December 03, 2005

Charlie Patton by R. Crumb Seen at spifflicated blurgits

Charlie Patton at Wikipedia. Charlie Patton at allmusic. A snippet of Charlie Patton's Spoonful of Blues at Digital Journo. Oh, there's links all over. If ya search around you'll find a few CP files here and there. This guy is probably the most influential Delta blues player ever.

posted by Chyren 18 years ago
  • Good stuff, I'll have to check out the audio when I get the internet working on my computer again.
  • Here's an archive.org 18 years ago by un-
  • ha ha. I really fucked that up! Charley Patton at archive.org
  • I love this stuff. Seems to me the recordings you can get of Patton just aren't as good as what's still around from some of those other guys- the sound quality, I mean; the guitar is muddy and really hard to hear on almost all of it. There are some great, clear recordings of Son House that anybody who likes Robert Johnson would do well to seek out.
  • That was a great read. Makes me want to check out more of Crumb's stuff and hear Patton's music.
  • Good stuff. I agree with un- about Crumb and the bigbutt fetish. He's great, but he's hard to read sometimes. Thanks, Chyren!
  • These are muddy waters, watson.
  • On a side note, I wore out a cassette copy of the soundtrack to Crumb, the Zwigoff biography. Lots of olde-tyme type music on it. I've always had this fantasy ever since seeing that film of paying R. Crumb and his kin a little visit, for tea perhaps, hearing great music played off of 78s and enjoying some conversation and just soaking in the oddity of it all.