President Jimmy Carter designated June as Black Music Month in 1979, recognizing the pivotal role Black musicians have played ...

Each artist gave Cotton Fields their own spin. Lead Belly sang it with heartfelt pain and honesty. CCR added a bold rock rhythm, while The Beach Boys softened it with sweet harmonies.

But when it comes to Bob, the Bard told a story about Lead Belly when he received his Nobel Prize. Dylan said Lead Belly’s recording of the song “Cotton Fields” changed his life.

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In many ways, whilst Lead Belly is full of dialogue and scene changes, it conjures a similar vibe to Skinamirink. There is something about children left alone that causes unease.

Perhaps more than any decade in popular music history, the 1960s were filled with stars. From the Beatles to the Rolling Stones to Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Doors, Bob Dylan and myriad ...

"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 ...

The folk musician who sang himself out of Texas’s most brutal prison Sheila Curran Bernard’s Bring Judgment Day rescues the real Lead Belly from the murderous hypocrisy of Jim Crow’s America ...

I must have played that record a hundred times.” ‘Cotton Fields’ was Dylan’s invitation to the world of folk music. In September 1960, he borrowed a copy of Woody Guthrie’s autobiography from a ...

One of Lead Belly’s most famous works from this period was ‘Cotton Song’, which impressed audiences through the 1930s but wasn’t recorded until 1940. Reminiscent of John Steinbeck’s portfolio, the ...

The Bears had a big lead last week, of course, and it fell apart in the fourth quarter. They led the Broncos 28-7 late in the third before losing 31-28 in the final minutes. Fields posted a 132.7 ...

Lead Belly was a big man. Around his neck was a white scar that stretched from ear to ear. Twice, he went to jail on murder charges, and in both cases, he emerged from the jail, prison, or penitent… ...