Francis Hillman "Scrapper" Blackwell (February 21, 1903 – October 7, 1962) was an American blues guitarist and singer, best known as half of the guitar-piano...

longtime partnership with the guitarist Scrapper Blackwell. His light bluesy piano combined with Blackwell's melodic jazz guitar attracted a sophisticated...

Look up scrapper in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Scrapper may refer to: The Scrapper, a 1917 short Western film directed by John Ford Scrappers, a 2010...

is a blues song recorded by the American blues duo Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell in 1928. It became an early blues standard and its melody inspired...

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to the Red Cross Store Blues historian Elijah Wald suggests that Scrapper Blackwell was the first to introduce a reference to a city in his "Kokomo Blues"...

and Emily Scott Blackwell (active from 1992 to after 2011), American disk jockey and Christian dance music artist Scrapper Blackwell (1903–1962), American...

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as "the Guitar Wizard". Carr accompanied himself on the piano with Scrapper Blackwell on guitar, a format that continued well into the 1950s with artists...

"Old Original Kokomo Blues" for Decca Records, a cover version of Scrapper Blackwell's blues song about the city of Kokomo, Indiana. Arnold was born in...

What You Sow", recorded by Tampa Red in 1929 and by Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell in 1928. The melody lines, played on slide guitar by Tampa Red and...

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Father" – The Winstons (1969) "Papa's on the Housetop" – Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell (1930) "Mama Loves Papa (And Papa Loves The Women)" – Jack Rhodes...

associated with National guitars include: Johnny Winter John Kay Black Ace Scrapper Blackwell Bumble Bee Slim Bo Carter Ray Davies Reverend Gary Davis Blind Boy...

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worked with Georgia Tom, and in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he met Scrapper Blackwell and Leroy Carr. He also worked as a cook. In Detroit, after Joe Louis...

including recordings by Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Lightnin' Hopkins, Scrapper Blackwell, Reverend Gary Davis, Robert Pete Williams, Big Joe Williams, Sunnyland...

artists from Chicago, such as Georgia Tom Dorsey, Big Bill Broonzy, and Scrapper Blackwell, recorded in Richmond. The label preserved several rare varieties...

he'd let me play with him. I think he and Tampa Red and of course Scrapper Blackwell, that's my favorite style of guitar playing." In his autobiography...

never been identified. Francis Hillman Blackwell (59), who was better known by his stage name "Scrapper Blackwell", was an American blues singer and guitarist...

August 4, 1962 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Barbiturate overdose Scrapper Blackwell 59 October 7, 1962 Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. Shot Mercy Dee Walton...

Baby" M.L. Williams B. Johnson 2:30 2. "How Long Blues" Leroy Carr Scrapper Blackwell 2:38 3. "Sent For You Today"   2:36 4. "I'll Never Be Free" Bennie...

Charlie Jackson); 1928 "How Long How Long Blues" (Leroy Carr with Scrapper Blackwell); 1930 "Sitting on Top of the World: (Mississippi Sheiks); 1934 "Six...

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working in automotive factories. While there he became friends with Scrapper Blackwell and Leroy Carr. In 1935, Carr offered to take Griffith to New York...

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Drop Is Plenty". Valley Entertainment. Retrieved 2011-07-12. Official website Knut Reiersrud performing Scrapper Blackwell´s Back Door Blues on YouTube...

group in 2015 and the Blues Hall of Fame in his own right in 2016. Scrapper Blackwell (February 21, 1903, Syracuse, North Carolina – October 27, 1962)....

the second half of 1929 this ensemble was joined by Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell, issuing a small number of recordings billed as the Famous Hokum Boys...