Lead Belly - "Careless Love" video free download
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This video features Lead Belly's "Careless Love" from the 1994 album "Lead Belly's Last Sessions" on Smithsonian Folkways.
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Comments
8 years ago
Isabelle M
Lead Belly - Careless Love 9 years ago
Huckleberry Alexander
when you listen to this and then hear those early early recordings of dylan...that's the speaking voice he uses between songs and in interviews. it's a dead-on impression.9 years ago
haanashim
Not *just* a violent black man. Also a great folk musician.9 years ago
MrGrevy
Just a violent old nigger felon.9 years ago
Elena Reed
Ledbetter's voice is growing on me, nice voice, and though I can't always understand through his thick accent, the chatting is very informative. Like his pronunciation of "Looz-anna". Encountered this Careless Love song the first time as a kid watching the biopic with Nat King Cole as W.C. Handy. :>) #leadbelly 9 years ago
Mad Fabe
Careless LoveLead Belly (Huddie William Ledbetter )10 years ago
Paddy Warde
This man is an absolute legend his folk and blues was the start of music that we hear today, you may not like his music, but ya gotta respect the man...We've all gone through Careless Love.10 years ago
catamaraner
As with sea shanties, there are verses that get dropped into several songs: the lines about the apron are common to Careless Love and to Dink's Song (Fare thee well my honey). Just one of the challenging things about a non-written musical tradition!10 years ago
gian paolo Puglisi
Wonderful upload !10 years ago
Ethan Davidson
New Lead Belly songs just keep turning up. What an amzingly prolific guy.Elvis better? No sir, I don't think so.10 years ago
Dem Ise
Wow this is nice! I wrote a song with the same name "Careless Love" a long time ago before i even heard of Leadbelly! Cool!10 years ago
Mama Claude
Brilliant mind, Beautiful soul. Love till death, past this long haul, toll. I hope to have a legacy as inspiring and consistent as yours, Lead Belly.10 years ago
MrNebulonicalchemy
Cajun sounding.. creole10 years ago
GiuseppeGrasso89
check my channel if ya can10 years ago
Patrick Wall
Leadbelly is an excellent artist - you can see the influence he has had on everyone from Woody Guthrie to Moon Mullican to Bill Broonzy to Jerry Lee Lewis on this one song.10 years ago
Tropicalfrooploops
not at all10 years ago
Phil Silverman
correction: uh huh huh10 years ago
Octavian Guy
...Forty-five million songs...uh-huh.11 years ago
Phil Silverman
Little Richard - King of Rock. Elvis - King of Pop. KLeadbelly - amazing prophetic genius.11 years ago
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