Yank Rachell

Infobox musical artist | Background = solo_singer | Instrument = Guitar
Name = James "Yank" Rachell


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Birth_name = James Rachell
Born = birth date|1910|3|16|mf=y
Brownsville, Tennessee, U.S.A.
Died = death date|1997|4|9|mf=y
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A. [ [http://thedeadrockstarsclub.com/1996.html Dead Rock Stars Club - accessed December 2007] ]
Genre = Country blues, Blues
Instrument = Mandolin, Guitar
Years_active = 1929 - 1997
Associated_acts = Sleepy John Estes
Hammie Nixon
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James "Yank" Rachell (16 March 1910 – 9 April 1997) was an American blues musician.

Career

Born James Rachell, his career as a performer spanned nearly eighty years, and was often teamed with the guitarist and singer Sleepy John Estes. Though a capable guitarist and singer, he was better known as a master of the blues mandolin.

In his later years he appeared in filmmaker Terry Zwigoff's documentary about fellow musician Howard Armstrong, and was a featured performer with John Sebastianand the J-Band.Norris, Sharon, "Black America Series: Haywood County Tennessee", Arcadia Publishing]

By the mid 1990s, Henry Townsend and his one-time collaborator Rachell, were the only active blues artists whose performing lives stretched back to the 1920s.cite book
first= Tony
last= Russell
year= 1997
title= The Blues - From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray
edition=
publisher=Carlton Books Limited
location= Dubai
pages= p. 177-8
id= ISBN 1-85868-255-X]
B. B. King said about Rachell; "It's people like you who made people like me possible."Fact|date=December 2007

Film

*"Louie Bluie" (1986). Directed by Terry Zwigoff.

ee also

*List of Piedmont blues musicians
*List of Country blues musicians

References

External links

* [http://www.bluesworld.com/Yank.html Yank Rachell page from Blues World site]
* [http://www.deadbluesguys.com/dbgtour/rachell_james.htm Grave marker from Dead Blues Guys site]
* [http://wc09.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=YANK|RACHELL&sql=11:j9foxqtgld0e~T1 Yank Rachell biography] at Allmusic website