Forty Percent Leadbelly "The A.V. Club" gave this episode a B-. Max Nicholson of IGN gave the episode a 5/10 "Mediocre" rating, saying the episode "took Bender down an all-too-familiar path, with only mild jokes along the way." Forty Percent Leadbelly "Forty Percent Leadbelly" is the fourteenth episode of the seventh season of the animated sitcom "Futurama". It originally aired on Comedy Central on July 3, 2013. The episode was written by Ken Keeler and directed by Stephen Sandoval. In this episode, Bender meets his hero, Silicon Red, a folk singer who has been in jail 30 times, during a convict transport, and
Lil Johnson (blues singer) Blues". She sang in a vigorous and sometimes abrasive manner. All her songs have been anthologized on later blues collections. There is no record of what became of Johnson after her recording career ended in 1937. Lil Johnson (blues singer) Lil Johnson (fl. 1920s-1930s, dates and places of birth and death unknown) was an African-American singer who recorded dirty blues and hokum songs in the 1920s and 1930s. Her origins and early life are not known. She first recorded in Chicago in 1929, accompanied by the pianists Montana Taylor and Charles Avery on five songs, including "Rock That Thing". She