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Lead Belly - Sings Folk Songs [CD]

Lead Belly - Sings Folk Songs [CD]

Release Date: /// Smithsonian Folkways

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Vital 1940s recordings of 15 songs featuring Lead Belly performing solo and accompanied by Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, and Sonny Terry. Tracks include Stewball, Lining Track, and On a Monday. "...[Lead Belly's] powerful, fluid baritone and brilliant 12-string playing have a clarity never heard on older records...emotional singing...[and] deeply banked political fires..." -- Boston Globe

Tracklist:

  1. There's a Man Going Around Taking Names
  2. Stewball
  3. Keep Your Hands off Her
  4. Medley: Good, Good-Good /We Shall Walk Thru ...: Good-Good-Good
  5. Lining Track
  6. Outskirts of Town
  7. We Shall Be Free
  8. Blood Done Sign My Name
  9. On a Monday
  10. Jean Harlow
  11. Corn Bread Rough
  12. National Defense Blues
  13. Little Children's Blues
  14. Fiddler's Dram
  15. Meeting at the Building

UPC: 093074001028
Label: SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
Release Date: 7.13.92
Format: CD

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