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The Leadbelly legend; a collection of world-famous songs. Edited by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax. Hally Wood, music editor. Special note on Leadbelly's 12-string guitar by Pete ...

Words and music principally by Ledbetter; includes folk song adaptations. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full ...
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Music: After Lead Belly, Ironhead

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Tulsa World

Lomax had big impact on American music

Lomax's father worked to obtain Leadbelly's pardon from prison, took him to New York City and arranged his early public appearances there. By 1940 Lomax had succeeded his father as director of the ...
Houston Chronicle

Folklore is the family tradition with 'Lomax on Lomax'

John Lomax III grew up with the Houston Folklore & Music Society. By that, I don’t just mean the two are roughly the same age: Lomax was born in 1944; the folklore organization started in 1951. But ...
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Music: Murderous Minstrel

In Texas a black buck known as Lead Belly murdered a man. He sang a petition to Governor Pat Neff and was granted a pardon. Back in the Louisiana swamplands, where he was born Huddie Ledbetter, his ...
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Acetate Transfers: Josh White, Bess Hawes, People's Songs, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Lead Belly et.al. [sound recording]

1-5. ACT-3652 Freedom Hoot Radio Show pt. 2, People's Songs, 16 May 1946, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Butch and Bess Hawes, Josh White, Sam Geary, Lu-Lang Mo, Frank Warner, Helen Schneyer, Lord Invader, ...