“Blind Blake was the most frequently recorded blues guitarist in the Paramount Records’ race catalog…” Uncle Dave Lewis, recording 111 sides between 1926-1932. I love “race records”; especially of the psychedelic late ’20s vintage. You got Blind Blake with his intensely subtle finger-picking, some oddly quivering bowed-saw backed with what I’m guessing is a clarinet […]
Speaking of Scott Walker…
Black Sheep Boy - Scott Walker
photo by chris walter.
La Valse À Mille Temps by the one and only Jacques Brel; if you didn’t know, in France, Brel was literally bigger than Jesus, the Beatles and Elvis put together from about the mid-50s until his death in 1978 (and if I had my way the same would still hold true). I’ve seen it reported […]
The super-uplifting-always-swinging Fats Waller, from the mind-blowing 1935 Trascriptions.
I’m Crazy ’bout My Baby / Tea for Two / Believe It, Beloved - Fats Waller