MABLE HILLERY "IT´S SO HARD TO BE A NIGGER" on VOGUE
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Description
Up for auction is a very very rare BLUES-JAZZ record album by female singer MABLE HILLERY on the German VOGUE-Label w/cat LDVS 17151 Stereo, recorded back in 1967
History:
Mable was born in the cotton lands of Southern Georgia, a poverty stricken area. She was spotted by Alan Lomax when he was making a television film on Georgian folk music. The film led to bookings in California, and finally to full-time work as a professional singer. Success followed rapidly: she has performed all over the states, and has sung at Newport and every major festival in America. She has sung at Civil Rights meetings, and has organised two festivals in her native Georgia. Mable never had a singing lesson in her life: singing is her bones. "I sing to people because I enjoy it, I have just as much fun almost singin´ to myself as I do singin´ to others; and I didn´t get hung up on just one particular kind of music, I like all kinds of music." Mable´s varied repertoire reflects the life of a southern negro: work songs, religious songs, children´s lullabies, political songs are there also. "Been singin´ all my life, ever since I can remember, but I wasn´t singin´ in public. Mainly I was singin´ then in the churches and in the fields, rockin´ babies to sleep, hoein´ cotton, ploughin´ the mules, choppin´ wood, doin´ all varieties of things."
(Excerpts of the original liner notes by Jean Aitchison - Melody Maker 28th Oct. 1967)
On this EXTREMELY HARD TO GRAB recording session MABLE HILLERY is assisted by BRIAN GREEN´s JAZZ BAND:
___BILL FARROW: guitar
___JON PARK: guitar
___ROGER COULMAN: organ, piano
___BRIAN ODGERS: bass
___RUSS BRYAN: drums
The Tracks:
> Kansas City
> Lonesome Road
> Casey Jones
> Trouble In Mind
> Mr. President
> Up The Road So Nasty
> Rock Me Daddy
> Bow Legged Rooster
> Mourning Blues
> Old Bill Rollin Pin
> It´s So Hard To Be A Nigger
Recorded: 1967
COVER: thin laminated jacket in amazing clean shape, seams and corners intact: at least NM
VINYL: almost flawless, very minimal scuffing from gliding the record in and out the sleeve, wax still has full lustre: NM
***YOU ARE BIDDING ON A VERY RARE RECORD IN FANTASTIC SHAPE - DO NOT LET THIS GEM PASS AWAY!
***And pls let me say it once again: this record appears once in a decade at most, it is a impossible to find collector´s item even on the big record fairs and therefore highly sought after!
On Jan-15-06 at 01:01:00 PST, seller added the following information: Pls note:I know that many people may find this album´s title offensive (me too). But it is a genuine rendition - it is not my intention to offend anybody, I am just selling this record which is entitled as is. Thanks for your attention and your kind understanding.
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