If someone wakes up in the morning with the jinx all around their bed, a symptom of the blues is that they may turn their face to the wall without a word to say. When Charley Patton got the jinx ...

Recent research suggests that Charley Patton’s birth date may have been as early as July 12, 1885, giving even more credibility to his billing as the “Founder of the Delta Blues.” If accurate, when ...

Charley Patton, the original king of Delta blues, finally gets his place beside Robert Johnson with "Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues."Charley Patton, below, had plenty of reason to sing the ...

Now it has unleashed its most ambitious project, the definitive Patton compilation, “Screamin’ and Hollerin’ the Blues”: The Worlds of Charley Patton. The massive 6-pound, seven-CD box set ...

"And as it turned out, Charley Patton, as described by his fellow blues singers, was extremely light-skinned and he was a little guy! So this voice just comes out with this unbelievable energy ...

It’s no myth. Johnson had a mentor. And his name was Charley Patton. They refer to Johnson as “King of the Delta Blues,” but no less a blues scholar than the late Robert Palmer called Patton ...

By Billboard Staff For reasons cultural, temporal, and technological, Robert Johnson has come to be revered as the fount of Delta blues. But it’s his elder fellow Mississippian Charley Patton ...

Today, the farms are a collection of six buildings and a feeling, a destination for blues pilgrims who come from all over the world. At the center of the Dockery Farms story is Charley Patton ...

Watch on the Internet Movie Archive Blues guitarist Charley Patton in “BBC Arena: American Epic, Episode 2, Blood and Soil,” CREDIT: BBC) BBC Arena: American Epic, Episode 2, Blood and Soil In ...

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 ...

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 Mississippi Delta region.

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 ...