The Definitive Leadbelly
Released: May 21, 2002
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Released: May 21, 2002
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Although he has often been labeled a blues artist, Leadbelly had a much wider palette than that, and routinely sang spirituals, work songs, folk ballads, and children's pieces, and he had an...
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Blues Best
Released: Apr 23, 2002
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Released: Apr 23, 2002
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The songs in this set were recorded in the early 1940s, and have been pressed in this sequence many times over, most recently as a Tradition Records release called Goodnight Irene. ~ Steve Leggett,...
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The Essential
Released: Feb 6, 2001
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Released: Feb 6, 2001
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Leadbelly's shadow looms large in folk and pop music, and several examples are found on this two-disc collection. The Weavers changed the words to "If It Wasn't for Dickey" and took it to the top...
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Private Party November 21, 1948
Released: Oct 17, 2000
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Released: Oct 17, 2000
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Along with the New York sessions encompassed on Leadbelly's Last Sessions and the surviving tape of the final show he ever played (in Texas in 1949), the tape of this performance -- made at a...
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