The late Abner Jay at the Grassroots Festival 1993

[ArivacaCharlie]

My God, I used to sit for hours and listen to Abner play at the Tanque Verde Swap Meet in Tucson back in the early 80's! I loved him!

He had records for sale. I said, "Abner, if you play How Great Thou Art, I'll buy all three of your records.

He said, "Well listen here" and played one of the nicest versions of the song I ever heard.

I still have those records and I still listen to them with a tear in my eye and fondly remember this wonderful man!

[ViewTrend]

Awesome! An American Classic! RIP Maestro!

[joeysimms]

This is beautiful.

[jimbizzzale67123]

This is just nice to watch, thanks for posting.

[Gummo22]

AMAZING!

thank you for posting.

[bce5150]

abney jay bro!!

[igotasweetass]

a true folk genius. REAL folk music.

[boogalou77]

He's my cousin Im trying to get more ics of him once i get them ill upload them!!

[itwillbebrought]

i have his original records. they are more vaudeville/americana than blues but that is semantics. he is amazing. if anyone wants to buy his records, contact me.

[HoboHike]

there are two Abner Jay collections I know of - one is a CD called "One Man Band" put out by Anthology Recordings, and another is a recent LP called "The True Story of Abner Jay" released by Mississippi Records. The LP comes with a bunch of inserts including some photos.

[FuzzyCabesas]

WOW! Great footage. His voice was still pretty strong considering how old he must have been in 1993.

[sophiaalmaria]

he's so skinny here...does anyone know where i can find abner photos? or where he lived?

[jdsasser1978]

He's from Fitzgerald, GA. He still has family there.

[23wino1977]

OUTSTANDING...

GODDAMN THOSE LITTLE COLLEGE KIDS WHO KEEP our abner out of gasssssssss

Do you have "I'm so depressed?"

[sockmonkeydreamer]

"Those of you who know what's happenin' - meet me under the clothesline because that's where I hang out . . ." Thank you uploading this footage. That was great.