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。
Recordings
- July 16-20, 1933, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana
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- 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
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- 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
- 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
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- Mr. Tom Hughes' Town
- Julie Ann Johnson
- circa September 29, 1934, State Farm, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
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- Julie Ann Johnson
- circa October 5, 1934, Gould, Arkansas
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- Julie Ann Johnson
- circa October 5, 1934, Shreveport, Louisiana
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- Boll Weevil
- December 12, 1934, Bellwood Prison Camp, Atlanta, Georgia
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- The Shreveport Jail
- Julie Ann Johnson
- Dance Calls
- January 20, 1935, Wilton, Connecticut
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- Don't You Love Me No More
- Henry Ford Blues
- January 21, 1935, Wilton, Connecticut
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- Irene
- Irene
- Julie Ann Johnson
- January 23, 1935, New York City, New York
- January 24, 1935, New York City, New York
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- Baby, Don't You Love Me No More?
- Ox Drivin' Blues
- Death Letter Blues - Part 1
- Death Letter Blues - Part 1
- Death Letter Blues - Part 2
- Death Letter Blues - Part 2
- Kansas City Papa
- Kansas City Papa
- Red River Blues
- Fort Worth And Dallas Blues
- You Don't Know My Mind
- February 1, 1935, Wilton, Connecticut
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- Take A Whiff On Me
- February 5, 1935, New York City, New York
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- Daddy I'm Coming Back To You
- Daddy I'm Coming Back To You
- My Friend Blind Lemon
- Mr. Tom Hughes' Town
- Shorty George
- Shorty George
- Matchbox Blues
- February 1935, Wilton, Connecticut
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- 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
- 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
- The Maid Freed From The Gallows
- Po' Howard
- Alberta Blues
- Fo' Day Worry Blues
- Hesitation Blues
- Take Me Back
- Matchbox Blues
- 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
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- Blues I Got Make A New-Born Baby Cry
- Ho Day
- One Dollar Bill Baby
- March 1935, Wilton, Connecticut
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- 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
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- Yellow Jacket
- T.B. Woman Blues
- Pig Meat Papa
- Pig Meat Papa
- Bull Cow
- My Baby Quit Me
- June 22, 1937, Washington, D.C.
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Fannin Street
- Frankie And Albert - First Half
- Frankie And Albert - Completion
- De Kalb Blues
- Looky Looky Yonder; Black Betty; Yallow Women's Door Bells
- The Bourgeois Blues
- 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
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- Pick a Bale of Cotton (Leadbelly With Golden Gate Quartet)
- Yellow Gal (Leadbelly With Golden Gate Quartet)
- Whoa Back Buck (Leadbelly With Golden Gate Quartet)
- The Midnight Special (Leadbelly With Golden Gate Quartet)
- Alabama Bound (Leadbelly With Golden Gate Quartet)
- Rock Island Line (Leadbelly With Golden Gate Quartet)
- Good Morning Blues
- Leavin' Blues
- T.B. Blues
- The Red Cross Store Blues
- Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On
- Roberta
- Alberta
- I'm On My Last Go-round
- June 17, 1940, New York City, New York
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- Easy Rider
- New York City
- Worried Blues
- Don't You Love Your Daddy No More?
- You Can't Lose-A Me Cholly
- Gray Goose (take 1) (Leadbelly With Golden Gate Quartet)
- Gray Goose (take 2) (Leadbelly With Golden Gate Quartet)
- Didn't Ol' John Cross The Water? (Leadbelly With Golden Gate Quartet)
- Stewball (Leadbelly With Golden Gate Quartet)
- Take This Hammer (Leadbelly With Golden Gate Quartet)
- Can't Your Line 'Em? (Leadbelly With Golden Gate Quartet)
- Julianne Johnson (Leadbelly With Golden Gate Quartet)
- Ham an' Eggs (Leadbelly With Golden Gate Quartet)
- June 19, 1940, New York City, New York
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- 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
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- Don't You Love Your Daddy No More
- August 23, 1940, Washington, D.C.
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- 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
- So Doggone Soon
- Ham And Eggs
- Bottle Up And Go (fragment)
- late May 1941, New York City, New York
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- Ha Ha Thisaway
- Little Sally Walker
- Redbird
- Christmas Song
- The Cotton Picking Song
- Parting Song
- July 1941, New York City, New York
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- Skip To My Lou
- You Can't Lose Me Cholly
- January 1942, New York City, New York
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- Take This Hammer
- Haul Away, Joe
- Rock Island Line
- Ol' Riley
- Corn Bread Rough
- Old Man
- May 1942, Washington D.C.
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- T.B. Blues
- January 3, 1943, New York
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- Bring Me Lil Water Silvy (Bring A Little Water Sylvie)
- August 1943, New York City, New York
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- On A Monday
- John Henry
- John Henry (alternate take)
- How Long (Blues) (How Long, How Long)
- (Good Night) Irene
- (Good Night) Irene
- Ain't You Glad
- Ain't You Glad (alternate take)
- Good Morning Blues
- circa October 1943, New York City, New York
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- Cow Cow Yicky Yea/Out On The Western Plains
- Noted Rider/Big Fat Woman/Borrow Love And Go
- John Hardy
- Meeting At The Building/Talking Preaching/We Shall Walk Through The Valley
- Fiddlers Dream/Yallow Gal/Green Corn
- Bring Me Lil Water Silvy/Julia Ann Johnson/Line 'Em/Whoa Back Buck
- Play With Your Poodle
- Big Fat Woman
- probably late 1943, New York City, New York
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- 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
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- I've A Pretty Flower (Leadbelly with Josh White)
- Don't Lie Buddy (Josh White with Leadbelly)
- April 23, 1944, New York City, New York
- April 25, 1944, New York City, New York
- circa May 1944, New York City, New York
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- In The Evenin' When The Sun Goes Down
- Easy Rider (See See Rider)
- We Shall Be Free
- Keep Your Hands Off Her
- May 1944, New York City, New York
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- There's A Man Going Round Taking Names
- Red Bird
- Line 'Em (Lining Track)
- T.B. Blues
- Jim Crow Blues
- Bourgeois Blues
- Army Life
- Mr. Hitler (Hitler Song)
- Juliana Johnson
- Jean Harlow
- Corn Bread Rough
- National Defense Blues
- Children's Blues (Little Children's Blues
- The Blood Done Sign Your Name (Ain't You Glad)
- circa July 1944, New York City, New York
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- Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yea
- 1944?
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- Red River/Black Girl (In The Pines)/You Don't Miss Your Water Blues
- Haul Away Joe
- Duncan And Brady
- Let It Shine On Me - @YouTube
- New Orleans (The Rising Sun Blues)
- In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down
- Midnight Special
- Abraham Lincoln
- John Hardy
- Field Holler
- You Can't Mistreat Me
- October 4, 1944, Los Angeles, California
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- Ella Speed
- Rock Island Line
- Tell Me Baby
- Take This Hammer
- October 11, 1944, Los Angeles, California
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- Irene (Goodnight Irene)
- Western Plain
- On A Christmas Day
- Backwater Blues
- October 27, 1944, Los Angeles, California
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- Eagle Rock
- Eagle Rock Rag
- Eagle Rock Rag (The Eagle Rocks)
- Meat Shakin' Woman
- Sweet Mary Blues
- Grasshoppers In My Pillow
- November 6, 1944, Los Angeles, California
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- Rock Island Line
- February 15, 1945, San Francisco, California
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- Irene, Goodnight
- John Henry
- Boll Weevil
- When A Man's A Long Way From Home
- Good Morning Blues
- By And By When The Morning Comes
- Medley: (a) Every Time I Feel The Spirit; (b) Swing Low Sweet Chariot; (c) They Hung Him On The Cross
- Swing Low Sweet Chariot
- Rock Island Line
- Julie Ann Johnson
- Haul Away Joe
- Christmas Is Coming
- We're In The Same Boat Brother
- Take This Hammer
- circa June 1946, New York
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- Pigmeat
- Keep Your Hands Off Her
- Easy Rider
- 4, 5 and 9
- Diggin' My Potatoes
- Defense Blues
- John Henry
- October 1946, New York
- December 9, 1946, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- St. Louis Blues
- Frankie And Albert
- Irene
- Salt Lake City
- We're In The Same Boat, Brother
- 1947, New York
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- Laura
- You Can't Lose Me Cholly
- Gray Goose (Decca Gray Goose)
- Good Morning Blues
- We Shall Walk Through The Valley
- Cotton Song (Cotton Fields)
- Sukey Jump (Win' Jammer)
- Black Girl (In The Pines)
- Blind Lemon (Song)
- Borrow Love And Go
- On A Monday (I'm Almost Done)
- Duncan And Brady
- Old Riley
- Leavin' Blues
- 1947, New York
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- 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
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- Yellow Gal
- Borrow Love And Go
- Eagle Rock Rag
- Good Morning Blues
- circa September 25/October, 1948, New York
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- Gallows Pole
- John Henry
- Pick A Bale Of Cotton
- Go Down, Old Hannah
- Ain't Going Down To The Well No More
- Shout On (Honey I'm All Out And Down)
- It Was Soon One Morning
- Whoa Back Buck
- Birmingham Jail (Down In The Valley)
- Take This Hammer
- It Was Early One Mornin' (Jail House Blues)
- Goin' Back To Mary (If I Had You Governor / Governor Pat Neff)
- Come And Sit Down Beside Me (All Of You)
- Ha, Ha This A Way
- You Can't Lose A Me, Charlie
- Rooster Crows At Midnight (Christmas Day)
- Skip To My Lou
- Parting Song (When You Smile-o)
- circa September, 1948, New York
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- Tell Me Baby What Was Wrong With You
- Noted Rider
- Take A Whiff On Me
- Ox Driving Moan
- We're In The Same Boat, Brother
- September 27, 1948, New York City, New York
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- 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, 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
- 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
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- 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 - @YouTube
- 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 - @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
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- 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
- November 21, 1948, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- The Grey Goose
- Ain't It A Shame
- Stewball
- Bourgeois Blues
- Governor Pat Neff
- Talk About Governor Allen
- A Lesson In History
- Lake Superior
- Mississippi River
- Down In Louisiana
- Goodnight Irene
- Nobody In The World Is Better Than Us
- Jim Crow
- The Gallis Pole
- Samuel Hall
- Jean Harlow
- I Ain't Goin' Down To The Well No More
- He Was The Man
- Mississippi River
- Fannin Street
- Dicky
- Old Black Crow
- Pig Latin Song
- Hawaiian Song
- John Henry
- Goodnight Irene
- February 19, 1949, New York
- June 15, 1949, University Of Texas, Austin, Texas
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- 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