charley patton - pony blues excerpt

``Patton often seemed to alter the stresses of conventional speech for purely musical ends. In his recording `Pony Blues`, for example, he stretches certain syllables and inserts split second pauses between words in order to achieve a desired rhythmic effect...stretching the syllable into the next measure and playing with its timbre by alternately constricting and relaxing his throat muscles. These vocal techniques, along with the ability to hear and execute microtonal pitch shadings, are basic attributes of superior delta blues singing`` - Robert Palmer, ``Deep Blues`` (i just think it sounds cool ;-) First image is Rosetta Patton Brown holding a picture of her father. It reminded me of the second image, which was a propos since I first heard Patton`s music on a tribute album that Bob Dylan put out in...1993 maybe. Image 1 from a PBS doc found on youtube, Image 2 Jerry Shatzberg.