Sultan of Swing

[Jimmy W]

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Steve Azar is from my hometown in Mississippi. This was filmed in and around Greenville, and at Ground Zero in Clarksdale. Morgan Freeman is part owner of Ground Zero. That bridge at the end is now gone. Steve Azar is the main person involved with putting on the Mighty Mississippi Music Festival in Greenville every year.

Steve Azar - Waitin' On Joe

[Jimmy W]

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The namesake for the towboat in the Steve Azar video. Bronwynne is Eden's sister (post 40).

Bronwynne Brent - Heartbreaker

[Jimmy W]

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Samuel Gene Maghett aka Magic Sam from Grenada, Mississippi playing Earl Hooker's guitar.

Magic Sam-Sam's Boogie

[Jimmy W]

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Wes Lee, Libby Rae Watson, Bill Steber, and Rambling Steve Gardner perform Libby's song about when she first met Big Joe Williams.



Jericho Road Show - Big Joe

[Jimmy W]

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Big Joe at that white trailer that Libby mentioned.

Big Joe Williams "Highway 49"

[Jimmy W]

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Wes Lee was with Jericho Road Show above.

Wes Lee - Shake

[Jim Ledger]

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Samuel Gene Maghett aka Magic Sam from Grenada, Mississippi playing Earl Hooker's guitar.

Magic Sam-Sam's Boogie

This guy sure plays a mean guitar!

[Jimmy W]

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Earl showing some of what he could do with that guitar. Earl was a cousin of John Lee Hooker from the same area near Clarksdale. B.B. King, commented, "to me he is the best of modern guitarists. Period. With the slide he was the best. It was nobody else like him, he was just one of a kind".

Earl Hooker - Off The Hook

[Jimmy W]

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A tribute to Earl Hooker from Sue Foley

Sue Foley - Hooker Thang

[Jimmy W]

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Sid Hemphill (1876 - 1963) was an American multi-instrumentalist and bandleader who played in his own string band mainly in Mississippi. He recorded for Alan Lomax in 1942 and again in 1959.
Born in Panola County, Mississippi, Hemphill was the son of a slave fiddle player, crafted instruments, and was a blind musician. Trained as a multi-instrumentalist, he could effectively play fiddle, banjo, guitar, jaw harp, piano, organ, quills, and the cane fife, while also penning songs.
Sid Hemphill was for decades the musical patriarch of the Mississippi Hill Country. He and his band — comprised of Alec "Turpentine" Askew, Will Head, and Lucius Smith; like Sid, all from Panola County, Miss. — were fixtures at dances, picnics, and frolics throughout the triangle formed by Memphis, the Delta, and the Hill Country. Alan Lomax recorded Blind Sid in August 1942, near Sledge, Mississippi, where his band was appearing at a country picnic and banging out their breakdowns, marches, and square-dance tunes, as well as several blues ballads composed by Hemphill himself.

Sid Hemphill: The Carrier Line (1942)

[Jimmy W]

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Hubert Sumlin with Sunnyland Slim - Come On Home Baby

[Jimmy W]

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Robert Belfour - Done Got Old

[Jimmy W]

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Another Charley Patton cover.

Samantha Fish "Jim Lee Blues Pt. 1"

[Jimmy W]

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Recorded at a free art and music festival in Oxford, Mississippi this past April. Amy LaVere - bass, Sharde Thomas - drums, Luther Dickinson, Jimbo Mathus and Garry Burnside on guitars, joined by Lightin' Malcolm.

Luther Dickinson - Hurry Up Sunrise

[Jimmy W]

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Sharde Thomas on drums in the previous video is the grand-daughter of Otha Turner. Otha Turner was very influential in keeping the western African tradition of fife and drum music alive playing bamboo fifes that he made. Sharde is keeping the music and the tradition of the picnics at Otha's farm alive since Otha's death in 2003. This video features a much younger Sharde with her grand-father.

Othar Turner and Sharde Thomas