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1	Where Did You Sleep Last Night: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 1 (1996) more music like this by Leadbelly The bulk of the best performances by Leadbelly -- whose influence on the folk revival of the 1950s and '60s cannot be overstated -- were recorded during the 1940s for Folkways Records founder Moses Asch. Inferior copies and rerecordings of these tunes have appeared over the years, but the original masters have sat in the vaults of Folkways. The ... see all copies from $13.22! new only from $15.28!
2	Best of Lead Belly (2000) more music like this by Leadbelly see all copies from $7.13! new only from $7.13!
3	Sings for Children (1999) more music like this by Leadbelly A dozen of these 28 songs were first issued on the 1960 Folkways album Negro Folk Songs for Young People. But this is not so much a CD expansion of that album as a lengthy compilation of children-friendly performances from the 1940s that uses Negro Folk Songs for Young People as its core. The additional tracks were recorded by Moe Asch of Folkways ... see all copies from $9.78! new only from $15.28!
4	The Complete Folkways Recordings (1958) (1958) more music like this by Joseph Spence These recordings of Joseph Spence, made by Samuel Charters in 1958, display one of the most inventive guitar styles ever put to tape. Spence improvised on traditional tunes in a manner comparable to African-Americans Elizabeth Cotten and Mississippi Fred McDowell, like them adding rhythmic and melodic accents and changes in unexpected ways. In ... see all copies from $10.99! new only from $14.78!
5	Absolutely the Best (2000) more music like this by Leadbelly Leadbelly stands like a cornerstone in modern folk music. He showed that folk songs didn't have to be 300 years old and originate from the British Isles; instead they could be born out of American experience. Absolutely the Best offers a number of Leadbelly classics including "Roberta," "Midnight Special," and "In New Orleans (House of the Rising ... see all copies from $8.04! new only from $8.96!
6	The Spring of Sixty-Five (1992) more music like this by Joseph Spence & The Pinder Family These recordings come from two separate occasions. Six tracks were recorded in New York City during Joseph Spence's first tour of the U.S., and prominently feature Spence's guitar and vocals, with harmonies and occasional lead vocals from his sister Edith Pinder. The other seven selections were recorded at the same sessions that yielded the ... see all copies from $12.12! new only from $15.29!
7	Bourgeois Blues: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 2 (1997) more music like this by Leadbelly Vol. 2 in a three-volume series of the recordings Leadbelly made for Folkways founder Moses Asch is as indispensable as the first. The 28 songs have been beautifully remastered, and the liner notes -- including a 1946 tribute by Woody Guthrie -- are extensive and revealing. This second CD focuses mostly on best-available versions of songs that ... see all copies from $13.08! new only from $14.78!
8	Louie Bluie [Bonus Tracks] (1985) more music like this by Howard Armstrong The soundtrack to the Louie Bluie film has Louis Armstrong in informal settings with various musicians, including Ted Bogan, Ikey Robinson, Yank Rachell, and Tom Armstrong. The selection of material gives a good indication of the breadth of the songster's repertoire, with ragtime, songs in German and Polish, blues, and a bawdy version of "Darktown ... see all copies from $12.17! new only from $15.30!
9	Shout On: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 3 (1998) more music like this by Leadbelly Although the original Leadbelly LP bearing this name (Folkways 31030) was drawn from October 1948 sessions, the CD reissue adds 17 tracks, some recorded as early as 1941, and so should be now considered an anthology of 1940s work. This does not rate among the best Leadbelly collections: due to illness, his guitar skills had diminished by the 1948 ... see all copies from $13.22! new only from $14.78!
10	Giants of the Folk Tradition, Vol. 1 (1998) more music like this by Various Artists Giants of the Folk Tradition is a budget box set that includes complete albums by Leadbelly (In the Shadow of the Gallows Pole), Woody Guthrie (Early Masters), and Odetta (At the Gate of Horn), all of which have been released in single-disc versions by Tradition Records. The three albums actually work kind of well together, and it is interesting ... see all copies from $16.70! new only from $17.41!
11 view cover	Peter Was a Fisherman: The 1939 Trinidad Field Recordings of Melville andFrancis Hersko (1998) more music like this by Various Artists This 34-track CD, culled from 352 songs recorded by the Herkovitzes (mostly in the village of Toco), is the first volume of a projected series drawn from their collection, which has previously only been available to scholars. Although the singers were recorded in extremely basic circumstances -- there's usually nothing but vocals, claps, and maybe ... see all copies from $12.12! new only from $15.29!
12 view cover	Josh at Midnight/Ballads and Blues (2002) more music like this by Josh White Elektra Records' president, Jac Holzman, was usually one step ahead of the competition. In the early '50s, way before the Kingston Trio kicked off the folk revival with "Tom Dooley," he recorded Bob Gibson and Theodore Bikel. He also recorded folk-blues artists like Josh White. Josh at Midnight/Ballads and Blues were recorded in 1956 and 1957, ... see all copies from $11.66! new only from $11.66!
13 view cover	King of the 12-String Guitar (1991) more music like this by Leadbelly Although Huddie Ledbetter had recorded for the Library of Congress while still in jail in 1933, King of the 12-String Guitar contains some of the music from his earliest commercial recording date, only five months after getting out of prison for the second (and final) time. The majority of the material (other than the first four numbers) consists ... see all copies from $16.24! new only from $88.45!
14 view cover	Heroes of the Blues: The Very Best of Furry Lewis (2003) more music like this by Furry Lewis Furry Lewis recorded several strikingly intimate 78s in the 1920s and 1930s and when he was rediscovered by blues scholar Sam Charters in the 1960s, he proved adept at entertaining his new audiences, even garnering an appearance on The Tonight Show. This collection opens with three of those old 78s before switching over to his 1960s recordings, ... see all copies from $4.99!
15 view cover	Happy All the Time (1964) more music like this by Joseph Spence Waxed for Elektra in 1964, this has better sound than the Folkways recordings and offers some of Spence's most percussive playing. Mark A. Humphrey, All Music Guide see all copies from $6.10! new only from $13.96!
16 view cover	Private Party November 21, 1948 (2000) more music like this by Leadbelly Along with the New York sessions encompassed on Leadbelly's Last Sessions and the surviving tape of the final show he ever played (in Texas in 1949), the tape of this performance -- made at a private party in Minneapolis November 21, 1948 -- constitutes a big chunk of Leadbelly's late-career output, and it is distinct from the others. In contrast ... see all copies from $11.59! new only from $18.07!
17 view cover	Chain Gang Songs (1958) more music like this by Josh White see all copies from $8.03! new only from $8.03!
18 view cover	Goodnight Irene [Tradition] (1996) more music like this by Leadbelly The date of these recordings is unclear, and the sleeve is not of much help. The liner notes identify them as being taped in 1943 and 1944, while the back cover confidently refers to a 1939 date [though it seems much more likely that they were made in the 1940s]. At any rate, these are very good performances, with Leadbelly in fine voice. Most are ... see all copies from $3.86! new only from $4.94!
19 view cover	Gwine Dig a Hole to Put the Devil In (1991) more music like this by Leadbelly Gwine Dig a Hole to Put the Devil In is an excellent sampling of material from Leadbelly's early Library of Congress sessions, including versions of some of the first songs he ever learned, "Green Corn" and "Po' Howard," his song to Governor Neff that helped secure his release from a Texas prison in 1925, his first recorded version of "If It Wasn ... see all copies from $9.99! new only from $15.85!
20 view cover	Leadbelly's Last Sessions (1994) more music like this by Leadbelly Four CDs containing the best part of Leadbelly's only recordings on magnetic recording tape, which allowed him to stretch his songs to their usual length for the first time on record. The clarity of the recording, the presence of the between-song comments, and the selection of material makes this a seminal part of any serious collection. Bruce ... see all copies from $21.99! new only from $43.86!
21 view cover	In Tribute to Josh White: House of Rising Son (1999) more music like this by Josh White Jr. All things considered, it's somewhat surprising that Josh White, Jr. hadn't recorded a full-fledged tribute album for his father earlier, but however long overdue the collection is, it more than makes up for the delay with the quality of the collection. Creating a truly fitting tribute, he displays the wonderfully rich guitar playing and singing ... see all copies from $3.70! new only from $9.05!
22 view cover	Fourth & Beale [Bonus Tracks] (2006) more music like this by Furry Lewis Fourth and Beale is a remarkably intimate session, recorded at Furry Lewis' rooming house in Memphis on March 5, 1969 with Lewis (he was approaching 80-years-old at the time) playing guitar and singing while propped up in bed. The sound is excellent (Terry Manning taped the session), literally placing the listener right at the foot of Lewis' bed. ... see all copies from $11.04! new only from $12.48!
23 view cover	The Singing Drifter (2005) more music like this by Blind Arvella Gray Blind Arvella Gray's real or imagined life story is, in some respects, a more complete creative statement than the actual music he made. Born Walter Dixon in Texas in 1906, he lost his eyesight and two fingers on his left hand due to a shotgun mishap (Gray's account of the incident involved several different plot possibilities), and he turned to ... see all copies from $9.41! new only from $11.13!
24 view cover	The Definitive Leadbelly (2002) more music like this by Leadbelly Although he has often been labeled a blues artist, Leadbelly had a much wider palette than that, and routinely sang spirituals, work songs, folk ballads, and children's pieces, and he had an amazing affinity for material that would later find its way into the pop world. Songs like "Goodnight Irene," "Midnight Special," "Gallows Pole," "Rock Island ... see all copies from $12.30! new only from $20.65!
25 view cover	The Devil Can't Hide from Me (2004) more music like this by Blind Willie McTell John A. Lomax was on one of his field trips for the Library of Congress Folk Music Archives when he encountered Blind Willie McTell on the streets of Atlanta in 1940. He took the itinerant musician back to his hotel room and recorded the material that is found on this disc. From the opening track, it is obvious that McTell was in peak form, his 12 ... see all copies from $9.71! new only from $11.38!

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