The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4631 Message #1353691
Posted By: GUEST,montymarsh@earthlink.net
10-Dec-04 - 10:49 PM
Thread Name: Leadbelly live album?
Subject: RE: Leadbelly live album?
Lead Belly recorded a live album at the University of Texas in Austin in 1949. The LP was on the Playboy label. I have it on reel-to-reel. There are no horns, but Martha sings with him. He was beginning to show the effects of Lou Gehrig's disease, but his performance is warm and wonderful. Maybe his best album. He makes mention of several things that happened on his recent trip to France in a song about ordering eggs for breakfast. Highly recommended. Monty.