Blind Lemon Jefferson and Muddy Waters!

'Matchbox Blues' and 'Black Snake Moan' by the legendary Blind Lemon Jefferson are two of the best wild livin' blues a soul could imagine. When I listened today to these genius renditions of blues giant tunes from the mid to late 1920s it surely helped out my kind of worn Tuesday mood. The strong man from Texas....yeah this Blind Lemon Jefferson....well he was a powerful man with a song. He could make the thing leap right up in your face. Good salty blues is a fantastic piece of our American culture. When you hear men like the fine Muddy Waters with his passion and Blind Lemon Jefferson with his super style then you know we have a good, feisty culture indeed!

Blind Willie McTell packs raw blues wallop

Blind Willie McTell was one of the finest examples of passionate Georgia blues singers. Not only was the man a great blues vocalist he was also a superb guitarist. His clear finger-picking technique and good lyrics made him a grand example of early Twentieth Century blues work. In the late twenties and thirties this artist did a big amount of work for recording people who came to Atlanta. He got into working out with labels of the times like Vocalion, Bluebird, OKeh and then there was Columbia also. The best thing about Blind Willie McTell happens to be his amazing raw and so pure sound and also his great sense of beat. One of my favorite tunes of his I believe is 'Dying Crapshooters Blues.' Man that song sends me. It has a beat that is so wily, indeed so amazingly clever. When one listens to other Blues giants like Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy it is easy to see how much the man named Blind Willie McTell influenced these people. Those good fellas--Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy--also have a powerhouse strong sound just like the grand, McTell. I love Blues because it helps me to shake off a lot of the senseless cynicism so many quasi-thinkers have tried so hard to jam in my brain over the years. I know Blind Willie McTell (born in Thomson, Georgia on May 5, 1901) was a profound and blazingly creative man and we have all had our lives enriched by him.