Memphis Minnie
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Born Lizzie Douglas in Algiers, Louisiana, she was one of the most influential and pioneering female blues musicians and guitarists of all time. Minnie recorded for forty years, virtually unheard of for any woman in show business at the time, and possibly unique among female blues artists. A flamboyant character who wore bracelets made of silver dollars, she was the biggest female blues singer from the early Depression years through World War II. One of the first blues artists to take up the electric guitar, in 1942, she combined her Louisiana-country roots with Memphis-blues to produce her unique country-blues sound; along with Big Bill Broonzy and Tampa Red, she took country blues into electric urban blues, paving the highway for giants like Muddy Waters, Little Walter, and Jimmy Rogers to travel from the small towns of the south to the big cities of the north. She was married three times, and each husband was an accomplished blues guitarist: Joe McCoy (a.k.a. “Kansas Joe”) later of the Harlem Hamfats, Casey Bill Weldon of the Memphis Jug Band, and Ernest Lawlers (a.k.a. “Little Son Joe”).
After learning to play guitar and banjo as a child, at the age of thirteen she ran away from home to Memphis, Tennessee, playing guitar in nightclubs and on the street as Lizzie “Kid” Douglas.
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CDPETE01
What a stroke of luck,one finding Memphis Minnie recordings,but finding the two JSP boxsets on Spotify nearly 250 sides,I'd heard bits of her work but boy she made some good tunes and she can play that guitar too.
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saphfirestrings
Dont make guitarists like that anymore!
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zezinho57
great lady of blues !
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suerteasteca
I'm impressed as I could be. She swings just like Big Bill Broonzy!
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lovebeatloko
<3.She is fine.
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riot_grrrl77
Nice! I love me some blues.
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JoshCIVM
One of the coolest humans in American history.
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turkcerock
Great!
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Batiste369
One of the best female blues singers I've ever heard! She has some innovative and legendary stuff <3
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renardeargent
Excellent programme about Minnie on BBC Radio 4 today.
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marie75
exactly, she is a badass
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quitepeculiar
Love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love. Memphis Minnie knew what it was all about.
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petrolatum
I LOVE that her name made a cameo appearance in Ghost World!
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dis_balance
Fantastic!!
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strajnic
Wow!
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jujuchien
she is lovely
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silvershaman99
The Woman!
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tasteslikeGUM
<3
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Tipheret
Awesome lady :D
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gemini1966
Cool as cool can be!
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