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Leadbelly - The Definitive Leadbelly (2009)

Leadbelly - The Definitive Leadbelly (2009)

BAND/ARTIST: Leadbelly

  • Title: The Definitive Leadbelly
  • Year Of Release: 2009
  • Label: Proper Box
  • Genre: Blue, Folk Blues, Country Blues
  • Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
  • Total Time: 03:47:09
  • Total Size: 715 mb
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Tracklist

01. Good Morning Blues
02. If It Wasn't For Dicky
03. Leavin' In The Morning
04. Uncle Sam Says
05. Hitler Song
06. Laura
07. Bring A Little Water, Sylvie
08. Jim Crow Blues
09. Big Fat Woman
10. Black Girl
11. The Blood Done Signed My Name
12. I've A Pretty Flowers
13. Blind Lemon (Memorial Record)
14. Leadbelly's Dance
15. Frankie & Albert (Part 1)
16. Frankie & Albert (Part 2)
17. In The Evenin' When The Sun Goes Down
18. Corn Bread Rough
19. National Defence
20. Easy Rider
21. New York City
22. Little Sally Walker
23. Goodnight, Irene
24. Scottsboro Boys
25. I'm On My Last Go-Round
26. Whoa Back, Buck
27. I'm Alone Because I Love You
28. It's Tight Like That
29. Well You Know I Had To Do It
30. Rock Island Line
31. Roberta
32. House Of The Rising Sun
33. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
34. Fannin' Street
35. Yellow Gal
36. C.C. Rider
37. Alabama Bound
38. Sweet Mary
39. Going Back To Mary
40. New Orleans
41. Ha, Ha, This-A-Way
42. Daddy, I'm Coming Back To You
43. Pick A Bale Of Cotton
44. Midnight Special
45. Sukey Jump
46. How Long
47. Leaving Blues
48. T.B. Blues
49. Red Cross Store
50. Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On
51. Bull Cow
52. Alberta
53. Digging My Potatoes
54. You Can't Lose Me Cholly
55. Grey Goose
56. Cow Cow Yicky Yea Out On The Western Plain
57. Noted Rider Big Fat WomanBorrow Love & Go
58. John Hardy
59. Meeting At The BuildingTalking PreachingWe Shall Walk Through The Valley
60. John Henry
61. Go Down Old Hannah
62. Grasshoppers In My Pillow
63. Tell Me Baby What Was Wrong With You
64. Don't You Love Your Daddy No More
65. Stew Ball
66. Mothers Blues
67. Salty Dog
68. Titanic
69. Boll Weevil
70. Take This Hammer
71. Can't You Line æEm
72. Ain't Going Down To The Well No More
73. Ain't You Glad
74. Shout On (Honey I'm All Out & Down)
75. Birmingham Jail (Down In The Valley)
76. Bye & Bye When The Morning Comes
77. Po Howard
78. Matchbox Blues
79. Pigmeat
80. Green Corn
81. Backwater Blues
82. The Last Leaving Blues'


Although he has often been labeled a blues artist, Leadbelly had a much wider palette than that, and routinely sang spirituals, work songs, folk ballads, and children's pieces, and he had an amazing affinity for material that would later find its way into the pop world. Songs like "Goodnight Irene," "Midnight Special," "Gallows Pole," "Rock Island Line," "Where Did You Sleep Last Night," and "Black Betty," whether he actually wrote them or simply adapted them (which is probably the case), have all had an enduring musical impact, to say nothing of his driving 12-string guitar style, which wasn't exactly pretty but sure was effective. This three-disc set from Britain's Catfish Records is a wonderful introduction to Leadbelly's legacy. It doesn't include his later Folkways recordings, but does have a wide sampling of his ARC tracks and several live cuts from various concerts along with multiple takes of "Midnight Special" and "Rock Island Line" plus fine performances of "Grasshopper in My Pillow," "Alberta," "Fannin' Street," "Bourgeois Blues," and "Ain't Going Down to the Well No More." The liner notes are more artistic than revealing and there is virtually no information about when and where the various tracks were recorded, but the music is the thing, and there is simply no better mid-price set of Leadbelly currently on the market.

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