11 Facts About Blind Blake

Arthur Blake, known as Blind Blake, was an American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist.

Blind Blake is known for recordings he made for Paramount Records between 1926 and 1932.

Blind Blake recorded about 80 tracks for Paramount Records from 1926 to 1932.

Blind Blake was one of the most accomplished guitarists of his genre and played a diverse range of material.

Blind Blake is best known for his distinctive guitar playing, which was comparable in sound and style to ragtime piano.

Blind Blake made his last recordings in 1932; his career ended with Paramount's bankruptcy.

Blind Blake seems not to have found work as a musician.

On December 1,1934, after three weeks of decline, Beatrice Blind Blake summoned an ambulance.

Blind Blake had a pulmonary hemorrhage and died on the way to the hospital.

Blind Blake was buried in Glen Oaks Cemetery, in Glendale, Wisconsin in a previously unmarked grave.

Reference to Blake is made again in The Sentinel, written by Lee Child and his brother Andrew Child, when Jack Reacher is on the lookout for venues in Nashville, 'where Blind Blake could have played'.