Chords for Memphis Minnie (Biography) | Wild Women of Song
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Hi everybody this week we're going to be talking about the extraordinary powerful phenomenal guitarist songwriter singer Memphis Minnie
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[C] [N] Welcome back to wild women of song great gal composers of the jazz era and as we say in the show
Sometimes we just got to talk about the blues and you can't talk about blues without talking [Bm] about Memphis Minnie
Memphis Minnie who with her guitar and [A] her
Extraordinary finger-picking style and her really strong [B] vocals between [A] 1929
1949
Recorded well over a hundred songs many of which were her own originals, which just captured this fantastic [D] spirit and
unforgettable songs [A] important to our blues canon
[B] She was born Lizzie Douglas
[N] She was the eldest of 13 children and you know the story goes that she pretty much knew that there were two options
available to her that she could join up into a life of domestic service or
Spend a wretched life working in the fields.
So she decided to become a musician
They say that she got her first guitar at the age of 10 and never looked back
She started running away to the hard town of Memphis and it was pretty hard back then and she started learning how to play
guitar and developing her unique finger-picking style and
Earning the respect of some of the biggest blues guitarist of her day
We can hear in what has been a really well documented series of recordings of her
How often she just has this she has this very strong style and was very happy playing with an equally strong man
seeming to absolutely hold her own and
Fall into a real great understanding of what this music needed to be about
There's this great Langston Hughes poem
About her which was
[B] Written in the 40s.
This was near the end of her career
And he's talking about a New Year's Eve gig in Chicago
[F] Memphis Minnie grabs the microphone and says hey now and then she leans [D] forward ever so slightly [F#] on her guitar
begins to [G] beat out a good old steady rhythm a down-home rhythm on the strings a
[C#] Rhythm so contagious that often it makes the crowd holler out loud and then Minnie smiles
Her gold teeth flash [N] for a split second her earrings tremble
Her right hand with the dice ring on it kicks out the tune
Throbs out the rhythm beats out the blues and then through the racket [G#] of the noisy Chicago bar float, Louisiana
Bayous muddy old swamps
[D] Mississippi dust and Sun cotton fields
Lonesome roads train whistles in the night mosquitoes at dawn and the rural free delivery that never brings the right letter
[F#] All these things [C#] cry out through the strings on Memphis [F#] Minnie's guitar
[N] She was one of the first people to really embrace
First of all steel string guitar national guitars were her brand and when they started going electric
She really was one of those very first people to embrace that technology
Something by the way Langston Hughes was slightly horrified at
The science interrupting the music
But I think that she understood that if you're playing loud places and want to be heard above the band
Use everything you've got and that amplified sound inspired muddy waters in turn who certainly played that style of music and
Think of how many people really
Found her to be in an inspiration
Leading all the way up to Bonnie Rayett
So I'm holding here a collection of Memphis Minnie with fantastic liner notes on it about every single aspect of her career
It's an exhaustive study of her work, [F#m] but some of the songs that you really want to focus on
Bumblebee that was one of her first hits and when the levy breaks this song has
[A] resurfaced time and time again
[Bm] Led Zeppelin did a [A] very famous interpretation of that song and then after
Katrina the song [F#] resurfaced again [A] people paying
Homage to it.
I hope you're enjoying hearing [D] about these women these really important women in the earliest days of [A] jazz and [C#m] blues
We love hearing from you [G] and tell us what you want to [A] hear more of
But first of all subscribe to this channel
We're going to be putting these up every week as we have been youtube.com
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[C] [N] Welcome back to wild women of song great gal composers of the jazz era and as we say in the show
Sometimes we just got to talk about the blues and you can't talk about blues without talking [Bm] about Memphis Minnie
Memphis Minnie who with her guitar and [A] her
Extraordinary finger-picking style and her really strong [B] vocals between [A] 1929
1949
Recorded well over a hundred songs many of which were her own originals, which just captured this fantastic [D] spirit and
unforgettable songs [A] important to our blues canon
[B] She was born Lizzie Douglas
[N] She was the eldest of 13 children and you know the story goes that she pretty much knew that there were two options
available to her that she could join up into a life of domestic service or
Spend a wretched life working in the fields.
So she decided to become a musician
They say that she got her first guitar at the age of 10 and never looked back
She started running away to the hard town of Memphis and it was pretty hard back then and she started learning how to play
guitar and developing her unique finger-picking style and
Earning the respect of some of the biggest blues guitarist of her day
We can hear in what has been a really well documented series of recordings of her
How often she just has this she has this very strong style and was very happy playing with an equally strong man
seeming to absolutely hold her own and
Fall into a real great understanding of what this music needed to be about
There's this great Langston Hughes poem
About her which was
[B] Written in the 40s.
This was near the end of her career
And he's talking about a New Year's Eve gig in Chicago
[F] Memphis Minnie grabs the microphone and says hey now and then she leans [D] forward ever so slightly [F#] on her guitar
begins to [G] beat out a good old steady rhythm a down-home rhythm on the strings a
[C#] Rhythm so contagious that often it makes the crowd holler out loud and then Minnie smiles
Her gold teeth flash [N] for a split second her earrings tremble
Her right hand with the dice ring on it kicks out the tune
Throbs out the rhythm beats out the blues and then through the racket [G#] of the noisy Chicago bar float, Louisiana
Bayous muddy old swamps
[D] Mississippi dust and Sun cotton fields
Lonesome roads train whistles in the night mosquitoes at dawn and the rural free delivery that never brings the right letter
[F#] All these things [C#] cry out through the strings on Memphis [F#] Minnie's guitar
[N] She was one of the first people to really embrace
First of all steel string guitar national guitars were her brand and when they started going electric
She really was one of those very first people to embrace that technology
Something by the way Langston Hughes was slightly horrified at
The science interrupting the music
But I think that she understood that if you're playing loud places and want to be heard above the band
Use everything you've got and that amplified sound inspired muddy waters in turn who certainly played that style of music and
Think of how many people really
Found her to be in an inspiration
Leading all the way up to Bonnie Rayett
So I'm holding here a collection of Memphis Minnie with fantastic liner notes on it about every single aspect of her career
It's an exhaustive study of her work, [F#m] but some of the songs that you really want to focus on
Bumblebee that was one of her first hits and when the levy breaks this song has
[A] resurfaced time and time again
[Bm] Led Zeppelin did a [A] very famous interpretation of that song and then after
Katrina the song [F#] resurfaced again [A] people paying
Homage to it.
I hope you're enjoying hearing [D] about these women these really important women in the earliest days of [A] jazz and [C#m] blues
We love hearing from you [G] and tell us what you want to [A] hear more of
But first of all subscribe to this channel
We're going to be putting these up every week as we have been youtube.com
Slash wild women song
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Hi everybody this week we're going to be talking about the extraordinary powerful phenomenal guitarist songwriter singer Memphis Minnie
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_ _ [C] _ _ [N] Welcome back to wild women of song great gal composers of the jazz era and as we say in the show
Sometimes we just got to talk about the blues and you can't talk about blues without talking [Bm] about Memphis Minnie _
Memphis Minnie who with her guitar and [A] her
Extraordinary finger-picking style and her really strong [B] vocals between [A] 1929
1949
_ Recorded well over a hundred songs many of which were her own originals, which just captured this fantastic [D] spirit and
unforgettable songs [A] important to our blues canon
[B] She was born Lizzie Douglas
[N] She was the eldest of 13 children and you know the story goes that she pretty much knew that there were two options
available to her that she could join up into a life of domestic service or
Spend a wretched life working in the fields.
So she decided to become a musician
They say that she got her first guitar at the age of 10 and never looked back
She started running away to the hard town of Memphis and it was pretty hard back then and she started learning how to play
guitar and developing her unique finger-picking style and
Earning the respect of some of the biggest blues guitarist of her day
We can hear in what has been a really well documented series of recordings of her
How often she just has this she has this very strong style and was very happy playing with an equally strong man _
seeming to absolutely hold her own and
Fall into a real great understanding of what this music needed to be about
_ There's this great Langston Hughes poem
_ About her which was
_ _ [B] Written in the 40s.
This was near the end of her career
And he's talking about a New Year's Eve gig in Chicago
[F] Memphis Minnie grabs the microphone and says hey now and then she leans [D] forward ever so slightly [F#] on her guitar
begins to [G] beat out a good old steady rhythm a down-home rhythm on the strings a
[C#] Rhythm so contagious that often it makes the crowd holler out loud and then Minnie smiles
Her gold teeth flash [N] for a split second her earrings tremble
Her right hand with the dice ring on it kicks out the tune
Throbs out the rhythm beats out the blues and then through the racket [G#] of the noisy Chicago bar float, Louisiana
Bayous muddy old swamps
[D] Mississippi dust and Sun cotton fields
Lonesome roads train whistles in the night mosquitoes at dawn and the rural free delivery that never brings the right letter
[F#] All these things [C#] cry out through the strings on Memphis [F#] Minnie's guitar
_ [N] She was one of the first people to really embrace
First of all steel string guitar national guitars were her brand and when they started going electric
She really was one of those very first people to embrace that technology
Something by the way Langston Hughes was slightly horrified at
The science interrupting the music
But I think that she understood that if you're playing loud places and want to be heard above the band
Use everything you've got and that amplified sound inspired muddy waters in turn who certainly played that style of music and
Think of how many people really
Found her to be in an inspiration
Leading all the way up to Bonnie Rayett
So I'm holding here a collection of Memphis Minnie with fantastic liner notes on it about every single aspect of her career
It's an exhaustive study of her work, [F#m] but some of the songs that you really want to focus on
Bumblebee that was one of her first hits and when the levy breaks this song has
[A] _ resurfaced time and time again
[Bm] Led Zeppelin did a [A] very famous interpretation of that song and then after
Katrina the song [F#] resurfaced again [A] people paying
Homage to it.
I hope you're enjoying hearing [D] about these women these really important women in the earliest days of [A] jazz and [C#m] blues
We love hearing from you [G] and tell us what you want to [A] hear more of
But first of all subscribe to this channel
We're going to be putting these up every week as we have been youtube.com
Slash wild women song
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_ _ [C] _ _ [N] Welcome back to wild women of song great gal composers of the jazz era and as we say in the show
Sometimes we just got to talk about the blues and you can't talk about blues without talking [Bm] about Memphis Minnie _
Memphis Minnie who with her guitar and [A] her
Extraordinary finger-picking style and her really strong [B] vocals between [A] 1929
1949
_ Recorded well over a hundred songs many of which were her own originals, which just captured this fantastic [D] spirit and
unforgettable songs [A] important to our blues canon
[B] She was born Lizzie Douglas
[N] She was the eldest of 13 children and you know the story goes that she pretty much knew that there were two options
available to her that she could join up into a life of domestic service or
Spend a wretched life working in the fields.
So she decided to become a musician
They say that she got her first guitar at the age of 10 and never looked back
She started running away to the hard town of Memphis and it was pretty hard back then and she started learning how to play
guitar and developing her unique finger-picking style and
Earning the respect of some of the biggest blues guitarist of her day
We can hear in what has been a really well documented series of recordings of her
How often she just has this she has this very strong style and was very happy playing with an equally strong man _
seeming to absolutely hold her own and
Fall into a real great understanding of what this music needed to be about
_ There's this great Langston Hughes poem
_ About her which was
_ _ [B] Written in the 40s.
This was near the end of her career
And he's talking about a New Year's Eve gig in Chicago
[F] Memphis Minnie grabs the microphone and says hey now and then she leans [D] forward ever so slightly [F#] on her guitar
begins to [G] beat out a good old steady rhythm a down-home rhythm on the strings a
[C#] Rhythm so contagious that often it makes the crowd holler out loud and then Minnie smiles
Her gold teeth flash [N] for a split second her earrings tremble
Her right hand with the dice ring on it kicks out the tune
Throbs out the rhythm beats out the blues and then through the racket [G#] of the noisy Chicago bar float, Louisiana
Bayous muddy old swamps
[D] Mississippi dust and Sun cotton fields
Lonesome roads train whistles in the night mosquitoes at dawn and the rural free delivery that never brings the right letter
[F#] All these things [C#] cry out through the strings on Memphis [F#] Minnie's guitar
_ [N] She was one of the first people to really embrace
First of all steel string guitar national guitars were her brand and when they started going electric
She really was one of those very first people to embrace that technology
Something by the way Langston Hughes was slightly horrified at
The science interrupting the music
But I think that she understood that if you're playing loud places and want to be heard above the band
Use everything you've got and that amplified sound inspired muddy waters in turn who certainly played that style of music and
Think of how many people really
Found her to be in an inspiration
Leading all the way up to Bonnie Rayett
So I'm holding here a collection of Memphis Minnie with fantastic liner notes on it about every single aspect of her career
It's an exhaustive study of her work, [F#m] but some of the songs that you really want to focus on
Bumblebee that was one of her first hits and when the levy breaks this song has
[A] _ resurfaced time and time again
[Bm] Led Zeppelin did a [A] very famous interpretation of that song and then after
Katrina the song [F#] resurfaced again [A] people paying
Homage to it.
I hope you're enjoying hearing [D] about these women these really important women in the earliest days of [A] jazz and [C#m] blues
We love hearing from you [G] and tell us what you want to [A] hear more of
But first of all subscribe to this channel
We're going to be putting these up every week as we have been youtube.com
Slash wild women song
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