Tag: Memphis Minnie

Cover Story: Lucinda Williams
Many artists β when looking back on their catalogs β often wish that they could have done better, compositionally speaking. Hindsight, of course, is 20/20. But when Grammy-winning folk-rocker Lucinda Williams undertook her comprehensive tour last year, celebrating the 20th anniversary of her landmark third Car Wheels on a Gravel Road effort, she never once [β¦]

Sweet Home: October 2012
With the decidedly testosterone-filled focus of contemporary blues, itβs easy to forget that the genre was popularized at the beginning of the last century by a handful of spirited women. Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Ethel Waters, and Ida Cox all helped usher in the era of recorded blues records and Memphis Minnie, with her finely-honed [β¦]
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