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"Parchman Farm" or "Parchman Farm Blues" is a blues song first recorded by American Delta blues musician Bukka White in 1940. It is an autobiographical piece, in which White sings of his experience at the infamous Mississippi State Penitentiary , otherwise known as Parchman Farm.
An Azalea Festival 5K Run and Walk will occur at 10 a.m. at 415 E. Cedar Rock St. Registration ends at 9:45 a.m. April 27. This is the second race in The Pickens County 5K Race Series.
On April 4, 2006, both "Clarksdale Moan" and "Mississippi County Farm Blues" were released on the collection The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of from Yazoo Records. [2] While "Clarksdale Moan" was a previously unknown song, "Mississippi County Farm Blues" is an earlier (and faster) version of a song Son House later recorded at a session for the ...
Jimmy "Duck" Holmes (born July 28, 1947) [1] is an American blues musician and proprietor of the Blue Front Cafe on the Mississippi Blues Trail, the oldest surviving juke joint in Mississippi. [2] Holmes is known as the last of the Bentonia bluesmen, as he is the last blues musician to play the Bentonia School .
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" (also known as "One Kind Favor") is a song recorded by American blues musician Blind Lemon Jefferson in two slightly differing versions in October 1927 and February 1928, [1] that became "one of his most famous compositions". [2] Son House used the melody on his 1930 recording of "Mississippi County Farm Blues". [3]
Grammy Award winners Blues Traveler and platinum-selling rockers Big Head Todd and the Monsters will ... Music legend Ice Cube performs at the 2019 Azalea Festival in Wilmington, North Carolina ...
Jul. 15—NESCOPECK TWP. — The 2024 edition of the Briggs Farm Blues Festival ended Saturday, but the final day offered blues fans an impressive lineup of artists and vendors. The annual music ...
Armenter (or Armentia) Chatmon (March 21, 1893 or January 1894 – September 21, 1964), known as Bo Carter, was an early American blues musician.He was a member of the Mississippi Sheiks in concerts and on a few of their recordings.