Influence
As one of the earliest successful female blues musicians, Hemphill has been an influential and pioneering artists. Her songs have been performed by indie musician Chan Marshall. Marshall used Hemphill's song "Lord, Help the Poor and Needy" on her album Jukebox without credit, to much controversy. In 2003, her protégé and collaborator, Olga Wilhelmine Munding founded the Jessie Mae Hemphill Foundation to preserve and archive the indigenous music of northern Mississippi and to provide assistance for musicians in need from the region who could not survive on meager publishing royalties. One of her songs was also featured in the dance performance Tales From the Creek, by Reggie Wilson's Fist and Heel Performance Group in a series of events celebrating black culture in Union Square Park in 1998.
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