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LEDBELLY — Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Volume 6 · 1947 | DOCD-5568 (1997) RM | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

The Austrian reissue label Document Records released the first five volumes of its series of the commercial recordings of Leadbelly in chronological order in 1994, taking the story up to 1946. Three years later comes the sixth volume, covering recordings made in 1947. Except for the final, barely audible live recording of "Eagle Rock Rag" made on September 6, 1947, these tracks were cut for record company owner Moses Asch (soon to found Folkways), with the discographical information incomplete. Most of them are re-recordings of songs Leadbelly recorded for Asch or another label earlier, which may indicate that, at this relatively late point in his career, he had committed most of his repertoire to disc and was repeating himself or, as annotator Ken Romanowski and others have suggested, the singer may have been recutting songs at Asch's behest because Asch had lost control of the masters to the earlier versions when he went bankrupt and he wanted replacements. In any case, the result is that this album presents good versions of many Leadbelly favorites including "Gray Goose," "Pick a Bale of Cotton" (with backup vocals by the Oleander Singers), "Bring Me a Little Water Silvy (Sylvie)" (a duet with Anna Graham), "Irene, Good Night" (actually a copy of the earlier version for Asch, except that it fades out early), "Rock Island Line," and "The Gallis Pole." Among the few newly recorded songs are "Laura" and "Sukey Jump (Win' Jammer)." Also notable is "If It Wasn't for Dicky," the tune of which was borrowed by the Weavers for their song "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine." Although the singer was only two years away from his death due to the paralyzing effects of Lou Gehrig's disease, he shows no evidence of its onset here, performing in his usual enthusiastic manner and even pausing to explain the contexts of his work and gospel songs. The sound quality is generally good, although some tracks have audible surface noise. William Ruhlmann
Tracklist :
1.        Yellow Gal    1:21
2.        You Can't Lose Me Cholly    1:11
3.        Laura    1:38
4.        Good Morning Blues    2:13
5.        Leaving Blues    2:17
6.        Big Fat Woman    1:08
7.        Gray Goose    1:24
8.        Pick A Bale Of Cotton    1:42
9.        Take This Hammer    1:34
10.        Bring Me A Little Water Silvy (Sylvie)    0:57
11.        Moaning    1:00
12.        Meeting At The Building    1:19
13.        We Shall Walk Through The Valley    1:11
14.        Irene, Good Night    1:50
15.        Cotton Song    2:06
16.        Ha Ha This Way    1:25
17.        Sukey Jump (Win' Jammer)    1:04
18.       Black Girl    2:06
19.        Rock Island Line    2:17
20.        Blind Lemon (Song)    1:38
21.        Borrow Love And Go    2:10
22.        On A Monday (I'm Almost Done)    2:08
23.        Shorty George    1:26
24.        Duncan (And Brady)    1:05
25.        Old Riley    2:22
26.        Leavin' Blues (Leavin' In The Morning)    1:27
27.        Pigmeat    2:15
28.        If It Wasn't For Dicky    2:50
29.        Black Betty / Old Man / On A Monday    2:55
30.        Turn Yo' Radio On    2:10
31.        No Good Rider    2:44
32.        Howard Hughes    3:00
33.        New York City    3:15
34.        The Gallis Pole    2:45
35.        I'm Leavin' On The Morning Train    2:46
36.        Jean Harlow    2:26
37.        Good Mornin' Blues    3:37
38.        Eagle Rock Rag (Live)    1:35
Credits : 
Chorus [Added Vocal Group] – The Oleander Singers (tracks: 8, 12)
Compiled By, Producer – Johnny Parth
Graphics – Kevin Witt
Guitar – Unknown Artist (tracks: 27)
Harmonica – Sonny Terry (tracks: 14)
Liner Notes – Ken Romanowski
Remastered By – Gerhard Wessely
Vocals – Leadbelly (tracks: 11, 29)
Vocals [Added Vocals] – Anna Graham (tracks: 10)
Vocals, Concertina – Leadbelly (tracks: 3, 17)
Vocals, Guitar – Leadbelly (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 to 10, 12 to 16, 18 to 23, 25, 27, 28, 30 to 37)
Vocals, Percussion [Rapping On Guitar] – Leadbelly (tracks: 26)
Vocals, Piano – Leadbelly (tracks: 6, 38)

LEDBELLY — Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Volume 7 · 1947–1949 | DOCD-5640 RM (1999) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

The six earlier volumes in Austrian reissue label Document Records' unlicensed series of albums featuring Leadbelly's commercial recordings are given the date range of 1939 to 1947. But this seventh volume runs up to the year of Leadbelly's death, 1949, after having started with a couple of airchecks from a broadcast of the This Is Jazz radio series from June 14, 1947 ("Green Corn" and "John Henry"). These tracks are followed by four recorded for the Library of Congress, and the rest of the album consists of more radio broadcasts or concert performances that were issued on LPs by Folkways Records or, in the case of the last two, "Old Ship of Zion" and "I Will Be So Glad When I Get Home," from Playboy Records' album of one of the singer's last concert at the University of Texas on June 15, 1949. This is not really a "complete" account of Leadbelly's last couple of years of recording, since it deliberately excludes the material from the Folkways albums of Leadbelly's Last Sessions, because Smithsonian Folkways has reissued those tracks on CD recently. Rather, this is a kind of addendum of odds and ends. Still, it does present mature performances of some of Leadbelly's better-known songs, including "Pick a Bale of Cotton," "Go Down, Old Hannah," "Take This Hammer," and "Good Morning Blues." Of course, by the time of the University of Texas show, he was suffering from the effects of Lou Gehrig's disease, which would kill him in December, and he was joined by his wife, Martha, on the two spirituals, apparently included here because they were left off a CD reissue of the album by Magnum in Europe. Surface noise is audible on many tracks, but the overall sound is good. William Ruhlmann
Tracklist :
1.    Leadbelly–    Green Corn ("This Is Jazz" Broadcast)    0:54
2.    Leadbelly–    John Henry ("This Is Jazz" Broadcast)    2:58
3.    Leadbelly–    Tell Me Baby What Was Wrong With You    3:15
4.    Leadbelly–    Noted Rider    3:28
5.    Leadbelly–    Take A Whiff On Me    3:24
6.    Leadbelly–    Ox Driving Moan    2:39
7.    Leadbelly–    John Henry 3:09
Guitar [2nd], Speech – Brownie McGhee
Harmonica – Sonny Terry

8.    Leadbelly–    Pick A Bale Of Cotton 1:23
Guitar [2nd], Speech – Brownie McGhee
Harmonica – Sonny Terry

9.    Leadbelly–    Go Down, Old Hannah    2:04
10.    Leadbelly–    Ain't Going Down To The Well No More    1:05
11.    Leadbelly–    Shout On (Honey I'm All Out And Down) 2:09
Vocals – Sonny Terry
12.    Leadbelly–    It Was Soon One Morning    1:12
13.    Leadbelly–    Whoa Back Buck 2:09
Vocals – Sonny Terry
14.    Leadbelly–    Birmingham Jail (Down In The Valley)    1:48
15.    Leadbelly–    Take This Hammer    2:15
16.    Leadbelly–    It Was Early One Mornin' (Jail House Blues)    2:23
17.    Leadbelly–    Going Back To Mary (If I Had You Governor/Governor Pat Neff)    3:39
18.    Leadbelly–    Come And Sit Down Beside Me    1:02
19.    Leadbelly–    Ha, Ha This A Way    1:32
20.    Leadbelly–    You Can't Lose Me, Charlie    1:32
21.    Leadbelly–    Rooster Crows At Midnight (Christmas Day)    1:19
22.    Leadbelly–    Skip To My Lou    1:29
23.    Leadbelly–    Parting Song (When You Smile-o)    2:50
24.    Leadbelly–    Good Morning Blues (WNYC Jazz-Festival)    2:53
25.    Leadbelly–    Ain't Gonna Let You Worry My Life No More (WNYC Jazz-Festival)    2:16
26.    Leadbelly–    Pretty Papa (WNYC Jazz-Festival)    2:36
27.    Leadbelly With Martha Ledbetter–    Old Ship Of Zion (Live)    1:57
28.    Leadbelly With Martha Ledbetter–    I Will Be So Glad When I Get Home    2:07
Credits : 
Compiled By, Producer – Johnny Parth
Liner Notes – Ken Romanowski
Remastered By – Gerhard Wessely
Vocals – Leadbelly (tracks: 5, 10, 12), Martha Ledbetter (tracks: 27, 28)
Vocals, Guitar – Leadbelly (tracks: 1 to 4, 6 to 9, 11, 13 to 28)

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PEETIE WHEATSTRAW — The Devil's Son~In~Law : Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Volume 1 · 1930- 1932 | DOCD-5241 (1994) RM | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

In 1994, more than 160 of Peetie Wheatstraw's recordings were rounded up, placed in chronological sequence, and reissued by the Document label in an unprecedented effort that filled seven compact discs. The contents of volume one stand as a fascinating prologue to Wheatstraw's main body of work, providing valuable insights as a composite portrait of this legendary and influential bluesman continues to emerge from the shadows. Born in Ripley, TN in 1902 and raised in Cotton Plant, AK, William Bunch was already operating under his colorful new name when, in 1929, he landed in East St. Louis and quickly earned a reputation as a blues guitarist and barrelhouse piano player. According to his biographer Paul Garon, when Bunch drew upon African American folklore to reinvent himself as Peetie Wheatstraw, the Devil's Son in Law, he was transcending his racially imposed second-class citizenship by initiating "a poetic motive force in the direction of freedom and liberation." This uncompromising and individualistic power is especially evident in the recordings that Wheatstraw made during his first 19 months as a recording artist. His earliest 78 rpm platter was cut for the Vocalion record company on August 13 1930, in the company of a musician whose name may have been J.D. Short or Willie Fields, but is listed only as "Neckbones." The two men shared the vocals, with Neckbones coming across as the comparative lightweight while Wheatstraw expressed himself through gritty, passionate moaning and groaning, pushing his voice to the limit and sounding at times almost like Charley Patton. This is quite different from the way he would sound beginning in 1934, and even those who are accustomed to Southern African American dialect will probably find much of his singing on this album to be difficult to comprehend. The listener is forced instead to focus upon the singer's emotive texture and intonation, and that's a good way to listen. In September and October of 1930, Wheatstraw recorded eight sides with his close friend Charley Jordan, a well-known bootlegger who was responsible for hooking Peetie up with Vocalion to begin with. These were the first records to appear with the words "The Devil's Son-in-Law" right on the label. In September, 1931, Wheatstraw went to Chicago and cut four sides for Bluebird with a guitarist who is believed to have been Charlie McCoy. Although for a change he was not identified on the label as such, the first song of the session was titled "Devil's Son-In-Law," and the song on the flipside was "Pete Wheatstraw." Distributed by Victor, these Bluebird recordings provided him with terrific publicity, spreading his colorful name and distinctive sound throughout the land. Wheatstraw's next opportunity to record was in March 1932 at a studio in New York City, playing piano behind vocalist Pretty Boy Walker, and this marks the first appearance of what would become Wheatstraw's signature introduction. Every recording up until this point had opened with a rhythmic pulse that made it feel like part of a continuum. Without the signature intro, those sides fit together like segments of a longer ritual, and that is the best way to appreciate them, as the three-minute duration was an invention of the recording industry. While the only extant photograph of Peetie Wheatstraw shows him playing a National brand Style 3 Tricone guitar, he recorded almost exclusively as a pianist. The last four titles on this collection feature him singing and playing guitar, and the picture in question was probably taken during that week in 1932. These records should be savored as definitive proof of Wheatstraw's influence on Robert Johnson, Johnny Shines, Big Joe Williams, Muddy Waters, and Bukka White. arwulf arwulf
Tracklist :
1.    Peetie Wheatstraw, Neckbones–    Tennessee Peaches Blues 2:59
Bass – Unknown Artist
Guitar – Unknown Artist
Vocals – "Neckbones" (prob. J. D. Short)
Vocals, Piano [Poss.] – Peetie Wheatstraw

2.    Peetie Wheatstraw, Neckbones–    Four O' Clock In The Morning 2:42
Bass – Unknown Artist
Guitar – Unknown Artist
Vocals – "Neckbones" (prob. J. D. Short)
Vocals, Piano [Poss.] – Peetie Wheatstraw

3.    Peetie Wheatstraw–    Don't Feel Welcome Blues 3:08
Vocals, Piano – Peetie Wheatstraw
4.    Peetie Wheatstraw–    Strange Man Blues 3:09
Vocals, Piano – Peetie Wheatstraw
5.    Peetie Wheatstraw–    School Days 3:24
Guitar [Prob.] – Charlie Jordan
Vocals, Piano – Peetie Wheatstraw

6.    Peetie Wheatstraw–    So Soon 3:23
Guitar [Prob.] – Charlie Jordan
Vocals, Piano – Peetie Wheatstraw

7.    Peetie Wheatstraw–    So Long Blues 3:16
Guitar – Charlie Jordan
Vocals, Piano – Peetie Wheatstraw

8.    Peetie Wheatstraw–    Mama's Advice 3:16
Bass – Unknown Artist
Guitar – Charlie Jordan
Vocals, Piano – Peetie Wheatstraw

9.    Peetie Wheatstraw–    Ain't It A Pity And A Shame? 3:13
Guitar – Charlie Jordan
Vocals, Piano – Peetie Wheatstraw

10.    Peetie Wheatstraw–    Don't Hang My Clothes On No Barb Wire Line 3:03
Guitar – Charlie Jordan
Vocals, Piano – Peetie Wheatstraw

11.    Peetie Wheatstraw–    C And A Blues 3:05
Guitar – Charlie Jordan
Vocals, Piano – Peetie Wheatstraw

12.    Peetie Wheatstraw–    Six Weeks Old Blues 3:16
Guitar – Charlie Jordan
Vocals, Piano – Peetie Wheatstraw

13.    Peetie Wheatstraw–    Devil's Son-In-Law 3:22
Guitar [Poss.] – Charlie McCoy 
Vocals, Piano – Peetie Wheatstraw

14.    Peetie Wheatstraw–    Pete Wheatstraw 3:14
Guitar [Poss.] – Charlie McCoy 
Vocals, Piano – Peetie Wheatstraw

15.    Peetie Wheatstraw–    Creeping Blues 2:58
Guitar [Poss.] – Charlie McCoy (2)
Vocals, Piano – Peetie Wheatstraw

16.    Peetie Wheatstraw–    Ice And Snow Blues 2:32
Guitar [Poss.] – Charlie McCoy (2)
Vocals, Piano – Peetie Wheatstraw

17.    Pretty Boy Walker–    The Break I'm Gettin' 2:52
Piano – Peetie Wheatstraw
Vocals – Pretty Boy Walker

18.    Pretty Boy Walker–    Hog-Love Blues 3:12
Piano – Peetie Wheatstraw
Vocals – Pretty Boy Walker

19.    Peetie Wheatstraw–    Police Station Blues 3:02
Vocals, Guitar – Peetie Wheatstraw
20.    Peetie Wheatstraw–    All Alone Blues 3:06
Vocals, Guitar – Peetie Wheatstraw
21.    Peetie Wheatstraw–    Can't See Blues 2:58
Vocals, Guitar – Peetie Wheatstraw
22.    Peetie Wheatstraw–    Sleepless Nights Blues 2:49
Vocals, Guitar – Peetie Wheatstraw
Credits : 
Compilation Producer – Johnny Parth
Liner Notes – Paul Garon
Remastered By – Gerhard Wessely 

PEETIE WHEATSTRAW — Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Volume 2 · 1934- 1935 | DOCD-5242 (1994) RM | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

With the second of seven volumes comprising Document's complete works of Peetie Wheatstraw, we arrive at the threshold of his fully formed style, perfected over many months of steady gigging while the Great Depression prevented him from making any records. Tracks 1-9 were cut in March and August 1934 with guitarist Charley Jordan, and when compared with Peetie's earlier achievements the difference is apparent from the get-go. Until 1938, when he began to vary the structure of his tunes, nearly every Peetie Wheatstraw record would begin with an instrumental introduction he had initiated, while backing vocalist Pretty Boy Walker back in 1932. This patented intro would become Wheatstraw's signature, as instantly recognizable and ubiquitous as those of inner-city graffiti artists during the final decades of the 20th century. The other audible innovation is Peetie's singing style, which by 1934 had undergone a dramatic transformation involving what would swiftly become his other trademark: the soon-to-be-widely-imitated use of the phrase "ooh, well, well" to punctuate and accentuate his delivery. During this period, Wheatstraw recorded for Decca (the label on which his music would appear exclusively beginning in October 1936) and Vocalion, the company responsible for peddling some of his titles to the Sears & Roebuck Co., who released them on their Conqueror label. Originally backed with a title by Tee McDonald, the jazzy "Throw Me in the Alley" is a rare treat in the form of an upbeat Wheatstraw record involving extra instrumentalists. Billed as Peetie Wheatstraw & His Blue Blowers, this hot little group included trombonist Ike Rodgers and pianist Henry Brown, as well as two unidentified individuals playing clarinet and violin. Other participants on this satisfying collection which covers Wheatstraw's progress through July 1935 are guitarists Teddy Darby and Charlie McCoy, as well as steel guitarist Casey Bill Weldon, whose handle derived from K.C., an abbreviation of his old stomping ground, Kansas City. "Keyhole Blues" and "Long Time Ago Blues" pare the instrumentation down once again to Wheatstraw and his guitar, sounding more lonesome and personal than he generally did at the piano. Issued as the flipside of a Jimmie Gordon record, "Doin' the Best I Can" borrows its melody from "Sittin' on Top of the World" which was first introduced by the Mississippi Sheiks. "Good Whiskey Blues" and its sequel "More Good Whiskey Blues" are straightforward appreciations of legalized liquor (including imported Holland gin!) as opposed to the perils of unregulated, often poisonous prohibition booze. "C & A Train Blues," which refers to the Chicago and Alton railroad, is the first recording on which Wheatstraw amends his nickname by calling himself the High Sheriff from Hell. arwulf arwulf
Tracklist :
1.    Back Door Blues    3:09
2.    Packin' Up Blues    3:09
3.    Long Lonesome Drive    3:19
4.    Midnight Blues    3:18
5.    The Last Time    3:21
6.    All Night Long Blues    3:14
7.    Numbers Blues    3:18
8.    Good Home Blues    3:18
9.    These Times    2:57
10.    Throw Me In The Alley    2:50
11.    C & A Train Blues    3:18
12.    Last Week Blues    3:08
13.    Keyhole Blues    3:13
14.    Long Time Ago Blues    3:15
15.    Doin' The Best I Can    2:53
16.    The Rising Sun Blues    3:00
17.    Blues At My Door    3:03
18.    Truthful Blues    3:07
19.    Good Whiskey Blues    3:14
20.    More Good Whiskey Blues    3:02
21.    Letter Writing Blues    3:01
22.    Whiskey Head Blues    2:46
23.    Slave Man Blues    2:50
24.    C And A Train Blues    2:46
Credits : 
Clarinet – Unknown Artist (tracks: 10)
Compilation Producer – Johnny Parth
Guitar – Peetie Wheatstraw (tracks: 10, 13, 14)
Guitar [Poss.] – Charlie McCoy (tracks: 15), Teddy Darby (tracks: 21)
Guitar [Prob.] – Charlie Jordan (tracks: 1 to 6, 8, 9)
Liner Notes – Paul Garon
Piano – Henry Brown (tracks: 10), Peetie Wheatstraw (tracks: 1 to 9, 11, 12, 15 to 24)
Remastered By – Gerhard Wessely
Steel Guitar – Casey Bill Weldon (tracks: 16 to 21)
Trombone [Prob.] – Ike Rodgers (tracks: 10)
Violin – Unknown Artist (tracks: 10)
Vocals – Peetie Wheatstraw
 

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PEETIE WHEATSTRAW — Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Volume 3 · 1935- 1936 | DOCD-5243 (1994) RM | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

The third installment in Document's seven-volume Peetie Wheatstraw edition opens with songs about pimping and hustling, mixing cocktails, and making love like a spider. Tracks 1-11 were recorded in Chicago, alone at the piano and with guitarists Charley Jordan or Charlie McCoy. Peetie and Charley Jordan were the best of friends, and many of the songs in the Wheatstraw discography have Jordan listed as composer. The two men maintained a musicians' club and rehearsal space adjacent to Jordan's pad at 17th and O'Fallon where people like Roosevelt Sykes, Walter Davis, and Big Joe Williams would pay their 35-cent dues in order to be able to practice, jam, and prepare for their own recording sessions. Peetie gigged all over the Midwest during this period, and listening to his records, one can imagine him performing at length in all kinds of settings without ever running out of stories to tell. "Up the Road Blues" and "Last Dime Blues" are noteworthy for the absence of the famous Wheatstraw introduction, a musical fingerprint that instantly stamped dozens of other records with his unmistakable presence because he used the same structural template as a reusable canvas for his many improvised lyrics. "Johnnie Blues" kicks up the tempo a bit, and is considered one of this artist's stronger offerings. Peetie's first recording of 1936 was "No Good Woman (Fighting Blues)," a duet with Amos Easton, popularly known as Bumble Bee Slim. During the spoken introduction, Slim tries to pick a fight over a disputed female companion, to which Peetie replies "...don't fight, just play the blues and sing a little while, forget it." In his well-researched biography of Wheatstraw, Paul Garon marvels over the words to the "Kidnapper's Blues," noting the unlikelihood of a Depression-era bluesman being able to pay $10,000 ransom for a kidnapped black woman, or that a Chief Detective of that time period would even bother with such a case. He also points out that low-profile abductions were not unknown in the high-crime neighborhoods where Peetie and his primary audience lived and worked. Five days after this Vocalion record was cut in Chicago, Wheatstraw was in New York City making records for Decca with guitarist Kokomo Arnold, forging a working friendship that would bear fruit while strengthening Wheatstraw's relations with Decca. In October of 1936, he would become an exclusive Decca artist and would remain so until his sudden death in 1941. arwulf arwulf
Tracklist :
1.    Good Hustler Blues    2:58
2.    Cocktail Man Blues    2:43
3.    King Spider Blues    2:58
4.    Hi-De-Ho Woman Blues 3:11
Guitar [Possibly/Or] – Charlie Jordan
Guitar [Probably/Or] – Charlie McCoy 

5.    Sorrow Hearted Blues 3:13
Guitar [Possibly/Or] – Charlie Jordan
Guitar [Probably/Or] – Charlie McCoy
 
6.    Up The Road Blues 3:05
Guitar [Possibly/Or] – Charlie Jordan
Guitar [Probably/Or] – Charlie McCoy 

7.    Last Dime Blues 3:10
Guitar [Possibly/Or] – Charlie Jordan
Guitar [Probably/Or] – Charlie McCoy 

8.    King Of Spades 3:00
Guitar [Possibly/Or] – Charlie Jordan
Guitar [Probably/Or] – Charlie McCoy 

9.    Johnnie Blues 2:42
Guitar [Possibly/Or] – Charlie Jordan
Guitar [Probably/Or] – Charlie McCoy 

10.    Santa Claus Blues 3:12
Guitar [Possibly] – Charlie Jordan
11.    Lonesome Lonesome Blues 3:00
Guitar [Possibly] – Charlie Jordan
12.    No Good Woman (Fighting Blues) 2:49
Vocals – Bumble Bee Slim
13.    First And Last Blues 2:46
Guitar – Unknown Artist
14.    True Blue Woman 2:35
Guitar – Unknown Artist
15.    Kidnapper's Blues (C-1259) 2:40
Guitar – Unknown Artist
16.    Sweet Home Blues (Take 1) 2:44
Guitar – Unknown Artist
17.    Sweet Home Blues (Take 2) 2:44
Guitar – Unknown Artist
18.    Good Woman Blues 2:41
Guitar – Unknown Artist
19.    Working Man (Doing The Best I Can) 2:31
Guitar – Kokomo Arnold
20.    Low Down Rascal 2:51
Guitar – Kokomo Arnold
21.    When I Get My Bonus (Things Will Be Coming My Way) 2:32
Guitar – Kokomo Arnold
22.    Coon Can Shorty 2:52
Guitar – Kokomo Arnold
23.    Meat Cutter Blues 3:00
Guitar – Kokomo Arnold
24.    The First Shall Be Last And The Last Shall Be First 2:46
Guitar – Kokomo Arnold
25.    Kidnapper's Blues (60527) 3:04
Credits : 
Compiled By, Producer – Johnny Parth
Liner Notes – Paul Garon
Piano – Peetie Wheatstraw
Remastered By – Gerhard Wessely
Vocals – Peetie Wheatstraw (tracks: 1 to 11, 13 to 25)
 

LEDBELLY — Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Volume 1 · 1939-1940 | DOCD-5226 (1994) RM | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

The Austrian Document Records label begins its series of CDs presenting Leadbelly's commercial recordings in chronological order from 19...