Charley Patton's First Paramount Sessions

In 1929 Charley Patton traveled north to record for Paramount Records, cutting the sides, among them 'Pony Blues' and 'High Water Everywhere,' that first fixed the Delta style on shellac. The records sold well enough to make him the region's first blues star and to draw other Delta musicians toward the recording trade. These sessions are widely treated as the documentary starting point of the recorded Delta blues.