Lead Belly - 'The Gallis Pole'

[shaftwood]

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.

[harrisonwintergreen]

The guitar burst into flame 🔥 after the recording session

[nicksandhaus]

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

[generalsandmajors]

The dude was a guitar playing athlete !!!

[jamesbueker]

My god how he tears a guitar to shreds. Scary wonderful man. WOW.

[coravisser]

This is real brilliant i have heard him a few times, but can, t get enough of this Lead Belly Blues.

[TCthecattery]

He released it as "The Gallis Pole". Unbelievable playing.

[chrishmmm]

I’d give anything to be able to see what his hands were doing on this

[dominiklonghurst]

There will be only one and only with genius of that kind King of the twelve string guitar 🎸

[matholomewbrooksopoulos]

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!

[edsa]

Total Legend. I wouldn't even attempt this one 🙂

[moribundart]

the original title is called the maid freed from the gallows. its and old scottish tune.

[Galiuros]

This song was featured on KXCI 91.3 in Tucson

[startervisions]

Hes playing punk rock garage blues almsot a century before Jack White lol

[spcsalas]

I can understand why Nirvana was into this guy

If that dude would have had access to an electric guitar he would been shredding this song.

[patricias]

It sounds like Bob Dylan was very heavily influenced by this man. I can hear this song in some of Dylan's music.

[thunorwodenson]

Here's an original version of this old english folk song:

[michaelaguilera]

And here I thought this song was written and composed by Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, silly me!

[ssurfcity]

Gallows. It's spelled Gallows. He's singing Gallows. Why label it phonetically?