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Leadbelly
レッドベリー

  • BORN: January 20, 1889, Mooringsport, Louisiana
    1889年1月20日、ルイジアナ州ムーリングスポート生まれ
  • DIED: December 6, 1949, New York
    1949年12月6日、ニューヨークにて死去
  • vocals guitar accordion piano

レッドベリーは、ブルースマンというより、フォーク・ソングの生きるジュークボックスと見なされていた。「Goodnight Irene」、「Rock Island Line」、「The Midnight Special」といった彼のよく知られている曲は、フォーク歌手に欠かせないレパートリーとなっている。アコーディオン、ハーモニカ、ピアノも演奏できるが、一般的に12弦ギターの名手として知られているレッドベリーは、あらゆる種類のトラディショナル・ソング、リールを吸収し、カントリー・サパー（農村地帯の黒人たちのダンス・パーティ）で歌うソングスターとして育っていった。1906年、シュリーヴポートに居たときに、バレルハウスで聞いたブギウギ・ピアノに惹かれ、ウォーキング・ベースを自分の演奏に取り入れるようになった。1912年にはダラスでブラインド・レモン・ジェファスンと友人になり、ブルースを教わった。レッドベリーは3度刑務所に入ったが、1934年、ルイジアナ州立刑務所に服役中、国会図書館の資料として黒人のフォーク・ソングの収集に来ていた民俗音楽学者アラン・ロマックスのために録音をしたことが人生の転機となる。釈放されたレッドベリーは、ロマックスのアシスタントとしてフォーク・ソング収集の手伝いをはじめ、諸州を旅したのち、ニューヨークでラジオ出演。本格的な歌手としてフォーク界に食い込むと、フォークウェイズを始めとする商業レーベルに大量の録音を残した。49年にフランス・ツアーを行ったが、その年、レッドベリーは筋萎縮性側索硬化症（ルー・ゲーリッグと同じ病気）で亡くなってしまった。

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Recordings

July 16-20, 1933, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana
  • The Western Cowboy
  • Honey Take A Whiff On Me
  • Angola Blues
  • Angola Blues
  • Frankie And Albert
  • Irene
  • Take A Whiff On Me
  • You Cain' Lose Me Cholly
  • Irene
  • Irene
  • Ella Speed
probably July 1, 1934, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana
  • Mister Tom Hughes' Town
  • I Got Up In The Morning, Had To Get Up So Soon
  • Western Cowboy
  • Blind Lemon Blues
  • Matchbox Blues
  • Midnight Special
  • Irene (Goodnight Irene) - @YouTube
  • Irene
  • Governor O.K. Allen
  • Frankie And Albert
  • Ella Speed
  • Julie Ann Johnson
  • You Cain' Loose-A-Me Cholly
  • Take A Whiff On Me
  • I'm Sorry Mama
September 27, 1934, Little Rock, Arkansas
  • Mr. Tom Hughes' Town
  • Julie Ann Johnson
circa September 29, 1934, State Farm, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
  • Julie Ann Johnson
circa October 5, 1934, Gould, Arkansas
  • Julie Ann Johnson
circa October 5, 1934, Shreveport, Louisiana
  • Boll Weevil
December 12, 1934, Bellwood Prison Camp, Atlanta, Georgia
  • The Shreveport Jail
  • Julie Ann Johnson
  • Dance Calls
January 20, 1935, Wilton, Connecticut
  • Don't You Love Me No More
  • Henry Ford Blues
January 21, 1935, Wilton, Connecticut
  • Irene
  • Irene
  • Julie Ann Johnson
January 23, 1935, New York City, New York
January 24, 1935, New York City, New York
February 1, 1935, Wilton, Connecticut
  • Take A Whiff On Me
February 5, 1935, New York City, New York
February 1935, Wilton, Connecticut
  • Salty Dog
  • Angola Blues
  • Roberta
  • Careless Love
  • C.C. Rider
  • Governor Pat Neff
  • Thirty Days In The Workhouse
  • Ella Speed
  • Ella Speed
  • Frankie And Albert
  • Frankie And Albert
  • Which Way Do The Red River Run?
  • Got Up In The Mornin' So Doggone Soon
  • You Don't Know My Mind
  • Becky Dean
  • Fort Worth And Dallas Blues
  • Got A Gal In Town With Her Mouth Chock Full Of Gold
  • Mary Don't You Weep
  • Mary Don't You Weep
  • Way Over In The Promised Land
  • Death Letter Blues
  • Midnight Special
  • The Shreveport Jail
  • Easy Mr. Tom
  • I Ain't Bothered A Bit
  • Boll Weevil
  • Western Cowboy (When I Was A Cowboy) - @YouTube
  • The Titanic
  • Blind Lemon Blues
  • Mr. Tom Hughes' Town
  • Mr. Tom Hughes' Town
  • You Cain' Loose-A-Me Cholly
  • The Medicine Man
  • Red Cross Sto'
  • Green Corn - @YouTube
  • The Maid Freed From The Gallows
  • Po' Howard
  • Alberta Blues
  • Fo' Day Worry Blues
  • Hesitation Blues
  • Take Me Back
  • Matchbox Blues - @YouTube
  • Tight Like That
  • Gwine Dig A Hole To Put The Devil In It
  • Old Man Settin' In The Corner Dyin'
March 1, 1935, Wilton, Connecticut
  • Blues I Got Make A New-Born Baby Cry
  • Ho Day
  • One Dollar Bill Baby
March 1935, Wilton, Connecticut
  • Governor O.K. Allen
  • De Kalb Blues
  • Ain't Goin' Down To De Well No More
  • Ha-Ha This-A-Way
  • Alabama Bound
  • In Dem Long Hot Summer Days
  • Go Down, Old Hannah
  • I'm All Out And Down
  • De Kalb Blues
  • Ha-Ha This-A-Way
  • Dear Old Daddy (Interpreting Jimmy Rogers)
  • Dear Old Daddy (Interpreting Jimmy Rogers)
  • Dear Old Daddy (Interpreting Jimmy Rogers)
  • Dear Old Daddy (Interpreting Jimmy Rogers)
  • I'm Gonna Hold It In Her While She's Young And Tender
  • What's You Goin' Do With Your Long Tall Daddy?
  • Dick Licker's Holler
  • Billy In The Lowlands/Here Rattler Here
  • Frankie And Albert
  • Frankie And Albert
  • Send Down Your Hand
  • Shorty George
  • Shorty George
  • Pick A Bale O' Cotton
  • Elnora
  • Ha-Ha This-A-Way
  • Send Down Your Head
  • Death Letter Blues
  • Death Letter Blues (fragments)
  • Where De Sun Done Gone
  • Bring Me A Li'l Walter Silvy
  • Dick Licker's Holler
  • Whoa Back Buck
  • Billy In The Low Ground
  • The Grey Goose
  • Old Rattler
  • I'm All Out And Down
  • Frankie And Albert
  • I Walked Her And I Talked Her
  • Billy The Weaver
March 25, 1935, New York City, New York
June 22, 1937, Washington, D.C.
  • Gwine Dig A Hole
  • Polly-Polly-Wee
  • Jawbone Walk
  • If It Wasn't For Dicky
  • Last Night In The Evening
  • Somethin', Somethin' Keeps-A-Worrin' Me
  • Monkey Men
  • I Ain't Gonna Ring Dem Yallow Women's Do' Bells
  • Rock Island Line
  • All Out And Down
  • Hello Central
  • Raccoon Up The 'Simmon Tree
  • Ain' Goin' Drink No Mo'
  • New York City
  • Queen Mary
  • Turn Yo' Radio On
  • Julie Ann Johnson
  • The Hinderberg Disaster
  • The Hinderberg Disaster
January 1938, Pineville, Kentucky
  • He's Just The Same Today (vocal by Sarah Garland)
  • Git On Board
  • Rock Of Ages (vocal by Leadbelly, Sarah Garland & Jim Garland)
December 26, 1938, Havers Studio, New York City, New York
  • Mama, Did You Bring Me Any Silver?
  • Leaving On The Morning Train Blues
  • Scottsboro Boys
  • Outshine The Sun
  • Noted Rider Blues
  • The Bourgeois Blues
  • Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
  • Little John Henry
  • John Henry
  • John Henry
  • Eva
April 1, 1939, New York City, New York
  • Fannin Street
  • Frankie And Albert - First Half
  • Frankie And Albert - Completion
  • De Kalb Blues
  • Looky Looky Yonder / Black Betty / Yellow Women's Door Bells (On A Monday) - @YouTube
  • The Bourgeois Blues - @YouTube
  • Poor Howard; Green Corn
  • The Boll Weevil
  • The Gallis Pole
  • Ain't Goin' Down To The Well No Mo'; Go Down Old Hannah
June 15, 1940, New York City, New York
June 17, 1940, New York City, New York
June 19, 1940, New York City, New York
  • Introduction
  • I Ain't Going Down
  • Went Out On The Mountain
  • Whoa Back
  • Worried Blues
  • Good Mornin' Blues
  • You Can't Lose Me Charlie
  • Boll Weevil
August 4, 1940, New York City, New York
  • Don't You Love Your Daddy No More
August 23, 1940, Washington, D.C.
  • Monologue On T.B.
  • Last Night In The Evening
  • T.B. Blues
  • How Long?
  • When The Train Comes Along
  • Monologue On Square Dances Snooky Jumps
  • Po' Howard
  • Dance Calls
  • Gwine Dig A Hole To Put The Devil In
  • Tight Like That
  • Green Corn
  • Monologue On Blues
  • Sail On, Little Girl
  • Red Cross Sto'
  • Hallelujah
  • Monologue: Joining The Church
  • Backslider, Fare You Well
  • Amazing Grace
  • Must I Be Carried To The Sky On Flowered Beds Of Ease?
  • Amazing Grace
  • Down In The Valley To Pray
  • Meeting At The Building
  • When That Train Comes Along
  • The Blood Done Sign My Name
  • Witness For My Lord
  • Soldier In The Army Of My Lord
  • Outshine The Sun
  • Let It Shine On Me
  • Way Over In The Promised Land
  • Oh, Something On My Mind
  • How Long
  • Tall Angel At The Bar
  • Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
  • Ain't Goin' Study War No More
  • Join The Band
  • Old Time Religion
  • Stand Your Test In Judgement
  • Must I Be Carried To The Sky On Flowered Beds Of Ease?
  • Run, Sinners
  • Ride On
  • Prayer
  • Christmas
  • John Henry
  • John Hardy
  • Howard Hughes
  • Bottle Up And Go
  • Cowboy Song
  • Leaving Blues
  • The Roosevelt Song
  • The Scottsboro Boys
  • Don't You Love Me No More?
  • Noted Rider Blues
  • The Gallows Song (The Gallows Pole) - @YouTube
  • So Doggone Soon
  • Ham And Eggs
  • Bottle Up And Go (fragment)
January 11, 1941
circa 1941
March 13, 1941, New York City, New York
late May 1941, New York City, New York
July 1941, New York City, New York
circa fall 1941, New York City, New York
January 9, 1942
January 1942, New York City, New York
February 20, 1942, New York City, New York
May 1942, Washington D.C.
  • T.B. Blues
January 3, 1943, New York
  • Bring Me Lil Water Sylvie/Julia Ann Johnson/Line 'Em/Whoa Back Buck - @YouTube
August 1943, New York City, New York
  • On A Monday - @YouTube
  • John Henry
  • John Henry (alternate take)
  • How Long (Blues) (How Long, How Long)
  • (Good Night) Irene - @YouTube
  • (Good Night) Irene
  • Ain't You Glad - @YouTube
  • Ain't You Glad (alternate take)
  • Good Morning Blues - @YouTube
circa October 1943, New York City, New York
probably late 1943, New York City, New York
  • On A Monday
  • Defense Blues
  • Keep Your Hands Off Her
  • Jim Crow
  • Down In The Valley
  • Pigmeat
  • Blue Tail Fly
  • Boll Weevil
  • Midnight Special
February 17, 1944, New York City, New York
April 19, 1944, New York City, New York
  • I've Got A Pretty Flower (Leadbelly & Josh White) - @YouTube
  • Don't Lie, Buddy (Josh White with Leadbelly) - @YouTube
April 23, 1944, New York City, New York
  • How Do You Know?/Don't Mind The Weather - @YouTube
  • What Are Little Boys Made Of?/All For You/Poll, Polly, Polly Wee - @YouTube
  • Skip To My Lou/It's Almost Day - @YouTube
  • Little Sally Walker/Ha! Ha! This A-Way/Red Bird@YouTube
April 25, 1944, New York City, New York
circa May 1944, New York City, New York
  • In The Evenin' When The Sun Goes Down
  • Easy Rider (See See Rider)
  • We Shall Be Free - @YouTube
  • Keep Your Hands Off Her - @YouTube
May 1944, New York City, New York
  • There's A Man Going Round Taking Names - @YouTube
  • Red Bird
  • Lining Track - @YouTube
  • T.B. Blues
  • Jim Crow Blues
  • Bourgeois Blues
  • Army Life
  • Mr. Hitler (Hitler Song)
  • Juliana Johnson
  • Jean Harlow - @YouTube
  • Corn Bread Rough - @YouTube
  • National Defense Blues - @YouTube
  • Little Children's Blues - @YouTube
  • The Blood Done Sign Your Name (Ain't You Glad) - @YouTube
circa July 1944, New York City, New York
  • Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yea
1944?
  • Red River/Black Girl (In The Pines)/You Don't Miss Your Water Blues
  • Haul Away Joe - @YouTube
  • Duncan And Brady - @YouTube
  • Let It Shine on Me - @YouTube
  • New Orleans (The Rising Sun Blues) - @YouTube
  • Chicken Crowing for Midnight - @YouTube
  • In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down - @YouTube
  • Midnight Special
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • John Hardy
  • Field Holler
  • You Can't Mistreat Me
October 4, 1944, Los Angeles, California
  • Ella Speed
  • Rock Island Line - @YouTube
  • Tell Me Baby
  • Take This Hammer
October 11, 1944, Los Angeles, California
  • Irene (Goodnight Irene)
  • Western Plain
  • On A Christmas Day
  • Backwater Blues - @YouTube
October 27, 1944, Los Angeles, California
  • Eagle Rock
  • Eagle Rock Rag - @YouTube
  • Eagle Rock Rag (The Eagle Rocks)
  • Meat Shakin' Woman
  • Sweet Mary Blues - @YouTube
  • Grasshoppers In My Pillow - @YouTube
November 6, 1944, Los Angeles, California
  • Rock Island Line
February 15, 1945, San Francisco, California
circa June 1946, New York
circa June 1946
October 1946, New York
  • Alabama Bound (Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston & Leadbelly) - @YouTube
  • Ham And Eggs
  • Yellow Gal (Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston) - YouTube
  • Stew Ball (Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston) - @YouTube
  • Gray Goose
  • Midnight Special (Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston & Leadbelly) - @YouTube
  • Green Corn
  • Fiddler's Dram (Leadbelly with Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston) - @YouTube
December 9, 1946, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • St. Louis Blues
  • Frankie And Albert
  • Irene
  • Salt Lake City
  • We're In The Same Boat, Brother
1947, New York City, New York
1947, New York
  • If It Wasn't For Dicky
  • Black Betty/Old Man/On A Monday
  • Turn Yo' Radio On
  • No Good Rider
  • Howard Hughes
  • New York, NY
  • The Gallis Pole
  • I'm Leavin' On The Morning Train
  • Jean Harlow
  • Good Mornin' Blues
June 14, 1947, New York
September 6, 1947, New York
  • Yellow Gal
  • Borrow Love And Go
  • Eagle Rock Rag
  • Good Morning Blues
circa September 25/October, 1948, New York
circa September, 1948, New York
September 27, 1948, New York City, New York
  • 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 - @YouTube
  • Jolly O' The Ransom
  • Old Ship Of Zion
  • Bring Me A Little Water, Silvy
  • Mistreatin' Mamma
  • Black Betty
  • Ain't Goin 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 Fishin' On A Sunday - @YouTube
  • 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
October 15, 1948, New York City, New York
  • New Iberia
  • Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
  • John Henry
  • Salty Dog - @YouTube
  • National Defense Blues
  • Easy, Mr. Tom
  • Relax Your Mind
  • Bottle Up And Go - @YouTube
  • Polly Wolly Wee
  • Pig Latin Song (2nd Version)
  • Hawaiian Song
  • Drinkin' Lum Y A Alla
  • The Grey Goose
  • Silver City Bound
  • The Titanic - @YouTube
  • Death Letter Blues
  • Mary Don't You Weep
  • He Never Said A Mumbling Word
  • Midnight Special
  • Boll Weevil Song
  • Careless Love - @YouTube
  • 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
November 5, 1948, New York City, New York
  • Rock Island Line
  • Backwater Blues - @YouTube
  • 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 - @YouTube
  • Sugared The Beer
  • Didn't Old John Cross The Water - @YouTube
  • 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
November 21, 1948, Minneapolis, Minnesota
February 19, 1949, New York
June 15, 1949, University Of Texas, Austin, Texas
  • Irene Goodnight
  • Two Hollers: (a) Ho-Day/(b) Ain't Goin' Down To The Well No More
  • Rock Island Line
  • Old Hannah
  • Shine On Me
  • What Can I Do To Change Your Mind
  • Skip To My Lou
  • Mary And Martha
  • Scrambled Egg Song
  • Whoa Buck
  • John Henry
  • Backwater Blues
  • Ella Louise
  • I Don't Want No More Of Army Life
  • Relax Your Mind
  • Irene Goodnight
  • Old Ship Of Zion
  • I Will Be So Glad When I Get Home