Blind Lemon Jefferson Black Snake Moan / Matchbox Blues

Limited edition for Schwarzer Freitag Record Store Day 2018! Only 1 per customer!

Blind Lemon Jefferson, “The Father of Texas Blues,” was the best-selling male blues
artist of the 1920's, recording 92 sides for Paramount Records and one released 78 for
Okeh Records: “Black Snake Moan / Matchbox Blues”.
Jefferson produced an original, driving, unpredictably advanced guitar style and
a distinctive booming high-pitched, two-octave voice that no one could imitate.
Legends of his prowess as a bluesman abounded among the musicians who heard
him, and sightings of Jefferson in different regions of the United States were plentiful.
B.B. King stated, “His touch is different from anybody on the guitar—still is. He was
majestic and played just a regular little six-string guitar with a little round hole. It was
unbelievable to hear him play. And the way he played with his rhythm patterns, he was
way before his time, in my opinion. Blind Lemon was my idol.”
A special Schwarzer Freitag Record Store Day 2018 offering of Blind Lemon Jefferson’s 1927 Okeh recording
of “Black Snake Moan” / “Matchbox Blues” is reproduced on the original label with an
Okeh sleeve as a 10-inch 78 RPM microgroove single.

Another friday dedicated to the black gold!