Since I Haven't Run a Sneak Preview in a While...

...and because it's the 117th anniversary of Leadbelly's birth today, here's another glimpse of what you'll find in The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane when Bulfinch Press publishes it this October. This is Roger E. Mosley starring in the 1976 Gordon Parks biopic Leadbelly, the only one of Parks's full-length films not available in any video format. Interestingly enough, a Los Alamos scientist has set up a Leadbelly home page on the lab's web servers...ah, I see, it's because the Energetic Particle Team uses it as a nickname. Presumably not because they can go through 1,000 pounds of cotton a day. I also found an article by a fellow who went looking for Leadbelly's grave:

"Don't bother asking directions. I asked directions somewhere in the vicinity of Mooringsport: Redneck Man #1: 'Never heard of the Shiloh Baptist Church. Who's Leadbelly?' Redneck Man #2, pointing in the general direction of over his left shoulder: 'You go up here a piece an' git on 169. Go down 169 a piece an' turn at the blinkin' light. It's a few miles down that road. Who's Leadbelly?'"

Finally, I uncovered a perfectly legal, public domain MP3 of Where Did You Sleep Last Night?", which Kurt Cobain used to close Nirvana's Unplugged show.