Dec 8, 2025
Leadbelly and his wife Martha Promise. Serenading to her in the following photos with "Goodnight Irene", 1935
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Leadbelly and his wife Martha Promise. Serenading to her in the following photos with "Goodnight Irene", 1935
Who Sang it Better?
Lead Belly - In the Pines - 1944
Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Who Sang it Better?
Lead Belly - In the Pines - 1944
Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night - 1994
Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Nirvana (MTV Unplugged, 1993)
This is a great playlist. Starts off with "Hit or Miss" by Odetta: amazing song by a great artist whose voice gives me shivers. I recognize a lot of the artists, but there's also some that are new to me. It's not overly long so it's a perfect intro to the topic.
Former Led Zeppelin Frontman Plants Himself Behind NPR’s Tiny Desk with Saving Grace
Robert Plant has a message to anyone who’s tried to silo him and his new band, Saving Grace.
“We’re not, in fact Americana,” he said from behind NPR’s Tiny Desk, “we’re English-cana.”
Plant went on to explain he and the rest of Saving Grace - singer Suzi Dian, guitarist Tony Kelsey, cellist Barney Morse-Brown, drummer Oli Jefferson and Matt Worley on guitar, banjo and cuatro - met in England near the border with Wales and are fascinated with Celtic music as they apply it to such numbers as the traditional “Gospel Plough” and "Everybody’s Song" and “It’s a Beautiful Day Today” by the American bands Low and Moby Grape, respectively.
Like the self-titled album from whence these songs come, the songs owe as much to the East as to America or Britain, though Plant does work in a reference to Spinal Tap when a little girl in the audience drops her firefighters hat. They, also like the album, sometimes work and sometimes don’t.
Among the latter is the non-album track “Gallows Pole,” which Plant introduces by way of Lead Belly rather than Led Zeppelin. But when he tries for the voice of the latter, he makes the point his more subdued singing with Dian - as with Alison Krauss - is the right path for the modern Plant.
11/24/25
Lead Belly † December 6, 1949
And they used to call Blues, Jazz and Rock'n'Roll "The Devils" music so "good god fearing Christians" would be shamed into not listing/loving music created by Black Folk. Little Richard, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Lead Belly, Bo Diddley and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.