Description
DESCRIPTION
This is volume 2 of a projected 3-volume set of Lead Belly's performances recorded by Moses Asch during the 1940s. The original masters now reside in the Folkways Archive at the Smithsonian Institution. Completely remastered from the best sources in our collections, this recording contains the highest sound quality possible. The liner notes contain extensive annotation and reflections on Lead Belly's music as you've never heard it before. Compiled and annotated by Jeff Place. "The soul expressed is full-fledged and sublime." -New England Folk Almanac.
Fannin Street
Bourgeois Blues
Easy Rider
Alabama Bound
Don't You Love Your Daddy No More?
Gallis Pole
Leavin' Blues
Midnight Special
T.B. Blues
Linin' Track
Julie Ann Johnson
John Henry
Jim Crow Blues
Jim Crow #2
Good Morning Blues #2
Abraham Lincoln
Army Life
Hitler Song
Careless Love
Haul Away Joe
How Do You Know?/Don't Mind the Weather
Skip to My Lou
Red Bird
Out on the Western Plains
Cowboys Song
You Can't Mistreat Me
Diggin' My Potatoes (Big Bill Broonzy)
John Hardy
