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Charley Patton: The Definitive Charley Patton

Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, June 2001

THERE'S 'DEFINITIVE', and then there's definitive. This complete collection – 58 performances on three CDs – of the recorded works of Charley Patton certainly earns the adjective, but then so does Patton himself.

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