George Mitchell (music historian)
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George Mitchell (born January 9, 1944) is an American record producer and music historian.[1]
Born in Coral Gables, Florida, United States, and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, from the 1960s until the 1980s, he recorded blues musicians such as Jessie Mae Hemphill, Fred McDowell, Johnny Woods, George Henry Bussey and Jim Bunkley, Charlie Burse and Will Shade, Gus Cannon, Mississippi Joe Callicott, John Lee Ziegler, Jimmy Lee Williams, Furry Lewis, Houston Stackhouse, R. L. Burnside and Sleepy John Estes, later to be issued on Arhoolie Records (late 1960s), Revival Records (1971) and Rounder Records (from c. 1975) as 33 rpm albums, and then on Arhoolie (2000) and Fat Possum Records (2003 ff.) as CDs. George Mitchell also plays the blues himself on an oil-can bass.
References[]
- ^ "George Mitchell's Flickr page Est. November 2009". Flickr.com.
External links[]
- George Mitchell biography
- 2008 interview by Jeff Harris of WXPN radio
- 1944 births
- Living people
- Record producers from Florida
- American folk-song collectors
- American folklorists
- Blues historians
- American music historians
- Writers from Coral Gables, Florida
- 21st-century American historians
- 21st-century American male writers
- 20th-century American historians
- American male non-fiction writers
- Historians from Florida
- 20th-century American male writers