Abner Jay - Live From Stephen Foster Center / Rare Brandie Records Private Orig

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ARTIST: Abner Jay
LABEL: Brandie 12842 (197?)
TITLE: Live From Stephen Foster Center
CONDITION:
Sleeve: The front cover graphics are clean and mostly Mint- except for a spot of discloration at the bottom right corner. The back cover has a little more discoloration at the bottom left corner. and a little light ring wear. Also has a 3 3/4" split at the right corner of the top seam. Has a 2" seam split at the bottom right corner.
Record: Beautiful! Looks Mint- w/ just a few light scuffs taht do not affect paly. It plays Mint- / VPI cleaned / By the spindle hole it looks like this LP has been played a few times.
COMMENTS: Rare original private press copy of this Outsider Folk Blues LP on Brandie Records.
Twelve songs here by the legendary one man band, this is OUTSIDER MUSIC AT IT'S BEST on Abner's own private label. "Describing himself as "the last great Southern black minstrel show", Abner Jay was a travelling one-man band and revenant folk spirit who performed lugubrious versions of original blues, traditional American spirituals alongside his own material in a baritone several leagues below Johnny Cash. By slowing his source material to a laggard, awkward lollop, Jay rescued it from decades of blacked-up virtuoso mimicry, refocusing attention on its ragged edges, emotional depth and complex humanity. Jay joined Silas Greens Minstrels in 1932 on the back of a huge repertoire of banjo and old-time songs learnt from his grandfather, who had been a slave in Washington County, Georgia. He went on to lead the WMAZ Minstrels on Macon radio from 1946-56 before going solo and touring the country in his portable 'log cabin', complete with its own PA system, from where he would perform and sell cassettes and LPs, when not in residence at Tom Flynn's Plantation Restaurant in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Jay died in 1993 and since then his LPs have become almost impossible to track down. Anthony Braxton described Jay as an "American master" and his banjo, guitar and harmonica playing is every bit as idiosyncratic and unmediated by the tyranny of 'correct' technique as Braxton's own. And the tongues given voice to here are drawn from deep within the murk of centuries," David Keenan, Great Lost Recordings, The Wire, October 2003.
NOTE: VPI cleaned means that this record was cleaned on a professional $500 VPI cleaning machine, which does wonders for the playback of all vinyl records!
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