Ma Rainey – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Description

Release Date: 1991

Label: Yazoo Records

 

Track List

1. Oh Papa Blues
2. Black Eye Blues – take 1
3. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
4. Booze And Blues
5. Blues Oh Blues
6. Sleep Talking Blues – take 1
7. Lucky Rock Blues
8. Georgia Cake Blues
9. Don’t Fish In My Seas
10. Stack O’Lee Blues
11. Shave ‘Em Dry Blues
12. Yonder Come The Blues – take 1
13. Screech Owl Blues
14. Farewell Daddy Blues

 

Notes

With her rich, deep voice a Rainey was one of the foremost blues singers of her era and the musical ‘godmother’ of Bessie Smith. Her renditions of early blues quickly became standards copied by all in the field. She benefited from first-class accompaniments, whether jazz or jug band, country or city, by the best musicians of the time.