“This here song,” the late Huddie (“Lead Belly”) Ledbetter used to explain, “was made about a man an’ a girl was walkin’ along one Sunday evenin’. Jus’ befo’ this girl an’ man got to de house, she ...

"Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow Lies," by Sheila Curran Bernard. The wedding of Huddie and Martha Ledbetter on Jan. 20, 1935 included Alan Lomax, third from the left, ...

When Huddie Ledbetter first arrived in New York in 1935, he was blazoned in the Herald Tribune as "a powerful, knife-toting Negro, who has killed one man and ...

With thousands of folks already fleeing parts of North Carolina and news of its remnants already being tracked in the New York tri-state area. . .all eyes are definitely on Irene, but some ears are on ...