The Lead Belly Songbook - Lead Belly, no stranger to the blues

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You Know I Got To Do It

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My friend and teacher Mark Patton said that the guitar run of the first few measures alone (measures 10-14 in the book) is worthy of a blues hall of fame. It is impossible for me to play that little bass run the same way every time. It is so fun to improvise there. Notice the little pull-off at the end of the turn around.

Sean Killeen has said of the lyrics that the Mississippi River was an even more important major boundary and dividing line for the south than it is today. Even today blues styles of the Delta in Mississippi and those of Louisiana are different.