Daddy, goodbye blues --Black eye blues --Deep moanin' blues --Runaway blues --Leaving this morning --Travelling blues --Sleep talking blues --Blame it on the blues. 101 Daddy, Goodbye Blues / Tampa ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I think about the roots of blues music—the raw honesty, the pain wrapped in poetry, the joy carved out of hardship—I think of Ma Rainey. Her voice was more than a sound; it was ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Blues legend Gertrude “Ma” Rainey electrified Jacksonville’s LaVilla district in the early 1900s, building her reputation as the “Mother of the Blues” while breaking barriers as ...
Blues musician Charlie Apicella’s formula for success is simple: He awakens every day creating music to make Ma Rainey proud. Apicella never met Rainey, who died in 1939, but he said it is impossible ...
CAPTURING AUDIENCES. THESE SNAPSHOTS TAKE YOU BACK TO A SNAPSHOT IN HISTORY 1927, IN CHICAGO, WHERE SINGER MA RAINEY IS MERGING JAZZ AND BLUES WHILE EMERGING AS A STAR. MA RAINEY, HER CHARACTER. SHE ...