The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

Album by Lead Belly

FolkBluesCountry BluesAcoustic Blues

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Irene (Goodnight Irene)
    1:56
  2. 2.
    The Bourgeois Blues
    2:21
  3. 3.
    Fannin Street (Mister Tom Hughes Town)
    3:34
  4. 4.
    The Midnight Special
    2:05
  5. 5.
    John Henry
    3:13
  6. 6.
    Black Girl (Where Did You Sleep Last Night)
    2:10
  7. 7.
    Pick a Bale of Cotton
    1:33
  8. 8.
    Take This Hammer
    2:18
  9. 9.
    Cotton Field
    2:09
  10. 10.
    Old Riley
    2:01
  11. 11.
    Rock Island Line
    2:07
  12. 12.
    The Gallis Pole
    2:48
  13. 13.
    Ha-Ha This a Way
    1:37
  14. 14.
    Sukey Jump
    1:07
  15. 15.
    Boll Weevil
    3:09
  16. 16.
    Scottsboro Boys
    4:35
  17. 17.
    Governor O.K. Allen
    2:38
  18. 18.
    Governor Pat Neff
    3:41
  19. 19.
    There's a Man Going Around Taking Names
    1:28
  20. 20.
    On a Monday
    1:50
  21. 21.
    You Can't Lose Me, Cholly
    2:40
  22. 22.
    Keep Your Hands Off Her
    2:55
  23. 23.
    We Shall Be Free
    2:34

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Alabama Bound
    2:20
  2. 3.
    Almost Day
    1:08
  3. 4.
    Fiddler's Dram
    2:31
  4. 5.
    Green Corn
    1:18
  5. 6.
    Sally Walker
    2:43
  6. 7.
    Bring Me a Little Water, Silvy
    0:51
  7. 8.
    Julie Ann Johnson
    0:44
  8. 9.
    Linin' Track
    1:13
  9. 10.
    Whoa, Back, Buck
    2:13
  10. 11.
    Shorty George
    1:31
  11. 12.
    Ham and Eggs
    1:46
  12. 13.
    Moanin'
    1:04
  13. 14.
    Out on the Western Plains
    1:35
  14. 15.
    Noted Rider
    2:53
  15. 16.
    Meeting at the Building
    1:02
  16. 17.
    Good, Good, Good (Talking, Preaching) / We Shall Walk Through the Valley
    2:15
  17. 18.
    Ain't You Glad (The Blood Done Signed My Name)
    2:23
  18. 19.
    I'm So Glad, I Done Got Over
    1:24
  19. 20.
    The Hindenburg Disaster
    3:25
  20. 21.
    Ella Speed
    5:52
  21. 22.
    Haul Away Joe
    2:52
  22. 23.
    Old Man
    2:38
  23. 24.
    Sweet Jenny Lee
    1:54
  24. 25.
    Jean Harlow
    1:43
  25. 26.
    Laura
    1:44
  26. 27.
    Queen Mary
    4:46

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    Good Morning Blues
    2:26
  2. 4.
    Sail On, Little Girl
    3:17
  3. 5.
    Easy Rider
    2:53
  4. 6.
    Poor Howard
    1:40
  5. 7.
    Duncan and Brady
    4:09
  6. 8.
    How Long, How Long
    2:16
  7. 9.
    T.B. Blues
    3:46
  8. 10.
    Jim Crow Blues
    3:33
  9. 11.
    Pigmeat
    2:35
  10. 12.
    John Hardy
    2:47
  11. 13.
    Outskirts of Town
    2:43
  12. 14.
    4, 5 and 9
    2:23
  13. 15.
    In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)
    3:31
  14. 16.
    Red Cross Store Blues
    3:12
  15. 17.
    Diggin' My Potatoes
    2:36
  16. 18.
    Blind Lemon
    1:43
  17. 19.
    When a Man's a Long Way From Home
    3:03
  18. 20.
    Alberta
    3:14
  19. 21.
    Excerpt From "The Lonesome Train"
    3:14
  20. 22.
    National Defense Blues
    3:17
  21. 23.
    Hitler Song (Mr. Hitler)
    4:34
  22. 24.
    Big Fat Woman
    1:13
  23. 25.
    Been So Long (Bellevue Hospital Blues)
    2:44

Disc 4

  1. 4.
    W.N.Y.C. - Folk Songs of America - Lead Belly
    14:44
  2. 5.
    W.N.Y.C. - Folk Songs of America - Lead Belly and the Oleander Quartet
    14:48
  3. 6.
    If It Wasn't for Dicky
    2:18
  4. 7.
    What's You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire
    2:16
  5. 8.
    Rock Me (Hide Me in Thy Bosom)
    2:22
  6. 9.
    Packin' Trunk Blues
    2:39
  7. 10.
    Leaving Blues
    3:02
  8. 11.
    How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
    3:30
  9. 12.
    One Dime Blues
    2:29
  10. 13.
    I'm Going to Buy You a Brand New Ford
    1:43
  11. 14.
    Jail-House Blues
    2:26
  12. 15.
    Shout On
    2:13
  13. 16.
    Come and Sit Down Beside Me
    1:05
  14. 17.
    Red River
    2:12

Disc 5

  1. 5.
    Yes, I Was Standing in the Bottom
    1:44
  2. 6.
    Ain't Going Down to the Well No More (version 2)
    1:26
  3. 7.
    Everytime I Go Out
    1:28
  4. 8.
    Go Down, Old Hannah
    5:01
  5. 9.
    Black Betty
    1:56
  6. 10.
    Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
    3:46
  7. 11.
    Stewball
    2:38
  8. 12.
    Ain't It a Shame to Go Fishin' on a Sunday
    1:25
  9. 13.
    Relax Your Mind
    4:08
  10. 14.
    Princess Elizabeth
    3:36
  11. 15.
    Silver City Bound
    6:04
  12. 16.
    The Titanic
    5:13
  13. 17.
    House of the Rising Sun
    2:27
  14. 18.
    It's Tight Like That
    3:12
  15. 19.
    Diggin' My Potatoes
    4:01
  16. 20.
    Springtime in the Rockies
    3:06
  17. 21.
    Backwater Blues
    3:26
  18. 22.
    Didn't Old John Cross the Water
    1:59
  19. 23.
    De Kalb Blues
    3:54
  20. 24.
    The Hung Him on the Cross (version 1)
    2:29
  21. 25.
    The Hung Him on the Cross (version 2)
    2:53
  22. 26.
    In the World
    2:02

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