Born in April 1891, between Edwards and Bolton in southern Mississippi, Charley Patton was the scrawny child of sharecropper parents. [11] Robert Palmer described Patton as a "jack-of all-trades bluesman", who played "deep blues, white hillbilly songs, nineteenth-century ballads, and other varieties of black and white country dance music with equal facility". Il faisait souvent des pauses en jouant, créant des moments de tension qui se transformaient avec une emphase complètement différente. Charley Patton: a look under the mask! And yet he was already over forty years old, the first time he recorded for Paramount in June 1929 at Grafton Wisconsin. Patton died in Holly Ridge, not Holly Springs, Your email address will not be published. Panny Mayfield, “Henderson Dedicates Again,” (Clarksdale, MS) Press-Register, July 17, 1991. Performance Review: "Come Home Charley Patton": Part 3 of the "Geography Trilogy". The Defenitive Charley Patton (Off the Beaten Track). Patton has been called a ‘clown’ for the way he sometimes acted when he played, it may be that people have taken this is some kind of implied criticism. [8] There, Patton developed his musical style, influenced by Henry Sloan, who had a new, unusual style of playing music, which is now considered an early form of the blues. A singer-guitarist, Charley was born on May 1, 1891. [26][27] Director Bernard MacMahon observed that "we had a strong feeling that the music of Patton and his peers reflected the local geography, and I was struck by the extent to which that belief was already shared by people who were living in the Delta back then, when it was a center of musical innovation. Sa tombe se situe à Holly Ridge Mississippi, et l’inscription de sa pierre tombale reconnait son rôle primordial dans le développement du Delta blues. Patton continua de jouer autour du Delta, allant au nord à Memphis, dans l'Arkansas ainsi qu'en Louisiane. La langueur de sa voix, accompagnée par sa guitare, produisait des contrepoints rythmiques. Robert Palmer, Deep Blues (New York: Penguin Books, 1981), 61. The Mt. His parents were Bill and Annie Patton, but locally he was regarded as having been fathered by former slave Henderson Chatmon, several of whose children became popular Delta musicians, as solo performers and as members of groups such as the Mississippi Sheiks. Couldn’t nobody cry. We save rural cemeteries by any means necessary--whether it’s erecting memorials to musicians, engaging legal remedies, or filling the vast silences in important historical landscapes. The underlying motive of erecting the grave marker was not only to raise awareness in Mississippi about the significance of Patton and the blues as the roots of contemporary popular music. Whether it was arrogance or confidence we can never know, but as writer, Paul Oliver attests “Charley Patton is without question one of the most impressive and important of Bluesmen on record…”. Zion Memorial Fund stand in bold contrast to other, more prominently displayed symbols of the Lost Cause. Some played with him, some knew him as a friend, others saw him perform or quite simply they aspired to be both as good and as well known as Patton. ‘Rudy The Fifth’: Rick Nelson Dares To Be Different, ‘About A Girl’: Nirvana Get Unplugged On A Song With History, Honky Tonk Girl: Loretta Lynn’s Grand Ole Opry Debut, Best Horror Movie Soundtracks: 20 Essential Spine-Chilling Film Scores, ‘Elliott Smith’ Reissue Offers Fascinating View Into His Mind And Work, The Lumineers’ Jeremiah Fraites Announces Solo Debut, James Blake Releases ‘Before’ EP And Visualizers, Ariana Grande Releasing New Album This Month, YG, Finneas Kick Off This Weekend’s Save Our Stages Festival, Listen To Demi Lovato’s Hard-Hitting New Song, ‘Commander In Chief’. The spelling of Patton's name was dictated by Jim O'Neal, who also composed the epitaph. The two men visited the store almost adjacent to New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist (MB) Church, and they tracked down the longtime cemetery caretaker, Joseph “Cootchie” Howard, who recalled where the blues legend had been laid to rest back in 1934. [7] In "Down the Dirt Road Blues", Patton sang of having gone to "the Nation" and "the Territo'", referring to the Cherokee Nation's portion of the Indian Territory (which became part of the state of Oklahoma in 1907), where a number of Black Indians tried unsuccessfully to claim a place on the tribal rolls and thereby obtain land. Crumb, Robert. Let the mark be Jesus Christ.”  One observer believed that the inspiring sermon had shocked some of the media folks and others who had travelled from far off to attend, as the pastor’s traditional style and delivery had the whole church rocking. At this session Charley cut just four sides, it may have been that the cream of his material had been used up; the 1920’s equivalent of that difficult third album. One theory endorsed by blues musician Howlin' Wolf was that Patton was Mexican or Cherokee. Le finger-picking polyrythmique de Patton, accompagnée par le tapping du corps de la guitare, créa une mélodie complexe de danse dont le musicien pouvait jouer pour trente minutes ou plus. He was born on May 1, 1891, in Hinds County near Edwards or Bolton, Mississippi. He gave his audiences what they wanted, a mix of predominantly Blues based material that was delivered in showman’s style – so much so that Patton has even been called the first rock and roller.

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