Leadbelly - Easy Rider (1999)

Huddie Ledbetter, known as Leadbelly, was a unique figure in the American popular music of the 20th century. Ultimately, he was best remembered for a body of songs that he discovered, adapted, or wrote, including "Goodnight, Irene," "Rock Island Line," "The Midnight Special," and "Cotton Fields."

But he was also an early example of a folksinger whose background had brought him into direct contact with the oral tradition by which folk music was handed down, a tradition that, by the early years of the century, already included elements of commercial popular music.

Because he was an African-American, he is sometimes viewed as a blues singer, but blues (a musical form he actually predated) was only one of the styles that informed his music. He was a profound influence on folk performers of the 1940s such as Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, who in turn influenced the folk revival and the development of rock music from the 1960s onward, which makes his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, early in the hall's existence, wholly appropriate.

Tracklist

01	Fannin Street
02	I've A Pretty Flowers
03	Easy Rider
04	Bull Cow
05	Dekalb Blues
06	New York City
07	Mother's Blues
08	Tell Me Baby
09	Sweet Mary Blues
10	Bourgeois Blues
11	My Friend Blind Lemon
12	Good Morning Blues
13	Gallis Pole
14	Outskirts Of Town
15	Grasshoppers In My Pillow
16	Scottsboro Blues
17	Sail On Little Girl, Sail On
18	Don't You Love You Daddy No More
19	Where Did You Sleep Last Night
20	How Long
21	Looky Looky Yonder

Leadbelly - Easy Rider
(256 kbps, cover art included)