Lead Belly - "Haul Away Joe" video free download
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This video features Lead Belly's "Haul Away Joe" from the 1997 album "Bourgeois Blues: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 2" on Smithsonian Folkways.
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Comments
10 years ago
catamaraner
Heck yeah; once it was baled up, cargo moved on the rivers and across the sea -- and guess who did the loading. There was a lot of musical crosstalk between the shanties of the American era and black work songs. Listen to Hog Eye Man or Shallow Brown and you can hear it completely -- those shanties would not exist without their African-American roots. Even the Margot Evans has some of the late-era mechanism references (let the Bullgine run); the donkey engine is prominent in several work songs and several shanties. 10 years ago
Ethan Davidson
There no hard lines back then between blues, country, folk, sea chanties, spirituals. It was the marketing folks that drew those hard lines, and not that long ago. The seventies, mabey. And music has been the worse for it. 10 years ago
jn163051
So much better than so many other versions....10 years ago
D White
One of my favourite versions! It is a common myth that such great African-American blues legends as Leadbelly and Robert Johnson (plus others) only sang 'The Blues'. They also covered what we might call 'folk' songs. This was the music that was all around them and did earn them hard cash!11 years ago
Hermine Stover
this is so DIFFERENT from the familiar modality of Leadbelly! I would not think that after fifty years of listening carefully to Leadbelly, he could surprise me with this thing so totally unlike his familiar NON SEA CHANTEY self! What a genius!12 years ago
Pedro Furtado
Yes, he did say missirippi.12 years ago
Ronnie Razor
Incredible, inventive, far ahead of it's time.12 years ago
Bob Stewart
whey hey man12 years ago
callitacomeb
did he just say missirippy? i think he just said missirippy13 years ago
jjxclan
This is awesome!14 years ago
nappysock
Time to run! this tell when the ship comin and where it's goin.14 years ago
ViveeF
I think it's WONDERFUL....14 years ago
birdstuckinchimney
I think it's fantastic...guess it just goes to show the diversity of the human mindRelated Videos
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