Jessie Mae Hemphill Vinyl Records

Includes Inside Booklet Containing Biography, Interview of Jessie Mae and Rare Pictures

Moi J’Connais Records are proud to reissue for the first time on vinyl some of the early works of Jessie Mae Hemphill. This personal “best of” contains songs from her two first and only LPs, 1981's She-Wolf and and 1990's Feelin’ Good, which are long time impossible to find, and one song from her two only 7" (High Water 80’s 7" serie) and one song released for the first time ever on vinyl.

Jessie Mae Hemphill was born in a well-known musical family of the Delta; her great-grandfather Dock Hemphill was a renowned fiddle player in Choctaw County, Mississippi. Her grandfather, Sid Hemphill, was also a fiddle player and bandleader who recorded for Alan Lomax and George Mitchell. Members of the older generation of Hemphills, in a way anticipating Jessie Mae’s own musical career, were multi-instrumentalists.

Jessie Mae played guitar and drums, wrote and sang her own songs in the primal northern Mississippi hill country blues traditions. She was considered as the Queen of the Guitar Boogie. As one of the earliest successful female blues musicians, Hemphill has been an influential and pioneering artist.

Track Listing:
1. She-Wolf
2. Standing In My Doorway Crying
3. Go Back To Your Used To Be
4. Take Me Home With You, Baby
5. Tell Me You Love Me
6. Shake It, Baby
7. Shame On You
8. Crawdad Hole
9. Brokenhearted Blues
10. Bullyin' Well
11. Lord, Help The Poor And Needy
12. Jessie's Boogie