Scott Dunbar

A fishing guidebook by profession along with a lifelong citizen of Lake Mary, close to Natchez, in Wilkenson Region, MS, Scott Dunbar was a part-time musician given birth to the son of the former slave in 1904. Though by all accounts he previously never traveled a lot more than 100 kilometers from your home, Dunbar was well-known in his part of the condition. Unlike many blues performers of his period, however, Dunbar performed mainly for white viewers around Lake Mary, not really the standard seafood fries, picnic dances, lease celebrations, and juke bones where almost every other bluesmen plied their trade. Dunbar was self-taught, actually built his 1st device (a guitar-like creation he performed just like a fiddle) from bits of cable along with a cigar package at age group eight. His dad bought him an effective guitar 2 yrs later. Fiddle participant Aged Lee Baker employed him for his 1st professional work, and from Baker along with other old musicians, Dunbar obtained a large part of his repertoire. The others he got from information or composed himself. Though illiterate and for that reason unable to examine chord diagrams, or simply due to it, Dunbar’s music continued to be raw and fundamental, though never amateur. Affects of Mississippi Fred McDowell, Miss James, and also Charley Patton could be noticed in Dunbar’s sound. Though a musician for over 50 years, he documented only 1 album’s worthy of of materials, From Lake Mary for Ahura Mazda in 1972, taped before a small viewers. The recording was re-released by indie Extra fat Possum in 2000. Scott Dunbar passed away in 1994.