Leadbelly
The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, featuring 5 CDs with 108 tracks (16 previously unreleased) and a large-format book, is the first career-spanning box set dedicated to the American music icon.
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FEATURED TRACK"I’m So Glad, I Done Got Over*"
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TRACK LISTING
- DISC ONE:
- 1. Irene (Goodnight Irene)
- 2. The Bourgeois Blues
- 3. Fannin Street (Mister Tom Hughes Town)
- 4. The Midnight Special
- 5. John Henry
- 6. Black Girl (Where Did You Sleep Last Night)
- 7. Pick A Bale Of Cotton
- 8. Take This Hammer
- 9. Cotton Fields
- 10. Old Riley
- 11. Rock Island Line
- 12. The Gallis Pole
- 13. Ha-Ha This A Way
- 14. Sukey Jump
- 15. Boll Weevil
- 16. Scottsboro Boys
- 17. Governor O.K. Allen
- 18. Governor Pat Neff
- 19. There’s A Man Going Around Taking Names
- 20. On A Monday
- 21. You Can’t Lose Me, Cholly
- 22. Keep Your Hands Off Her
- 23. We Shall Be Free
- DISC TWO:
- 1. Alabama Bound
- 2. Almost Day
- 3. Fiddler’s Dram
- 4. Green Corn
- 5. Sally Walker
- 6. Bring Me A Little Water, Silvy
- 7. Julie Ann Johnson
- 8. Linin’ Track
- 9. Whoa, Back, Buck
- 10. Shorty George
- 11. Ham And Eggs*
- 12. Moanin’
- 13. Out On The Western Plain
- 14. Noted Rider
- 15. Meeting At The Building
- 16. Good, Good, Good (Talking, Preaching)/We Shall Walk Through The Valley
- 17. Ain’t You Glad (The Blood Done Signed My Name)
- 18. I’m So Glad, I Done Got Over*
- 19. The Hindenburg Disaster
- 20. Ella Speed
- 21. Haul Away Joe
- 22. Old Man
- 23. Sweet Jenny Lee
- 24. Jean Harlow
- 25. Laura
- 26. Queen Mary
- DISC THREE:
- 1. Good Morning Blues
- 2. Sail On, Little Girl
- 3. Easy Rider
- 4. Poor Howard
- 5. Duncan And Brady
- 6. How Long, How Long
- 7. T.B. Blues
- 8. Jim Crow Blues
- 9. Pigmeat
- 10. John Hardy
- 11. Outskirts Of Town
- 12. 4, 5, And 9
- 13. In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down)
- 14. Red Cross Store Blues
- 15. Diggin’ My Potatoes
- 16. Blind Lemon
- 17. When A Man’s A Long Way From Home
- 18. Alberta
- 19. Excerpt From “The Lonesome Train”
- 20. National Defense Blues
- 21. Hitler Song (Mr. Hitler)
- 22. Big Fat Woman
- 23. Been So Long (Bellevue Hospital Blues)**
- DISC FOUR:
- 1. WNYC - Folk Songs Of America - Lead Belly*
- a. Grey Goose
- b. Boll Weevil
- c. Yellow Gal
- d. Ha-Ha This A Way
- e. Leaving Blues
- f. Irene (Outro)
- 2. WNYC - Folk Songs Of America - Lead Belly And The Oleander Quartet*
- a. Almost Day
- b. Blues In My Kitchen, Blues In My Dining Room
- c. I Went Up On The Mountain
- d. Good Morning Blues
- e. Baby, Don’t You Love Me No More
- f. T.B. Blues
- g. Irene (Outro)
- 3. If It Wasn’t For Dicky*
- 4. What’s You Gonna Do When The World’s On Fire (With Anne Graham)*
- 5. Rock Me (Hide Me In Thy Bosom) (With Anne Graham)*
- 6. Packin’ Trunk Blues*
- 7. Leaving Blues
- 8. How Come You Do Me Like You Do?*
- 9. One Dime Blues*
- 10. I’m Going To Buy You A Brand New Ford**
- 11. Jail-House Blues
- 12. Shout On
- 13. Come And Sit Down Beside Me
- 14. Red River*
- DISC FIVE - LAST SESSIONS:
- 1. Yes, I Was Standing In The Bottom
- 2. Ain’t Going Down To The Well No More (Version 2)
- 3. Everytime I Go Out**
- 4. Go Down, Old Hannah
- 5. Black Betty
- 6. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out (With Bessie Smith)*
- 7. Stewball
- 8. Ain’t It A Shame To Go Fishin’ On A Sunday
- 9. Relax Your Mind
- 10. Princess Elizabeth**
- 11. Silver City Bound
- 12. The Titanic
- 13. House Of The Rising Sun
- 14. It’s Tight Like That
- 15. Diggin’ My Potatoes
- 16. Springtime In The Rockies
- 17. Backwater Blues
- 18. Didn’t Old John Cross The Water
- 19. De Kalb Blues
- 20. They Hung Him On The Cross (Version 1)
- 21. They Hung Him On The Cross (Version 2)
- 22. In The World
- *Previously Unreleased
- **Previously Unreleased Original Song
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Leadbelly A Celebration: Classic Sides 1934-1944 (Vinyl) (JSP)
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Leadbelly Masterworks Volumes 1 & 2 (Sunset Blvd.)