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	Leadbelly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leadbelly, also known as Lead Belly (born Huddie William Ledbetter; January 20, 1889 (although this is debatable) - December 6, 1949), was an American folk and blues musician, notable for his clear and forceful singing, his virtuosity on the twelve string guitar, and the rich songbook of folk standards he introduced.
		Leadbelly's boastful spirit and penchant for the occasional skirmish sometimes led him into trouble with the law, and in 1918 he was thrown into a Texas jail for the second time, this time after killing a man in a fight.
		Leadbelly died later that year in New York City, and was buried in the Shiloh Baptist Church cemetery, 8 miles west of Blanchard, Louisiana, in Caddo Parish.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leadbelly (1122 words)

	The Mudcat Leadbelly Room
		The source of the name Leadbelly is still argued upon, but the most popular theories attribute it to a simple play on his name, his strength, sexual prowess, or a reported buckshot wound to his stomach.
		Leadbelly was born on a plantation and was raised in Texas.
		Leadbelly fathered a child by the age of 15 married at 16.
	www.mudcat.org /huddie.cfm (377 words)

	Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Leadbelly was soon released, and the legend (assiduously cultivated by Huddie) has always had it that Allen pardoned him because he was so moved by the pardon song, a repeat of the Pat Neff legend.
		Leadbelly proved a sensation on his arrival in New York, on December 31 1934, with the newspapers printing lurid descriptions of his convict past and the social set suddenly clamouring to have him appear at their gatherings.
		Through her sponsorship, Leadbelly was introduced to the left-wing New York circle, and was to remain associated with this set, which had taken a keen interest in folk music, through the rest of his career.
	www.cycad.com /cgi-bin/Leadbelly/biog.html (3423 words)

	Leadbelly
		Leadbelly sang with a powerful, rough voice and was recognized by prisoners and jailers alike as one of the greatest performers in the region.
		Leadbelly's lyrics went to the point; they were simple but the listener could give them his or her own meaning.
		According to Leadbelly, in the first phrase a knife is used for cutting bread, in the second for shaving a beard, and in the third to kill an unfaithful girl friend.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /ledbelly.htm (1456 words)

	Trail of the Hellhound: Leadbelly
		Leadbelly began to have serious troubles with the law beginning in 1915, and by the following year he was an escaped criminal living under the alias of Walter Boyd.
		Leadbelly was arrested for attempted homicide in 1930 and was sent to the notorious Angola Prison, the state penitentiary of Louisiana.
		Leadbelly died on December 6, 1949, in New York City and is buried in the Shiloh Baptist Church graveyard near Mooringsport.
	www.cr.nps.gov /delta/blues/people/leadbelly.htm (620 words)

	Rykodisc Catalog Artist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Leadbelly was born Huddie Ledbetter in Shiloh, Louisiana on January 15, 1881.
		Leadbelly had been playing country folk and blues on his guitar while at home on the farm, but he was drawn to the powerful rhythms and walking bass lines that where pounded out on pianos during the many all night dances.
		It was here that he gained the nickname "Leadbelly" as he was reputedly the "number one man in the number one gang in the Texas pen." Popular myth holds that Leadbelly was able to gain a pardon from Texas Governor Pat Neff by composing and playing a song pleading for his mercy.
	www.rykodisc.com /Catalog/CatalogArtist_01.asp?Action=Get&Artist_ID=219 (566 words)

	Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to musicologist Alan Lomax, the American folk musician Leadbelly (born Huddie William Ledbetter) learned "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" from the 1917 printed version, and from the 1925 recording.
		Leadbelly helped popularize the song, recording over half-a-dozen versions between 1944 and 1948, most often under the title, "Black Girl" (or, "Black Gal").
		Leadbelly's first rendition, recorded for Musicraft Records in New York City in February 1944, is arguably his most familiar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Where_Did_You_Sleep_Last_Night (796 words)

	Leadbelly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Leadbelly lived 65 years, his life is a huge story itself, believable at times and sometimes like a work of fiction.
		Leadbelly moved to Hollywood from 1944 to 1946, hoping to find mainstream success, but was not well received on the West Coast.
		In 1948 Leadbelly cut, with the aid of the newly invented long playing record, what would later become known as his Last Sessions, a definitive document of the life and music of 'the king of the twelve-string guitar'.
	nublues.port5.com /Historyoftheblues/leadbelly.htm (1560 words)

	Who is Leadbelly?
		Convicted of attempted murder, blues singer Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter was discovered in prison by folklorist John Lomax.
		Leadbelly settled into his role of chauffeur and sometime performer.
		Leadbelly seemed to have a great future ahead, but at the pinnacle of his fame tragedy struck.
	pa.essortment.com /whoisleadbelly_rqrx.htm (1041 words)

	leadbelly.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1939 Leadbelly (now 51) was convicted for third degree assault, and began serving his fourth prison term.
		Leadbelly, along with many others including Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGee and Pete Seeger were all part of the new folk-blues revival scene.
		Leadbelly played the folk circuit, recorded for a variety of labels and was a frequent performer on radio.
	www.geocities.com /BourbonStreet/Quarter/5939/leadbelly.html (670 words)

	LivinBlues- Leadbelly
		Leadbelly had an explosive temper and was frequently in trouble with the law.
		Leadbelly was arrested for attempted homicide in 1930 and was sent this time to the notorious Angola Prison, the state penitentiary of Louisiana.
		Leadbelly became a symbol of the 'Folk movement' during the 1930s to the late 1940s, recording and entertaining until he fell ill while on a European tour and died on December 6, 1949.
	www.livinblues.com /bluesrooms/leadbelly.asp (543 words)

	Leadbelly
		Leadbelly's second big break came when he was pardoned by the governor and he accompanied John Lomax to prisons in Louisiana and Mississippi, recording Southern spirituals, blues, field hollers and work songs.
		Leadbelly's musical style pre-dated the Blues style of artists like Son House and Robert Johnson, as theirs was a developing musical form during the years Leadbelly was imprisoned.
		Leadbelly was a practitioner of a rural Southern folk style that dominated the end of the nineteenth century with industrialization and the development of the train.
	www.houstonculture.org /cr/lead.html (580 words)

	Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"Leadbelly," a singer and master of the 12-string guitar, was born in Louisiana January 21, 1885.
		After his second pardon, Leadbelly accompanied John Lomax on a tour of Southern prisons, telling of his own experiences and singing to encourage the inmates to record for them.
		Leadbelly performed with fellow stamp subjects Woody Guthrie and Sonny Terry in a group called "The Headline Singers." His repertoire included traditional folk and children's songs, blues and topical numbers.
	members.aol.com /efirpo/ledbelly.html (985 words)

	AllRefer.com - Leadbelly (Music: Popular And Jazz, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Leadbelly's blues and work songs are a survival of the earliest African-American music (see jazz).
		He was jailed in 1918 for murder and put on a chain gang; he was pardoned in 1925 but was again put in jail for attempted murder (1930–34) and for assault (1939–40).
		In the 1940s Leadbelly made numerous nightclub appearances, accompanying himself on his 12-string guitar; in 1949 he made a concert tour in France.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Leadbell.html (254 words)

	Lead Belly, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		Leadbelly signed a management agreement with Lomax and was in turn signed for a series of recordings by the American Record Corporation (ARC), which issued records on a variety of low-priced labels and also owned the venerable Columbia Records label.
		Leadbelly was convicted of third-degree assault and served an eight-month sentence.
		Leadbelly went on to record extensively for Asch and its successors, Disc and Folkways, this material later reissued both by Smithsonian/Folkways (from the 1990s on) and by various small labels that acquired rights to it.
	www.emusic.com /artist/10559/10559660.html (2380 words)

	The Leadbelly Legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is difficult to assess the validity of the insinuation at the center of the legend, that Leadbelly was a mad murderer.
		It is certain, though, is that Leadbelly was sentenced to six to ten years of hard labor for the crime of "assaulting with intent to murder" Dick Ellet, whom the sheriff described as a "splendid white citizen" of Mooringsport, Louisiana.
		Leadbelly has influenced several generations of musicians, from mid-century folk singers to the Seattle-based grunge-rock band Pearl Jam, whose 1991 song "Yellow Ledbetter" is based on Leadbelly.
	www.bozosoft.com /mike/writings/leadbelly.html (1142 words)

	Huddie Leadbetter. A biography. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Though little is known about Leadbelly's early life - he rarely spoke of those days - he left home at 20 and over the next ten years wandered throughout the southwest eking out an existence by playing guitar when he could and working as a laborer when he had to.
		Leadbelly also developed a wonderfully rhythmic guitar style in which he imitated the walking bass figures commonly employed by barrelhouse piano players on Fannin Street, the most celebrated street in Shreveport's red-light district, where Leadbelly was known to have worked.
		Leadbelly was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 as one of the music form's chief pioneers.
	www.paddyg.f9.co.uk /igas/leadbelly.htm (1420 words)

	CanEHdian.com: Leadbelly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Leadbelly was one of the most influential and archetypal artists of the Blues tradition, and the breadth of this compilation serves as a fine introduction for those unfamiliar with his work.
		This is really only a one-sided description: Leadbelly was a shrewd, intelligent man, and far from the hapless cotton-boy stereotype, was a deliberate participant in the preservation of these musics for posterity.
		By all accounts, Leadbelly was a hardworking man with an erudite knowledge of the musical context in which he lived, and a plan to outlast his own existence.
	www.canehdian.com /non/artists/l/leadbelly/best.html (616 words)

	LEADBELLY
		Leadbelly was not a blues singer in the traditional sense; he was, rather, more of a songster, that is, one who played blues, spirituals, pop, and prison songs, as well as dance tunes and folk ballads.
		Leadbelly certainly led the life of a blues man. Born and raised in rural Louisiana to hardworking sharecropper parents, he left home as a youth and wandered through Louisiana and Texas.
		Leadbelly was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 as one of the music form's chief pioneers.
	www.southernmusic.net /leadbelly.htm (420 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Huddie Ledbetter, known as Leadbelly, was born on January 21, 1888, near Mooringsport, Louisiana, the son of a fl tenant farmer, Wess Ledbeter, and his half-Indian wife, Sally Pugho.
		As a result of their intervention, Leadbelly was released from prison, and for several months he toured with the Lomaxes, giving concerts and assisting them in their efforts to record the work songs and spirituals of fl convicts.
		Leadbelly's most popular composition, "Goodnight Irene," achieved its greatest success in the early 1950s after his death when the Weavers recorded it.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/LL/fle10.html (687 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Gordon Parks Film Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Leadbelly was also a pioneer in representing his race to another, and his records and performances would introduce many white Americans to an unadulterated African American musical style, and to the warmhearted, coldhearted, sad, happy world of the blues.
		Leadbelly’s temper was mercurial, and it is likely that his frequent run-ins with the law were exacerbated by his unwillingness to kowtow to white authority, an attitude both courageous and dangerous.
		Leadbelly is a regular philosopher of the chain gangs, prisons, wardens and hard times in the country, the country where there’s more of it under corn than under concrete.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/fns99n3.html (2171 words)

	Leadbelly
		It was in the Louisiana State Penitentiary in July 1933 that Huddie met folklorist John Lomax and his son Alan who were touring the south for the Library of Congress collecting unwritten ballads and folk songs using newly available recording technology.
		I looked up and there was Leadbelly with his guitar, his knife, and a sugar bag packed with all his earthly belongings.
		Leadbelly in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
	leadbelly.lanl.gov /leadbelly.html (634 words)

	Leadbelly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the 1930's, the fabled entertainer used it to open and close most of his concerts, in a conscious attempt to soften his rough-hewn image.
		It is not an unreasonable statement to say that without Leadbelly the 12-string guitar would have faded into obscurity.
		Without Leadbelly championing the 12-string in the ‘30s and ‘40s, it probably would have passed into the historical curiosity category along with harp guitars and bass mandolins."
	www.neonbridge.com /Articles/2000-2002/Oct2000/Leadbelly.htm (203 words)

	Huddie 'Leadbelly' Ledbetter, (1888-1949) ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Leadbelly came from a musical family and first got involved when his uncle gave him an accordion.
		In 1918 Leadbelly went to prison for killing a man and was released in 1925.
		Leadbelly's composition of "Midnight Special" is considered to be his finest work and the song has been recorded by many performers through the years.
	amb.nbu.bg /jazz/notes/Huddie_'Leadbelly'_Ledbetter.htm (1303 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Leadbelly (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"Leadbelly" is a companion piece, in a way, to Gordon Parks' "The Learning, Tree" (1968), the story of his own youth in Kansas.
		Leadbelly finds that he has a gift for catching the eye of pretty girls along the way, but he can't stay, in one place long enough to settle down, and he doesn't find it easy to reveal himself to women.
		And the many Leadbelly songs aren't excuses to stop the movie; they're comments on the narrative, and grow out of it as organically as they seem to grow from Leadbelly's life.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19760415/REVIEWS/604150301/1023 (603 words)

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