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Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (née Pridgett; April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) [1] [2] [3] was an American blues singer and influential early-blues recording artist. [4] Dubbed the "Mother of the Blues", she bridged earlier vaudeville and the authentic expression of southern blues, influencing a generation of blues singers. [5]
Ma Rainey is a highly regarded, strong-willed blues singer who has recently been contracted by white producers to record an album. The story takes place on July 2, 1927, when the first recording session is scheduled for Ma by her manager Irvin to take place at Paramount's Recording Studios in Chicago.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 1982 play – one of the ten-play Century Cycle by August Wilson – that chronicles the 20th-century African-American experience. The play is set in a recording studio in 1920s Chicago, and deals with issues of race, art, religion, and the historic exploitation of black recording artists by white producers.
"Shave 'Em Dry" is a dirty blues song, first recorded by Ma Rainey [1] in August 1924 in Chicago. [2] It was released on Paramount Records in 1924. Rainey was accompanied on the recording by two unknown guitarists (one of them was possibly Miles Pruitt). [3] [4] The record was advertised in The Chicago Defender on the same date as the record's ...
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey was the first to record it on October 16, 1924, at Paramount Records in New York. [2] The song uses mostly traditional blues lyrics to tell the story of an unfaithful lover, commonly called an "easy rider": "See see rider, see what you have done", making a play on the word "see" and the sound of "easy".
Paramount Records was an American record label known for its recordings of jazz and blues in the 1920s and early 1930s, including such artists as Ma Rainey, Tommy Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson. Early years
Blues, a type of black folk music originating in the American South, were mainly in the form of work songs until about 1900. [1] Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (1886–1939), known as "The Mother of the Blues", is credited as the first to perform the blues on stage as popular entertainment when she began incorporating blues into her act of show songs and comedy around 1902.
Following the death of Glover's idol, Ma Rainey in December 1939, Glover often performed billed as Ma Rainey II (or some variation thereof). [2] She continued to work regularly on stage, but did not record again until 1953, when she used the name "Big Memphis Ma Rainey", in waxing two sides for Sun Records.