Othar Turner's 1998 Concert & Tour History

Othar Turner's 1998 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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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

Setlists

Riverfront Park

Nashville, Tennessee, United States