My piece for this week depicts Leadbelly and Maybelle Carter sharing a guitar. I was inspired after reading the folk song revival piece in the reader to draw something that represented the sweeping nature of folk music through time and place. A line that struck me in the reading - "Can a white urban folk song performer successfully since Negro prison blues?" I chose to draw Leadbelly and Maybelle Carter because they were two artists with folk and southern routes separated by a generation that found success in the industry through their unique methods/style - Leadbelly with his 12 string guitar, and Maybelle with her 'Carter lick'. It amazes me that two artists from different times, places, and background - Leadbelly spent a good amount of time in prison in the South - can share a genre. Shows how relatable folk music is to so many people.
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