Leadbelly (film) For a while, she takes care of him until the police arrive, breaking up a party. Leadbelly and an old man escape via a train and Leadbelly buys a twelve-string acoustic guitar from the old man. Seeking work, he takes a job picking cotton. He soon leaves on a train to Silver City where he meets Blind Lemon and they start playing shows together. At one show, a drunken man tells Leadbelly to keep playing, and threatens him. Leadbelly responds by smashing his guitar onto him and is arrested. He escapes from jail and leads a normal life until he
Big When I Was Little performed the song on 4 October 2013 alongside Dionne Bromfield on CBBC show Friday Download. Lewis Corner of Digital Spy gave the song a positive review, stating: "Just like Instagram filters and movie montages, nostalgia makes everything seem so much better than it actually was. It's a tack Eliza Doolittle uses on her new single 'Big When I Was Little', which hears her reminiscing of a time when cassettes were the music format of choice, Malcolm In The Middle was everyone's favourite tea time viewing and Posh Spice was still a popstar. While the singer recently flirted with '90s sounds