Review:

on 2012-01-02 CharlesMartel Said:

Another of the great blues guitarists of the early and middle years of the twentieth century, Leadbelly could also play a mean jazz piano when he put his mind to it. He produced a string of wonderful songs about the harsh reality of life in the Deep South of the USA of which "Gallis Pole", or "Gallows Pole" as it is often called, is one. With a voice full of futility and pathos a man pleads with his captors not to lynch him and offers them all sorts of inducements, brought to him by his family, all to no avail. Like a lot of blues classics it was frequently covered in later years, most notably by Led Zeppelin who turned it into a clever English folk-style.
Rating: 7/10