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Jim O'Neal

About

Jim O'Neal cofounded Living Blues, America’s first blues magazine, in 1970, and continues to serve as a founding editor. As research director of the Mississippi Blues Trail, he also writes text for the historical markers. He has owned several record labels and operates a mail-order business specializing in rare 78s, 45s, LPs, and magazines at www.bluesoterica.com.

Articles

Issue 123, Winter 2023

Ballads by Request

Sid Hemphill “was a ballad maker as protean as Woody Guthrie,” Alan Lomax wrote in his 1993 book The Land Where the Blues Began.

By Jim O'Neal