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Bibliography. Bogdanov, Vladimir; Woodstra, Chris; and Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2003). All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues.
Lucille Bogan (née Anderson; April 1, 1897 – August 10, 1948) [1] was an American classic female blues singer and songwriter, among the first to be recorded. She also recorded under the pseudonym Bessie Jackson.
Blues, a type of black folk music originating in the American South, were mainly in the form of work songs until about 1900. [1] Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (1886–1939), known as "The Mother of the Blues", is credited as the first to perform the blues on stage as popular entertainment when she began incorporating blues into her act of show songs and comedy around 1902.
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Smith in 1936. The 1900 census indicates that her family reported that Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July 1892. [2] [3] [4] The 1910 census gives her age as 16, [5] and a birth date of April 15, 1894, which appears on subsequent documents and was observed as her birthday by the Smith family.
Sippie Wallace (born Beulah Belle Thomas, November 1, 1898 – November 1, 1986) [3] was an American blues singer, pianist and songwriter. Her early career in tent shows gained her the billing "The Texas Nightingale".
Koko Taylor (born Cora Ann Walton, September 28, 1928 – June 3, 2009) [2] [3] [4] was an American singer whose style encompassed Chicago blues, electric blues, rhythm and blues and soul blues.
Cox was born Ida M. Prather, the daughter of Lamax and Susie (née Knight) Prather in Toccoa, then Habersham County, Georgia, [4] and grew up in Cedartown, Polk County, Georgia. [5]