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01. Anna Jones - Trixie Blues
02. Lena Henry - Low Down Despondent Blues
03. Rosa Henderson - Get It Fixed
04. Virginia Liston - I'm Gonna Get Me A Man, That's All
05. Margaret Carter - Come Get Me Papa Before I Faint
06. Anonymous - I Want Plenty Grease In My Frying Pan
07. Monette Moore - Somebody's Been Lovin' My Babe
08. Martha Copeland - Stole My Man Blues
09. Margaret Johnson - Dead Drunk Blues
10. Anonymous - Second.Handed Blues
11. Coletha Simpson - Down South Blues
12. Ivy Smith - Third Alley Blues
13. Anonymous - Sad and Blue
14. Lil Johnson - You'll Never Miss Your Jelly
15. Anonymous - Never Let Your Left Hand Know
16. Lucille Bogan - Pot Hound Blues
17. Anonymous - Coffee Grindin' Blues
18. Jenny Pope - Doggin' Me Around Blues
19. Anonymous - Whiskey Drinking Blues
20. Jenny Pope - Bull Frog Blues
21. Anonymous - Tennessee Workhouse Blues
22. Lucille Bogan - Black Angel Blues
23. Anonymous - Tricks Ain't Walking Anymore
24. Memphis Minnie - I'm Talking About You, n°2
ARTIST
TITLE
Oh, Run Into Me, But Don't Hurt Me!
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
SR 268CD SR 268CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/15/2008

...Female Blues Singers - Rarities 1923-1930. The Sub Rosa label presents a collection of works from obscure and forgotten female blues singers, exploring the question: what can be said about a singer whose entire work fits on a single-sided 78rpm record? What circumstances led to this recording? Who decided to do it? For whom was it intended? Why wasn't it followed by more recordings? Hypotheses get lost in places and moments themselves forgotten. What remains are these miraculous voices that have survived, through hardship and death -- these voices that have gone through the dark years of The Great Depression, when profoundly sincere and ferociously ironic blues were at their peak. However, this selection does not constitute a theme-based anthology: it is simply a few little-known or forgotten female blues singers whose ambiguous leanings, double-entendres, and uncompromising crudeness had been censored by the propriety of their times ruled by sanctimonious prudishness and despicable segregation. This collection focuses on the darker, coarser and grittier than what was being performed for the popular crowd in vaudevilles and medicine shows. These women were expressing a radically new form, or perhaps an ancient, primitive one that plumbs the depths of a universal heartache. Featuring Lucille Bogan, Virginia Liston, Lil Johnson, Margaret Johnson, Monette Moore, Margaret Carter, Jenny Pope, Lena Henry, Anna Jones, Rosa Henderson, Coletha Simpson, Martha Copeland, Ivy Smith and Memphis Minnie.