Réalisation:
Gordon ParksScénario:
Ernest KinoyPhotographie:
Bruce SurteesMusique:
Fred KarlinActeurs·trices:
Roger E. Mosley, James Brodhead, Paul Benjamin, Madge Sinclair, Albert Hall, Art Evans, John Henry Faulk, Ernie Hudson, Lynn Hamilton, Alan Manson (plus)Résumés(1)
Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly, the great American folk singer and 12-string guitarist who died in 1949 at the age of 60, is evoked in beautiful, soft, dreamlike images in Gordon Parks' elegiacal film, LEADBELLY. Leadbelly's life was hard and violent. He was born black at a time when blacks were "darkies," in the Deep South in which "darkies" were supposed to know their place, which, for Leadbelly's family, was sharecropping. But Leadbelly never did know his place for long. He served one sentence for murder on a Texas chain gang and another sentence on a Louisiana chain gang. In 1939, after he had gained his reputation as a folk singer, he was once more up against the law, this time in New York, where he was sentenced to a year in prison for a stabbing. In the meantime he was always refining his music, which provided the order in a life that was in every other respect chaotic. (Cinemax)
(plus)Bandes originales
The Midnight Special
From the LP-Orinal Motion Picture Soundtrack Leadbelly
Publié par : ABC-Paramount
Année : 1976
Pays : États-Unis
Format : LP
Durée : 05:15
1. | SIDE A: "The Midnight Special" - A. Lomax, Ledbetter & A. Lomax | 02:14 | |
2. | SIDE B: "Green Corn" - A. Lomax, Ledbetter & A. Lomax | 03:01 |
Leadbelly
Original Soundtrack Recording
Publié par : ABC Records
Année : 1976
Pays : États-Unis
Format : LP
Durée : 38:52
Commentaires : Arranged and Conducted by Fred Karlin.
1. | SIDE A: "Go Down, Ol' Hannah" - A. Lomax, Ledbetter & J. Lomax | 02:21 | |
2. | "Fannin' Street" - A. Lomax, Ledbetter & J. Lomax | 01:31 | |
3. | "Good Mornin' Blues" - A. Lomax & Ledbetter | 02:40 | |
4. | "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" - L. Jefferson | 02:56 | |
5. | "The Midnight Special" - A. Lomax, Ledbetter & J. Lomax | 02:14 | |
6. | "Gotton Fields (The Cotton Song)" - Ledbetter | 04:45 | |
7. | The Challenge | Fred Karlin | 03:07 |
8. | SIDE B: "Silver City Bound" - A. Lomax & Ledbetter | 02:58 | |
9. | "Rock Island Line" - A. Lomax & Ledbetter | 02:08 | |
10. | "Goodnight Irene" - Ledbetter & J. Lomax | 03:19 | |
11. | "Black Girl" - Ledbetter | 01:43 | |
12. | "Green Corn" - A. Lomax, Ledbetter & J. Lomax | 03:01 | |
13. | "Bring Me A Li'l Water, Silvy" - A. Lomax, Ledbetter & J. Lomax | 01:38 | |
14. | "Old Riley (In Dem Long Hot Summer Days)" - A. Lomax, Ledbetter & J. Lomax | 04:31 |