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Eddie Mapp's career is unfortunately rather typical of many blues players in the 1920s and 1930s - after making a few records, he was found dead in the street in Atlanta, Georgia, at the age of twenty. This means that he was just seventeen or eighteen years old at the time of his only recording session in 1929, in the company of guitarists Guy Lumpkin and Slim Barton and harp player James Moore. Mapp's playing on these sides is very mature for such a young musician and covers a range of different styles. Rather than the fast, tight playing of then current hits such as "It's Tight Like That" and "Careless Love" I have transcribed his playing from the slow, field-holler style song "Wicked Treatin' Blues", which is performed with just Mapp's harp and Slim Barton's voice. The tune itself is a traditional one, the melody being related to such tunes as "Reuben", "500 Miles", DeFord Bailey's "Evening Prayer Blues" and a tune called "Stewball". The song is notated here for a C harp in first position and I have not used a time signature or bar lines, as the song is very free flowing. Many books will tell you that first position is rarely used by blues harmonica players, but the low octave straight harp used on this tune was a very popular style of playing on early blues recordings.

A CD that has all of Mapp's stuff is headed my way, a birthday gift. Also all of Fred McMullen's recordings, they were Georgia players, so ya need to add Blind Willie McTell, Barbecue Bob, Charlie Hicks (his brother) Buddy Moss, Ma Rainey, Emmett Miller who performed in black face, Curley Weaver, Kokomo Anold, Blind Blake.




The death of Eddie Mapp a blues mystery not unlike Blind Blake who just disappeared*****

***** the first Jack Reacher novel who was a blues fan is in Georgia seeing what he can find out about Blind Blake, Talking Killing Floor.
 
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Georgia Blues: The Complete Recorded Works Of Barton~Mapp~Moore~Lumpkin, Fred McMullen & Curley Weaver In Chronological Order (1928 ~ 1933) (Compilation, Remastered) album cover




 

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Bob Dylan a big fan of Blind Willie McTell, McTell the most revered of the Georgia players.


Actually nobody was bigger than.....



 

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Yep, that is where Hank Williams got it from.
 

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Works like this...

Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi Delta (delta or not it gets stuck there)
Memphis
Georgia
Alabama.....most primitive
Piedmont/Appalachia
St.Louis

Each region with a dozen or so who best represent that region.

The 20,s, 30,s and 40,s

Guitar, jug bands, piano players, harmonica players.

So Robert Johnson would be.....Mississippi Delta/30's/guitar.

I own 12 big books on them blues so to have cats who aren't mentioned in any of them, yep, obscure.

Bo Jones a Texan is one of the phantoms that make them blues so interesting.


 

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Louisiana acordian legend....Amede Ardoin


Later life and death

The circumstances that led to Ardoin's death, and the final cause of his death, are uncertain. Descendants of family members and musicians who knew Ardoin tell a story, now well-known, about a racially motivated attack on him in which he was severely beaten, in about 1939, while walking home after playing at a house dance near Eunice. The most common story says that some white men were angered when a white woman, daughter of the house, lent her handkerchief to Ardoin to wipe the sweat from his face.[5][7] According to Canray Fontenot and Wade Fruge, in PBS's American Patchwork, Ardoin left the place and was run over by a Model A car which crushed his head and throat, damaging his vocal cords. He was found the next day, lying in a ditch. According to Fontenot, he "went plumb crazy" and "didn't know if he was hungry or not. Others had to feed him. He got weaker and weaker until he died." Others consider this story apocryphal. Other versions say that Ardoin was poisoned, not beaten, possibly by a jealous fellow musician.

Contemporaries said that Ardoin suffered from impaired mental and musical capacities later in his life. Some recent studies have concluded that he died as a result of a venereal disease.[4] He ended up in an asylum in Pineville, Louisiana, where he was admitted in September 1942. He died at the hospital two months later, and was buried in the hospital's common grave.[3][8]

On March 11, 2018, a life-sized statue of Ardoin was unveiled at the St. Landry Parish Visitor Center.[9] The project was headed by Louisiana's former Poet Laureate, author, and professor Darrell Bourque, who wrote a book of poetry titled 'If You Abandon Me: An Amédé Ardoin Songbook', the cover of which features artwork by Pierre Bourque.


 

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Dennis McGee also a cajun music legend

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This is Bobby Grant, they try to stick him in Mississippi, I think he's from Alabama.

How sad is this, the guy only recorded one record. Why......nobody knows anything about him.

This is on par with anyone....


Mattie Delaney, another with just one record. Serious talent here, only one record.


 

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Love the phantom, the obscure,

Big Ben Stevenson

Ben Stevenson

Ben “Big Ben” Stevenson spent his first years at Tuskegee University as a prep-schooler, which at the time allowed him to play eight seasons in all for the Golden Tigers, from 1923 to 1930. During that span, the team amazingly suffered only two defeats. Stevenson combined speed (9.8 100-yard dash), strength and durability. Scoring on a combination of long runs and drop kicks, he also played defensive back, earning a reputation as one of the top pass thieves in the conference. Stevenson was named to seven consecutive Black College All-America teams, numerous ***** all-time All-America teams and was voted as the game's greatest all-around player.

Little off topic, oh well.
 

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That is at two CD set of nothing but the plantom/obscure, a must have,

The Nugrape Twins
Pigmeat Terry
Bayless Rose
Moses Mason
Geechie Wiley......actually her... Last Kind Words... kinda ruined the obscure, a true classic...


 
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