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31 oct. 2013 · Huddie William Ledbetter, better known as blues legend Leadbelly sings and plays working song "Take this hammer".
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30 juin 2015 · This video features Lead Belly's "Take This Hammer" from the 2015 box set 'Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection'. For more information about this album, click here:...
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This is one of five songs recorded June 17, 1940 in New York City by Lead Belly accompanied by the Golden Gate Quartet. The quartet consisted of Willis Johnson, William Langford, Henry Owens...
Songs such as "Looky Looky Yonder", "Take This Hammer", "Linin' Track", and "Julie Ann Johnson" feature this unusual vocalization. In "Take This Hammer", Lead Belly explained: "Every time the men say, 'Haah,' the hammer falls. The hammer rings, and we swing, and we sing."
"Take This Hammer" was issued on a commercial 78-rpm single by Lead Belly in 1940 and again in 1942. In his performance on this record, Lead Belly added a "haah" at the end of each line, [16] explaining in his spoken introduction, "Every time the men say 'haah', the hammer falls.
Take This Hammer Lyrics by Leadbelly from the 60th Anniversary Edition album- including song video, artist biography, translations and more: ...
