Tag Archives: Pre-War Country Blues

Among the initial & most influential Delta bluesmen to record, Omit James was the best-known proponent of the so-called Bentonia school of blues players, a genre stress invested with just as much fanciful scholarly “study” as any. Coupling an oddball electric guitar tuning established against eerie, falsetto vocals, Adam’ early …

Papa Charlie Jackson was the initial bluesman to record, from 1924 using the Paramount label, performing a crossbreed banjo-guitar (six strings tuned just like a acoustic guitar but with a banjo body that gave it a lighter resonance) and ukulele. And aside from his information and their documenting dates, small …

Alice Moore was one of the better classic blues performers and pianists from the first St. Louis picture. In case a listener affiliates darkness of feeling with blues, after that she is actually Moore the champ for having concocted “Dark Bad Blues,” probably one of the most depressing information available. …

Although Bukka White’s full genuine name was Booker T. Washington Light, it really is as Booker T. Washington that a few of his documenting credits show up, with significantly less majesty compared to the typical Washington monument regardless of the grandeur of the nation blues artist’s shows. Occurring for instance …

It is unidentified who the people of Blind Percy & His Blind Music group were, and actually one can issue whether any or most of them were even blind. A specialist on this issue of blues performers using the prefix of “Blind” before their name was blues and folk performer …

An obscure Delta blues player from Mississippi, Willie “Poor Son” Lofton falls loosely in to the Charley Patton/Tommy Johnson blues camp. His tone of voice was eerily just like Johnson’s, and his most stunning music was a edition of Johnson’s “Big Street Blues,” known as “Dark Street Blues,” which presented …

Mississippian Otto Virgil (his last name actually has been Virgial) documented two one 78s in Chicago for Bluebird Records in Halloween in 1925, “LITTTLE LADY in Rome” b/w “Poor Idea Blues” and “Got the Blues On the subject of Rome” b/w “Seven Year Itch.” Those four edges, which feature fairly …