Scraped and raw as a freshly plowed field, Charley Patton’s voice decries his harsh life amid the plantation system of the Reconstruction-era South. Patton rises defiantly from scratched 78 rpm ...
Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues The Worlds of Charley Patton Revenant, 7 CDs, $169.98 EVERY BLACK living in the Mississippi Delta during the 1920s knew of Charley Patton, and many of the whites did ...