While we will never know the true ground zero for the traditional folk song, The Maid Freed from the Gallows, it was the haunting version recorded by Lead Belly as simply "Gallis Pole" that is undoubtedly the definitive blues version. Sure, that little old English band, Led Zeppelin came along and "updated" the version made by Lead Belly's former protegee Fred Gerlach, turning it into Gallows Pole, but it is Huddie William Ledbetter and his beloved 12-string Stella, to which we dedicate this Gallis Pole Rare Guitars T-shirt.