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Thread #75521   Message #3247426
Posted By: GUEST,josepp
31-Oct-11 - 12:28 AM
Thread Name: Why doesn't anyone talk about Leadbelly?
Subject: RE: Why doesn't anyone talk about Leadbelly?
Finally, a decent thread.

Huddie, by the way, is pronounced "Hugh-dee."

He led a troubled life but he was a fount of great old roots music. Imagine if he lived in the days before recording--our knowledge of roots music would be incredibly poor. Makes you wonder who we did lose before there was recording technology that we would have benefitted from tremendously.