Release Date: 13 April 2018
Label: Sunset Blvd Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 708535792628
Genres: Blues  
Release Date: 13 April 2018
Label: Sunset Blvd Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 708535792628
Genres: Blues  
Description
Leadbelly is one of the great musical influences of the 20th century and his work is celebrated in a this brilliant collection The Telegraph "No Lead Belly, no Beatles," George Harrison More than six decades after his death from Lou Gehrig's disease in 1949, the influence of the great blues and folk singer Lead Belly (Huddie Ledbetter) continues to reverberate through time.
Tom Waits, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan and Jack White are just a few of the musicians who have been deeply influenced by Lead Belly.
Kurt Cobain said that he was his favourite performer, adding "Isn't he all of ours? He also had a deceptively simple way of playing his powerful twelve-string guitar, an instrument Cobain once tried to buy from Lead Belly's cousin.
Some of Lead Belly's songs such as Goodnight Irene, The Rock Island Line, The Midnight Special and Pick a Bale of Cotton have become classics.
The richness of his legacy is shown to its full impressive extent in a superb 2 CD LIMITED EDITION set called Lead Belly: Masterworks Volume 1 & 2.
The set includes two CDs, covering over two hours of music over 40 tracks.
Sixteen of these songs are previously unreleased, and they include some wonderful rarities.
Tracklisting
1. Midnight Special
2. The Gallis Pole
3. Dekalb Blues
4. John Hardy
5. Goodnight Irene
6. The Bourgeios Blues
7. Pretty Flower In your Backyard
8. Borrow Love & Go
9. Big Fat Woman
10. Julie Ann Johnson
11. Be So Glad When I Get Home
12. Old Ship Zion
13. I Don't Want No More Army Life
14. Ella Louise
15. Backwater Blues
16. Rock Island Line
17. Mary & Martha
18. Go Down Old Hannah
19. When I Was A Cowboy
20. How Long
21. In New Orleans (House Of The Rising Sun)
22. Goodnight Irene
23. Ho-Day / Ain?t Going Down To The Well
24. No More
25. Rock Island Line
26. Go Down Old Hannah
27. Shine On Me
28. What Can I Do To Change Your Mind
29. Skip To My Lou
30. Mary And Martha
31. C?est Bon, Les Oeugs (Scrambled Egg Song)
32. Whoa Back Buck
33. John Henry
34. Backwater Blues
35. Ella Lousie
36. I Don?t Want No More Of Army Life
37. Relax Your Mind
38. Goodnight Irene (Version 2)
39. Old Ship Of Zion
40. I Will Be So Glad When I Get Home
41. Good Morning Blues
42. Bottle Up And Go
Bob Neuwirth
Lead Belly
Art Tatum
Fastball
The Dandy Warhols
Memphis Slim
Johnny Copeland
Danny O'Keefe
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Various Artists
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