The following is a list of classic female blues singers.
Contents:
A
B
- Mildred Bailey
- Blue Lu Barker
- Gladys Bentley
- Esther Bigeou
- Lucille Bogan
- Ada Brown
- Bessie Brown
- Eliza Brown
- Kitty Brown
C
D
E
F
G
H
- Marion Harris
- Lucille Hegamin
- Edmonia Henderson
- Katherine Henderson
- Rosa Henderson
- Edna Hicks
- Bertha "Chippie" Hill
- Mattie Hite
- Rosetta Howard
- Helen Humes
- Alberta Hunter
I
J
L
M
- Ida May Mack
- Daisy Martin
- Sara Martin
- Viola McCoy
- Hazel Meyers
- Josie Miles
- Lizzie Miles
- Monette Moore
R
S
- Bessie Smith
- Clara Smith
- Laura Smith
- Mamie Smith
- Ruby Smith
- Trixie Smith
- Victoria Spivey
- Mary Stafford
- Hannah Sylvester
T
W
Y
See also
References
Notes
- Eagle, Bob; LeBlanc, Eric S. (2013). Blues - A Regional Experience. Santa Barbara: Praeger Publishers. p. 254. ISBN 978-0313344237.
- Leggett, Steve. "Ora Alexander". AllMusic. Retrieved January 17, 2011.
- "MILDRED BAILEY, SINGER OF BLUES; Noted Entertainer Succumbs to Heart Ailment Won Fame With 'Old Rockin' Chair' Big Name" in Field Discovered in 1929". The New York Times. 13 December 1951. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
- Eugene Chadbourne (November 13, 1913). "Blue Lu Barker | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- Russonello, Giovanni (2019-01-31). "Gladys Bentley, Gender-Bending Blues Performer and '20s Harlem Royalty". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
- Harris, Sheldon (1994). Blues Who's Who (rev. ed.). Boston: Da Capo Press. p. 48, ISBN 0-306-80155-8.
- Russell 1997, p. 94.
- Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 83.
- "Bessie Brown | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 85.
- Chadbourne, Eugene. "Kitty Brown". AllMusic. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- Chadbourne, Eugene. "Alice Carter". AllMusic. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
- Chadbourne, Eugene. "Alice Leslie Carter". AllMusic. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 106.
- ^ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 7.
- Harrison 1990, p. 49.
- Arwulf, Arwulf. "Madlyn Davis". AllMusic. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- Seroff, Doug; Abbott, Lynn Abbott (1994). "Sweet Mattie Dorsey : Been Here, But She's Gone". 78 Quarterly. pp. 103–112.
- Eagle, Bob; LeBlanc, Eric S. (2013). Blues - A Regional Experience. Santa Barbara: Praeger Publishers. p. 393. ISBN 978-0313344237.
- ^ Harrison 1990, p. 247.
- Bogdanov, Woodstra, Erlewine 2003, p. 655.
- Stewart-Baxter 1970, pp. 90–91.
- Stewart-Baxter 1970, pp. 86–87.
- Bourgeois, Anna Stong (1996). Blueswomen: Profiles of 37 Early Performers, with an Anthology of Lyrics, 1920-1945. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. pp. 60–61. ISBN 9780899509631.
- Chadbourne, Eugene. "Ida Goodson: Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved February 16, 2010.
- "Coot Grant | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- Leggett, Steve. "Helen Gross: Artist Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
- "Marion Harris: Hot Jazz and Black Themes for White Audiences by David Soren | The American Vaudeville Museum". Vaudeville.sites.arizona.edu. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 91.
- Harris, Sheldon (1994). Blues Who's Who (rev. ed.). Boston: Da Capo Press. pp. 226-7, ISBN 0-306-80155-8.
- ^ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 94.
- Russell 1997, p. 199.
- Russell 1997, p. 120.
- Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 79.
- Chadbourne, Eugene. "Bertha Idaho". AllMusic. Retrieved August 6, 2011.
- Leggett, Steven. "Edith North Johnson". AllMusic. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- Russell 1997, pp. 125-6.
- Russell 1997, p. 41.
- Russell 1997, p. 127.
- Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 74.
- Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 92.
- Govenar, Alan B.; Brakefield, Jay F. (8 August 2013). Deep Ellum: The Other Side of Dallas. Texas A&M University Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-1-60344-958-8.
- Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 23.
- Russell 1997, p. 12.
- Harris, Sheldon (1994). Blues Who's Who (rev. ed.). Boston: Da Capo Press. p. 374, ISBN 0-306-80155-8.
- Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 80.
- "Monette Moore | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- Giles Oakley (1997). The Devil's Music. Boston: Da Capo Press. p. 73-4. ISBN 978-0-306-80743-5.
- DePasquale, Ron. "Laura Smith". AllMusic. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
- Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 10.
- Arwulf Arwulf. "Ruby Smith". AllMusic. Retrieved October 9, 2011.
- ^ Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 81.
- *Harris, Sheldon (1994). Blues Who's Who (rev. ed.). Boston: Da Capo Press. p. 484, ISBN 0-306-80155-8.
- Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 96.
- Bogdanov, Woodstra, Erlewine 2003, p. 373.
- Eagle, Bob; LeBlanc, Eric S. (2013). Blues: A Regional Experience. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger. p. 312. ISBN 978-0313344237.
- Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 68.
- Russell 1997, p. 185.
- Stewart-Baxter 1970, p. 26.
- Harrison 1990, pp. 174–175
- Bowers, Jane (2000). "Writing the Biography of a Black Woman Blues Singer". In Moisala, Pirkko; Diamond, Beverley (eds.). Music and Gender. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 145.
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- Harrison, Daphne Duval (1990). Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers. ISBN 0-8135-1280-8.
- Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray. Dubai: Carlton Books, ISBN 1-85868-255-X
- Stewart-Baxter, Derrick (1970). Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers. London: Studio Vista. OCLC 250212516