Important Recordings: 1934-1949
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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
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| 2. |
My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean
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| 3. |
Midnight Special
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| 4. |
Goodnight Irene
|
| 5. |
C.C. Rider
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| 6. |
Governor O.K. Allen
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| 7. |
Julie Ann Johnson
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| 8. |
I'm Sorry Mama
|
| 9. |
Take a Whiff On Me
|
| 10. |
Boll Weevil
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| 11. |
Titanic
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| 12. |
Green Corn
|
| 13. |
Po' Howard
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| 14. |
De Kalb Blues
|
| 15. |
Frankie and Albert
|
| 16. |
Queen Mary
|
| 17. |
Hindenburg Disaster, Pt. 1
|
| 18. |
Hindenburg Disaster, Pt. 2
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| 19. |
Leaving On the Morning Train Blues
|
| 20. |
Bourgeois Blues
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| Disk 2 |
| 21. |
Roberta, Pt. 1
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| 22. |
Roberta, Pt. 2
|
| 23. |
Packin' Trunk Blues
|
| 24. |
C.C. Rider
|
| 25. |
Becky Deem, She Was a Gamblin' Girl
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| 26. |
Honey, I'm All Out and Down
|
| 27. |
Four Day Worry Blues
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| 28. |
You Can't Lose Me, Charlie
|
| 29. |
New Black Snake Moan
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| 30. |
Alberta
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| 31. |
Baby, Don't You Love Me No More
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| 32. |
Ox Drivin' Blues
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| 33. |
Death Letter Blues, Pt. 1
|
| 34. |
Death Letter Blues, Pt. 2
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| 35. |
Kansas City Papa
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| 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
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| 40. |
My Friend Blind Lemon
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| 41. |
Mr Tom Hughes' Town
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| 42. |
Shorty George
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| 43. |
Matchbox Blues
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| 44. |
Yellow Jacket
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| 45. |
T.B. Woman Blues
|
| Disk 3 |
| 46. |
Pig Meat Papa
|
| 47. |
Bull Cow
|
| 48. |
My Baby Quit Me
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| 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
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| 57. |
Good Morning Blues
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| 58. |
T.B. Blues
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| 59. |
Red Cross Store Blues
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| 60. |
Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On
|
| 61. |
I'm On My Last Go-Round
|
| 62. |
New York City
|
| 63. |
Grey Goose
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| 64. |
Stew Ball
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| 65. |
Take This Hammer
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| 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
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| 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
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| 84. |
Tell Me Baby
|
| 85. |
Take This Hammer
|
| 86. |
Goodnight Irene
|
| 87. |
On a Christmas Day
|
| 88. |
Backwater Blues
|
| 89. |
Eagle Rock Rag
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| 90. |
Sweet Mary Blues
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| 91. |
Grasshoppers in My Pillow
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| 92. |
Diggin' My Potatoes
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| 93. |
Defense Blues
|
| 94. |
Easy Rider
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| 95. |
Pigmeat
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| 96. |
Howard Hughes
|
| 97. |
Shine On Me
|
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