Never heard of him until Shari mentioned him. If you have Apple Music, search for “essentials of Scrapper Blackwell.”
There must be 100 musicians that have recorded this; the ones I was familiar with were Eric Clapton and Hot Tuna.
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
https://www.wirz.de/music/blackwel.htm
Brilliant
From darkest africa
This track doesn’t sound like before Robert Johnson. It sounds like it was recorded with ’50s-’60s technology.
I just checked, and it was recorded in 1961.
https://www.blues-sessions.com/scrapperblackwell.php
Scrapper was pairing with Leroy Carr at the piano. They first recorded in 1928. On the rythm of the piano his playing is excellent !
Lloyd surely knows Leroy Carr, at least some of his songs. No doubt. Classic piano blues… with a guitar !