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Three Mo' Bluesmen - South Carolina, USA
My favorite classic blues performers are mostly unsung heroes Funnily enough, these three artists were South Carolina based. Floyd Council, Pink Anderson (who inspired the name Pink Floyd) and Scrapper Blackwell.
Floyd Council wasn't what you might call well recorded as a performer under his own name, but often featured in studio recording sessions playing behind 'celebrities' such as Blind Boy Fuller, another South Carolina man. His technique was syncopated and was a cross between ragtime and a Texas acoustic style.
Pink Anderson (I don't believe they ever played together or even crossed each others path!) played ragtime guitar and appeared in traveling medicine shows.
Scrapper Blackwell was a very varied guitar player who produced many classic pieces, such as Blues Before Sunrise and Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out.
His song 'Kokomo Blues' was recorded by Robert Johnson under the name 'Sweet Home Chicago'. Scrapper provided songs which were to inspire later giants of blues music.
Floyd Council (Born September 2, 1911 and died May 9, 1976) was a well-known performer of the Piedmont ragtime blues sound, which was popular throughout that corner of the Unites States during the 1930s.
Floyd began playing in the nineteen twenties, performing with two brothers, Leo and Thomas Strowd calling themselves "The Chapel Hillbillies". He additionally played on some studio sessions with Blind Fuller in the 30s. His muscles were partially paralyzed after suffering a stroke in the nineteen sixties, but it was reported that his mind was not affected. However, he was never able to recover his playing talents.
Council passed away in 1976 after a heart attack, a little while after moving to Sanford, N Carolina.
Pink Anderson
Pink's birth place was in Greenville South Carolina. Having trained himself in several instruments, he started to play for Dr. Frank Kerr, who ran a business called the Indian Remedy Company in 1914 to entertain the crowds while the doctor sold his special 'elixir'.
In the vicinity of Spartanburg, was to meet} Simeon "Blind Simmie" Dooley in 1916, who taught him how to finger pick blues guitar - Pink already had some experience of performing in string bands. When Pink was not performing in Dr Kerr's medicine show, he and Dooley would play to small gatherings.
Problems with his heart eventually forced Anderson to retire from the road in nineteen fifty seven.
Suffering a stroke in 1954, which forced him to almost stop performing, and never again would he play with with the same skill. He passed away in October 1974, of a heart attack when he was 74. He is interred in Spartanburg, where from where he orginated. Anderson's son, who became known as Little Pink Anderson, is a blues guitarist living in Vermillion, South Dakota.
Scrapper Blackwell
Born in Syracuse, Carolina, Scrapper Blackwell was one of sixteen children. Partly Cherokee Indian, he was raised up and spent most of his life in Indianapolis. He was given his nickname, "Scrapper", by his grandma, because of his prickly ways. His father played the violin, but Scrapper taught himself how to play the guitar.
Even when he was a teenager, Blackwell worked as a part-time musician, traveling as far away as Chicago. He was a sullen man, withdrawn and difficult to be with. In spite of this, Blackwell established a partnership with pianist Leroy Carr, whom he ran across in Indiana in the 1920s, which became a productive working relationship.
Blackwell also made recordings on his own, which included "Kokomo Blues" which became "Old Kokomo Blues" (Kokomo Arnold) before it was transformed again into "Sweet Home Chicago" by Robert Johnson. Scrapper and Carr traveled extensively throughout the mid-west states and in the South between 1928 and 1935 - stars of the blues scene, recording over one hundred tracks.
After Carr's death, Scrapper returned to music in the late 1950s and was first recorded in June 1958 by Colin C. Pomroy.
He was going to resume performing the blues again when he was killed during a robbery in an alley in Indianapolis. He was 59. Although the crime remains unsolved, police arrested his neighbor for the murder. Scrapper was interred in New Crown Cemetery, Indianapolis. Gather more information on learn blues guitar and learn to play blues.
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