LEDBETTER HUDDIE LEADBELLY Signed flyer for a Real Hootenany

Sale 2068 - Lot 321

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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

RARE SIGNATURE OF LEGENDARY BLUESMAN "LEADBELLY" LEDBETTER, HUDDIE "LEADBELLY." Signed flyer for a "Real Hootenany" to be held at Turner's Arena in Washington, D.C. 113/4x9 inches sheet, folded to form six pages, accordion style; with pictures from photographs of Betty Sanders, Pete Seeger and Leadbelly. signed by leadbelly and pete seeger. [Washington DC, 1948]

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Ledbetter was born on January 29, 1885 on the Jeter Plantation near Mooringsport, Louisiana. His was a hard life, working cotton fields during the day and playing his twelve-string guitar in brothels and juke joints at night. He was jailed numerous times, generally for assault. Jailed twice on homicide charges, he was pardoned twice, the second time after folklorist John Lomax heard him play in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. In 1940, Lomax brought Leadbelly east where he made several recordings and gave concerts. Leadbelly was one of the first Delta blues players to be heard outside of the deep South. He died a year after this Turner Arena concert.