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THE ORIGINAL GANGSTA: LEAD BELLY AND HIS LEGACY
Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, was a folk-blues giant whose music and persona transformed American culture. He sang what he lived (poverty, prison, violence) in songs like ‘Gallow’s Pole’ and ‘Black Betty,’ but he also composed standards (‘Goodnight,...
