Charley Patton; Blind: Devil's Best Friend

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Detailed Information

  • Label: GAM
  • Order number: 1626677
  • Release date: 31.3.2009
  1. 1 Mississippi Boweavil Blues
  2. 2 Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues
  3. 3 A Spoonful Blues
  4. 4 Devil Sent the Rain Blues
  5. 5 Shake It and Break It (But Don't Let It Fall Mama)
  6. 6 Going to Move to Alabama
  7. 7 Pea Vine Blues
  8. 8 I Shall Not Be Moved
  9. 9 See That My Grave's Kept Clean
  10. 10 That Black Snake Moan
  11. 11 Blind Lemon's Penitentiary Blues
  12. 12 Jack O'Diamond Blues
  13. 13 Long Distance Moan
  14. 14 Chock House Blues
  15. 15 Easy Rider Blues
  16. 16 'Lectric Chair Blues

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If the Delta country blues has a convenient source point, it would probably be Charley Patton, its first great star. His hoarse, impassioned singing style, fluid guitar playing, and unrelenting beat made him the original king of the Delta blues. Much more than your average itinerant musician, Patton was an acknowledged celebrity and a seminal influence on musicians throughout the Delta. Rather than bumming his way from town to town, Patton would be called up to play at plantation dances, juke joints, and the like. He'd pack them in like sardines everywhere he went, and the emotional sway he held over his audiences caused him to be tossed off of more than one plantation by the ownership, simply because workers would leave crops unattended to listen to him play any time he picked up a guitar. He epitomized the image of a '20s "sport" blues singer: rakish, raffish, easy to provoke, capable of downing massive quantities of food and liquor, a woman on each arm, with a flashy, expensive-looking guitar fitted with a strap and kept in a traveling case by his side, only to be opened up when there was money or good times involved. His records - especially his first and biggest hit, "Pony Blues" - could be heard on phonographs throughout the South. Although he was certainly not the first Delta bluesman to record, he quickly became one of the genre's most popular. By late-'20s Mississippi plantation standards, Charley Patton was a star, a genuine celebrity.**************************Country blues guitarist and vocalist Blind Lemon Jefferson is indisputably one of the main figures in country blues. He was of the highest in many regards, being one of the founders of Texas blues (along with Texas Alexander), one of the most influential country bluesmen of all time, one of the most popular bluesmen of the 1920s, and the first truly commercially successful male blues performer. Up until Jefferson's achievements, the only real successful blues recordings were by women performers, including Bessie Smith and Ida Cox, who usua...

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