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Negro Sinful Songs
Studio album by
Released1939
RecordedApril 1, 1939, New York City
GenreFolk, blues
LabelMusicraft Records
ProducerJohn and Alan Lomax
Lead Belly chronology
Negro Sinful Songs
(1939)
The Midnight Special and Other Southern Prison Songs
(1941)

Negro Sinful Songs (or Negro Sinful Songs Sung by Lead Belly) is an album by Lead Belly, recorded for and released by Musicraft Records in 1939.

Negro Sinful Songs Sung by Lead Belly was originally released as a five-disc collection of 78 rpm records. Ten sides were included in this release.

Track listing

Disc one
No.TitleLength
1."Frankie and Albert (First Half)" 
2."Looky, Looky, Yonder" 
3."Black Betty" 
4."Yallow Women's Door Bells" 
Disc two
No.TitleLength
1."Frankie and Albert (Completion)" 
2."Ain't Goin' Down To The Well No Mo'" 
3."Go Down Old Hannah" 
Disc three
No.TitleLength
1."Poor Howard" 
2."Green Corn" 
3."Fannin Street" 
Disc four
No.TitleLength
1."The Boll Weevil" 
2."De Kalb Blues" 
Disc five
No.TitleLength
1."The Gallis Pole" 
2."The Bourgeois Blues" 

References