Rough Guide To Ragtime Blues / Various - Rough Guide To Ragtime Blues / Various - Music CD

Ragtime had a profound influence on many early blues performers who strived to reproduce it's complicated piano sounds on the guitar. With it's faster rhythm and good-time feel, this danceable style was performed with mesmerizing skill by blues greats such as Blind Blake, Reverend Gary Davis and Blind Boy Fuller. Indispensible 25-track set features Blind Willie McTell, Big Bill Broonzy, Mississippi John Hurt, Charley Patton, Reverend Gary Davis, Blind Boy Fuller and others!