Comments on: Chicago Defender Blues Advertisements: Blind Lemon Jefferson

By: Bed Guards

Bed Guards — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:48:41 +0000

I wish I’d had a chance to see Blind Lemon Jefferson play – I love all this old stuff- the ads look too cool!

By: Big Road Blues Show 10/3/09: Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out – The Year 1929 Pt. 1 | Big Road Blues

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:05:16 +0000

[...] nearest rivals were Blind Blake and Leroy Carr, with 10 apiece, and Blind Lemon Jefferson and Lonnie Johnson, who had 9 each. Tampa was also a much in demand Session artist, heard on [...]

By: Chicago Defender Blues Advertisements: Blind Blake | Big Road Blues

Chicago Defender Blues Advertisements: Blind Blake | Big Road Blues — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:27:16 +0000

[...] Blind Blake, one of the most popular bluesmen of the 1920’s. His only rival in popularity was Blind Lemon Jefferson, also a Paramount artist, who had a whopping forty-four ads in the Chicago Defender between 1926 [...]

By: Vintage Guitar

Vintage Guitar — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:02:42 +0000

And even if you are told that it was a small run item. That it is a rare guitar. That someone famous owned it (now this has a different kind of value attached!) it is not in Vintage Guitar Terms a collectible.