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"Parchman Farm" or "Parchman Farm Blues" is a blues song first recorded by American Delta blues musician Bukka White in 1940. It is an autobiographical piece, in which White sings of his experience at the infamous Mississippi State Penitentiary , otherwise known as Parchman Farm.
American Epic: The Best of Mississippi John Hurt is a compilation album released to accompany the American Epic documentary films in 2017. It collects all the surviving performances from Mississippi John Hurt's first two recording sessions for OKeh Records in Memphis and New York City in 1928.
Mississippi is best known as the home of the blues which developed among the freed African Americans in the latter half of the 19th century and beginning 20th century. The Delta blues is the style most closely associated with the state, and includes performers like Charley Patton, Robert Johnson (buried in Greenwood, MS), David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Willie Brown, Tommy Johnson, Ishmon Bracey, Bo ...
Satisfying Blues (Collectables Records VCL 5529) 1995; Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings (Columbia Records CK64986) 1996; Candy Man Blues: The Complete 1928 Sessions (Snapper Music SBLUECD 010) 2004; American Epic: The Best of Mississippi John Hurt (Lo-Max / Sony Legacy / Third Man, TMR-459) 2017
Blues musicians such as John Lee Hooker, Elmore James, Robert Pete Williams and Robert Petway visited the family home to rehearse blues songs with Davis' father, Sylvester Davis. [5] [6] When he was eighteen years old he began playing drums for the family band, Lard Can Band, because Davis did not possess a drum kit and was forced to play on a ...
Willie Cris Farmer, known professionally as Little Willie Farmer (born June 2, 1956) is an American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter. [1] One reviewer described Farmer as "the best traditional Mississippi Blues artist today". [2] He has released two albums and performed at various events and festivals.
Also in 2004, Inside Sounds released Get Right Blues, containing material recorded from 1979 through the early 1980s, and Black & Blue released Mississippi Blues Festival, which includes seven live tracks by her from a Paris concert in 1986. Hemphill died on July 22, 2006, at the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, after complications from an ...
This separate chart was created to list songs that the magazine deemed were not rock and roll records. Since the number-one song on the Hot 100 chart at the time was " Tossin' and Turnin' " by rock and roll singer Bobby Lewis , and Benton's song was not considered rock and roll by the magazine, "The Boll Weevil Song" holds the distinction of ...