Alabama Bound - Leadbelly

Biography

Born: January 20, 1888 in Mooringsport, LA

Genre: Blues

Years Active: '10s, '20s, '30s, '40s

Huddie Ledbetter, known for the reason that Leadbelly, was a unique figure in the American superior music of the 20th century. Ultimately, he was greatest part good remembered for a body of songs that he discovered, adapted, or wrote, including "Goodnight, Irene," "Rock Island Line," "The Midnight Special," and "Cotton Fields." But he was else an early example of a folksinger whose background had brought him into projection contact with the oral tradition ~ dint of. what one. folk music was handed into disgrace, a tradition that, by the presently years of...

Track list

Midnight Special
John Hardy
Where Did You Sleep Last Night
T.B. Blues
Easy Rider
Alberta
Rock Island Line
Alabama Bound
You Can't Loose-A Me Cholly
New York City
Roberta
Leaving Blues
When The Boys Were Out On The Western Plains
I'm On My Last Go Round
Mother's Blues (Little Children Blues)
Pretty Flowers In My Back Yard
Pick A Bale O'Cotton
Sail On Little Girl
Fannin Street
Packing Trunk Blues
The Bourgeois Blues
The Boll Weevil
Goodnight Irene
Good Mornig Blues
The Best of Leadbelly
The Best of Leadbelly
The Library of Congress Recordings: Leadbelly - Midnight Special, Vol. 1
The Library of Congress Recordings: Leadbelly - Gwine Dig a Hole to Put the Devil In, Vol. 2
Folkways: A Vision Revisited
The Best of Leadbelly
Leadbelly, Vol. 6 (1947)
The Best of Leadbelly
Take This Hammer - The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (Remastered)
The Best of Leadbelly