I posted a few months back that I didn't think Leadbelly was all that great. I posited that many white musicians and record-company people of his era were just as enthralled with his 'authenticity' as a southern Negro convict as they were with his music. I took his playing to be passable, even though I would have admitted then that his playing WAS certainly better than a lot of other MUCH more famous and commercially successful blues artists who came later.

Then someone went and started a thread about Leadbelly playing the 'windjammer' button-box accordion.

NO FAIR!!! I'm NOT supposed to LIKE Leadbelly!

I'm supposed to be a shallow, narrow-minded bigot like some people hinted at in my old thread.

What have you lot DONE to me? I've found a new appreciation for Mr. Ledbetter... you've shattered some notions of mine, you troublemakers, you.

(;-)