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THE MISFIT MESSIAH He's a short, shaven-headed, non-smoking, near-teetotal vegan who abhors drugs, loves religion and has spent much of the past decade in the musical margins. So how come Moby is suddenly the new superhero for the dance generation? William Shaw meets a techno-prodigy even your dad will enjoy listening to
; ...swamps, farms and prisons, father and son travelled in search of the music they loved, discovering singers like Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter en route and recording some of the finest American folk and blues of the period. Now, more than 60 years later...
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The Week
; ...host Oprah Winfrey (1954). Women's rights activist Germaine Greer (1939). Blues singer Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter (1885). Twenty-fifth U.S. president William McKinley (1843). "Common Sense" author Thomas Paine (1737). On This Date Edgar Allen...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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JAZZ CD OF THE WEEK: Bill Frizell The Willies.(Review)
; ...Old Hen (by that prolific composer Traditional) and Huddie Ledbetter's Goodnight Irene. The rest are by Frisell, but as...instrumental music - he conjures up images as rich as William Faulkner's, with that same double-sided nature of being...
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Race Men
; ...from W.E.B. Du Bois to Paul Robeson, Huddie Ledbetter, C.L.R. James, Miles Davis, Samuel...flattened hierarchy that would position William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, "Leadbelly...Lomax in the fashioning of blues figure Huddie Ledbetter, imprisoned for assault with a deadly...
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GEOFF MULDAUR "The Secret Handshake" Hightone
; ...Though consistently appealing, some of the tunes are familiar (Huddie Ledbetter's "Alberta"), others obscure (Vera Ward's "The Wild Ox Moan...Muldaur, call Post-Haste at 202/334-9000 and press 8128. (Prince William residents, call 690-4110.)
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FALL ARTS PREVIEW; Folk/Blues; Shows dig roots of rhythm.(Scene)
; ...Theatre in Cambridge on Nov. 4. Odetta will salute Huddie William Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly, as she does on her...speaking of reunions, women's music pioneers Cris Williamson, Margie Adam, Barbara Higbie and Teresa Trull get...
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The Inventor of Jazz Revisited
; ...exploitation of the career of folk singer Huddie Ledbetter and their publication of Negro...classical music, primarily, as critic William Russell asserted in 1944, for his...writer for the Chicago Tribune, and William Gaines, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning...
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ROOTED IN BLACK & WHITE; Hollywood tells riveting tales of race relations
; ...in wide-screen, three-dimensional Technicolor. Be it William Wallace leading the Scots in revolt against the British...entertaining tale of the legendary black troubadour Huddie Ledbetter, whose art was greatly compromised by his love for...
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Honoring Unsung Folk
; ...stamps, which newly installed Postmaster General William J. Henderson will dedicate at the concert, are the...harmonica player Sonny Terry, guitarist and singer Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter and singer Josh White will grace the block of four...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
; ...self-confidence. The midwives were William Ferris, an anthropologist who enjoys...see O'Connor, Flannery; Faulkner, William; Walker, Alice) and more popular-music...English-speaking world put together (see Ledbetter, Huddie; Presley, Elvis; Wills, Bob; Armstrong...geographical boundaries. ...
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