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Lizzie Miles Vol 1 1922 - 1923 £7.49

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Lizzie Miles

TRACK LIST

01 - Muscle shoals blues 02 - She walked right up and took my man away 03 - Virginia blues 04 - State Street blues 05 - Wicked blues 06 - He may be your man, but he comes to see me sometimes 07 - Lonesome monday morning blues 08 - Please don`t tickle me, babe 09 - Hot lips 10 - Take it, `cause it`s all yours 11 - The yellow dog blues 12 - The black bottom blues 13 - He used to be your man but he`s my man now 14 - Sweet smellin` mama (71254) 15 - The trixie blues 16 - Four o` clock blues (take 1) 17 - Aggravatin` papa (take 2) 18 - Tell me gypsy 19 - You`ve gotta come and see mama every night (take 1) 20 - Your time now 21 - Haitian blues (42365) 22 - Sweet smellin` mama (poro blues) (80986)

Miles was born in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, in a dark skinned Francophone Creole ("Creole of Color") family. She traveled widely with minstrel and circus shows in the 1910s, and made her first phonograph recordings in New York City of blues songs in 1922-though Miles did not like to be referred to as a "Blues Singer", since she sang a wide repertory of music. In the mid 1920s she spent time performing in Paris before returning to the United States. She suffered a serious illness and retired from music in the 1930s. In the 1940s she returned to New Orleans, where Joe Mares encouraged her to sing again-- which she did, but always from in front of or beside the stage, since she said she had vowed in a prayer not to go on stage again if she recovered from her illness. Miles was based in San Francisco, California in the early 1950s, then again returned to New Orleans where she recorded with several Dixieland and traditional jazz bands and made regular radio broadcasts. In 1959 she quit singing except for gospel music. She died in New Orleans on March 17, 1963. Her half sister Edna Hicks was also a blues singer.