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Big Mama Thornton: Big Mama's Blues

David Burke, Vintage Rock, November 2017

BIG MAMA THORNTON – alias Willie Mae Thornton – knew how it worked. Like her black R&B contemporaries, male and female (but especially female), she would never get the recognition for, or reap the financial rewards of, her artistry.

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