George Mitchell (music historian)
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George Mitchell is an American music historian, writer, record producer, and photographer.
Born in Coral Gables, Florida in 1944 and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, from the 1960s until the 1980s he has recorded blues musicians such as Jessie Mae Hemphill, Fred McDowell and Johnny Woods, George Henry Bussey and Jim Bunkley, Charlie Burse and Will Shade, Gus Cannon, Mississippi Joe Callicott, Furry Lewis, Houston Stackhouse, R. L. Burnside and Sleepy John Estes, later to be issued on Arhoolie (late 1960s), Revival (1971) and Rounder Records (from c. 1975) as 33 rpm albums, on Arhoolie (2000) and Fat Possum Records (2003 ff.) as CDs.