On Apr 18, 2:35 pm, j_nsc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On Apr 17, 9:20 am, 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. 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
>
> 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
Thanks for the information Joseph. The death date you give is roughly
consistent with the time I would have heard about it. She seemed quite
young in 1964, which would match the 1929 date. On the other hand, I
underestimated Bessie Jones's age by a considerable amount when I met
her. She was in her 60s, and I would have judged her to be in her
40s.
Lyle
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