Negroe Folksongs Sung by Lead Belly

Album by Lead Belly

Negro Folk Songs Sung by Lead Belly is an album by American folk and blues musician Lead Belly, released in 1943. The recording features stripped-back acoustic performances centred on Lead Belly's vocals and twelve-string guitar, presenting traditional African American folk, work songs and blues forms and situating the release within his mid-career output that documented repertoire later taken up in the mid-century folk revival.

About

Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Bring Me Li'l Water Silvy
    0:55
  2. 2.
    Julie Ann Johnson
    0:40
  3. 3.
    Line 'Em
    0:57
  4. 4.
    Whoa, Back, Buck!
    1:26

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Meeting at the Building
    1:02
  2. 3.
    Talking, Preaching
    0:56
  3. 4.
    We Shall Walk Through the Valley
    1:21

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    Fiddler's Dram
    0:55
  2. 4.
    Yellow Girl
    0:52
  3. 5.
    Green Corn
    1:26

Disc 4

  1. 4.
    Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yea
    1:36
  2. 5.
    Out on the Western Plains
    1:58

Disc 5

  1. 5.
    John Hardy
    4:23

Disc 6

  1. 6.
    Noted Rider
    1:34
  2. 7.
    Big Fat Woman
    1:30
  3. 8.
    Borrow Love and Go
    1:25

Reviews

Similar Releases