#The Hurt Family Fife and Drum Band

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Me in the back, middle w/ Mary Ann Jackson and "The Up All Night Blues Band". R.I.P. the late Martin "Big Boy" Grant.

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Gravel Springs Block Party and Day 2 of the Otha Turner Picnic The second day of the annual Otha Turner Picnic was much more crowded than the first, as crowds came out to hear such artists as R.

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Celebrating R. L. Boyce’s Birthday With A Picnic in Como Como, Mississippi is a town that sits on the border between the Mississippi Delta and a region known as the Hill Country.

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Hill Country Traditions at the Hulette Picnic in Senatobia Although it was the weekend of the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival in Clarksdale, R. L.

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The Hurt Family Celebrating The 4th of July With Fife and Drum

The Hurt Family Celebrating The 4th of July With Fife and Drum

As I have discussed before in this blog, Black fife and drum music is an endangered form of pre-blues that probably played a role in the development of jazz as well as blues. Although the tradition persisted in some parts of Georgia and Tennessee into the 1980’s, it appears to be limited entirely to two families in two counties of Mississippi today. While Sharde Thomas, the granddaughter of Otha…

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The Hurt Family Fife and Drum Band getting ready to play at the R. L. Boyce Picnic in Como, Mississippi. (at Como, Mississippi)