Lucille Bogan

Lucille Bogan or later Bessie Jackson ( born April 1, 1897 in Amory, Mississippi, Lucille Anderson, † August 10 1948 in Los Angeles ) was an American vaudeville and blues singer, songwriter and guitarist.

Life and work

Lucille Bogan is one of the classic female blues singers of the 1920s and 1930s. She was from Mississippi. Her career as a singer began in the 20s in the blues scene from Birmingham ( Alabama). 1923 Bogan took in New York for Okeh their first record on. The title "Lonesome Daddy Blues " and " Pawnshop Blues" were but - rather attributable to the genre of vaudeville blues - despite its name. She then moved to Chicago and only returned in the early 1930s back to New York, where she began a collaboration with pianist Walter Roland. Bogan and Roland had henceforth both as a musician and as a songwriter together. The two played together over a 100 records before Bogan 1935 their recording career ended.

Jackson / Bogan eventually changed the style of their performances and entered henceforth not as Lucille Bogan, although they as Bogan had a 1927 hit in the market the so-called Race Records with the song " Sweet Petunia ". Her most famous tracks as a songwriter under the name Bessie Jackson is one of the "BD Woman's Blues, "the 75 years later part of the song material of lesbian artists like Holly Near, or the Indigo Girls. "BD", an abbreviation for bull dykes, began with the lines: "Comin ' a time / women is not gonna need no men".

Then she wrote in her later years in California more songs. Your last composition was called prophetically " Gonna Leave Town ". After her death took him Smokey Hogg 1949. More of her titles have been composed by Saffire: The Uppity Blues Women recorded, also of the band member Ann Rabson and Novelty band Asylum Street Spankers.