2021 ROCK & ROLL HALL of FAME INDUCTEE Charley Patton DELTA BLUES folk art

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Only a couple of months ago, May, 2021, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Charley Patton into the 2021 class as an Early Influence in American Music.Charley Patton has been called the Founder of the Delta Blues. He blazed a trail as the music's preeminent entertainer and recording artist during the first third of the 20th century. Born between Bolton and Edwards, Mississippi, in April 1891, Patton was of mixed black, white and native American ancestry.  Bob Dylan dedicated "High Water (For Charley Patton)", on his 2001 album "Love and Theft", to Patton.This unique item on eBay is truly a one of a kind Folk Art hand executed creation by Bill Dixon  in 2007.  The artist, William Robert “Bill” Dixon was an American composer, improviser, jazz trumpet player, visual artist, activist, and educator. Dixon was one of the seminal figures in free jazz and late twentieth-century contemporary music.  He died just 3 years after creating this unique tribute to Charley Patton.Born: October 5, 1925, Nantucket, MADied: June 16, 2010, North Bennington, VTRecord label: Cadence Jazz RecordsGenre: Jazz, Free jazzBill Dixon paid tribute to his musical idol by painting and writing on this guitar telling some of the Charley Patton career and tragic life.  It is modern American Folk Art at its best.This is a Blues and Jazz ONE OF A KIND collectible that belongs in a museum, music hall if fame,  blues and/or jazz music venue or in the private collection of a dedicated devotee of Delta Blues.