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Happy Birthday Lead Belly

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AKA Huddie William Ledbetter.
Born on a Louisiana Plantation around 1888.

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QMS's picture

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He went to prison for murder, but got out somehow and recorded some fine music

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Story I heard was that the warden heard him doing one of his songs and was so taken by it that he set him free. Not sure of the song, possibly midnight special.

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

visited a prison and Lead Belly, convicted of murder, was allowed to sing him a song. The governor got him released.
Later, he was imprisoned for attempted murder in La. He sang for some people who were in the music biz wen they visited the prison. They got some politicians to let him out early.
I forget how he avoided prison for aggravated assault later in life.
His temper was as bad as his music talent was good.

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