Columbia 14542 Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie - Bumble Bee/I Want That
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Columbia 14542 - Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie Bumble Bee/I Want That
Recorded June 18th, 1929
I Want That Side is pristine - Near Mint Bumble Bee - E- is also very clean - only two tiny scratches, tiny dull spot, one tiny edge nick (all too small to show in photos)
Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie
“Bumble Bee” (Columbia 14542-D, 1930)
“Kansas” Joe McCoy may have equal billing here, but there is no doubt that his wife Lizzie Douglas, a.k.a. “Memphis Minnie,” was the star of the pair. After the couple split in 1935, Minnie continued to enjoy a respectable career for another two decades and is today considered one of the greatest female blues artists in history.
“Bumble Bee” was one of Minnie’s first hits and signified a shift toward the traditional “country blues” style for female artists. While her commanding voice is as powerful as earlier, vaudeville-inspired female blues singers, she plays a mean guitar and proves adept at singing relaxed, “Memphis style” blues. The gentle, twin guitar accompaniment ultimately proves more satisfying than any jazz instrumentation would have, putting her voice clearly in the foreground and allowing her a greater range of expression. Her playful change of tempo on the final verse sounds perfectly natural and ends the song on a high note.
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