While working on the lower register of her voice with New York City singer Paul Reese, who first turned her toward folk music. By the 1930s and ’40s, the genre was driven by Peter Seeger and the ...

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Mark "Porkchop" Holder, a Chattanooga-based musician praised by his peers as the embodiment of the blues, has died.

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Bessie Smith, feted as “the Empress of the Blues ... Jack Smith, another intimate singer who would put out an album called “The Whispering Baritone,” released his first record in 1925.

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The 1920s were a period of great change. Vintage photographs provide a glimpse at what life was like for women throughout the decade.