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Pigmeat Jarrett

b. Adam Jarrett Jnr., 8 Dec 1899, Cordele, Georgia, USA, d. 5 Sept 1995. Barrelhouse blues pianist Pigmeat Jarrett transferred to Kentucky as a kid where his Geechee dad worked being a coalminer, his mom getting half-Geechee, half-Cherokee. Some years afterwards the family resolved in Cincinnati, the town with which …

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