Desc: Jessie Mae Hemphill & Friends: Directed by Tyler B. Austin, Olga Wilhelmine. With Jessie Mae Hemphill, R.L. Burnside, Steve Gardner, Junior Kimbrough. Jessie Mae Hemphill last recording - live at Sherman Cooper's farm, Como, Mississippi. A five-time W.C. Handy award-winner and the fourth generation of a venerable musical family, Jessie Mae Hemphill (1923-2006), from the North Mississippi Hill Country, sang songs wrenched from her own life experience, celebrating the transformative power of the blues for audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe.