Big Maybelle: Blues, Candy & Big Maybelle
Dan Nooger, Savoy Jazz, 1986
BIG MAYBELLE has been called a legend, one of black music's tragic figures and one of the greatest blues shouters of all time. And she was big enough to be all this and more. Few blues singers have openly acknowledged Maybelle as an influence, but Screamin' Jay Hawkins has gone on record, and Aretha Franklin paid direct tribute with her soul-jazz LP Soul '69, which included treatments of Maybelle’s blues specialties 'Ramblin' Blues' and 'Pitiful'.
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