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 LYNCH’S FERRY
BY BRYAN S. WRIGHT
For years, the name ’Cile Turner has
been a curious mystery to rock ’n’ roll
record collectors around the globe.
In the past three decades, her 1959 recording of “Crap Shootin’ Sinner” has been reissued on several notable compilations of early rockabilly and rhythm-and-blues records (one of them colorfully titled T-Bird Party: A Swangin’ Slew O’ Greasy R&B), leading some on the internet to speculate that she was an obscure African American singer of “gritty blues” who lived hard and died young. Collectors as far away as Europe, South America, and Japan regularly snap up used copies
of her records when they are offered for sale through online outlets like eBay, occasionally at prices reaching into the triple digits. Many of them may not know much about the woman behind the records, but they recognize the quality and uniqueness of her music. One reviewer recently wrote: “I love listening to it and have never heard anything quite like it.”