Oh, Run into Me, But Don't Hurt Me!: Female Blues Singers Rarities 1923-1930

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All Music Guide - Steve Leggett
There are a couple of names here, like Memphis Minnie and Lucille Bogan, that will be familiar to fans of the early blues on this interesting collection of female blues singers who recorded between 1923 and 1930, but most of these singers will be unknown to all but the most serious blues scholars and collectors. Most of them recorded sparingly, often cutting only the two sides of a single 78, before vanishing into the mists of history, remaining now only as vocal ghosts in the digital glow of the 21st century. Those voices, however, remain amazingly powerful, and the honest coarseness and barely veiled sexual themes of these songs is oddly refreshing and hopeful, and the ...
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Editorial Reviews

All Music Guide - Steve Leggett
There are a couple of names here, like Memphis Minnie and Lucille Bogan, that will be familiar to fans of the early blues on this interesting collection of female blues singers who recorded between 1923 and 1930, but most of these singers will be unknown to all but the most serious blues scholars and collectors. Most of them recorded sparingly, often cutting only the two sides of a single 78, before vanishing into the mists of history, remaining now only as vocal ghosts in the digital glow of the 21st century. Those voices, however, remain amazingly powerful, and the honest coarseness and barely veiled sexual themes of these songs is oddly refreshing and hopeful, and the directness of some of these sides seems bold even by today's standards. The little-known Margaret Johnson is a case in point. Her two-sided 78, which included the to-the-point-and-suffer-no-fools "Dead Drunk Blues," a song that could only be called a blues dirge, and the bright-sounding (but not really) "Second-Handed Blues," explores the universal themes of the wages and costs of love with all the subtlety of a hammer thrown through a pane of glass. The directness is startling, revealing, redemptive, and even a little frightening. In other words, it's everything the blues should be.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 4/15/2008
  • Label: Sub Rosa
  • EAN: 5411867112686
  • Catalog Number: 268
  • Sales rank: 93,897

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 Trixie Blues - Anna Jones (2:54)
  2. 2 Low Down Despondent Blues - Lena Henry (2:53)
  3. 3 Get It Fixed - Rosa Henderson (2:55)
  4. 4 I'm Gonna Get Me a Man, That's All - Virginia Liston (3:08)
  5. 5 Come Get Me Papa Before I Faint - Margaret Carter (2:50)
  6. 6 I Want Plenty Grease in My Frying Pan - Margaret Carter (2:43)
  7. 7 Somebody's Been Lovin' My Babe - Monette Moore (3:26)
  8. 8 Stole My Man Blues - Martha Copeland (3:08)
  9. 9 Dead Drunk Blues - Margaret Johnson (3:09)
  10. 10 Second-Handed Blues - Margaret Johnson (3:20)
  11. 11 Down South Blues - Coletha Simpson (2:49)
  12. 12 Third Alley Blues - Ivy Smith (2:52)
  13. 13 Sad and Blue - Ivy Smith (2:50)
  14. 14 You'll Never Miss Your Jelly - Lil Johnson (3:27)
  15. 15 Never Let Your Left Hand Know - Lil Johnson (2:59)
  16. 16 Pot Hound Blues - Lucille Bogan (3:04)
  17. 17 Coffee Grindin' Blues - Lucille Bogan (3:22)
  18. 18 Doggin' Me Around Blues - Jenny Pope (3:15)
  19. 19 Whiskey Drinking Blues - Jenny Pope (3:08)
  20. 20 Bull Frog Blues - Jenny Pope (2:41)
  21. 21 Tennessee Workhouse Blues - Jenny Pope (2:49)
  22. 22 Black Angel Blues - Lucille Bogan (3:06)
  23. 23 Tricks Ain't Walking Anymore - Lucille Bogan (3:17)
  24. 24 I'm Talking About You, No. 2 - Memphis Minnie (3:13)
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Album Credits

Technical Credits
Memphis Minnie Composer
Virginia Liston Composer
Martha Copeland Composer
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