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The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

Lead Belly

Album 2015

About

2015 compilation box set by Lead Belly

Release Date

March 3, 2015

Artist Origin

United States

Tracklist

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

Disc 3

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

Disc 4

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

Disc 5

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