Early finger pickin’ guitarist Blind Blake remains a mystery man of the blues. We know he was born Arthur Phelps, in Jacksonville, FL circa 1890-something and died sometime in 1933. He disappeared ...

Auerbach got his sketch skills on and riffed on the tradition of blind blues musicians ... Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Blake, Blind Lemon Jefferson, but my all-time favorite is still Blind ...

Blind black ... in Dallas to Blind Blake and Blind Boy Fuller in Georgia and the Carolinas, the early 20th century saw blind bluesmen playing everything from the lewd, raw blues of the juke ...

No one knows why the Piedmont area--the Carolinas and part of upper Georgia--gave rise to so many sightless blues musicians ... eclectic guitar styles of Blind Blake, Blind Willie McTell, and ...