Description
Release Date: 2024
Label: Jasmine Records
Track List
Disc: 1
- 1 That Will Be Alright
- 2 Frisco Town
- 3 When the Levee Breaks
- 4 She Wouldn’t Give Me None
- 5 Bumble Bee
- 6 Can I Do It for You (PT 1)
- 7 I’m Going Back Home
- 8 Don’t Want No Woman
- 9 She Put Me Outdoors
- 10 What’s the Matter with the Mill
- 11 North Memphis Blues
- 12 Don’t Bother It
- 13 Pickin’ the Blues
- 14 Soo Cow Soo
- 15 Outdoor Blues
- 16 Where Is My Good Man
- 17 Too Late
- 18 You Got to Move (PT 1)
- 19 Chickasaw Train Blues
- 20 Banana Man Blues (I Don’t Want That Thing)
- 21 Moaning the Blues
- 22 Dirty Mother Fuyer
- 23 You Can’t Give It Away
- 24 Reachin’ Pete
- 25 He’s in the Ring
- 26 When the Sun Goes Down
Disc: 2
- 1 Selling My Pork Chops
- 2 Hoodoo Lady
- 3 Black Cat Blues
- 4 Man You Won’t Give Me No Money
- 5 Haunted Blues
- 6 You Can’t Rule Me
- 7 No Need You Doggin’ Me
- 8 Walking and Crying Blues
- 9 Keep on Eating
- 10 I’d Rather See Him Dead
- 11 Black Widow Stinger
- 12 Keep Your Big Mouth Closed
- 13 Nothing in Rambling
- 14 It’s Hard to Please My Man
- 15 In My Girlish Days
- 16 Me and My Chauffeur Blues
- 17 Pig Meat on the Line
- 18 This Is Your Last Chance
- 19 Black Rat Swing
- 20 When You Love Me
- 21 Please Set a Date
- 22 I’m So Glad
- 23 Killer Diller
- 24 Million Dollar Blues
- 25 Shout the Boogie
- 26 Jump Little Rabbit
- 27 Kid Man Blues
- 28 World of Trouble
Notes
Widely perceived as “The First Female Guitar Hero” (although the concept “Guitar Hero” wouldn’t exist for forty years) LIZZIE “Memphis Minnie” DOUGLAS was one of the most popular Blues artistes of the 1930s and 40s. She was certainly the foremost female guitarist, the equal of a great many of the male guitarists, famously winning a cutting competition with Big Bill Broonzy in a Chicago club, in the early 30s. Minnie was also “The First Lady of Country Blues”, performing in a less readily accessible style than Ma Rainey, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter and Bessie Smith, whose fame and popularity were achieved via the vaudeville/jazz “Classic Blues” style. This compilation presents a career overview, covering 1929-53, in particular highlighting her work with her guitar-toting ‘husbands’, Casey Bill Weldon, Kansas Joe McCoy, and Ernest Lawlars.
