Editing Blind Blake (section)

==Music==
Blake's first recordings were made in 1926,<ref name="Russell 2">{{cite book|first=Tony|last=Russell|year=1997|title=The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray|publisher=Carlton Books|location=Dubai|page=12|isbn=1-85868-255-X}}</ref> and his records sold well. His first solo record was "Early Morning Blues", with "West Coast Blues" on the [[A-side and B-side|B-side]]. Both are considered excellent examples of his ragtime-based guitar style and were prototypes for the burgeoning [[Piedmont blues]]. Blake made his last recordings in 1932; his career ended with Paramount's bankruptcy.<ref name="LarkinBlues"/> Stefan Grossman and Gayle Dean Wardlow have suggested it is possible that only one side of Blake's last record is actually by him;<ref>Jas Obrecht 1993</ref> {{" '}}Champagne Charlie Is My Name' does not sound like Blake's playing or singing."

His complex and intricate fingerpicking inspired [[Reverend Gary Davis]], [[Jorma Kaukonen]], [[Ry Cooder]], [[Arlen Roth]], [[John Fahey (musician)|John Fahey]], [[Ralph McTell]], David Bromberg, [[Leon Redbone]] and many others. [[Big Bill Broonzy]], hearing Blake in person in the early 1920s, said of his guitar playing "He made it sound like every instrument in the band- saxophone, trombone, clarinets, bass fiddles, pianos- everything. I never had seed then and I haven't to this day yet seed no one that could take his natural fingers and pick as much guitar as Blind Blake."<ref>Lomax, Alan., 'The Land Where The Blues Began', Minerva, 1993, pp.443</ref>

The track "You Gonna Quit Me" from [[Bob Dylan]]'s 1992 album ''[[Good as I Been to You]]'' is a cover of Blind Blake's "You Gonna Quit Me Blues."