Scrapper Blackwell
Piedmont blues, Musical Artist
1903 – 1962
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Who was Scrapper Blackwell?
Francis Hillman "Scrapper" Blackwell was an American blues guitarist and singer; best known as half of the guitar-piano duo he formed with Leroy Carr in the late 1920s and early 1930s, he was an acoustic single-note picker in the Chicago blues and Piedmont blues style, with some critics noting that he veered towards jazz.
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- Born
- Feb 21, 1903
North Carolina - Also known as
- Blackwell, Scrapper
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Lived in
- Indianapolis
- Died
- Oct 7, 1962
Indianapolis
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on July 23, 2013
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