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I cannot find a single CD to buy. According to allmusic, he doesn't really even have any LPs, just a bunch of collections... and Im not sure which ones are good...
Help plz.
― David Allen, Tuesday, 18 March 2003 18:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 18:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 19:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
The new box on JSP sounds much better.
My favorite Lead Belly (note word space, this is he and his wife' preferred spelling): (1) the informal living room sessions (complete with Lead Belly chatting away between songs) compiled on Lead Belly's Last Sessions (2) Lead Belly Sings for Children, the first thing Moe Asch ever released I believe, in 1941.
But the Catfish thing has most of what you need from the commercial recordings (and I believe some of the Moe Asch stuff as well.)
He's a major figure. His biography (by Kip Lornell and Charles Wolfe I think) is very good.
― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 19:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 19:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 20:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― steve k (http://go.to/stevek) (stevek10), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 01:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
I have a Columbia CD, inherited from my stepfather, simply entitled 'Leadbelly'. It's probably out of print but worth tracking down. The catalogue no. is CK 30035.
― moley, Sunday, 23 September 2007 07:30 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.folkways.si.edu/leadbelly
Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, the first career-spanning box set dedicated to the American music icon, will be released on February 24, 2015.Preorder the 5 CD, 140-page, large-format book at a special price and receive an instant digital album download. An exclusive poster and t-shirt package is also available.
Preorder the 5 CD, 140-page, large-format book at a special price and receive an instant digital album download. An exclusive poster and t-shirt package is also available.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
i can't tell how much of this has been released on Smithsonian Folkways's earlier Lead Belly CDs.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link