The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

Release by Lead Belly

Track list

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)
=> 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)

Labels

=> Smithsonian Folkways (imprint of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)

SFW 40201

Release events

2015 United States

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