Fannie Mae Goosby

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Fannie Mae Goosby was an American blues singer and pianist.

Fannie Mae Goosby was, alongside Lucille Bogan, one of the first blues singers from the southern United States to have the opportunity to make recordings. In 1923, Polk Brockman and Ralph Peer of Okeh Records in Atlanta recorded songs by Goosby in addition to hillbilly musician Fiddlin 'John Carson . Fannie Mae Goosby recorded several tracks in the session, accompanied by trumpet and piano. "Grievous Blues" (Okeh 8079) was released. On March 1, 1928, she recorded four more tracks in Atlanta, "Can't Use You Blues" / "Dirty Moaner Blues" ( Brunswick 7029) and "Stormy Night Blues" / "Fortune Teller Blues" (by Porter Grainger , Brunswick 7030); she was accompanied by cornetist Henry Mason .

Discographic notes

  • Piano Singer's Blues - Women Accompany Themselves (Rosetta Records, ed. 1982)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Big Road Blues Show 6/30/13: Mix Show
  2. ↑ Paul Oliver . Barrelhouse Blues: Location Recording and the Early Traditions of the Blues . 2009.
  3. ↑ ATL 2067 research
  4. ↑ Recordings by 'Fannie Mae Goosby'
  5. ^ Brunswick 7000 Series Numerical Listing
personal data
SURNAME Goosby, Fannie Mae
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American blues singer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century