Big Mama Thornton
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J.B. Lenoir, Buddy Guy, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Big Mama Thornton et al: Fairfield Hall, Croydon
Live Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 21 October 1965
WHEN EIGHT blues artistes leap about a stage, blowing harmonicas, thumping drums and piano, playing guitars and singing and shouting their song, it is impossible ...
Big Mama Thornton: Big Mama Thornton In Europe (Arhoolie 1028)
Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 21 May 1966
WILLIE MAE "Big Mama" Thornton, certainly the finest woman blues singer you'll hear these days, finally has a good recording on the market. Big Mama ...
Big Mama Thornton: Ash Grove, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 15 February 1968
WILLIE MAE (Big Mama) Thornton, resident attraction at the Ash Grove through Sunday, just about outweighed her audience Tuesday night, but the barrel-shaped singer rolled ...
Lee Michaels, Big Mama Thornton: Rose Palace, Pasadena CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 1969
Rock Show Given at Pasadena Rose Palace ...
Joe Cocker, Big Mama Thornton, Lonnie Mack, Sweetwater: Magic Circus, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 1969
Soul Music Presented at the Magic Circus ...
Payin' Some Dues — Blues at Ann Arbor
Live Review by Miller Francis jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 18 August 1969
"I'd like for them to hear the real things. I don't think yet that most of the white people like my music because it's blues. I ...
Big Mama Thornton: Stronger Than Dirt (Mercury)
Review by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 1 November 1969
ANYBODY WHO has ever seen Big Mama Thornton perform will vouch for the fact that she is a consummate entertainer. So good, in fact, that ...
Live Review by Michael Lydon, The New York Times, 19 April 1970
'Sing Your Own Blues' ...
Big Mama Thornton, Phillip Walker: Ash Grove, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 4 December 1971
Big Mama Thornton on Stage at Ash Grove ...
Big Mama Thornton: The Hound Dog Howler Who Inspired Janis
Profile and Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 1 January 1972
IN THE DEEPEST depths of Transatlantic's Marylebone High Street (London) headquarters there's a wire cage which looks like Death Row in your favourite neighbourhood prison. ...
B.B. King and Guests: Philharmonic Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 1 July 1973
B.B. King's Blues Barn Creates Echoes of Past ...
Obituary: Don D. Robey, R&B Pioneer, Dead at 71
Obituary by Joe Nick Patoski, Rolling Stone, 31 July 1975
HOUSTON — DON D. Robey, a leading figure in rhythm & blues and gospel recordings in the Fifties and Sixties, died early Monday, June 16th, ...
Willie Mae Thornton: Big Mama to the end
Obituary by Bill Bentley, L.A. Weekly, 16 August 1984
WILLIE MAE Thornton, called Big Mama by friends and fans, sang the sort of boisterous blues that made one want to roll around in the ...
Willie Mae ‘Big Mama’ Thornton 1926-1984
Obituary by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 18 August 1984
ONE OF the founding careers in rock and roll ended on Wednesday, July 25, when a heart attack took the life of Willie Mae ‘Big ...
Book Review by Tony Burke, Blues & Rhythm, August 1990
BIG NICKEL PUBLICATIONS continue their unsurpassed service of providing a mine of information to R&B record collectors with another addition to its catalogue of books, ...
Obituary by David Hepworth, The Word, October 2011
The man who made "15-minute radio plays" into hits. ...
Big Mama Thornton: Big Mama's Blues
Retrospective by 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 ...
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