Sid Hemphill
Videos
Sid Hemphill was an American blues multi-instrumentalist and bandleader who played in his own string band mainly in Mississippi. He recorded for Alan Lomax in 1942 and again in 1959.
Sid Hemphill in 1959.
Senatobia, Mississippi
Videos
Senatobia is a city in and the county seat of Tate County, Mississippi, United States; it is the 16th-largest municipality in the Memphis metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, Senatobia had a popu
Sid Hemphill
…was highly syncopated and offered the closest connection to traditional African music. Field collector and ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax traveled to Senatobia to seek out Hemphill after a local string bandleader described him as the "boar-hog musician of the hills”, also proclaiming him as "the best musician…
Senatobia MS 026
Welcome to Memphis US51
Southland Greyhound Park