The Week in Birthdays, January 23-26
Lead Belly, Django Reinhardt, Jeanne Moreau, Pescado Rabioso, Darrow Fletcher, Neville Brothers, Kip Anderson, Michael Chapman, Klaus Nomi, Matthew & Peter, Universal Togetherness Band, more
Welcome to the working week. Today is January 23, and the legendary Lead Belly was born in Louisiana on this day in 1888. He’s well known of course to roots and blues fans, but also had another moment during the grunge explosion when Nirvana covered this song on MTV Unplugged and pointed to him as the inspiration. It’s actually an old folk song, but his…
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