Leadbelly - Take This Hammer
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Artist: LeadbellyEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-05-06
Music Label: Sony/Bmg Int'l
Product features:
- Leadbelly - Take This Hammer - The Complete Rca Victor
- Pick A Bale Of Cotton
- Alabama Bound
- Yellow Gal
- Midnight Special
- Rock Island Line
- Whoa Back, Buck
- Good Morning Blues
- Leavin' Blues
- TB Blues
- Red Cross Store Blues
- Sail On Little Girl, Sail On
- Roberta
- Alberta
- I'm On My Last Go Round
- Grey Goose
- Didn't Ol' John Cross The Water
- Stewball
- Take This Hammer
- Can't You Line 'Em
- Julianne Johnson
- Ham An' Eggs
- Easy Rider
- New York City
- Worried Blues
- Don't You Love Your Daddy No More
- You Can't Lose-A-Me Cholly
Music reviews of Take This Hammer
Music Review: ****1/2 - a great collection of Ledbetter's Victor sides
Rating: 5 Stars
Hudy (or "Huddie") Ledbetter was a songster, a folk singer, a blues singer and a gospel singer, and "Take This Hammer" is an excellent compilation of Leadbelly's 1940 Victor recordings, showing his versatility and the power of his huge, resonant baritone.
On half of these 26 tracks, Leadbelly is joined by The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet (a vocal ensemble); the rest are solo performances. The sound is exceptionally good for 64-year-old recordings, and while "Take This Hammer" is not an exhaustive career overview, it does include many of Huddie Ledbetter's best and best-known songs, including "Pick A Bale Of Cotton", "Alberta", "Yellow Gal", "Alabama Bound", "Rock Island Line", "The Midnight Special", "TB Blues", and the title track. The presence of The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet on tracks 1-6 and 15-21 lends a new dimension to Leadbelly's songs, adding texture and depth to them without robbing songs like "Can't You Line 'Em" and "Whoa Buck, Back" of any of their power. These sides have inspired artists from Muddy Waters to Aerosmith (!), and they are also some of the most accessible Hudy Ledbetter ever recorded.
Originally released in 1965 on Smithsonia Folkways, these wonderful recordings are an essential part of Hudy William Ledbetter's recorded legacy.
Highly recommended.
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