75 Years of Hollering “Goat” in Tate County, Mississippi: Blues and Fife and Drum

For 75 years, there has been a Labor Day picnic in Tate County, Mississippi, featuring barbecued goat and fife and drum music. The tradition was started by the late Otha Turner, an area farmer and …

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The Field Is Empty, The Drums Silent

A friend of mine in Senatobia had heard that there might be fife and drum going on at a party on the Compress Road between Como in Panola County, Mississippi and Gravel Springs in Tate County, and …

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