Leadbelly

National Poetry Series winner makes compelling poetry from the tumultuous life of blues singer Leadbelly.

leadbelly's lessons

what kind of soul has man?

sallie ledbetter: a mother's hymn

john wesley ledbetter

colt protection special

fannin street signifies

mistress stella speaks

1912: blind lemon jefferson explaining to leadbelly

what you gonna do when the world's on fire?

caddo born

blind lemon taught me

misfire

harris county chain gang

alias: walter boyd

lethe on leadbelly

the blood done signed your name

for trouble's sake

bud russel, louisiana prison transfer man, 1920

father

leadbelly: runagate

leadbelly: from sugarland

sing out

Governor Pat Neff

freedom

home

loving era

era washington on leadbelly's stella

black girl, black girl...

mary on martha...

martha promise: grown summer

will you take this load...

martha promise: what i knew

yes, i was standing at the bottom

mooringsport moan

leadbelly in angola prison: down again

leadbelly sings to his #1 crew

july, 1933: leadbelly receives lomax at angola prison

out

home again

martha promise receives leadbelly, 1935

martha promise: keeping peace

man plowing with mules

John Lomax's Recording Machine, 1933

Ethnographer John Lomax Speaks of His Vocation

John Lomax: I Work With Negroes

John Lomax: On Seeking Song

John Lomax Visits Leadbelly in Angola Prison: July, 1933

leadbelly's role

leadbelly: mythology

five year sentence

leadbelly's labor on the lomax trail, 1934

prisoner #489235

the song speaks

you don't know my mind...

Lead Belly: Bad Nigger Makes Good Minstrel

leadbelly v. lomax: song hunting, 1934

John Lomax writes home, 1934

leadbelly writes home, 1934

leadbelly v. lomax at the modern language association conference, 1934

lomax v. leadbelly in new york: letters to home, 1934

lomax v. leadbelly: on the road, 1935

lomax v. leadbelly: dreams

good morning babe, how do you do?

leadbelly & martha: return to new york, 1936

jimmy goodwin, age 9

leadbelly's big city hustle

brownie and leadbelly: stipulations and apprenticeship

martha: life's work

To: Haywood Patterson #386j49

leadbelly: one thing

John Lomax writes home, 1937

martha: weight

josh white writes home, 1941

cab calloway on leadbelly

stella: diminuendo

martha: vigil

leadbelly: christened

Notes

Leadbelly's Timeline

References

Acknowledgments

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