10 THE RIVER MAGAZINE | Summer 2017 | F O O D & D R I N K | l e g a c y Booth dining at Leadbelly’s. Bottom centre: some of the team beneath the immortalised lyrics of ‘In The Pines’ CanadaWater’s new destination venue by owen rice N ew York City, 1944 - Asch Records: 117 West 46th Street In a small, barely- making-ends- meet music studio behind Times Square, Moses Asch recorded an early collection of songs by Huddie Ledbetter (AKA Lead Belly). The crackle and simple sound created on these discs is moody and raw with a mix of folk, blues and the occasional hint of period horror too. ‘In The Pines’was picked up and covered almost fifty years later by Nirvana, released on a live and unplugged album as ‘Where Did You Sleep Last Night?’. Lead Belly’s original recording made back then, begins with a familiar blues yearning; ‘My girl, my girl, don’t lie to me Tell me where did you sleep last night | F O O D & D R I N K |