Blind Blake News

Robert Leroy Johnson came into this world on May 8, 1911, near the town of Hazlehurst, Mississippi, and departed it just outside Greenwood, Mississippi, on August 16, 1938.

"And I know one thing, nobody can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell." - Bob Dylan, from his 1983 song "Blind Willie McTell" AUGUSTA, GA - In the 50 years since his death, Thomson native Blind Willie McTell has become known as one of the country's most influential bluesmen, inspiring famous musicians across the globe including Bob Dylan and ...

"St. Louis Blues" by W.C. Handy T here are so many firsts, so many "fathers" and so many "kings" of the blues, one wonders sometimes.

"St. Louis Blues" by W.C. Handy T here are so many firsts, so many "fathers" and so many "kings" of the blues, one wonders sometimes.

Geremia has built a reputation as a first rate bluesman, songwriter, a "scholar" of early jazz and blues , and one of the best country blues fingerpickers ever with his tools - six and twelve-string guitars, harmonica, piano and a husky soulful voice - and with an innate sense of the humour as well as the drama of the music, he keeps traditional ...

T here are two great mysteries surrounding Blind Blake , one of the most important early bluesmen of the 1920's and '30's era that was not from the Mississippi Delta.

WISCONSIN RAPIDS -- McMillan Library in Wisconsin Rapids will present Minnesota acoustic blues guitarists Bingham & Thorne in concert at 7 p.m. July 16 in the Library's Fine Arts Center.