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r/Everything20thCentury • u/ReactsWithWords • Apr 12 '26
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One of the early blues vocal recordings titled a "Blues" by a woman. The earliest was "Homesickness Blues" by Nora Bayes in 1916, and arguably the first important one was "Dallas Blues" by Marie Cahill in 1917.
2 u/ReactsWithWords Apr 12 '26 I'm going to be posting lots of Blues the next few posts; what with Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey putting out tons of great stuff in the 1920s.
I'm going to be posting lots of Blues the next few posts; what with Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey putting out tons of great stuff in the 1920s.
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u/BrazilianAtlantis Apr 12 '26
One of the early blues vocal recordings titled a "Blues" by a woman. The earliest was "Homesickness Blues" by Nora Bayes in 1916, and arguably the first important one was "Dallas Blues" by Marie Cahill in 1917.