The Haunted House @ KUSF - Show 10 - "An All-American Show With Leadbelly and Friends" Dec 13 2013 by Casaencantada on Mixcloud
On this day at the Haunted House we celebrated the history of Huddie Ledbetter, aka Leadbelly (b. Jan. 20 1888 in Luisiana, d. Dec. 6 in NYC) with "An All-American Show featuring Leadbelly and Friends". This show was originally to be aired on Dec. 6 but bad luck came one week earlier for us.
We followed John and Alan Lomax through those prison trips in 1934 and played a good bunch of songs that Leadbelly taught us in several different versions: from Blind Lemon Jefferson doing "Matchbox Blues" to Mainer's Mountaineers with their version of "John Henry", plus James "Iron Head" Baker and his prison group doing "Black Betty", The Carter Family with "John Hardy", Son House with "Death Letter Blues", and a lot more, including plenty of songs by Leadbelly himself!
We went cajun with Nathan Abshire, rock'n'roll with Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent and Roy Orbison, and even mambo with Perez Prado!
All in songs that Leadbelly sung (well, mostly!)
Vaya Sra. Ghost Host!
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