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The Blues Ain't Bad radio show for October 4, 2023. The featured Blues artist image is of Blind Blake. Arthur Blake (1896 – December 1, 1934), known as Blind Blake, was an American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist. He is known for recordings he made for Paramount Records between 1926 and 1932. Blake's first recordings were made in 1926, and his records demonstrated his ragtime-based guitar style and were prototypes for the burgeoning Piedmont blues.