This man was the first to record a song about a road where "you gotta ride it like you find it" and another song about a man who will "take the morphine and die" if he's abandoned by the woman he married "last Saturday night.
This man was the first to record a song about a road where "you gotta ride it like you find it" and another song about a man who will "take the morphine and die" if he's abandoned by the woman he married "last Saturday night." In a noted concert, this man was erroneously credited with writing a song about "a hard working man" whose "body never was found." This former travel companion of Blind Lemon Jefferson sang for Pat Neff, the governor of (*) Texas, who commuted his first murder sentence; while imprisoned again in Louisiana, he met John and Alan Lomax. For 10 points, name this folk pioneer and popularizer of "Rock Island Line," "Goodnight Irene," and "Where Did You Sleep Last Night," whose nickname may derive from his surviving a shotgun blast to the stomach.
This man was the first to record a song about a road where "you gotta ride it like you find it" and another song about a man who will "take the morphine and die" if he's abandoned by the woman he married "last Saturday night.
Leadbelly [or Huddie William Ledbetter]