Sunday, January 10, 2021

Scouting the Delta: Charley Patton and H. C. Speir

 Short film but a good one.

Blues researcher Gayle Dean Wardlow says that H. C. Speir, who had a music company on Farish Street in Jackson, was responsible for finding the talent of Charley Patton, Skip James, Tommy Johnson, Ishmon Bracey, Son House, the Mississippi Sheiks, and others.