Monday, October 15, 2012

Oh, Ms. Spivey!


Happy birthday to American blues singer and songwriter Victoria Spivey, born on this day in 1906 in Houston, TX. 

Ms. Spivey’s career spanned forty years—even the Great Depression couldn’t  stop her! Ms. Spivey worked with Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Clarence Williams, Luis Russell, Lonnie Johnson, and Bob Dylan. She launched Spivey Records in 1961with jazz historian Len Kunstadt, made and played the blues, right up to her death in 1976.

Give a listen to You’re My Man/ Slick Chick Blues from, The Blues is Life album. Great praise, Ms. Spivey! Great praise!    



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