RARE ROCKABILLY BLUES Cile Turner - Cile Sings LP Colonial VG to VG+
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Description
For years, the name ’Cile Turner has been a curious mystery to rock ’n’ roll record collectors around the globe.
In the past three decades, her 1959 recording of “Crap Shootin’ Sinner” has been reissued on several notable compilations of early rockabilly and rhythm-and-blues records (one of them colorfully titled T-Bird Party: A Swangin’ Slew O’ Greasy R&B), leading some on the internet to speculate that she was an obscure African American singer of “gritty blues” who lived hard and died young. Collectors as far away as Europe, South America, and Japan regularly snap up used copies of her records when they are offered for sale through online outlets like eBay, occasionally at prices reaching into the triple digits. Many of them may not know much about the woman behind the records, but they recognize the quality and uniqueness of her music. One reviewer recently wrote: “I love listening to it and have never heard anything quite like it.”
In a career that spanned the 1920s to the 1970s, Turner established herself as a versatile performer: she was a historian, storyteller, and consummate musician. She composed, sang, and played the piano, guitar, drums, pots and pans, and anything else she might find useful—and she did it all with exceptional skill. Throughout her life, she was particularly drawn to the folk music of African Americans and for a time became nationally known as one of the music’s foremost experts and performers. She appeared on records, radio, and television. She was invited to perform at the White House. As a white “Virginia lady” championing the music of African Americans in the still-segregated South, Turner challenged conventional assumptions about women’s roles in society in the early twentieth century. As a young woman, she frequently found herself at odds with her parents, who disapproved of her performing career, insisting that a woman’s place was in the home. Still, Turner’s passion for the music and love of performing drove her to continue her efforts.
Description taken from Lynch's Ferry.
