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Sid Hemphill

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  • Genre: Acoustic / Folk / Other

    Location Senatobia, Mississippi, US

    Profile Views: 17812

    Last Login: 10/7/2011

    Member Since 3/4/2008

    Record Label Unknown Major

    Type of Label Major

  • Bio

    A remarkable blind musician who could play fiddle, banjo, guitar, jaw harp, piano, organ, quills, and cane fife, Sid Hemphill, Grandfather of Jesse Mae Hemphill was born around 1876/78 in Como, Panola County, MS. Sid had his musical roots sown by his father, Doc Hemphill, a Choctaw Indian and famed fiddler. Sid was the master of nine instruments, but was primarily known locally as a hot fiddle player. He recorded 22 tracks (plus an interview) with famed musicologist Alan Lomax in Sledge, MS, in 1942, followed by two more tracks recorded 17 years later in Senatobia, MS, when Lomax revisited Hemphill in 1959. He played ballads, break-downs, and fife and drum music, a cross section of 19th century black folk music pre-dating the blues. Most surprising was Hemphill’s performances on the "quills," an ancient instrument heretofore unknown in black folk music with ties, according to Lomax, to Romania, ancient Greece, South America the Pygmies of Africa. Working with a loosely shifting group of local musicians, including banjo player Lucius Smith and guitarist Alex Askew, Hemphill recorded music featuring a merging of West African rhythms with European sensibilities, leading to a wild, loose, and archaic sound that is part Appalachian string band and part fife and drum marching band; there is really nothing quite like it in American music with the possible exception of Othar Turner, who comes from the same Mississippi tradition. Sid was the father of Rose Hemphill and Sidney Carter who recorded for Lomax in 1959 [whose singing guitar and anguished vocals were a match for many bluesmen of the time] and Grandfather to the Legendary Blues Women Jesse Mae Hemphill .... ...... ........!.. ....
  • Members

    Lucius Smith-Banjo Will Head-Bass Drum Alec Askew-Guitar Sid Hemphill-Fiddle, Fife,quills, Vocals
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  • msfs

    Thanks for the add and the music! It sounds great! Stay blessed! msfs

    1 year ago
  • Miraldo

     Hi there!

    Thanks for the add.
    Cool music here!

    Miraldo

    1 year ago
  • Eric Cope

    I try to make wishes right
    but sometimes it doesn’t work.
    Once, I wished a tree upside down
    and its branches
    were where the roots should have been!
    The squirrels had to ask the moles
    “How do we get down there
    to get home?”
    One time it happened that way.
    Then there was the time I remember now,
    I wished a woman upside down
    and her feet were where her hands
    should have been!
    In the morning her feet
    had to ask the birds,
    “How do we fly up there
    to get home?”
    One time it happened that way.

    2 years ago
  • Paulo Bergo

    Very cool music thanks for the add.
    Cheers from Rio de Janeiro,
    Paulo Bergo

     

    2 years ago
  • Ava Manson

    luving your style! <3


    2 years ago
  • Cheese Finger Brown

    This music is ACE!!!
    Try the sound of Cheese Finger Brown
    <--------

    Thanks 

    3 years ago
  • Oliver Mampel

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     thank you for the add!



    3 years ago
  • String Theory Recordings


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  • Clap Mitchet y Las Bibl…

    Love and happiness from the south land



    3 years ago
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    3 years ago
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