Blues singer Lead Belly was an early 1900s chain gang convict whose music and songs was a huge influence on The Beatles and many other bands.

Blues singer Lead Belly was an early 1900s chain gang convict whose music and songs was a huge influence on The Beatles and many other bands.
Sam Lightnin’ Hopkins, country blues singer, songwriter and guitarist, died on this day, January 30, 1982 at the age of 69. He was a ‘ferocious electric stylist during the sixties folk-blues revival.”