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- Thread starter DZ
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Also, just a few pages earlier(p.88) there's a reference to my Grandfather in the short about Leadbelly and "Goodnight Irene." I point it out because the author's depiction of Alan leading him around like a "trained bear" is complete and utter horseshit. In fact, after recording him in prison, Alan and his father helped to get Leadbelly out of the Angola penitentiary by taking a petition to the Governor of Louisiana to have his sentence pardoned. They then hired him to be their driver while continuing to make recordings throughout the deep south and at other penitentiaries collecting folk songs. Keep in mind this was during the great depression when jobs were scarce and it's not like my grandfather and great-grandfather were making a ton of money off of their folk recordings. But, of course, certain "authors" and other current folk music "historians" would make it sound like Leadbelly was some sort of slave for them :facepalm:
