Memphis Minnie
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 /TiVo
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Memphis Minnie Selected Favorites, Vol. 5
Blues - Pubblicato da Charly Records il 21 mar 2011
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Memphis Minnie Selected Favorites, Vol. 8
Blues - Pubblicato da Charly Records il 21 mar 2011
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Memphis Minnie Selected Favorites, Vol. 9
Blues - Pubblicato da Charly Records il 21 mar 2011
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Memphis Minnie Selected Favorites, Vol. 4
Blues - Pubblicato da Charly Records il 21 mar 2011
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Memphis Minnie Selected Favorites Volume 8
Blues - Pubblicato da Charly Records il 20 giu 2006
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Memphis Minnie Selected Favorites Volume 1
Blues - Pubblicato da Charly Records il 20 giu 2006
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Memphis Minnie Selected Favorites Volume 3
Blues - Pubblicato da Charly Records il 20 giu 2006
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Queen Of The Delta Blues, Volume 2 (E)
Blues - Pubblicato da JSP Records il 18 lug 2006
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Please Set a Date
R&B - Pubblicato da Blues Explorer il 1 mar 2020
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Memphis Minnie, Vol. 2
Blues - Pubblicato da Lumi OMP il 8 set 2013
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40 Must Have Minnie
Blues - Pubblicato da Lumi OMP il 6 ott 2013
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Haunted Blue
Musica d'ambiente/New Age - Pubblicato da Rooster Records il 4 set 2014
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Let's Go to Town, Vol. 2
Blues - Pubblicato da Top Tracks il 30 ott 2013
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Chauffuer Blues
Blues - Pubblicato da StarPointe Records il 19 dic 2016
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Ain't Nobody Home but Me - Classic Blues
Blues - Pubblicato da Get Gone il 8 mag 2013
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Memphis Minnie - Music History
Blues - Pubblicato da Vintage Jukebox il 10 mag 2021
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