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Otha Turner & The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band
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!!! PICNIC TIME !!!
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Otha Turner and friend Abron Jackson clean three goats they've killed early in the morning before a picnic. The goat meat will be boiled in a large black kettle in Turner's back yard and then barbecued on a grill throughout the afternoon. During the coming night's picnic, the goat will be sold as $3.00 sandwiches along with pork, fish and cans of beer and soda. "People always want goat at a picnic, so I try to have it for them," says Turner. "Everybody always hollering goat."
Otha Turner shows his pride as grand daughter Sharde performs on his cane fife at a picnic and grandsons Rodney, Andre and Aubrey play the drums. Although other family members have sometimes performed on the fife at Turner family picnics, most believe that 8 year old Sharde is the one most likely to carry on her grandfather's legacy.
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sometimes spelled Othar Turner
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Otha Turner was born in 1907 to Hollis and Betty Turner, both sharecroppers, in Jackson County, Mississippi - the rest is the stuff of legends...
He has been featured on ABC's "Good Morning America" and NPR's "All Things Considered"; in The New York Times, The Oxford American, Blues Access, Living Blues; Billboard Magazine; and the French magazine "Vibrations."
His first CD release -- at the tender age of 90 -- "Everybody's Hollerin' Goat" on Birdman records was recently named one of the top five blues albums of the decade by Rolling Stone magazine.
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Biography:
Otha Turner was born in 1907 to Hollis and Betty Turner, both sharecroppers, in Jackson County, Mississippi.
Turner's father left town shortly after he was born, leaving his mother to raise him and his siblings alone. He grew up helping his mother in the fields, and was often put in charge of taking care of the rest of his family. His life of hard work began early, chopping cotton and plowing the fields as a young boy.
Turner demonstrated an unusual musical ability as a teenager. He started playing on the tin tub when he was 15 years old and began playing the drums at the age of 17. He also taught himself how to make and play a fife during these years.
Turner got his start as a performer by playing the fife and drums at local picnic celebrations. Money he raised playing at these gatherings enabled him to buy the farm where he still lives in the Gravel Springs Community outside Como, Mississippi (pop. 789) and where he and his wife Ada "Moochie" Turner raised four children.
At 94 years old, Turner was the oldest (and perhaps only) living African-American fife player in America. He was also the leader of the Rising Star Fife and Drum Corps, the only Mississippi fife and drum corps band left in America. Today, this small band consists of his daughter, Bernice, his grandsons, his granddaughter, and his nephew.
Until the day he died, he still farmed, raised horses, hogs, cattle, watermelon, black-eyed peas, corn, etc. He hosted an annual Labor Day picnic featuring barbecued goat, barbecued pork, blues, and most importantly, fife and drum music.
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His recently released first CD -- at the tender age of 90 -- "Everybody's Hollerin' Goat" on Birdman records was recently named one of the top five blues albums of the decade by Rolling Stone magazine.
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