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All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues. San Francisco, California: Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-736-6. Harrison, Daphne Duval (1990). Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers. ISBN 0-8135-1280-8. Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray.
Classic female blues [46] Katherine Henderson: 1909 Unknown: Missouri Classic female blues [47] Edna Hicks: 1895 1925 Louisiana Classic female blues [48] Son House: 1902 1988 Mississippi Delta blues [49] Peg Leg Howell: 1888 1966 Georgia Country blues [50] Alberta Hunter: 1895 1984 Tennessee Classic female blues [51] Mississippi John Hurt: 1894 ...
Classic female blues was an early form of blues music, popular in the 1920s. An amalgam of traditional folk blues and urban theater music, the style is also known as vaudeville blues . Classic blues were performed by female singers accompanied by pianists or small jazz ensembles and were the first blues to be recorded.
Pages in category "Classic female blues singers" The following 79 pages are in this category, out of 79 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age.Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues", she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1930s.
Memphis Minnie has been described as "the most popular female country blues singer of all time". [38] Big Bill Broonzy said that she could "pick a guitar and sing as good as any man I've ever heard." [13] Minnie lived to see a renewed appreciation of her recorded work during the revival of interest in blues music in the 1960s.
This is a list of notable blue-eyed soul artists. Blue-eyed soul (also known as white soul) is soul music or rhythm and blues performed by white artists. [ 1 ]
Irma Thomas (née Lee; born February 18, 1941) [1] [2] is an American singer from New Orleans. [3] She is known as the "Soul Queen of New Orleans". [2]Thomas is a contemporary of Aretha Franklin and Etta James, but never experienced their level of commercial success. [2]