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Rachell, Yank

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Personal name headingRachell, Yank
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Variant(s)Rachell, James
Rachel, Yank
Rachel, James
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date19100316
Death date19970410
Place of birthBrownsville (Tenn.)
Place of deathIndianapolis (Ind.)
AffiliationDelmark Records
Three J's Jug Band Victor Records (Firm) Bluebird label (Firm) Blue Goose Records (Firm)
Profession or occupationMandolinists Blues musicians Singers
Found inHis Blues mandolin man [SR] 1986?: label (Yank Rachell; all selections by James "Yank" Rachell) container (vocals and mandolin)
Sleepy John Estes with Yank Rachel and Son Bonds [SR] 1989.
New York Times, Apr. 20, 1997 (d. Apr. 9, 1997 in Indianapolis; 87 years old)
Songs of love, courtship & marriage [SR] 1976: label (James Rachel) insert (James (Yank) Rachel, vocal, mandolin; b. 1908)
All music guide WWW site, Jan. 25, 2011 (Yank Rachell; b. James Rachell, Mar. 16, 1910, Brownsville, TN, d. Apr. 9, 1997, Indianapolis, IN; blues mandolinist)
African American National Biography, accessed March 14, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Rachell, James “Yank”; blues musician, singer, mandolinist; born 16 March 1910 in Brownsville, Tennessee, United States; performed at parties in the Brownsville area (1920s); met Sleepy John Estes, a blues guitarist and started long lasting collaboration; he, Estes and pianist Jab Jones were known as the "Three J's Jug Band" and were popular in the clubs on Memphis's Beale Street (1928); recorded Victor Records (1929), the Bluebird Label (1938), Blue Goose, and Delmark Records (1960s); performed at clubs in St. Louis (1950s); was a regular performer at the Slippery Noodle Club (1990s); recorded new material for his final album "Too Hot for the Devil" (mid-1990s); died 10 April 1997 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States)