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Othar Turner

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Also known as Otha Turner

American fife player (1907–2003)

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
United States
Active from
1907
Active to
2003

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3,397
Total plays
12,778

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bluesfolkFife and Drumamericanadelta blues

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 <a h

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Official website
www.othaturner.com
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date of birth
1907-06-02
date of death
2003-02-27
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1907 births2003 deaths20th-century African-American musicians20th-century American flautists21st-century African-American peopleAmerican male flautistsBirdman Records artistsBlues musicians from MississippiFarmers from MississippiFife playersMississippi Blues TrailNational Heritage Fellowship winnersPeople from Canton, Mississippi