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Memphis Minnie: The Rough Guide To Memphis Minnie - Queen Of The Country Blues (CD)

(Rough Guide) 25 tracks, digisleeve

Memphis Minnie was one of the greatest guitarists and blues singers of her time and had a seminal influence on the urban transformation of country blues. This classic selection of songs comes from her first tremendous burst of creativity when she was recording with her then Kansas husband Joe McCoy.

If ever a title was warranted, Queen of the Country Blues is the bare minimum that should be accorded Memphis Minnie, a lone female voice in the male-dominated country blues scene whose musical legacy is nothing short of remarkable. Minnie transcended both gender and genre, and her recording career spanned from the heyday of country blues in the late 1920s to the cutting-edge Chicago scene of the 1940s and 1950s, where she helped trace the roots of electric blues, R&B and rock 'n' roll.

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Album titlle: The Rough Guide To Memphis Minnie - Queen Of The Country Blues (CD)
Genre Blues
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Label ROUGH GUIDE
EAN: 0605633142228
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Memphis Minnie - The Rough Guide To Memphis Minnie - Queen Of The Country Blues (CD) CD 1
01	Keep It To Yourself	Memphis Minnie
02	Drunken Barrel House Blues	Memphis Minnie
03	Moaning The Blues	Memphis Minnie
04	New Dirty Dozen	Memphis Minnie
05	Outdoor Blues	Memphis Minnie
06	I'm Talking `Bout You No 2	Memphis Minnie
07	North Memphis Blues	Memphis Minnie
08	Frisco Town	Memphis Minnie
09	Can I Do It For You? Part 1	Memphis Minnie
10	Bumble Bee	Memphis Minnie
11	What's The Matter With The Mill?	Memphis Minnie
12	My Butcher Man	Memphis Minnie
13	Let's Go To Town	Memphis Minnie
14	Where Is My Good Man	Memphis Minnie
15	Jailhouse Trouble Blues	Memphis Minnie
16	Frankie Jean (That Trottin' Fool)	Memphis Minnie
17	Ain't No Use Trying To Tell On Me (I Know Something On You)	Memphis Minnie
18	Memphis Minnie-Jitis Blues	Memphis Minnie
19	Goin' Back To Texas	Memphis Minnie
20	Crazy Cryin' Blues	Memphis Minnie
21	I Don't Want That Junk Outta You	Memphis Minnie
22	Grandma And Grandpa Blues	Memphis Minnie
23	Chickasaw Train Blues (Low Down Dirty Thing)	Memphis Minnie
24	Georgia Skin Blues	Memphis Minnie
25	Too Late	Memphis Minnie

Memphis Minnie with Little Joe & His Band Memphis Minnie took guff from no one. Easily... more

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Memphis Minnie with Little Joe & His Band

Memphis Minnie took guff from no one. Easily the most important female country blues artist of the pre-war era, she was a brilliant guitarist and earthy singer as well as an early Chicago convert to electric guitar. This June 11, 1952 outing for Checker hails from her next to last session, and she still sounds commanding.

Born June 3, 1897 in Algiers, Louisiana, Lizzie Douglas and her family moved to Walls, Mississippi, in 1904, the close proximity to Memphis and Beale Street ensuring her blues-belting future. 'Kid' Douglas received her first guitar the next year as a Christmas present, and she got good on it. She teamed up with fellow guitarist 'Kansas' Joe McCoy in the '20s, busking on Memphis thoroughfares until a Columbia talent scout heard them duetting in a barber shop on Beale in 1929. The pair made their debut sides in New York that June; among the classics laid down that day were When The Levee Breaks and Bumble Bee.

The couple was married the same year and relocated to Chicago during the early '30s. They recorded prolifically, mostly for Vocalion, before going their separate ways in 1935. Tobacco-chewing Minnie kept right on recording without McCoy under Lester Melrose's supervision, urbanizing her approach with larger backing ensembles as she cut for Bluebird, Vocalion, and OKeh. In 1939, Minnie acquired herself a new guitar-picking partner, Ernest Lawlars, who billed himself as Little Son Joe. The two wed that year, and from there on he usually played on Minnie's recordings.

In May of 1941, Minnie cut her original version of Me And My Chauffeur Blues for OKeh. She and Son Joe made the rounds of Chicago nightspots, the 708 Club being one homebase, and continued to record for Columbia after the war, though her sides weren't selling the way they once had. Minnie tried to update her sound at a '49 session for Regal with Sunnyland Slim on the 88s, and Little Walter's modern harp wails on the remade Me And My Chauffeur for Checker certainly pointed strongly to the future. But Minnie was just about out of gas; a '53 date for J.O.B. rounded out her discography.

Minnie and Son Joe returned to Memphis in 1958. Before long, a serious stroke confined her to a wheelchair (Lawlars died in 1961). Memphis Minnie lived her last years out impoverished and in a nursing home, passing away August 6, 1973.

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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