Scrapper Blackwell
Scrapper Blackwell's crisp, needling guitar lines gave pianist Leroy Carr's smoky vocals somewhere to lean, and together the duo more or less invented the urban, piano-and-guitar blues sound of the late 1920s — quietly influential, endlessly covered, and never quite as famous as the records he helped make essential.
the sound in question
1928
Kokomo BluesScrapper Blackwell
we haven’t charted Scrapper Blackwell yet
this stretch of the river isn’t mapped. we trace the watershed one artist at a time — and we’re always heading further upstream.