SOLO WOMEN IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

01. 1987 - Aretha Franklin
02. 1989 - Bessie Smith (Early Influence)
03. 1990 - Ma Rainey (Early Influence)
04. 1991 - LaVern Baker
05. 1993 - Dinah Washington (Early Influence)
06. 1993 - Ruth Brown
07. 1993 - Etta James
08. 1995 - Janis Joplin
09. 1997 - Mahalia Jackson (Early Influence)
10. 1997 - Joni Mitchell
11. 1999 - Dusty Springfield
12. 2000 - Billie Holiday (Early Influence)
13. 2000 - Bonnie Raitt
14. 2002 - Brenda Lee
15. 2007 - Patti Smith
16. 2008 - Madonna
17. 2009 - Wanda Jackson (Early Influence)
18. 2011 - Darlene Love
19. 2012 - Laura Nyro
20. 2013 - Donna Summer
21. 2014 - Linda Ronstadt
22. 2017 - Joan Baez
23. 2018 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Early Influence)
24. 2018 - Nina Simone
25. 2019 - Stevie Nicks
26. 2019 - Janet Jackson
27. 2020 - Whitney Houston
28. 2021 - Tina Turner
29. 2021 - Carole King
30. 2022 - Carly Simon
31. 2022 - Pat Benatar
32. 2022 - Dolly Parton
33. 2022 - Sylvia Robinson (Non-Performer)
34. 2022 - Elizabeth Cotton (Early Influence)

SOLO BLACK WOMEN IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

01. 1987 - Aretha Franklin
02. 1989 - Bessie Smith (Early Influence)
03. 1990 - Ma Rainey (Early Influence)
04. 1991 - LaVern Baker
05. 1993 - Dinah Washington (Early Influence)
06. 1993 - Ruth Brown
07. 1993 - Etta James
08. 1997 - Mahalia Jackson (Early Influence)
09. 2000 - Billie Holiday (Early Influence)
10. 2011 - Darlene Love
11. 2013 - Donna Summer
12. 2018 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Early Influence)
13. 2018 - Nina Simone
14. 2019 - Janet Jackson
15. 2020 - Whitney Houston
16. 2021 - Tina Turner
17. 2022 - Sylvia Robinson (Non-Performer)
18. 2022 - Elizabeth Cotton (Early Influence)

SOLO WHITE WOMEN IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

01. 1995 - Janis Joplin
02. 1997 - Joni Mitchell
03. 1999 - Dusty Springfield
04. 2000 - Bonnie Raitt
05. 2002 - Brenda Lee
06. 2007 - Patti Smith
07. 2008 - Madonna
08. 2009 - Wanda Jackson (Early Influence)
09. 2012 - Laura Nyro
10. 2014 - Linda Ronstadt
11. 2017 - Joan Baez
12. 2019 - Stevie Nicks
13. 2021 - Carole King
14. 2022 - Carly Simon
15. 2022 - Pat Benatar
16. 2022 - Dolly Parton

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 05/5/2022 @ 12:44pm

In the case of Elizabeth Cotton, this is the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame telling us that the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame is for artists you should know, not artists you do know.

They continue to ignore Roy Brown, Wynonie Harris, The Ravens, The Clovers, The Mills Brothers, Carter Family for Early Influence induction.

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 05/5/2022 @ 21:39pm

Elizabeth Cotten, not Cotton.

Posted by Roy on Friday, 05/6/2022 @ 04:50am

She's not influential to rock's creation or development. Considering how many legitimate early rock acts have been snubbed, this choice comes across as the Rock Hall patting themselves on the back for thinking of her.

Posted by Roy on Friday, 05/6/2022 @ 08:46am

Elizabeth Cotten and Harry Belafonte are being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in the same year on purpose. This was planned. Elizabeth Cotten was the maid for Pete Seeger's father, Charles Seeger, and Pete Seeger's stepmother, Ruth Crawford Seeger. Harry Belafonte gave the induction speech for Pete Seeger at the 1996 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 05/7/2022 @ 06:01am

Now you just wait one cotton picking minute...

https://writingexplained.org/idiom-dictionary/wait-a-cotton-picking-minute

She quickly mastered the guitar and banjo, developing a distinctive fingerpicking guitar technique that later became widely known as "Cotten style" or "Cotten picking." Being left-handed, she taught herself to play the instrument upside-down, picking the bass strings with her fingers and treble strings with her thumb. Consequently, while Cotten's guitar style has been widely imitated, her sound is nearly impossible to replicate.

https://www.rockhall.com/elizabeth-cotten

Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows

-Leonard Cohen, 1988

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 05/7/2022 @ 14:57pm