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Compton Jones - Jesse Mae Hemphill

Posted by Jim Morris on November 10, 2016 at 2:20pm
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I had nothing new for this week so I figured some folks would enjoy this. The first 2 min feature Compton Jones singin Workin On the Railroad and the 2nd half features Jesse Mae Hemphill with Get Right Church. It's from a documentary available at Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop

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  • Jim Morris November 26, 2016 at 5:51pm

    Hello Elio, yes that's possible since Mr Lomax was so involved in documenting this type of music but I'm not sure about the description in a book. Thanks!

  • Elio November 26, 2016 at 3:37pm

    ciao Jim,

    it is possible that I have read the description of this video on a book by Alan Lomax?

  • Jim Morris November 11, 2016 at 2:58pm

    Thanks Andries. I was thinking that you'd like this!

  • A.D.EKER November 11, 2016 at 2:40pm

    There is clean and simple for Ye!, great piece of the authentic stuff!  thanks Jim !

  • Jim Morris November 11, 2016 at 8:20am

    Dig deep turtlehead! And please share any cool stuff you come across. It's amazing how making and playing homemade instruments takes us on a journey full of history lessons, music lessons,woodworking lessons and lots of things we were previously unaware of.

  • Jim Morris November 11, 2016 at 8:15am

    Thanks Derek. It's very interesting to me to hear some of the origins of the music we play and also to compare the way it sounds to recordings of African music using similar instruments. I play mostly American traditional music and I do the same thing trying to trace it back to it's Scotch/Irish roots. It's so cool to hear the European music blended with African sounds to make up something distinctly American.

  • Derek Rose November 10, 2016 at 10:11pm

    Interesting, sounds great.

  • Jim Morris November 10, 2016 at 9:17pm

    That's how I came across it too turttlehead! Now I've got the documentary on order since it also features some of my my favorite fiddle players  - oh, and Jimmy Driftwood too. Thanks for the Glen Faulkner info. I wasn't sure who was playing on that one.  It also led me to listen to a bunch of Jesse Mae Hemphill recordings. Man, she was something else!

  • Jim Morris November 10, 2016 at 7:41pm

    Thanks pick

    Thanks Unc

    Yeah wes. A shoestring might have worked during your corner time.

  • Uncle John November 10, 2016 at 5:30pm

    Dat's good.  Oh, both good.

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