Tuesday, March 31, 2009

A LIFE IN PICTURES


LEADBELLY
A Life in Pictures
Tyhimba Jess, Tom Waits (introduction)
hardcover, 2008
$50.00

A visual biography of blues great Huddie Ledbetter (Midnight Special, Rock Island Line, Goodnight Irene), discovered by a music anthropologist from the Library of Congress in a Louisiana prison while serving time for assault and murder, consisting of unpublished photographs, news clippings, concert programs, personal correspondence (including letters from Woody Guthrie), record albums, awards and other memorabilia discovered only recently from a basement trunk in New York City.




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