Plot
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.
Cast
Roger E. Mosley
as Huddie Ledbetter
James Brodhead
as John Lomax
John McDonald
as Tom Pruitt
Leonard Wrentz
as Guard
Ernie Hudson
as Archie
Dana Manno
as Margaret Judd
William Wintersole
as Sheriff Gibbons
Paul Benjamin
as Wes Ledbetter
Lynn Hamilton
as Sally Ledbetter
Carole Lamond
as Laura May
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