red Cross Store Blues
60.	Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On
61.	I'm On My Last Go-Round
62.	New York City
63.	Grey Goose
64.	Stew Ball
65.	Take This Hammer
66.	Can't You Line 'Em
67.	Ham An' Eggs
68.	On a Monday
69.	John Henry
70.	How Long
71.	Aren't You Glad
Disk 4
72.	John Hardy
73.	Where Did You Sleep Last Night
74.	Pretty Flowers in Your Backyard
75.	In New Orleans (House of the Rising Sun)
76.	Outskirts of Town
77.	Mother's Blues (Little Children Blues)
78.	In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)
79.	Jim Crow Blues
80.	Mr Hitler
81.	Corn Bread Rough
82.	Ella Speed
83.	Rock Island Line
84.	Tell Me Baby
85.	Take This Hammer
86.	Goodnight Irene
87.	On a Christmas Day
88.	Backwater Blues
89.	Eagle Rock Rag
90.	Sweet Mary Blues
91.	Grasshoppers in My Pillow
92.	Diggin' My Potatoes
93.	Defense Blues
94.	Easy Rider
95.	Pigmeat
96.	Howard Hughes
97.	Shine On Me

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