Discover the seeds of the band with music from The Birthday Party, explore the progression of their early records and hear their influences, including artists like Texas blues man Blind Lemon ...

Curtis Lyle, double bassist Damon Smith and violinist Alex Cunningham. The group performed two sets, “The Collected Poem for Blind Lemon Jefferson” and “Koto Blue Blood,” both sets of poems written by ...

Thus, Reverend’s tunes are mixed with a few blues classics from Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Blind Willie Johnson. The album was later re-recorded, fleshed out, so to speak, by six-time ...

From Blind Willie Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson on opposite street corners in Dallas to Blind Blake and Blind Boy Fuller in Georgia and the Carolinas, the early 20th century saw blind bluesmen ...

His “Old Town Road” begins with a ten-second tribute to Blind Lemon Jefferson, then clip-clops ahead into a sing-song, rattle-snake-ratchet-driven beat backing a navel-gazing catalog of the ...

In his early 20s, he followed his slightly older contemporary, Blind Lemon Jefferson, onto street corners, developing his signature growling vocal style and building up a repertoire of his own songs.

Especially music. The blues came first in the 1910s and '20s. Iconic musicians like Lead Belly, Blind Lemon Jefferson and even the mythic Robert Johnson cultivated their legend while playing on ...

“Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller... all the blind guys.” That’s how the multi-instrumentalist John Mayall, one of the chief architects of the British blues revival of ...

Born in 1889, the story goes that he enjoyed local fame in Louisiana and Texas as a travelling musician, rode the rails as a double act with Blind Lemon Jefferson, had frequent run-ins with the ...