Precious Bryant has passed. My thoughts are with her family and friends.

George Mitchell: My friend Precious Bryant, the great blues singer and guitarist from Waverly Hall, Georgia, who I had the pleasure of first recording in the 1960's, died today, I am very sad to say. I have so many fond memories of her. To tell all of them would take a book. But she was a courageous country woman who continued to compose her own songs in the lower Chattahoochee Valley tradition, and they were fantastic! My friend Amos Harvey produced two superb albums by her issued by Terminus Records. Here she is at the National Downhome Blues Festival: