Before his discovery by John and Alan Lomax in 1933 while he was serving a term in Louisiana’s prison system, Huddie Ledbetter, best known as “Lead Belly,” was a busking Louisiana street singer with a ...

Near the beginning of the fifth disc of the new Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection box set, the pioneering jazz writer Fred Ramsey puts on a record. Ramsey, a friend of Lead Belly's, is ...

This 5xCD set is the first full career retrospective of one of the most significant musicians of the twentieth century. It’s also a blast. Save this story Save this story Prestige box sets of pre-rock ...