Lyrics by Ma Rainey

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  1. Bad Luck Blues
  2. Chain Gang Blues
  3. Prove It On Me
  4. Barrel House Blues
  5. Bessemer Bound Blues
  6. Big Feeling Blues
  7. Black Cat, Hoot Owl Blues
  8. Black Eye Blues
  9. Blues And Booze
  10. Bo-Weavil Blues
  11. Counting The Blues
  12. Don't Fish In My Sea
  13. Jelly Bean Blues
  14. Last Minute Blues
  15. Moonshine Blues
  16. See See Rider
  17. Sissy Blues
  18. Slave To The Blues
  19. Southern Blues
  20. Those All Night Long Blues
  21. Walking Blues
  22. Yonder Come The Blues

Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (née Pridgett; April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) was an American blues singer and influential early-blues recording artist. Dubbed the "Mother of the Blues", she bridged earlier vaudeville and the authentic expression of southern blues, influencing a generation of blues singers. Rainey was known for her powerful vocal abilities, energetic disposition, majestic phrasing, and a "moaning" style of singing. Her qualities are present and most evident in her early recordings "Bo-Weevil Blues" and "Moonshine Blues". Gertrude Pridgett began performing as a teenager and became known as "Ma" Rainey after her marriage to Will "Pa" Rainey in 1904. They toured with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels and later formed their own group, Rainey and Rainey, Assassinators of the Blues. Her first recording was made in 1923. In the following five years, she made over 100 recordings, including "Bo-Weevil Blues" (1923), "Moonshine Blues" (1923), "See See Rider Blues" (1925), the blues standard "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (1927), and "Soon This Morning" (1927).Rainey also collaborated with Thomas Dorsey, Tampa Red, and Louis Armstrong, and toured and recorded with the Georgia Jazz Band. Touring until 1935, she then largely retired from performing and continued as a theater impresario in her hometown of Columbus, Georgia, until her death four years later. She has been posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, as well as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rainey has been portrayed in several films including the 2020 Academy Award-winning film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. In 2023, she was honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

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