Lead Belly
Lead Belly's Gear
Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly played a Stella 12 string. So did a lot of other Blues men. Most loved the big, big sound it got when they played slide guitar. Most of them tuned their Stella's down to accommodate the tension of the strings.
http://uniqueguitar.blogspot.mx/2009/11/stella-12-string-guitar.html
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This circa 1942 contact print of press photos (archived by the Library of Congress) is the only known photographic record of Lead Belly's "windjammer", which is discussed at length in the 1994 essay "Leadbelly and His Windjammer: Examining the African American Button Accordion Tradition" by Jared Snyder. Woody Guthrie mentioned the accordion in an October 3, 1940 letter to Henrietta Yurchenco, who reprinted the letter in her book A Mighty Hard Road: The Woody Guthrie Story.
Huddie plays a little old $4 accordion and you can actually hear the sad note of his people singing in the swamps and jungles and echoing in the Louisiana moss.
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Lead Belly famously used the Harmony Stella H912 12-String Acoustic guitar, as seen in a photograph from the National Museum of African American History, captured by afagen on Flickr.
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Discography
Leadbelly ARC & Library of Congress Recordings Vol. 1 (1934-1935)
1935
Leadbelly ARC & Library of Congress Recordings Vol. 2 (1935)
1935
Leadbelly ARC & Library of Congress Recordings Vol. 3 (1935)
1935
Leadbelly ARC & Library of Congress Recordings Vol. 4 (1935-1938)
1938
Leadbelly Vol. 1 1939-1940
1940
Lead Belly Private Party Minneapolis Minnesota '48
1943
Leadbelly Vol. 2 1940-1943
1943
Leadbelly Vol. 4 1939-1947
1947
Leadbelly Vol. 5 1939-1947
1947
Leadbelly Vol. 3 1939-1947
1947
Leadbelly "Live" New York, 1947 & Austin, Texas, 1949
1949
Tradition Masters Series
1959
