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Leadbelly Vol 5 1944 - 1946 £7.49

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Leadbelly

TRACK LIST

01 - Sweet Mary blues 02 - Grasshoppers in my pillow 03 - Irene, goodnight 04 - John Henry 05 - Boll weevil 06 - When a man`s a long way from home 07 - Good morning blues 08 - By and by when the morning comes 09 - Medley: a) Everytime I feel the spirit b) Swing low sweet chariot c) They hung him on the cross 10 - Swing low sweet chariot 11 - Rock Island line 12 - Julie Ann Johnson 13 - Haul away joechristmas is coming 14 - We`re in the same boat brother 15 - Diggin` my potatoes 16 - Defense blues 17 - Easy rider 18 - Pigmeat 19 - John Henry 20 - Alabama bound 21 - Ham and eggs 22 - Yellow gal 23 - Stew ball 24 - Gray goose 25 - Midnight special 26 - Green corn 27 - Fiddler`s dram note: continued on docd-5568.

When Leadbelly returned from his year long stay in California he was a frustrated and disappointed man. He had hoped to break into films while he was there, but Hollywood had a hard enough time accepting the likes of Lena Horne and Paul Robeson to begin contending with a two time murderer. The recordings that Leadbelly had done for Capitol had been good from an aesthetic stand point but the mainstream record buying public were some years away from appreciating his roughly hewn musical abilities. The 2 blues tracks ("Sweet Mary and "Grasshoppers In My Pillow") that open this Leadbelly CD are from the Capitol session. Whilst in San Francisco Leadbelly recorded a live radio session for the Standard School Broadcast with children. Leadbelly had an often overlooked affinity with children and demonstrated this with a change of the lyrics to "Irene Goodnight", altering the line "...if Irene turns her back on me, i'm gonna take Morphine and die" to "...i'm gonna run away and fly". Throughout the show he explained the differences between the types of songs in his repertoire.
When Leadbelly returned to New York he recorded a further series of titles for Moe Asch. In these sessions he teamed up with Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Willie 'The Lion' Smith, George 'Pops' Foster recording the tracks such as "Diggin' My Potatoes", "Easy Rider" and John Henry". In another session Leadbelly was accompanied by Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston.
Leadbelly had finally found a niche with the urban folk set but remained an underground phenomenon for the few remaining years of his life.