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Roosevelt Graves December 9 1909 Meridian Mississippi – December 30 1962 Summerland Mississippi Was An American Blues Guitarist And Singer Who Recorded Both Sacred And Secular Music In The 1920s And 1930s. On All His Recordings He Played With His Brother Uaroy Graves Who Was Also Nearly Blind And Played The Tambourine. They Were Credited As "Blind Roosevelt Graves And Brother". Their First Recordings Were Made In 1929 For Paramount Records. Theirs Is The Earliest Version Recorded Of The Famous Tune "Guitar Boogie" And They Exemplified The Very Best In Gospel Singing With The Classic "I'll Be Rested". In 1936 They Were Located By Talent Broker H. C. Speir Who Arranged For Them To Record In Hattiesburg Mississippi Reportedly At The Train Station. For The Session They Were Joined By Local Piano Player Cooney Vaughn Who Performed Weekly On Radio Station WCOC In Meridian Prior To World War II. The Trio Were Billed On Record As The Mississippi Jook Band. In All They Recorded Four Tracks At Hattiesburg For The American Record Company - "Barbecue Bust" "Hittin' The Bottle Stomp" "Dangerous Woman" And "Skippy Whippy". According To The Rolling Stone Illustrated History Of Rock And Roll These "...Featured Fully Formed Rock & Roll Guitar Riffs And A Stomping Rock & Roll Beat". The Graves Brothers Did Not Record Again. After The War Roosevelt Graves Is Thought To Have Moved To Gulfport Mississippi. For A Number Of Years The Subject Of Uaroy's Identity Was Disputed. In Several Books Magazine Articles And Album Liner Notes That Mentioned The Graves Brothers The Names "Aaron" Or "Leroy" Were Substituted For Uaroy On The Assumption That The Otherwise Unknown Name Uaroy Must Have Arisen Due To The Poor Penmanship Of A Recording Company Employee Whose Handwritten Notes Were Misinterpreted. This Controversy Was Put To Rest In 2004 When Photographic Copies Of The Paramount Files Were Posted To The Internet And It Could Clearly Be Seen That The Person Who Wrote Up The Recording Session Notes Had Written In A Careful Almost Printed Hand "Uaroy Graves."
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Biography - Blind Roosevelt Graves
Roosevelt Graves December 9 1909 Meridian Mississippi – December 30 1962 Summerland Mississippi Was An American Blues Guitarist And Singer Who Recorded Both Sacred And Secular Music In The 1920s And 1930s. On All His Recordings He Played With His Brother Uaroy Graves Who Was Also Nearly Blind And Played The Tambourine. They Were Credited As "Blind Roosevelt Graves And Brother". Their First Recordings Were Made In 1929 For Paramount Records. Theirs Is The Earliest Version Recorded Of The Famous Tune "Guitar Boogie" And They Exemplified The Very Best In Gospel Singing With The Classic "I'll Be Rested". In 1936 They Were Located By Talent Broker H. C. Speir Who Arranged For Them To Record In Hattiesburg Mississippi Reportedly At The Train Station. For The Session They Were Joined By Local Piano Player Cooney Vaughn Who Performed Weekly On Radio Station WCOC In Meridian Prior To World War II. The Trio Were Billed On Record As The Mississippi Jook Band. In All They Recorded Four Tracks At Hattiesburg For The American Record Company - "Barbecue Bust" "Hittin' The Bottle Stomp" "Dangerous Woman" And "Skippy Whippy". According To The Rolling Stone Illustrated History Of Rock And Roll These "...Featured Fully Formed Rock & Roll Guitar Riffs And A Stomping Rock & Roll Beat". The Graves Brothers Did Not Record Again. After The War Roosevelt Graves Is Thought To Have Moved To Gulfport Mississippi. For A Number Of Years The Subject Of Uaroy's Identity Was Disputed. In Several Books Magazine Articles And Album Liner Notes That Mentioned The Graves Brothers The Names "Aaron" Or "Leroy" Were Substituted For Uaroy On The Assumption That The Otherwise Unknown Name Uaroy Must Have Arisen Due To The Poor Penmanship Of A Recording Company Employee Whose Handwritten Notes Were Misinterpreted. This Controversy Was Put To Rest In 2004 When Photographic Copies Of The Paramount Files Were Posted To The Internet And It Could Clearly Be Seen That The Person Who Wrote Up The Recording Session Notes Had Written In A Careful Almost Printed Hand "Uaroy Graves."
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