List of classic female blues singers
The following is a list of classic female blues singers.
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- Mildred Bailey[3]
- Blue Lu Barker[4]
- Gladys Bentley[5]
- Esther Bigeou[6]
- Lucille Bogan[7]
- Ada Brown[8]
- Bessie Brown[9]
- Eliza Brown[10]
- Kitty Brown[11]
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[edit]- Cleo Gibson[22]
- Lillian Glinn[23]
- Lillian Goodner[24]
- Ida Goodson[25]
- Fannie May Goosby[20]
- Coot Grant[26]
- Helen Gross[27]
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- Marion Harris[28]
- Lucille Hegamin[15]
- Edmonia Henderson[29]
- Katherine Henderson[29]
- Rosa Henderson[15]
- Edna Hicks[30]
- Bertha "Chippie" Hill[15]
- Mattie Hite[31]
- Rosetta Howard[32]
- Helen Humes[33]
- Alberta Hunter[34]
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[edit]- Ida May Mack[42]
- Daisy Martin[43]
- Sara Martin[44]
- Viola McCoy[31]
- Hazel Meyers[20]
- Josie Miles[45]
- Lizzie Miles[46]
- Monette Moore[47]
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- Bessie Smith[15]
- Clara Smith[15]
- Laura Smith[49]
- Mamie Smith[50]
- Ruby Smith[51]
- Trixie Smith[52]
- Victoria Spivey[15]
- Mary Stafford[53]
- Hannah Sylvester[54]
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- ^ Eagle, Bob; LeBlanc, Eric S. (2013). Blues - A Regional Experience. Santa Barbara: Praeger Publishers. p. 254. ISBN 978-0313344237.
- ^ Leggett, Steve. "Ora Alexander". AllMusic. Retrieved January 17, 2011.
- ^ "MILDRED BAILEY, SINGER OF BLUES; Noted Entertainer Succumbs to Heart Ailment Won Fame With 'Old Rockin' Chair' Big Name" in Field Discovered in 1929". The New York Times. 13 December 1951. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
- ^ Eugene Chadbourne (November 13, 1913). "Blue Lu Barker | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ^ Russonello, Giovanni (2019-01-31). "Gladys Bentley, Gender-Bending Blues Performer and '20s Harlem Royalty". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
- ^ Harris, Sheldon (1994). Blues Who's Who (rev. ed.). Boston: Da Capo Press. p. 48, ISBN 0-306-80155-8.
- ^ Russell 1997, p. 94.
- ^ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 83.
- ^ "Bessie Brown | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 85.
- ^ Chadbourne, Eugene. "Kitty Brown". AllMusic. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ^ Chadbourne, Eugene. "Alice Carter". AllMusic. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
- ^ Chadbourne, Eugene. "Alice Leslie Carter". AllMusic. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- ^ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 106.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 7.
- ^ Harrison 1990, p. 49.
- ^ Arwulf, Arwulf. "Madlyn Davis". AllMusic. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ^ Seroff, Doug; Abbott, Lynn Abbott (1994). "Sweet Mattie Dorsey : Been Here, But She's Gone". 78 Quarterly. pp. 103–112.
- ^ Eagle, Bob; LeBlanc, Eric S. (2013). Blues - A Regional Experience. Santa Barbara: Praeger Publishers. p. 393. ISBN 978-0313344237.
- ^ a b c d Harrison 1990, p. 247.
- ^ Bogdanov, Woodstra, Erlewine 2003, p. 655.
- ^ Stewart-Baxter 1970, pp. 90–91.
- ^ Stewart-Baxter 1970, pp. 86–87.
- ^ Bourgeois, Anna Stong (1996). Blueswomen: Profiles of 37 Early Performers, with an Anthology of Lyrics, 1920-1945. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. pp. 60–61. ISBN 9780899509631.
- ^ Chadbourne, Eugene. "Ida Goodson: Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved February 16, 2010.
- ^ "Coot Grant | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ Leggett, Steve. "Helen Gross: Artist Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
- ^ "Marion Harris: Hot Jazz and Black Themes for White Audiences by David Soren | The American Vaudeville Museum". Vaudeville.sites.arizona.edu. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ a b Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 91.
- ^ Harris, Sheldon (1994). Blues Who's Who (rev. ed.). Boston: Da Capo Press. pp. 226-7, ISBN 0-306-80155-8.
- ^ a b Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 94.
- ^ Russell 1997, p. 199.
- ^ Russell 1997, p. 120.
- ^ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 79.
- ^ Chadbourne, Eugene. "Bertha Idaho". AllMusic. Retrieved August 6, 2011.
- ^ Leggett, Steven. "Edith North Johnson". AllMusic. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- ^ Russell 1997, pp. 125-6.
- ^ Russell 1997, p. 41.
- ^ Russell 1997, p. 127.
- ^ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 74.
- ^ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 92.
- ^ Govenar, Alan B.; Brakefield, Jay F. (8 August 2013). Deep Ellum: The Other Side of Dallas. Texas A&M University Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-1-60344-958-8.
- ^ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 23.
- ^ Russell 1997, p. 12.
- ^ Harris, Sheldon (1994). Blues Who's Who (rev. ed.). Boston: Da Capo Press. p. 374, ISBN 0-306-80155-8.
- ^ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 80.
- ^ "Monette Moore | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ Giles Oakley (1997). The Devil's Music. Boston: Da Capo Press. p. 73-4. ISBN 978-0-306-80743-5.
- ^ DePasquale, Ron. "Laura Smith". AllMusic. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
- ^ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 10.
- ^ Arwulf Arwulf. "Ruby Smith". AllMusic. Retrieved October 9, 2011.
- ^ a b Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 81.
- ^ *Harris, Sheldon (1994). Blues Who's Who (rev. ed.). Boston: Da Capo Press. p. 484, ISBN 0-306-80155-8.
- ^ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 96.
- ^ Bogdanov, Woodstra, Erlewine 2003, p. 373.
- ^ Eagle, Bob; LeBlanc, Eric S. (2013). Blues: A Regional Experience. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger. p. 312. ISBN 978-0313344237.
- ^ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 68.
- ^ Russell 1997, p. 185.
- ^ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 26.
- ^ Harrison 1990, pp. 174–175
- ^ Bowers, Jane (2000). "Writing the Biography of a Black Woman Blues Singer". In Moisala, Pirkko; Diamond, Beverley (eds.). Music and Gender. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 145.
Bibliography
- Bogdanov, Vladimir; Woodstra, Chris; and Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2003). 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. Dubai: Carlton Books, ISBN 1-85868-255-X
- Stewart-Baxter, Derrick (1970). Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers. London: Studio Vista. OCLC 250212516