Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

Lead Belly



  • 1Irene (Goodnight Irene)
  • 2The Bourgeois Blues
  • 3Fannin Street (Mister Tom Hughes Town)
  • 4The Midnight Special
  • 5John Henry
  • 6Black Girl
  • 7Pick A Bale Of Cotton
  • 8Take This Hammer
  • 9Cotton Fields
  • 10Old Riley
  • 11Rock island line
  • 12The Gallis Pole
  • 13Ha-Ha This a Way
  • 14Sukey Jump
  • 15Boll Weevil
  • 16Scottsboro Boys
  • 17Governor O.K. Allen
  • 18Governor Pat Neff
  • 19There's A Man Going Round Taking Names
  • 20On A Monday
  • 21You Can't Lose Me, Cholly
  • 22Keep Your Hands Off Her
  • 23We Shall Be Free (with Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston)
  • 1Alabama Bound
  • 2Almost Day
  • 3Fiddler's Dram
  • 4Green Corn
  • 5Sally Walker
  • 6Bring Me Little Water, Sylvie
  • 7Julie Ann Johnson
  • 8Linin Track
  • 9Whoa, Back, Buck
  • 10Shorty George
  • 11Ham and Eggs
  • 12Moanin'
  • 13Out on the Western Plains
  • 14Noted Rider
  • 15Meeting At The Building
  • 16Good, Good, Good (Talking, Preaching) / We Shall Walk Through the Valley
  • 17Ain't You Glad (The Blood Done Signed My Name)
  • 18I'm So Glad, I Done Got Over
  • 19The Hindenburg Disaster
  • 20Ella Speed
  • 21Haul Away Joe
  • 22Old Man
  • 23Sweet Jenny Lee
  • 24Jean Harlow
  • 25Laura
  • 26Queen Mary
  • 1Good Morning Blues
  • 2Sail On, Little Girl
  • 3Easy Rider
  • 4Poor Howard
  • 5Duncan And Brady (Version 1)
  • 6How Long, How Long
  • 7T.B. Blues
  • 8Jim Crow Blues
  • 9Pig Meat
  • 10John Hardy
  • 11Outskirts of Town
  • 124, 5, And 9
  • 13In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)
  • 14Red Cross Store Blues
  • 15Diggin' My Potatoes (I)
  • 16Blind Lemon
  • 17When a Man's a Long Way from Home
  • 18Alberta
  • 19Excerpt from the Lonesome Train
  • 20National Defense Blues
  • 21Hitler Song (Mr. Hitler)
  • 22Big Fat Woman
  • 23Been So Long (Bellevue Hospital Blues)
  • 1Irene (Intro) [WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 1]
  • 2Gray Goose
  • 3Boll Weevil
  • 4Yellow Gal (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 4)
  • 5Ha-Ha This a Way (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 5)
  • 6Leaving Blues (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 6)
  • 7Irene (outro) (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 7)
  • 8Irene (intro) (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 1)
  • 9Almost Day (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 2)
  • 10Blues in My Kitchen, Blues in My Dining Room (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 3)
  • 11I Went Up on the Mountain (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 4)
  • 12Good Morning Blues
  • 13Baby, Don't You Love Me No More (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 6)
  • 14T.B. Blues (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 7)
  • 15Irene (Outro) (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 8)
  • 16If It Wasn't for Dicky
  • 17What's You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire (with Anne Graham)
  • 18Rock Me (Hide Me in Thy Bosom) [with Anne Graham]
  • 19Packin' Trunk Blues
  • 20Leaving Blues
  • 21How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
  • 22One Dime Blues
  • 23I'm Going to Buy You a Brand New Ford
  • 24Jail-house Blues
  • 25Shout On
  • 26Come and Sit Down Beside Me
  • 27Red River
  • 1Yes, I Was Standing in the Bottom
  • 2Ain't Going Down To The Well No More
  • 3Everytime I Go Out
  • 4Go Down, Old Hannah
  • 5Black Betty
  • 6Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (with Bessie Smith)
  • 7Stewball
  • 8Ain't It a Shame to Go Fishin' on a Sunday
  • 9Relax Your Mind
  • 10Princess Elizabeth
  • 11Silver City Bound
  • 12The Titanic
  • 13House of the Rising Sun
  • 14It's Tight Like That
  • 15Diggin' My Potatoes (II)
  • 16Springtime in the Rockies
  • 17Backwater Blues
  • 18Didn't Old John Cross the Water
  • 19De Kalb Blues
  • 20They Hung Him on the Cross (I)
  • 21They Hung Him on the Cross (II)
  • 22In the World
    • 2015 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings