music · 06 December 1949 · 75 years ago
American blues artist, Leadbelly died. Huddie William Ledbetter wrote many songs including 'Goodnight Irene', Cotton Fields, 'The Rock Island Line', and The Midnight Special'. Leadbelly was jailed several times for fights and knife related incidents, he was once jailed for shooting a man dead during an argument over a woman.
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