w/ Jim Crow Intro and pics.
The Bourgeois Blues.
This video features Lead Belly's "The Bourgeois Blues" from the 2015 box set 'Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection'. For more information about this album, click here: http://www.folk...
THE BOURGEOIS BLUES by Lead Belly BLUES ROOTS! 1939.
Lead Belly wrote The Bourgeois Blues in June 1937 in response to the discrimination and segregation that he faced during a visit to Washington, DC to record for Alan Lomax. https://en.wikipedia.org...