Originally posted in 2010. Today is the birthday of Mamie Smith. No relation to Bessie, Mamie is best known today for recording “Crazy Blues” in 1920, which created the 1920s craze for “race records” and the classic female blues. More properly described as a jazz singer than a blues singer, she worked the segregated black […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:50AM on May 26, 2013