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Re: Leadbelly
Oct 20, 2010, 18:45
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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