The Smithsonian Folkways Collection [Box Set] (5-CD)

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CD Details

Number of Discs: 5
Released: February 24, 2015
Originally Released: 2015
Label: Smithsonian Folkways

Entertainment Reviews:

Paste (magazine) - "Across 108 tracks, 16 of which were previously unreleased, we primarily hear two instruments: a 12-string Stella guitar and Lead Belly's weathered and beautiful voice. The recordings sound surprisingly crisp given their age..."

Tracks on Disc 1:

1.Irene (Goodnight Irene)
2.The Bourgeois Blues
3.Fannin Street (Mister Tom Hughes Town)
4.The Midnight Special
5.John Henry
6.Black Girl (Where Did You Sleep Last Night)
7.Pick a Bale of Cotton
8.Take This Hammer
9.Cotton Fields
10.Old Riley
11.Rock Island Line
12.The Gallis Pole
13.Ha-Ha This a Way
14.Sukey Jump
15.Boll Weevil
16.Scottsboro Boys
17.Governor O.K. Allen
18.Governor Pat Neff
19.There's a Man Going Around Taking Names
20.On a Monday
21.You Can't Lose Me, Cholly
22.Keep Your Hands Off Her
23.We Shall Be Free

Tracks on Disc 2:

1.Alabama Bound
2.Almost Day
3.Fiddler's Dram
4.Green Corn
5.Sally Walker
6.Bring Me a Little Water, Silvy
7.Julie Ann Johnson
8.Linin' Track
9.Whoa, Back, Buck
10.Shorty George
11.Ham and Eggs
12.Moanin'
13.Out On the Western Plains
14.Noted Rider
15.Meeting At the Building
16.Good, Good, Good (Talking, Preaching) / We Shall Walk Through the Valley
17.Ain't You Glad (The Blood Done Signed My Name)
18.I'm So Glad, I Done Got Over
19.The Hindenburg Disaster
20.Ella Speed
21.Haul Away Joe
22.Old Man
23.Sweet Jenny Lee
24.Jean Harlow
25.Laura
26.Queen Mary

Tracks on Disc 3:

1.Good Morning Blues
2.Sail On, Little Girl
3.Easy Rider
4.Poor Howard
5.Duncan and Brady
6.How Long, How Long
7.T.B. Blues
8.Jim Crow Blues
9.Pigmeat
10.John Hardy
11.Outskirts of Town
12.4, 5, and 9
13.In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)
14.Red Cross Store Blues
15.Diggin' My Potatoes
16.Blind Lemon
17.When a Man's a Long Way From Home
18.Alberta
19.Excerpt from "The Lonesome Train"
20.National Defense Blues
21.Hitler Song (Mr. Hitler)
22.Big Fat Woman
23.Been So Long (Bellevue Hospital Blues)

Tracks on Disc 4:

1.WNYC: Folk Songs of America (Grey Goose / Boll Weevil / Yellow Gal / Ha-Ha This a Way / Leaving Blues / Irene (outro))
2.WNYC: Folk Songs of America (Almost Day / Blues in My Kitchen / Blues in My Dining Room / I Went Up on the Mountain / Good Morning Blues / Baby, Don't You Love Me No More / T.B. Blues / Irene (outro))
3.If It Wasn't For Dicky
4.What's You Gonna Do When the World's On Fire
5.Rock Me (Hide Me In Thy Bosom)
6.Packin' Trunk Blues
7.Leaving Blues
8.How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
9.One Dime Blues
10.I'm Going To Buy You a Brand New Ford
11.Jail-House Blues
12.Shout On
13.Come and Sit Down Beside Me
14.Red River

Tracks on Disc 5:

1.Yes, I Was Standing In the Bottom
2.Ain't Going Down To the Well No More [Version 2]
3.Everytime I Go Out
4.Go Down, Old Hannah
5.Black Betty
6.Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
7.Stewball
8.Ain't It a Shame To Go Fishin' On a Sunday
9.Relax Your Mind
10.Princess Elizabeth
11.Silver City Bound
12.The Titanic
13.House of the Rising Sun
14.It's Tight Like That
15.Diggin' My Potatoes
16.Springtime In the Rockies
17.Backwater Blues
18.Didn't Old John Cross the Water
19.De Kalb Blues
20.They Hung Him On the Cross [Version 1]
21.They Hung Him On the Cross [Version 2]
22.In the World