Bessie Jones (1902 - 1984), gospel singer from the Georgia Sea Islands. She learned her songs from her grandfather, a former slave born in Africa. She was a founding member of the Georgia Sea Island Singers. Alan Lomax first encountered Bessie Jones on a southern trip in 1959. Jones made her way up to New York City two years later and asked Lomax to record both her music and biography.

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  • Bessie Jones (1902 - 1984), gospel singer from the Georgia Sea Islands. She learned her songs from her grandfather, a former slave born in Africa. She was a founding member of the Georgia Sea Island Singers. Alan Lomax first encountered Bessie Jones on a southern trip in 1959. Jones made her way up to New York City two years later and asked Lomax to record both her music and biography. Jones told an interviewer in Alachua, Florida in the early 1980's, that she was born in Lacrosse, Florida, (Alachua County), when that area was a tung oil production area. Jones also said she hadn't been to a doctor since 1925 and that she wore many copper bracelets which protected her from disease.
  • Mary Elizabeth "Bessie" Jones oli yhdysvaltalainen Georgian Sea Islandsilta kotoisin ollut gospel-laulaja. Hän oli yksi Georgia Sea Island Singersin perustajajäsenistä. Musiikkitieteilijä Alan Lomax tapasi Jonesin tutkimusmatkallaan etelään 1950-luvun puolivälissä. Jones esiintyi Lomaxin dokumenteilla ja Sea Islandsilla tehdyillä äänitteillä. Vuonna 1972 julkaistiin Jonesin yhdessä folkloristi Bess Lomax Hawesin kanssa kirjoittama kirja Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage. Jones levytti kaksi sooloalbumia: So Glad I'm Here (1973) ja Step It Down (1975). Moby on käyttänyt levyillään sampleja Bessie Jonesin lauluista.
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  • Bessie Jones (1902 - 1984), gospel singer from the Georgia Sea Islands. She learned her songs from her grandfather, a former slave born in Africa. She was a founding member of the Georgia Sea Island Singers. Alan Lomax first encountered Bessie Jones on a southern trip in 1959. Jones made her way up to New York City two years later and asked Lomax to record both her music and biography.
  • Mary Elizabeth "Bessie" Jones oli yhdysvaltalainen Georgian Sea Islandsilta kotoisin ollut gospel-laulaja. Hän oli yksi Georgia Sea Island Singersin perustajajäsenistä. Musiikkitieteilijä Alan Lomax tapasi Jonesin tutkimusmatkallaan etelään 1950-luvun puolivälissä. Jones esiintyi Lomaxin dokumenteilla ja Sea Islandsilla tehdyillä äänitteillä.
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  • Bessie Jones
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