Negro Sinful Songs

Album by Lead Belly

Negro Sinful Songs is an album by American folk and blues musician Lead Belly, released in 1940. The recording showcases Lead Belly's folk and blues style, centred on his rhythmic twelve-string guitar and narrative vocal delivery, and represents an early documented phase of his career that brought traditional African American work and prison songs into recorded form.
First released: 1939

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Frankie and Albert (Completion)
  2. 2.
    The Boll Weevil
  3. 3.
    Poor Howard / Green Corn
  4. 4.
    The Gallis Pole
  5. 5.
    Frankie and Albert (First Half)
  6. 6.
    The Bourgeois Blues
  7. 7.
    Looky, Looky, Yonder / Black Betty / Yallow Women's Door Bells
  8. 8.
    Ain't Goin' Down to the Well No Mo' / Go Down Old Hannah
  9. 9.
    Fannin Street
  10. 10.
    De Kalb Blues

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