- Garfield Akers
Garfield Akers (b. 1902 (?) in Brights or Bates,
Mississippi ,d. between 1953 and 1959, probably in Memphis) was ablues singer and guitarist, sometimes acting as "Garfield Partee".His ouput is extremely small, consisting of only four sides. His most well-known song is his debut, the "Cottonfield Blues", which
Don Kent praised with the words "only a handful of guitar duets in all blues match the incredible drive, intricate rhythms and ferocious intensity" and called Akers "one of the greatest vocalists in blues history" [Don Kent, in: "The Best There Ever Was", CD-Booklet, Yazoo Records, YA 3002, 2003] . Michael Gray appreciated it as "the birth of rock ’n’ roll … from 1929!" [Michael Gray: "Song & Dance Man III – The Art of Bob Dylan", ISBN 0826463827] .Discography
* "Cottonfield Blues Part 1 / Cottonfield Blues Part 2", (1929), (Vocalion Records 1442)
* "Jumpin And Shoutin’ Blues / Dough Roller Blues", (1930), (Vocalion Records 1481)ources
*Robert Santelli, "The Big Book Of Blues – A Biographical Encyclopedia", 1993, ISBN 0140159398, p. 5
References
External links
* [http://www.wirz.de/music/akers.htm Garfield Akers Discography]
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