Jessie Mae Hemphill & Friends
- 2004
- 1h 15m
Jessie Mae Hemphill last recording - live at Sherman Cooper's farm, Como, Mississippi. A five-time W.C. Handy award-winner and the fourth generation of a venerable musical family, Jessie Mae... Read allJessie Mae Hemphill last recording - live at Sherman Cooper's farm, Como, Mississippi. A five-time W.C. Handy award-winner and the fourth generation of a venerable musical family, Jessie Mae Hemphill (1923-2006), from the North Mississippi Hill Country, sang songs wrenched from h... Read allJessie Mae Hemphill last recording - live at Sherman Cooper's farm, Como, Mississippi. A five-time W.C. Handy award-winner and the fourth generation of a venerable musical family, Jessie Mae Hemphill (1923-2006), from the North Mississippi Hill Country, sang songs wrenched from her own life experience, celebrating the transformative power of the blues for audiences th... Read all