Big mama thornton

“My singing comes from experience. My own experience. My own feeling. I got my own feelings for everything.” This 1966 session finds singer Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton backed by Muddy Waters’s superb blues band. Although the session was recorded without the benefit of a rehearsal, Big Mama’s …

The 4th American Folk Blues Festival. Walter Horton, Big Mama Thornton, J.B. Lenoir and Dr Ross at The Fairfield Hall in Croydon. 11 Oct, 1965. By Val Wilmer.

Buddy Guy e Big Mama Thornton 1965

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Blues is an African-American music that traverses a wide range of emotions and musical styles. “Feeling blue” is expressed in songs whose verses lament injustice or express longing for a better life and lost loves, jobs, and money. But blues is also a raucous dance music that celebrates pleasure and success. Central to the idea of blues performance is the concept that, by performing or listening to the blues, one is able to overcome sadness and lose the blues. Among the formal, identifying…

Big Mama Thornton. 1950

Big Mama Thornton was a big woman with a big voice, a big harmonica sound, a big stage presence and a big hit record that was overshadowed by the Elvis version.