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Backwater Blues by Lead Belly • Jukebox

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Backwater Blues

by Lead Belly · from Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

2015Blues3:23Track 17

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Review by DeShawn Price★★★½Sample

vibes immaculate, lyrics occasionally a little 'live laugh love'

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Review by lena★★★★½Sample

i was not emotionally prepared for “Backwater Blues”. nobody warned me. consider yourself warned.

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Disc 1
1
Irene (Goodnight Irene)
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1:53
2
The Bourgeois Blues
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2:18
3
Fannin Street (Mister Tom Hughes Town)
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3:30
4
The Midnight Special
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2:03
5
John Henry
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3:10
6
Black Girl (Where Did You Sleep Last Night)
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2:07
7
Pick a Bale of Cotton
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1:30
8
Take This Hammer
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2:15
9
Cotton Fields
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2:06
10
Old Riley
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1:58
11
Rock Island Line
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2:02
12
The Gallis Pole
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2:45
13
Ha-Ha This a Way
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1:34
14
Sukey Jump
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1:04
15
Boll Weevil
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3:07
16
Scottsboro Boys
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4:32
17
Governor O.K. Allen
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2:37
18
Governor Pat Neff
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3:40
19
There's a Man Going Around Taking Names
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1:24
20
On a Monday
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1:47
21
You Can't Lose Me, Cholly
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2:37
22
Keep Your Hands Off Her
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2:51
23
We Shall Be Free (with Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston)
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2:34
Disc 2
1
Alabama Bound
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2:17
2
Almost Day
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1:05
3
Fiddler's Dram
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2:28
4
Green Corn
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1:15
5
Sally Walker
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2:40
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Bring Me a Little Water, Silvy
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0:48
7
Julie Ann Johnson
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0:41
8
Linin' Track
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1:11
9
Whoa, Back, Buck
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2:09
10
Shorty George
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1:28
11
Ham and Eggs
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1:42
12
Moanin'
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1:00
13
Out on the Western Plains
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1:31
14
Noted Rider
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2:50
15
Meeting at the Building
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0:59
16
Good, Good, Good (Talking, Preaching) / We Shall Walk Through the Valley
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2:11
17
Ain't You Glad (The Blood Done Signed My Name)
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2:19
18
I'm So Glad, I Done Got Over
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1:21
19
The Hindenburg Disaster
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3:22
20
Ella Speed
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5:48
21
Haul Away Joe
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2:48
22
Old Man
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2:35
23
Sweet Jenny Lee
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1:51
24
Jean Harlow
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1:40
25
Laura
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1:41
26
Queen Mary
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4:46
Disc 3
1
Good Morning Blues
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2:23
2
Sail On, Little Girl
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3:14
3
Easy Rider
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2:51
4
Poor Howard
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1:36
5
Duncan and Brady
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4:06
6
How Long, How Long
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2:13
7
T.B. Blues
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3:43
8
Jim Crow Blues
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3:30
9
Pigmeat
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2:33
10
John Hardy
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2:43
11
Outskirts of Town
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2:40
12
4, 5, And 9
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2:20
13
In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)
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3:29
14
Red Cross Store Blues
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3:09
15
Diggin' My Potatoes (I)
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2:34
16
Blind Lemon
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1:39
17
When a Man's a Long Way from Home
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2:57
18
Alberta
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3:11
19
Excerpt from the Lonesome Train
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3:11
20
National Defense Blues
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3:13
21
Hitler Song (Mr. Hitler)
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4:31
22
Big Fat Woman
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1:10
23
Been So Long (Bellevue Hospital Blues)
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2:44
Disc 4
1
Irene (Intro) [WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 1]
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0:54
2
Grey Goose (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 2)
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1:56
3
Boll Weevil (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 3)
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3:20
4
Yellow Gal (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 4)
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1:42
5
Ha-Ha This a Way (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 5)
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2:12
6
Leaving Blues (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 6)
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3:51
7
Irene (outro) (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 7)
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0:47
8
Irene (intro) (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 1)
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0:53
9
Almost Day (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 2)
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0:59
10
Blues in My Kitchen, Blues in My Dining Room (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 3)
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2:36
11
I Went Up on the Mountain (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 4)
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1:42
12
Good Morning Blues (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 5)
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2:31
13
Baby, Don't You Love Me No More (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 6)
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2:51
14
T.B. Blues (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 7)
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2:41
15
Irene (Outro) (WNYC - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 8)
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0:33
16
If It Wasn't for Dicky
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2:19
17
What's You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire (with Anne Graham)
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2:17
18
Rock Me (Hide Me in Thy Bosom) [with Anne Graham]
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2:22
19
Packin' Trunk Blues
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2:40
20
Leaving Blues
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3:02
21
How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
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3:31
22
One Dime Blues
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2:30
23
I'm Going to Buy You a Brand New Ford
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1:43
24
Jail-house Blues
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2:27
25
Shout On
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2:13
26
Come and Sit Down Beside Me
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1:06
27
Red River
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2:13
Disc 5
1
Yes, I Was Standing in the Bottom
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1:41
2
Ain't Going Down to the Well No More
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1:23
3
Everytime I Go Out
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1:25
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Go Down, Old Hannah
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4:58
5
Black Betty
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1:53
6
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (with Bessie Smith)
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3:42
7
Stewball
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2:34
8
Ain't It a Shame to Go Fishin' on a Sunday
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1:22
9
Relax Your Mind
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4:05
10
Princess Elizabeth
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3:33
11
Silver City Bound
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6:01
12
The Titanic
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5:11
13
House of the Rising Sun
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2:24
14
It's Tight Like That
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3:09
15
Diggin' My Potatoes (II)
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3:57
16
Springtime in the Rockies
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3:02
17
Backwater Blues
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3:23
18
Didn't Old John Cross the Water
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1:56
19
De Kalb Blues
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3:51
20
They Hung Him on the Cross (I)
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2:26
21
They Hung Him on the Cross (II)
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2:49
22
In the World
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2:02

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Review by Priya Raman★★★Sample

Not every song lands, but when it does it LANDS. “Backwater Blues” is the keeper.

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Review by Cass Moreno★★★Sample

Solid, but I keep skipping “Backwater Blues”. Sorry Lead Belly.

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Review by Mira Okafor★★★Sample

the highs are high but it sags in the middle. still coming back for “Backwater Blues” though.

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