Leadbelly : Vol. 2-Bourgeois Blues

CD [Cover Art for Leadbelly / Vol. 2-Bourgeois Blues] Your Price: $19.79
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Availability: In Stock
Sell date: 3/1997
Label: Folkways Records
Mfg's Catalog#: 40045
CDC Part#: 231599
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 Notes & Reviews
 
 
Full title is: Bourgeois Blues: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 2


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

 
 Tracks and Sound Clips   Click here for the Windows Media player
 
Fannin Street - 3:03 Play the Windows Media clip
Bourgeois Blues - 2:20 Play the Windows Media clip
Easy Rider - 2:53 Play the Windows Media clip
Alabama Bound - 2:20 Play the Windows Media clip
Don't You Love Your Daddy No More? - 3:04 Play the Windows Media clip
Gallis Pole - 2:47 Play the Windows Media clip
Leaving Blues - 1:32 Play the Windows Media clip
Midnight Special [#] - 2:05 Play the Windows Media clip
T.B. Blues - 3:45 Play the Windows Media clip
Linin' Track - 1:16 Play the Windows Media clip
Julie Ann Johnson - :43 Play the Windows Media clip
John Henry - 2:27 Play the Windows Media clip
Jim Crow Blues - 3:32 Play the Windows Media clip
Jim Crow #2 - 2:45 Play the Windows Media clip
Good Morning Blues #2 - 2:10 Play the Windows Media clip
Abraham Lincoln - 3:12 Play the Windows Media clip
Army Life - 1:48 Play the Windows Media clip
Hitler Song - 4:34 Play the Windows Media clip
Careless Love - 2:59 Play the Windows Media clip
Haul Away Joe - 2:51 Play the Windows Media clip
How Do You Know?/Don't Mind the Weather - 2:20 Play the Windows Media clip
Skip to My Lou - 2:13 Play the Windows Media clip
Red Bird - 2:57 Play the Windows Media clip
Out on the Western Plains - 1:33 Play the Windows Media clip
Cowboy Song - 1:46 Play the Windows Media clip
You Can't Mistreat Me - 3:16 Play the Windows Media clip
Diggin' My Potatoes - 2:36 Play the Windows Media clip
John Hardy [#] - 2:43 Play the Windows Media clip
 
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