Volume Five

Leadbelly - Take This Hammer

In 1940 folklorist Alan Lomax persuaded an RCA executive to record Leadbelly in a conceptualized album. It was titled The Midnight Special and Southern Prison Songs. The music recorded became standards played by The Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Rolling Stones, Kinks, Van Morrison, and many others. Leadbelly's music is now part of the collective unconscious of popular music.

Track Listing:

1. Pick A Bale of Cotton
2. Red Cross Store Blues
3. Sail On Little Girl, Sail On
4. Roberta
5. Alberta
6. I'm on My Last Go Round
7. Grey Goose
8. Didn't Ol' John Cross the Water
9. Stewball
10. Take This Hammer
11. Can't You Line 'Em
12. Alabama Bound
13. Julianne Johnson
14. Ham an' Eggs
15. Easy Rider
16. New York City
17. Worried Blues
18. Don't You Love Your Daddy No More
19. You Can't Lose-a-Me Cholly
20. Yellow Gal
21. The Midnight Special
22. Rock Island Line
23. Whoa Back, Buck
24. Good Morning Blues
25. Leavin' Blues
26. TB Blues