Mother Blues

MOTHER BLUES is a feature-length documentary about Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Sippy Wallace, Memphis Minnie, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Victoria Spivey and other African American women who played ... Read allMOTHER BLUES is a feature-length documentary about Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Sippy Wallace, Memphis Minnie, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Victoria Spivey and other African American women who played an important role in transforming the "Tin Pan Alley" sound of the 1920's into what is now... Read allMOTHER BLUES is a feature-length documentary about Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Sippy Wallace, Memphis Minnie, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Victoria Spivey and other African American women who played an important role in transforming the "Tin Pan Alley" sound of the 1920's into what is now known as modern blues. Their musical bloodline lives on in the work of Shemekia Copeland,... Read all