Blues on the Porch

This blues mural from 2009 on a porch on Fourth Street in Richmond, Indiana, is three blocks away from where country blues legends Blind Lemon Jefferson, far left, and Charley Patton, far right, recorded in 1929 at Gennett Records.  At Patton’s recording date, he debuted his classic “Spoonful Blues.”  In the 1960s, as guitarist with British rock trio The Cream, Eric Clapton, center mural, recorded “Spoonful” (a version modified by Willie Dixon in the 1950s).  Three months after Jefferson recorded in Richmond, he died in a Chicago snowstorm.