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MA RAINEY ALBUM INFO

Ma Rainey album cover Artist: Ma Rainey
Album: Ma Rainey
Release Date: 1 Jul 1991


Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett Rainey, better known as Ma Rainey (April 26, 1886<ref name=talk>Note: this is the usually stated date, although there is some evidence she was in fact born in 1882 - see talk page.</ref> – December 22, 1939), was one of the earliest known United States|American professional blues singers and one of the first generation of such singers to record.<ref name=southern>{{cite book | last=Southern | first=Eileen | authorlink=Eileen Southern | year=1997 | title=The Music of Black Americans: A History |edition=3rd edition | publisher=W. W. Norton & Company | isbn=0-393-97141-4</ref> She was billed as List of people known as the father or mother of something|The Mother of the Blues. She did much to develop and popularize the form and was an important influence on younger blues women, such as Bessie Smith, and their careers.

Career
Rainey was born in Columbus, Georgia.<ref>[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pis&GRid=2477&PIgrid=2477&PIcrid=36417&PIpi=82955& Find a Grave: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey]</ref> She first appeared on stage in Columbus in "A Bunch of Blackberries" at fourteen. She then joined a traveling vaudeville troupe, the Rabbit Foot Minstrels. After hearing a sad song sung a cappella by a local girl in a small town in Missouri in 1902, she started performi

Track list:

  1. Jealous Hearted Blues
  2. See See the Rider Blues
  3. Jelly Bean Blues
  4. Countin' the Blues
  5. Slave To The Blues
  6. Chain Gang Blues
  7. Bessemer Bound Blues
  8. Wringin' And Twistin' Blues
  9. Mountain Jack Blues
  10. Trust No Man
  11. Morning Hour Blues
  12. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  13. New Boweavil Blues
  14. Black Cat, Hoot Owl Blues
  15. Hear Me Talking To You
  16. Prove It On Me
  17. Victim Of The Blues
  18. Sleep Talking Blues
  19. Blame It On The Blues
  20. Daddy, Goodbye Blues
  21. Sweet Rough Man
  22. Black Eye Blues
  23. Leavin' This Morning
  24. Runaway Blues

Ma Rainey top 10 albums

  1. Ma Rainey Vol. 1 (1923-1924)
  2. Complete Recorded Works: 1928 Sessions
  3. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  4. Ma Rainey
  5. Black Bottom
  6. Hustlin' Blues
  7. Don'T Fish in My Sea
  8. Ma Rainey Vol. 3 (1925-1926)
  9. 1923-1928
  10. Heroes of the Blues: The Very Best of Ma Rainey
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