Blind Lemon Blues
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 8, 2009
Closed Oct 4, 2009
Opened Sep 8, 2009
Closed Oct 4, 2009
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Jefferson was a blind street musician who played his guitar with a tin cup tied to it until a Paramount Records scout discovered him. Between 1926 and 1929, Jefferson made more than 80 records and became the biggest selling down-home blues singer in America. Blind Lemon Blues is set in New York City in 1948 at the last recording session of the legendary Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly, and combines elements of traditional blues, gospel, rhythm and blues, soul, doo-wop, and rap to evoke the enduring legacy of Blind Lemon and his contemporaries Blind Willie Johnson, Lillian Glinn, Hattie Hudson, Bobbie Cadillac, Lillian Miller and Leadbelly himself.
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August Wilson wrote that he listened to the music of Blind Lemon Jefferson, the subject of the York Theatre's musical Blind Lemon Blues, every day for five years. At the time of Blind Lemon's brief but hugely influential success in the late 1920s, he was, as Wilson wrote, "the voice of Black America." How strange and sad that Blind Lemon's work is so little known today.
Blind Lemon Jefferson (played with fierce intensity by Akin Babatunde, who is also the show's director and choreographer) was a street singer for most of his life, sitting on the corner of Elm Street and Central Avenue in the Deep Ellum area of Dallas, Texas, singing his songs for the coins people would toss in his cup. He [...]