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Memphis Minnie · 1930 · Enregistrement Vocalion de février 1930

Context

Recorded in February 1930 for Vocalion, this track is among Memphis Minnie's first recordings. She cut nearly two hundred songs over more than thirty years and was one of the artisans of the shift to electric blues.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Blues, spirituals, work songs, Classic blues (women singers).

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