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- Date Released: February 18, 2000
- Genre: Blues
- Style: Traditional Blues
- Label: Yazoo - Shanachie Records / The Orchard
All musical roads lead back to the blues of Blind Blake
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We Say...
Guitarist Blind Blake is completely his own experience, as much an original within blues as Professor Longhair is within rhythm and blues, and for similar reasons: his virtuosity is designed to let the good times roll. The first track, "Diddie Wa Diddie," gave Bo Diddley, Manfred Mann and all of pop one of its great catchphrases. "I wish somebody would tell me what diddie wah diddie means," he sings with a smile on his face. The second, "Come on Boys Let's Do that Messin' Around," might have taught Ray Charles a thing about doing the mess-around. And on it goes with this terrific distillation.
Blake made a splash in 1926 when he recorded in Chicago for Paramount Records, and went on to make 79 sides. But aside from his work, he remains almost a complete biographical mystery. Musically, however, it's all there: the finger-picked solos that introduce a sense of stop time to the blues format; the swoony interplay with jazz musicians on "C.C. Pill Blues"; the boogie-woogie pianism on "Hastings Street," about a whorehouse ("You'll sure get woogie," Blake smirks); the ragtime influence that gives a skip to his blues very similar to what New Orleans gave R&B. Blake ragged in a different way — on churchfolk — when he recorded "Righteous Blues." And "You Gonna Quit Me Blues," about an infatuated shlub, could come straight out of a Ray Davies song. -
They Say...
Ragtime Guitar's Foremost Fingerpicker contains a total of 28 prime tracks from Blind Blake. Alternating between solo acoustic numbers and songs recorded with a string band, the set demonstrates how exceptionally gifted the guitarist was -- he's playing arrangements and rhythms that several subsequent generations were never able to completely figure out. Blind Blake was one of the finest acoustic guitarists of the '20s and '30s and this is the definitive compilation.
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| 01. |  |
Diddie Wa Diddie |
2:59 |  |
| 02. | |
Come On Boys Let's Do That Messin' Around |
2:45 | |
| 03. | |
Southern Rag |
2:53 | |
| 04. | |
Police Dog Blues |
2:52 | |
| 05. | |
C.C. Pill Blues |
2:30 | |
| 06. | |
Hard Pushing Papa |
2:38 | |
| 07. | |
Rope Stretching Blues |
3:03 | |
| 08. | |
Skeedle Loo Doo Blues |
3:02 | |
| 09. | |
Chump Man Blues |
2:49 | |
| 10. | |
Hastings Street |
3:13 | |
| 11. | |
Georgia Bound |
3:22 | |
| 12. | |
Righteous Blues |
2:39 | |
| 13. | |
Too Tight Blues #2 |
2:55 | |
| 14. | |
Blind Arthur's Breakdown |
3:02 | |
| 15. | |
One Time Blues |
2:38 | |
| 16. | |
Playing Policy Blues |
2:27 | |
| 17. | |
You Gonna Quit Me Blues |
2:44 | |
| 18. | |
Bad Feeling Blues |
2:29 | |
| 19. | |
Hey Hey Daddy Blues |
3:11 | |
| 20. | |
Black Dog Blues |
2:49 | |
| 21. | |
Seaboard Stomp |
3:03 | |
| 22. | |
Sweet Papa Low Down |
3:15 | |
| 23. | |
Sweet Jivin' Mama |
3:01 | |
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Credits
- Blind Blake - Guitar // Blind Blake - Vocals // Blind Blake - Main Performer // Robert Armstrong - Cover Art // Bertha Henderson - Performer // Woody Mann - Liner Notes // Nick Perls - Mastering // Irene Scruggs - Performer // Leola B. Wilson - Performer // Terry Zwigoff - Color Tinting // Stephen Calt - Liner Notes
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