Memphis minnie proto-RnB

After break up with spouse Joe McCoy, Memphis Minnie commuted between home town and Chicago for nearly two decades - finding audiences as well as financial funding for further recording work. In this aspect we're all grateful to Great Lakes' boomtown of late 30s, enabeling this remarkable femme artist to develop her personal strand of RnB


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH8_WH5aRqo kissin' in the dark early 50s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSno_4LhXOQ killer diller late 40s both late period outings, easily reaching back twenty years to Memphis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lzDXIo4nWg crazy cryin' 1931

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhis33IOXN0 hoodoo lady mid 30s most prob. ChiTown, though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZm__okfkmA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQwGhSiEMzE rader see'im ded 1938

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiRoNuw5x4M me&my chauffeur 1941 maybe her best known song?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uv6_xkPDG8 you is one black rat late 30s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkUp2AQKEFE down by riverside