Maria MULDAUR

⬇️ MARIA MULDAUR ⬇️
(Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica D'Amato)
DISCOGRAPHY 1973-2025 (49CD)

 BIOGRAPHY 

Muldaur was born Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica D'Amato in Greenwich Village, New York City, where she attended Hunter College High School.

Muldaur began her career in the early 1960s as Maria D'Amato, performing with John Sebastian, David Grisman, and Stefan Grossman as a member of the Even Dozen Jug Band.

She then joined Jim Kweskin and His Jug Band as a featured vocalist and occasional violinist. During this time, she was part of the Greenwich Village scene that included Bob Dylan, and some of her recollections of the period, particularly with respect to Dylan, appear in Martin Scorsese's 2005 documentary film, No Direction Home.

She married fellow Jug Band member Geoff Muldaur, and after the Kweskin outfit broke up the two of them produced two albums. She began her solo career when their marriage ended in 1972, but retained her married name.

Her first solo album Maria Muldaur, released in 1973, contained her hit single "Midnight at the Oasis", which reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1974. It also peaked at number 21 in the UK Singles Chart. Later that year, she released her second album Waitress In A Donut Shop. This included a re-recording of "I'm a Woman", the Leiber and Stoller number first associated with Peggy Lee and a standout feature from her Jug Band days. The title of this album is taken from a line in another song on the album, "Sweetheart" by Ken Burgan.

Around this time, Muldaur established a relationship with the Grateful Dead. Opening for some Grateful Dead shows in the summer of 1974 with John Kahn, bassist of the Jerry Garcia Band, which would eventually earn her a seat in that group as a backing vocalist in the late 1970s.

Muldaur appeared on Super Jam (1989), the live recording of the German TV series Villa Fantastica with Brian Auger on piano, Pete York on drums, Dick Morrissey on tenor saxophone, Roy Williams on trombone, Harvey Weston on bass and Zoot Money, also on vocals.

Muldaur continued to perform, tour, and record after her success in the mid-1970s, including a turn at the Teatro ZinZanni in 2001.

Her 2005 release Sweet Lovin' Ol' Soul was nominated for both a W.C. Handy Award and a Grammy award in the Traditional Blues Category.

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1974-Waitress In A Donut Shop (LP) @FLAC+

1976-Sweet Harmony (LP) @FLAC+

1979-Open Your Eyes (LP) @FLAC

1982-There Is A Love (LP) @FLAC+

1990-On The Sunny Side @FLAC+

1993-Jazzabelle @FLAC+

1993-Sweet and Slow @FLAC

1996-Fanning The Flames @FLAC+

2002-Animal Crackers In My Soup @FLAC

2003-Classic Live! @FLAC+

2005-Rhino Hi-Five @FLAC

2005-Sweet Lovin' Ol' Soul @FLAC+

2006-Songs For The Young At Heart @FLAC

2008-Live in Concert @FLAC

2010-Barnyard Dance_ Jug Band Music For Kids @FLAC

2010-Blues Jam Live Audio_ Maria Muldaur @FLAC

2010-Christmas at the Oasis @FLAC+

2025-One Hour Mama_The Blues of Victoria Spivey @FLAC24

The SUNDOGS

2006-Bon Temps Noel @FLAC

Etta.JAMES

⬇️ ETTA JAMES ⬇️

(Jamesetta Hawkins)
DISCOGRAPHY 1960-2025 (187CD/DVD)

 BIOGRAPHY 

       

Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins; January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012) was an American singer.

Her style spanned a variety of music genres including blues, R&B, soul, rock and roll, jazz and gospel. Starting her career in 1954, she gained fame with hits such as "The Wallflower", "At Last", "Tell Mama", "Something's Got a Hold on Me", and "I'd Rather Go Blind" for which she wrote the lyrics.

She faced a number of personal problems, including drug addiction, before making a musical resurgence in the late 1980s with the album Seven Year Itch.

James is regarded as having bridged the gap between rhythm and blues and rock and roll, and was the winner of six Grammys and 17 Blues Music Awards. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001, and the Grammy Hall of Fame in both 1999 and 2008.

Rolling Stone ranked James number 22 on their list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time and number 62 on the list of the 100 Greatest Artists....

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1990-The Sweetest Peaches The Chess Years Part.1 (1960-66) @FLAC+

2017-The Platinum Collection @FLAC

2021-Something´s Got a Hold on Me @FLAC

2021-The History Woman (Best Of Early Years) @FLAC

2022-Your Good Thing (Live at Tipitina's) @FLAC24-96

2023-Red, Hot and Live @FLAC

2024-Late Night @FLAC

2024-Time Is Right (Live Chicago '82) @FLAC

Harrison KENNEDY

⬇️ HARRISON KENNEDY ⬇️

(17CD)

 BIOGRAPHY 

Harrison Kennedy (born March 9, 1942) is a Black Canadian electric blues, R&B, and soul blues, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for being the lead vocalist on the Chairmen of the Board song, "Chairman of the Board", but has had a varied solo career since the mid-1970s. He was awarded the 2016 "Blues Album of the Year" Juno Award for his release, This Is From Here. It was Kennedy's sixth nomination for that Award. He is also a Blues Music Award, and multiple Maple Blues Award nominee.

Harrison Kennedy was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His family had roots in New Orleans and Tennessee,. Kennedy sang in the Stewart Memorial Church Choir as a boy, when childhood trips took him over the border to visit relations in Arkansas, Rogersville, Tennessee, and Detroit, Illinois, United States, and all these experiences expanded his love of music. in 1974

Kennedy relocated to Detroit and joined the Chairmen of the Board in 1970, a group started as part of the then newly created Holland–Dozier–Holland record labels, Invictus Records and Hot Wax Records. Kennedy played on the recording of Marvin Gaye's 1971 song, "What's Going On". Following a string of hit records with Chairmen of the Board, which included "Give Me Just a Little More Time", "(You've Got Me) Dangling on a String", and "Everything's Tuesday", Kennedy left in 1974 and set out on a solo career. Kennedy served as a corporal with the RHLI and later worked for Allied Chemical Corporation.

Over the years on a part-time basis he played a variety of musical genres including funk, soul, R&B, folk, rock, and gospel. Kennedy spent almost 30 years outside of the music industry, before returning as a blues singer and guitarist with 2003's Sweet Taste. In 2007, Kennedy signed a new recording contract with Electro-Fi Records and has since released a number of internationally acclaimed albums. In 2008, Kennedy was nominated for Best Blues Recording in Canada's Juno Awards. He separately achieved second place against 83 others in the solo/duo category at the 2011 International Blues Challenge. In 2013 he also overcame a spell of prostate cancer.

In 2013 he released Soulscape, on which he played a variety of instruments, which was followed by the Juno winning album, This Is From Here. It featured Colin Linden on several tracks, from a total of six of which Kennedy wrote. The album has also won the Grand Prix du Disque for Blues award from the Académie Charles Cros in France, as the 2015 Blues Album of the Year. Harrison toured in late 2014 with Ruthie Foster, Eric Bibb and Jerome Michael Brown. He also appeared as a guest performer on Bibb's 2014 album, Blues People. He participated in 2018 with Jean-Jacques Milteau and Vincent Segal on the recording of Crossborder Blues, published by Naïve. In 2017, this group commenced a tour. (Wikipedia)

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2026-Old Fashion Plain @FLAC

Ruthie FOSTER

⬇️ RUTHIE FOSTER ⬇️

(Ruthie Cecelia Foster)

DISCOGRAPHY 1997-2026 (18CD/DVD)

 BIOGRAPHY 

       

Ruthie Cecelia Foster (born February 10, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter of blues and folk music. She mixes a wide palette of American song forms, from gospel and blues to jazz, folk and soul. She has often been compared to Bonnie Raitt and Aretha Franklin.

Foster is from Gause, Texas and comes from a family of gospel singers. At the age of fourteen, Ruthie was a soloist in her hometown choir, and was certain that her future would revolve around music. After high school, Ruthie moved to Waco, Texas to attend community college, where her studies concentrated in music and audio engineering. She began fronting a blues band, learning how to command a stage in the bars of Texas.

Hoping to travel and gain a wider world perspective, Foster joined the Navy, and soon her musical talents had her singing in the naval band Pride, that played pop and funk hits at recruitment drives in the southeastern United States. Following her tour of duty, Ruthie headed to New York City where she became a regular performer at various local folk venues.

Atlantic Records got wind of Foster's talent and offered her a recording deal, with the intent of cultivating her as a budding pop star, but Foster wasn't interested in a pop career, preferring instead to explore the various strains of American roots music that had informed her childhood. When her mother fell ill in 1993, Foster left New York and her recording deal and returned to Texas to be with her family. She began working as a camera operator and production assistant at a television station in College Station, Texas while she cared for her mother, who died in 1996..... (Wikipedia)

Bessie SMITH

⬇️ BESSIE SMITH ⬇️
DISCOGRAPHY 1923-2024 (104CD/DVD)

 BIOGRAPHY 
          

Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer. Nicknamed the Empress of the Blues, she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. She is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and was a major influence on fellow blues singers, as well as jazz vocalists.

The 1900 census indicates that her family reported that Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July 1892. The 1910 census gives her age as 16, and a birth date of April 15, 1894 appears on subsequent documents and was observed as her birthday by the Smith family. The 1870 and 1880 censuses report three older half-siblings, but later interviews with Smith's family and contemporaries contain no mention of them among her siblings.

She was the daughter of Laura (born Owens) and William Smith, a laborer and part-time Baptist preacher (he was listed in the 1870 census as a "minister of the gospel", in Moulton, Lawrence County, Alabama). He died while his daughter was too young to remember him. By the time Bessie was nine, her mother and a brother had also died. Her older sister Viola took charge of caring for her siblings.

To earn money for their impoverished household, Smith and her brother Andrew began busking on the streets of Chattanooga. She sang and danced as he played the guitar. Their favorite location was in front of the White Elephant Saloon at Thirteenth and Elm streets, in the heart of the city's African-American community.

In 1904, her oldest brother Clarence left home, joining a small traveling troupe owned by Moses Stokes. "If Bessie had been old enough, she would have gone with him," said Clarence's widow, Maud. "That's why he left without telling her, but Clarence told me she was ready, even then. Of course, she was only a child."

In 1912, Clarence returned to Chattanooga with the Stokes troupe and arranged an audition for his sister with the troupe managers, Lonnie and Cora Fisher. She was hired as a dancer rather than a singer, because the company already included the well-known singer Ma Rainey. Smith eventually moved on to performing in various chorus lines, making the "81" Theater in Atlanta her home base. She also performed in shows on the black-owned (Theater Owners Booking Association) (T.O.B.A.) circuit and became its biggest star after she signed a recording contract with Columbia Records.

Smith's recording career began in 1923. Despite her success, neither she nor her music was accepted in all circles. She once auditioned for Black Swan records (W. E. B. Du Bois was on its board of directors) and was dismissed because she was considered too rough, she supposedly stopped singing to spit. In fact, even her admirers, white and black, considered her a “rough” (i.e., working class or even “low class”) woman.

She was then living in Philadelphia, when she met Jack Gee, a security guard, whom she married on June 7, 1923, just as her first record was being released. During the marriage Smith became the highest-paid black entertainer of the day, heading her own shows, which sometimes featured as many as 40 troupers, and touring in her own custom-built railroad car.

Their marriage was stormy with infidelity on both sides, including numerous female lovers for Bessie. Gee was impressed by the money but never adjusted to show business life or to Smith's bisexuality. In 1929, when she learned of his affair with another singer, Gertrude Saunders, Smith ended the relationship, although neither of them sought a divorce.

Smith later entered a common-law marriage with an old friend, Richard Morgan, who was Lionel Hampton's uncle. She stayed with him until her death..... (Wikipedia)

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1925-Columbia DF 3074 (78rpm)  @FLAC

1927-Columbia 14195-D (78rpm) @FLAC

2002-Jazz 'n' Blues @320

2019-Niven Jazz Collection @FLAC

Tape 1-3

Ma RAINEY

⬇️ MA RAINEY ⬇️

(Gertrude Malisa Nix Pridgett Rainey)

DISCOGRAPHY 1928-2026 (40CD/DVD)

 BIOGRAPHY 
        

Ma Rainey (April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) was one of the earliest known American professional blues singers and one of the first generation of such singers to record. She was billed as The Mother of the Blues.

She began performing at the age of 12 or 14, and recorded under the name Ma Rainey after she and Will Rainey were married in 1904.

They toured with F.S. Wolcott’s Rabbit Foot Minstrels and later formed their own group called Rainey and Rainey, Assassinators of the Blues. 

From the time of her first recording in 1923 to five years later, Ma Rainey made over 100 recordings. Some of them include, Bo-weevil Blues (1923), Moonshine Blues (1923), See See Rider (1924), Black Bottom (1927), and Soon This Morning (1927).

Ma Rainey was known for her very powerful vocal abilities, energetic disposition, majestic phrasing, and a ‘moaning’ style of singing similar to folk tradition. Though her powerful voice and disposition are not captured on her recordings (due to her recording exclusively for Paramount, which was known for worse-than-normal recording techniques and among the industry's poorest shellac quality), the other characteristics are present, and most evident on her early recordings, Bo-weevil Blues and Moonshine Blues.

Ma Rainey also recorded with Louis Armstrong in addition to touring and recording with the Georgia Jazz Band. Ma Rainey continued to tour until 1935 when she retired to her hometown.

Gertrude Pridgett was born on April 26, 1886 in Columbus, Georgia. She was the second of five children of Thomas and Ella (née Allen) Pridgett, from Alabama. She had at least two brothers and a sister named Malissa, with whom Gertrude was later confused in some sources.

She came onto the performance scene at a talent show in Columbus, Georgia when she was 12–14 years old. A member of the First African Baptist Church, she began performing in show tents. Around 1902 she was first exposed to blues music,They sang and danced together in Black minstrel shows, and for several years toured with F.S. Wolcott's Rabbit Foot Minstrels..... (Wikipedia)

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(78rpm)

1924-Paramount 12215 (78rpm) @FLAC24-96

1926-American Music 5 (78rpm) @FLAC24-96

1927-Paramount 12526 (78rpm) @FLAC24-192

1944-Signature 908 (78rpm) @FLAC24-96

(ALBUMS)

2005-Heritage of the Blues-Hustlin Blues (2CD) @FLAC

2019-Blame It on the Blues (CD) @FLAC

2021-The Essential & Original Southern Blues Collection (Deluxe Edition) @FLAC+

2026-Selection of Mother of the Blues, Complete Paramount Rec. (1923-28) @FLAC24

(4 tracks only !! Looking for the complete 5CD Box Set)

ESSENTIAL CLASSICS

Vol. 687 Ma Rainey (2CD) @FLAC

VARIOUS

VA-Great Blues Singers (LP) @FLAC

Janiva MAGNESS

⬇️ JANIVA MAGNESS ⬇️

DISCOGRAPHY 1997-2019 (19CD/DVD)

 BIOGRAPHY 

Blues vocalist Janiva Magness walked away from music a few times before she was able to accept it as her calling. Her support system of family and friends turned out to be not so supportive when it came to her career choice, and numerous discouraging comments chipped away at Magness' confidence.

During one of these dark periods when she'd given up on pursuing a career in the blues, she shut herself away for 40 hours a week in an office for an entire year, plugging away at a regular job with a construction company, refusing to even enter a nightclub in the evenings.

She would later describe her estrangement from music as "torture," and it was enough to convince her that she needed to persevere in her uphill struggle to claim the career she realized she wanted and needed. Her strength and perseverance paid off and she has gone on to win raves from fans and critics.

Among the awards she has received are the B.B. King Award for Musical Excellence, which is conferred by Soundboard Magazine; the Jim Croce Award for Outstanding Achievement in Rhythm and Blues; and from New Times Magazine, the designation of Blues Band of the Year in the Arizona publication's Critics Choice Awards.

The petite singer also won a spot in the 2000 edition of the calendar put out by the Tucson Blues Society. In addition to her two CDs, the Blues Leaf Records releases Blues Ain't Pretty and My Bad Luck Soul, she collaborated with Jeff Turmes on the Fat Head Records release It Takes One to Know One.

She also collaborated on recordings with numerous other artists, including Kid Ramos, Catfish Hodge, Neal Casal, and Deacon Jones. A native of Detroit, MI, Magness later made Southern California her home base.

After winning fans in concerts and nightspots there, she started appearing overseas. She has performed at the International Blues Festival held in 1999 in Lucerne, Switzerland, and the Rhythm & Blues Festival held the previous year in Peer, Belgium.

She also starred in a production of Ain't Nothin' but the Blues, which was staged at the David Geffen Theatre. Linda Seida

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2025-Back For Me @FLAC

2026-Truth In The Room-The Clearmountain Sessions (Live) @FLAC24-96

James 'Wee Willie' WAYNE

⬇️JAMES 'Wee Willie' WAYNE⬇️

(5CD)

 BIOGRAPHY 

James Douglas Wayne (March 3, 1920 or April 17, 1924 – March 31, 1978), who recorded in the 1950s and early 1960s as James Waynes, James Wayne, and Wee Willie Wayne, was an American rhythm and blues singer, songwriter and musician. He recorded "a fine blend of Texas blues and New Orleans R&B". He had a no.2 hit on the Billboard R&B chart in 1951 with the song "Tend To Your Business", and that year also recorded one of the earliest versions of the widely performed song "Junco Partner".

Details of his life are obscure. According to his own account, he was born in Houston, Texas, in 1920, although some sources give his birthplace as Jefferson County, Texas with a date of birth in 1924, and others state it as New Orleans.

He claimed to have undertaken training as a commando, and spent time in jail around 1950 for burglary, before becoming a musician. He sang, played guitar, and reportedly also played drums. He is believed to have first recorded in Houston, for the Sittin' In With record label started by Bob Shad. His recording of "Tend To Your Business" became a hit in 1951, and stayed on the R&B chart for 14 weeks. He followed it up with "Junco Partner (Worthless Man)" in 1952, recorded by Shad in Atlanta, Georgia. According to musician Mac Rebennack (Dr. John), Wayne's version made the song popular, although it was already widely known among musicians in New Orleans and elsewhere, as: "the anthem of the dopers, the whores, the pimps, the cons. It was a song they sang in Angola, the state prison farm, and the rhythm was even known as the 'jailbird beat'." In all, he recorded five singles for the Sittin' In With label, the first three credited to James Waynes, with a final "s".

Wayne then recorded with Lee Allen and other musicians for Imperial Records in New Orleans, before moving to the Aladdin label in Los Angeles, and then Old Town Records. He returned to Imperial in 1955, when he began to record as Wee Willie Wayne. One of his recordings there was "Travelin' Mood", which became another R&B standard recorded by Dr. John and others; the B-side was "I Remember", another classic recording. He also recorded for the Peacock and Angle Tone labels, before returning again in 1961 to Imperial where he recorded an updated version of "Tend To Your Business", as part of an album, Travelin' Mood, mostly made up of earlier recordings.

He did not record after 1961. In February 1967, he was arrested after setting fire to a motel in South Central Los Angeles following an argument with its manager, and was charged on three felony counts. He was found to have had a history of alcoholism, and to be suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, and was committed to a mental health institution. His claims of having been a successful musician were initially discounted by the authorities. He spent several years in the Atascadero State Mental Hospital in the early 1970s, before being released.

In 1975, he was reportedly living in Los Angeles. According to blues researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc, he died in Los Angeles in 1978 and was buried at Santa Fe Springs.

A compilation LP, Travelin' From Texas To New Orleans, was issued by Sundown Records in 1982. A CD compilation of the same title was issued in 2002, and a CD of his 1950-1955 recordings was issued by Jasmine Records in 2019. (Wikipedia)

Trudy LYNN

⬇️ TRUDY LYNN ⬇️

(Lee Audrey Nelms)
DISCOGRAPHY 1989-2026 (20CD)

 BIOGRAPHY 

Trudy Lynn (born August 9, 1947) is an American electric blues and soul blues singer and songwriter, whose recorded work has been released on nine albums.

She was born Lee Audrey Nelms in the Fifth Ward, Houston, Texas, United States.

Her professional singing career began in the mid-1960s, when she sang with the guitarist Albert Collins and then later, Clarence Green. Use of her stage name of Trudy Lynn was in place when she performed with the Rhythmaires in the late 1960s.

Her early work was in the rhythm and blues genre, and she once opened for Ike & Tina Turner. In the 1970s, Lynn expanded her performing base from clubs in Houston, to regional work and then overseas.....

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1998-Retrospectives Trudy Lynn @FLAC+

2019-Connor Ray Christmas @FLAC

2026-Turning the Same Ole Corners @FLAC24

Jimmy RUSHING

⬇️ JIMMY RUSHING ⬇️

(James Andrew Rushing)
DISCOGRAPHY 1945-2024 (56CD/DVD)

 BIOGRAPHY 
        

James Andrew Rushing (August 26, 1901 - June 8, 1972), known as Jimmy Rushing, was an American blues shouter and swing jazz singer from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, best known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948.

Rushing was known as "Mr. Five by Five" and was the subject of an eponymous 1942 popular song that was a hit for Harry James and others-the lyrics describing Rushing's rotund build: "he's five feet tall and he's five feet wide". He joined Walter Page's Blue Devils in 1927, then joined Bennie Moten's band in 1929. He stayed with the successor Count Basie band when Moten died in 1935.

Rushing was a powerful singer who had a range from baritone to tenor. He could project his voice so that it soared over the horn and reed sections in a big-band setting. Basie claimed that Rushing "never had an equal" as a blues vocalist..... (Wikipedia)

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1999-Every Day @FLAC

1999-Oh Love @FLAC+

2007-Vanguard Visionaries @FLAC

2015-Remastered Collection @320

2021-Good Ol' 5 x 5 @FLAC+

2021-Just Because @FLAC

2021-Where Were You @FLAC+

COLLECTION

ESSENTIAL CLASSICS

Vol. 593 Jimmy Rushing @FLAC

COLLABORATION

Buck CLAYTON

2017-Cat Meets Chick - A Story in Jazz (Analog Source Remaster) @FLAC

JAZZ VARIOUS

VA-All That Jazz, Vol. 63 – Changes @FLAC24-48

VA-Directly from the Half Note @FLAC

VA-Ralph J. Gleason's Jazz Casual, Vol.2 @FLAC

Sweet BETTY

⬇️ SWEET BETTY ⬇️

(2CD)

 BIOGRAPHY 

Known for her powerful voice, Sweet Betty Journey passed away on June 20, 2026, at the age of seventy-six, three days before her 77th birthday.

She had been suffering from serious health issues, and according to the Music Maker Relief Foundation (which I thank for providing the information needed to write this article), she had even spent ten months in the hospital in 2024…

She was born Elizabeth S. Echols on June 23, 1949, in Duluth, Georgia, about fifty kilometers northeast of Atlanta. With a mother who sang in church, she got her start in gospel music before moving to Atlanta. After singing at parties for friends, she decided in the mid-1980s to make music her career and worked with saxophonist Grady “Fats” Jackson, who recorded with Big Joe Turner in 1953 as part of a band that also included Elmore James.

After Jackson’s death in 1994, she accompanied Bob Margolin, among others, and in 1997, she recorded “They Call Me Sweet Betty” for JSP—a fine album that I reviewed in issue 151 of Soul Bag. In fact, it was Margolin who introduced her the following year to Music Maker, which would support her in 2003 and enable her to release another remarkable album in 2004, *Live and Let Live*.

Sweet Betty would not record again but continued to perform and tour in the Atlanta area. I invite you to listen to a track from her first album, *They Call Me Sweet Betty*, and one from her second, *Walk the Street*.

Brenda BOYKIN

⬇️ BRENDA BOYKIN ⬇️

DISCOGRAPHY 2002-2016 (24CD)

 BIOGRAPHY  

Boykin a commencé à chanter dans la chorale de la North Oakland Missionary Baptist Church et y était chanteur solo. Elle a appris la clarinette au lycée et s'est tournée vers le jazz et le blues tout en étudiant la psychologie à l'université de Berkeley.

Elle est devenue connue comme la chanteuse du Johnny Nocturne Band. Elle a joué dans de nombreux festivals internationaux, tels que le DuMaurier Jazz Festival à Vancouver, le Monterey Bay Blues Festival, le Monterey Jazz Festival, le San Francisco Blues Festival et le Umbria Jazz Festival.

Elle a été lauréate du concours Montreux Under the Sky au 39e Montreux Jazz Festival ; son quatuor a été nommé meilleur groupe de tout le festival en plein air. En 2015, elle s'est produite en tant que soliste avec le Russian Chamber Philharmonic St. Petersburg au gala du Zelt-Musik-Festival à Fribourg. Elle est régulièrement invitée à ce festival.

Elle a longtemps travaillé avec le guitariste Eric Swinderman, mais en 2004, elle a déménagé de San Francisco à Wuppertal. Elle est impliquée dans le projet allemand de nu-jazz Club des Belugas.

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BLUESCATS

2023-Bring It On Home-The Willie Dixon Project @320

Ruth BROWN

⬇️ RUTH BROWN ⬇️
DISCOGRAPHY 1950-2026 (61CD/DVD)

 BIOGRAPHY 

        

Ruth Brown (January 12/January 30, 1928 – November 17, 2006) was an American singer-songwriter and actress also known as "Queen of R&B" noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as "So Long", "Teardrops from My Eyes" and "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean".

For these contributions, Atlantic became known as "The house that Ruth built" (alluding to the popular nickname for Old Yankee Stadium).

Following a resurgence that began in the mid-1970s and peaked in the 1980s, Brown used her influence to press for musicians' rights regarding royalties and contracts, which led to the founding of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.

Her performances in the Broadway musical Black and Blue earned Brown a Tony Award, and the original cast recording won a Grammy Award..... (Wikipedia)

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1965-Ruth Brown '65 @FLAC

1997-Miss Rhythm- The Rest & More Of The Best @FLAC+

2018-I Cried a Tear @FLAC24

2025-Miss Rhythm (Remastered Edition) @FLAC24

2025-Secret Love @FLAC24

2026-Rock & Roll Queen. The Lost Ruth Brown Sessions (Remastered) @FLAC24

2026-Ruth Brown's Rock & Roll Legacy (Remastered) @FLAC24