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Leadbelly – Leadbelly (VG/VG) – LP, US 1974
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Leadbelly is an LP by Leadbelly from 1974 released on the Archive Of Folk Music, Everest Records Archive Of Folk & Jazz Music label.
About this album
Leadbelly is a vital compilation that preserves Huddie Ledbetter’s raw country blues and songcraft. Issued in 1965, it gathers performances that helped define his reputation as one of the great voices of American folk and blues, with stark guitar work, prison-song power and earthy storytelling. Songs such as The Bourgeois Blues and The Gallis Pole show how he could turn social criticism, traditional material and personal experience into music of direct force. As the folk revival grew in the 1960s, collections like this kept Lead Belly’s legacy central to the canon.
Genre: Blues
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A1 The Bourgeois Blues
A2 Looky, Looky Yonder / Black Betty / Yellow Woman'S Doorbells
A3 Poor Howard / Green Corn
A4 The Gallis Pole
A5 De Kalb Woman
B1 Noted Rider
B2 Big Fat Woman
B3 Burrow Love & Go
B4 Bring Me Li'L Water Silvy
B5 Julie Ann Johnson
B6 Line 'Em
B7 Whoe Back Buck
B8 John Hardy