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Jessie Mae Hemphill & Friends: Dare You To Do It Again
National release date March 23, 2004 My sisters and my brothers, we all gathered here today to record a CD, a high-tech field recording. All day long and, the night before, musicians have started gathering and waiting for the arrival of "Miss Jessie", Jessie Mae Hemphill, Queen of the Guitar Boogie. More than a recording session, this evening will prove to be a summit, reunion and document; a...juke-joint throw down presided over by sister Jessie Mae. So the microphones are set up, the wires run, and we're sitting on ready. What you will hear on this CD is exactly what will go down tonight in the old potato barn under a cool, clear spring night in the country outside of Como. God bless Mississippi and pass the antiseptic. -Jimbo Mathus, Clarksdale, 2003
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Jessie Mae Hemphill & Friends: Dare You To Do It Again
National release date February 24, 2004 Jessie Mae Hemphill is back. First we got arguably the best compilation yet of her classic 1970s and '80s work on the recent High Water/Inside Sounds release Get Right Blues. Now we catch up with the legendary blues woman today on the delightful double disc Dare You to Do It Again, a hootenanny of a session that pairs Hemphill with a number of guests from ex-Squirrel Nut Zippers frontman Jimbo Mathus (these days a Clarksdale, Miss., resident) to Sharde Thomas with the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band. Recorded live last year at Sherman Cooper's farm in Como, Miss., the album - to be released Tuesday - doesn't document so much as revel in every spontaneous note (you can even hear a phone ring at one point). A companion DVD will be available in March. Still singing if not playing (a 1993 stroke all but put an end to that), Hemphill does a sincere, at times touching, job of leading the musicians through many a traditional gospel number, including "Old Time Religion," "When the Saints Go Marching In" and "I Shall Not Be Moved." The highlight, all 12 minutes of it, comes in what sounds like a duet between Memphis boo gie great Robert Belfour and Hemphill (liner notes don't identify players on each song) for the album's solid rock of a rocker, "God Is Good to Me." -Bill Ellis, Commercial Appeal, Memphis 2004
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