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YouTube Videos
Leadbelly - Where Did you Sleep Last Night (03:07)
This is the song that Mark Lanegan and Nirvana covered. It is not a Nirvana song, or a Mark Lanegan song. It is a traditional song that Leadbelly was the first to record it. Lanegan and Cobain heard it and loved it.
Leadbelly - Three songs by Leadbelly (09:09)
1945 movie of Leadbelly performing 3 songs. Only known video of him. Songs include: instrumental version of "Where did you sleep last night?" "Pick a bale of cotton" "The Grey Goose" "Take this hammer"
leadbelly - house of the rising sun (02:24)
there is a house in new orleans they call the rising sun it's been the ruin of a many a poor girl and me, oh god are one if i had listened like momma said i would not be here today but being so young and foolish too...
Leadbelly "Black Betty" (00:59)
This song is about a child born of incest and rape which may explain why Huddie gives an off beat rapping to the back of his guitar
Live
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The Velvet Hearts
- Frog and Wicket, Eversley Cross
- Jan 10, 2009
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Animal Collective
- KOKO, London
- Jan 12, 2009
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The News - - Manchester - -
- See Myspace for gigs..., Manchester
- Jan 12, 2009
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Bruno Gallone
- Ducking Stool, Leominster
- Jan 14, 2009
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Soft Toy Emergency
- Academy, Liverpool
- Jan 17, 2009
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Soft Toy Emergency
- Carling Academy, Liverpool
- Jan 17, 2009
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Bruno Gallone
- Railway Hotel, Evesham
- Jan 18, 2009
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All That Remains
- Carling Academy 2, Birmingham
- Jan 19, 2009
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All That Remains
- Academy 2, Birmingham
- Jan 19, 2009
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All That Remains
- Academy, Manchester
- Jan 21, 2009
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