SORM Playlist #15-08: Legacy of Leadbelly
(airing the week starting 2-18-15)
Smithsonian Folkways is releasing a massive 5CD collection of the music of Leadbelly on February 24th. On this week’s edition we will listen to some of the songs on that great collection. We’ll also hear some classic renditions of Leadbelly songs by a variety of folk musicians past and present.
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Artist / “Title” / CD / Label
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of Hope And Struggle /
Smithsonian-Folkways
Jesse Bradley and group at State Penitentiary Huntsville, TX /
“Hammer, Ring” / Negro Work Songs and Calls / Rounder
Leadbelly with Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston / “Alabama Bound” /
The Smithsonaian Folkways Collection / Smithsonian Folkways
The Weavers / “Goodnight Irene” / Wasn’t That a Time / Vanguard
Harry Belafonte / “Midnight Special” / The Midnight Special /
Wounded Bird
Leadbelly / “Live on WNYC Folk Songs of America” 1941 / The
Smithsonian Folkways Collection Smithsonian Folkways
Prisoners at Cummins State Farm Gould, Ark / “Rock Island Line” /
Negro Work Songs and Calls Rounder
Ry Cooder / “On a Monday” / Into the Purple Valley / Reprise
Odetta / “Cotton Fields” / One Grain of Sand / Vanguard
Van Morrison, Lonnie Donegan & Chris Barber with Dr. John /
“Good Morning Blues” / The Skiffle Sessions / Pointblank
Catfish Keith / “Big Fat Woman” / If I Could Holler / Fish Tail
The Byrds / “Take A Whiff on Me” / Untitled / Columbia
Long John Baldry / “Gallows Pole” / Remembering Leadbelly /
Stony Plain
Leadbelly with Bessie Smith / “Nobody Know You When You’re
Down and Out” (excerpt) / The Smithsonian Folkways Collection / Smithsonian Folkways
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
Smithsonian-Folkways