605633139228
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The Rough Guide To Blues Divas

Various Artists

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Format: CD

Cat No: RGNET1392CD

Release Date:  29 November 2019

Label:  World Music Network

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  605633139228

Genres:  Blues  

Release Date:  31 January 2020

Label:  World Music Network

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  605633139242

Genres:  Blues  

  • Description

    The 1920s "classic era" of recorded blues was dominated by women who lived and performed in the cities. This Rough Guide explores its glitzy heyday when singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey became the first real stars of the blues.

    This is an album which revives the memory of the largely forgotten 1920s blues queens and explores the hugely significant and often overlooked role that women have played in the story of the blues. Highlights the first wave of blues singers who inspired the likes of Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simone and Janis Joplin. The tracks were lovingly remastered using pioneering restoration techniques.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Ma Rainey - Black Eye Blues
      • 2. Hattie Burleson - Bye Bye Baby
      • 3. Ethel Waters - Sweet Georgia Brown
      • 4. Bessie Smith - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
      • 5. Victoria Spivey - Dope Head Blues
      • 6. Alberta Hunter - Everybody Mess Around
      • 7. Mamie Smith - Jenny's Ball
      • 8. Ida Cox - Give Me A Break Blues
      • 9. Lucille Bogan - Tired As I Can Be
      • 10. Martha Copeland - Everybody Does It Now
      • 11. Clara Smith - Salty Dog
      • 12. Edith Wilson - My Man Is Good For Nothing But Love
      • 13. Lucille Hegamin - Shake Your Cans
      • 14. Sippie Wallace - I'm A Mighty Tight Woman
      • 15. Rosa Henderson - Get It Fixed
      • 16. Bertha "Chippie" Hill - Do Dirty Blues
      • 17. Lil Johnson - Get 'Em From The Peanut Man (Hot Nuts)
      • 18. Trixie Smith - Sorrowful Blues
      • 19. Sara Martin - You Got Ev'rything A Sweet Mama Needs But Me
      • 20. Esther Bigeou - The St. Louis Blues
      • 21. Ada Brown - Break O'Day Blues
      • 22. Maggie Jones - Anybody Here Want To Try My Cabbage?
      • 23. Lizzie Miles - Electrician Blues
      • 24. Bessie Tucker - Penitentiary
      • 25. Lena Wilson - He Used To Be Your Man But He's My Man Now

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Ma Rainey - Black Eye Blues
      • 2. Ethel Waters - Sweet Georgia Brown
      • 3. Clara Smith - Salty Dog
      • 4. Mamie Smith - Jenny's Ball
      • 5. Victoria Spivey - Dope Head Blues
      • 6. Alberta Hunter - Everybody Mess Around
      • 7. Bessie Smith - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out 
      • 8. Edith Wilson - My Man Is Good For Nothing But Love 
      • 9. Ida Cox - Give Me A Break Blues 
      • 10. Lucille Bogan - Tired As I Can Be 
      • 11. Lucille Hegamin - Shake Your Cans 
      • 12. Sippie Wallace - I'm A Mighty Tight Woman
      • 13. Hattie Burleson - Bye Bye Baby