Top Songs
- The Only Thing - EP · 2018
- The Only Thing - EP · 2018
- The Only Thing - EP · 2018
- The Only Thing - EP · 2018
- The World Library of Folk and Primitive Music on 78 Rpm Vol. 11, USA Pt. 4 · 2017
- Rough Guide to East Coast Blues · 2015
- Rough Guide to Blind Blake · 2013
- Rough Guide to Ragtime Blues · 2012
- I'm Going Where the Water Drinks Like Wine (18 Unsung Bluesmen) [Rarities 1923-29] · 2010
- I'm Going Where the Water Drinks Like Wine (18 Unsung Bluesmen) [Rarities 1923-29] · 2010
- The R&B Years 1946, Vol. 2 (The Original Artists Recordings) [Remastered] · 2008
- Never Let the Same Bee Sting You Twice - Blues, Ballads, Rags & Gospel In the Songster Tradition · 2005
- Never Let the Same Bee Sting You Twice - Blues, Ballads, Rags & Gospel In the Songster Tradition · 2005
Singles & EPs
About Luke Jordan
One of the most intriguing of the Piedmont blues players, Luke Jordan was born January 28, 1892, in Bluefield, WV. As a teenager he relocated to Lynchburg, VA, which was to remain his home base the rest of his life. Jordan recorded 12 tracks for Victor Records at two sessions in 1927 and 1929, ten of which have survived on 78s, including his classic versions of "Church Bell Blues," "Pick Poor Robin Clean," and "Cocaine Blues." Exhibiting a clean, precise guitar style, Jordan also possessed an elegant-sounding tenor voice that conveyed a sort of wry, good-natured feel, and his material, drawn from a repertoire of ballads, gambling tunes, ragtime, and minstrel tunes, perfectly defines the Piedmont blues. He was immensely influential on the blues players in his region, and he truly deserves to be better known outside the blues community. He died on June 25, 1952. ~ Steve Leggett
- HOMETOWN
- Bluefield, WV, United States
- BORN
- 28 January 1892
- GENRE
- Pop