Founder Of The Delta Blues
by Charley Patton
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Charley Patton bestography
The best album by Charlie Patton is Founder Of The Delta Blues which is ranked number 26988 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 34.
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Founder Of The Delta Blues track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Founder Of The Delta Blues rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Top 50 Blues albums of all time by DMD | 7/50 | - |
| 2025 |  TheDude85 | Top 41 Music Albums of 1969 | 18/41 | - |
| 2022 |  Mercury | 60 Shades of the Deep Blues | 10/60 | - |
| 2022 |  NoisyBeast | 1968/69 ~ Wish List | 48/100 | - |
| 2022 |  EyeKanFly | 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die (part 7) | 57/100 | - |
| 2021 |  pa | Top 59 Music Albums of 1969 | 44/59 | - |
| 2021 | Mercury | Top 78 Music Albums of 1969 | 55/78 | - |
| 2020 | NSPE | Top 64 Greatest Music Albums | 4/64 | 34 |
| 2018 |  Tha1ChiefRocka | Top 81 Music Albums of 1969 | 17/81 | - |
| 2015 |  briggs54 | State Lists: Mississippi | 15/24 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 12 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 34 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 01/04/2026 23:24 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,604 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/16/2022 21:43 | TonySayers61 | 25,488 | 64/100 |
| ! | 04/02/2022 17:25 | EyeKanFly | 8,848 | 65/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.2/100, a mean average of 80.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.9.
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Don't listen to the noise; listen to the voice.
I've read a fair amount about the blues, and always got the impression from what I read that Charley Patton was influential but not really worth a listen. That perhaps his stuff was dated and paled in comparison to that of his followers Son House and Robert Johnson. Or that the sound quality was too subpar due to such comments as this from AllMusic...
No one will never know what Patton's Paramount masters really sounded like. When the company went out of business, the metal masters were sold off as scrap, some of it used to line chicken coops. All that's left are the original 78s -- rumored to have been made out of inferior pressing material commonly used to make bowling balls -- and all of them are scratched and heavily played, making all attempts at sound retrieval by current noise-reduction processing a tall order indeed. - Allmusic
Well I'm clearly an idiot because the comp that Mercury mentions (Founder of the Delta Blues) is incredible. And I honestly don't think the subpar recordings take away from these performances in the least. In fact, I think it just adds to the legend as so many backstories do.
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