Article: Jefferson, Blind Lemon

Article: Editor's introduction.(Blind Lemon ...
Black Music Research Journal;  March 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... make commercial recordings, Blind Lemon Jefferson is generally--and appropriately ... sellers would hold back Blind Lemon Jefferson's discs, stating that ... contained at least one or two Blind Lemon Jefferson discs. Even though his music ...

Article: Jefferson, Blind Lemon
Contemporary Musicians;      700+ words ...Blind Lemon Jefferson Guitarist, singer, songwriter ... x201D; Walker in Early Days Blind Lemon Jefferson emerged in the 1920s as one of ... studio in Richmond, IN, 1929; Blind Lemon Jefferson Clubs formed in San Pablo, CA ...

Article: The language of Blind Lemon Jefferson: the ...
Black Music Research Journal;  March 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... almost starve and die. --Blind Lemon Jefferson ("Tin Cup Blues," 1929 ... but I can smell ya! --Blind Lemon Jefferson (quoted in James [1997 ... blues race-records field, Blind Lemon Jefferson has often been considered ...

Article: Texas turnarounds: from Blind Lemon to Stevie ...
Guitar Player;  October 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... t worth doin'! * Blind Lemon Jefferson, the first Texas ... You Blues." Here Jefferson plucks "dead-thumb ... widely appropriated Blind Lemon lick. Note the alternating ... them more often than Jefferson. An electric and ...

Article: Blind Lemon Jefferson: the myth and the man.
Black Music Research Journal;  March 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... In recent years, the life of Blind Lemon Jefferson has been the subject of considerable ... relatively few. The facts of Jefferson's life are scattered in an ... contradictory accounts of where Jefferson lived, performed, and died ...

Article: Blind Lemon meets Leadbelly.(Blind ...
Black Music Research Journal;  March 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Leadbelly met and shared his musical knowledge with Blind Lemon Jefferson. Becoming a Man In the years immediately before he met Blind Lemon Jefferson, Huddie Ledbetter picked cotton and undertook arduous ...

Article: Musical innovation in the blues of Blind Lemon ...
Black Music Research Journal;  March 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... bluesmen had made records before Blind Lemon Jefferson, it is he who wears the crown ... began in 1920, and until Jefferson's debut in early 1926 virtually ... market recording artists like Blind Lemon Jefferson. The recording of guitar ...