- 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=yBrownsville, Tennessee , U.S.A.
Died = death date|1997|4|9|mf=yIndianapolis, 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
URL =James "Yank" Rachell (
16 March 1910 –9 April 1997 ) was an Americanblues musician .Career
Born James Rachell, his career as a performer spanned nearly eighty years, and was often teamed with the
guitarist andsinger Sleepy John Estes . Though a capable guitarist and singer, he was better known as a master of the bluesmandolin .In his later years he appeared in filmmaker
Terry Zwigoff 's documentary about fellow musicianHoward Armstrong , and was a featured performer withJohn Sebastian and 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 toRobert 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 2007Film
*"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] atAllmusic website
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