Ma Rainey

ABlues oh blues
BOh papa blues

Label: JazzRecSocAA
Catalogue number: 108
Genre: Jazz
Format: 78rpm shellac disc, 10 inch unless noted
Reference: #4644

Ma Rainey performs 'Blues oh blues' and 'Oh papa blues' on Jazz Record Society AA108. Rainey was the 'Mother of the Blues', one of the earliest and most influential blues singers, active from the 1920s onward. The Jazz Record Society was a specialist reissue label founded in the 1940s, making available early jazz and blues recordings. UK copies of specialist reissue labels are uncommon.

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BStack o lee blues

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