Patton was the genre's first great star, a pivotal figure in blues history and a cornerstone of both rural and urban blues for generations to come.

"Charley Patton, Willie Brown, and Son House, the triumvirate of 'primitive' Delta blues masters, were, in the black parlance of the day, gay cats," Tosches writes in Where Dead Voices Gather.

Charley Patton was the "grandfather of Delta blues," a true legend--and part-Native American. He was a profound influence on blues musicians over the years as well as Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Jack ...

Charley Patton - Blues Singer, guitarist ( 1892 - 1934) Scraped and raw as a freshly plowed field, Charley Patton’s voice decries his harsh life amid the plantation system of the Reconstruction-era ...

Arts Transcribin’ and Decipherin’ the Blues Fifty years ago, local music fanatics Dick Spottswood and John Fahey decided that Charley Patton was the best bluesman on earth.

For reasons cultural, temporal, and technological, Robert Johnson has come to be revered as the fount of Delta blues.

Although he never got the notice Robert Johnson received through Eric Clapton and his crowd, Charley Patton is generally considered the king of the country-blues pioneers. Screamin' and Hollerin ...

Charley Patton by Keith Shadwick He was the original blues shouter with a hellhound on his trail: the hard-drinking, hard-living Mississippi bluesman Charley Patton was just 42 years old when he ...

Barrett Golding and the Hearing Voices audio project report on the life and legacy of one of the godfathers of the Delta blues, Charley Patton.

Early blues artists such as W.C. Handy, Charley Patton and Blind Lemon Jefferson may have been the pioneers of a new style of music, but the genre continues to evolve with each passing generation.

It was Robert Johnson’s boxed set in 1990 that proved that blues recordings more than 60 years old could sell more than a half-million copies and go platinum — especially when his best-… ...

Charley Patton (1929) W.C. Handy may be the Father of the Blues, but it's Charley Patton who is credited as the founder of the Delta Blues — a variation of blues music specific to the ...