Elzadie Robinson

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Elzadie Robinson (* 1900 in Louisiana ) was an American blues singer and songwriter .

Robinson was originally from Shreveport , Louisiana and began her career as a chorus girl in Logansport, Louisiana and then as a vaudeville and cabaret singer in the Houston area before moving to the northern United States. Robinson, who had a rough voice, recorded a total of 32 blues songs (including twelve original compositions) in Chicago from September 1926 to March 1929 for Herwin , Broadway and Paramount Records such as "Whiskey Blues" / "Back Door Blues" (# 12509, with the pianist Will Ezell ), e.g. T. under the pseudonym Blanche Johnson ("Galveston Blues", Herwin 92016) and for the Broadway label as Bernice Drake ("Humming Blues" 1926, Paramount 12420). Her musicians included Johnny St. Cyr ("Love Crazy Blues"), Richard M. Jones ("Boston Bound"), Blind Blake ("Elzadie's Policy Blues" / "Pay Day Daddy Blues"), Jimmy Bertrand , Johnny Dodds , Jimmy Blythe , Preston Jackson and Shirley Clay . For Christmas 1927, Paramount Robinsons published "The Santa Claus Grave Blues" (Paramount 12573, B-side "St. Louis Cyclone Blues"). In 1928, shortly before the Great Depression , she sang the prophetic lines in "Arkansas Mill Blues":

When I hear that whistle blow, ther'll be no more work for that man of mine;
The old pond dries up, the last steam blows the whistle,
And everybody moves to a new place.

Discographic notes

  • Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order - 1926–1928 ( Document Records , ed. 1990)
  • Complete Works, Vol. 2 (1928–1929) (Document, ed. 1990)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Oliver : The Story of the Blues . Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press 1998, p. 128.
  2. ^ A b Giles Oakley: The Devil's Music: A History of the Blues . 1977, page 80
  3. ^ Stefan Grossman : Blind Blake . Alfred Music Publishing 2007, p. 6.
  4. ^ Tracey EW Laird: Louisiana Hayride: Radio and Roots Music along the Red River . Oxford University Press 2004, p. 36
  5. ^ David Evans: Big Road Blues: Tradition and Creativity in Folk Blues . Univ. of California Press, 1982, p. 66
  6. ^ Craig Martin Gibbs Black Recording Artists, 1877–1926: An Annotated Discography McFarland, 2012, p. 360
  7. ↑ http://www.rootsandrhythm.com/roots/BLUES%20&%20GOSPEL/blues_r2.htm
  8. ↑ Quoted from Michael Saffle: Perspectives on American Music 1900–1950 . Routledge, 2000, p. 94
  9. ↑ The album also contains six tracks by Lottie Beaman from 1924.
personal data
SURNAME Robinson, Elzadie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American blues singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century