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Precious Bryant - 44% match to Jessie Mae Hemphill

Precious Bussey, 4 January 1942, Talbot County, Georgia, USA. This acoustic blues singer grew up in a rural community in the deep south, learning traditional songs from her music loving family and local performers but also listening to R&B and rock ‘n’ roll on the radio. Her uncle taught her to play guitar and helped her build up a repertoire of blues and folk Read more

Bobby Rush - 37% match to Jessie Mae Hemphill

Emmitt Ellis Jnr., 10 November 1936, Homer, Louisiana, USA. For most of his career, Rush has managed to forge an amalgam of blues, soul and R&B which allows him the widest scope for personal expression.The son of a preacher, he began performing in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, with a band that included guitarist Boyd Gilmore and Johnny ‘Big Moose Read more

Outrageous Cherry - 27% match to Jessie Mae Hemphill

The Detroit, Michigan, USA area is known first and foremost as a hotbed for garage rock and punk, but there have been exceptions to the rule, such as the indie rock band Outrageous Cherry, who sound at times like a modern, more adventurous version of ELO. Named after a shocking red hair dye, Outrageous Cherry was originally formed in 1992 at the behest of vocalist and guitarist Read more

Rory Block - 18% match to Jessie Mae Hemphill

6 November 1949, Greenwich Village, New York, USA. American blues singer and guitarist, raised in New York. Her father played classical violin, but at the age of 10, Block started learning to play folk music on the guitar. She later became involved in the burgeoning Greenwich Village folk scene. It was as a teenager that she first heard the blues, and went on to play with su Read more

Guy Davis - 16% match to Jessie Mae Hemphill

12 May 1952, New York City, New York, USA. A contemporary interpreter of the country blues tradition, Davis, alongside peers including Keb’ Mo’ and Corey Harris, has done much to revive the genre’s profile. His easy, laconic style - informed by legends such as Robert Johnson and Lead Belly - is typically punctuated by stories and humorous oratory.

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Big Joe Williams - 15% match to Jessie Mae Hemphill

Joe Lee Williams, 16 October 1903, Crawford, Mississippi, USA, d. 17 December 1982, Macon, Mississippi, USA. Big Joe Williams was one of the most important blues singers to have recorded and also one whose life conforms almost exactly to the stereotyped pattern of how a ‘country’ blues singer should live. He was of partial Red Indian stock, his father being ‘R Read more

Furry Lewis - 15% match to Jessie Mae Hemphill

Walter Lewis, 6 March 1893, Greenwood, Mississippi, USA, d. 14 September 1981, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Furry Lewis was a songster, a blues musician, a humorist and an all-round entertainer. Raised in the country, he picked up the guitar at an early age and moved into Memphis around 1900 where he busked on the streets. After he ran away from home, he had experience working o Read more

R.L. Burnside - 13% match to Jessie Mae Hemphill

23 November 1926, Harmontown, Mississippi, USA, d. 1 September 2005, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Burnside, ‘Rule’ to his friends, was a keen observer of his neighbour Mississippi Fred McDowell, as well as Son Hibler and Ranie Burnett, and learned from them the modal rhythm-based techniques of the north Mississippi blues. To these he added songs by Muddy Waters, John L Read more

Junior Kimbrough - 11% match to Jessie Mae Hemphill

David Kimbrough, 28 July 1930, Hudsonville, Mississippi, USA, d. 17 January 1998, Holly Springs, Mississippi, USA. Kimbrough described his music as ‘cottonpatch blues’ but commentators preferred to see it as the resurgence of the ‘juke joint’ style, once synonymous with Frank Frost, of which Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside are the finest recent exponents. His Read more

Robert Pete Williams - 11% match to Jessie Mae Hemphill

14 March 1914, Zachary, Louisiana, USA, d. 31 December 1980, Rosedale, Louisiana, USA. Although he had been playing and singing blues since he was a young man, Williams first came to wider notice when he was recorded in 1958 by folklorist Harry Oster. At the time, Williams was serving a sentence for murder at the Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana. His sombre vocals and Read more