You Don't Know My Mind - Mississippi Joe Callicott
"Mississippi" Joe Callicott (October 10, 1899 – 1969was a United States Delta blues singer and guitarist. Callicott was born in Nesbit, Mississippi, United States. His "Love Me Baby Blues" has been covered by various artists, e.g. (under the title of "France Chance") by Ry Cooder. Arhoolie Records recorded Callicott commercially in the mid-1960s. Some of his 1967 recordings (recorded by the music historian, George Mitchell) were re-released in 2003, on the Fat Possum record label. His best known recordings are "Great Long Ways From Home" and "Hoist Your Window and Let Your Curtain Down". Callicott also recorded, as noted by one music journalist, "his lilting "Fare Thee Well Blues."" He served as a mentor to the guitarist Kenny Brown when Brown was ten years old. Joe Callicott is buried in the Mount Olive Baptist Church Cemetery in Nesbit. On April 29, 1995, a memorial headstone was placed on his grave arranged ...