"PONY BLUES," CHARLEY PATTON ARRANGEMENT, COVERED BY PHIL DRUM

Phil Drum has worked his ass off trying to play like the great Delta bluesman Charley Patton. Sure, his vocal suffers by comparison with the master, but his playing is strong and he's obviously labored to figure out the intricacies of Patton's style. Good work, Phil! Phil's clips will be an invaluable reference for anyone trying to play like Patton, a genius who typically gets unfairly cast as an also-ran after Robert Johnson. Johnson is great, of course, but many other geniuses like Patton and Skip James tend to get overlooked, as if Robert Johnson was a giant that towered over his Delta blues rivals.