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  • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees
  • American blues guitarists
  • Familicides
  • African-American musicians
  • Prison music
  • Musicians from Dallas, Texas
  • Blues Hall of Fame inductees
  • American blues singers
  • 1949 deaths
  • American accordionists
  • American buskers
  • American folk guitarists
  • American folk singers
  • American multi-instrumentalists
  • American people convicted of murder
  • American people convicted of attempted murder
  • Country blues musicians
  • Musicians from Louisiana
  • Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees
  • Songster musicians
  • Deaths from motor neurone disease
  • 1888 births
  • People from Mooringsport, Louisiana
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  • b. January 29, 1885 in Mooringsport, Louisiana, USAd. December 6, 1949 in New York, NY, USAInducted into Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 (Early Influence).
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  • Huddie William Ledbetter (January 20, 1888 – December 6, 1949) was an American folk and blues musician notable for his strong vocals, virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the songbook of folk standards he introduced. He is best known as Lead Belly. Though many releases list him as %22Leadbelly%22, he himself wrote it as %22Lead Belly%22. This is also the spelling on his tombstone, as well as of the Lead Belly Foundation.Although Lead Belly usually played the twelve-string guitar, he could also play the piano, mandolin, harmonica, violin, and %22windjammer%22 (diatonic accordion). In some of his recordings he sings while clapping his hands or stomping his foot.The topics of Lead Belly's music covered a wide range, including gospel; blues about women, liquor, prison life, and racism; and folk songs about cowboys, prison, work, sailors, cattle herding, and dancing. He also wrote songs about people in the news, such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Jean Harlow, the Scottsboro Boys, and Howard Hughes. Lead Belly was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2008.
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  • 1888-01-29
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  • 1949-12-06
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  • Lead Belly
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  • Storyville
  • Bluebird Records
  • Document Records
  • Folkways Records
  • Rounder Records
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  • Roots
  • Blues
  • Folk
  • Country Blues
  • Delta Blues
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