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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 ...
At the Detroit Music Awards, Davis was voted Outstanding Blues Artist in 2004 and 2006, and Outstanding Blues/R&B Vocalist in 2004, 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2014. [8] In 2018, she won the following Detroit Music Awards: Outstanding Blues Artist/Group; Outstanding Blues Songwriter; Outstanding Blues Vocalist; Outstanding Video/Limited Budget for “I Believe (Everything Gonna Be Alright ...
The members of the Blues Foundation, a nonprofit organization set up in Memphis, Tennessee, to foster the blues and its heritage, [84] have nominated James for a Blues Music Award nearly every year since its founding in 1980; and she received some form of Blues Female Artist of the Year award 14 times since 1989, continuously from 1999 to 2007 ...
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. ...
Koko Taylor (born Cora Ann Walton, September 28, 1928 – June 3, 2009) [2] [3] [4] was an American singer whose style encompassed Chicago blues, electric blues, rhythm and blues and soul blues. Sometimes called "The Queen of the Blues", [ 1 ] she was known for her rough, powerful vocals.
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.
The following is a list of soul blues musicians. Johnny Adams [1] Peggy Scott-Adams; Kip Anderson [2] James Armstrong; Reneé Austin; L.V. Banks; Jo Jo Benson; Buster ...