Leadbelly | Volume Two Selected Sides 1934 | 4CD

Leadbelly is an American folk and blues singer, musician and songwriter, notable for his strong vocals and virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar. He introduced folk standards including "Goodnight, Irene", "Midnight Special", "Cotton Fields" and "Boll Weevil". He was born on 23 January 1888 in Mooringsport, Louisiana, and died on 6 December 1949 in New York. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 as an early influence.

Selected Sides 1934-1948 is a four disc compilation by Leadbelly on the JSP Records label, released on 23 January 2014. Neil Slaven compiled the set from his own collection. The set includes recordings made by John Lomax and his son Alan, and 24 tracks have not previously appeared on CD.

Track List

Disc 1

1. Mr Tom Hughes' Town
2. I Got Up This Mornin', Had to Get Up So Soon
3. Matchbox Blues
4. Blues I Got Make a Newborn Baby Cry
5. Irene (Part 1)
6. Irene (Part 2)
7. Angola Blues
8. Careless Love
9. Ain't Goin' Down to the Well No More
10. Frankie and Albert
11. Ella Speed
12. Governor Pat Neff
13. Which Way Do the Red River Run
14. You Don't Know My Mind
15. Thirty Days in the Workhouse
16. Fort Worth and Dallas Blues
17. Death Letter Blues
18. Easy Mr. Tom

Disc 2

1. Becky Dean
2. Got a Gal in Town With Her Mouth Chock Full of Gold
3. Midnight Special
4. The Shreveport Jail
5. I Ain't Bothered a Bit (Part 1)
6. I Ain't Bothered a Bit (Part 2)
7. Blind Lemon Blues
8. The Medicine Man
9. Red Cross Sto'
10. Fo Day Worry Blues
11. Take Me Back
12. Matchbox Blues
13. Gwine Dig a Hole to Put the Devil In
14. Henry Ford Blues
15. Don't You Love Me No More
16. De Kalb Blues
17. I'm Gonna Hold It in Her While She's Young and Tender
18. Dick Ligger's Holler
19. Shorty George
20. Elnora
21. Last Night in the Evening
22. Something, Something Keeps A-worryin' Me

Disc 3

1. Rock Island Line (A Cappella)
2. Mama, Did You Bring Me Any Silver (Galls Pole)
3. John Henry (A Cappella)
4. The Bourgeois Blues
5. The Boll Weevil
6. Leaving Blues
7. Alberta
8. Easy Rider
9. Worried Blues
10. Don't You Love Your Daddy No More?
11. You Can't Lose-a Me, Cholly
12. T.B Blues
13. Sail On, Little Girl
14. John Hardy
15. Howard Hughes
16. Bottle Up and Go
17. Leaving Blues
18. The Gallows Song
19. So Doggone Soon
20. The Roosevelt Song
21. Noted Rider Blues

Disc 4

1. Rock Island Line
2. Haul Away, Joe
3. T.B Blues
4. Good Morning Blues
5. Bill Brady
6. Blind Lemon (Memorial Record)
7. Jim Crow Blues
8. Jean Harlow
9. National Defence Blues
10. Childrens Blues
11. John Henry
12. When a Man's a Long Way from Home
13. Laura
14. Big Fat Woman
15. Borrow Love and Go
16. Pigmeat
17. New York City
18. I'm Leavin' On the Morning Train
19. Good Mornin' Blues
20. Tell Me Baby What Was Wrong With You
21. John Henry
22. It Was Early One Morning (Jail House Blues)
23. Goin' Back to Mary (Governor Pat Neff)
24. Ain't Gonna Let You Worry My Life No More
25. Pretty Papa
26. Samuel Hall
27. Fannin' Street
28. Bougeois Blues