Comments on: Happy Birthday to a Giant Named Lead Belly

By: Harry Lewman

Harry Lewman — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:08:19 +0000

Hey Chuck!
What a great way to describe “discovering” Lead Belly. There are a lot of people who have had that same experience that you have been enjoying: Robert Plant, Tom Waits, and as you knew, Kurt Cobain to name just a few.

I am a balding white haired white guy, but in a way, Lead Bely may have saved me from a sterile and academic study of music and pushed me into the joy of making music.

TRO/Folkways publishers paid me to spend hours of time listening to Lead Belly. What a treat! I created the Lead Belly songbook: Lead Belly, no stranger to the blues which shows in detail just how Lead Belly tuned and played the guitar and sang.

chek it out at my website hlmusic.com

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By: G_tothe_O_tothedouble_F

G_tothe_O_tothedouble_F — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:29:22 +0000

Charles,

i’m also a card-carrying member of the “SRRCLA”

please don’t resign. Those giant “Nose in the Air’ hats they make us where at the conventions are well worth your annual dues.

great piece on a legend BTW.

By: Matty Taylor

Matty Taylor — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:17:36 +0000

Chuck, you’re on fire…I love the way you write, and your topics are both informative and hilarious. Great stuff.

By: Gamst

Gamst — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:52:35 +0000

No, Chuck, I think you clearly know more about music than Kurt Cobain. Well, you at least know more about not killing yourself.

By: zappafrank

zappafrank — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:30:21 +0000

“…but in the way that dirt is rich and complicated. We don’t really know where it came from or why it exists, but dirt is magic.”

I know where dirt comes from.

I do agree that it is magic though.