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Smithsonian Folkways producer and archivist Jeff Place takes us through a history of the singer's biggest hits as he discusses the ... In the summer of 1933, a father and son drove through the Jim Crow South carrying a recording machine and a mission, save ... himself wrote it as "Lead Belly", which is also the spelling on his tombstone and the spelling used by the

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• Smithsonian Folkways producer and archivist Jeff Place takes us through a history of the singer's biggest hits as he discusses the ...
• In the summer of 1933, a father and son drove through the Jim Crow South carrying a recording machine and a mission, save ...
• himself wrote it as "Lead Belly", which is also the spelling on his tombstone and the spelling used by the

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