Stormy Night Blues
Posted in 1920s, Female Blues on 04.17.07

I moved the logo over to the left side of the page last night, hopefully that will help those with lower resolution monitors - and those with higher resolution monitors get a nice wave of bees. We’ll mess around with color shades with the type tonight and see if we can get to a more readable shade for everyone.

Fannie May Goosby has stolen my heart. I don’t normally go for the higher, dramatic voices. She nails it. She’s sweet and succinct and doesn’t drag her vaudeville career into many of her recorded songs (and the few vaudeville style duets she did do aren’t so bad either). Fannie also wrote most of her own songs, a rarity in female blues and they show her to be a clever and smart writer along with her solid singing its a shame she did not become as popular as Lucille Bogan who was recorded at the same session in Atlanta in 1923.

Fannie May Goosby - All Alone Blues (1923)
Fannie May Goosby - Stormy Night Blues (1928)

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By Colleen on 04.17.07 10:08 pm

I love the colors and the bee logo. The site is looking great. :)


By Lee on 04.18.07 8:39 am

I agree. The new design is fantastic.


By brian on 04.19.07 10:54 pm

the piano playing also is quite cosmic. an adolescent thelonious monk?


By john on 04.20.07 8:22 am

Piano playing ? ?


By john on 04.20.07 8:23 am

Oh, on the songs. Not the site.
Hey, , , it’s early.


By wagsbpwtkb on 06.12.07 4:33 am

Hello! Good Site! Thanks you! tgmrnsuyxy


By lwncushllp on 06.12.07 8:03 am

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