Blind Blake-Georgia Bound(1999)[EAC-FLAC][TWR19]

Blind Blake is a figure of enormous importance in American music. Not only was he one of the greatest blues guitarists of all-time, Blake seems to have been the primary developer of "finger-style" ragtime on the guitar, the six-string equivalent to playing ragtime on the piano. Blake mastered this form so completely that few, if any, guitarists who have learned to play in this style since Blake have been able to match his quite singular achievements in this realm. Blind Blake was the most frequently recorded blues guitarist in the Paramount Records' race catalog; indeed, Paramount waxed him as often as they could, as he was their best-selling artist. By the time the Paramount label folded in the fall of 1932, Blake had recorded an amazing 79 known sides for them under his own name and had contributed accompaniments to Paramount recordings by other artists such as Gus Cannon, Papa Charlie Jackson, Irene Scruggs, Ma Rainey and Ida Cox to name only a few.







1. West Coast Blues - (take 2)

2. Goodbye Mama Moan

3. Notoriety Woman Blues

4. Georgia Bound

5. Come On Boys Let's Do That

6. Walkin' Across The Country

7. Southern Rag

8. Rumblin' And Ramblin'

9. Fighting The Jug

10. Too Tight Blues (No.2)

11. Chump Man Blues

12. Guitar Chimes

13. Rope Stretchin' Blues (Part 1)

14. No Dough Blues

15. Diddie Wa Diddie

16. That Lovin' I Crave

17. Skeedle Loo Doo (Part 2)

18. Leavin' Gal Blues

19. Police Dog Blues

20. Seaboard Stomp

21. Depression's Gone From Me Blues

22. Slippery Rag

23. One Time Blues