Blind Blake's Grave FOUND!

[Chalupa]

Will the Buddy Bolden wax cylinders be next??

http://www.sociofocus.com/2011/09/22/finding-arthur-blind-blakes-grave/

[cih]

don't miss at the foot of the page a link to Angela Mack's photo of the death certificate

[Chalupa]

Thanks. I didn't see that the first time I read the article.

http://www.sociofocus.com/2011/09/23/arthur-blind-blakes-death-certificate-finally-found/

[AllenLowe]

this is amazing - there had been theories that his name was Phelps, or that he died in Florida. This man was one of the greatest American musicians of the 20th century.

[Chalupa]

Part 2

[Hardbopjazz]

Wow, truly amazing story.

[clifford_thornton]

Whoa.

[cih]

I have some sympathy with the man at the cemetary wishing to remain anonymous in view of the fact he had no idea what they were looking for, maybe if he had known it was a worthy enterprise he may have thought differently? - difficult to determine what is some kind of 'racial' suspicion and what is just a normal feeling of trepidation

[AllenLowe]

one strange thing that I don't think he gets is the "body parts donated." I may be wrong but I don't think there were organ donors back then; I wonder if this means the bodies themselves were entirely donated for something like medical research - if so, there are other issues, because the county was basically saying "if we bury you we can also do whatever else we want with your body." Another way of discriminating against the poor and colored back in the good old days.

looking this up, I am now certain that they were not organ donors in the sense we consider it now - since this science was in its infancy then, and not really perfected until the late 1960s.

Edited September 25, 2011 by AllenLowe

[cih]

right - I wondered about that line!

[Niko]

I have some sympathy with the man at the cemetary wishing to remain anonymous in view of the fact he had no idea what they were looking for, maybe if he had known it was a worthy enterprise he may have thought differently? - difficult to determine what is some kind of 'racial' suspicion and what is just a normal feeling of trepidation

totally agree, strange of her not to even give him a clue, i wouldn't want to be mentioned in the credits of, say, "Vampires in the Midwest" either...

[paul secor]

I have some sympathy with the man at the cemetary wishing to remain anonymous in view of the fact he had no idea what they were looking for, maybe if he had known it was a worthy enterprise he may have thought differently? - difficult to determine what is some kind of 'racial' suspicion and what is just a normal feeling of trepidation

totally agree, strange of her not to even give him a clue, i wouldn't want to be mentioned in the credits of, say, "Vampires in the Midwest" either...

I couldn't understand her reluctance to tell him what the purpose of her research was either. Can't imagine she thought that the guy at the cemetery was going to steal her thunder, but who knows how and what people think?

Edited September 25, 2011 by paul secor

[cih]

what do you think?:

Blind Blake slowed down thing related to grave etc