The Classic Female Blues music is a part of the blues that I love to high light for many reasons. According to Wikipedia; The classic female blues spanned from 1920 to 1929 with its peak from 1923 to 1925. The most popular of these singers were Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, Ethel Waters, Ida Cox, Victoria Spivey, Sippie Wallace, Alberta Hunter, Clara Smith, Edith Wilson, Trixie Smith, Lucille Hegamin and Bertha "Chippie" Hill. Hundreds of others recorded including Lizzie Miles, Sara Martin, Rosa Henderson, Martha Copeland, Bessie Jackson (Lucille Bogan), Edith Johnson, Katherine Baker, Margaret Johnson, Hattie Burleson, [...]
by Laura Cantrell Folks, if you know me, you've heard this rant before. There is one fact that bothers me to death - the dearth of female artists in the Country Music Hall of Fame. I worked at the Hall of Fame and Museum as a tour guide right before I went to college. It's the place where my interest in country music shifted from a casual familiarity with the sounds of my home town (Nashville born and bred I am) to a more meaningful consideration of the people, history, and evolving styles of country [...]
I've been trying to put together a post on blues postage stamps. You know, a little something something for the philatelists who read SML. Oh, and the bluesmen just call them stamp collectors. But my ability to collect pictures of the blues stamps is not so good. I know that there are many more stamps then the few I have posted here. Here is what I have come up with so far, I will update my collection when I find more photos of blues stamps. If you know of any [...]
My apologies to all our vegetarian friends. If it's any consolation, I didn't eat any of this pig, not because I don't like that sort of thing - more for health reasons. I'm under the care of Chinese doctor who's got me watching what I eat. But as soon as I feel better, its gonna be a free for all. In fact, I'm helpless around Bar-B-Q, and on my last trip to Memphis with my then girlfriend I ate so much pork, I actually made myself sick - maybe it has to do with being Jewish, but I don't [...]
burkhard bilger reports in this week's issue of the new yorker on the search for and recording of the artless singing of american folk song, or old time music, in the southeast. bilger follows art rosenbaum, a professor of art at the university of georgia and curator of art of field recording volume 1 , and lance ledbetter, founder of dust-to-digital records in atlanta, as they travel to various outposts and record folks singing songs learned in the oral tradition, handed down through generations of families & [...]
Art Tatum steps elegantly into 'A Foggy Day,' followed by the sour-sweet alto of Bennie Carter. From the album 'Tatum Group Masterpieces, Volume One,' a classic track. Carter is magisterial, imperious even, one of the great saxophonists in jazz, yet one perhaps overshadowed by Bird and Johnny Hodges on alto, perhaps because of his long time spent in the studios as an in-demand arranger. The evidence for his real standing speaks out in the theme statements and solos... Good overview of his astoundingly long career here... Tatum still causes critical splits, with some not [...]
Two things people never want to hear you talk about are what you dreamt last night and the size of an insect that you killed. Take for example the other day. I was telling my mom about this flying mutant roach creature I killed that was scaring the shit out of me in my mom's lobby. This was one of those huge water bug/cockroach things that can fly. If you don't live in a big metropolis you might not know what I'm talking about, but trust me, these suckers are freak-a-leeky. I was like, "Jeez Louise, that thing was huge." [...]
7 Means of Movement: Sailing Fairport Convention, A Sailor's Life (alternate take). Clifford Jenkins, The Sailor's Alphabet. World Party, Ship of Fools. As dark night drew on, the sea roughened: larger waves swayed strong against the vessel's side. It was strange to reflect that blackness and water were round us, and to feel the ship ploughing straight on her pathless way, despite noise,
I am intensely, unfixably sensitive. I have an easily bruised heart.
NASTY DAN Johnny Cash The Johnny Cash Children's Album Columbia : 1975 [Buy It] RED HOT DAN Thomas Waller with Morris's Hot Babies c. 1927 Available on: Fats Waller and his Friends RCA : 1992 [Buy It] DANNY'S DREAM Jeanne Newman Available on: Memphis Belles: The Women of Sun Records Bear Family : 2002 [Buy It] MIDNIGHT DAN [...]
I have a lot of writing commitments in the next week, and I still have to make it to #1 on my best of list. I'm not a good reviewer (overviewer?) and so we'll see how I do. Meanwhile, today I have the blues. The blues is like a virus; you get it in your blood and some days it hits hard. If you download these songs, it's likely you'll catch the blues yourself, so proceed with caution. Meanwhile, here's the tune: Bad luck, empty pockets, Trouble walking your way [...]
6 Cardinal Colors: Blue George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue. Henry "Red" Allen, (Trouble Ends) Out Where the Blue Begins. Langston Hughes, Too Blue. Louis Armstrong, Blue Again. Bessie Smith, Blue Blue. Men At Work, Blue For You. The Savoy Orpheans, The Blue Room. Jimmy Rowles, Serenade in Blue. Clifford Hayes, Blue Guitar Stomp. Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant, Blue Bonnet Rag. Sidney Bechet, Blue
6 Cardinal Colors: Yellow Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington, Yellow Days. Frank Sinatra, The Moon Was Yellow. Zhang Ruei, Song of the Yellow River. Oregon, Yellow Bell. Syd Barrett, Golden Hair. Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Yellow Coat. The Ventures, Yellow Jacket. Yo La Tengo, Yellow Sarong. Peggy Lee, Golden Earrings. Cab Calloway, Yaller. Leadbelly, Yellow Gal. Gene Autry, The Yellow Rose of
When I first started this blog I had it in mind to make it kind of like a calander. I did a lot of research on what happened in the world of blues on certain days of the year. And then I wanted to post an interesting blues factoid and give an mp3 or video to match that date. Did you know that today is the birthday of Charley Patton the "Father of Delta Blues" was born on May 1, in 1891. And it is also the birthday of noted [...]
This video appears to be from the 1929 movie Saint Louis Blues which starred Bessie Smith . You can read about it here Saint Louis Blues @ Answer.com . More info on the 1929 movie Saint Louis Blues . It features a band that including James P. Johnson on piano, Thomas Morris and Joe Smith on cornet, as well as the Hall Johnson Choir with some thrilling harmonies at the end. [...]
Mrs. Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tenn. in 1894 she learned her craft working with the venerable Gertrude (Ma) Rainey. She was one of the earliest blues singers. She honed her considerable singing abilities working in traveling shows. She started her recording career in New York City, where she recorded more than 160 songs between 1323 and 1933. She worked with and recorded with jazz legends such as Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and Coleman Hawkins. She was even appeared in the 1929 movie St. Louis Blues. She [...]
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