Blues World Loses Important Musical Influence
June 18, 2009
By Doug Levine
VOA News
Legendary blues singer Koko Taylor died June 3 in Chicago, Illinois of complications from intestinal surger READ MORE http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-06-18-voa58.cfm
Irma Thomas Immortalized Among Blues Greats
May 7, 2009
WDSU.com
The career of Irma Thomas was celebrated in Memphis Wednesday night, when she was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.
On Th READ MORE http://www.wdsu.com/news/19400963/detail.html
Blues Women: Introduction to T'ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
by Rhetta Akamatsu
The early ones were tough. All of them were black. Some of them were big women, but even the small ones could ho READ MORE http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp...
BESSIE SMITH.1894 - 1937
John Meekings
Bessie was born in harsh poverty in Chattanooga, Tennessee, around 1894. She was one of six children living with her parents in what she would later descr READ MORE http://www.john-meekings.co.uk/bessiesmith.html
The Classic Blues... and the Women who Sang Them
Calliope Records
1900-1920s -- Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox and the Southern Circuit
When Ma Rainey comes to town,
Folks from anyplace mile READ MORE http://www.calliope.org/blues/blues2.html