Thursday, November 13, 2008


The Heart of Lead Belly

A Singer to Be Reckoned With

By Martin Jack Rosenblum

Take out the amateur, needlessly placed poems by Tyehimba Jess in mawkish, embarrassing praise of Lead Belly and we have a perfect book.Lead Belly: A Life inPictures (Steidl) is not merely a picture book at all, but is rife with brilliant essays and era-specific memorabilia that portray the complexity of the man who just might be America's finest folksinger.

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