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Simon House (violin)
Roy Haynes' drumming is unmistakable
and Steve Kilbey's arresting lyrical imagery ("In the space between our bodies / The air has grown small fingers")
it's spooky music for the ages
" Add the often overlooked "Until There's Another Sunrise" and "Love Me to Death" and the result is complete and representative of what the group delivered consistently throughout its heyday
HUDDIE LEDBETTER'S BEST: HIS GUITAR 12/7/2010 Simon House (violin)Leadbelly's last recording sessions for a commercial record label, held in the early fall of 1944, yielded a dazzling 12 songs, embracing virtuoso guitar blues ("Grasshoppers in My Pillow"), pounding piano driven scatting ("The Eagle Rocks," with Leadbelly himself at the ivories, a talent for which he wasn't usually recognized), and familiar standards done in some startlingly different ways, including "Goodnight, Irene," "Rock Island Line," and "Ella