093074001028

Lead Belly Sings Folk Songs

Lead Belly

£11.99
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Format: CD

Cat No: SFW40010

Release Date:  15 October 1989

Label:  Smithsonian Folkways

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  093074001028

Genres:  Folk  

  • Description

    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 "...[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

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. There's A Man Going Around Taking Names
      • 2. Stewball
      • 3. Keep Your Hands Off Her
      • 4. Good-Good-Good (Talking, Preaching)/We Shall Walk Thru The Valley
      • 5. Lining Track
      • 6. Outskirts Of Town
      • 7. We Shall Be Free
      • 8. The Blood Done Sign My Name (Ain't You Glad)
      • 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

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