acoustic album. In 1993 Hemphill had a stroke, which paralyzed her left side, preventing her from playing guitar; she retired from her blues career. She continued to play by accompanying her band on the tambourine. In 2004, the Jessie Mae Hemphill Foundation released Dare You to Do It Again, a double album and DVD of gospel standards, newly recorded by the ailing vocalist, singing and playing tambourine with accompaniment from Steve Gardner, DJ Logic, and descendants of the late musicians Junior Kimbrough, R. L. Burnside, and Otha Turner. They were her first recordings since her stroke in 1993. Also in 2004, Inside Sounds released Get Right Blues, containing material recorded from 1979 through the early 1980s, and Black & Blue released Mississippi Blues Festival, which includes seven live tracks by her from a Paris concert in 1986. Hemphill died on July 22, 2006, at the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, after complications from an ulcer. Influence As one of the earliest successful female blues musicians, Hemphill was an influential and pioneering artist. Her songs have been performed by indie musician Chan Marshall. Marshall performed Hemphill's song "Lord, Help the Poor and Needy" on her album Jukebox without credit, to much controversy. In 2003, Hemphill's protégé and collaborator, Olga Wilhelmine Munding, established the Jessie Mae Hemphill Foundation to preserve and archive the African-American music of northern Mississippi and to provide assistance for regional musicians in need who could not survive on meager publishing royalties. One of Hemphill's songs was featured in the dance Tales from the Creek, by Reggie Wilson's Fist and Heel Performance Group, in a series of events celebrating black culture in Union Square Park, Manhattan in 1998. Discography She-Wolf (1981; reissued 1998) Swamp Surfing in Memphis, various artists (1986; reissued 1998) Mississippi Blues Festival, various artists (1986; reissued 2004) Giants of Country Blues Guitar (1967–1981), various artists (1988) Feelin' Good (1987; reissued 1997 with extra tracks) The Fabulous Low-Price HMG Blues Sampler, various artists (1997) Deep South Blues, various artists (1999) Heritage of the Blues: Shake It Baby (2003) Dare You to Do It Again (2004) Get Right Blues (2004) Mississippi Blues Festival, with tracks by Hezekiah & the House Rockers (2004) On Air: Live Music from the WEVL Archives, various artists (1996) Foot Hill Stomp, with Richard Johnston (2002) Films Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads (1991), directed by Robert Mugge References Bibliography LaBalle, Candace