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Ma Rainey blues heaven | born in columbus, georgia
Known as "The Mother of the Blues," Rainey honed her skills as a girl singing in
the First African Black Church in Columbus. In the early 1900s she married Pa Rainey and
they toured southern levee and tent camps billed as "Ma and Pa Rainey - The
Assassinators of the Blues." Click here for another nice bio and links
to audio files.
Hye Pockets Robertson minneapolis / st. paul, minnesota
Pockets has spent three decades honing his "ability to maintain an intensified
groove" as the former drummer for Luther Allison, Big Walter Smith and Sonny Boy Lee.
Sandy Ross los
angeles, california
This
skilled touring blueswoman does contemporary and folk acoustic blues.
