George Mitchell (music historian), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

George Mitchell (music historian)

American music historian

Date of Birth: 09-Jan-1944

Place of Birth: Coral Gables, Florida, United States

Profession: composer, record producer, historian, musicologist, music historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

George Mitchell is an American record producer and music historian.Born in Coral Gables, Florida, January 9, 1944 and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, from the 1960s until the 1980s he recorded blues musicians such as Jessie Mae Hemphill, Fred McDowell and 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.
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Burnside and Sleepy John Estes, later to be issued on Arhoolie Records (late 1960s), Revival Records (1971) and Rounder Records (from c.
1975) as 33 rpm albums, on Arhoolie (2000) and Fat Possum Records (2003 ff.) as CDs.
George Mitchell also plays the blues himself on an oil-can bass. George Mitchell biography 2008 interview by Jeff Harris of WXPN radio