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Sorry again about Friday, I took the weekend off for my birthday though I had planned to post about Big Mama Thorton, it will have to wait ’til this Friday. My birthday went well, it was filled with Red Velvet cake and other good things. I also got an iPod (!) now I can officially be inducted into the blogger club.
Today we are featuring two tracks by Billie Young, a unusual singer (at best) backed by Jelly Roll Morton. These tracks are real puzzles to me, they both start off with a blues yodel which helps date Young as an older blues singer as she had most likely picked up that type of singing from the vaudeville days - the rest of the song varies from typical blues phrasing to awkward jazz style, but I can’t stop listening to them, they are just oddly hypnotic.
Billie Young - You Done Played Out Blues
Billie Young - When They Get Lovin’ They’s Gone
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Hey there,
Love your blog…it introduces me to all sorts of music I wound NEVER have come across otherwise. The Stagolee project was especially wonderful (have your read Cecil Brown’s book?).
Just one question: I noticed you mentioned a Sister Rosetta Tharpe video you put together. Is this available to those who donate? I was thinking of donating anyways, but would also be very much interested in the video. Thanks for all your doing!
These are very strange and hypnotic, yes. Fascinating though.
Yea, the Sister Rosetta Tharpe video is in the donor’s blues video section.
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