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Charley Patton

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Vocalist

The Resume

    (1887-April 28, 1934)
    Recorded 'Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues,' 'Pony Blues,' 'Magnolia Blues,' 'High Water Everywhere,' 'Green River Blues,' 'A Spoonful Blues,' 'Some of These Days,' 'Going to Move to Alabama,' 'When Your Way Gets Dark,' 'Devil Sent the Rain Blues,' 'Mississippi Boweavil Blues' and 'I Shall Not Be Moved'

Why he might be annoying:

    He sung a song called 'Poor Me.'
    He argued constantly with Son House.
    The masters of some of his recordings got sold as scrap metal.
    There's barely any pictures of him known, the one shown is usually recycled.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was one of the first stars of blues.
    By 1929, he was the biggest selling blues artist around.
    His voice is so huge-sounding he sounds like a man twice his size.
    He is responsible for the fame of Willie Brown, Son House and Howlin' Wolf and influenced Robert Johnson.
    A box set 'Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton' has been called one of the most impressively packaged box sets in all of popular music.

Credit: Captain Hair


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 16 Votes: 81.25% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 18 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 12 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 12 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 24 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 16 Votes: 18.75% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 32 Votes: 53.12% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 65 Votes: 49.23% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 114 Votes: 46.49% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 175 Votes: 47.43% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 258 Votes: 43.80% Annoying