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Not to end up being confused with Blind Arthur Blake, the blues vocalist and ragtime guitarist from the 1920s and 1930s, this Blind Blake recorded some album in the first 1950s amid the initial phases from the calypso growth, backed from the Royal Victoria Resort Calypso Orchestra. Curiously, there’s a …

Blind Blake is really a figure of tremendous importance in American music. Not merely was he one of the biggest blues guitarists of all-time, Blake appears to have been the principal builder of “finger-style” ragtime on your guitar, the six-string equal to playing ragtime over the piano. Blake learned this …