Bourgeois Blues

Monday morning, Huddie Ledbetter, the great blues and folk singer known as Lead Belly, talks and sings about being thrown out of a whites-only boarding house in Washington DC. The recording is listed as made in 1936.

Thanks to YouTuber Traveler Into The Blue

We’re In The Same Boat, Brother

Monday morning, patching the leaky boat, with Leadbelly singing the Earl Robinson/E. Y. Harburg song.

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