Huddie

Inside, they recorded 12-string guitar player Huddie Ledbetter, who was serving time for attempted homicide.

The Lomaxes head out on their first mission 2011

Inside, they recorded 12-string guitar player Huddie Ledbetter, who was serving time for attempted homicide.

The Lomaxes head out on their first mission 2011

But Laurie delivered it with a respect for long-gone originals of the art like Jelly Roll Morton, Huddie Ledbetter, Leroy Carr and JB Lenoir, a more than competent sideman's skills on piano and guitar, and an actor's instincts for the art of tribute without caricature in some fine vocals, that rekindled a music often abandoned to archivists and buffs.

Hugh Laurie at Cheltenham Jazz Festival - review 2011

  Her name was Iris and she taught English and Painting at Huddie, a boarding school my mother sent me to the fall I was fifteen.

Things Every Woman Should Know About Love 2010

Note: a second guitar accompanyment on this song may have been played by Huddie "Leadbelly"

Blind Lemon Jefferson Lyrics 2009

But yeah, “Black Betty” is a cover of what seems to have been an old African-American work song first recorded by Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter way back in the day, although it seems Ledbetter got it from a marching cadence about a flint-lock rifle.

“Black Betty had a child, bam-ba-lam, damned thing gone wild” 2008

Shots of the early Folk Scene were very interesting -- from John Jacob Niles to Odetta to Woody Guthrie to Pete Seeger, the Weavers, the Lost City Ramblers, the Clancy Brothers, and my favorite -- Huddie Ledbetter AKA "Leadbelly," who died the year I was born.

View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005

These and one or two other excursions into Blaxploitation/action movies were followed by a biopic of Huddie Ledbetter, aka Leadbelly.

Archive 2005-10-01 KaneCitizen 2005

Shots of the early Folk Scene were very interesting -- from John Jacob Niles to Odetta to Woody Guthrie to Pete Seeger, the Weavers, the Lost City Ramblers, the Clancy Brothers, and my favorite -- Huddie Ledbetter AKA "Leadbelly," who died the year I was born.

Archive 2005-09-25 Michael Evans 2005

We have some pretty darn good pitchers here now (Barry) Zito, Huddie (Tim Hudson) and (Mark) Mulder.

USATODAY.com - A's Chavez appears on brink of stardom 2002