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Charley Patton

CHARLEY PATTON

YEAR

2021

INDUCTED BY

Gary Clark, Jr.

CATEGORY

Early Influences

Before Jimi Hendrix mastered the guitar, before Chuck Berry pioneered rock & roll, before Robert Johnson strummed a single chord – Charley Patton did it all.

Charley Patton

Charley Patton

HALL OF FAME
ESSAY

By Ashley Kahn

“The blues, apparently, began in the mists.” So wrote music historian Luc Sante in a brilliant essay on the folk style from which so much American music, and now worldwide expression, has grown. One of the very first stars of the country blues – the OG of Delta blues, to be specific – was Charley Patton.

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Class of 2021
Charley Patton has often been called the father of the Delta blues, and he deserves that title.
Gary Clark, Jr.
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