Leadbelly Facts

Oui, mais c’est une reprise de Ray Charles - Mess Around
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNe5npkid-s

Messer raus! Mess around : ah oui, carrément !

Ils ne reconnaissent pas le « vol » :

The Attention ! ‎– Have A Drink / Messer Raus
▻https://www.discogs.com/The-Attention-Have-A-Drink-Messer-Raus/release/4420064

A) Have A Drink
Written-By – Mario ’King D’ David

B) Messer Raus
Written-By – Mario ’King D’ David, Martin ’Mazo’ Tomez, A. Nugetre

Pardon, je corrige, ils reconnaissent bien l’emprunt puisque dans les auteurs il y a « A. Nugetre » qui est en fait l’un des pseudonymes de Ahmet Ertegün, l’auteur de la chanson de Ray Charles...

#merci @sinehebdo pour la découverte !
J’aime le #boogie_woogie mais dans le genre baston de samedi soir je préfère nos chanson populaires :

Licht aus, Messer raus !
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/688371
et surtout

Bolle reiste jüngst zu Pfingsten
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/115320 (avec paroles)
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/424127

Heureusement qu’on ne censure pas les oeuvres historiques car dans le genre « incitation au meurtre » ce sont de belles réussites ;-)

Pourtant la première place parmi mes meurtriers préférés occupe Lead Belly dont le pseudonyme est vraiment effrayant. Quand il chante Irene, where did you sleep last night on s’estime heureux de ne pas être l’Irène de la chanson.

Lead Belly Sings « Goodnight Irene »
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn50JSI0W-E

▻https://crimescribe.com/2014/08/23/hiddue-leadbelly-ledbetter-bluesman-convict-and-murderer

In 1915, he was on the run after a Texas bar brawl (which had been a pretty ugly affair) when he had another difference of opinion during which his opponent lost through the simple means of being killed. As a black man in 1910’s Texas facing a murder rap he was lucky not to hang, but unlucky enough to draw 99 years in the Texas prison system. His unscheduled career break lasted until 1924 when, having spent his spare time (he had plenty) playing and singing for guards, the prison warden and State Governor Pat Neff, Neff was so impressed that right before his departure from office he granted a pardon and ‘Lead Belly’ was a free man once more.

Not for long, however. It seems that our bellytastic bluesman just couldn’t keep his hands off the bottle (or anybody who annoyed him after he’d emptied one). Career break number two came as a guest of his native Louisiana and a spell at the dreaded Louisiana State Penitentiary, known simply as ‘Angola.’ Like anybody just passing through he opted to collect a lasting souvenir of his stay, albeit in the form of a scar running almost entirely around his neck. This delightful gift came courtesy of a fellow inmate who presumably didn’t like him all that much and chose to express his feelings by trying to remove our hero’s head with a straight razor. The mighty ‘Belly’ somehow survived this somewhat aggressive self-expression. His luckless opponent almost died because, even after being sliced like a side of ham, ‘Lead Belly’ still proceeded to club him almost to death before being dragged off to solitary.
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Avoiding trouble with other inmates probably became easier after his little altercation as other inmates quite wisely avoided him like the plague (winning a fight by surviving near-decapitation and then beating your opponent almost to death tends to have that effect on people).

▻https://biography.yourdictionary.com/leadbelly

After a fight in which he claimed that six men tried to steal whiskey from his lunch pail, Leadbelly was convicted of assault with intent to commit murder. Court records, however, show that he was convicted of assaulting a white Salvation Army officer with a knife at a Salvation Army concert after the officer told Leadbelly to stop dancing to the music.

@nepthys