Leadbelly

The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

More than a hundred recordings — including fourteen previously unreleased tracks, and two radio shows from 1941 — housed in a hardbound 12-inch album, with a 140-page book of essays and rare photos.

• Irene (Goodnight Irene)
• The Bourgeois Blues
• Fannin Street (Mister Tom Hughes Town)
• The Midnight Special
• John Henry
• Black Girl (Where Did You Sleep Last Night)
• Pick a Bale of Cotton
• Take This Hammer
• Cotton Fields
• Old Riley
• Rock Island Line
• The Gallis Pole
• Ha-Ha This a Way
• Sukey Jump
• Boll Weevil
• Scottsboro Boys
• Governor O.K. Allen
• Governor Pat Neff
• There's a Man Going Around Taking Names
• On a Monda
• You Can't Lose Me, Cholly
• Keep Your Hands Off Her
• We Shall Be Free (with Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston) Lead Belly with Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston
• Alabama Bound
• Almost Day
• Fiddler's Dram
• Green Corn
• Sally Walker
• Bring Me a Little Water, Silvy
• Julie Ann Johnson
• Linin' Track
• Whoa, Back, Buck
• Shorty George
• Ham and Eggs
• Moanin'
• Out on the Western Plains
• Noted Rider
• Meeting at the Building
• Good, Good, Good (Talking, Preaching)
• We Shall Walk Through the Valley
• Ain't You Glad (The Blood Done Signed My Name)
• I'm So Glad, I Done Got Over
• The Hindenburg Disaster
• Ella Speed
• Haul Away Joe
• Old Man
• Sweet Jenny Lee
• Jean Harlow
• Laura
• Queen Mary
• Good Morning Blues
• Sail On, Little Girl
• Easy Rider
• Poor Howard
• Duncan and Brady
• How Long, How Long
• T.B. Blues
• Jim Crow Blues
• Pigmeat
• John Hardy
• Outskirts of Town
• 4, 5, and 9
• In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)
• Red Cross Store Blues
• Diggin' My Potatoes
• Blind Lemon
• When a Man's a Long Way from Home
• Alberta
• Excerpt from "The Lonesome Train"
• National Defense Blues
• Hitler Song (Mr. Hitler)
• Big Fat Woman
• Been So Long (Bellevue Hospital Blues)
• WNYC- Folk Songs of America
• If It Wasn't for Dicky
• What's You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire
• Rock Me (Hide Me in Thy Bosom)
• Packin' Trunk Blues
• Leaving Blue
• How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
• I'm Going to Buy You a Brand New Ford
• Jail-house Blues
• Shout On
• Come and Sit Down Beside Me
• Red River
• Yes, I Was Standing in the Bottom
• Ain't Going Down to the Well No More (version 2)
• Everytime I Go Out
• Go Down, Old Hannah
• Black Betty
• Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (with Bessie Smith)
• Stewball
• Ain't It a Shame to Go Fishin' on a Sunday
• Relax Your Mind
• Princess Elizabeth
• Silver City Bound
• The Titanic
• House of the Rising Sun
• It's Tight Like That
• Diggin' My Potatoes
• Springtime in the Rockies
• Backwater Blues
• Didn't Old John Cross the Water
• De Kalb Blues
• They Hung Him on the Cross (version 1)
• They Hung Him on the Cross (version 2)
• In the World