Othar Turner Concert History

Veteran bluesman Othar Turner was the last surviving master of the Mississippi back-country fife-and-drum tradition. He was born in 1908, spending his adult life as a sharecropper in the city of Como, an area several miles northeast of the Delta region which also gave rise to musicians including Fred McDowell, R.L. Burnside, and Junior Kimbrough. Beginning his performing career around 1923, Turner initially played the blues as well before picking up the thread of the fife-and-drum tradition...

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Sep 24, 2000
Muddy Waters Tribute Concert
Bonnie Raitt / Jimmie Vaughan / Double Trouble - Tommy Shannon & Chris Layton / Charlie Musselwhite / Roy Rogers / Paul Rogers / Chris Whitley / Deborah Coleman / Levon Helm / James Cotton / Willie "Big Eyes" Smith / Hubert Sumlin / Calvin "Fuzz" Jones / Johnnie Johnson / Robert Lockwood Jr. / Othar Turner Show all bands
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Severance Hall, Case Western Reserve College Cleveland, Ohio, United States
May 01, 1998 –
May 03, 1998
Nashville River Stages 1998
Foo Fighters / Steve Earle / Bonnie Raitt / Ziggy Marley / Ben Folds Five / Indigo Girls / Cracker / Widespread Panic / Keb' Mo' / Fastball / Shawn Colvin / Paula Cole / Medeski, Martin & Wood / Delbert McClinton / Fairfield Four / Buddy and Julie Miller / jason and the scorchers / Bobby Bare Jr. / Steve Earle and The Del McCoury Band / Matraca Berg / Link Wray / Othar Turner / Paul Burch and the WPA Ballclub / Evinrudes Show all bands
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Riverfront Park Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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Muddy Waters Tribute Concert
Sep 24, 2000
 Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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Muddy Waters Tribute Concert
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 Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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