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Rock & Roll Hall of FamerCategory: Early InfluenceInducted: 1990Inducted by: Bonnie Raitt | ||||||||||||||||||
Inducted into Rock Hall Revisited in 2001 (ranked #19 in the Influences - Pre-Rock Era category) .
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2 comments so far (post your own)If Bessie Smith has the title "Empress of the Blues," then Ma Rainey is the unquestioned "Mother of the Blues." While Rainey wasn't the first blues singer to make albums, but by all means she should have been. Posted by Andrew on Wednesday, 05/8/2013 @ 13:37pm |
To Tom Lane Posted by Roy on Monday, 08/11/2014 @ 09:42am |
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