Friday, September 1, 2017

1000 SONGS - DAY 364 SONG # 395

DAY 364: A Woman's Blues

Lizzie Douglas, known as Memphis Minnie, was born in Algiers, Louisiana, as one of 13 kids to her parents. She was aged 76 when she died in 1973. One of the great female Blues-Singers, she is remembered as one exemplary self-confident woman who is said to have chewed tobacco all the time (even when performing). It seems to me, that the Doctor Doctor Blues has something to do with her addiction to tobacco (but, as far as I understand, booze is also rendered here):



Lucinda Williams, one of the greatest female musicians of our time, has somewhat brought Minnie back to limelight in our days, as she has recorded a beautiful version of her wonderful song "Nothing in Rambling". Minnie's version and the one done by Lucinda, here they are: