Leadbelly

OccultHawk · 02-25-2011, 10:03 AM

He's a serious candidate for most influential musician of the past 100 years.

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra · 05-18-2011, 06:23 PM

Reading a biography on him right now. Amazing stuff.

BTown · 05-18-2011, 08:28 PM

I got his discography but I never really got into it. I've been meaning to read more up on him.

Blank. · 09-05-2016, 11:23 AM

I'm bumping this because of how amazing leadbelly was!

Seriously, this man is the greatest blues singer ever!

**Frownland** · 09-05-2016, 03:47 PM

He certainly is one of the greatest storytellers the genre had seen. There are other artists I hold above him as a whole (Son House, Charlie Patton, and Robert Johnson, among others), he's still among the greatest.

Merickson · 12-04-2016, 09:24 PM

Lead Belly is oddly paired in my mind with AP Carter.
Both were conduits of music from the people to commercial scene.

What is a Lead Belly song? He didn't write Goodnight Irene or Rock Island Line, but they are Lead Belly songs. Similarly with lots of Carter Family songs.

Lead Belly's music got known by other people playing it, not so much him.

A friend recently turned me onto the version of In The Pines by Fantastic Negrito. Good stuff.

Merickson · 01-13-2017, 06:16 PM

I have an odd question.

Next Friday, I have a radio show celebrating Lead Belly's birthday and I need to know how to pronounce "Fantastic Negrito"

Is it
n[eh]gr[ee]to
or
n[ih]gr[eh]to
or
n[ih]gr[ee]to?

[eh] as in "met"
[ee] as in "feat"
[ih] as in "sit"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBarS2VUqXc

**Frownland** · 01-17-2017, 12:56 PM

[eh] as in "met"

Merickson · 01-17-2017, 10:56 PM

Thank you.

05-18-2011, 08:28 PM	#23 (permalink)
BTown super cool Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 806	I got his discography but I never really got into it. I've been meaning to read more up on him. __________________

09-05-2016, 03:47 PM	#25 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	He certainly is one of the greatest storytellers the genre had seen. There are other artists I hold above him as a whole (Son House, Charlie Patton, and Robert Johnson, among others), he's still among the greatest. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

01-17-2017, 12:56 PM	#28 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	[eh] as in "met" __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

02-25-2011, 10:03 AM	#21 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	He's a serious candidate for most influential musician of the past 100 years.

09-05-2016, 11:23 AM	#24 (permalink)
Blank. Jacob Sartorius Join Date: May 2016 Location: Dank memes Posts: 4,033	I'm bumping this because of how amazing leadbelly was! Seriously, this man is the greatest blues singer ever!

12-04-2016, 09:24 PM	#26 (permalink)
Merickson Groupie Join Date: Dec 2016 Posts: 17	Lead Belly is oddly paired in my mind with AP Carter. Both were conduits of music from the people to commercial scene. What is a Lead Belly song? He didn't write Goodnight Irene or Rock Island Line, but they are Lead Belly songs. Similarly with lots of Carter Family songs. Lead Belly's music got known by other people playing it, not so much him. A friend recently turned me onto the version of In The Pines by Fantastic Negrito. Good stuff.

01-13-2017, 06:16 PM	#27 (permalink)
Merickson Groupie Join Date: Dec 2016 Posts: 17	I have an odd question. Next Friday, I have a radio show celebrating Lead Belly's birthday and I need to know how to pronounce "Fantastic Negrito" Is it n[eh]gr[ee]to or n[ih]gr[eh]to or n[ih]gr[ee]to? [eh] as in "met" [ee] as in "feat" [ih] as in "sit" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBarS2VUqXc

01-17-2017, 10:56 PM	#29 (permalink)
Merickson Groupie Join Date: Dec 2016 Posts: 17	Thank you.