View basket “Bakerloo” has been added to your basket. Huddie Leadbetter’s Best Leadbelly SKU: SM1821 Barcode: 5060149620571 34.00 £34.00 Genre: Blues Label: Pure Pleasure Released Date: 29th October 2007 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Leadbelly’s last recording sessions for a commercial record label, held in the early fall of 1944, yielded a dazzling 12 songs, embracing virtuoso guitar blues (“Grasshoppers In My Pillow”), pounding piano-driven scatting (“The Eagle Rocks”, with Leadbelly himself at the ivories, a talent for which he wasn’t usually recognized), and familiar standards done in some startlingly different ways, including “Goodnight, Irene”, “Rock Island Line”, and “Ella Speed”, done with the understated accompaniment of a zither (courtesy of Paul Mason Howard) as well as his own guitar. Leadbelly was in excellent voice and top form on guitar and piano — having gone to California to test the commercial waters, he met Tex Ritter, an old friend, who arranged for Leadbelly to come to his house and, with Merle Travis playing as well and Capitol executive Lee Gillette present, auditioned then and there for the label; he was energized by the experience, and Capitol’s recording caught the brightest as well as the deepest tones in his playing, thus making this record one of the very best showcases for acoustic 12-string guitar of the period. Sadly, only a handful of these tracks were issued during the man’s own lifetime, thus convincing him that they were another career dead end — in 1956 (and again in 1962) they emerged with an impassioned annotation by Dave Dexter Jr., imploring people to buy these last commercial sides by one of the most celebrated bluesmen of the century. Production notes: Whilst this album has been mastered and produced to the highest possible standards it is NOT upto what would be considered audiophile standards. This would be impossible bearing in mind the standards of recording and mastering at the time. 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