

Leadbelly
You can't bury a black legend like Leadbelly!
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The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there.
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Roger E. Mosley
Huddie Ledbetter
- J
James Brodhead
John Lomax
- J
John McDonald
Tom Pruitt
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Leonard Wrentz
Guard

Ernie Hudson
Archie
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Dana Manno
Margaret Judd
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William Wintersole
Sheriff Gibbons

Paul Benjamin
Wes Ledbetter

Lynn Hamilton
Sally Ledbetter

Carole Lamond
Laura May
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Melba Englander
Evaline
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Pamela Singleton
Fat Bessie
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