RACHELL, JAMES (YANK
). Bluesman ( near Brownsville, Tennessee). Although he taught himself to play guitar as a child, he later changed to the mandolin. During the late 1920s he teamed with
(Sleepy
) John Estes
, and in 1929 the two bluesmen made a recording with Jab Jones. During the next decade Rachell recorded with Dan Smith, and after Smith's death in 1934, with
Sonny Boy Williamson, No. 1
(John Lee Williamson)
. In 1938 he left music for five or...
RACHELL, JAMES
(*1910)> BLUESMAN