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

" Swing Low, Sweet Chariot "
LEADBELLY

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[Producxion]

i love this song

[RagtimeDorianHenry]

cool ! : )

[baconservice]

this is leadbelly you cant mistake the voice

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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?

[joecain123]

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

[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

[joecain123]

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

[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.

[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.