{"id":1248,"date":"2023-09-03T16:04:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T21:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graveshouse.org\/?page_id=1248"},"modified":"2024-03-31T07:18:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T12:18:36","slug":"the-music-of-luke-peeples","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.graveshouse.org\/?page_id=1248","title":{"rendered":"The Music of Luke Peeples"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The finding and editing of the music of Luke Peeples, my father&#8217;s first cousin, has consumed many hours of my time over the last 20 years. Luke&#8217;s nieces, Jeanne Saussy Wright and Estella Saussy Nussbaum, and I spent many years trying to find all of Luke&#8217;s music. Sadly, we don&#8217;t think we succeeded. It is a great pity that many, if not most, of Luke&#8217;s efforts have been lost.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1250\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.graveshouse.org\/graveshouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Luke-New-Front-cover-vol-one-9.3.2023.jpg?resize=474%2C614\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.graveshouse.org\/graveshouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Luke-New-Front-cover-vol-one-9.3.2023.jpg?resize=791%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 791w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.graveshouse.org\/graveshouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Luke-New-Front-cover-vol-one-9.3.2023.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.graveshouse.org\/graveshouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Luke-New-Front-cover-vol-one-9.3.2023.jpg?resize=116%2C150&amp;ssl=1 116w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.graveshouse.org\/graveshouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Luke-New-Front-cover-vol-one-9.3.2023.jpg?resize=768%2C994&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.graveshouse.org\/graveshouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Luke-New-Front-cover-vol-one-9.3.2023.jpg?resize=1187%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1187w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.graveshouse.org\/graveshouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Luke-New-Front-cover-vol-one-9.3.2023.jpg?w=1224&amp;ssl=1 1224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.graveshouse.org\/graveshouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Luke-New-Front-cover-vol-one-9.3.2023.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><\/figcaption>\r\nLuke spent much of his life listening to and recording as many of the Gullah Spirituals as he could. He probably found and arranged hundreds of these precious songs. The history of Luke&#8217;s life as a creative artist is a monumental cautionary tale. For whatever reason, he was not able to assure that his works would be saved. And, as he slid more and more into Alzheimer&#8217;s, he was less and less able to maintain his works.<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>For more information about Luke and his music please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astarfell.com\/luke-peeples-music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Luke Peeples\u2019 Music | astarfell.com<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.graveshouse.org\/?p=809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Old Gullah woman profoundly influenced South Carolina poet and composer, Luke Peeples | The Graves House<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Luke\u2019s music,<em><strong>\u00a0The Collected Works of Luke Peeples<\/strong><\/em>, is available in two volumes. The\u00a0biographical\u00a0book,\u00a0<em><strong>A Gullah Psalm, The Life and Works of Luke Peeples,<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Estella Saussy Nussbaum &amp; Jeanne Saussy Wright, is available from\u00a0<em>LP COLLECTIONS, LLC., 12 East Jones Street, Savannah, GA 31401.\u00a0 <\/em>Those books are also available at the Heyward House Welcome Center in Bluffton. More details about all three of these books are available on my website, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astarfell.com\/luke-peeples-music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">astarfell.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>Art work in this article and on Luke\u2019s\u00a0<em><strong>Collected Works\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is by my wife, R. S. Perry. Her works can be seen on her website, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cronesinger.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>cronesinger.com<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Digitized and printed copies of all of Luke Peeples&#8217; music have now been given to the <strong><em>Historic Bluffton Foundation<\/em><\/strong> and stored in the <strong><em>Caldwell Archives<\/em> <\/strong>there in Bluffton.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The finding and editing of the music of Luke Peeples, my father&#8217;s first cousin, has consumed many hours of my time over the last 20 years. Luke&#8217;s nieces, Jeanne Saussy Wright and Estella Saussy Nussbaum, and I spent many years trying to find all of Luke&#8217;s music. Sadly, we don&#8217;t think we succeeded. It is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.graveshouse.org\/?page_id=1248\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Music of Luke Peeples<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8R7Sy-k8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graveshouse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graveshouse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graveshouse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graveshouse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graveshouse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.graveshouse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/www.graveshouse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1248\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graveshouse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}