JAMES " YANK" RACHELL

                          

Yank Rachell - I Don't Believe You Love Me No More

James "Yank" Rachell (March 16, 1910 -- April 9, 1997) was an American blues musician, dubbed an "elder statesman of the blues.

La Mandolina nunca fué uno de los instrumentos favoritos o más utilizados del Blues, pero si todos los mandolinistas hubiesen sido tan virtuosos como James "Yank" Rachell, tal vez habría sido diferente.También un excelente guitarrista, probablemente se le conoce más por ser el inseparable compañero de Sleepy  John Estes que por si mismo, una categoría bastante envidiable, desde luego, pero también desafortunada ya que es un artista al que hay que tener en cuenta. ( Lawrence Cohn , Solamente BLUES ).

Por nuestra parte añadir que efectivamente es uno de los poquísimos mandolinistas, otro de los cuales os presentamos en ntros. pos's de 28-12-11, 31-01-14 se trata del también extraordinario JOHNNY YOUNG , ver estos videos demostrativos.Como ampliación copiamos la info que aparece en la Wikipedia: 

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James "Yank" Rachell

Birth name James Rachell

Born March 16, 1910

Brownsville, Tennessee, United States

Died April 9, 1997 (aged 87)

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Genres Country blues,

Instruments Mandolin, guitar

Years active 1929–1997

James "Yank" Rachell (March 16, 1910 – April 9, 1997) was an American country blues musician, dubbed an "elder statesman of the blues."

Born James Rachell, his career as a performer spanned nearly seventy years, and was often teamed with the guitarist and singer Sleepy John Estes. He grew up in Brownsville, Tennessee, but in 1958 moved north to Indianapolis during the American folk music revival. He recorded for Delmark Records and Blue Goose Records. Though a capable guitarist and singer, he was better known as a master of the blues mandolin; he had bought his first mandolin at age 8, with a pig his family had given him to raise. "She Caught the Katy," which he wrote with Taj Mahal, is considered a blues standard.

In his later years he appeared in filmmaker Terry Zwigoff's documentary about fellow musician Howard Armstrong, and was a featured performer with John Sebastian and the J-Band.

By the mid 1990s, Rachell and Henry Townsend and were the only blues musicians still active active whose careers started in the 1920s. In later years he suffered from arthritis which shortened his playing sessions, though he still recorded an album just before his death, Too Hot For the Devil.

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