DIXON HUNT

 

DIXON HUNT & WIFE , photos and more info in : 

                            https://southernspaces.org/2004/blues-lower-chattahoochee-valley/

George Mitchell,  (*) one of the world’s most noteworthy blues field researchers, and the author/photographer of seven critically acclaimed books of documentary photographs, will have his first gallery showing of his now-historical photographs of blues musicians at In One Instant Gallery of Photography throughout April.

Recordings of the musicians in the photographs, made by Mr. Mitchell, will be playing at the opening reception during Art Walk from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, April 1.

Mr. Mitchell is also one of the longest-time professional players of the oil-can bass, having learned in 1963 how to make and play one from a master of the instrument — Will Shade, head of the legendary Memphis Jug Band. He will be performing during Music Walk on Saturday, April 16.

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George Mitchell was born in 1944 in Coral Gables, Florida and was raised in Atlanta, Georgia.

In the 1960’s he began tracking down blues artists and recording them on a portable tape recorder. George Mitchell’s recordings were often made in the musicians’ homes and back yards or at parties and gatherings.

Although the recording equipment George Mitchell used on his 1960’s recordings was hardly audiophile quality, the sound on his recordings is surprisingly good.

George Mitchell’s recordings are currently being released through Fat Possum Records, based in Oxford, Mississippi 

En algunos de los casos que os estamos presentando de musicos nacidos en el LCHV., nos encontramos que no dejaron huella de grabación alguna. como es el caso de DIXON HUNT. Más adelante os ofreceremos algunos de los audios que grabó el historiador George Mitchell con músicos de la zona .