Abner Jay Backbone Of America Is A Mule & Cotton Brand
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$ 73
Sold For
Jan 28, 2010
Sold Date
Jan 21, 2010
Start Date
$ 25
Start price
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ARTIST:Abner Jay
TITLE: Backbone Of America Is A Mule & Cotton
LABEL: Brandie-So N 122162
DESCRIPTION: "Describing himself as "the last great Southern black minstrel show", Abner Jay was a travelling one-man band and revenant folk spirit who performed lugubrious versions of original blues, traditional American spirituals alongside his own material in a baritone several leagues below Johnny Cash. By slowing his source material to a laggard, awkward lollop, Jay rescued it from decades of blacked-up virtuoso mimicry, refocusing attention on its ragged edges, emotional depth and complex humanity. Jay joined Silas Greens Minstrels in 1932 on the back of a huge repertoire of banjo and old-time songs learnt from his grandfather, who had been a slave in Washington County, Georgia. He went on to lead the WMAZ Minstrels on Macon radio from 1946-56 before going solo and touring the country in his portable 'log cabin', complete with its own PA system, from where he would perform and sell cassettes and LPs, when not in residence at Tom Flynn's Plantation Restaurant in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Jay died in 1993 and since then his LPs have become almost impossible to track down. Anthony Braxton described Jay as an "American master" and his banjo, guitar and harmonica playing is every bit as idiosyncratic and unmediated by the tyranny of 'correct' technique as Braxton's own. And the tongues given voice to here are drawn from deep within the murk of centuries," David Keenan, Great Lost Recordings, The Wire, October 2003 Live from the Stephen Foster Center in White Spings, Florida.
CONDITION: EX WAX. MINT- COVER.
OUR GRADING: M- Opened . Appears unplayed ... NM Nearly flawless condition, with minor , if any , visible signs of use EX+ Excellent / Label and jacket show some light use. Light or faint surface marks. Sound quality out weighs any light surface noise. EX Excellent Condition .Moderate use with marks and light scratches. Some intermittent surface noise . No explosive pops or clicks. Certainly no groove lock or skip ...
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