Howling Henry Robinson and Louisiana Dan Garner perform graveside at the resting place of Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter) Jauary 10th, 2009 at The Shiloh Baptist Church on the Blanchard La-Tex Road, Northwest Louisiana.
Is it at all possible for anyone who is black to be credited for their work without someone, somewhere making another individual usually white being credited for it's existence? No Cobain or anyone else did anything for Leadbelly. He needs no recognition from these people, his own people lauded him, he doesn't need these foreign votes of credibility, Try as they may to play blues, it ain't workin blues is a way of life they know how to inflict, not live.
@rich2rock - it wasn't even as bad over here in the poverty stricken factories and mills of Lancashire. People may not have had any clothes but at least they had a home to call their own and no fear of being beaten by their so called 'masters'. Thanks to Leadbelly and others like him, we have a medium to unite us even when we live thousands of miles apart.
@shellovski I guess that could be said. I just believe (in my own opinion) he truly did not get the credit he worked for in life. He was too young to die. And none of us today had it as bad as black people in general back in those times, or could imagine. It was a shame to this country that happened and had support of it at all. Cobain lived in a $100 a month apartment LONG before he bought the house in the neighborhood of Bill Gates. Being under the corporate gun is hell enough I suppose.Peace.
@rich2rock - He was certainly not a 'corporate robot' and fair play for Leadbelly to the attention of Nirvana fans. My point was that Leadbelly had a tough life, some of it his own fault (prison spells) but Kobain never had it tough and when he did, it was his own doing. Can you imagine Cobain working on the chain gang? Or working anywhere for that matter?
@shellovski Cobain was showing respect to Lead Belly when he covered his music in his live mtv performance. No one else in mtv history has ever done so that I am aware of. And furthermore he was murdered because he refused to serve the "machine" anymore. He was anything but a corporate robot.
@kalifson blabla blabla
evilsemla 5 months ago
@kalifson ...black and white... bla bla bla, ... just shut up and listen
plumbo624 8 months ago
Is it at all possible for anyone who is black to be credited for their work without someone, somewhere making another individual usually white being credited for it's existence? No Cobain or anyone else did anything for Leadbelly. He needs no recognition from these people, his own people lauded him, he doesn't need these foreign votes of credibility, Try as they may to play blues, it ain't workin blues is a way of life they know how to inflict, not live.
kalifson 10 months ago
very touching. I tip my cap to ya gentlemen of the blues. blessed love
aaqilian 10 months ago
@rich2rock - it wasn't even as bad over here in the poverty stricken factories and mills of Lancashire. People may not have had any clothes but at least they had a home to call their own and no fear of being beaten by their so called 'masters'. Thanks to Leadbelly and others like him, we have a medium to unite us even when we live thousands of miles apart.
Bless
shellovski 1 year ago
@shellovski I guess that could be said. I just believe (in my own opinion) he truly did not get the credit he worked for in life. He was too young to die. And none of us today had it as bad as black people in general back in those times, or could imagine. It was a shame to this country that happened and had support of it at all. Cobain lived in a $100 a month apartment LONG before he bought the house in the neighborhood of Bill Gates. Being under the corporate gun is hell enough I suppose.Peace.
rich2rock 1 year ago
@rich2rock - I meant for 'bringing' Leadbelly to the attention of Nirvana fans....
shellovski 1 year ago
@rich2rock - He was certainly not a 'corporate robot' and fair play for Leadbelly to the attention of Nirvana fans. My point was that Leadbelly had a tough life, some of it his own fault (prison spells) but Kobain never had it tough and when he did, it was his own doing. Can you imagine Cobain working on the chain gang? Or working anywhere for that matter?
shellovski 1 year ago
This is an AWESOME video. True black and white blues! Lead Belly.
rich2rock 1 year ago
@shellovski Cobain was showing respect to Lead Belly when he covered his music in his live mtv performance. No one else in mtv history has ever done so that I am aware of. And furthermore he was murdered because he refused to serve the "machine" anymore. He was anything but a corporate robot.
rich2rock 1 year ago