Azizi,

Confusing Blind Blake and Blind Blake is pretty standard. In fact it came up at our local round-robin club Sunday night. Both, and Blind Lemon, were brilliant innovaters, tremendously influential, relatively unknown (the Happy! file has no date of birth or death for any of them) and too few recordings. Seeking more info, my summary (just to put them together) is:

Blind Blake: (Born Arthur Phelps or Arthur Blake, aka Blind Arthur) born early 1890's – d1933. Birthplace: Jackson, Florida. (BlueFlame)

Blind Blake—the mystery man of the blues. We know he was born Arthur Phelps, in Jacksonville, FL circa 1890- something and died sometime in 1933 (And in 1937). He disappeared from the blues scene in Chicago, 1932, where he was considered the undisputed 'King of the String', and had recorded over eighty solo sides for Paramount. [from blues pages at Mudcat 7/00]


Blind Blake (from the Bahamas)(born Blake Alfonso Higgs - (he went blind in 1934)) A GROUP OF BAHAMIAN SONGS By "Blind Blake" and the Royal Victoria Hotel "Calypsos" - ART Records (ALP-3) recorded in the Bahamas Copyright 1951. Discography at http://www.wirz.de/music/blakbfrm.htm


Higgs further confuses us by having written "Yass, Yass, Yass" which we usually think of as a USian blues piece, made most famous by Dave van Ronk who got most of his style & many of his songs from Blind Gary Davis.