It has roots deeply embedded in the Black experience. Blues has long been a powerful expression of the struggles, joys and ...

We spend today’s show in a deep exploration of the blues. We’ll explore the racialized ... That’s someone who is popularly, although not popularly enough, known as Big Mama Thornton – not famous ...

Robert Johnson's 'Cross Road Blues' is a desperate plea. Howlin' Wolf's 'Smokestack Lightning' conveys endless longing. Big Mama Thornton's 'Ball and Chain' is a powerful lament. These selections ...

The book highlights R&B performers like Little Junior Parker, Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton, and Arthur ... Howard Grimes (“Timekeeper”), blues legend Robert Johnson’s stepsister ...

Big Mama Thornton took the same path as most musicians. One night's a supper club that had the tablecloths and the candles. Then she'd go down the street to a hole in the wall. (lively blues music ...

noted that the veteran R&B singer Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton had first recorded the song a few years before. In Thornton’s rendering, “Hound Dog” was gutbucket blues laced with yelps ...

Today she considers Big Mama Thornton. Show more Big Mama Thornton was a gender-fluid, masculine-presenting blues woman who first recorded Hound Dog (later recorded by Elvis Presley) and wrote the ...

A documentary premiering this winter featuring legendary blues singer Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton One of the greatest blues singers of all time, Alabama-born Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton ...

And there were singers, including Bobby "Blue" Bland and an assortment of killer ladies, including Jewel Brown, the gleefully raunchy Katie Webster, and the fierce Willie May "Big Mama" Thornton ...

When you take a step back and look at the music, performance, and songwriting of Big Mama Thornton, it is truly difficult to think of many figures who have had as mammoth an impact on modern rock and ...

Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton was the second-youngest of seven siblings born in Alabama on December 11, 1926. Growing up, Thornton watched female blues legends like Bessie Smith and Memphis ...