• Othar "Otha" Turner (June 2, 1907 – February 27, 2003) was one of the last well-known fife players in the vanishing American fife and drum blues tradition...
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    Alan Turner Alfred Turner Alex Turner Andrew Turner Ann Turner Anna Turner Anne Turner Benjamin Turner Brad Turner Brian Turner Charles Turner Chris...
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  • Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr.) – 4:35 Othar Turner and The Rising Star Fife and Drum Band: "Shimmy She Wobble" (Othar Turner) – 3:37 Sidney Stripling: "Breakaway"...
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  • Robert Belfour, Calvin Jackson, and Sid Hemphill. Burnside, Kimbrough, Othar Turner, and Jessie Mae Hemphill appeared in the documentary Deep Blues and went...
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  • She is the granddaughter of Othar Turner, who founded the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band, and cousin to bandmate Andre Turner Evans. She plays a homemade...
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    Buddha With Jon Spencer Blues Explosion 1998 Acme 1999 Xtra-Acme USA With Othar Turner 1998 Everybody Hollerin' Goat 1999 From Senegal to Senatobia With John...
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  • Cedric and Garry Burnside, Charles Hodges, Mavis Staples, Jason Isbell, Othar Turner, Duane Betts and Roosevelt Collier. In the United States, the album made...
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  • Tone-Cool Records. It features contributions from Cedric and Garry Burnside, Othar Turner, Jim Dickinson, Jimmy Crosthwait, Richard "Hombre" Price, Alvin Youngblood...
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    age 5. Napoleon Strickland (1919–2001), Hill country blues musician Othar Turner (1907–2003), Hill country blues musician Stark Young (1881–1963) was...
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  • Notable performers include Napoleon Strickland, Othar Turner, Turner's granddaughter Shardé Thomas, Turner's daughter, Bernice, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Ed and...
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    since died out. One of the most famous artists in the tradition was Othar Turner, a musician from Mississippi, who played blues on homemade cane fifes...
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  • Everybody Hollerin' Goat (category Othar Turner albums)
    album by the American musician Othar Turner, released in 1998. He is credited with the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band. Turner was 90 when he recorded the...
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  • early 1960s playing drums for his uncle, the fife and drum performer Othar Turner. Later he was the drummer for Jessie Mae Hemphill and is heard on her...
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  • features contributions from Lucinda Williams, Robert Randolph, Al Kapone, Othar Turner, Jimbo Mathus, Ben Nichols, Jimmy Davis, Jim Crosthwait, Jim Spake, Steve...
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  • Corey Harris and then traveling to West Africa. Willie King, Taj Mahal, Othar Turner and Ali Farka Touré give performances of early Delta blues songs, along...
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    Burnside's house near Coldwater on the advice of fife player and maker Othar Turner. Mitchell wrote that Fred McDowell had not told him about Burnside, likely...
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  • Stubblefield of Lucero, Brenda Patterson, Jackie Johnson, Susan Marshall, Othar Turner, and Jim Dickinson. The album found minor success on the US Billboard...
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    Blues Trail markers are in the same area with this marker that honors Othar Turner and Napolian Strickland. Freedom Village Greenville Furry Lewis Greenwood...
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  • Fred Rogers, 74, American television (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood). Othar Turner, 95, American fife player. Albert Batteux, 83, French football player...
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    performed in another drum group with Young and fife-and-drum band veteran Othar Turner for the television program Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. The French label...
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    albums and EPs: Ragged Backyard Classics (In The Red, 1996) R.L. Boyce Othar Turner Fife & Drum Spam LP/CD (Fat Possum/Epitaph, 1997) Sinful Tunes & Spirituals...
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    Nesbit, Mississippi, from age 12 to 15, when Callicott died. He had heard Othar Turner and others in nearby Como picnics, and cited Junior Kimbrough, Johnny...
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  • Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, The Remains, Othar Turner, James Cotton, Bo Diddley, Memphis Slim, Ike & Tina Turner, Ricky Nelson, Gerry and the Pacemakers...
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  • enthusiast from all over the world. Headliners have included Otis Rush, Ike Turner, Little Milton, Bobby Bland, Bobby Rush, Koko Taylor, Denise LaSalle, Super...
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  • 6. "Snake Drive" R. L. Burnside 2:47 7. "That Dog After That Rabbit" Othar Turner North Mississippi Allstars 0:32 8. "Meet Me in the City" David Kimbrough...
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    Music of the Mississippi Hill Country, featuring Lucinda Williams and Othar Turner, among others, was the debut performance at St. Ann's Warehouse in 2001...
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  • Epstein (47), bassist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers February 26 – Othar Turner (95), fife player March 3 Hank Ballard (75), R&B singer (throat cancer)...
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  • Marc Savoy, accordion maker/musician Ng Sheung-Chi, muk'yu folk singer Othar Turner, fife player T. Viswanathan, flutist and vocalist Santiago Almeida, conjunto...
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  • No. Title Artist Length 1. "Shortnin' / Henduck" Othar Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band 2:52 2. "Long John" Lightning & Group 5:25 3. "Crazy Blues"...
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  • "Guitar Slim" Stephens Samuel Turner Stevens Sweet Betty Robert Thomas Eddie Tigner Reverend Perry Tillis Othar Turner Tad Walters J. W. Warren Beverly...
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