Sid Hemphill: complete Library of Congress session (1942)
Alan Lomax s complete August 15, 1942 recordings of Sid Hemphill and his band, recorded at (or before) a picnic at the Funky Fives (also noted by Lomax as Po Whore s Kingdom ), outside of Sledge, Quitman County, Mississippi, made under the auspices of the Library of Congress Archive of Folk Song. Playlist below. Multiinstrumentalist, bandleader and composer Sid Hemphill (18761961) was for decades the musical patriarch of the Mississippi Hill Country. He and his band comprised of Alec Turpentine br, br,
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