George Mitchell (blues researcher)

George Mitchell (born January 9, 1944 in Coral Gables , Florida ) is an American blues researcher and producer who made recordings from blues musicians from the Mississippi Delta from the 1960s to the 1980s . B. Fred McDowell and Johnny Woods, George Henry Bussey and Jim Bunkley, Charlie Burse and Will Shade , Joe Callicott , Furry Lewis , RL Burnside and Sleepy John Estes , who later on the record labels Arhoolie (late 1960s), Revival (1971 ) and Rounder (from around 1975) as long-playing records, on Arhoolie (2000) and Fat Possum (2003 and following) then also as CDs.

Works (selection)

Blow My Blues Away Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge 1971
I'm Somebody Important: Young Black Voices from Rural Georgia University of Illinois Press, Urbana 1973
Yessir, I've Been Here a Long Time: The Faces and Words of Americans Who Have Lived a Century EP Dutton, New York 1975
Ponce de Leon: An Intimate Portrait of Atlanta's Most Famous Avenue Argonne Books, Atlanta 1982

personal data
SURNAME	Mitchell, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American blues researcher and producer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 9, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Coral Gables , Florida