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According to Elijah Wald: Henrietta Yurchenko, the leftist ethnomusicologist who produced Leadbelly's radio show on WNYC, is still very much alive and active in her nineties, and now has a regular online radio show. This week's episode includes a complete rebroadcast of an episode of Leadbelly's show from 1940, on which Woody Guthrie was the guest artist.

You can download the Mp3 of the show at:
http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/ or listen to it in streaming audio format at
http://www.podarama .com/podcasts/downhomeradio/index.html

― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

! Good GOD! (Y'all.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. I haven't been able to listen to this yet (at work), but I suspect this will be the best musical find since Monk/Coltrane at Carnegie Hall 1957.

― Jim M (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Drop it down a few notches. It's pretty good, but don't expect Woody and Huddy going toe-to-toe or shooting the shit. It's just performances, with brief intros--though "just performances" when you're talking about these two dudes is still rivetting. Leadbelly sings the shit out of "Frankie & Albert" and Woody does a real nice version of "Tom Joad." Kinda cool to think this was on the radio in NYC in 1940.

― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Thursday, 25 January 2007 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

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