Lead Belly: Last Sessions (box Set) - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Last Sessions (box Set)
Artist: Lead Belly
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 093074006825
Genre: Blues, Blues Traditional
Release Date: 1994-09-25
Number of Discs: 4
Additional Details: BOXED SET

The press release calls this "The most famous and sought-after Blues & Folk recordings ever made"; these 96 tracks (two unissued) have inspired American artists as diverse as Neil Young and William Styron. Nearly all of Leadbelly's most famous songs are here- Rock Island Line; Midnight Special; Goodnight, Irene; Easy Rider, etc.-plus gripping storytelling, all recorded on tape in 1948 for the only time in his career (hence better fidelity and uninterrupted recording). These four CDs come in a limited edition slipcase with extensive notes, rare photos, bio and discography.

Tracks:
1.1 Yes, I Was Standing in the Bottom
1.2 Yes, I'm Going Down to Louisiana
1.3 I Ain't Going Down to the Well No More
1.4 Dick Ligger's Holler
1.5 Miss Liza Jane
1.6 Dog Latin Song
1.7 Leaving Blues
1.8 Go Down, Old Hannah
1.9 Blue Tail Fly
1.10 Nobody in This World Is Better Than Us
1.11 We're in the Same Boat, Brother
1.12 Looky, Looky Yonder
1.13 Jolly O' the Ransom
1.14 Old Ship of Zion
1.15 Bring Me a Little Water, Silver
1.16 Mistreatin' Mamma
1.17 Black Betty
1.18 Ain't Going Down to the Well No More
1.19 I'm Going Back Down in Louisiana
1.20 I Don't Know You, What Have I Done
1.21 Rock Island Line
1.22 Old Man, Will Your Dog Catch a Rabbit?
1.23 Shorty George
1.24 Stewball
1.25 Bottle Up ; Go
1.26 You Know I Got to Do It
1.27 Ain't It a Shame to Go Fishing on a Sunday
1.28 I Ain't Gonna Drink Anymore
1.29 Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
1.30 My Lindy Lou
1.31 I'm Thinking of a Friend
1.32 He Never Said a Mumbling Word
1.33 I Don't Want No More of Army Life
1.34 In the World
1.35 I Want to Go Home
2.1 New Iberia
2.2 Dancing with Tears in My Eyes
2.3 John Henry
2.4 Salty Dog
2.5 National Defense Blues
2.6 Easy, Mr. Tom
2.7 Relax Your Mind
2.8 Bottle Up and Go
2.9 Polly Wolly Wee
2.10 Pig Latin Song (2nd Version)
2.11 Hawaiian Song
2.12 Drinkin' Lum y a Alla
2.13 The Grey Goose
2.14 Silver City Bound
2.15 The Titanic
2.16 Death Letter Blues
2.17 Mary Don't You Weep
2.18 He Never Said a Mumbling Word
3.1 Midnight Special
3.2 Boll Weevil Song
3.3 Careless Love
3.4 Easy Rider
3.5 Cry for Me
3.6 Ain't Going to Drink No More (De Kalb Blues)
3.7 Birmingham Jail
3.8 Old Riley
3.9 Julie Ann Johnson
3.10 It's Tight Like That
3.11 4,5 ; 9
3.12 Good Morning Babe, How Do You Do?
3.13 Jail House Blues
3.14 Well, You Know I Had to Do It
3.15 Irene
3.16 25 Cent Dude
3.17 How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
3.18 Hello Central
3.19 Hesitation Blues
3.20 I'll Be Down on the Last Bread Wagon
4.1 Somebody's Diggin' My Potatoes
4.2 Springtime in the Rockies
4.3 Chinatown
4.4 Rock Island Line
4.5 Backwater Blues
4.6 Sweet Mary
4.7 Irene
4.8 Easy, Mr. Tom
4.9 In the Evening, When the Sun Goes Down
4.10 I'm Alone Because I Love You
4.11 House of the Rising Sun
4.12 Mary Don't You Weep
4.13 Talk About Fannin Street
4.14 Fannin Street
4.15 Sugared the Beer
4.16 Didn't Old John Cross the Water
4.17 Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
4.18 Bully of the Town
4.19 Sweet Jenny Lee
4.20 Yellow Gal
4.21 He Was the Man
4.22 We're in the Same Boat, Brother
4.23 Leaving Blues