Lead Belly - Lead Belly's Last Sessions
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Artist: Lead BellyEdition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1994-09-25
Music Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Yes, I Was Standing In The Bottom
- Yes, I'm Going Down To Louisiana
- I Ain't Going Down To The Well No More
- Dick Ligger's Holler
- Miss Liza Jane
- Dog Latin Song
- Leaving Blues
- Go Down, Old Hannah
- Blue Tail Fly
- Nobody In This World Is Better Than Us
- We're In The Same Boat, Brother
- Looky, Looky Yonder
- Jolly O' The Ransom
- Old Ship Of Zion
- Bring Me A Little Water, Silver
- Mistreatin' Mamma
- Black Betty
- Ain't Going Down To The Well No More
- I'm Going Back Down In Louisiana
- I Don't Know You, What Have I Done
- Rock Island Line
- Old Man, Will Your Dog Catch A Rabbit?
- Shorty George
- Stewball
- Bottle Up & Go
- You Know I Got To Do It
- Ain't It A Shame To Go Fishing On A Sunday
- I Ain't Gonna Drink Anymore
- Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
- My Lindy Lou
- I'm Thinking Of A Friend
- He Never Said A Mumbling Word
- I Don't Want No More Of Army Life
- In The World
- I Want To Go Home
- New Iberia
- Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
- John Henry
- Salty Dog
- National Defense Blues
- Easy, Mr. Tom
- Relax Your Mind
- Bottle Up And Go
- Polly Wolly Wee
- Pig Latin Song (2nd Version)
- Hawaiian Song
- Drinkin' Lum Y A Alla
- The Grey Goose
- Silver City Bound
- The Titanic
- Death Letter Blues
- Mary Don't You Weep
- He Never Said A Mumbling Word
- Midnight Special
- Boll Weevil Song
- Careless Love
- Easy Rider
- Cry For Me
- Ain't Going To Drink No More (De Kalb Blues)
- Birmingham Jail
- Old Riley
- Julie Ann Johnson
- It's Tight Like That
- 4, 5 & 9
- Good Morning Babe, How Do You Do?
- Jail House Blues
- Well, You Know I Had To Do It
- Irene
- 25 Cent Dude
- How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
- Hello Central
- Hesitation Blues
- I'll Be Down On The Last Bread Wagon
- Somebody's Diggin' My Potatoes
- Springtime In The Rockies
- Chinatown
- Rock Island Line
- Backwater Blues
- Sweet Mary
- Irene
- Easy, Mr. Tom
- In The Evening, When The Sun Goes Down
- I'm Alone Because I Love You
- House Of The Rising Sun
- Mary Don't You Weep
- Talk About Fannin Street
- Fannin Street
- Sugared The Beer
- Didn't Old John Cross The Water
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
- Bully Of The Town
- Sweet Jenny Lee
- Yellow Gal
- He Was The Man
- We're In The Same Boat, Brother
- Leaving Blues
Free Music Notes for Lead Belly's Last Sessions
Free Music Review: A must have but, but not necissarily definative.
Hit: 5 Stars
These four disks are recorded on analog audio tape. The only one existing of Leadbelly. The recodings were made on two or three seperate nights. Since the first night leadbelly didn't bring his guitar he sings acapella most of the first disk. The other three disks have his 12 string acompanyment. The sound quality becomes very apparent here. Unlike most of his records you can hear all 12 strings! It sounds beautiful. Another benefit of these being on audio tape is that Leadbelly can potentially play a song much longer than in prior recording. However he seldom does. Being more informal than a recoding studio ti also gives insight as to what Leadbelly's set list may have been like at a concert or everyday party. Though these individual song versions may not be the definative versions, or Leadbelly at his best, all these songs are gems and a must have for any folk, blues, or country collection. Towards the end of the disks Leadbellys wife Martha sings with him. In all due respect to Martha she sort of slows the momentum of this collection down. Though I'm sure Leadbelly always encouraged people to sing along with his songs. The brightest gem of this collection may be listening to Leadbelly laugh at his own singing on the funny classic, Diggin' My Potatoes. Or being able to hear him slap his knee on Salty Dog.
Summary: Sping for it. Its something you won't find on any other collection
Lead Belly's Last Sessions Poster
Leadbelly's Last Sessions is a remarkable document. Recorded over the course of three nights in 1948, approximately one year before his death, Sessions constitutes the only commercial recordings of Leadbelly ever made on magnetic tape. The sound here is still primitive by most standards, but it's a vast improvement over the quality of his earlier sides. On this four-disc collection, Huddie Ledbetter sets down as much of his repertoire as he could, from field hollers, blues, and country & western songs to children's tunes, ballads, autobiographical pieces, and popular hits of the day. The tape continues to roll between takes, catching Leadbelly's shifts of moods and changes of interest. He didn't know these would be his last recordings, of course, but he seems to have saved something special for these performances, which are as freewheeling, charming, and authoritative as anything he ever recorded. --Daniel DurchholzBlues Music CDs
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