Early finger pickin’ guitarist Blind Blake remains a mystery man of the blues. We know he was born Arthur Phelps, in Jacksonville, FL circa 1890-something and died sometime in 1933. He disappeared ...

Guitar-playing blues singers of the 1920s and 1930s had a lot in common, as so many played slide guitar, and often played in open E or open G (sometimes called “Spanish”) tuning. Many were great but ...