Leadbelly's "Po' Howard." (Steel-String - guitar) (Column)

Guitar Player | May 1, 1993| | Copyright

Let's look at another early recorded example of blues and fingerpicking in open G (D, G, D, G, B, D), a tuning that has its roots in nineteenth-century parlor music. Our music clearly shows the transformation from the genteel parlor idiom to a rock-solid barrelhouse style. The piece is from "Po' Howard," as played by Huddie Ledbetter or, as he was better known, Leadbelly, the "King of the 12-string Guitar Players of the World."

Leadbelly was from southern Louisiana and played around the Texas border towns in the early 1900s with legendary bluesman Blind Lemon ...

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