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Married. Huddie Ledbetter. ("Lead Belly"), 46, Negro singer and guitar player, twice-pardoned murderer (TIME, Jan. 14); and Martha Promise, Shreveport. La. laundress; at the Wilton, Conn. home of John Avery Lomax, music anthologist...
...black buck known as Lead Belly murdered a man. He sang a petition to Governor Pat Neff and was granted a pardon. Back in the Louisiana swamplands, where he was born Huddie Ledbetter, his knife made more trouble. He was in State Prison at Angola when John A. Lomax, eminent ballad collector, stopped by last summer and asked the warden if he could please hear Lead Belly sing...
...John Lomax arrived in Manhattan last week to lecture on ballads and with him was Lead Belly, wild-eyed as ever. The Negro had been pardoned again because Mr. Lomax had made a phonograph record of a second petition and taken it to Louisiana's Governor Allen. Lead Belly was released from prison on Aug. 1. Month later when Mr. Lomax was sitting in a Texas hotel he felt a tap on his shoulder. It was Lead Belly, saying: "Boss, here I is." His knife bulged in his pocket. In his hand was a rickety green-painted guitar held...
Wearing overalls and a blue hickory shirt over a yellow one, Lead Belly sang in Manhattan last week for University of Texas alumni. And John Lomax was nervous. Theatrical agents and radio scouts insisted on hearing his protege, who had been out on a wild 24-hour rampage in Harlem. Until it was time for him to sing Lomax kept his hell-raising minstrel locked up in a coat room. But the performance went off without mishap. Lead Belly's voice is rich and clear. He plays and sings with his eyes closed, taps single time with one foot...
...jelly" in the Louisiana swamplands means a very fat woman. Many of Lead Belly's songs are in Lomax's excellent book, American Ballads and Folk Songs (Macmillan...