It was called St. Paul's Bottoms, after the old St. Paul Methodist Church on Caddo Street, and it was a low-lying part of town where the...

Huddie found his true love. After he was released from Angola. He found his other half that could make him a better man.

This song I am particularly proud of as it is a collaboration if you will with the late great Leadbelly. As I did research I have come...

The shining black pipelines and the derricks brought new jobs to the region as well. Between 1900 and 1910, Caddo Parish's population...

Huddie had a few love stories over the course of his life. He loved women. His music, his presence and personality were big and he...

It was as early as 1912 these 2 iconic guitar legends met, and from the time that Huddie and Blind Lemon met they made their way up and...

1913-1915 Huddie Ledbetter did some galavanting and getting about town. He would play and sing and get in to trouble if trouble might be...

There has always been a desire to capture, contain, list and categorize. To Save and share and maintain a record. The origination of a...

After another round of college dates, he decided to follow the lead of so many American jazzmen and try his luck overseas. On May 8,...

This is after the magic fades. The Lomaxes brought Huddie freedom, but at what price. Is it a price he is willing to pay. He knows to get...

134 years ago a convergence of technology and creativity occurred. The newly invented gramophone was introduced commercially as a means...

Huddie would play sukey-jumps, house parties, barrelhouse, bar-house, back-alley saloons day and night, he loved to entertain and reveled...

excerpt from: The Leadbelly Songbook by Asch, Moses and Alan Lomax; Editors. publisher: Oak Publications, New York publication Date: 1962