Leadbelly - Huddie Ledbetter's Best... His Guitar - His Voice - His Piano album flac
Performer: LeadbellyTitle: Huddie Ledbetter's Best... His Guitar - His Voice - His Piano
Style: Delta Blues
Country: US
MP3 album: 1928 mb
FLAC album: 1974 mb
Rating: 4.7
Other formats: AHX VOC XM AA MP2 TTA MMF
Genre: Blues
Beat Goes On Records then released Huddie Ledbetter's Best in 1998 with an upgraded transfer (slightly richer and louder) and new annotation.
Guitar – Leadbelly (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to A6, B1, B2, B4 to B6). Piano – Leadbelly (tracks: A3, B3). Producer – Dave Dexter, J. Lee Gillette. Huddie Ledbetter's Best (LP, Comp, Club).
Huddie Ledbetter's Best. His Guitar, His Voice, His Piano.
Complete your Leadbelly collection.
Huddie Ledbetter's Best (LP) Leadbelly. The Smithsonian Folkways Collection (CD) Leadbelly. WNYC Radio New York 12th December 1940 (CD) Leadbelly. Selected Sides 1934-1948 Vol. 2 (CD) Leadbelly. Town Hall Concert Plus (LP) Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra. Yeah!!! (LP) Aretha Franklin.
His Guitar, His Voice, His Piano was Leadbelly's last recording session for a commercial label, held in the early Fall of 1944, yielding a dazzling 12 songs, embracing virtuosic guitar blues ("Grasshoppers In My Pillow"), pounding piano-driven scatting ("The Eagle Rocks"), with Leadbelly himself at the ivories, a talent for standards done with the understated accompaniment of a zither (courtesy of. Paul Mason Howard) as well as his own guitar. Sings Folk Songs are '40s Folkways recordings with Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston and Sonny Terry.
Huddie William Ledbetter (/ˈhjuːdi/; January 20, 1888 – December 6, 1949) better known as stage name Lead Belly was an American folk and blues singer, musician and songwriter notable for his strong vocals, virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the folk standards he introduced.
Tracklist
| A1 | Irene | 2:55 |
| A2 | Grasshoppers In My Pillow | 2:40 |
| A3 | The Eagle Rocks | 2:45 |
| A4 | Rock Island Line | 2:53 |
| A5 | Ella Speed | 2:39 |
| A6 | Backwater Blues | 2:56 |
| B1 | Take This Hammer | 2:52 |
| B2 | Tell Me, Baby | 2:53 |
| B3 | Eagle Rock Rag | 2:44 |
| B4 | Western Plain | 2:38 |
| B5 | Sweet Mary Blues | 2:54 |
| B6 | On A Christmas Day | 2:48 |
Credits
- Arranged By – Leadbelly
- Producer – Dave Dexter, Jr., Lee Gillette
- Twelve-String Guitar – Leadbelly
- Written-By – Traditional
- Zither – Paul Mason Howard (tracks: A1, A4 to A6, B1, B2, B4, B6)
Notes
In 1962 Mono was released T 1821. - The DT 1821 stereo 70'S Pressing on green, Rainbow and orange label.Orange Label
Printed on rear sleeve: The original monophonic recordings have been electronically enhanced for today's stereo phonographs.
A1 on Sleeve is listed as Goodnight, Irene.
Recorded 1944 in Hollywood
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Side A label): DT 1-1821
- Matrix / Runout (Side B label): DT 2-1821
- Matrix / Runout (Side A etched): DT-1-1821-H-3
- Matrix / Runout (Side B etched): DT-2-1821-H-3
Other versions
| Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T 1821 | Leadbelly | Huddie Ledbetter's Best... His Guitar - His Voice - His Piano (LP, Comp, Mono) | Capitol Records | T 1821 | US | 1962 |
| S-5028 | Leadbelly | Huddie Ledbetter's Best (LP, Comp, Club, RE) | World Record Club | S-5028 | Australia | 1972 |
| SM-1821 | Leadbelly | Huddie Ledbetter's Best... His Guitar - His Voice - His Piano (LP, Comp) | Capitol Records | SM-1821 | US | Unknown |
| T 1821, BGOCD403 | Leadbelly | Huddie Ledbetter's Best... His Guitar - His Voice - His Piano (CD, Album, RE) | Capitol Records, BGO Records | T 1821, BGOCD403 | UK | 1998 |
| T 1821, T-1821 | Leadbelly | Huddie Ledbetter's Best... His Guitar - His Voice - His Piano (LP, Comp, Mono) | Capitol Records, Capitol Records | T 1821, T-1821 | Canada | 1962 |







