George Mitchell (music historian)

George Mitchell ( born January 9, 1944 in Coral Gables, Florida ) is an American blues researcher and producer, who in the 1960s to the 1980s recordings of blues musicians from the Mississippi Delta, such as Fred McDowell and Johnny Woods, George Henry Bussey and Jim Bunkley, Charlie Burse and Will Shade, Joe Callicott, Furry Lewis, RL Burnside and Sleepy John Estes did that later on the record labels Arhoolie (late 1960s ), Revival ( 1971) and Rounder (from have been circa 1975 ) as a long -playing records on Arhoolie ( 2000) Fat Possum (2003 and following) later released as CDs.

Works (selection)

  • Blow My Blues Away Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge 1971
  • I'm Somebody Important: Young Black Voices from Rural Georgia University of Illinois Press, Urbana 1973
  • Yessir, I've Been Here a Long Time: The Faces and Words of Americans Who Have Lived a Century EP Dutton, New York 1975
  • Ponce de Leon: An Intimate Portrait of Atlanta 's Most Famous Avenue Argonne Books, Atlanta 1982
Mississippi Fred McDowell Arhoolie Records Revival Records Fat Possum Records
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