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(con. 1917) Leadbelly 67: He admonished Leadbelly about the fast life and the ruination that his ‘starvation box’ — his guitar — would bring.at starvation box, n.
(con. 1917) Leadbelly 67: He admonished Leadbelly about the fast life and the ruination that his ‘starvation box’ — his guitar — would bring. Leadbelly 101: Angola prisoners worked from ‘kin to can’t,’ which means they labored from the time you could see at dawn until it became impossible to see after dusk .at from can to can’t, phr.
Leadbelly 22: ‘Leadbelly’s Dance’ [...] was fast and complex, involving the feet, the hands, and slapping ‘hambone’ on the body.at slap hambone (v.) under hambone, n.1
Leadbelly 159: [W]hen it came time to decide which of the masters to release, the ARC heads prevailed.at head, n.
(con. 1890s) Leadbelly 18: Sukey, or sookie, was apparently a Deep South slang term dating from the 1820s and referring to a servant or slave. A sukey jump, therefore, was once a dance or party in slave quarters.at jump, n.
(con. 1940) Leadbelly 12: I’d always been a good knocker, I could knock with my fists, and I run up on a colored boy at the mill. [...] Now I got my knife ready, ‘cause I was gonna knock him or knock him with that knife.at knock, v.
(con. 1940) Leadbelly 12: I’d always been a good knocker, I could knock with my fists, and I run up on a colored boy at the mill. [...] Now I got my knife ready, ‘cause I was gonna knock him or knock him with that knife.at knocker, n.1
(con. 1956) Leadbelly 38: Frederick Ramsey [...] wondered if Huddie for a time was ‘a kind of song plugger on the road travelling through the South and singing current hits and contemporary songs of the early 1900’s’ .at plugger, n.3
Leadbelly 76: Huddie decided to live by a new plan, to become a ‘rollin’ sonofabitch,’ the hardest-working man in the Texas penal system .at roll, v.
Leadbelly 128: [A]fter [John Lomax] wrote up the incident for Negro Folk Songs he decided to delete it from the final draft, perhaps feeling that it made Leadbelly seem like an accommodating ‘Stepin Fetchit’ .at stepinfetchit, n.
(con. 1890s) Leadbelly 18: Sukey, or sookie, was apparently a Deep South slang term dating from the 1820s and referring to a servant or slave. A sukey jump, therefore, was once a dance or party in slave quarters.at sukey jump (n.) under sukey, n.
Leadbelly 148: Lomax felt that the whole book could be whipped up in no more than a month or so of intense work .at whip up (v.) under whip, v.1
(con. 1890s) Leadbelly 16: A ‘windjammer’ (a small button accordion) hung from his saddle.at windjammer, n.1
(con. 1919) Leadbelly 76: Huddie was learning hard truths about a black man in a white man’s world, and [...] he would use the age-old prejudice against itself. This involved a technique that later blacks would call ‘yessing them to death.’ .at yes, v.
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