Leadbelly - Fannin Street 

So good

Good music comes from the dirty south lead belly was one best guitar pickers around 40 dollar big shoot!

This is awesome

Legend

Kurt bought me here ...

Wow! This is amazing. Thx for posting

Only on RU-vid. Thank you.

Dave "Snaker" Ray does a great cover of this song. It's on one of the early Koerner, Ray and Glover lps on Elecktra records from back in the mid-60's. It's on youtube also.

$40 was a lot of money, before $1 an hour wage went into effect around 1960. That’s what my grandpa tells me.

Fannin Street is in Shreveport, Louisiana. We had the 3rd largest Red Light District in the country.

Wow !

And how much of America is still the same? I have seen parts of the rural South that's still have dirt roads and no access to electricity

Only recently I learned that was a red light district part of town.

$40 dollar bigshot

Leo Kotke must surely have been deeply influenced by Leadbelly.