The Smithsonian opens its archives and shares a comprehensive collection of previously unheard recordings by blues legend Lead Belly. Songs We Love: Lead Belly, 'I'm So Glad, I Done Got Over' In the ...

Early last year John Avery Lomax, crack compiler of U. S. folk songs, arrived in Manhattan with a big, wild-eyed Negro known as Lead Belly (real name: Huddie Ledbetter). John Lomax’ protègé was a ...

Please, Gov’ner Neff, be good an’ kind, An’ if I can’t get a pardon, will you cut my time? If I had you, Gov’ner Neff, like you got me, I would wake up in the mornin’ and set you free. This plea, ...

33. Moanin' 34. There's a Man Going Round Taking Names 35. Keep Your Hands Off Her 36. Mr. Jelly Roll Baker (Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) 1. 4,5, and 9 (with Pops Foster, Willie the Lion Smith) 2.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Smithsonian Folkways producer and archivist Jeff Place takes us through a history of the singer's biggest hits as he discusses the importance of ...

Eric Bibb, son of folk giant Leon Bibb, has been listening to Lead Belly's music since childhood. Accompanied by French harmonica player JJ Milteau on Lead Belly's Gold, he delivers an affecting and ...

Kurt Cobain is one of the most legendary figures to come out of the 1990s alternative rock movement known as grunge. He was the iconic frontman of Nirvana, and we lost him far too soon. He was an ...

"Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow Lies," by Sheila Curran Bernard. The wedding of Huddie and Martha Ledbetter on Jan. 20, 1935 included Alan Lomax, third from the left, ...