The Sea Cat
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Leadbelly
Oct 20, 2010, 17:30
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXhBVjoPvh0
and not forgetting Mr Wolf:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1FK620bS7A
Yeah!
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Sin Agog
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Re: Leadbelly
Oct 20, 2010, 17:53
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Having a folkie for a mother, I grew up listening to him. She used to sing me to sleep with his songs, as well as Donovan tunes and uh a Jefferson Starship song called The Baby Tree (her version was way better). I've thought this was one of his most haunting and beautiful songs since I was a tyke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBH5XW73tA0
I found this 1976 Leadbelly movie by Shaft director Gordon Parks on the tube while I was searching for that song, by the way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ2veYXJnGw.
Looks good...
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Loopy Lumbago
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Re: Leadbelly
Oct 20, 2010, 18:03
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Yeah indeed!
And here's another of The Great Forefathers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd60nI4sa9A
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Sin Agog
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Re: Leadbelly
Oct 20, 2010, 18:09
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Washington Phillips might be my favourite Gospel/Blues artist. If heaven had an ice cream truck, its music would sound something like a Washington Phillips song. He invented the weird instrument he plays on himself that sounds something like a cross between a harp, a glockenspiel and a guitar.
Mother's Last Word to Her Son
I Am Born to Preach the Gospel
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Loopy Lumbago
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Re: Leadbelly
Oct 20, 2010, 18:14
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Watching that film now. Looks good so far.
Thanks for the link.
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The Sea Cat
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Re: Leadbelly
Oct 20, 2010, 18:18
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All I can say is thanks.
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The Sea Cat
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Re: Leadbelly
Oct 20, 2010, 18:19
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Where would we be ?!
:-)
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The Sea Cat
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Edited Oct 20, 2010, 18:22
Re: Leadbelly
Oct 20, 2010, 18:21
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Son House:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGBoP70A7Q0
EDIT: didn't mean to reply to myself. For you Loopy and Sin.
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The Sea Cat
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Re: Leadbelly
Oct 20, 2010, 18:29
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That is exquisite !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1PerTbk7jc
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Five
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Re: Leadbelly
Oct 20, 2010, 18:45
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Now this here is a thread I've been waiting for ...
Leadbelly is terrific for sure, got a disc of his with about 12 tunes that I play a lot (including a weird almost proto-metal House Of The Rising Sun resplendent in unusual chord changes and 12-string riffage) and, my mother also being a folkie (she's here visiting now, even, from the other side of the States) I heard a lot of him as a kid ... "last sessions" and "plays for children" and whatnot
meanwhile there's the Harry Smith Anthology Of American Folk Music (which I wanna say Mr Ledbetter is on a track or two, but if he isn't, he ought) ... anyone got anything to say about that? Blows my mind every time I even THINK about it, let alone listen!
I don't really play in these styles live, but I listen to them at home and play with the ideas (from Charley Patton's guitar up to all the widely-varied "traditional" songwriting forms) and it informs even the free-est of weirdnesses that I get into onstage or on recordings ... there's a spirit about it all
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