Waterloo Records

Lead Belly - Sings Folk Songs

Details

Format: CD
Label: SFW
Catalog: 40010
Rel. Date: 07/13/1992
UPC: 093074001028

Sings Folk Songs
Artist: Lead Belly
Format: CD
New: Call (512) 474-2500 to check in-store availability $16.98
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Formats and Editions

DISC: 1

1. There's a Man Going Around Taking Names
2. Stewball
3. Keep Your Hands off Her
4. Medley: Good, Good-Good /We Shall Walk Thru ...: Good-Good-Good
5. Lining Track
6. Outskirts of Town
7. We Shall Be Free
8. Blood Done Sign My Name
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

More Info:

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
        
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