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| - Charley Patton (died April 28, 1934), also known as Charlie Patton, was an American Delta blues musician. He is considered by many to be the "Father of the Delta Blues", and is credited with creating an enduring body of American music and personally inspiring just about every Delta blues man (Palmer, 1995). Musicologist Robert Palmer considers him among the most important musicians that America produced in the twentieth century. Many sources, including musical releases and his gravestone,[1] spell his name "Charley" even though the musician himself spelled his name "Charlie".[2]
- Charley Patton (at Bolton (Mississippi), 1 may 1891 – Indianola , Mississippi, april 28, 1934) was an American Delta Bluesmusician. He was not the first blues singer, but the first that was common knowledge, especially in the South of America. He was both of black, white and Native American ancestry. His best known song is "Pony Blues".
- Charley (or Charlie) Patton (c.1891-1934) is nowadays seen as the most important pioneer of the Mississippi Delta style of rural blues, with his hoarse, shouting vocals offset by subtle and rhytmically complex guitar accompaniment. In his day a popular local entertainer rather than a big-selling national star, his records (on the Paramount label of Grafton, Wisconsin) did not find a wider audience until the 1960s, when they were rediscovered by blues collectors and reissued on LPs on the specialist labels Origin Jazz Library and Yazoo. Beyond their intrinsic musical qualities, Patton's records intrigued listeners because of their rarity and their high level of surface noise, due to Paramount's poor quality pressings. This, combined with Patton's repertoire, which included blues, gospel, co
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| - Charley Patton (died April 28, 1934), also known as Charlie Patton, was an American Delta blues musician. He is considered by many to be the "Father of the Delta Blues", and is credited with creating an enduring body of American music and personally inspiring just about every Delta blues man (Palmer, 1995). Musicologist Robert Palmer considers him among the most important musicians that America produced in the twentieth century. Many sources, including musical releases and his gravestone,[1] spell his name "Charley" even though the musician himself spelled his name "Charlie".[2]
- Charley Patton (at Bolton (Mississippi), 1 may 1891 – Indianola , Mississippi, april 28, 1934) was an American Delta Bluesmusician. He was not the first blues singer, but the first that was common knowledge, especially in the South of America. He was both of black, white and Native American ancestry. His best known song is "Pony Blues".
- Charley (or Charlie) Patton (c.1891-1934) is nowadays seen as the most important pioneer of the Mississippi Delta style of rural blues, with his hoarse, shouting vocals offset by subtle and rhytmically complex guitar accompaniment. In his day a popular local entertainer rather than a big-selling national star, his records (on the Paramount label of Grafton, Wisconsin) did not find a wider audience until the 1960s, when they were rediscovered by blues collectors and reissued on LPs on the specialist labels Origin Jazz Library and Yazoo. Beyond their intrinsic musical qualities, Patton's records intrigued listeners because of their rarity and their high level of surface noise, due to Paramount's poor quality pressings. This, combined with Patton's repertoire, which included blues, gospel, country dance tunes and ragtime material, made his records sound "older" than other blues recordings of the time, leading to descriptions of him as founder of the Delta blues, grandfather of rock'n'roll, etc.. In fact he was older than many blues singers who recorded in the same era, and inspired younger singers with whom he came into contact, notably Howlin' Wolf and John Lee Hooker. In the 1960s and '70s Patton was less well-known to non-specialist listeners than Robert Johnson, a much younger singer whose work was anthologised by Columbia/CBS on an LP entitled King of the Delta Blues Singers. For many years Johnson's short, tragic life epitomised the popular image of the Mississippi blues singer, yet in 2001 the importance of Charley Patton's work was acknowledged by the release of a box set, Screamin' and Hollerin' The Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton, including his complete recorded works together with tracks by his contemporaries and by later blues artists whom he influenced. His posthumous fame is also marked by an extensive Wikipedia entry.
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