She had one of the most spectacular voices I've ever heard, but it was
mostly submerged as just one of the Georgia Sea Island singers. You
can hear her and Mississippi John Hurt bring down the house at
www.lizlyle.lofgrens.org/BrnSnift/SonicAlbum.html, but Google has very
little on her. She's on a S-F album (which I don't have) called
"Voices of the Civil Rights Movement," and apparently she was
associated with SNCC. There's a photo of her, along with Big Joe
Williams, Bukka White, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Sunnyland Slim, and
a couple of people I've never heard of, from a 1966 CBC television
program.
Beyond that, nada. I heard somewhere, years ago, that she died young,
of a stroke. The Social Security Death Index is not acquainted with
her. No biography anywhere in cyberspace. I'd like to know if there's
anywhere I can find out more about her, since I still recall, with a
****ver, a musician who, for a few minutes, thrilled me 44 years ago.
Lyle
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