Rosa Lee Hill (September 25, 1910 β October 22, 1968) was an American blues… Read Full Bio ↴Rosa Lee Hill (September 25, 1910 β October 22, 1968) was an American blues musician.
Rosalie Hill was born in Como, Mississippi, United States. Her album, Rosa Lee Hill and Friends, was part of Fat Possumβs campaign to reissue the recordings made by George Mitchell. It included Hillβs niece, Jessie Mae Hemphill, as well as Jim Bunkley, Catherine Porter, Will Shade, Essie Mae Brooks, Precious Bryant, and Lottie Kate.
Hill played music that was in the tradition of north Mississippi, singing acoustic blues that made use of subtly varied repetition. The daughter of Sid Hemphill, her song βBullyinβ Wellβ, which was recorded by Alan Lomax, has been included on a number of releases over the years.
Hill died in October 1968, aged 58, in Senatobia, Mississippi.
Rosalie Hill was a daughter of the Mississippi Hill Countryβs composer, multi-instrumentalist, band leader, and musical patriarch Sid Hemphill. Sid taught Rosalie to play the guitar when she was six; by the time she was ten she was playing dances with him. The only two songs she recorded, for Alan Lomax, were marked by a desolate, keening intensity, although by all accounts she was a jolly woman. Her father died in 1961, after which, as blues researcher George Mitchell noted, most of the very musical Hemphills βjust didnβt feel like playing no more.β Rosie hung up her guitar for a time, but by the time Mitchell visited in 1967 she was playing again, and recorded for him a barely less spry version of βRolled and Tumbled.β She died a year later. (Hillβs first name often appears βRosa Lee,β but she signed her contract with Lomax βRosalie.β)
Rosalie Hill was born in Como, Mississippi, United States. Her album, Rosa Lee Hill and Friends, was part of Fat Possumβs campaign to reissue the recordings made by George Mitchell. It included Hillβs niece, Jessie Mae Hemphill, as well as Jim Bunkley, Catherine Porter, Will Shade, Essie Mae Brooks, Precious Bryant, and Lottie Kate.
Hill played music that was in the tradition of north Mississippi, singing acoustic blues that made use of subtly varied repetition. The daughter of Sid Hemphill, her song βBullyinβ Wellβ, which was recorded by Alan Lomax, has been included on a number of releases over the years.
Hill died in October 1968, aged 58, in Senatobia, Mississippi.
Rosalie Hill was a daughter of the Mississippi Hill Countryβs composer, multi-instrumentalist, band leader, and musical patriarch Sid Hemphill. Sid taught Rosalie to play the guitar when she was six; by the time she was ten she was playing dances with him. The only two songs she recorded, for Alan Lomax, were marked by a desolate, keening intensity, although by all accounts she was a jolly woman. Her father died in 1961, after which, as blues researcher George Mitchell noted, most of the very musical Hemphills βjust didnβt feel like playing no more.β Rosie hung up her guitar for a time, but by the time Mitchell visited in 1967 she was playing again, and recorded for him a barely less spry version of βRolled and Tumbled.β She died a year later. (Hillβs first name often appears βRosa Lee,β but she signed her contract with Lomax βRosalie.β)
Rolled and Tumbled
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Rosa Lee Hill I rolled and I tumbled and I cried the whole…
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@syourke3
So grateful that Alan Lomax went down south and recorded these people. Or we would have lost something very special.
@hilmarwensorra1215
In VERY loving memory of Mrs. Rosa Lee Hill (1910 - 1968 R.I.P. Gone but NOT forgotten).
@vincentbuccieri9305
Thank You for Preserving these Artists Performances for Music History
@MikeyLovesLife
Wow! So thankful for this.
@spoonful1018
This might be the best version I've heard - so haunting
@krystingrant6292
Her father should be proud π’β€
@abluerambler
Other gem.
Thank you forever Mr Alan Lomax. πΉ
@TheBluesmanBlue
That's Per Mississippi Hill Country blues at its best
@primitiveonpurpose
Sweetly sad happy.
@robertedwards2624
Does not get any more genuine than this !!!
I could listen to this all day.