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This swell collection contains some of the better known songs of Huddie 'Leadbelly' Ledbetter - who was discovered in the Louisiana State Penitentiary by the father and son team of musical historians John and Alan Lomax in the 1930s. Featured here are the well known songs Good Night Irene, Bourgeois Blues, and the Boll Weevil Song, plus Gallis Pole, which was remade as Gallows Pole by Led Zeppelin on Led Zeppelin III, and Leadbelly's version of Black Betty.
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1. Bourgeois Blues 2. Look, Looky Yonder/Black Betty 3. Poor Howard/Green Corn 4. Gallis Pole 5. Noted Rider 6. Big Fat Woman 7. Borrow Love and Go 8. Bring Me Li'l Water Silvy 9. Julie Ann Johnson 10. Line 'Em 11. Whoa Back Buck 12. John Hardy 13. In New Orleans (House of the Rising Sun) 14. Goodnight Irene 15. Where Did You Sleep Last Night 16. How Long 17. Yellow Gal 18. On a Monday 19. Blue Tail Fly 20. Boll Weevil Song
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