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Othar "Otha" Turner (June 2, 1907 – February 27, 2003)[1] was one of the last well-known fife players in the vanishing American fife and drum blues tradition.[2] His music was also part of the African-American genre known as Hill country blues.

  1. ^ "Otha Turner (1907 - 2003) Musician". Mississippi Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
  2. ^ Pearson, Barry Lee (2005). Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers (1st ed.). Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. p. 208. ISBN 1-57233-431-2.

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Tone-Cool Records. It features contributions from Cedric and Garry Burnside, Othar Turner, Jim Dickinson, Jimmy Crosthwait, Richard "Hombre" Price, Alvin Youngblood...

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Fife and drum blues

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Mississippi Blues Trail

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American television personality, host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Othar Turner, 95, American fife player. Albert Batteux, 83, French football player...

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albums and EPs: Ragged Backyard Classics (In The Red, 1996) R.L. Boyce Othar Turner Fife & Drum Spam LP/CD (Fat Possum/Epitaph, 1997) Sinful Tunes & Spirituals...

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Jessie Mae Hemphill

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performed in another drum group with Young and fife-and-drum band veteran Othar Turner for the television program Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. The French label...

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Epstein (47), bassist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers February 26 – Othar Turner (95), fife player March 3 Hank Ballard (75), R&B singer (throat cancer)...

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National Heritage Fellowship

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