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3 unusual facts about Memphis Minnie


Difficult Women

The show contains over four hours of material on visionary women such as Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Frida Kahlo, Memphis Minnie, Sonya Tolstoi, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Camille Claudel, Katherine Mansfield and Louisa Lawson.

I Ain't No Bad Gal

I Ain't No Bad Gal is a compilation album by Blues singer Memphis Minnie produced for reissue in 1988 by Bob Thiele.

Lorna Dee Cervantes

#Memphis Minnie, Genocide, and Identity Politics: A Conversation with Alex Stein By: Stein, Alex; Michigan Quarterly Review, 2003 Fall; 42 (4): 631-47.


Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 4

#"He's in the Ring (Doing the Same Old Thing)" — Memphis Minnie — 2:59

Little Walter

Jacobs was frequently utilized on records as a harmonica accompanist behind others in the Chess stable of artists, including Jimmy Rogers, John Brim, Rocky Fuller, Memphis Minnie, The Coronets, Johnny Shines, Floyd Jones, Bo Diddley, and Shel Silverstein, and on other record labels backing Otis Rush, Johnny Young, and Robert Nighthawk.


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Kansas Joe McCoy

Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant took his and Memphis Minnie's recording of "When the Levee Breaks," which was in his personal collection, and presented it to guitarist Jimmy Page, who revamped it and slightly altered it lyrically, and helped record it on Led Zeppelin's 1971 album, Led Zeppelin IV.