Cat. No. 2857: MEMPHIS MINNIE ~ CRAZY CRYING BLUES. FABULOUS FABCD111. (IMPORT).

MEMPHIS MINNIE WAS A GIANT AMONG THE MALE DOMINATED BLUES PLAYERS. BEFORE THE 1930's THERE WAS A TRADITION OF FEMALE BLUES PLAYERS AND SINGERS, BUT FOR SOME REASON THEY FELL OUT OF FASHION. NOT SO MEMPHIS MINNIE, THE WOMAN WAS A BLUES PLAYER NOT TO BE FOOLED WITH, A PLAYER WHO COULD TAKE ON AND BEAT THE BEST WHEN IT CAME TO GUITAR BATTLES. THE TRACKS ON THIS CD ARE GLEANED FORM MINNIE'S CATALOGUE FROM 1930 THROUGH TO 1941 AND MOSTLY FEATURE MEMPHIS MINNIE AND KANSAS JOE McCOY. THE SEVEN TRACKS FROM THE 1940s FEATURE MINNIE WITH LITTLE SON JOE. FABULOUS PRE-WAR BLUES FROM ONE OF THE BEST.

TRACK LISTING: Bumble Bee / Can I Do It For You Pt. 1 / Memphis Minnie-Jitis Blues / New Dirty Dozen / Frankie Jean (That Trottin' Fool) / I Called You This Morning / What's The Matter With The Mill / North Memphis Blues / Crazy Cryin Blues / Tricks Ain't Walking No More / Pickin' The Blues / Soo Cow Soo / After Awhile Blues / Joliet Bound / Where Is My Good Man / Drunken Barrel House Blues / You Got To Move (You Ain't Got To Move) Pt. 1 / Let Me Ride / Nothing In Rambling / Finger Print Blues / Ma Rainey / In My Girlish Days / Me And My Chauffer Blues / Pigmeat On The Line / Can't Afford To Lose My Man.

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