Rising Star Fife & Drum Band

b. 2 June 1909, Jackson, Mississippi, USA, d. 27 Feb 2003, Gravel Springs, Mississippi, USA. A sharecropper the majority of his existence, from 1970 Turner were able to purchase some property of his personal. A player from the fife, and of the bass and snare drums that accompany the fife, Turner held in the practice of performing while employed in the areas, which times from slavery, and was unusual by enough time he was documented. His guitar-accompanied blues performing was produced from his field hollers, and was both overwhelmingly extreme and amazingly uninfluenced by industrial recordings. Turner’s child Bernice Turner Pratcher continuing the custom as a new player from the drum, but unfortunately died of malignancy only each day after her dad in Feb 2003.