(1-51 of 51 song lyrics)Average rating for Ma Rainey songs is 7.44/10 [525 votes]. Selected popular Ma Rainey song of Saturday, November 23 2024 is "Moonshine Blues".
Top Ma Rainey Albums
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The Definitive Collection 1924 - 28 [2019]
Stormy [2018]
Nobody Rocks Me Like My Baby Do [2013]
Presenting… Ma Rainey [2012]
For All the Blues [2012]
Blues Legends (Digitally Re-Mastered Recordings) [2011]
An Introduction To The Blues [2010]
Shave 'Em Dry Blues [2010]
Sounds Of Music pres. Ma Rainey (Digitally Re-Mastered Recordings) [2010]
Gertrude Pridgett Rainey, better known as Ma Rainey (Columbus, Georgia, April 26, 1886 – Columbus, Georgia, December 22, 1939), was one of the earliest known professional blues singers and one of the first generation of such singers to record. She was billed as The Mother of the Blues. She did much to develop and popularize the form and was an important influence on younger blues women, such as Bessie Smith, and their careers.She first appeared on stage in Columbus in "A Bunch of Blackberries" at the age of 14. She then joined a traveling vaudeville troupe, the Rabbit Foot Minstrels. After hearing a blues song at a theater in St. Louis sung by a local girl in 1902, she started performing in a blues style. She claimed at tha... read more