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These mid-'40s Folkways sessions capture the all-time great blues guitarist/folk singer at his prime. He ruminates about civil rights, World War II and labor struggles as he sings the House I Live In; in My Time of Dying; Motherless Children; Beloved Comrade; One Meat Ball; Free and Equal Blues, and more. Album Tracks 1. One Meat Ball 2. In My Time of Dying 3. Free and Equal Blues 4. Number 12 Train 5. Jim Crow 6. Landlord 7. Betty and Dupree 8. Trouble 9. Beloved Comrade 10. Hold on 11. Jelly Jelly 12. When I Lay Down 13. The House I Live in 14. Fuhrer 15. Minute Man 16. Take a Gal Like You 17. Whatcha Gonna Do 18. Don't Lie Buddy 19. Motherless Children 20. No More Blues (No More Bread Lines) 21. Mean Mistreatin' Woman 22. Freedom Road 23. Miss Otis Regrets 24. Careless Love 25. T B Blues 26. Outskirts of Town
