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 ...
This is episode three from season two of American Songster Radio. Huddie Ledbetter ("Lead Belly") met the song collector John Lomax at the Angola Penitentiary in 1934. That meeting would go down in ...
Many Texas musicians have become legendary figures for not only their great talents as musicians but also for their colorful lives. Huddie Ledbetter, known to his fans as “Leadbelly,” was a pioneer ...
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