Before his discovery by John and Alan Lomax in 1933 while he was serving a term in Louisiana’s prison system, Huddie Ledbetter, best known as “Lead Belly,” was a busking Louisiana street singer with a ...
NEW YORK — Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter never had a hit record before he died of Lou Gehrig’s disease in 1949. But the folksinging legend, who is being celebrated next week as part of Black History ...
The story of Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter reads like a parody of the brutal bluesman biography: Kill a man, go to prison — twice — then appeal for a pardon in a song. According to the legend, Lead ...
The Smithsonian Institution has mined its archives to produce a television documentary and CD boxed set of an icon of American folk and blues, Lead Belly. “In 2012 we produced ‘Woody at 100’ for the ...
A boxed set is like a little tomb, a way of finally categorizing and, ultimately, dismissing a given artist. You get several CDs and a lesson, all you need to carry forward. Sometimes they seem ...
NEW YORK — Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter never had a hit record before he died of Lou Gehrig’s disease in 1949. But the influential folk singer, who is being celebrated next week as part of Black ...
In the new, comprehensive boxed set Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, to be released in Feb. 24, 2015, the Smithsonian archivist Jeff Place reminds readers of the huge historical chunk ...
HUDDIE ‘Lead Belly’ Ledbetter left an indelible mark on the blues and on folk music. His songs have been covered by everyone form Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan to Nirvana and Jack White. He inspired ...
Huddie Ledbetter was born in January of either 1888 or 1889. He became a musician around the turn of the century and died on December 6th, 1949. Better known as Lead Belly, the folk music legend often ...
Like a celebration thrown by B.B. for his countless fans, published for the occasion of his 80th birthday, The B. B. King Treasures brings remembrances, photos, and rare and personal memorabilia ...
NEW YORK — Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter never had a hit record before he died of Lou Gehrig’s disease in 1949. But the folksinging legend, who is being celebrated next week as part of Black History ...
More than any other black folk-blues artist of his time Leadbelly helped expose his race's vast musical riches to white America, and, in the process, helped preserve a folk legacy that has become a ...
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