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Leadbelly – Legendary Performances

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Collections: Blues, Folk

Product type: Used Vinyl

Vendor: Power Plant Records

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Title: Leadbelly – Legendary Performances
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1970, Folk, Folk Blues, Shreveport, Louisiana
Matrix #: LP. C 30035
Condition: EX

Cultural Facts:

  1. Legal Trouble: His prison time shaped his legend—John and Alan Lomax recorded him in Southern penitentiaries, turning incarceration into a doorway to the national stage.

  2. Media Narrative: Promoters sold him as “authentic” folk, often flattening his complexity; later rock and folk revivals treated his songs like common property.

  3. Personal Struggle: He lived through poverty, violence, and repeated imprisonment, then died young in 1949 from ALS after his health deteriorated fast.

3/13/26 LM