Traditional Blues Musicians

Joe Callicott

The great blues singer Joe Callicott, who I photographed and recorded in Nesbit, Mississippi, in...

Uploaded on Feb 12, 2010 | Map

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Mississippi Fred McDowell

The great bluesman was working pumping gas when I met him in Como, Mississippi, in August of 1967. This photo was taken that evening at his home.

Uploaded on Feb 13, 2010

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Jimmy Lee Harris

Jimmy Lee Harris, Phenix City, Alabama, 1979 "Jimmy Lee Harris, who worked with his brother...

Uploaded on Feb 19, 2010

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Jim Bunkley

Jim Bunkley, Geneva, Georgia, 1969 Photograph by George Mitchell Hear him at: www.biglegalmessrecords.com/geor gemitchell/jimbunkley.htm

Uploaded on Feb 25, 2010

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Mr. and Mrs. Dixon Hunt

Bluesman Dixon Hunt and wife at home in Dranesville, Ga. Late 1960's. I also recorded some songs...

Uploaded on Feb 12, 2010 | Map

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Green Paschal

Green Paschal, Talbotton, GA, late 1960's Paschal was a bluesy church-song singer, with a voice and style similar to Blind Willie Johnson.

Uploaded on Feb 15, 2010

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William Grant

William Grant of Russell County, Alabama, in the early 1980's. He could blow the hell out of...

Uploaded on Feb 19, 2010

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Sleepy John Estes

Sleepy John Estes, Brownsville, Tennessee, 1962. Taken with a Kodak Brownie camera. Photograph by George Mitchell

Uploaded on Feb 18, 2010

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R.L. Burnside at age 42

R.L. Burnside during his first recording session at his home in Coldwater, Mississippi, during 1967. Photograph by George Mitchell

Uploaded on Feb 22, 2010

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Napoleon Strickland

Napoleon Strickland blowing his homemade fife with the "Como Fife and Drum Band" in Como,...

Uploaded on Feb 25, 2010

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Jessie Mae Hemphill

Jessie Mae Hemphill, Senatobia, Mississippi, 1967. She lived right acoss a field from another Hemphill, Rosa Lee Hill.

Uploaded on Feb 28, 2010

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Big Joe Williams and friends

Big Joe Williams in Chicago in 1963 at Pete Welding's home studio.

Uploaded on Feb 26, 2010

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R.L. Burnside and Johnny Woods

R.L. Burnside and Little Johnny Woods at a Labor Day picnic outside of Como, Mississippi, in 1967. ...

Uploaded on Feb 28, 2010

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Blind James Brewer

James Brewer, originally of Mississippi, playing on Maxwell Street in Chicago, in 1963.

Uploaded on Mar 6, 2010

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Will Shade

Will Shade, also known as Son Brimmer, was the head of the great Memphis Jug Band. Here he is...

Uploaded on Mar 7, 2010

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Frank Edwards

An image from a roll I took of Frank Edwards while photographing him for a cover shot for his album on Trix. Atlanta, Georgia, 1972.

Uploaded on Mar 8, 2010

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Lonzie Thomas

A great blind street musician, outside his home here. Lee County, Alabama, 1980. Hear him at www.last.fm/music/Lonzie+Thomas/ _/Red+Cross+Store

Uploaded on Mar 8, 2010

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Charlie Burse

Charlie Burse of the Memphis Jug Band playing tenor guitar. Memphis, Tennessee,1962. Taken with Sears eqivalent of Kodak Brownie camera.

Uploaded on Mar 10, 2010

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Buddy Moss

Eugene "Buddy" Moss, one of the finest Piedmont guitartists; indeed, one of the finest...

Uploaded on Mar 11, 2010

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Will Shade and Jennie Mae Clayton Shade

Will Shade (February 5, 1898 – September 18, 1966) was an African American Memphis blues musician...

Uploaded on Mar 13, 2010

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Will Shade playing his oil-can bass

This was the first instrument I ever heard being played by one of the earliest of the great blues...

Uploaded on Mar 13, 2010

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Rosa Lee Hill

Some of these photographs will be in a book, and I thought it a great idea to get feedback on Flickr...

Uploaded on Apr 10, 2010

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Picnic near Como, MS

Napoleon Strickland blowing the fife

Uploaded on Jan 14, 2013

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