On a page in one of his numerous journals, penned in better handwriting than his usual scribbles; Kurt Cobain lists his top 50 favourite albums. The list includes expected choice selections laced with badassary from Sex Pistols, The Vaselines, Sonic Youth & The Beatles – Meet the Beatles.

But one we’d like to feature today is Leadbelly, an old soul piping a voice that will send you in a time machine back into the heart the of 1940s. Kurt has said: “If you want to hear true honest music, you should hear Leadbelly. The songs are just amazing heartfelt. Leadbelly was this poor black man in the early 1900s who went to jail a few times for wife-beating and robbery and getting into fights and bootlegging liquor. While he was is in prison, he started playing the guitar, and he sang so well that the governor started to like him, and let him out of jail.”  

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