Abner Jay has been played over 30 times on NTS, first on 25 January 2015. Abner Jay's music has been featured on 31 episodes.

Abner Wingate Jay (July 15, 1921 – November 4, 1993) was an American multi-instrumentalist from Georgia, best known for performing eccentric, blues infused folk music as a one man band. Common instruments on Jay's recordings include harmonica, drum kit, a six-string banjo (that Jay claimed was made in 1748), and the “bones”, which were chicken and cow bones that had been bleached in the sun and used to create percussion.

Jay was born in Fitzgerald, Georgia. His father and grandfather were both…