Charley Patton

by John Fahey

$800 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Studio Vista, 1970. First edition, cloth issue. 112 pp. Publisher's cloth lettered in silver. Slightly musty smell, else Fine in Fine dust jacket. Uncommon. Published only in the UK.Guitarist John Fahey's biography of another great and also often-overlooked guitarist with a singular style, Mississippi bluesman Charley Patton. Patton's songs, recorded in a spate of sessions in two short years 1929-1930 and

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