The new musical Blind Lemon Blues pays homage to Blind Lemon Jefferson, America’s best–selling country blues singer of the 1920s. The New York Times called this new musical “lively and intelligent . . . an inspiration.” Briefly at the York in 2007, Blind Lemon Blues combines blues, gospel, R&B, soul, doo-wop and rap to evoke the enduring legacy of
Blind Lemon and his contemporaries. Prepare to “go weak at the knees,” as Variety said,
“Blind Lemon Jefferson’s voice emerges with full force!”