Big Maybelle
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Live Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 2 September 1968
Top Pop Concert Draws Only 2,000 To Randalls Island ...
Big Maybelle: Blues, Candy & Big Maybelle
Sleeve notes by 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 ...
Sleeve notes by Pete Grendysa, Sony Legacy, 1994
THERE'S A picture of her taken at the Fox Theater in Detroit in 1956. She's at the microphone in a sleeveless satin gown, head down, ...
Guide by Dave Godin, MOJO, June 1995
Sometimes the music is almost too much to bear. And soul music at its most soaring, yearning and burning can leave you wrung out and ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001
b. Mabel Louise Smith, 1 May 1924, Jackson, Tennessee, USA, d. 23 January 1972 ...
Big Maybelle: Candy! On Savoy 1956-59
Sleeve notes by Colin Escott, Savoy Jazz Records, 2001
RECORD COMPANY files tell the story in a haunting, elliptical way. Let's take 1957, for instance: January 8, fifteen dollar advance; same day, another fifty ...
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