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unusual facts about Charlie Patton



Davey Graham

Though this open tuning was used decades earlier by such blues guitarists as Blind Blake and Charlie Patton (and by John Fahey on his 1958 record Blind Joe Death), Graham was one of the first guitarist from England to use it.

Devil in a Woodpile

On their most recent album, In Your Lonesome Town, they cover a Charlie Patton song "Shake It and Break It" as well as Led Zeppelin's "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp."

Gayle Dean Wardlow

He is particularly associated with research into the lives of musicians Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson and the historical development of the Delta blues, on which he is a leading world authority.


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