Ella Mae Morse
Barrelhouse, Boogie & The Blues

5397102110092
(P) 1997 Bear Family Records [1777]

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She was of the same vintage as Sister Rosetta Thorpe, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Big May Belle, Big Mama Thornton, Sarah Vaughan, Nellie Lutcher, Ruth Brown and Lavern Baker - disparate blues-affiliated divas prised into the world between the start of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash. Like them too, she inhabited a stylistic area bordered by gospel, jazz, hillbilly, showbiz evergreens, vaudeville and all manner of trace elements in North America's cultural melting pot - which she processed through a voice that, by European bel canto standards, was devoid of plummy eloquence and nicety of intonation. [...more...]

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