Audio CD review:
Leadbelly - Memorial, Vols. 3 & 4

Leadbelly - Memorial, Vols. 3 & 4

Band: Leadbelly Title: Memorial, Vols. 3 & 4 Rating: Release Date: 28 February, 1995 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Grey Goose 2: Red Cross Store Blues 3: Ham & Eggs 4: Red River, In The Pines & You Don't Miss Your Water 5: Blind Lemon 6: Lead Belly's Dance 7: In The Evening When the Sun Goes Down 8: Diggin' My Potatoes 9: Alberta 10: The Boll Weevil 11: Ain't Going Down Into The Well No Mo' & Go Down Old Hannah 12: Frankie & Albert 13: Frankie & Albert (Part 2) 14: Fannin Street 15: The Burgeois Blues 16: Looky Looky Yonder & Black Betty & Yellow Woman's Door Bells 17: Poor Howard & Green Corn 18: The Gallis Pole 19: De Kalb Woman

Customer Review 2nd of 2 CDs in Lead Belly Memorial series Taken from expertly reprocessed and cleaned-up 78s, this is a fine selection of Lead Belly guitar/vocal solos, with very acceptable sound. (54') One of Collectables' "Stinson Collectors Series" CD reissues. Also see their companion disk "Lead Belly Memorial Vols. 1 & 2" COL5603 (52'). All these tracks were originally recorded by Moses Asch in his studio, and his pressings went to Stinson Records as a result of Asch's Folkways bankruptcy; however, Asch's masters are now at the Smithsonian, which has produced its own "Lead Belly Legacy" series of CDs. Collectables has also issued another earlier 2-CD series "Leadbelly Golden Classics", Parts 1 and 2. Golden Classics Part 1 "Bourgeois Blues" COL5183 (28') also has very good sound, but all tracks on that CD are entirely duplicated on either "Vols. 1 & 2" or "Vols. 3 & 4" of this "Memorial" series; on Golden Classics Part 2 "Defense Blues" COL5196 (24') four of the ten tracks are duplicated in this "Memorial" series, and six are unique; but the sound quality of the CD is very poor. These 6 unique tracks appear not to be Asch recordings, but I haven't tried to verify this. . You can see a complete list of all Leadbelly discography, or go back to the Leadbelly tabs