Arts > Music > Blues > USA > Lead Belly   1888-1949

Lead Belly in the 1930s in Wilton, Conn.,

where he married Martha Promise.

Photograph: Lead Belly Estate,

via Smithsonian Folkways

Lead Belly, Folk-Music Giant, Has a Smithsonian Moment

NYT

FEB. 20, 2015

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/
arts/music/lead-belly-folk-music-giant-has-a-smithsonian-moment.html

Huddie William Ledbetter    1888-1949

aka Lead Belly

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/04/
van-morrison
people-who-say-others-difficult-are-difficult-themselves-
lead-belly-lonnie-donegan

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/
arts/music/lead-belly-folk-music-giant-has-a-smithsonian-moment.html

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