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</html>";s:4:"text";s:37881:"Minnie toured a great deal in the ’30s, mostly in the south. Memphis Minnie originally did Soo Cow Soo, Moonshine, Can't Afford to Lose My Man, Pig Meat on the Line and other songs. She recorded around 200 songs, some of the best known being "Bumble Bee", "Nothing in Rambling", and " Me and My Chauffeur Blues ". Their guitar duets span the spectrum of African-American folk and popular music, including spirituals, comic dialogs, and old-time dance pieces, but Memphis Minnie's best work consisted of deep blues like "Moaning the Blues." Listen to your favorite songs from Memphis Minnie. Why has this musician , with her enormous body of recordings, who was well-loved by the Black blues audiences of the ’30s and ’40s been comparatively ignored by later, whiter audiences? Bill grabbed half the prize (the bottle of whiskey) and took it off to drink under a table. Memphis Minnie. Genres: Country Blues, Acoustic Chicago Blues, Blues. Associating with circus and vaudeville performers must have been a step up for a street musician, and probably helped Minnie make her music more of an act. Lizzie Douglas (June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973), known as Memphis Minnie, was a blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter whose recording career lasted for over three decades. She was always a finger picker, and played in Spanish (DGDGBD) and standard tunings, often using a capo. Watch this for some tips: Minnie was quick to embrace the latest technologies in order to be heard above the crowds She was one of the first blues players to use a National in 1929, and to play an electric wood body National and various electric guitars in the ’40s and ’50s. A musicians’ life was an escape from endless labor, looked on with both admiration and resentment by the field hands and workers in the audience. Listen to albums and songs from Memphis Minnie. He standardized the sound of his blues offerings, using musicians like Tampa Red, Big Bill Broonzy and Thomas Dorsey to back up different artists. For guitar players, the first part of her career is definitely the most inspiring, as her inventive variations make masterpieces of tunes like “When The Levee Breaks”(1930) or “Let’s Go To Town”(1931). It remains vital and influential today because of her inventive, rhythmic guitar playing and her songs, which capture people and events and bring them to life across the years. It is difficult to tell whether audiences demanded different music, or if they bought what was promoted and available. Minnie, presided over Blue Monday parties at Ruby Lee Gatewood’s Tavern playing an electrified National arch top in front of a band that included bass and drums. Tough enough to endure in a hard business, she earned the respect of her peers with her solid musicianship and recorded good blues over four decades for Columbia, Vocalion, Bluebird, OKeh, Regal, Checker, and JOB. Unlimited free Memphis Minnie music - Click to play My Gage Is Going Up, Can't Afford To Lose My Man and whatever else you want! The original dates back to 1929, and Minnie’s first-ever recording session. https://memphisminnie.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/3MemphisMinnie.mp3. One of Memphis Minnie’s first musical partnerships was with Willie Brown, who is is better known for his association with Charlie Patton. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for BD Blues: Memphis Minnie - Memphis Minnie on AllMusic As Broonzy tells the story, in his autobiography Big Bill Blues, (Cassell and Co.London 1956) a jury of fellow musicians awarded Minnie the prize of a bottle of whiskey and a bottle of gin for her performance of “Chauffeur Blues” and “Looking the World Over”. View Memphis Minnie song lyrics by popularity along with songs featured in, albums, videos and song meanings. Copyright © 2020 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. We have 1 albums and 28 song lyrics in our database. 04. As the realities of boom and bust economics became universal after the stock market crash of 1929, record companies began to seek out rural, guitar based music. Memphis Minnie (Lizzie Douglas, 1897-1973) was one of the premier blues artists of the 1930s and ‘40s. Complete Recorded 2 Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe. Perhaps the glamour of beaded and tiaraed blues royalty seemed wrong for a time of soup kitchens and extensive poverty, although blues listeners surely always lived in poverty. She was an African American blues musician and singer. It’s rural party music, with doubling of parts helping punch the sound through in a loud environment in the pre-electric age. In guitarist Willie Moore’s recollection, (reported in Stephen Calt and Gayle Dean Wardlow’s King of the Delta Blues; The Life and Music of Charlie Patton, 1988 Rock Chapel Press) Minnie was the better guitarist, —“She was a guitar king”—-he said—- although Brown was better known.  There have been a number of re-releases of her work, and her songs, especially Chauffeur Blues, When The Levee Breaks, Black Rat Swing and What’s The Matter With The Mill? Minnie’s voice is rarely heard, even today: it is the voice of an independent, childless woman, an artist who never puts up with abuse, and who managed to find pleasure while living through tough times.  The commercial success of Mamie Smith’s “Crazy Blues” in 1920, alerted record companies to the existence of black record buyers. Although Memphis Minnie is gone, her music is still full of life, and her influence can be heard in the music of the many Chicago blues players who came up during her reign in the thirties and forties. Songs of Minnie's such as 'When the Levee Breaks' and 'Can I Do It for You?' Listen to the Memphis Minnie Vol. Before she turned ten, she and her family had relocated to Wall, Mississippi, just south of Memphis. Even though sales of their recordings slowed down by the end of the forties, their audience remained available to them in the clubs. Perhaps it was cheaper to record a country boy’s guitar than an established vaudeville professional. After Son Joe’s death in 1962 Minnie lived in a nursing home until she died on August 6,1973, at the age of 76. CD: $32.41 MP3: $9.49. A full-length biography, “Woman With Guitar: Memphis Minnie’s Blues” by Paul and Beth Garon was published by DaCapo press in 1998 with a 2nd edition in 2014. Yet she remains comparatively unknown and under-studied in relation to her influence and importance to the development of blues music and guitar playing. Hoodoo Lady. Their first session was on June 18, 1929, two weeks after Minnie’s 32nd birthday. Memphis Minnie (June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973) was an American blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. Her recordings with Son Joe are in duet style, with piano, bass or drums added on some sessions. Lizzie Douglas was born on June 3, 1897 in Algiers, Louisiana. Courtesy Vintage Books USA. Sometimes a blues musician got paid with an apple or a can of sardines, sometimes she made as much as a hundred dollars. Lizzie Douglas (June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973), known as Memphis Minnie, was a blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter whose recording career lasted for over three decades.She recorded around 200 songs, some of the best known being "Bumble Bee", "Nothing in Rambling", and … Kansas Joe,and Minnie were guitarists of equal ability, and the interplay of their instruments is like a great conversation: with both of them switching between treble and bass. are repertoire perennials. Paul and Beth Garon include a fascinating photo of Minnie’s set list in “Woman with Guitar”, that includes songs like “Marie”, “Woody Woodpecker”, Lady Be Good”, “I Love You For Sentimental Reasons” and “How High The Moon.”  Son Joe and Minnie played until their health broke down. by Del Rey copyright 1997 Hobemian Records, (a version of this article was originally published in Acoustic Guitar Magazine 1997). CD : $23 ... MEMPHIS MINNIE › See all 36 albums by Memphis Minnie. This is the complete list of songs recorded by Memphis Minnie, in alphabetical order.  By 1929, Douglas had married another guitar-player, Joe McCoy, who was a good singer and guitarist, but reputedly a jealous fellow. ~ Barry Lee Pearson. Lizzie Douglas (June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973), known as Memphis Minnie, was a blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter whose recording career lasted from the 1920s to the 1950s. In conjunction with the tunes I show on my homespun DVD The Blues Guitar Styles of Memphis Minnie, you should be able to figure these out with a little study.Never figured a tune out? If You See My Rooster (Please Run Him Home), The First Lady of Blues (Digitally Remastered), Memphis Minnie, Vol. The companies began to seek out and record other singers in the same vaudevillian genre. Memphis Minnie's last commercial release, and a good one. Memphis Minnie was born on this date in 1897. If you are interested in Minnie’s guitar style, I’ve made a Homespun video on how to figure her guitar parts in the various keys she plays in. Theatrical, glamorous blues queens dominated the first decade of recorded blues. Master finger-style guitar player. Her recorded output is not necessarily the same as her live set. One photo of the two has Minnie in an florid, drop-waisted day dress, with straightened flapper hair, looking distinctly unsteady on her feet as she grabs hold of a grim-faced Joe’s padded shoulder. Elizabeth “Kid” Douglas, known as Memphis Minnie was an intricate guitarist, an astute songwriter and a stylistic innovator. Songs Sort by: Bestselling. Music (like most things) was still homemade: for entertainment, people threw parties–suppers where roast shoat, custard pies and candy sticks dipped in corn whiskey got worked off dancing the “shoofly”, the “scratch” and the “shimmy-she-wobble.” Minnie started playing banjo when she was seven years old, and was influenced by the string bands which played for dancers who partied all night and hit the fields at dawn. It’s hard to imagine how prevalent live music was before the advent of consumer electronics. Broonzy and Minnie became good friends, and played together locally and on the road. Memphis Minnie covered Bumble Bee and When the Sun Goes Down - Part 2. More than a good woman blues guitarist and singer, Memphis Minnie holds her own against the best blues artists of her time, and her work has special resonance for today's aspiring guitarists. Minnie is rumored to have joined a Ringling Bros. circus in Clarksdale around 1917. It was during this period that Bob Wills and some of his Texas Playboys saw her playing in Texas; they would later make her “What’s The Matter With The Mill?” a part of their repetoire. That version, with its laid-back, behind-the-beat, jug-driven groove, points the way to the Memphis Beat later perfected at Stax Records. Memphis Minnie (Image credit: Getty). Memphis Minnie’s music remained popular over two decades because it was lyrically and instrumentally in tune with the lives of Black Americans. The official job prospects for black women were limited to domestic service and farm work both of which demanded grueling labor and subservience for low pay. She also played for dances and store promotions. 03. Visit Del Rey and Suzy Thompson for modern interpretations. Tracking down the ultimate woman blues guitar hero is problematic because woman blues singers seldom recorded as guitar players and woman guitar players (such as Rosetta Tharpe and Sister O.M. Styles were shifting toward jump blues bands and by the mid ’50s the record industry had changed irrevocably with the fabrication of rock and roll. Her guitar playing embodies the best of blues: it takes a simple form and makes each iteration fresh and inventive. Stream ad-free with Amazon Music Unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. In 1907 a blues musician played in all kinds of places: house parties, barrel houses, work camps, traveling shows. They were playing together in a Beale street barbershop when a scout from Columbia offered to record them in New York. The silly yet haunting “Bumble Bee Blues” became the popular song from that session– so popular that Minnie recorded several different versions of it for different labels. Memphis Minnie discography and songs: Music profile for Memphis Minnie, born 3 June 1897. Suzy Thompson, who plays blues fiddle and guitar is another current interpreter of Minnie’s songs. Get all the lyrics to songs by Memphis Minnie and join the Genius community of music scholars to learn the meaning behind the lyrics. in the ’20s when record companies first perceived a market for the style. In the studio Minnie worked with pianist Black Bob, drummer Fred Williams and other instrumentalists, from the occasional trumpeter to lap-steel and mandolin. The most popular and prolific blueswoman outside the vaudeville tradition, she earned the respect of critics, the support of record-buying fans, and the unqualified praise of the blues artists she worked with throughout her long career. Memphis Minnie recorded over 100 songs, most of which she had written herself. Memphis Minnie, Black Bob, Bill Settles / Memphis Minnie: Memphis Minnie, Black Bob, Bill Settles / Memphis Minnie - Joe Louis Strut / He's In The Ring (Doing That Same Old Thing) (Shellac, 10") Vocalion (2) 03046: US: 1935: Sell This Version Related Topics: Big Bill Bronzy Blues Jefferson Airplane Memphis Minnie On This Day The composer credits for When The Levee Breaks – the closing track on Led Zeppelin’s multi-platinum fourth album (the rune-y one with Stairway To Heaven on) – read, ‘Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham & Memphis Minnie’. In terms of her influence on the development of blues, she was an important player in the Chicago clubs during the ’40s when musicians like Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rodgers and Johnny Shines, were coming up. It remains vital and influential today because of her inventive, rhythmic guitar playing and her songs, which capture people … Born in Algiers, LA, in 1897, Lizzie Douglas forged a reputation as Memphis Minnie during … Memphis Minnie originally did Soo Cow Soo, Moonshine, Can't Afford to Lose My Man, Pig Meat on the Line and other songs. Memphis Minnie covered Bumble Bee and When the Sun Goes Down - Part 2. loud) sound. She shaped a life very different from the limited possibilities offered to the women of her time. Big Bill Broonzy recalls her beating both him and Tampa Red in a guitar contest and claims she was the best woman guitarist he had ever heard. Memphis Minnie's songs: Listen to songs by Memphis Minnie on Myspace, Stream Free Online Music by Memphis Minnie The traveling musician was often a lonely stranger, an outsider who might not know the local situation, and musicians often teamed up. Terrell) were seldom recorded playing blues. Complete song listing of Memphis Minnie on OLDIES.com.  The wretchedness of hitting the fields at dawn led some to try life with “the starvation box”, as Roosevelt Sykes called the guitar. Memphis Minnie (born Lizzie Douglas in Algiers, Louisiana, June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973) was an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter from the late 1920s to the 1950s, one of the most influential country blues musicians to have ever recorded. Play Memphis Minnie hit new songs and download Memphis Minnie MP3 songs and music album online on … Two of the judges, John Estes and Richard Jones hoisted the victorious Minnie on their shoulders while Kansas Joe remarked sourly “Put her down. African, European and Indigenous traditions had begun to coalesce into the blues in the South much earlier than the ’20s, but our perception of history is usually based on recorded history: what gets recorded, written about and incorporated into our accepted common memory. Perhaps it’s because Memphis Minnie doesn’t fit the myth of the young, tragic, haunted blues man and she is too complex of a character to be easily marketed. Langston Hughes quote courtesy Vintage Books USA. Joe and Minnie based themselves in Chicago throughout the early ’30s, playing clubs like the DeLisa and the Music Box, recording both together and separately. Memphis Minnie’s music remained popular over two decades because it was lyrically and instrumentally in tune with the lives of Black Americans. Their sessions in May and December of 1941 fused her more urban sound, (for example her vocal delivery on “Nothin’ In Ramblin”), with Son Joe’s back-up style, which combined big chords with an insistent beat to create a chunky swing feel. These sides were never issued by Regal but can now be heard on the Biograph CD Memphis Minnie: Early Rhythm and Blues 1949. Some of her mid-thirties recordings incorporate piano, drums and a few horn players and after 1935, she joined the group of musicians who worked regularly for Lester Melrose, a producer and talent scout who supplied blues artists for a number of labels. The poet Langston Hughes saw her perform New Year’s Eve 1942, at the 230 Club, and was thoroughly overwhelmed by her “scientific” (i.e. Sources not cited in the text are from record labels and personal conversations with musicians. In 1939 she married Ernest “Little Son Joe” Lawlars, a Memphis based guitarist who was her partner for the next 23 years.  In 1933, when Big Bill Broonzy was very popular in Chicago, a blues contest between him and Memphis Minnie took place in a night club. Download our mobile app now. The major labels pulled out of the blues market, and Minnie’s last recordings were for Regal in 1949. MEMPHIS MINNIE & KANSAS JOE. Beale Street was at this time an important bit of pavement, a place where segregation forced dentists and church ladies to mix with gamblers and whores, creating quite a lively atmosphere. To place an order or for customer service, call toll-free 1-800-336-4627 or outside the United States, call 1-610-649-7565 Minnie’s fame began to spread northward by word of mouth and records. Memphis Minnie (known to her family as “Kid”) was born June 3, 1897, in Algiers Louisiana, the oldest of 13 brothers and sisters. Queen of the Blues 1997 Blues Legends: Memphis Minnie, Vol. Composers: Kansas Joe McCoy - Memphis Minnie McCoy. She was the only female blues artist considered a match to male contemporaries as both a singer and an instrumentalist. The Songs. She also proved to have as good taste in musical husbands as music and sustained working marriages with guitarists Casey Bill Weldon, Joe McCoy, and Ernest Lawlars. The forties treated Minnie and Son Joe well and they performed both together and separately depending on finances, (they could make more money playing separate gigs). Memphis Minnie. Excluding contemporary artists, the most notable exception to this pattern was Memphis Minnie. Join Napster and access full-length songs on your phone, computer or home audio device. The back-up parts are as interesting as the melody parts, especially on tunes like “When the Levee Breaks”, recorded in 1929, in Spanish tuning capoed to Bb (the third fret) or “Crazy Crying Blues” from 1931, also in Spanish, capoed to C# (the sixth fret). The poet Langston Hughes was overwhelmed by Minnie’s “rolling mill” sounds. During this period Minnie began playing much less; the guitar no longer combines bass, treble and rhythm parts, leaving that to the other instruments, and instead starts to sound more like what we think of as blues today, with soulful bends and well-placed twangs on songs like the swing influenced “Good Morning”(1936) and “Hot Stuff”(1937), both of which she played in standard tuning. Minnie’s fantastically vituperative vocal delivery on some songs may be due in part to having a cheek full of Copenhagen. Memphis Minnie (born Lizzie Douglas in Algiers, Louisiana, June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973) was an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter from the late 1920s to the 1950s, one of the most influential country blues musicians to have ever recorded. She lived a long life, was at her best in middle age, and would spit tobacco wearing a chiffon ball gown. She recorded around 200 songs, some of the best known being "Bumble Bee", "Nothing in Rambling", and "Me and My Chauffeur Blues". The best tune of that session, in which Minnie generally sounded tired and overwrought, is “Downhome Girl” which is sung with great feeling but too many notes on the wrong frets. There were traveling shows of all kinds, from lowdown to grand, but they all included comedy, dancers and musicians of every type from jug bands to elegant pianists. Her work (over 200 recordings) leads the way through the development of blues guitar playing, starting with her first recordings in 1929. Memphis Minnie (June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973) was an American blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwr Minnie used the name both publicly and privately, although her family still called her Kid. Minnie and Brown would get aboard and entertain the primarily white pleasure seekers, once debarking at Biggs Arkansas with $119 in tips. 03:07 Composers: M. McCoy. Memphis Minnie was never interested in physical labor and she began to play on the streets of Memphis and the towns surrounding Walls soon after getting her first guitar. Record companies are remarkably mono-thematic about marketing, and Minnie, like many other blues musicians, played jazz and swing tunes as well, although there are only hints of this in her 200 recorded sides. Queen Of The Blues. She got her first guitar at age ten or 11. In the same session Son Joe sang “Black Rat Swing”, and sounded so much like Minnie he must have borrowed her chewing tobacco. In our society, what is deemed important is often what has commercial value, and that is precisely what pushes blues off the front porch and onto 78s. There are also additional hints as to positions, and links to sound recordings on the Playing Memphis Minnie page. Memphis Minnie - Walls. Minnie’s arrival in Chicago precipitated a showdown with the reigning King, Big Bill Broonzy.1. Here’s links to a few of my favorite MM tunes. Her singing and songwriting, spirited demeanor, and superlative guitar playing propelled her to the upper echelons of a field then dominated by male guitarists and pianists. Many of her hits are still standards in more than one genre, like “What’s The Matter With The Mill?”, “Chauffeur Blues” or “When The Levee Breaks”. He described the sound of her electric guitar as ” a musical version of electric welders plus a rolling mill”. In any case, in 1929 Elizabeth Douglas, professionally known as Memphis Minnie, made her debut on record. She was known to spit mid-song without losing a beat. Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy:You Got To Move, Part 1 Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy:You Got To Move, Part 2 Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe:Hole In The Wall Memphis Minnie song lyrics collection. He's In the Ring (Doin' the Same Old Thing) Memphis Minnie. She recorded her most popular song, “Bumble Bee Blues,” at her first session in 1929 and re-recorded the song repeatedly throughout her career, including a session with The Memphis Jug Band. They mixed blues with pop tunes, her favorite cover being “What Makes You Do Me Like You Do Do Do”. She can walk”. He seems to play with a flatpick, mostly in standard tuning. She and Brown began playing together around 1915 in the resort town of Bedford Mississippi, where tourists could take a ferryboat trip around nearby Lake Cormorant. Photo courtesy the Frank Driggs collection. She was born Lizzie Douglas in Algiers, LA. Brown provided the solid rhythm and bass lines she seemed to require from all her men. Memphis Minnie Songs Download- Listen to Memphis Minnie songs MP3 free online. Minnie and Joe began a steady series of recording dates in New York, and Memphis, first for Columbia, later for Vocalion, Decca, Okeh and Bluebird. Minnie worked the streets and parks with Jed Davenport’s Beale Street Jug Band, and her guitar playing was influenced by the popular jug band musician Frank Stokes, who’s guitar duets with Dan Sane are very similar to Minnie’s early style. Memphis Minnie wrote Hoodoo Lady, When the Levee Breaks and Joliet Bound. A 1953 stomper about STD's.  Columbia was responsible for bestowing their geographical monikers: Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe. Memphis Minnie is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest artists in the Blues world and this collection highlights why. Anywhere you hear canned music now would probably have had a live musician–well, maybe not elevators. Memphis Minnie, Unknown, Probably Blind John Davis & Arnette Nelson 2:54: 20 I'm Going Don't You Know Memphis Minnie & Arnette Nelson 2:58: 20 Songs, 58 Minutes Released: Apr 15, 1991 ℗ 1991 Sony Music Entertainment Inc. Also Available in iTunes More By Memphis Minnie See All. I’ve noted where I think she’s playing-what position and what key. As a working musician, Minnie’s guitar style evolved partly in response to the kind of places she played and the people for whom she played. Albums include Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music: Volume Four, Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey, and When the Levee Breaks / That Will Be Alright. In 1957 Minnie had an incapacitating heart attack, and Son Joe became too ill to perform. Their guitar duets span the spectrum of African-American folk and popular music, including spirituals, comic dialogs, and old-time dance pieces, but Memphis Minnie's best work consisted of deep blues like "Moaning the Blues." Minnie settled Memphis in the early ’20s. Starting in 1929, her records lead us through twenty years of recorded blues and illustrate her life, as she moved from the rural South to urban Chicago. As a child, she was called Kid Douglas and she learned how to play the guitar and banjo. Clearly she had by that time embraced the next phase of the blues. Primarily an urban, piano based music, it was perfect for the speciously prosperous “Jazz Age” atmosphere of the twenties, during which the music of Black Americans became increasingly influential to the mainstream. Memphis Minnie wrote Hoodoo Lady, When the Levee Breaks and Joliet Bound. Some of Minnie’s best lyrics come from this period, like those in the autobiographical “In My Girlish Days”, (1941)which she played in G in standard tuning. Apparently people in Chicago, who had never actually seen her play, were skeptical–so far no women instrumentalists had become prominent on the tough country blues circuit, although some (like guitarist Mattie Delaney), made a brief, tantalizing appearance, then disappeared. Guitar Queen. They returned to Memphis where Minnie’s sister Daisy took care of them. Although Son’s playing has an impelling pulse and solidness their instrumental interplay is less intricate than what Minnie and Kansas Joe recorded. Lizzie Douglas was born on June 3, 1897 in Algiers, Louisiana. Their marriage and musical partnership fell apart in the mid-thirties, around the same time Minnie became increasingly featured as a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter.  Musically there were three basic phases to her style: the duet years with Kansas Joe, the “Melrose” band sound of the late thirties and early forties, and her later electric playing. 5 collection on Apple Music and Spotify to hear her complete works from 1940-1941. To buy Minnie’s original recordings check Arhoolie, and Document . 1 the Complete post-war Recordings in Chronological Order. Have fun! She grew up in Walls Mississippi, about 20 miles from Memphis on Route 61, in a time before rural electrification and national media created a mass culture. Joe Louis Strut . 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