Lucille Bogan
Lucille Bogan or later Bessie Jackson (born April 1, 1897 in Amory , Mississippi as Lucille Anderson , † August 10, 1948 in Los Angeles ) was an American vaudeville and blues singer , songwriter and guitarist.
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Lucille Bogan is one of the classic blues singers of the 1920s and 1930s. She was from Mississippi . Her career as a singer began in the 1920s in the blues scene in Birmingham, Alabama . In 1923 Bogan recorded her first record for Okeh in New York . The titles "Lonesome Daddy Blues" and "Pawnshop Blues" were - despite their name - more likely to be assigned to the genre of vaudeville blues . She then moved to Chicago and did not return to New York until the early 1930s, where she began working with pianist Walter Roland . From then on, Bogan and Roland worked together both as musicians and as songwriters. The two made over 100 records together before Bogan ended her recording career in 1935.
Jackson / Bogan finally changed the style of their performances and from then on did not appear as Lucille Bogan , although in 1927 she had a hit on the market of the so-called Race Records with the song "Sweet Petunia" as Bogan . One of her best-known songs as a songwriter under the name of Bessie Jackson is "BD Woman's Blues", which 75 years later was part of the song material of lesbian artists such as Holly Near or the Indigo Girls . "BD", an abbreviation for bull dykes , began with the lines: "Comin 'a time / women ain't gonna need no men" .
She then wrote more songs in her later years in California. Her last composition was prophetically called "Gonna Leave Town". After her death, Smokey Hogg took him in in 1949. Further tracks composed by her have been recorded by Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women , as well as by their band member Ann Rabson and the novelty band Asylum Street Spankers .
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| SURNAME | Bogan, Lucille |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Anderson, Lucille (maiden name); Jackson, Bessie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American blues singer and songwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amory , Mississippi , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 1948 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California , USA |