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Tons of people were recording what's commonly identified as blues before Robert Johnson began recording. Temple was more popular than Johnson and was from the same region as Johnson. Johnson was also influenced by Lonnie Johnson, Tampa Red, Scrapper Blackwell, and Kokomo Arnold, for instance.

@ericsaguirre Yeah I suppose Temple did a bit of that - but I was thinking more along the lines of Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Robert Lockwood etc... because they all didn't record till a few years later I think it's they're style is what's commonly identified as "blues" - more so than the older pre-war stuff anyway

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Not really, check out a song by Johnny Temple called Lead pencil blues. He was the first guitarist to record the "cut boogie" pattern that Johnson popularized and developed into the defining blues rhythm. I don't know, maybe the sound of Peetie Wheatstraw is pre-chicago to me.

@ericsaguirre Is he the first of the bluesmen to record after RJ? (i.e in the same pre-chicago style)

"kind hearted woman blues" of robert johnson is based on this song. Calvin Frazier is such an enigmatic and misterious figure. Thank you!