Leadbelly – Leadbelly

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Collections: Blues, Folk

Product type: Used Vinyl

Vendor: Power Plant Records

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Title: Leadbelly - Leadbelly
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1970, Folk, Country Blues, Mooringsport, Louisiana 6/26
Matrix #: C 30035
Condition: EX, sounds great, looks great (CC) | Members: Huddie L (88' - 49')
Cultural Facts:

  1. Personal Struggle: Leadbelly spent years in Texas and Louisiana prisons, where music became both survival tool and the thing that eventually carried his name outside the walls.
  2. Legal Trouble: His prison releases became part of the myth, with songs, petitions, and folklorist attention all feeding the story of a dangerous man turned folk source.
  3. Scene Ecology: Alan Lomax’s recordings helped move Leadbelly from regional Black folk tradition into the Library of Congress and the later folk revival canon.

3/13/26 LM 6/13/2026 CC