Blind Blake
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Biography
[Edit]Blind Blake is a figure of enormous importance in American music. Not only was he one of the greatest blues guitarists of all-time, Blake seems to have been the primary developer of "finger-style" ragtime on the guitar, the six-string equivalent to playing ragtime on the piano. Blake mastered this form so completely that few, if any, guitarists who have learned to play in this style since Blake have been able to match his quite singular achievements in this realm. Blind Blake was the most frequently recorded blues guitarist in the Paramount Records' race catalog; indeed, Paramount waxed him as often as they could, as he was their best-selling artist. By the time the Paramount label folded in the fall of 1932, Blake had recorded an amazing 79 known sides for them under his own name and had contributed accompaniments to Paramount recordings by other artists such as Gus Cannon, Papa Charlie Jackson, Irene Scruggs, Ma Rainey and Ida Cox to name only a few.
One would surmise, given Blake's importance, celebrity status, popularity and sizeable recorded output that we would know something about the man. And after more than five decades of searching conducted by experts on behalf of Blind Blake, we still don't know anything verifiable about Blake which he doesn't tell us on his records. Practically all of what is "known" about Blind Blake outside of that is a combination of conjecture, rumor, slander and nonsense. At one point a theory was advanced that Blind Blake's true name was "Arthur Phelps" and it is under this name that Blake's entry is filed in Sheldon Harris' Blues Who's Who. But the theory is easily debunked by Blake himself, who states on his 1929 recording "Blind Arthur's Breakdown" that his name is "Arthur Blake." He briefly breaks into Geechee dialect during the course of "Southern Rag," and this advanced a theory that Blake was really born in the Georgia Sea Islands and spoke Geechee as a first language, accounting for his "uncomfortable negro dialect" on records like "Early Morning Blues." But there is nothing wrong with Blake's "negro dialect," thus it was easy to disprove this ridiculous notion.
Blind Blake is known to have had family in the area of Jacksonville, Florida and was likely born there; Blake may have grown up in Georgia. Blake was first seen in Chicago in the mid-1920s. His birth date is assumed to be sometime between 1895-1897, as the only existing photo of Blind Blake, taken at his first Paramount session in August, 1926, shows a man of about thirty. Interviews with some of the musicians personally acquainted with Blake only reveal that he had a seemingly inexhaustible appetite for liquor. No one has discovered any reliable account of what happened to Blind Blake after his last Paramount session in June 1932. The story that has Blake murdered in Chicago shortly after his Paramount date did not hold up after an intensive search of local police files. The most reasonable notion about what might've happened to Blind Blake after 1932 is that he drifted back to Jacksonville and lived a few years more, with 1937 suggested as a possible date of death. In the summer of 1935, Mary Elizabeth Barnicle led an Archive of Folk Song expedition into the area where Blake is likely to have resettled and canvassed it for black musicians, yet never encountered him.
Many of the recordings made by Blind Blake are singled out as classic early blues performances, too many to be listed in detail here. But a few that stand out include "Early Morning Blues," "Too Tight," "Skeedle Loo Doo Blues," "That Will Never Happen No More," "Southern Rag," "Diddie Wa Diddie," "Police Dog Blues," "Playing Policy Blues" and "Righteous Blues." Several of Blind Blake's original tunes are by now country-blues standards, and judging from the further developments in Atlanta-based Piedmont blues, Blake's influence there must've been formidable, even if it came only by way of recordings. Anyone who hears Blind Blake can't help but be astonished by his sincerity, his gentle, off-the-cuff humor and the sheer effortlessness with which he plays some of the most treacherously complex finger-work on the face of creation.
Blind Blake is not to be confused, incidentally, with Blake Higgs, a Bahamian Calypso artist who also recorded as "Blind Blake."
Title: Blind Blake, Vol. 3 (1928 - 1929)
Artist: Blind Blake
Genre: Blues, World Music, Country, Acoustic
Title: Blind Blake Vol. 4 (1929 - 1932)
Artist: Blind Blake
Genre: Blues, World Music, Country, Acoustic
Title: The Birth of the Blues
Artist: Blind Blake, Papa Charlie Jackson
Title: Mother of the Blues, CD D
Artist: Blind Blake, Kid Ory, Ma Rainey, Claude Hopkins
Title: Blind Blake Vol. 2 (1927-1928)
Artist: Blind Blake
Genre: Blues, World Music, Country, Acoustic
Title: Ragtime Guitar's Foremost Fingerpicker
Artist: Blind Blake
Title: Blind Blake : Back Biting Bee Blues
Artist: Blind Blake
Collections
Title: Loaded Dice - Vintage Gambling Songs
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Title: Roots Of Rock
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Title: Treasure Isles, Vol. 1
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Title: History Of Rock Vol 1
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Title: Dinner Party Playlist: Back Porch Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: East Coast Blues: 1926-1935
Genre: Blues
Title: The Georgia Blues (1927-1933)
Genre: Blues
Title: Favorite Country Blues Guitar-Piano Duets (1929-1937)
Genre: Blues
Title: Detroit Rocks
Genre: Blues
Title: Country Blues Hard Hitters Vol. Two
Genre: Blues
Title: Home Town Skiffle
Genre: Blues
Title: Johnny Dodds, Vol. 4
Genre: Jazz
Title: Gambling Blues
Title: Cry Your Blues Away: Blues to Help You Move On
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Title: After You've Gone
Genre: Jazz
Title: Putumayo Presents: Calypso
Genre: World Music
Title: ABC Of The Blues CD 05
Genre: Jazz
Title: Let Me Tell You About The Blues: Chicago
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues, Blues Christmas Vol. 2 1926-1958 (CD1)
Genre: Blues
Title: Bottleneck Blues Anthology (Disc 2)
Genre: Blues
Title: Rough Guide To Ragtime Blues & Hokum (CD2)
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Title: The Road To Robert Johnson And Beyond (CD1)
Genre: Blues
Title: 25 Putumayo Albums (Calypso)
Genre: Ethnic , Pop, American Folk
Title: The Hoy Hoy Collection - Rock Before Elvis! (CD2)
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll, Pop
Title: Living The Blues ~ Blues Roots 1920-1930
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Title: The Blues: A Musical Journey (Martin Scorsese) (CD1)
Genre: Blues
Title: Blind Man's Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Top 100 Guitar Icons Through The Decades (CD2)
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Title: The Rough Guide To The Blues Songsters
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Title: Original Blues Heroes
Genre: Soul, Blues, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Crossfit Reggae
Genre: Reggae
Title: The Rough Guide To Blues Women
Genre: Blues
Title: The Complete History Of The Blues 1920-1962 (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Blues
Title: The Rough Guide To Ragtime Blues 2017
Genre: Blues
Title: Goombay (Music From Bahamas)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, World Music
Title: The Rough Guide To Blind, Black & Blue
Genre: Blues
Title: 100 Hits The Blues Collection 2019 (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Punk, Punk Rock, Alternative
Title: 100 Hits The Blues Collection 2019 (CD2)
Genre: Rock, Punk, Punk Rock, Alternative
Title: Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey
Genre: Blues
Title: Matchbox Bluesmaster Series, Set 7 (CD05)
Genre: Blues
Title: Red Velvet Blues (CD2)
Genre: Blues
Title: Red Velvet Blues (CD3)
Genre: Blues
Title: Return To The Dream (CD1)
Title: The Charming Blues (CD1)
Genre: Blues
Title: The Charming Blues (CD3)
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Title: Before Bob Dylan: 100 Recordings (CD1)
Genre: Blues, Gospel, Rock, Rock & Roll, Punk Rock, World Music, Country, Folk
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Title: The Ultimate Country Blues Collection
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Genre: Blues, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Acoustic
Title: Epic Americana: Pre-War Blues, Country & Folk
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Blues, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist