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{{short description|American musician}}
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▲| birth_place = [[Orange County, North Carolina]], United States
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▲| death_place = [[Alamance County, North Carolina]], U.S.
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| years_active = Mid 1920s–2012
▲| occupation = Fiddle player, singer, songwriter
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▲* Green Village
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== Biography ==
Thompson was born in [[Orange County, North Carolina]] on December 9, 1918.<ref name="bare">{{cite book| first1= Bob| last1= Eagle| first2= Eric S.| last2= LeBlanc| year= 2013| title= Blues – A Regional Experience| publisher= Praeger Publishers| location= Santa Barbara| pages=281 | isbn= 978-0313344237}}</ref> His father
After serving in a segregated unit during the [[Second World War]] and as the popularity for traditional string band music waned, Thompson stopped playing the fiddle to work in a furniture factory as a rip saw operator for 28 years.<ref name=times>{{cite
In 1989, they recorded the studio [[album]] ''Old-Time Music from the North Carolina Piedmont'' for the Global Village [[record label]]. The duo was awarded the [[North Carolina Folk Heritage Award]] in 1991 for preserving black folk music traditions. When Odell died in a car accident in 1994, Thompson pondered quitting music altogether
[[File:Joe_Thompson's_Grave.jpg|thumb|right|Gravestone of Joe Thompson in White Level Cemetery. [[Mebane, North Carolina|Mebane]]]]Thompson was married twice and had one son and six step-children. He died in a nursing home in [[Alamance County, North Carolina]] from pneumonia; Thompson was 93 years
==Filmography==
* ''The Life and Times of Joe Thompson'' (2004). Thompson was the subject of a 27-minute documentary film produced and directed by Iris Thompson Chapman.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.folkstreams.net/films/life-and-times-of-joe-thompson |title=The Life and Times of Joe Thompson |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=Folkstreams |access-date=November 25, 2021}}</ref>
== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}
==External links==
*{{AllMusic|artist/joe-thompson-mn0000174632}}
*{{discogs artist||Joe Thompson}}
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[[Category:American fiddlers]]
[[Category:People from Orange County, North Carolina]]
[[Category:Musicians from North Carolina]]
[[Category:Deaths from pneumonia in North Carolina]]
[[Category:African-American musicians]]
[[Category:United States Army personnel of World War II]]
[[Category:National Heritage Fellowship winners]]
[[Category:Rounder Records artists]]
[[Category:20th-century African-American people]]
[[Category:21st-century African-American people]]
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