#blues singers

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Mississippi John Hurt

Linocut (2024)

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Y'all, don't judge me but I only just found out that Buddy Guy is Shawnna's daddy and I have to sit with that.

Of course Pearline got ate twice!!!

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R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country

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FIRST LADIES OF BLUES & JAZZ MUSIC -- MOSTLY SINGERS & SONGWRITERS INSTEAD OF MUSOS.

NOTE: ^These ladies had to have been around musical instruments for their entire careers, so, why neither of them ever decided to give one a go is beyond me. They're all singers exclusively, every one.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the various ladies of blues & jazz music, from oldest to youngest, and all illustrated by William Stout for his extensive (and definitive) "Legends of the Blues" portraits series.

Gertrude "MA" RAINEY (born Pridgett; April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939)

LUCILLE BOGAN (born Lucile Anderson; April 1, 1897 – August 10, 1948)

ETHEL WATERS (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977), 2x

VICTORIA Regina SPIVEY (October 15, 1906 – October 3, 1976)

Mabel Louise Smith (May 1, 1924 – January 23, 1972), known professionally as "BIG MAYBELLE"

Sources: www.motherjones.com/media/2016/04/cartoon-portraits-of-blues-legends, Buds Art Books, Pinterest, various, etc...

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Bessie Smith (top) and her niece, Ruby Smith (rear, right) pose in 1924 with the trio the Dancing Sheiks.

Anthony Barboza / Getty Images

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Lecture 2: The mysterious Luella Miller: Few blues musicians are as shrouded in mystery or obscurity as the criminally underrated Luella Miller. We don’t know her birth date, her death date, or anything about her life. We know she recorded music between 1926 and 1928. We know she recorded with guitarist and violinist Lonnie Johnson.

As one account of Miller notes:

Some say she was born in Texas, others believe she came up in St. Louis or thereabouts. Discovered by a Vocalion talent scout, she made her first records in St. Louis on July 7, 1926. Her next recording date occurred in New York City on January 28, 1927. Between April 26, 1927, and August 1, 1928, she sang on five more recording sessions, all of which took place in Chicago, where her career briefly peaked. Her name appeared in advertisements published in the Chicago Defender, North America’s most influential Afro-American weekly, on nine occasions between November 1926 and November 1928.

After that, as one of my favourite True Crime Podcasts says, “the trail went cold.” What we have left is her music, like this tune, “Brick House Blues” (1928). Enjoy!

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Happy 100th birthday to Crazy Blues, the first commercial blues recording

Today marks a significant watershed moment in the history of American popular music. On Aug. 10,1920, a group of African-American musicians entered a New Y...

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