Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #401582 in Music
• Released on: 1995-04-16

Customer Reviews

Amazing blues collection - highly recommended
This is one of the finest collections of women blues singers ever made... And one of the first! The ever-fab Rosetta record label issued several pioneering reissues that examined the role of women artists in blues, jazz and R&B. This is one of their finest releases, with a dozen+ classic vintage blues tunes from the 1920s, '30s and '40s. Highly recommended! (DJ Joe Sixpack, Slipcue music reviews)

mean mothers are really sweet
What an amazing album! If you like early blues music and artists like Bessie Smith, Lil Armstrong and Ida Cox, then you will love this compilation. Other than Billie Holiday and Lil Armstrong,this recording of women blues singers from the 20s, 30s and 40s, may not have many well-known names, but the talent is clear. Full of beautiful, deep voices and heart-felt emotion, singers like Bessie Brown, Harlem Hannah, Blu Lu Barker and Bertha Idaho, evoke memories of triumph over struggle and sorrow in the only way that the blues can, by lifting us out of it with its ardent, expressive songs of love and pain.