List of classic female blues singers
The following is a list of classic female blues singers.
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- Mildred Bailey
- Blue Lu Barker
- Gladys Bentley
- Esther Bigeou
- Lucille Bogan
- The Boswell Sisters
- Ada Brown[3]
- Bessie Brown
- Eliza Brown[4]
- Kitty Brown[5]
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- Ethel Finnie[13]
- Miss Frankie[14]
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- Cleo Gibson[15]
- Lillian Glinn[16]
- Lillian Goodner
- Ida Goodson
- Fannie May Goosby[13]
- Coot Grant
- Helen Gross
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Bertha "Chippie" Hill, New York City, circa 1946–1948 (William P. Gottlieb)
- Annette Hanshaw
- Marion Harris
- Lucille Hegamin[9]
- Edmonia Henderson[17]
- Katherine Henderson[17]
- Rosa Henderson[9]
- Edna Hicks
- Bertha "Chippie" Hill[9]
- Mattie Hite[18]
- Rosetta Howard
- Helen Humes
- Alberta Hunter[19]
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Hattie McDaniel, 1941
- Daisy Martin
- Sara Martin
- Viola McCoy[18]
- Hattie McDaniel
- Hazel Meyers[13]
- Josie Miles
- Lizzie Miles[24]
- Florence Mills
- Memphis Minnie
- Monette Moore
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- Bessie Smith[9]
- Clara Smith[9]
- Laura Smith[25]
- Mamie Smith[26]
- Ruby Smith
- Trixie Smith[27]
- Victoria Spivey[9]
- Mary Stafford
- Hannah Sylvester[28]
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- Eva Taylor
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe
- Bessie Tucker
- Sophie Tucker
- Lavinia Turner[13]
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See also
Notes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 83.
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 7.
- ↑ Harrison 1990, p. 49.
- ↑ Arwulf, Arwulf. "Madlyn Davis". Allmusic. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ↑ Eagle, Bob; LeBlanc, Eric S. (2013). Blues - A Regional Experience. Santa Barbara: Praeger Publishers. p. 393. ISBN 978-0313344237.
- 1 2 3 4 Harrison 1990, p. 247.
- ↑ Bogdanov, Woodstra, Erlewine 2003, p. 655.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, pp. 90–91.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, pp. 86–87.
- 1 2 Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 91.
- 1 2 Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 94.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 79.
- ↑ Chadbourne, Eugene. "Bertha Idaho". Allmusic. Retrieved August 6, 2011.
- ↑ Leggett, Steven. "Edith North Johnson". Allmusic. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 74.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 92.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 80.
- ↑ DePasquale, Ron. "Laura Smith". Allmusic. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 10.
- 1 2 Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 81.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 96.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 68.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 26.
References
- Allmusic
- Bogdanov, Vladimir; Woodstra, Chris; and Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2003). All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues. AMG all media guide. San Francisco, Calif.: 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.
- Stewart-Baxter, Derrick (1970). Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers. London: Studio Vista. OCLC 250212516
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