Bourgeois Blues: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 2 (CD)

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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

Track Listing

1.) Fannin Street

2.) Bourgeois Blues

3.) Easy Rider

4.) Alabama Bound

5.) Don't You Love Your Daddy No More?

6.) Gallis Pole

7.) Leaving Blues

8.) The Midnight Special 

9.) T.B. Blues

10.) Linin' Track

11.) Julie Ann Johnson

12.) John Henry

13.) Jim Crow Blues

14.) Jim Crow Blues #2

15.) Good Morning Blues #2

16.) Abraham Lincoln

17.) Army Life

18.) Hitler Song

19.) Careless Love

20.) Haul Away Joe

21.) How Do You Know? / Don't Mind the Weather

22.) Skip to My Lou

23.) Red Bird

24.) Out on the Western Plains

25.) Cowboy Song

26.) You Can't Mistreat Me

27.) Digging My Potatoes 

28.) John Hardy