List of classic female blues singers
The following is a list of classic female blues singers.
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- Mildred Bailey
- Blue Lu Barker
- Gladys Bentley
- Esther Bigeou
- Lucille Bogan
- The Boswell Sisters
- Ada Brown[2]
- Bessie Brown
- Eliza Brown[3]
- Kitty Brown[4]
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- Susie Edwards
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- Ethel Finnie[10]
- Miss Frankie[11]
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- Cleo Gibson[12]
- Lillian Glinn[13]
- Lillian Goodner
- Ida Goodson
- Fannie May Goosby[10]
- Coot Grant
- Helen Gross
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Bertha Chippie Hill, New York City, between 1946 and 1948 (William P. Gottlieb)
- Annette Hanshaw
- Marion Harris
- Lucille Hegamin[7]
- Edmonia Henderson[14]
- Katherine Henderson[14]
- Rosa Henderson[7]
- Edna Hicks
- Bertha "Chippie" Hill[7]
- Mattie Hite[15]
- Rosetta Howard
- Helen Humes
- Alberta Hunter[16]
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Hattie McDaniel, 1941
- Daisy Martin
- Sara Martin
- Viola McCoy[15]
- Hattie McDaniel
- Hazel Meyers[10]
- Josie Miles
- Lizzie Miles[21]
- Florence Mills
- Monette Moore
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- Bessie Smith[7]
- Clara Smith[7]
- Laura Smith[22]
- Mamie Smith[23]
- Ruby Smith
- Trixie Smith[24]
- Victoria Spivey[7]
- Mary Stafford
- Hannah Sylvester[25]
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- Eva Taylor
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe
- Bessie Tucker
- Sophie Tucker
- Lavinia Turner[10]
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Notes
- ↑ Leggett, Steve. "Ora Alexander". Allmusic. Retrieved January 17, 2011.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 83.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 85.
- ↑ Chadbourne, Eugene. "Kitty Brown". Allmusic. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ↑ Chadbourne, Eugene. "Alice Leslie Carter". Allmusic. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 106.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 7.
- ↑ Harrison 1990, p. 49.
- ↑ Arwulf, Arwulf. "Madlyn Davis". Allmusic. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Harrison 1990, p. 247.
- ↑ Bogdanov, Woodstra, Erlewine 2003, p. 655.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, pp. 90–91.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, pp. 86–87.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 91.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 94.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 79.
- ↑ Chadbourne, Eugene. "Bertha Idaho". Allmusic. Retrieved August 6, 2011.
- ↑ Leggett, Steven. "Edith North Johnson". Allmusic. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 74.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 92.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 80.
- ↑ DePasquale, Ron. "Laura Smith". Allmusic. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 10.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 81.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 96.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 68.
- ↑ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 26.
References
- Allmusic
- Bogdanov, Vladimir, Chris Woodstra, and Stephen Thomas Erlewine (2003). All music guide to the blues: the definitive guide to the blues. AMG all media guide. San Francisco, CA: Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-736-6
- Harrison, Daphne Duval (1990). Black Pearls: blues queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers. ISBN 0-8135-1280-8
- Stewart-Baxter, Derrick (1970). Ma Rainey and the classic blues singers. London: Studio Vista. OCLC 250212516