- Release date
- 1954
- Recording date
- 1948
- Label
- Folkways
- Catalog number
- FP 241
- Format
- Double 12" LP
- Comments
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Leadbelly's Last Sessions is a ninety-four track, quadruple LP set of Fall 1948 recordings that was split out into two 1954 releases. This release, Volume One, contains fifty-two tracks. Leadbelly's Last Sessions [Volume Two] contains the remaining forty-two tracks. In 1994, all of the recordings were reissued again with two more 1948 recordings on a ninety-six track, quadruple CD release, Lead Belly's Last Sessions [1994 Box Set].
Tracks 1-34 recorded September 27, 1948
Tracks 35-52 recorded October 15, 1948
Tracks
Title | Performer | Written by | Info | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blue Tail Fly | Leadbelly | [Traditional] | Originally by Burl Ives | ||
Dancing with Tears in My Eyes | Leadbelly | Al Dubin, Joe Burke [US] | Originally by Regent Club Orchestra [Bob Haring] | ||
Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep | Leadbelly | [Traditional] | Originally by Fisk University Male Quartette | ||
Relax Your Mind | Leadbelly | Leadbelly | Covered by (5 artists) | ||
Silver City Bound | Leadbelly | Alan Lomax, Leadbelly | Covered by (14 artists) | ||
The Titanic | Leadbelly | Leadbelly | Covered by (3 artists) |