Another post in celebration of Black History Month. A few words in celebration of Blind Blake (Arthur Blake, 1896-1934). The best sources give Newport News, Virginia as Blake’s birthplace, and he seems to have spent formative years in Jacksonville, Florida, Georgia, and possibly the Sea Islands. His ragtime style guitar picking influenced the Piedmont country blues […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:42AM on February 9, 2019