Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey was an American blues singer born Gertrude Pridgett on April 26, 1886,
in Columbus, Georgia. She began performing as a teenager in local stage shows,
then entered the Black vaudeville and tent-show circuit, where she developed a
direct, theatrical vocal style before marrying performer William “Pa” Rainey in
1904. The couple toured as Rainey and Rainey, “Assassinators of the Blues,” and
by the 1910s Ma Rainey had become one of the best-known blues performers on the
Southern circuit. In 1923, she signed with Paramount Records and began recording
in Chicago, cutting early ...
See See Rider Blues
Ma RaineyGolden 20ies
Me and My Chauffeur BluesMa Rainey and Memphis Minnie
Body & Soul
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Countin' the Blues, Pt. 1Ma Rainey
Night Time Blues
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma RaineyDo Your Duty
Moonshine BluesMa Rainey and Memphis Minnie
One Hundred Years of Mother's Blues
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In My Girlish DaysMa Rainey and Memphis Minnie
Crazy Crying Blues
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