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Charlie Patton : Founder of the Delta Blues |
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Genre: Country Blues |
Dates: Late '20s - Early '30s |
Some experts believe that Patton was playing the prototype of what we now hear as the blues as early as the late 1890s. He also was a master of hokum, religious songs, and pop music, and one of the first to play a guitar between his legs (predating Hendrix by nearly 40 years). His sandpaper-bullfrog vocals led directly to the great Howlin' Wolf (see above), and his greatest songs not only entered the set lists of classic rockers (notably "Spoonful," a hit for Cream), but have functioned as wellsprings of reference for modern songs, much as the Bible and Greek mythology provide allusions to modern literature. A fun musical parlor game: listen to Bob Dylan's 2001 "Love and Theft" and try to find all of the Charlie Patton quotes and allusions!
Playlist:
1. Down The Dirt Road Blues
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3. Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues
4. Stone Pony Blues
5. It Won't Be Long
6. Shake It And Break It
7. Magnolia Blues
8. Dry Well Blues
9. High Water Everywhere (Part 1)
10. High Water Everywhere (Part 2)
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12. Bird Nest Bound
13. High Sheriff Blues
14. Spoonful Blues, A
15. Moon Going Down
16. Pony Blues
17. Elder Green Blues
18. Banty Rooster Blues
19. Some Of These Days
20. Tom Rushen Blues
21. 34 Blues
22. Going To Move To
23. Hammer Blues
24. Poor Me
25. When Your Ways Get Dark
26. Devil Sent The Rain