Ya beat my ass to it, Ed. I wasn't gunna paste up that great ole leadbelly tune my own damn self a while back, but I got distracted and clean forgot, eh? Good work!
Talkin about leadbelly, I can't remember if I posted this one either. Leadbelly knew what doin time was about, eh? He was convicted of murder, twice, and each time he got a pardon from the Governor, on account of he could sing and play so good, ya know?
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Sat 16 Jan, 2016 07:59 pm
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
There is a goody by Leadbelly I can't recall the name of, in which his song asks the warden to pardon him. (and it worked)
Well, ****, ya beat me to postin that info too. I aint sure if ever recorded that number.
This tune is kinda about work. Typical "press" for Huddie in that era:
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In a story about the arrival of Lomax and Lead Belly in New York, the New York Herald Tribune repeated the tales of the two singing pardons. “Sweet Singer of the Swamplands Here To Do a Few Tunes Between Homicides,” the headline read. Life’s Lead Belly headline was less alliterative but even more direct: “Bad Nigger Makes Good Minstrel.”
