| Details | | Distributor: | Infinity Entertainment Gr | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | DDD |
Album Notes Includes liner notes by Les Fancourt. The 20 tracks on GOOD MORNING BLUES mostly date from the relatively early days of Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter's professional career, after the mid-'30s Library of Congress recordings that made his name. Though he's been primarily thought of as a blues player, Leadbelly from the beginning fused acoustic Delta blues with traditional folk music, jazz, and then-current pop, creating something entirely unique in the process. Besides the well-known title track, GOOD MORNING BLUES features such Leadbelly standouts as his hit "Goodnight Irene," the trad-folk "Gallis Pole," the guitar showcase "Rock Island Line," and the pointedly political anti-racist "Bourgeois Blues." There are many multi-volume Leadbelly retrospectives, but for a good one-disc introduction to one of the 20th century's most unique artists, GOOD MORNING BLUES is tough to beat.
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