#jessie mae hemphill

[thechanelmuse]

Black American Music Month

• ELIZABETH “LIBBA” COTTEN - She was a maid at 9, wrote a hit song at 11 — and won a Grammy at 93. Not to mention she was a self-taught left-handed guitarist who played a guitar strung for a right-handed player, but played it upside down. This position meant that she would play the bass lines with her fingers and the melody with her thumb.

• SISTER ROSETTA THARPE- The “Godmother of Rock & Roll.” She helped shape modern popular music, was one of the few Black female guitarists to ever find commercial success and the first artist to blend gospel with the secular.

• ODETTA HOLMES - Known as “The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement.” In 1963, she sang for the masses on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the March on Washington. Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals.

• PEGGY JONES - Nicknamed “Lady Bo” played rhythm guitar in Bo Diddley's band in the late 1950s and early 1960s, becoming one of the first (perhaps the first) female rock guitarists in a highly visible rock band. Sometimes called the “Queen Mother of Guitar.”

• LIZZIE “MEMPHIS MINNIE” DOUGLAS - Known as the “Queen of the Blues,” was a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Her title stems from her legacy of successfully recording music across four decades as well as being the lone female voice in a male dominated blues scene.

• NORMA JEAN WOFFORD - Nicknamed “The Duchess” by Bo Diddley, she was the second female guitarist in Diddley's backing band.

• ALGIA MAE HINTON - She was widely recognized as a master picker and buckdancer in the Piedmont styles. She would often play her guitar behind her head while buck dancing.

• ETTA BAKER - She was a Piedmont blues/folk guitarist and singer who began playing the guitar at age 3. Taught by her father, long-time Piedmont player Boone Reid, Etta played 6-string and 12-string acoustic guitar, and 5-string banjo. She was a master of the blues guitar style that became popular in the southern piedmont after the turn of the century.

• JESSIE MAE HEMPHILL - A legend of hill country blues guitar. She grew up in a lineage of familial fife-and-drums bands from northern Mississippi, rose to popularity in the mid-1980s and had a fruitful career during which she performed around the globe, traveling mostly on her own. She played in open tunings and, having started as a drummer, had a percussive guitar style that included slapping and banging the instrument. She would also tie a tambourine around her calf, which, together with her strumming-and-drumming guitar work, gave her performance the sound of a one-woman-band.

• BEVERLY “GUITAR” WATKINS - One part soul singer, one part rockin' roadhouse mama, and one part gifted songwriter. She's been chronically under-recorded for a woman with her résumé, performing with the likes of James Brown, Ray Charles and Otis Redding. She didn’t record her first album until she was 60. Her blistering licks on a 1962 red Fender Mustang earned her the well-deserved nickname “Guitar.” She gon’ put on a show:

One more for good measure:

• WILLIE MAE “BIG MAMA” THORNTON - Also referred to as “The Godmother of Rock & Roll.” She was a blues singer, songwriter, self-taught drummer, and harmonica player. She was the first to record "Hound Dog", in 1952, which became her biggest hit, staying seven weeks at number one on the Billboard R&B chart in 1953 and selling almost two million copies. She also helped to shape the sound and style of “Texas-blues,” an evolving blues sub-genre known to incorporate swing and big band elements.

#black american music month #elizabeth cotten #elizabeth libba cotten #sister rosetta tharpe #odetta holmes #peggy jones #memphis minnie #norma jean wofford #algia mae hinton #etta baker #jessie mae hemphill #beverly guitar watkins #big mama thornton #black american musicians

[cozyaliensuperstar7]

Music Pioneers 🎵 🎶 🎸🤠

Repost: @bluebeybleed @feminist

Beyonce’s “Cowboy Carter” shines a spotlight on the often overlooked contributions of Black women in country music and Black Women’s genre-defying contributions in other historically white (and frequently male) dominated genres. From the roots of blues, folk and country music to the electrifying energy of rock & roll, these women have played pivotal roles in shaping and shifting the sound and soul of these genres, yet their influence has frequently been marginalized and erased.

In honor of the release of Cowboy Carter, here are 9 women you need to know:

Big Mama Thorton

Ida Cox

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Elizabeth Cotten

Linda Martell

Algia Mae Hinton

Jessie Mae Hemphill

Memphis Minnie

Ma Rainey

#pioneersofmusic #blackhistory365 #blackwomenhistory365

#beyoncé #big mama thornton #ida cox #sister rosetta tharpe #elizabeth cotten #linda martell #algia mae hinton #jessie mae hemphill #memphis minnie #ma rainey

[outofeverythingthisnamewasleft]

#jessie mae hemphill #senatobia #mississippi #george mitchell #1967

[carlsample8]

Me in the back, middle w/ Mary Ann Jackson and "The Up All Night Blues Band". R.I.P. the late Martin "Big Boy" Grant.

#R L. Boyce #R.L. Burnside #R.L. Stine #Hill Country Blues #delta blues #Jessie Mae Hemphill #Junior Kimbrough #Lucius Smith #Sid Hemphill #Como MS #Sardis MS #Clarksdale MS. #Otha Turner and the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band #Hal Reed #The Hurt Family Fife and Drum Band #Moonshine Whiskey #Juke joint blues #Mississippi Fred McDowell #Compton Jones #Natural Light #Bud Light #Ed and Lonnie Young #Napoleon Strickland #Mississippi Blues #“Goosebumps”

[missesmisery]

some of my favourite blues musicians

#junior kimbrough #jessie mae hemphill #r.l. burnside #lightnin hopkins #blues #hill country

[justwalkiingthedog]

Jessie Mae Hemphill - "Black Cat Bone". ...

#youtube #blues #guitar #jessie mae hemphill

[1264doghouse]

Jessie Mae Hemphill, Senatobia, Mississippi, circa 1967.

[sweatermuppet]

What's an underrated author or musician you've enjoyed?

poets: carolyn creedon, oliver baez bendorf, lillian-yvonne bertram, joy priest, & j bailey hutchinson

musicians: patrick sky, jessie mae hemphill, dirty laundry band, frank bango, whiskey daredevils, holly golightly & the brokeoffs, the abigails, & jackie shane

#anonymous

[vonnegutcunt]

#01001101 #Spotify

[fearnoarts]

JESSIE MAE HEMPHILL

[ampelideous]

#Spotify

[piesniarze]

ROSA LEE HILL (1910-1968) was from Como, Mississippi, daughter of the great Sid Hemphill. She recorded a handful of songs, the first being captured by Alan Lomax in 1959, then, by George Mitchell in 1967. Her music was firmly in the trance-inducing North Mississippi Hill Country tradition, with titles such as "Pork and Beans," "Bullying Well," "Rolled and Tumbled," and "Count the Days I'm Gone." Her niece was Jessie Mae Hemphill, whose style strongly reflected Rosa Lee's. Beautiful, lonesome, heartbreaking blues. Serdecznie zapraszamy! Vítejte! welcome! priviet! willkommen! and bienvenue! Fremder, étranger, stranger in - music and poetry club - PIEŚNIARZE Wrocław, ul. Szewska 68... najlepsza jest muzyka na żywo :) *wspierajcie lokalnych artystów! Welcome to the smallest and loneliest and unknown - venue on earth! We are providing a stage for some of the world's best songwriters, poets, jazz and folk musicians, the troubadors of modern city folk... Sometimes words and emojis are not enough. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIVE MUSIC ! www.piesniarze.info https://at.tumblr.com/piesniarze/ https://gab.com/groups/68742 https://www.facebook.com/Piesniarze/ https://www.instagram.com/donatpiesniarze/ https://youtube.com//PiesniarzePoezjaMuzyka Nawet jak będzie tylko jedna osoba ale usłyszy coś, co jej poprawi nastrój, albo poprawi życie, albo co się później odezwie jakimś dobrym wspomnieniem i zrobi coś miłego w sercu - to ma sens! To spotkanie ma sens i jest do czegoś potrzebne, do czegoś zmierza :) Z Tobą u nas będzie zawsze inaczej niż byłoby bez Ciebie... #jazz #jamsession #jazzjamsession #pieśniarze #jazzacoustic #jazznadodrą #poezjaśpiewana #folkmusic  #blues #openmic  #muzyka  #wroclaw #jazz #singerssongwriters  #livemusic #folk #muzykanażywo #gitara #AntoniKępiński #jazznadodrą   #trzeźwość  #samotność #acousticmusic  #wiersze #poezja #wiara #polska #poetrycommunity #monar #przemysławgintrowski #blues Photo by George Mitchell. (w: Pieśniarze) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm6hm7MKjsn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#jazz #jamsession #jazzjamsession #pieśniarze #jazzacoustic #jazznadodrą #poezjaśpiewana #folkmusic #blues #openmic #muzyka #wroclaw #singerssongwriters #livemusic #folk #muzykanażywo #gitara #antonikępiński #trzeźwość #samotność #acousticmusic #wiersze #poezja #wiara #polska #poetrycommunity #monar #przemysławgintrowski

[whateverbringsyouthroughthenight]

Jessie Mae Hemphill

#Jessie Mae Hemphill #blues #musician

[1264doghouse]

Jessie Mae Hemphill

[sweatermuppet]

Do you have country music recs

some of my country + folk playlists:

boot stomp (folk)

playlist formerly titled cockeyed (folk + country)

halloo! (folk)

weeping willow (breakup/lonesome country)

sober barfly (drinking songs, country)

gals of country country music

repressed farmhand (country, folk, modern mix)

best of pete seeger (all my personal seeger favs, folk)

artists i like in general: june + johnny cash, dolly parton, waylon jennings, merle haggard, pete seeger, woody guthrie, arlo guthrie, orville peck, colter wall, dale hollow, stompin tom connors, loretta lynn, marty robbins, lead belly, jimmie driftwood, odetta, utah phillips, harry mcclintock, kitty wells, sanford clark, jessie mae hemphill, hank williams, nick shoulders, dust in my coffee, elizabeth cotten, tex ritter, ola belle reed, tennessee ernie ford, hank snow, croy and the boys, guy mitchell, + many many more

#for country music but more experimental i also like the cowmen rev horton heat the beat farmers #i should put together a playlist for my fav alt country (rockabilly cowpunk psychobilly honky skronk etc) #anonymous