George MItchell

George Mitchell is an American record producer and music historian. Born in Coral Gables, Florida, United States, and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, from the 1960s until the 1980s, he recorded blues musicians such as Jessie Mae Hemphill, Fred McDowell, Johnny Woods, George Henry Bussey and Jim Bunkley, Charlie Burse and Will Shade, Gus Cannon, Mississippi Joe Callicott, John Lee Ziegler, Jimmy Lee Williams, Furry Lewis, Houston Stackhouse, R. L. Burnside and Sleepy John Estes, later to be issued on Arhoolie Records, Revival Records and Rounder Records as 33 rpm albums, and then on Arhoolie and Fat Possum Records as CDs. George Mitchell also plays the blues himself on an oil-can bass. He is the author of the following books. Blow My Blues Away I'm Somebody Important: Young Black Voices from Rural Georgia Yessir, I've Been Here a Long Time: The Faces and Words of Americans Who Have Lived a Century In Celebration of a Legacy Southern Portraits Ponce de Leon: An Intimate Portrait of Atlanta's Most Famous Avenue Sweet Auburn [with my photography students at Grady High School] Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967 Ronda: An Intimate Portrait of a Southern Street Prostitute From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)