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Wirz' AMERICAN MUSIC

M A B L E   H I L L E R Y; source: front cover of XTRA 1063
source: XTRA 1063; photographer: Barrie Wentzall
Mable Hillery
a/k/a Mable Hillary a/k/a Mabel Hillary
b. July 22, 1929 in La Grange, Georgia
d. April 26 or 27, 1976 at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan, New York City

buried in Strangers Cemetery, St. Simons Island, Georgia
discography
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcaAcTBcyaU

#year
of release
title / label / notes
   

- Salty Dog - Mississippi John Hurt & Mable Hillery

rec. February 8, 1964 at the Guthrie Theater "Folk Music in America" concert, Minneapolis, MN; Mississippi John Hurt, voc, g; Mable Hillery, voc; Bessie Jones & Georgia Sea Island Singers, hand-clapping

unissued

MP3 at
www.lizlyle.lofgrens.org

11966 

- How Long - Mable Hillery

rec. Winter 1966 in ?; Mable Hillery, voc, Skip James, g


Eva-Tone 614763 [flexi-disc compilation]

21968Mable Hillery: It's So Hard To Be A Nigger

XTRA 1063 track sequence:
- Rock Me Daddy #
- Bow-Legged Rooster *
- Ride Ride *
- Mourning Blues #
- Old Bill Rolling Pin #
- It's So Hard To Be A Nigger []   @ youtube

- Kansas City *
- Lonesome Road *
- Casey Jones #
- Trouble In Mind *
- Mr. President #
- Up The Road So Nasty []   @ youtube

Vogue LDVS 17151 track sequence:
- Kansas City *
- Lonesome Road *
- Casey Jones #
- Trouble In Mind *
- Mr. President #
- Up The Road So Nasty []

- Rock Me Daddy #
- Bow-Legged Rooster *
- Ride Ride *
- Mourning Blues #
- Old Bill Rolling Pin #
- It's So Hard To Be A Nigger []

rec. 1968 in London by Shel Talmy, Hugh Murphy & Joe Lustig

# Mable Hillery, voc; Roger Coulam, org, p; Bill Farrow, Jon Mark, g; Brian Odges, b; Russ Brian, dr

* Mable Hillery, voc; Brian Greens' Jazz Band (Alan Snook, tp; Gordon Blundy, tb; Alex Revell, cl; Geoffrey Walker, bj; Pete Barton, b; Brian Green, dr)

[] Mable Hillery, voc solo

cover photograph of XTRA 1063 by Barrie Wentzall

notes by Hedy West (from a summer 1967 interview with Mable Hillery)
click to read notes ! click to read notes ! click to read notes !
back cover notes (OCRed by 'Bunker Hill') at weeniecampbell.com
XTRA 1063 (UK 1968)

notes by Jean Aichison (Melody Maker, Oct. 28, 1967), translated into German by Elmar Hussing

= Vogue LDVS 17151 (Germany 1968)

XTRA Records discography

32/1969The Mike Raven Blues Sampler

Leadbelly
- Little Children's Blues
Jimmy Witherspoon
- Evenin'
Dr. Ross
- After Hours Blues
Gary Davis
- Say No To The Devil
Big Joe Williams
- Bottle Up And Go
Memphis Slim
- Frankie and Johnny

Sonny Terry
- Louise
Jesse Fuller
- Brownskin Gal

Mable Hillery
- It's So Hard To Be A Nigger [XTRA 1063]
Blind Willie McTell
- Married Man's A Fool
Scraper [sic] Blackwell
- "A" Blues
Lightnin' Hopkins
- Blues In A Bottle

notes by Mike Raven

Transatlantic TRA SAM 5 (UK 2/1969

41969L'America Della Contestazione

- Suoni E Voci Dalla Controparata Inaugurale Per Il Presidente Nixon
Barbara Dane
- Hell, No!
F.D. Kirkpatrick
- Farewell, Mr. Charlie
- Suoni E Voci Dalla Controparata Inaugurale
Barbara Dane
- Hold The Fort
- The Preacher And The Slave
- Soup Song
- Suoni E Voci Dalla Controparata Inaugurale
Barbara Dane
- I Hate The Capitalist System

- Suoni E Voci Dal Corteo Inaugurale Per Il Presidente Nixon
Barbara Dane
- We Shall Not Be Moved
- Discussione Di Bambini Sul Black Power
F.D. Kirkpatrick
- Bourgeois School
- Suoni E Voci Dalla Controparata Inaugurale

Mable Hillery
- He Was More Than A Friend Of Mine
Barbara Dane
- The Ballad Of Richard Campos
- Suoni E Voci Dalla Controparata Inaugurale
F.D. Kirkpatrick
- That Ain't Good
- Suoni E Voci Dalla Controparata Inaugurale


ed. by A. (Sandro) Portelli & F. Pellegrini

68-pp. booklet

Dischi del Sole DS 179/81 (It 1969)

Barbara Dane discography

51973John's Island, South Carolina: Its People & Songs

John's Island Children
- Old Lady Come From Booster
- Cheerio
- Mama Lama
- Who Are The Greatest?
- Dr. Knickerbocker / Tic-Tac (medley)
- Mr. Postman Died
- Miss Mary Mack / I Want To Go To Mexico (medley)
- Shake It If You Can
Joe Hunter
- Have You Ever Been Mistreated

Mable Hillery & John Hunter
- That's All Right *   @ Spotify
Joe, John, & Janey Hunter & Mable Hillery
- Motherless Child #   @ Spotify

Wesley Methodist Church (John's Island, S.C.)
- He Rose From The Dead
Willis Goodwin
- Easter Morning Sermon
Wesley Methodist Church (John's Island, S.C.)
- Jesus Knows All About My Troubles
- Give Me That Old Time Religion


rec. Spring 1970 in John's Island, SC

# Joe Hunter, voc, g; John Hunter, Janey Hunter, Mable Hillery, voc

* John Hunter, voc; Joe Hunter, voc, g; Mable Hillery, voc

click to read notes (pdf at Smithsonian Folkways)
Folkways FS 3840 (US 1973)

61977 

- Maui Chimes - Mike & Lorna McClellan
- Ka-wai-puna-o-ha'ao - Malia Craver, Haunani Apoliona, Lolena Nicholas, Luka Mahu'iki
- I'm Seventeen Come Sunday - Rhonda Mattern, Laurie Bailey
- June Apple - Ralph Rush

- Walk Along - Mable Hillery
- Parting Hand - Jeremiah Ingalls, The Red Clay Ramblers
- Cewe Lenkele Wecho - Alhaji Bai Konte
- Skulaner Hopke - Chassidic Orchestra
- None But One - Jean Ritchie
- Good Old Dora - Casse Culver
- A Minor - Woody Mann



Eva-Tone 63773 [17,5 cm 33 1/3 rpm flexi-disc compilation acc. Sing Out! 1977]

71997Voices Of The Civil Rights Movement
Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966

Mass Meetings
Freedom Singers - Freedom Medley: Freedom Chant; Oh Freedom: This Little Light Of Mine
Betty Mae Fikes - This Little Light Of Mine
Betty Mae Fikes - If You Miss Me From The Back Of The Bus
Mass Meeting Participants - Lord, Hold My Hand While I Run This Race
Willie Peacock - Get On Board, Children
Willie Peacock - Calypso Freedom
Mass Meeting Participants - Freedom Now Chant
Hollis Watkins - Oh Freedom
Amanda B. Perdew & Virginia Davis - Ain' Scared Of Nobody
Mass Meeting Participants - Leaning On The Everlasting Arms
Rev. Lawrence Campbell - Sermon
Mass Meeting Participants - We Are Soldiers In The Army
Fannie Lou Hamer - Go Tell It On The Mountain
Fannie Lou Hamer - Wade In The Water
Willie Peacock - Come Bah Yah
Fannie Lou Hamer - Walk With Me, Lord
Sam Block - Jesus On The Mainline, Tell Him What You Want
Sam Block - Freedom Train

Mabel Hillary - Don't You Think It's About Time We All Be Free  
Carlton Reese - We're Marching On To Freedom Land
Mass Meeting Participants - We Shall Overcome

Ensembles
SNCC Freedom Singers led by Emory Harris - We'll Never Turn Back SNCC Freedom Singers led by Rutha Harris - We Shall Not Be Moved
CORE Freedom Singers - Certainly, Lord
CORE Freedom Singers - Get Your Rights, Jack
SNCC Freedom Singers led by Cordell Reagon - Which Side Are You On?
SNCC Freedom Singers led by Bernice Johnson - Woke Up This Morning With My Mind On Freedom
Bernice Johnson - Been In The Storm So Long
SNCC Freedom Singers led by Cordell Reagon - Dog, Dog
Integration Grooves - The A & P Song
SNCC Freedom Singers led by Bertha Gober - Oh Pritchett, Oh Kelly
Bertha Gober - I Told Jesus
Alabama Christian Movement Choir led by Carlton Reese - 99½ Won't Do
Alabama Christian Movement Choir led by Mamie Brown - I'm On My Way
Cleo Kennedy - City Called Heaven
SNCC Freedom Singers led by Marshall Jones - In The Mississippi River
SNCC Freedom Singers led by Cordell Reagon - Ain' Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round
Jimmy Collier And The Movement Singers led by Diane Smith - Will The Circle Be Unbroken
SNCC Freedom Singers led by Charles Neblett - Governor Wallace
SNCC Freedom Singers led by Matthew Jones - Ballad Of Medgar Evers
Cordell Reagon - Uncle Tom's Prayers
SNCC Freedom Singers led by Matthew Jones - Oginga Odinga
SNCC Freedom Singers - We Shall Overcome


2 CD set

Smithsonian Folkways SF 40084 (US 1997)

82002Colin James presents THE BLUES MASTERS@ youtube (full album)

- I've Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters
- Blues Don't Like Nobody - Otis Spann

- How Long Has That Train Been Gone - Mable Hillery   @ youtube
- Cornbread And Peas - Sonny Terry/Brownie McGhee
- Hooray, These Women Is Killin' Me - Sonny Terry
- Born And Livin' With The Blues - Brownie McGhee
- Tin Pan Alley Blues - Sunnyland Slim
- T'aint Nobody's Business If I Do - Otis Spann
- Crazy For My Baby - Willie Dixon/Sunnyland Slim/Colin James
- Bassology - Willie Dixon
- You Can't Lose What You Never Had - Muddy Waters
- Bye Bye Baby, Goodbye - Muddy Waters


A re-edited version of a "Festival" series programme originally recorded by CBC in a Toronto studio over three days in 1966

DVD

Sanctuary Visual Entertainment SDE 2022 (US 2002)

95/2018Hotter Than a Bulldog Spitting In a Polecat's Eye
Mable Hillery + Johnny Shines Live 1975


- introduction by Robert "Rocky" Ford
- Bring It On Home
- Young Woman's Blues
- Four Day Creep
- You've Got To Love Him With A Feeling

- Bumble Bee Blues
- Come Back Baby
- Backwater Blues
- announcements

rec. April 11, 1975 live at the 1975 Miami Blues Festival; Mable Hillery, voc; Johnny Shines, g
cover art by Rachel Meirs

edition of 250 handnumbered LPs

Americana Music Productions 001 5/2018)

Johnny Shines discography



Additional information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver 2006, pp. 211, 246
- Mable Hillery Obituary.- Living Blues 28 (July/August 1976) p. 6
- http://www.culturalequity.org/alanlomax/ce_alanlomax_profile_mable_hillery.php
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Alan Balfour, Lyle Lofgren and Parker Fishel for additional info / scans

 


Mable Hillery January 01, 1960 with John Bassette and Len Chandler
source: Michael Ochs Archives at www.gettyimages.de

 


Delegates of the October 1965 week-end conference on grass-roots southern Negro culture
at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee
(left to right) Back row: Mrs. Bernice Reagon, Dr. Willis James, Guy Carawan and Benet Lucien
Foreground: Sam Block, Willie Peacock, Willie McGee (of Mississippi), Mrs. Mable Hillery (of Georgia Sea Island Singers), and Alan Lomax
source: Sing Out! Vol. 15, No. 6 (January 1966), p. 61
photographer: Anne Braden ("courtesy The Southern Patriot")

 

Mable Hillery bio

 

 

 

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