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Memphis Minnie

Hot Stuff

Memphis Minnie

16 SONGS • 46 MINUTES • JUN 15 2009

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    TRACKS
  • DETAILS
    DETAILS
TRACKS
DETAILS
1
Hot Stuff
03:03
2
New Bumble Bee
02:49
3
I Called You This Morning
02:56
4
Moonshine
02:45
5
Me And My Chauffeur Blues
02:43
6
It's Hard To Be Mistreated
03:04
7
I Hate To See The Sun Go Down
02:42
8
Frankie Jean (That Trottin' Fool)
02:48
9
Chickasaw Train Blues
03:14
10
Good Morning
02:57
11
Man You Won't Give Me No Money
02:55
12
Biting Bug Blues
03:18
13
Ice Man (Come On Up)
02:54
14
Keep On Sailing
03:00
15
Jitis Blues
03:20
16
Down By The Riverside
02:29

Artist bios

Tracking down the ultimate woman blues guitar hero is problematic because woman blues singers seldom recorded as guitar players and woman guitar players (such as Rosetta Tharpe and Sister O.M. Terrell) were seldom recorded playing blues. Excluding contemporary artists, the most notable exception to this pattern was Memphis Minnie. The most popular and prolific blueswoman outside the vaudeville tradition, she earned the respect of critics, the support of record-buying fans, and the unqualified praise of the blues artists she worked with throughout her long career. Despite her Southern roots and popularity, she was as much a Chicago blues artist as anyone in her day. Big Bill Broonzy recalls her beating both him and Tampa Red in a guitar contest and claims she was the best woman guitarist he had ever heard. Tough enough to endure in a hard business, she earned the respect of her peers with her solid musicianship and recorded good blues over four decades for Columbia, Vocalion, Bluebird, OKeh, Regal, Checker, and JOB. She also proved to have as good taste in musical husbands as music and sustained working marriages with guitarists Casey Bill Weldon, Joe McCoy, and Ernest Lawlars. Their guitar duets span the spectrum of African-American folk and popular music, including spirituals, comic dialogs, and old-time dance pieces, but Memphis Minnie's best work consisted of deep blues like "Moaning the Blues." More than a good woman blues guitarist and singer, Memphis Minnie holds her own against the best blues artists of her time, and her work has special resonance for today's aspiring guitarists. ~ Barry Lee Pearson

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Language of performance
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