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Music Tuesday #009: A history lesson, to celebrate the start of the school year!

Lead Belly, born poor, was a delta blues man who liked women and got in jail for murder.
A hard life and talent mixes well, here are a couple of originals you probably only know the cover of:

Where did you sleep last night?  Famous cover by Nirvana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6yCEsDsGx4

Black Betty.  Famous cover by Ram Jam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fii6PX0-VXs

The house of the rising sun.  Famous cover by The Animals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5tOpyipNJs

Goodnight Irene.  Famous cover by Frank Sinatra.

Midnight Special.  Famous cover by Van Morrison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrdioqIMtpY

Cotton Fields. Covered by the Beach Boys, CCR and Johnny Cash...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSnuMaA7duo

BTW, Lead Belly discovered the then unkown Woodie Guthrie in New York shortly before he died.
There's another history lesson due in our Music Tuesdays at some point.

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