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Smith in 1936. The 1900 census indicates that her family reported that Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July 1892. [2] [3] [4] The 1910 census gives her age as 16, [5] and a birth date of April 15, 1894, which appears on subsequent documents and was observed as her birthday by the Smith family.
Medicine Head finally folded in 1977. [5] In 2005, Angel Air released the album Don't Stop The Dance. In effect it was a 'lost' album, compiling some singles from an unsuccessful period with the WWA label, and some unreleased sessions with the band as a five piece.
Michael Katon (born 1953) [1] is an American blues-rock guitarist and vocalist. He grew up in Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States, in a musical family where he was early inspired to take up the guitar. [2] Katon made his recording debut with his 1984 album, Boogie All Over Your Head.
Californian Soil was preceded by four singles: "Baby It's You", released on 19 August 2020, [9] the title track, released on 1 October 2020, [3] "Lose Your Head", released on 4 January 2021 [5] and "How Does It Feel" on 12 March 2021. [10] "Lord It's a Feeling" was released as the fifth single on 21 May 2021. [citation needed]
Blues is a music genre [3] and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. [2] Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.
Victoria Regina Spivey (October 15, 1906 – October 3, 1976), [1] [2] sometimes known as Queen Victoria, [3] was an American blues singer, songwriter, and record company founder.
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (born Edward L. Vinson Jr.; December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter. [1] He was nicknamed " Cleanhead " after an incident in which his hair was accidentally removed by lye contained in a hair-straightening product, necessitating shaving it ...
The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz is a six-LP box set released in 1973 by the Smithsonian Institution.Compiled by jazz critic, scholar, and historian Martin Williams, the album included tracks from over a dozen record labels spanning several decades and genres of American jazz, from ragtime and big band to post-bop and free jazz.