The Smithsonian Folkways Collection [Box Set]
by Lead Belly
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Universal acclaim - based on 8 Critic Reviews

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7.6

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Summary: The box set of the Louisiana folk/blues artist Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter features 16 unreleased songs.
Record Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Genre(s): Blues
Credit: Primary Artist Producer Producer
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Track Listings

1-01 Irene (Goodnight Irene) 3-06 How Long, How Long
1-02 The Bourgeois Blues 3-07 T.B. Blues
1-03 Fannin Street (Mister Tom Hughes Brown) 3-08 Jim Crow Blues
1-04 The Midnight Special 3-09 Pigmeat
1-05 John Henry 3-10 John Hardy
1-06 Black Girl (Where Did You Sleep Last Night) 3-11 Outskirts of Town
1-07 Pick A Bale Of Cotton 3-12 4, 5 and 9
1-08 Take This Hammer 3-13 In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)
1-09 Cotton Fields 3-14 Red Cross Store Blues
1-10 Old Riley 3-15 Diggin' My Potatoes
1-11 Rock Island Line 3-16 Blind Lemon
1-12 The Gallis Pole 3-17 When a Man's a Long Way From Home
1-13 Ha-Ha This A Way 3-18 Alberta
1-14 Sukey Jump 3-19 Excerpt From "The Lonesome Train"
1-15 Boll Weevil 3-20 National Defense Blues
1-16 Scottsboro Boys 3-21 Hitler Song (Mr. Hitler)
1-17 Governor O.K. Allen 3-22 Big Fat Woman
1-18 Governor Pat Neff 3-23 Been So Long (Bellevue Hospital Blues)
1-19 There's A Man Going Around Taking Names 4-01 Wnyc-Folk Songs of America-Lead Belly: Grey Goose/Boll Weevil/Yellow Gal/Ha-Ha This a Way/Leaving Blues/Irene (Outro)
1-20 On A Monday 4-02 Wnyc-Folk Songs of America-Lead Belly and the Oleander Quartet: Almost Day/Blues In My Kitchen, Blues In My Dining Room/I Went Up On the Mountain/Good Morning B
1-21 You Can't Lose Me, Cholly 4-03 If It Wasn't For Dicky
1-22 Keep Your Hands Off Her 4-04 What's You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire
1-23 We Shall Be Free 4-05 Rock Me (Hide Me In Thy Bosom)
2-01 Alabama Bound 4-06 Packin' Trunk Blues
2-02 Almost Day 4-07 Leaving Blues
2-03 Fiddler's Dram 4-08 How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
2-04 Green Corn 4-09 One Dime Blues
2-05 Sally Walker 4-10 I'm Going To Buy You A Brand New Ford
2-06 Bring Me A Little Water, Silvy 4-11 Jail-House Blues
2-07 Julie Ann Johnson 4-12 Shout On
2-08 Linin' Track 4-13 Come and Sit Down Beside Me
2-09 Whoa, Back, Buck 4-14 Red River
2-10 Shorty George 5-01 Yes, I Was Standing In the Bottom
2-11 Ham and Eggs 5-02 Ain't Going Down To the Well No More [Version 2]
2-12 Moanin' 5-03 Everytime I Go Out
2-13 Out On the Western Plains 5-04 Go Down, Old Hannah
2-14 Noted Rider 5-05 Black Betty
2-15 Meeting At the Building 5-06 Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
2-16 Good, Good, Good (Talking, Preaching)/We Shall Walk Through the Valley 5-07 Stewball
2-17 Ain't You Glad (The Blood Done Signed My Name) 5-08 Ain't It A Shame To Go Fishin' On A Sunday
2-18 I'm So Glad, I Done Got Over 5-09 Relax Your Mind
2-19 The Hindenburg Disaster 5-10 Princess Elizabeth
2-20 Ella Speed 5-11 Silver City Bound
2-21 Haul Away Joe 5-12 The Titanic
2-22 Old Man 5-13 House Of The Rising Sun
2-23 Sweet Jenny Lee 5-14 It's Tight Like That
2-24 Jean Harlow 5-15 Diggin' My Potatoes
2-25 Laura 5-16 Springtime In the Rockies
2-26 Queen Mary 5-17 Backwater Blues
3-01 Good Morning Blues 5-18 Didn't Old John Cross the Water
3-02 Sail On, Little Girl 5-19 Dekalb Blues
3-03 Easy Rider 5-20 They Hung Him On the Cross [Version 1]
3-04 Poor Howard 5-21 They Hung Him On the Cross [Version 2]
3-05 Duncan and Brady 5-22 In The World