Photo: Hill Country Blues Marker

Photographer: Phillip Knecht
Taken: July 1, 2015
Caption: Hill Country Blues Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (Record label on top) High Water Recording Company, Jumper Hanging Out On a Line, R.L. Burnside 410; (captions on right side, top to bottom) See my jumper, Lord, hanging out on the line. See my jumper, Lord, hanging out on the line. Know by that something on my mind. Fix my supper baby, Lord, let me go to bed. Fix my supper baby, Lord, let me go to bed. This white lightnin' done gone to my head. "Jumper Hanging Out On the Line" - R.L. Burnside; Dancing to the blues at Junior's; Junior Kimbrough (above) hosted house parties for years and ran his own rural juke joint on Highway 4 in the 1990s. R.L. Burnside once lived in the house next door; A special 2007 issue of Living Blues magazine featured the "next generation" of hill country blues, including descendants of R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, and Othar Turner; High Water Records at the University of Memphis released 45s in the 1980s by Ranie Burnette (right) R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Jessie Mae Hempbill, and other Mississippi blues artists; Relatively few hill country blues artists had recorded prior to the Burnside-Kimbrough era. The most prolific was Mississippi Fred McDowell (1904-1972), who became popular on the blues revival" circuit in the 1960s. A fife and drum tradition was also documented in Tate and Panola Counties led by Sid Hemphill, Napolian Strickland and Othar Turner. Hemphill's granddaughter, guitarist Jessie Mae Hemphill (1923-2006), was the hill country's most prominent female blues artist; Welcome to one of the many sites on the Mississippi Blues Trail Visit us online at www.msbluestrail.org
Submitted: July 2, 2015, by Phillip Knecht of Holly Springs, Mississippi.
Database Locator Identification Number: p313314
File Size: 6.789 Megabytes

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