Jim Carroll

Your point?

WLD has it about right. (Who would have thought that we would ever agree about anything?) I'm not holding Peggy Seeger responsible for anything thet the Weavers did, just pointing out that she must have been very familiar with interpretations of Leadbelly far removed from the original culture. I will never know what the Cockney Leadbelly sounded like, but, to my taste, the Weavers' version of Goodnight Irene is toe-curlingly embarrassing.