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Today would be a good day to get your blues on. If you don’t know about the Blind Lemon you betta get to readin’. Music wouldn’t really be what we know it as today if it weren’t for good hard working musicians like Blind Lemon. His music is bad ass and apparently only one picture of him existed.

He Rose From The Dead

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Blind Lemon Jefferson is pretty much the first black dude to get paid for making awesome music in the 20′s. He was indeed blind and belted out the blues like nothing anybody had heard at the time. Blind Lemon did pretty good for himself, surely not as good as his record label but somethings never change. Another famous Blind Lemon tune is Black Snake Moan but I chose this song because I would like my loved ones to see that my grave is kept clean. Don’t forget about me when I die dammit! And please don’t let the weeds grow all crazy around it.

I love the way he just has a string holding his guitar up rather than an actual strap. The music is raw, the sounds of bad lighting and thin coats of dirt and grime on a chair in a dingy barn with the door slightly ajar. I can see myself walking up to it and seeing a little bit of the bad lighting escaping the door and with it the sound of the Blind Lemon blues and as I start to take it all in some grown person says “bow you’s butta git beck inside nah!”

This is the sound I’ve been craving lately. It is of course mountain banjo but there is something to it that is kind of creepy sounding (make the sheep scared). It has a repetition to it that I enjoy a bit more than regular bluegrass style pickin’. Plus Dock Boggs is just a G look at this guy…

and I guess if you want to see what his music has inspired in others

I started a Pandora station to help get me through the grueling work day. It’s basically a bunch of hill billy music. I’ve never been a country music guy but the reality is I’d be plain silly if I didn’t give ol’ Willy and Merle a chance. There’s a lot of cool old bluegrass too. I can’t promise you will like it but I guarantee it will make you wanna drink some liquor. Listen now!

You know a CD is good when you can’t find the cover anywhere except for one place with the word “DELETED” written across the cover. Seriously if you find this grab it, it’s full of the bomb diggy monster music (no Monster Mash here!).