Latest Release
- 5 APR 2024
- 4 Songs
- Let's Go to Town, Vol. 2 · 2003
- Queen of the Blues · 1997
- Queen of the Blues · 1997
- Blues 36 chefs-d'oeuvre 1927-1942 · 1995
- Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order: Vol. 5 (1940-1941) · 1988
- Complete Recoded Works in Chronological Order: Vol. 1 (1935) · 1991
- The Stuff That Dreams Are Made of: Super Rarities · 2006
- Hoodoo Lady (1933-1937) · 1936
- Let's Go to Town, Vol. 2 · 2003
- Hoodoo Lady (1933-1937) · 1936
Essential Albums
Singles & EPs
About Memphis Minnie
While several women rose to fame as blues vocalists in the early 1930s, few succeeded as instrumentalists. Memphis Minnie was a notable exception. A forceful guitarist who once reportedly beat Big Bill Broonzy in a guitar picking contest, Memphis Minnie was also an accomplished vocalist.
- HOMETOWN
- Algiers, LA, United States
- BORN
- 3 June 1897
- GENRE
- Blues