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Huddie William “Lead Belly” Ledbetter
(January 20, 1888 – December 6, 1949)
Lead Belly “Blind Lemon Blues” (4:04)
(Recorded by John and Alan Lomax, July, 1934 at the Angola Prison Farm - The Louisiana State Penitentiary)
Huddie William “Lead Belly” Ledbetter
(January 20, 1888 – December 6, 1949)
Lead Belly “Governor O.K. Allen” (2:50)
(Recorded by John and Alan Lomax, July, 1934 at the Angola Prison Farm - The Louisiana State Penitentiary)
Huddie William “Lead Belly” Ledbetter (on the left, behind the man wearing the hat) with fellow prisoners in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola, and nicknamed the “Alcatraz of the South” and “The Farm” photo by Alan Lomax (July, 1934)
Lead Belly “Midnight Special” (3:11)
(Recorded by John and Alan Lomax, July, 1934 at the Angola Prison Farm - The Louisiana State Penitentiary)
Lead Belly by Sebastian Krüger
Graphite on Paper (2008)
