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Memphis Minnie ranks with Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and Big Mama
Thornton as one of the blues most influential and historically
significant female artists. While Rainey and Smith came out of the
1920's classic blues period and Thornton out of the post-World War II
urban blues era, Minnie's roots were in country blues, an idiom
dominated by men. An able guitarist and an authoritative singer who
packed her notes with punch and rough-edged passion, Minnie was also
an excellent composer. Songs of hers such as 'Bumble Bee', 'Hoodoo
Lady' and 'I Want Something For You' are genuine blues classics.
Minnie's command of the blues was such that her recording career
spanned three decades and survived the numerous stylistic shifts that
occured within the blues. Along the way she influenced a number of
prominent blues figures, from Muddy Waters on down, and almost
single-handedly kept a female presence in what became an increasingly
male form.
Minnie was born Lizzie Douglas in Louisiana. Before she turned ten,
Minnie and her family had relocated to Walls, Mississippi, just south
of Memphis. As a child she was called Kid Douglas and learned how to
play the guitar and banjo. Sometime during her early teens she began
playing and singing on Memphis street corners and eventually joined
Ringling Brothers Circus and toured the South.
During the 1920's she settled into Memphis' Beale Street blues scene,
where in 1929 she was discovered by a talent scout for Columbia
Records. Accompanied by guitarist Kansas Joe McCoy, her second
husband ( her first was the bluesman Casey Bill Weldon ), she
recorded later that year under the name Memphis Minnie. Her first
song, 'Bumble Bee', was one of the most successful of the more than
one hundred sides she recorded before retiring in the mid-1950's.
Minnie and Kansas Joe migrated to Chicago in 1930, where they quickly
became part of the city's growing blues scene. Along with Big Bill
Broonzy, whom she reputedly beat in a "blues contest" and Tampa Red,
Minnie helped the country blues style ease into an urban setting.
During the quarted century or so that she lived in Chicago, Minnie
recorded for a number of labels, including Vocalion, Decca and
Bluebird, and with a number of bluesmen, most notably Sunnyland Slim
and Little Walter. For some of her sessions, Minnie employed a small
combo ; for others, she was accompanied by a second guitarist.
After her health began to fail in the mid-1950's, Minnie returned to
Memphis and retired from performing and recording. She spent her
twilight years in a nursing home, where she died of a stroke in 1973.
Memphis Minnie was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame
in 1980.
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my strange man 03:00
if you see my rooster (please run him home) 03:17
ice man (come on up) 02:59
i'm a bad luck woman 03:03
good morning 03:00
black cat blues 02:56
has anyone seen my man? 02:46
keep on eatin' 02:39
i hate to see the sun go down 02:45
i've been treated wrong 02:55
good biscuits 02:43
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