Day Trips: Blind Lemon Memorial Cemetery, Wortham

Visiting the father of Texas blues

"...Blind Lemon Jefferson's grave in a small cemetery off Highway..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Playback: David Yow Meets the Jazzus Lizard

David Yow fronts the Jazzus Lizard, Cherubs knock off 22 years of rust, Preston Hubbard dies, and Blind Lemon Jefferson gets kicked off Texas license plates

"...design. They've replaced the image of Texas blues patriarch Blind Lemon Jefferson with boring clip art...."

Aug. 26, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

True Blues

Alan Govenar's blues tome doesn't need to correct blues mythos. Blues is myth and vice versa.

"...and photographer, Govenar also makes a convincing case for Blind Lemon Jefferson as the father of blues over the..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Sheet Music

Summer Reading

"...Blind Lemon Jefferson: His Life, His Death, and His Legacy..."

June 6, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Record Reviews

"...On "Got to Find Blind Lemon -- Part One," Geoff Muldaur tells a wistful..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Music Review by Your Side

Roots, Reckonings, and Resolutions

Roots

"...old-time blues on the jukebox at the neighborhood saloon: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lightnin' Hopkins, B.B. King. Hopkins was a..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1963

Local music journalism pioneer takes on all of rock & roll

"...independent record labels building stars from blues performers like Blind Lemon Jefferson and Ma Rainey. Country pioneers including the..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Black Snake Moan

Like a steady 12-bar blues progression, Black Snake Moan lays down a groove and works the chords over and over 'til they're all spent.

"...blues progression, Black Snake Moan (the title of a Blind Lemon Jefferson tune) lays down a groove and works..."

March 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Will a Matchbox Hold My Clothes?

Letters at 3am

"...people to whom this dilemma was all too familiar. Blind Lemon Jefferson was the first to record the matchbox..."

March 20, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

DVDnds

"...baritone talking about Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Alan Lomax, and Blind Lemon Jefferson...."

Dec. 25, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

ACL Live Shot: Benjamin Booker

Fast-rising blues-punk phenom gives off a “Violent Shiver”

"...Black Flag, and the blues brothers Johnson (Robert and Blind Willie), Booker and his band play with reckless abandon,..."

Oct. 5, 2014 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, Volume One (1917-27)

Breaking into a cabinet of blues.

"...by Jelly Roll Morton, discovered and brought to prominence Blind Lemon Jefferson, and captured some of the most transformational..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Sheik to Sheik

Crazy Heart wasn't Stephen Bruton's only last project, and we have Geoff Muldaur & the Texas Sheiks to thank for that

"...serious. Out of these songsters, how do you produce Blind Lemon Jefferson? He was like Mozart! Unbelievable! There are..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Harry Smith Project: Anthology of American Folk Music Revisited

Gift Guide

"...Beth Orton takes down Mississippi John Hurt ("Frankie"), and Blind Willie Johnson channeled through Nick Cave ("John the Revelator")..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Postmarks

Music Greats Overlooked

"...Ernest Tubb, George Jones, Johnny Bush, Roger Miller. Blues: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Leadbelly, Charles Brown, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Z.Z...."

Jan. 22, 1999 Column

Living, Breathing Americana

Steve James: Sustaining Traditions, Not Reviving Them

"...folk process could have sustained the songs of a Blind Lemon Jefferson, Willie Johnson, or Henry Thomas (to name..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Music Feature by Brian Berger

Record reviews Reissues

"...fairly well-known, such as Charlie Patton, Mississippi John Hurt, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Memphis Minnie. Most are not, however,..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Music Review

SXSW Music: Must-See R&B

Rhythm and blues and everything in between

"...Benjamin Booker is equally versed in Bad Brains and Blind Lemon Jefferson, dishing out dirty grooves with a purely..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame Inductees 1983-2016

Never before published list of all Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame inductees

"..."Blind" Lemon Jefferson (04)..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature

Friday Fun Fun Fun Fest Blurbs

Friday's top FFF picks

"...through a punk rock filter – Bad Brains meets Blind Lemon Jefferson at the crossroads. The New Orleans by..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Music Feature by Michael Toland

It's Beginning to Sound a Lot Like Christmas

Jingle Bell Rocks! spins under the musical mistletoe

"...If Christmas songs are good enough for James Brown, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Leiber & Stoller, and John Waters, they're..."

Dec. 24, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: I'm in Love! What's That Song?

Weekend one ACL Fest wrap

"...Benjamin Booker: "Mean Jumper Blues" (Blind Lemon Jefferson)..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Ain't Messin 'Round

Gary Clark Jr. kisses the sky

"...latest car on that Texas blues train going from Blind Lemon Jefferson to T-Bone Walker to Lightnin' Hopkins to..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Vinyl Ashes

A gray vinyl 7-inch with your exit songs?

"...of "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" by Blind Lemon Jefferson. The title says it all, but the..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Freak Beat

Freak beat

"...is all covers: Pink Floyd's "Fat Old Sun" and Blind Lemon Jefferson's "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean"..."

April 9, 2010 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Off the Record

Commemorating the 95th birthday of Pinetop Perkins one year at a time, exploring Willie's Place at Carl's Corner, and a pregame pep talk with Paul Wall

"...1927 Blind Lemon Jefferson records in Dallas...."

July 4, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Day Trips

At the Camp Street Cafe & Store, the music gets started in the afternoon on Saturdays and goes until the last guitar slinger is standing

"...where the African-American business district once thrived. Musicians like Blind Lemon Jefferson and Lightnin' Hopkins could easily draw a..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

People Get Ready

Excerpt from Kevin Phinney's 'Souled American'

"...blues standards to his acoustic debut. Dylan's record included Blind Lemon Jefferson's "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean,"..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Music Feature by Kevin Phinney

Los Super 7

"...mariachi overlay, and closed by Gatemouth Brown's recasting of Blind Lemon Jefferson's "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean"..."

March 18, 2005 Music Review by Ed Ward

Badass

The Meat Purveyors' whip-cracking guitarist Bill Anderson: Austin punk veteran, AMA Hall of Famer, and yes, total badass

"...Music Awards in the stellar company of Johnny Gimble, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Ian McLagan...."

July 30, 2004 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

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