'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot' LEADBELLY, Blues Guitar Legend

[ponchopenguins]

wiki says ... Some say his fellow inmates dubbed him "Lead Belly" as a play on his last name and reference to his physical toughness; others say he earned the name after being shot in the stomach with shotgun buckshot.[14] Another theory has it that the name refers to his ability to drink moonshine, home-made liquor... It is likely that it is simply a corruption of his surname pronounced with a southern accent.

[swiftshop]

This song has been perverted by the tossers of english rugby

[MrBillfitz]

if @wissletooth teaches at a university .. this clown has only half his grade 8

he has grade 4 an no more!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and he failed that,,, but he was forced to

leave school for shaving. gees , he wouldnt know shit from sausage!

[mindwarp666]

The bullets went off = heavy metal, hmmm let me think about that one for a minute.

Yep, sounds good to me! Give this guy a break, he made a funny.

[LuminousCrud]

I swear Hank Williams Sr bit Leadbelly's style

[4l4ddin77]

@LuminousCrud

not just leadbelly. hank was influenced by a lot of blues singers. but a lot of country singers have that tremble in their voices too, like the carter family.

[BennywithaY]

@LuminousCrud Welcome to black music.

[jackstrawfrmwchta]

Lead belly got his name from the old black's tradition of swallowing bullets. They thought this would make them immune to knife and gun attacks. On occasion when they were really playing hard, the fierce vibrating of the guitar would fire the bullets in their stomach and they would violently thrash and convulse about on stage. This phenomenon gave rise to the term "heavy metal" music. Heavy metal, as with all modern rock and roll, has as it's roots, old time blues music. Now you know.

[wizzletooth]

@jackstrawfrmwchta That is without a doubt, one of the dumbest things I have ever read!

[jackstrawfrmwchta]

@wizzletooth You are, without a doubt, a moron. You are ignorant of the history and origins of rock and roll music. This is not wild conjecture. This is fact. It is a wild story, but it is true. I teach music history at a university, so I think I can safely say that I am somewhat of an expert in these matters.

[madmatix]

@jackstrawfrmwchta you sir have been trolled

[pimpinpan]

@jackstrawfrmwchta Buddy.. there is a huge time gap between early blues and modern "heavy metal". For one, an acoustic guitar isn't going to set off a round in someone's stomach, even if you hit them with it. Also, while rock and roll did develop out of the blues, it had much more to do with the sound of overdriving early tube amplifiers. Metal came much, much later than leadbelly. So what university do you teach at?

[4l4ddin77]

@jackstrawfrmwchta

hahahahaa

[PieceofMindmusic]

@jackstrawfrmwchta - WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU SMOKING, SON. The only thing in that entire paragraph you got right was the last sentence about modern musics roots in the blues. Other than that, someone has been feeding you bullshit in trough made from fool's gold.

[jackstrawfrmwchta]

@PieceofMindmusic I have a PhD in the History of Modern Music from a well respected university. My Doctoral Dissertation was on this very subject. I can assure that the aforementioned explanation is indeed factual.

[joecain123]

@jackstrawfrmwchta what a lark, this music came from the uneducated soul of an oppressed balkman, and u have a PHD? lol, get lost

[joecain123]

@joecain123 as a person with common sense, i can assure you that your explanation is the dumbest thing i have ever heard

[SMNONA100]

@joecain123 Do you think "uneducated soul of an oppressed [black man]" may represent a contradiction in terms, considering that his "soul" carried the emotional memory of the Atlantic passage and three hundred years of slavery and injustice? It is not knowledge, but this experience he is expressing in his exquisite language of art and emotion. Emotion has the longest and clearest memory. This was a deeply-educated soul, don't you think?

[ponchopenguins]

@SMNONA100 someone's reading the right books! are you a student of carribean lit and thought? or are you just feeling the mystical traces as they continue their journey through space and time?

[SMNONA100]

@ponchopenguins Certainly the latter. Stern once said, "Emotion is the breath of souls past." It is the past the singer is singing of, if not consciously known. This simple music is emotion painted by sound into portraits and landscapes of meaning and depth unknown to words, and even to thought- the artistic expression of an unfathomable crime centuries long, hidden in emotion's memory. Of long struggle and immense spirit. "Home"- the sacred dream of the human- is, and has always been, Freedom.

[dylster21502]

@jackstrawfrmwchta dam dude u just just fuckin fried his ass- defiently gettin a thumbs up from me

[joecain123]

@jackstrawfrmwchta what a load of crap, "leadbelly" is simply a play on his last name, Ledbetter. Bullets firing off in a stomach, lol u have got to be joking

[JeromeLee1999]

shyt lah

[JSLLH]

sometimes this reminds me of leadbelly ! cheers !,,,the doorknob

[baconservice]

this is leadbelly you cant mistake the voice

[eddpeop5]

great song

[BrokenneckYgor]

dis lead belly, y'all dumb crackers!

[birdstuckinchimney]

This ain't Leadbelly

[Producxion]

i love this song

[RagtimeDorianHenry]

cool ! : )

[Producxion]

its something i find myself singing every once in a while

[Meketrash]

@Producxion seriously? wich kind of person are you?