Roots of Blues -- Lead Belly „On Monday"

[JackBootCharlie]

the public enemy and nwa and barrick obarma of his generation wearing best bib and tucker for the publicity shot

[pietzsche]

@KrashnyPloshad7 and it's awesome. He also does a great version of goodnight irene.

[radiopete]

From 1943 -- Sonny Terry's harmonica is the perfect compliment to Hudie's powerful voice. I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!

[jmoneysin]

some fact you have listed are not true, not by your own fault. Midnight special is an old song and can be traced back to Sam Collins 1927. It is most likely older than that version. You will find that lead belly did not do a lot of writing his own material.

[phenethylaminedreams]

The blues just sort of gets passed on. It's not 'ripping off'- the blues comes from time when there were no cheap recordings of music, and musicians played what people wanted to hear. Even today, folk and blues musicians pay tribute to the standards and record their own versions. It doesn't matter who wrote what- it's the blues.

[TheJesseHarmon]

Cash took a lot of songs and made them his own. "Frankie's Man, Johnny," and "Folsom Prison Blues," comes to mind.

[lunalaska]

Can anybody prove that Lead Belly wrote this song? I'm all for holding people accountable for blatant plagarism, but a lot of these songs in this era and in this style just got "passed on" from performer to performer without regard for who the author was. Why? Because nobody fucking knew who actually wrote the damn song. For all we know, Huddie could have "ripped this off" as much as Cash did but, of course, if nobody knows who wrote it then it's not really plagarism, is it?

[Juliasblues]

Love that Sonny Terry Harp !

[dropd26]

I hadn`t heard this until lately and this is SO close to I Got Stripes by Cash it`s Copyright Infringement worthy. I thought Led Zeppelin was the only band to lift old blues music so directly.

[tafflad1]

i havent heard this for probably 20 years,...love it,..must hunt out my old records,..cheers.

[alexisntonfire1]

soon as both men are dead im guessing that a court case would do a lot of good MeetTheNewYOu

[karl198]

Nick cave did abit of this song in his version of 'black betty' :)

[howuluvindat]

I love dat

[MeetTheNewYOu]

he ought to sue Johnny Cash- he even lifted that train wheel rhythm ;)

[wakuwaku333666]

funny !!! :P

[watchinshadows]

another great one from hudie

[zorbazig]

Please more tags, in order to make these masterpieces known by the great number !...

[fdumitr]

Great musician