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Item Summary:

Scrapper Blackwell (Born Francis Hillman Blackwell) set himself apart from his pre-World War II bluesman contemporaries by the virtuosity of his guitar-work. Self-taught from an early age, Blackwell's playing was marked with clean and ornate precision, which frequently drifted out of the realm of blues and into that of early jazz, and was highly innovative for the time. In addition to recording solo, he frequently collaborated with pianist Leroy Carr to considerable success in the midwest and the South. By the end of the 1930s however, Blackwell had abandoned a career in music, finding himself unable to continue after Carr's death from nephritis in 1935.

By the time the 1950s came about, a renewed interest in folk-blues had swept across the United States and Europe. This new development intrigued Blackwell enough to pick up where he left off, performing live for a new generation of blues fans, and cutting an album's worth of material which showed his skills to be unweathered by the passage of time. Sadly, Blackwell's renewed fortunes would be cut short when he was shot to death during a mugging in 1962. Blackwell's pre-revival material was collected in 1970 by Yazoo Records into the record The Virtuoso Guitar Of Scrapper Blackwell.

An essential collection of classic blues, featuring some of Blackwell's most adept guitar-work, and many of his collaborations with Leroy Carr, and contemporaries like Black Bottom McPhail, and Tommie Bradley.