blueswoman

"Lord Help" is a secular hymn taken from Mississippi country blueswoman Jessie Mae Hemphill.

Tom Jones 2010

Lottie Kimbrough, a.k.a. Lottie Beaman, was a Kansas City blueswoman nicknamed "Butterball."

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Twenty 2009

Jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux has covered songs by artists ranging from blueswoman Bessie Smith to alternative rocker Elliott Smith.

Singing Her Own Song 2009

"Who Will Save Your Soul" features Jewel folkily crooning, growling like a blueswoman (albeit a white blueswoman from Alaska), and cooing like a six-year-old, all within the 12 seconds or so of the insufferable chorus.

Tony Sachs and Sal Nunziato: If Music Be The Food Of Love, These Songs Are Fried Pork Rinds 2008

"Sometimes I feel like a motherless child," the blueswoman sings in an ominous warble.

Slate Articles Troy Patterson 2011

The song was written in 1940 by the great blueswoman Lil Green - who actually toured with Luis Russell's band - and has been recorded by everyone from

News 2012

Brent, with four Blues Foundation 2009 Blues Music Awards nominations, is a piano-playing blueswoman who's been described as "Bessie Smith meets Diana Krall meets Janis Joplin."

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Notably with an accompaniment of Mick Harvey's smooth, wailing organ and clanging percussions from Harvey herself as she sings like a possessed blueswoman.

Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009

"Out goes 'Snorah', in comes gothic blueswoman ...

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