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Bio's

Source	Author
The Blue Flame Cafe	Compiled from sources on the internet.
The All Music Guide	Jim O'Neal & Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Recommended listening

Album	Label/Cat. No.	CDs	Availability1
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Riverside RLP-12-108	1	for sale
Black Bottom	Yazoo 1071	1	for sale
Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1 (1923-1924)	Document 5581	1	for sale
Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2 (1924-1925)	Document 5582	1	for sale
Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 3 (1925-1926)	Document 5583	1	for sale
Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 4 (1926-1927)	Document 5584	1	for sale

Recommended reading

Title	Author	Availability1
Mother of the Blues: A Study of Ma Rainey	Sandra R. Lieb	for sale
Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers	Derrick Stewart-Baxter	library

Recommended viewing

Title	Actors/Performers	Availability1
Any suggestions? Please mail me...	.	.

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The Lyrics

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Table Of Content (18 songs, 13 soundclips)	* = additions of Nov. 1999, ** = additions of June 2000
** Bad Luck Blues ** Barrel House Blues * Big Feeling Blues ** Black Cat, Hoot Owl Blues Blues And Booze ** Bo-Weavil Blues Chain Gang Blues Counting The Blues Don't Fish In My Sea	* Jelly Bean Blues ** Last Minute Blues ** Moonshine Blues See See Rider ** Sissy Blues ** Southern Blues ** Those All Night Long Blues ** Walking Blues * Yonder Come The Blues

Created by:
Bluesman Harry
Page last updated on:
June 8 2000