There were several great blind ragtime composers and performers. Some never published or recorded anything, however two others that come to mind are
John William ‘Blind’ Boone, and Blind Leroy Garnett.

Blind Boone should be familiar to you, but Google him if he’s not. His piano rolls are available as recuts from BluesTone Music Rolls if you have a player piano. Some of them have been transcribed into sheet music, in addition to his already-published pieces.

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Leroy Garnett was from New Orleans, and other than that very little is known about him, but he recorded something like 8 records in Chicago in 1929, 6 of them accompaniments to singers, and 2 of them solos (“Louisiana Glide” and “Chain ‘em Down”).

All are fantastic recordings and Garnett was a masterful pianist with a wonderful ear for sequences, interesting piano patterns, and just damn fine piano playing! There is a CD on Document Records collecting all his recordings together with those of several other little-known but great pianists. This CD is called “Boogie Woogie & Barrelhouse Piano Vol 2 1928 – 1930″:

http://www.document-records.com/fulldetails.asp?ProdID=DOCD-5103

http://www.amazon.com/Boogie-Woogie-Barrelhouse-Piano-1928-1930/dp/B000S531QW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1248671704&sr=8-1

“Chain ‘em Down” is one of the hottest boogie-woogie and barrelhouse performances I’ve ever heard! Just when you think he’s going to run out of ideas he comes up with something new, and vocalist James Wiggins is also great in his role as a narrator and music enthusiast here, offering some great exclamations to go along with the music!

“Louisiana Glide” is a rag, but a barrelhouse style rag with a terrific rocking bass loaded with fifths, giving a strong “power chord” foundation to this driving tune! Garnett’s lacy New Orleans ragtime patterns in the right hand add just the right amount of delicacy and melody to make this an extremely well-balanced rag and a very fine example of barrelhouse piano at its best!

This latter tune has been transcribed into sheet music by Claude Bolling and is available in the folio “Original Boogie Woogie”. Bolling’s own recording of the tune is OK but he doesn’t capture the proper easy-rolling swing that Garnett has on his original recording.

http://www.di-arezzo.co.uk/detail_notice.php?no_article=CARSH00277

http://www.free-scores.com/boutique/boutique-uk-frame-eur.php?clef=70809

http://www.boosey.com/shop/prod/Bolling-Claude-Original-Boogie-Woogie/658698

http://www.note4piano.com/EN/catalog.php?action=showitem&ve=scores&numart=CARI0018

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