BLIND BLAKE - THE VANISHED BLUESMAN IN RICHMOND (LP)

Blind Blake The Vanished Bluesman In Richmond on LP

After their success with Blind Lemon Jefferson, Chicago’s Paramount was scouting for more male blues talent, and they found it in 1926 in a man called Blind Blake (1893-1933), a sophisticated guitar player who was the antithesis of the Delta blues. In fact, Blake soon became Paramount’s best-selling and most recorded artist, with over a hundred sides to his name.

Blake, one of the greatest blues guitarists of all time, is best known for his development of the “ragtime” guitar style, the sheer complexity of which has baffled would-be imitators for the past eight decades. His mastery of this approach was so complete that none have ever come close to being able to imitate him.

These recordings from 1929 are a collection of sessions Blake recorded for Paramount in the Gennett Studios in Richmond, Indiana. Blake is accompanied by Charlie Spand on piano on several tracks, the king of the 1920s barrel house piano style and one of the most influential piano players of his day.

Blind Blake The Vanished Bluesman In Richmond Track Listing:

1.  Poker Woman Blues
2.  Doing A Stretch
3.  Fightin' The Jug
4.  Hookworm Blues
5.  Slippery Rag
6.  Hastings Street
7.  Diddie Wah Diddie
8.  Too Tight Blues
9.  Chump Man Blues
10. Ice Man Blues
11. Police Dog Blues
12. I Was Afraid Of That
13. Georgia Bound