Abner Jay

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I'm So Depressed 03:56 Tools
I’m So Depressed 03:56 Tools
Woke Up This Morning 03:10 Tools
Cocaine Blues 06:41 Tools
Vietnam 02:32 Tools
Cocaine 06:25 Tools
the reason young people use drugs 02:57 Tools
St. James Infirmiry Blues 06:13 Tools
ol man river 03:18 Tools
I Wanna Job 00:00 Tools
My Mule 02:06 Tools
Bring It When You Come 00:00 Tools
Cleo 02:41 Tools
I Am Georgia Bound 02:44 Tools
Don't Mess With My Baby 01:44 Tools
Swaunee 00:00 Tools
VD 00:00 Tools
I'm A Hard Working Man 00:00 Tools
Wee Wee 00:00 Tools
Royal Palm 00:00 Tools
My Testimony 00:00 Tools
I’m A Hard Working Man 00:00 Tools
Don't Mess With Me Baby 00:00 Tools
Depression 00:00 Tools
99 Years in Jail 00:00 Tools
My Middle Name is the Blues 00:00 Tools
the royal palm 00:00 Tools
the college crowd 00:00 Tools
scrop tobacco 00:00 Tools
bring it with you when you come 00:00 Tools
Don’t Mess With Me Baby 00:00 Tools
Cotton Fields 00:00 Tools
St. James Infirmary 00:00 Tools
I'm Georgia Bound 00:00 Tools
The Thresher 00:00 Tools
Starving To Death On My Government Claim 00:00 Tools
I Cried 00:00 Tools
My Baby's Coming Back to Me 00:00 Tools
Shenandoah 00:00 Tools
Sitting On Top of the World 00:00 Tools
College Crowd 00:00 Tools
The Backbone of America is a Mule and Cotton 00:00 Tools
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 00:00 Tools
Lord Randall 00:00 Tools
Love Wheel 00:00 Tools
Too Poor to Live, Too Poor to Die 00:00 Tools
The Love Wheel 00:00 Tools
Plum Nelly 00:00 Tools
Oh Susanna 00:00 Tools
My Old Kentucky Home 00:00 Tools
Shenandoa 00:00 Tools
Camp Town Races 00:00 Tools
Die Man River 00:00 Tools
Hard Working Man 00:00 Tools
Amazing Grace 00:00 Tools
Old Folks At Home 00:00 Tools
Blue Tail Fly 00:00 Tools
Old Black Joe 00:00 Tools
Old Rugged Cross 00:00 Tools
Deep river 00:00 Tools
Steal Away 00:00 Tools
Them Golden Slippers 00:00 Tools
How Great Thou Art 00:00 Tools
Lord Randal 00:00 Tools
dixie 00:00 Tools
buffalo gal 00:00 Tools
she'll be coming around the mountain 00:00 Tools
collard greens 00:00 Tools
man walked on the moon 00:00 Tools
Wabash Cannonball 00:00 Tools
I´m so Depressed 00:00 Tools
shornin 'n' bread 00:00 Tools
St. James in Fir Miry Blues 00:00 Tools
reason young people use drugs 00:00 Tools
Celo 00:00 Tools
St James Infirmary Blues 00:00 Tools
Bluetail Fly 00:00 Tools
hambone 00:00 Tools
Side One 00:00 Tools
Don´t Mess with My Baby 00:00 Tools
Rattle the Bones 00:00 Tools
Side Two 00:00 Tools
V.D. 00:00 Tools
Too Poor To Live, Too Poor Too Die 00:00 Tools
Depression (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Shortin 'n' Bread 00:00 Tools
Depression [EDIT] 00:00 Tools
01 - I'm So Depressed.new 00:00 Tools
Short'nin' Bread 00:00 Tools
04 - St James Infirmary Blues 00:00 Tools
The Reason Young People Use Dr 00:00 Tools
06 - Woke Up This Morning 00:00 Tools
07 - My Mule 00:00 Tools
Bluetale Fly 00:00 Tools
03 - Vietnam 00:00 Tools
08 - Ol Man River 00:00 Tools
10 - I Am Georgia Bound 00:00 Tools
Starving To Death On My Governemnt Claim 00:00 Tools
She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain When She Comes 00:00 Tools
11 - The Reason Young People Use Drugs 00:00 Tools
09 - Don't Mess With My Baby 00:00 Tools
I’m Georgia Bound 00:00 Tools
St. James Infirmary Blues. 00:00 Tools
Side A 00:00 Tools
My Middle Name Is Blues 00:00 Tools
Scrap Tobacco 00:00 Tools
02 - Cocaine.new 00:00 Tools
Bring It With You 00:00 Tools
I'm So Depressed.new 00:00 Tools
01 - I'm So Depressed 00:00 Tools
01 Depression 00:00 Tools
Old Man River 00:00 Tools
Ol' man river (edited) 00:00 Tools
Track-02 00:00 Tools
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Abner Wingate Jay (July 15, 1921 – November 4, 1993) was an American multi-instrumentalist from Georgia, best known for performing eccentric, blues infused folk music as a one man band. Common instruments on Jay's recordings include harmonica, drum kit, a six-string banjo (that Jay claimed was made in 1748), and the “bones”, which were chicken and cow bones that had been bleached in the sun and used to create percussion. Jay was born in Fitzgerald, Georgia. His father and grandfather were both slaves in Washington County, Georgia. His grandfather was also a banjo player and imparted a vast repertoire of old-time and folk songs to Abner. Abner Jay began playing in medicine shows at the age of 5 and in 1932 joined the Silas Green from New Orleans Minstrel Show. Jay went on to lead the WMAZ Minstrels on Macon radio from 1946–56 before going solo. He spent many years traveling the American South and playing concerts from his “converted mobile home that opened up into a portable stage, complete with amplification and home furnishings”. These concerts, as evidenced in his recordings, were often equal parts spoken word (jokes, philosophical asides, rants) and music. Jay’s song repertoire included field songs, Pentecostal hymns and minstrel tunes. He once described himself as the “last working Southern black minstrel”, and in a self-penned leaflet handed out at concerts, he expanded on his biography with claims that he was the "World's Champion Cotton Picker and Pea Picker, World's Fastest Tobacco Crapper, World's Greatest Jaw Bone Player, World's Fastest Mule Skinner... THE WORLD'S WORSE BUSINESS MAN". He also performed original material that was mostly secular, and subjects ranged from politics, relationships, war, the bible, the 1969 moon landing, ethnomusicology, Southern culture and depression. In later years he held a residency, playing shows and selling his LPs and cassette tapes at Tom Flynn's Plantation Restaurant in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Anthony Braxton, renowned American composer and philosopher, called Jay an "American Master". His idiosyncratic lyrics and style have led some to consider his work outsider music. He died in 1993. For many years, Jay released his music and monologues through his own record label, Brandie Records (so-named for his daughter). In 2003 Subliminal Sounds from Sweden released a compilation of his work, which had been out of print since the 1970s, drawing from three of Jay’s best recordings. In 2009 Portland-based label Mississippi Records released another compilation of his work, this time on vinyl. These re-releases helped garner a degree of renewed interest in the artist, including Vice Magazine naming it album of the month (Vol. 10 #11). Recordings Jay made three months prior to his death are currently being prepared for release by Mississippi Records. Discography Albums Folk Song Stylist (Wing Gate Records, 1963) Terrible Comedy Blues (Poison Apple Records, 1968) True Story Of Dixie (Brandie Records, 1974) Swaunee Water And Cocaine Blues (Brandie Records, 1976) The Backbone Of America Is A Mule And Cotton (Brandie Records, 1976) Live From Stephen Foster Center Kitchen (Brandie Records, N.D.) Sings And Plays Stephen Fosters Favorites (Plantation Records, N.D.) EPs Last Ole Minstrel Man ( Mississippi Records, 2011) Hambone And Rattle The Bones (Brandie Records/Social Music Records, 2012) Singles "My Mule"/"Don't Mess With Me Baby" (Peacock Records, 1961) "Cleo"/"The Thresher" (London Records, 1963) "Depression"/"I'm So Depressed" (Mississippi Records, 2009) "I Trust In God" (Delden Records, N.D.) "I Wanna Job" (Wing Gate Records, N.D.) Compilation Albums One Man Band (compilation, Subliminal Sounds 2003) True Story Of Abner Jay (Mississippi Records, 2009) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.