Scrapper Blackwell
THE LATEST FROM SCRAPPER BLACKWELL
Scrapper Blackwell
Mr. Scrapper's Blues
CD $11.98 $8.98
RELEASE DATE: 31 Aug 1962
OBCCD-594-2
GENRE: R&B, BLUES, SOUL & STAX
Francis "Scrapper" Blackwell (1903-1962) ranks as one of the major players in the history of blues guitar. Through his work with singer-pianist Leroy Carr--particularly on the massive 1928 hit "How Long, How Long Blues"--Blackwell helped fashion a new sound for the blues suited to rural-to-urban move of much of the music's African-American constituency.
T-Bone Walker, who continued this evolutionary process in the 1940s, cited Blackwell as a main musical hero. … MORE
