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Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter (guitar), Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Oleander Quartet, Anne Graham, Bessie Smith (vocals)

  • Release Date: 24th Feb 2015
  • Catalogue No: 889176348778
  • Label: Smithsonian Folkways
  • Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

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Contents

Irene (Goodnight Irene)

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The Bourgeois Blues

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Fannin Street (Mister Tom Hughes Town)

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The Midnight Special

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John Henry

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Black Girl (Where Did You Sleep Last Night)

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Pick a Bale of Cotton

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Take This Hammer

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Cotton Fields

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Old Riley

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Rock Island Line

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The Gallis Pole

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Ha-Ha This a Way

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Sukey Jump

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Boll Weevil

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Scottsboro Boys

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Governor O.K. Allen

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Governor Pat Neff

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There's a Man Going Around Taking Names

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On a Monday

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You Can't Lose Me, Cholly

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Keep Your Hands off Her

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We Shall Be Free (with Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston)

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Alabama Bound

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Almost Day

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Fiddler's Dram

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Green Corn

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Sally Walker

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Bring Me a Little Water, Silvy

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Julie Ann Johnson

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Linin' Track

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Whoa, Back, Buck

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Shorty George

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Ham and Eggs

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Moanin'

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Out on the Western Plains

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Noted Rider

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Meeting at the Building

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Good, Good, Good (Talking, Preaching) / We Shall Walk Through the Valley

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Ain't You Glad (The Blood Done Signed My Name)

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I'm so Glad, I Done Got Over

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The Hindenburg Disaster

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Ella Speed

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Haul Away Joe

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Old Man

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Sweet Jenny Lee

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Jean Harlow

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Laura

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Queen Mary

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Good Morning Blues

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Sail on, Little Girl

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Easy Rider

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Poor Howard

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Duncan and Brady

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How Long, How Long

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T.B. Blues

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Jim Crow Blues

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Pigmeat

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John Hardy

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Outskirts of Town

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4, 5, And 9

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In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)

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Red Cross Store Blues

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Diggin' My Potatoes

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Blind Lemon

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When a Man's a Long Way from Home

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Alberta

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Excerpt From "The Lonesome Train"

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National Defense Blues

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Hitler Song (Mr. Hitler)

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Big Fat Woman

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Been so Long (Bellevue Hospital Blues)

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Irene (Intro) [Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3 / 13 / 1941, Pt. 1]

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Grey Goose (Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3 / 13 / 1941, Pt. 2)

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Boll Weevil (Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3 / 13 / 1941, Pt. 3)

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Yellow Gal (Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3 / 13 / 1941, Pt. 4)

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Ha-Ha This a Way (Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3 / 13 / 1941, Pt. 5)

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Leaving Blues (Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3 / 13 / 1941, Pt. 6)

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Irene (Outro) [Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3 / 13 / 1941, Pt. 7]

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Irene (Intro) [Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2 / 6 / 1941, Pt. 1]

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Almost Day (Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2 / 6 / 1941, Pt. 2)

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Blues in My Kitchen, Blues in My Dining Room (Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2 / 6 / 1941, Pt. 3)

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I Went up on the Mountain (Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2 / 6 / 1941, Pt. 4)

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Good Morning Blues (Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2 / 6 / 1941, Pt. 5)

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Baby, Don't You Love Me No More (Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2 / 6 / 1941, Pt. 6)

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T.B. Blues (Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2 / 6 / 1941, Pt. 7)

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Irene (Outro) [Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2 / 6 / 1941, Pt. 8]

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If It Wasn't for Dicky

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What's You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire (with Anne Graham)

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Rock Me (Hide Me in Thy Bosom) [with Anne Graham]

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Packin' Trunk Blues

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Leaving Blues

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How Come You Do Me Like You Do?

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One Dime Blues

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I'm Going to Buy You a Brand New Ford

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Jail-House Blues

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Shout On

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Come and Sit Down Beside Me

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Red River

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Yes, I Was Standing in the Bottom

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Ain't Going Down to the Well No More

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Everytime I Go Out

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Go Down, Old Hannah

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Black Betty

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Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (with Bessie Smith)

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Stewball

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Ain't It a Shame to Go Fishin' on a Sunday

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Relax Your Mind

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Princess Elizabeth

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Silver City Bound

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The Titanic

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House of the Rising Sun

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It's Tight Like That

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Diggin' My Potatoes

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Springtime in the Rockies

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Backwater Blues

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Didn't Old John Cross the Water

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De Kalb Blues

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They Hung Him on the Cross (Version 1)

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They Hung Him on the Cross (Version 2)

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In the World

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