This is the third and final volume of the Lead Belly Legacy Series, which makes available on CD all of the Lead Belly Performances originally recorded for Folkways Records during the 1940s. All three volumes— Shout On, Where Did You Sleep Last Night, and Bourgeois Blues—contain previously unreleased tracks, extensive notes, bibliographies, and discographies. Completely remastered from the best sources in the Smithsonian Folkways collection, Volume 3 includes the original Shout On LP in its entirety along with 17 additional tracks. A number of the songs include accompaniment by Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston. Compiled by Jeff Place; annotated by Jeff Place and Kip Lornell.
1 Shout on
2 Little Children’s Blues
3 Governer Pat Neff
4 Ain’t Going Down to the Well No More
5 Go Down Old Hannah
6 Come and Sit Down Behind Me
7 How Long, How Long
8 Old Man
9 John Henry
10 Jean Harlow
11 Birmingham Jail
12 Don’t Sleep Too Long
13 It Was Early One Morning
14 Uncle Sam Says
15 If You Want to Do Your Part
16 National Defense Blues
17 Whoa Back Buck
18 Ham and Eggs
19 Midnight Special
20 Grey Goose
21 Yellow Gal
22 Green Corn
23 The Parting Song
24 Rooster Crows at Midnight
25 Skip to My Lou
26 Medley: More Yet/Little Boy How Old Are You/Green Grass Growing All Around
27 Medley: What Are Little Boys Made Of/Polly Wee
28 Ha Ha This A-Way
29 You Can’t Lose Me, Cholly
30 It Was Soon One Morning
31 Take This Hammer
32 Pick a Bale of Cotton