April 11, 2013

PLAYLIST for BLACK & BLUES APRIL 21, 2013

Blues Queens of the 'Twenties: An alphabetical presentation of twenty-five of the female blues singers active and recording during the 1920s.


Ron Sweetman sitting in for regular B&B host John Tackaberry.

Artist: MILDRED AUSTIN

Accompaniment: Unknown pianist

Tune: My Papa Doesn't Two Time No Time

Date: May 1928

City: Richmond, Indiana

Company: Supertone

CD Title: Female Blues Singers Volume 1

Cut #: 10

CD Label: Document


Artist: MARY H. BRADFORD

Accompaniment: Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra

Tune: Chatanooga Blues

Date: October 1923

City: St. Louis, Missouri

Company: Okeh

CD Title: Female Blues Singers Volume 2

Cut #: 14

CD Label: Document

Artist: IDA COX

Accompaniment: Lovie Austin's Blues Serenaders:

Tommy Ladnier [cornet], Jimmy O'Bryant [clarinet], Lovie Austin [piano]

Tune: Graveyard Dream Blues

Date: June 1923

City: Chicago

Company: Paramount

CD Title: Ida Cox Volume 1

Cut #: 4

CD Label: Document

Artist: PEARL DICKSON

Accompaniment: Maylon Harney & Richard Harney – guitar duet

Tune: Little Rock Blues

Date: March 12, 1927

City: Memphis

Company: Columbia

CD Title: The Ladies in Blues Volume 1

Cut #: 1-11

CD Label: Membran

Artist: MOANIN' BERNICE EDWARDS

Accompaniment: Probably own piano

Tune: Long Tall Mama

Date: February 1928

City: Chicago

Company: Paramount

CD Title: Texas Piano Volume 1

Cut #: 14

CD Label: Document


Artist: NELLIE FLORENCE

Accompaniment: Probably Charlie Hicks or possibly Robert Hicks [Barbecue Bob]

Tune: Midnight Weeping Blues

Date: April 21, 1928

City: Atlanta, Georgia

Company: Columbia

CD Title: The Slide Guitar Volume 2

Cut #: 6

CD Label: Columbia


Artist: LILLIAN GLINN

Accompaniment: Willie Tyson [piano] & unknown brass bass

Tune: The Man I Love Is Worth Talking About

Date: April 24, 1928

City: New Orleans

Company: Columbia

CD Title: Lillian Glinn: Complete Recorded Works

Cut #: 5

CD Label: Document


Artist: BERTHA “CHIPPIE” HILL

Accompaniment: Louis Armstrong [cornet] & Richard M. Jones [piano] ???

Tune: Trouble In Mind

Date: February 23, 1926

City: Chicago

Company: Okeh

CD Title: Jazz Blues Rarities 1924-1939

Cut #: 7

CD Label: LaserLight


Artist: ALBERTA HUNTER

Accompaniment: Clarence Williams [piano]

Tune: If You Can't Keep The Man You Love

[Don't Cry When He's Gone]

Date: August 11, 1926

City: NYC

Company: Okeh

CD Title: Female Blues 1922-1927

Cut #: 6

CD Label: RST


Artist: EDITH NORTH JOHNSON

Accompaniment: Baby Jay [cornet] & probably Roosevelt Sykes [piano]

Tune: Can't Make Another Day

Date: September 7, 1929

City: Richmond, Indiana

Company: Paramount

CD Title: Jazz Blues Rarities 1924-1939

Cut #: 5

CD Label: LaserLight


Artist: LOTTIE KIMBROUGH

Accompaniment: Winston Holmes [voice], Miles Pruitt [guitar/voice]

Tune: Don't Speak To Me

Date: August 21, 1928

City: Richmond, Indiana

Company: Gennett

CD Title: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

Cut #: 2-18

CD Label: Yazoo

Artist: MANDY LEE

Accompaniment: Unknown

Tune: If Your Man Is Like My Man

Date: April 4, 1923

City: NYC

Company: Unknown

CD Title: Classic Blues, Jazz & Vaudeville Singers Volume 4

Cut #: 15

CD Label: Document


Artist: LILLIAN MILLER

Accompaniment: Hersal Thomas [piano]

Tune: Kitchen Blues

Date: March 4, 1926

City: Chicago

Company: Okeh

CD Title: Texas Girls 1926-1929

Cut #: 1

CD Label: Document


Artist: IDA MAY MACK

Accompaniment: K. Johnson [piano]

Tune: Goodbye Rider

Date: August 30, 1928

City: Memphis, Tennessee

Company: Victor

CD Title: Texas Girls 1926-1929

Cut #: 18

CD Label: Document

Artist: MEMPHIS MINNIE

Accompaniment: Joe McCoy [guitar]

Tune: Bumble Bee

Date: June 18, 1929

City: NYC

Company: Columbia

CD Title: Memphis Minnie 1929-1930

Cut #: 3

CD Label: JSP

Artist: GERTRUDE PERKINS

Accompaniment: Willie Tyson [piano], Unknown guitar, Octave Gaspard [brass bass]

Tune: No Easy Rider Blues

Date: December 6, 1927

City: Dallas, Texas

Company: Columbia

CD Title: Texas Girls 1926-1929

Cut #: 8

CD Label: Document

Artist: MA RAINEY

Accompaniment: Her Georgia Band: Joe Smith [cornet], Charlie Green [trombone],

Buster Bailey [clarinet], Coleman Hawkins [baritone sax],

Fletcher Henderson [piano], Charlie Dixon [banjo]

Tune: Stack O'Lee Blues

Date: December 1925

City: NYC

Company: Paramount

CD Title: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey 1923-1928

Cut #: 16

CD Label: Giants of Jazz


Artist: MAMIE SMITH

Accompaniment: Her Jazz Hounds: Johnny Dunn [cornet], Dope Andrews [trombone],

Ernest Elliott [clarinet], Leroy Parker [violin], probably Perry Bradford [piano]

Tune: Crazy Blues

Date: August 10, 1920

City: NYC

Company: Okeh

CD Title: Crazy Blues: The Best of Mamie Smith

Cut #: 1

CD Label: Columbia



Artist: MARY STAFFORD

Accompaniment: Her Jazz Band: Charlie Gaines [cornet], Earl Granstaff [trombone],

Ben Whittet [clarinet], Nelson Kincaid [alto sax], George Breen [violin], Charlie Johnson [piano].

Tune: I'm Gonna Jazz My Way Right Straight Thru Paradise

Date: March 1921

City: NYC

Company: Columbia

CD Title: Female Blues Singers Volume 13

Cut #: 13

CD Label: Document

Artist: BESSIE SMITH

Accompaniment: Ed Allen [cornet], Garvin Bushell [alto sax], Greely Walton [tenor sax], Clarence Williams [piano], Cyrus St. Clair [brass bass]

Tune: Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out

Date: May 15, 1929

City: NYC

Company: Company

CD Title: The Complete Recordings Volume 4

Cut #: 1-19

CD Label: Columbia


Artist: HOCIEL THOMAS

Accompaniment: Louis Armstrong [cornet], Johnny Dodds [clarinet],

Hersal Thomas [piano], Johnny St.Cyr [banjo]

Tune: Gambler's Dream

Date: November 11, 1925

City: Chicago

Company: Okeh

CD Title: Hociel Thomas & Lillie Delk Christian

Cut #: 1

CD Label: Document

Artist: UNKNOWN [possibly Camille Allen]

Accompaniment: Sonny Clay [piano],

Tune: Mama Likes To Do It

Date: probably 1922

City: Los Angeles

Company: Sunset

CD Title: Female Blues Singers Volume 14

Cut #: 11

CD Label: Document

Artist: LOUISE VANT

Accompaniment: Roy Banks [piano]

Tune: The Man I Love Is Oh So Good To Me

Date: March 16, 1926

City: NYC

Company: Okeh

CD Title: Female Blues 1922-1927

Cut #: 20

CD Label: RST

Artist: SIPPIE WALLACE

Accompaniment: Joe Oliver [cornet], Hersal Thomas [piano]

Tune: Devil Dance Blues

Date: February 24, 1925

City: Chicago

Company: Okeh

CD Title: Sippie Wallace Volume 1

Cut #: 20

CD Label: Document

Artist: BILLIE YOUNG

Accompaniment: Jelly Roll Morton [piano]

Tune: When They Get Lovin' They's Gone

Date: April 3, 1930

City: NYC

Company: Victor

CD Title: Female Blues Singers Volume 14

Cut #: 23

CD Label: Document





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