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Huddie Ledbetter aka Lead Belly spent a good many years in prison and also known as a man who literally sang his way out of it. Lead Belly has had a lot of his music covered by such notables as, The Grateful Dead, Johnny Cash, Rod Stewart, The Doors and many, many more artist. But one of his songs, Gallis Pole was covered by none other than Led Zeppelin and renamed it, "Gallows Pole"
Lead Belly most noted for playing the 12 string.
This song, Pick a Bale of Cotton, was also covered by ABBA. Also this video has had color added to it for better visual.
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Added: 15th November 2008
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Posted By: ChowDog |
 
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He had a huge, loud, powerful voice
With the right acoustics in a building he would'nt have needed a mic.
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