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Lead Belly - Lead Belly Sings Folk Songs (1989)

Lead Belly - Lead Belly Sings Folk Songs (1989)

BAND/ARTIST: Lead Belly

  • Title: Lead Belly Sings Folk Songs
  • Year Of Release: 1989
  • Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
  • Genre: Folk Blues, Country Blues
  • Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
  • Total Time: 00:32:41
  • Total Size: 167 mb
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Tracklist

01. There's a Man Going Around Taking Names
02. Stewball
03. Keep Your Hands Off Her
04. Good, Good, Good (Talking, Preaching) / We Shall Walk Thru the Valley (Medley)
05. Linin' Track
06. Outskirts of Town
07. We Shall Be Free
08. Ain't You Glad (Blood Done Signed My Name)
09. 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

One of 17 Huddie Ledbetter albums on the Smithsonian Folkways label, SINGS FOLK SONGS is a superb collection of classic recordings of traditional tunes, most of which were arranged (and some written) by the man himself. Joined by friends (including Woody Guthrie) on backing vocals and harmonica, Leadbelly's resonant 12-string guitar and warm, enthusiastic singing charge through numbers like "There's A Man Going Round Taking Names" and "Corn Bread Rough."

The greatest delight of the album is the unhindered spirit of freedom and improvisation that pervades: gradually quickening tempos, shouts and hollers, minor flubs, and extemporaneous lyrics-- such as the duet with Woody Guthrie on "We Shall Be Free" and the chop-licking explication of all the pancakes available in heaven in "Good, Good, Good." Moreover, it is easy to see how these songs became and have remained so popular ("The Blood Done Sign My Name" is inescapably catchy). Leadbelly takes these wonderful songs and makes them even better.

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