Acoustic Blues Guitar - Truckin' Little Baby Cover - Blind Boy Fuller

Blues Lessons https://tinyurl.com/lessons-75percent-off Acoustic Blues Guitar Lessons http://jimbruceguitar.com/jim-bruce-lessons.html http://youtu.be/UEU1bQWo6ZI Jim Speaks About Three Of His Favorite Blues Men From Carolina My favorite old blues men are mostly unsung heroes Funnily enough, these three artists came from Carolina . Floyd Council, Pink Anderson ( Pink Floyd borrowed their names ) and Scrapper Blackwell - these guys really knew how to play the guitar! Floyd Council wasn't very well recorded as a performer in his own right, but sometimes played in studio recording sessions playing behind 'stars' such as Blind Boy Fuller, another South Carolina artists . His guitar was syncopated and could be described as a combination of ragtime and a Texas blues style. Pink Anderson (I don't believe that they ever collaborated or even crossed each others path !) played ragtime guitar and performed in traveling medicine shows. Scrapper Blackwell was an extremely varied guitar player who wrote many memorable songs, such as Blues Before Sunrise and Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out. His creation 'Kokomo Blues' was made famous by Robert Johnson by the name 'Sweet Home Chicago'. Scrapper provided classics which were to provide inspiration for later masters of blues music. Although Scrapper didn't teach Johnson how to play the guitar, he still owed him a great deal. Floyd Council (Born September 2, 1911 and died May 9th , 1976) was a well-known performer of the Piedmont ragtime blues sound, which was well liked all through the southeastern region of America during the nineteen thirties . He started his career in the 1920s, performing with two brothers, Leo and Thomas Strowd calling themselves "The Chapel Hillbillies". He also played on some sessions with Blind Fuller during the thirties . His muscles were partially paralyzed after suffering a stroke in the nineteen sixties , but it seemed that his mind was still sharp. However , he was never able to recover his playing ability, although still finding time to show others how to play the guitar. Council died in 1976 after a heart attack, just after going to live in Sanford, North Carolina. Scrapper Blackwell Born in Syracuse, Carolina, Scrapper Blackwell was one of sixteen children. Part Cherokee, he was raised up and spent most of his life in Indianapolis. He was given the familiar name , "Scrapper", by his grandma , because of his prickly nature. His father played the fiddle, but Scrapper taught himself how to play the guitar . Even when he was a teenager , Blackwell worked as a part-time musician, wandering as far away as Chicago. He was a sullen man, generally keeping to himself and difficult to get along with. In spite of this , Blackwell established a duo with piano player Leroy Carr, whom he ran across in Indiana in the 1920s, which was a productive working relationship. Blackwell also made recordings on his own , including "Kokomo Blues" which became "Old Kokomo Blues" (Kokomo Arnold) before it was transformed again into "Sweet Home Chicago" by Robert Johnson. Blackwell and Carr traveled extensively throughout the mid-west states and through the South from 1928 to 1935 - stars of the blues scene, recording over 100 tracks. After Carr died, Scrapper returned to performing in the late 1950s and was recorded again in June 1958 by Colin C. Pomroy. He was going to resume his blues career when he was shot and killed during a robbery in an Indianapolis alley. He was fifty nine years old . Although the crime remains unsolved, police took into custody his neighbor for the murder. Scrapper Blackwell is buried in New Crown Cemetery, Indianapolis. Pink Anderson Pink's birth place was in Greenville South Carolina. Having trained himself in several instruments, he started to play for Dr. Frank Kerr, who ran a business which was known as the Indian Remedy Company in nineteen fourteen to sing for the audiences while the doctor sold his special ' elixir '. In the town of Spartanburg, Anderson Simeon "Blind Simmie" Dooley in 1916, who taught him how to play the guitar - Pink previously had some experience of performing in string bands. When he was not traveling in Dr Kerr's medicine show , he and Dooley would entertain at small parties . Heart problems eventually forced Anderson to retire from the road in nineteen fifty seven . Suffering a stroke in 1954, which forced him to virtually stop playing guitar, and he would never again play with his old flair. He died in October 1974, after a heart attack at the age of 74. He is interred in Spartanburg, where from where he originated . Anderson's son, who became known as Little Pink Anderson , is a blues guitarist living in Vermillion, South Dakota. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv1BKTE2c7k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BR5icY3sFI

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