On Apr 17, 9:20=A0am, Lyle Lofgren <lylelofg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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
atwww.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. =A0No 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
Hi Lyle,
According to some sources, including Edward Komara's "Hillery, Mabel"
entry in his _Encyclopedia Of The Blues_, she was born in Troup County
GA (which borders AL) on 7/22/29 and died in NY in 4/76. (However,
there was a 9-year-old Mabel Hilary in Liberty County, GA -- which
borders the ocean -- as of 1930 who may possibly have been her,
parents' names James and Ophelia.) Her middle initial was re****tedly
A.
Joseph Scott
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