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The sessions include rare field hollers, prison work songs, and pre-blues narrative ballads that detail the harsh realities of Jim Crow-era America.
If you want the "Proper Guide" to the history behind the songs, look for the book by Charles Wolfe and Kip Lornell. It serves as the perfect companion to the Library of Congress sessions. This link or copies made by others cannot be deleted
You can search the "American Folklife Center" directly for Lead Belly’s field sessions.
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The Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection (2015) offers extensively remastered tracks that are superior to most fan-uploaded torrents. 4. Key Recordings to Look For
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: Many of the tracks recorded, such as "Pick a Bale of Cotton" and "Go Down Old Hannah," were work songs from the Jim Crow South that the Lomaxes feared would vanish with the advent of the radio.