Today is the birthday of the great early blues queen Victoria Spivey (1906-1976). The native Texan got her professional start as a child, singing and playing piano in movie theatres, saloons, whorehouses and black vaudeville, sometimes with her siblings Addie “Sweet Peas” Spivey and Elton island Spivey. She began cutting records for Okeh in 1926, later […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:53AM on October 15, 2013