Yesterday I listened to some of the oldest and iconic pieces of blues music ever recorded.
The artist is Blind Blake who lived from 1896 to 1934. The recordings I heard dated back to 1926, 27, 28 and 29. He may be dead but his music still lives on. Above is the only known photograph of Blake taken in 1927. Very little is known about his life. His real name was Arthur Blake and he was born in either Newport News, Virginia or Jacksonville, Florida. It is truly amazing how much of his work survived and that it is still listened too today more then 80 years after these tracks were recorded by me and 19 year old in the year 2012. He is dubbed as The King Of Ragtime Guitar. As we all know the King of Ragtime is and will always be Scott Joplin. You are not a real blues fan until you have heard at least one or more of his recordings.
The artist is Blind Blake who lived from 1896 to 1934. The recordings I heard dated back to 1926, 27, 28 and 29. He may be dead but his music still lives on. Above is the only known photograph of Blake taken in 1927. Very little is known about his life. His real name was Arthur Blake and he was born in either Newport News, Virginia or Jacksonville, Florida. It is truly amazing how much of his work survived and that it is still listened too today more then 80 years after these tracks were recorded by me and 19 year old in the year 2012. He is dubbed as The King Of Ragtime Guitar. As we all know the King of Ragtime is and will always be Scott Joplin. You are not a real blues fan until you have heard at least one or more of his recordings.
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