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 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 throughout the U.S. and Europe.
—Ulf Kjell Gür