How is it that the glory that was the great folk and blues singer known as Lead Belly is today reduced to a single feeble listing as an "early influence" at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? How is it that no one since Gordon Parks, in his ill-fated 1976 effort, has tried to capture for the big screen the remarkable tale of the white-haired, barrel-chested black man from the Louisiana swamps who became the self-taught master of the 12-string guitar, an instrument as resonant and deep as his impossibly bass voice, producing a sound so beguiling that even in the evil days of the deepest segregation, it charmed not one, but two Southern governors into granting him pardons from the pair of deaths that resulted when men... More >>>