The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there.
Roger E. Mosley
James Brodhead
John McDonald
Leonard Wrentz
Ernie Hudson
Dana Manno
William Wintersole
Paul Benjamin
Lynn Hamilton
Carole Lamond
Melba Englander
Pamela Singleton
Rozaa Jean
Nat Williams
Madge Sinclair
George Williams
Timothy Pickard
Rhetta Greene
Art Evans
William Creamer
Dearl Croft
John C. Johnson
Bill Woodard
Robert C. Farrow
Albert Hall
Peter Harrell
B.T. Henderson
Denny Arnold
James Taylor
Vivian Bonnell
Alan Manson
John Henry Faulk
Valerie Odell
Drew Thomas
John Keith
Hitide Harris