ext_105596 ([identity profile] teaboyfan.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] elrhiarhodan 2013-03-03 05:02 pm (UTC)

That was lovely. I would love to hear Diahann Carroll singing Leadbelly's "Bourgeois Blues," about the problems he and his wife had trying to find a place to live in Washington, D. C. in the 1930's. Pete Seeger tells the story of Leadbelly complaining to a white friend, who said something like "Don't let it get you down, Huddie; Washington's a bourgeois town." So he wrote this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf6aHlN3wKI

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