Blind Blake

Rare 78s Found of Blind Blake’s Lost Sessions

Rare 78 rpm record has been found–the only known copy of some of Blind Blake’s final recordings that had never been compiled into a modern collection.
The two songs, A and B sides of a recording issued in 1932, were among the last Blake recorded. “Night and Day” and “Sun to Sun”

Acoustic Guitar, Blind Blake, Country Blues, Fingerpicking, Fingerstyle Blues, Fingerstyle Guitar, Great Fingerstyle Players

Blind Blake-Georgia Bound

In the song “Georgia Bound“, Blake is in fine form as he sings evocatively of the Eastern Seaboard region known as the Piedmont, where he was from, bringing out the sounds and rhythms of his youth, the real Piedmont blues he had learned as a kid.

Acoustic Guitar, Blind Blake, Country Blues, Fingerpicking, Fingerstyle Blues, Great Fingerstyle Players, Piedmont Blues

Blind Blake-the Stevie Wonder of the 1920s

Blind Blake was an important American recording artist at the dawn of the recording industry.
Traveling to the north from the Piedmont region of the eastern seaboard, he recorded for Paramount Records, the premiere label marketing ‘country blues‘ music to black audiences in the late 1920s. Because he was one of the first widely heard players, [...]

Acoustic Guitar, Blind Blake, Country Blues, Fingerpicking, Fingerstyle Blues, Fingerstyle Guitar, Great Fingerstyle Players, Piedmont Blues, Ragtime Guitar