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Chicago blues [331] Lester Williams: 1920 1990 Texas Texas blues [332] Sonny Boy Williamson II: 1909* 1965 Mississippi Chicago blues [333] Alan Wilson: 1943 1970 Massachusetts Electric blues [334] U.P. Wilson: 1934 2004 Louisiana Texas blues [237] Johnny Winter: 1944 2014 Texas Electric blues [335] Jimmy Witherspoon: 1920 1997 Arkansas Jump ...
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 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.
Theatre Owners Booking Association, or T.O.B.A., was the vaudeville circuit for African American performers in the 1920s. The theaters mostly had white owners, though about a third of them had Black owners, [1] including the recently restored Morton Theater in Athens, Georgia, originally operated by "Pinky" Monroe Morton, and Douglass Theatre in Macon, Georgia owned and operated by Charles ...
Classic female urban or vaudeville blues singers were popular in the 1920s, among them Mamie Smith, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Victoria Spivey. Mamie Smith, more a vaudeville performer than a blues artist, [36] was the first African-American to record a blues in 1920; her "Crazy Blues" sold over 75,000 copies in its first month. [37]
Ed Andrews (fl. 1920s) was an American blues singer and guitarist, who made what are considered to be the first commercially released country blues recordings, in 1924, some three years before such releases became commonplace.
Vaudevillean Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues" for Okeh Records, the first blues song commercially recorded by an African-American singer, [1] [2] [3] the first blues song recorded at all by an African-American woman, [4] and the first vocal blues recording of any kind, [5] a few months after making the first documented recording by an African-American female singer, [6] "You Can't Keep a Good ...
Electric blues musician, one of a very small number of blues musicians to play the mandolin. [23] Louise Johnson. Singer and pianist. [24] Robert Johnson (May 8, 1911, Hazlehurst, Mississippi – August 16, 1938). Singer-songwriter and guitarist, recognized since the 1960s as a master of Delta blues and an important influence on many rock ...