Lead Belly - Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection [Box Set]

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is proud to present Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection the first in-depth, career-spanning box set of songs, photos, and essays dedicated to one of America s most treasured 20th-century icons.

Tracklist:

1. Irene (Goodnight Irene)
2. The Bourgeois Blues
3. Fannin Street (Mister Tom Hughes Town)
4. The Midnight Special
5. John Henry
6. Black Girl (Where Did You Sleep Last Night)
7. Pick a Bale of Cotton
8. Take This Hammer
9. Cotton Fields
10. Old Riley
11. Rock Island Line
12. The Gallis Pole
13. Ha-Ha This a Way
14. Sukey Jump
15. Boll Weevil
16. Scottsboro Boys
17. Governor O.K. Allen
18. Governor Pat Neef
19. There's a Man Going Around Taking Names
20. On a Monday
21. You Can't Lose Me, Cholly
22. Keep Your Hands Off Her
23. We Shall Be Free
24. Alabama Bound
25. Almost Day
26. Fiddler's Dram
27. Green Corn
28. Sally Walker
29. Bring Me a Little Water, Silvy
30. Julie Ann Johnson
31. Linin' Track
32. Whoa, Back, Buck
33. Shorty George
34. Ham and Eggs (Previously Unreleased)
35. Moanin'
36. Out On the Western Plain
37. Noted Rider
38. Meeting at the Building
39. Good, Good, Good (Talking, Preaching)/We Shall Walk Through the Valley
40. Ain't You Glad (The Blood Done Signed My Name)
41. I'm So Glad, I Done Got Over (Previously Unreleased)
42. The Hindenburg Disaster
43. Ella Speed
44. Haul Away Joe
45. Old Man
46. Sweet Jenny Lee
47. Jean Harlow
48. Laura
49. Queen Mary
50. Good Morning Blues
51. Sail On, Little Girl
52. Easy Rider
53. Poor Howard
54. Duncan and Brady
55. How Long, How Long
56. T.B. Blues
57. Jim Crow Blues
58. Pigmeat
59. John Hardy
60. Outskirts of Town
61. 4, 5, and 9
62. In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)
63. Red Cross Store Blues
64. Diggin' My Potatoes
65. Blind Lemon
66. When a Man's a Long Way from Home
67. Alberta
68. Excerpt from The Lonesome Train
69. National Defense Blues
70. Hitler Song (Mr. Hitler)
71. Big Fat Woman
72. Been So Long - Bellevue Hospital Blues (Previously Unreleased Original Song)
73. WNYC Folk Songs of America Lead Belly (Previously Unreleased): a. Grey Goose, b. Boll Weevil, c. Yellow Gal, d. Ha-Ha This a Wa
74. WNYC Folk Songs of America Lead Belly and the Oleander Quartet (Previously Unreleased): a. Almost Day, b. Blues in My Kitchen,
75. If It Wasn t For Dicky (Previously Unreleased)
76. What's You Gonna Do When the World s on Fire w/ Anne Graham (Previously Unreleased)
77. Rock Me - Hide Me in Thy Bosom w/ Anne Graham (Previously Unreleased)
78. Packin' Trunk Blues (Previously Unreleased)
79. Leaving Blues
80. How Come You Do Me Like You Do? (Previously Unreleased)
81. One Dime Blues (Previously Unreleased)
82. I'm Going to Buy You a Brand New Ford (Previously Unreleased Original Song)
83. Jail-House Blues
84. Shout On
85. Come and Sit Down Beside Me
86. Red River (Previously Unreleased)
87. Yes, I Was Standing in the Bottom
88. Ain't Going Down to the Well No More (Version 2)
89. Everytime I Go Out (Previously Unreleased Original Song)
90. Go Down, Old Hannah
91. Black Betty
92. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out w/ Bessie Smith(Previously Unreleased)
93. Stewball
94. Ain't It a Shame to Go Fishin' on a Sunday
95. Relax Your Mind
96. Princess Elizabeth (Previously Unreleased Original Song)
97. Silver City Bound
98. The Titanic
99. House of the Rising Sun
100. It's Tight Like That
101. Diggin' My Potatoes
102. Springtime in the Rockies
103. Backwater Blues
104. Didn t Old John Cross the Water
105. De Kalb Blues
106. They Hung Him on the Cross (Version 1)
107. They Hung Him on the Cross (Version 2)
108. In the World

UPC: 093074020128
Label: SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
Release Date: 2.24.15
Format: CD