Ragtime Guitar's Foremost Fingerpicker

by Blind Blake

Ragtime Guitar's Foremost Fingerpicker cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: Yazoo
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:06:27
  • Community rating: 3.74/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This crucial archival release documents the complex, piano-like guitar playing of the legendary 1920s bluesman, whose intricate fingerpicking style profoundly shaped the Piedmont blues tradition. The meticulously restored Paramount Records sessions capture his rhythmic dexterity and upbeat melodicism, preserving his towering influence on acoustic blues history.

Genres

Descriptors: Ballad, acoustic, technical, domestic

Tracklist

  1. Diddie Wa Diddie (2:59)
  2. Come On Boys Let's Do That Messin' Around (2:45)
  3. Southern Rag (2:53)
  4. Police Dog Blues (2:52)
  5. C.C. Pill Blues (2:30)
  6. Hard Pushing Papa (2:38)
  7. Rope Stretching Blues (3:02)
  8. Skeedle Loo Doo Blues (3:02)
  9. 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 (3:01)
  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 (3:10)
  20. Black Dog Blues (2:48)
  21. Seaboard Stomp (3:03)
  22. Sweet Papa Low Down (3:15)
  23. Sweet Jivin' Mama (3:01)

Credits

  • Cees van der Laarse - bass guitar, contrabass
  • Chris Lookers - guitar

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