---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wardell Herring <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:49 PM Subject: More Winona Area Musicians To: WINONA <[email protected]> In addition to the Clayton Tyler album, I have a copy of another old album titled "Mississippi String Bands" Vol. 1. I have a cd copy that was made from the original disc in the late 1990's. This is the one my Dad (Pete Herring), Lonnie Ellis and John Holloway are on along with other performers. I am familiar with the family of Lonnie Ellis but not that of John Holloway. I would like to be able to contact his descendants if any are still around Mississippi. Their group was called the "Mississippi Possum Hunters." Songs performed by them on the cd are: "Mississippi Breakdown" (1930), "Possum on a Rail" (1930), "Rufus Rastus" (1930), "The Last Shot Got Him" (1930). Dad played at Saturday night dances around the Pine Bluff and Poplar Creek area. The dances moved to different homes and I am quiet sure were very exciting. On the fold out is a photo of my Dad (guitar) and Homer Grice (Fiddle). The Mississippi Possum Hunters traveled to the old Victor Recording Studio in Memphis to be recorded. There are no words to the music but it is a lively style very suitable to "Buck Dancing". If you are not familiar with Buck Dancing, you can view some examples on U-Tube. I listen to the cd and buck dance to it today. In private of course. This cd can be found on several web sites such as Amazon ($15.00). There are other musicians on the cd also. Speaking of the Department of Archives and History. They published a book Titled "All Shook Up- Mississippi Roots of American Popular Music", copyrighted 1995. The cover features a photo of Elvis and BB King. Between the covers the long list of Mississippi musicians fill page after pate. The part that is so special to me is Page 27, where the Mississippi Possum Hunters are listed. If you enjoy music, you will enjoy this publication and it may even be in your local library. I am sure they may be long gone by now but at one time there were many country churches around the area with my Dad's name in them as he tuned most of the pianos. The tuner always wrote their names in them tand the dates to show when the piano was last tuned. Ge also rebuilt pump organs and player pianos. A very talented musician with perfect pitch and could play any musical instrument immediately. When you see the names in this book, you will be wowed at the contribution of Mississippi artists to 'American music. Wardell--------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to WINONAtalk, send an email to <[email protected]> To unsubscribe from WINONAtalk, send an email to <[email protected]> -- Donna Kay Cross Griffin