Whoa goddam, let Leadbelly in
Huddie William Ledbetter (1888-1949) is or ought to be the poet for our time, but when American poetry is talked about he isn’t, and it’s a damned shame. He isn’t exactly the father of the blues, not like Blind Lemon Jefferson, but he wrote some of the strangest and most beautiful lyrics in American literature. [...]
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