Lead Belly - "The Gallis Pole"
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- This video features Lead Belly's "The Gallis Pole" from the 2015 box set 'Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection'. For more information about this album, click here: www.folkways.si... and for more information about Smithsonian Folkways, the non-profit record label of the national museum, click here: folkways.si.edu....
It's a good thing nobody told Lead belly it's not possible to play a 12 string guitar with that much precision and intricacy.
At that point it’s just a big mandolin
Nothing is impossible when you learn to play in the crossroads.
The guitar burst into flame 🔥 after the recording session
Hahaha 🤣 Facts
His fingers were burning the whole time
Legend has it that his guitar strings are still hot to the touch from the speed and technique used for gallis pole
That scientists are still studying how it works
The dude was a guitar playing athlete !!!
Leadbelly has some awesome strumming technique on that 12 string fast and his voice is legendary takes back in time he was born around 1888
He released it as "The Gallis Pole". Unbelievable playing.
This guitar sounds so damn cool.
The quality of this recording is FANTASTIC! I've always loved this tune and I've heard a number of different recordings but this is the best by far! Thanks for uploading!
Yeah the Smithsonian is the caretaker of our history. That's one of tthe only good things our country does. Imagine if certain people banned this music?
@@starlightanddreams1317 I'd rather not, but considering the way things are going lately, I may find out anyway.
the original title is called the maid freed from the gallows. its and old scottish tune.
its amazing how mislead so many are on this.
Yeah, and he never claimed to have wrote it. Cool to know the actual origin though!
@@Brib8888and that was probably not the origin
My fingers got blisters!
There will be only one and only with genius of that kind King of the twelve string guitar 🎸
This is real brilliant i have heard him a few times,but can,t get enough of this Lead Belly Blues.
Total Legend. I wouldn't even attempt this one 🙂
🎵 The original guitar shedder 🎶
Killing it!! Go Lead Belly!
I’d give anything to be able to see what his hands were doing on this
Leadbelly é o verdadeiro pai do rock
Holy. Crap.
classic
Amazing
Best rendition ever
Fuck yeah
quality 😊
This song was featured on KXCI 91.3 in Tucson
Hes playing punk rock garage blues almsot a century before Jack White lol
He blows Jack White out of the water - no comparison!
@@m-howl5028 Him and Jack White are worlds apart so the comparison is a bit out of proportion in my opinion but Leadbelly was truly something else.
fuck jack white.
@@johnsolis7631 😂
@@johnsolis7631 This guy gets it!
he possessed
It sounds like Bob Dylan was very heavily influenced by this man. I can hear this song in some of Dylan's music.
I can understand why Nirvana was into this guy
How the shit do u play this
Practice practice practice
Out of an E position on a baritone guitar.
And very carefully.
It is in a C Standard tuning and you need finger picks to play it. Or else your fingers will blister. That’s all I know aside from the fact that it’s a very complicated song to play.
You don’t LOL
If that dude would have had access to an electric guitar he would been shredding this song.
Funnily enough the first solid body electric guitars were sold in the 30s... he could've had one, but he stuck with his Stella 🎶
He's beyond shredding, he's on a whole other level with this playing
The more you learn
ahhhhhhh
Led Zeppelin covered this!
Led Zeppelin stole this
@@joshuakeelsmusic you don’t steal folk music. Leadbelly didn’t create this, it’s actually from Britain so it comes full circle
@@joshuakeelsmusic LZ titled theirs "Gallows Pole." Being an old Scottish tune. Robert Plant being Welch, he probably heard some version of it growing up. Folk music is like that. For example, no one can definitively say who wrote "The House of the Rising Sun" (aka Rising Sun Blues). Some of the lyrics matches that of a Cambodian lyricist, and other parts, of the song, from various other sources. No one really knows.
If you know anything about Led Zeppelin, then you know they had immense respect for early American blues.
@@glimmeringhope4520 indeed, as well as folk tunes like gallis pole from Scotland.
Here's an original version of this old english folk song:
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Thank you for the link! Here I thought Gallows Pole was an American Blues song, and of course Led Zeppelin. On this St. Patrick's Day, what a perfect song! Music reaches every corner of the earth.
It's amazing how this info is hidden
And here I thought this song was written and composed by Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, silly me!
i get hard hearing that guitar
page ain't got shit on this man
Oh hell no! Not even in his dreams!
some ass didn't like this
Gallows. It's spelled Gallows. He's singing Gallows. Why label it phonetically?
This is his rendition of a traditional Blues song called "Gallis Pole".
Gullus is the original middle english term meaning gullet or "throat". Gallis is a southern black term. Gallis is also a term for "player" or a man who uses women just for sex. In this case it means the former. Galis with one "L' means channel or ditch. Also the word Gallus means "Fit for the gallows pole".
@@generalsandmajors1504 Damn, this here boy knows his linguistics.
Nope, he's singing gallis. Black slang back then.
"Gallis is also a term for 'player'" Lord.
He's singing "gallows" with his Louisiana/Texas accent. Black singers about this old routinely found their stuff labeled phonetically out of a traditional patronization of black accents. This was still going on when Glen Alyn wrote his book about Mance Lipscomb (!), let alone back when the Lomaxes thought black accents were cute.
gallows pole***
Nope.
Killval wrong
@@killval849 dickhead
@@mysexeyesin leadbelly's southern dialect it will be gallis poles. It doesn't matter tho. Like potato and tater
@@mysexeyes The song was listed "Gallis Pole" as requested by Leadbelly where it was featured on a collection of recordings labeled "Negro Sinful Songs", back in 1939. It is Gallis Pole.
Led zeplin's is better
Unfortunately people going to get mad
Jimmy Page couldn't even have played this in his dreams!
Leadbelly é o verdadeiro pai do rock