Disease-Related Deaths in Mississippi - Cancer Deaths in Mississippi, Cardiovascular Disease Deaths in Mississippi (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Cancer Deaths in Mississippi, Cardiovascular Disease Deaths in Mississippi, Infectious Disease Deaths in Mississippi, Eudora Welty, Skip James, Jacklyn H. Lucas, Fannie Lou Hamer, Paul Burlison, Byron de La Beckwith, Kirk Fordice, William Wallace Smith Bliss, Fred Mcdowell, Jim Lemon, Ean Evans, Paul "Wine" Jones, Winthrop Jordan, Ray Poole, Thea Bowman, Marshall Bridges, Johnny Temple, Pat Fordice, Abram M. Scott. Excerpt: Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James (June 9, 1902 October 3, 1969) was an American delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter. James was born near Bentonia, Mississippi. His father was a converted bootlegger turned preacher. As a youth, James heard local musicians such as Henry Stuckey and brothers Charlie and Jesse Sims and began playing the organ in his teens. He worked on road construction and levee-building crews in his native Mississippi in the early 1920s, and wrote what is perhaps his earliest song, "Illinois Blues", about his experiences as a laborer. Later in the '20s he sharecropped and made bootleg whiskey in the Bentonia area. He began playing guitar in open D-minor tuning and developed the three-finger picking technique heard in his recordings. In addition, he began to practice piano-playing, drawing inspiration from the Mississippi blues pianist Little Brother Montgomery. In early 1931, James auditioned for Jackson, Mississippi record shop owner and talent scout H. C. Speir, who placed blues performers with a variety of record labels including Paramount Records. On the strength of this audition, James traveled to Grafton, Wisconsin to record for Paramount. James's 1931 work is considered idiosyncratic among pre-war blues recordings, and formed the basis of his reputation as a musician. As is typical of h... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=172535