Lead Belly
Audio
- Auteurs : Place Jeff ; Santelli Robert ;
- Editeurs : Washington Smithsonian Folkways Recordings ;
- Date d'édition : P. 2015
- Sujets : Ethnomusicologie -- États-Unis, Blues, Gospel, Leadbelly
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 5 disques compacts (5 h), + 1 livre (139 p., ill., 31 cm)
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : The Smithsonian Folkways collection
- N° de référence commerciale : SWF CD 40201, (Smithsonian Folkways collection)
Résumé
Lead Belly is 'the hard time of a harder man', said Woody Guthrie of his friend anf fellow American music icon who was born Huddie Ledbetter (c. 1888-1949). From the swamplands of Louisiana, the prisons of Texas and the streets of New York City, Lead Belly and his music became cornerstones of American folk music and touchstones of African American cultural legacy. With his 12-string Stella guitar, ha sang out a cornucopia of songs that included his classics 'The Midnight special', 'Irene', 'The Bourgeois Blues', and many more, which in turn have been covered by musical notables such as the Beach Boys, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Van Morrison, Nirvana, Odetta, Little Richard, Pete Seeger, Frank Sinatra and Tom Waits. Lead Belly brings us the stoty of the man as well as the musician.