CD1
01. Peavine Blues - Rory Block
02. It's a Curse - Karin Rudefelt & Doctor Blues
03. Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton                      play
04. Mobile - Marcia Ball
05. Killer Diller Blues - Memphis Minnie
06. Sugar Blues - Nina Hagen & Leipzig Big Band
07. Runaway Blues - Ma Rainey
08. Today I Sing The Blues - Aretha Franklin
09. The Touch Of Your Loving Hand - Maggie Bell & Stone The Crows
10. The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair (live) - Jo Anne Kelly
11. God Bless The Child - Billie Holiday
12. Dark End Of The Street - Diamanda Galas & John Paul Jones
13. Blues In The Night - Ella Fitzgerald
14. Turtle Blues (live) - Janis Joplin
15. For Sale (Hannah Johnson's Big Jack Ass) - Clara Smith
16. Chain Of Fools - Isabel Tavares & Black Coffee Band
17. Can't Sing - Elle Walker & Matt Corcoran
18. I'm Tired, I'm Tired, I'm Tiered - Marva Whitney
19. Long Gone Lonesome Blues (live) - Sheryl Crow
20. Meanest Woman - Deborah Coleman & Joe Willie (Pinetop) Perkins
21. I Just Wanna Make Love To You - Etta James        play
22. Detroit Blues - Diana Krall & Vince Benedetti


CD2
01. Hoochie Coochie Gal - Etta James
02. Scene Of The Crime - Marcia Ball
03. Travellin' Blues (live) - Carmen McRae & Dave Brubeck
04. See See Rider Blues - Ma Rainey                  play
05. Tombstone Blues (live) - Sheryl Crow
06. Reap What You Sow - Diamanda Galas
07. Proud Mary - Isabel Tavares & Black Coffee Band
08. My Baby And The Booze - Karin Rudefelt & Doctor Blues
09. I've Got What It Takes - Virginia Liston
10. I Ain't Got Nothing But The Blues - Ella Fitzgerald & Tommy Flanagan Trio
11. Another Man Done Gone - Odetta
12. Big Road Blues (live) - Rory Block
13. Ball And Chain - Big Mama Thornton
14. Body And Soul - Diana Krall
15. He Made a Woman Out Of Me - Amy Madigan & Ry Cooder
16. I Must Have That Man - Billie Holiday
17. Don't Jump My Pony - Precious Bryant             play
18. Bessie Smith (live) - Norah Jones
19. I Never Loved A Man - Aretha Franklin
20. Kitchen Mechanic Blues - Clara Smith
21. Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin
22. Fashion Plate Daddy - Memphis Minnie

The American musical history has deep roots in the Afro-American cultural synthesis. Music, songs and dances have always been inborn in Africans - who with their unforgettable masterly performances captivate people’s hearts at once. There are several genres, styles, and sub-genres in Afro-American music, namely jazz, blues, soul, etc. What we intend to discuss in the current article is the blues and the famous female blues singers.

The blues is both a musical form and genre. The name of this art form is bearing a reference to the “blue devils” implying sadness, melancholy and depressed spirits. The first records on blues would take us back to America’s Deep South of late 1880s. The original blues themes were inspired by work songs, spirituals, shouts, chants, rhymed narrative ballads, field hollers, and of course the Ethiopian airs and the ragtime elements. There were formed three main blues streams: urban (city), country blues, and vaudeville. These streams in their turn also have a number of sub-genres that were popular throughout the 1990s, here belong: the Piedmont, Delta, Chicago blues, Jump, and later – the rock blues.

Starting from the first decades of the 20th century, to some extent city started to impose particular frames on the variant performance of the blues compositions moulding it to better fit the public. From this time on female singers started to reap the laurels. Famous female blues singers from that time on (both city and vaudeville) would include: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Mamie Smith, Bessie Smith, Victoria Spivey, Ida Cox, Ethel Waters, Alberta Hunter, Sippie Wallace, Clara Smith, Edith Wilson, Trixie Smith, Sara Martin, Bertha “Chippie” Hill, and Lucille Hegamin. However to make the list more complete we must mention round 100 other singers namely: Viola McCoy, Lizzie Miles, Martha Copeland, Rosa Henderson, Edith Johnson, Bessie Jackson (Lucille Bogan), Katherine Baker, Hattie Burleson, Margaret Johnson, Madlyn Davis, Maggie Jones, Ivy Smith, Gladys Bentley, Alberta Brown Ida Goodson, Billie Pierce Virginia Liston, Florence Mills, Fannie May Goosby, and Bernice Edwards. After the 30-year’s decline starting form the late 1950s the female blues began to revive. Musicians (a band) playing the piano, drums and horns would normally back the female singers.

The epoch of the classic female blues lasted about a decade 1920 – 1929. The Mother of Blues is considered to be Ma Rainey who added comedy and show action while singing. She had more than hundred songs. However in 1920 it was Mamie Smith who became the first performer of the blues to make recordings. She is also known as “America’s First Lady of the Blues”. She sold tens of thousand records during the first month. According to the records, the best paid and most admired was Bessie Smith. Ruth Brown had a soft vocal and made the charts for over a decade from late 1940s till somewhere 1955. Afterwards she was more known as a pop and rock ’n’ roll singer. The artists who performed in soul and R&B genres were under the strong influence of her outstanding talent. Among the top singers of the 20th century we need to mention Ida Cox. Besides being a performer she ran a couple of businesses, she was also a manager and a producer. She performed mostly for women audiences, as from women and about women. A blues legend was Billie Holiday. She had an unforgettable vocalic talent and a bright personality.

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CD1
01. Less And Less Of You - Janiva Magness
02. St. Louis Blues - Helen Humes
03. The Voice Of The Blues - Irene Scruggs
04. Why Wonder - Blues Queen Sylvia
05. Standing In My Doorway Crying - Jessie Mae Hemphill
06. Heartless World- Renee Austin
07. Take It Right Back - Bessie Smith
08. Old Fashion Morphine - Jolie Holland
09. Nobody Knows - Odetta                             play
10. I Smell Trouble (Live) - Ike & Tina Turner
11. Dreamland Blues - Erja Lyytinen
12. Fruits Of My Labor - Lucinda Williams
13. Fool's Paradise - Maria Muldaur
14. Hum Drum Blues - Holly Cole
15. Ahmad's Blues - Natalie Cole
16. Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby - Gillian Welch, Allison Kraus, Emmylou Harris
17. Crazy Blues - Gaye Adegbalola & Roddy Barnes
18. Fever - Suzy Quatro
19. Crossroad Blues - Rory Block                      play
20. I Used To Worry - Delbert McClinton & Francine Reed
21. Go To Hell - Nina Simone


CD2
01. I'm Leaving You - Janiva Magness
02. Basin Street Blues (Live) - Maria Viana Blues Band
03. Turtle Blues (Live) - Bonnie Tyler
04. Reckless Blues - Madeleine Peyroux
05. No 'count Blues - Sarah Vaughan
06. Jet Propelled Papa - Helen Humes
07. I Feel The Blues Movin In - Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris
08. Me And My Gin - Bessie Smith
09. Poor Girl - Jolie Holland
10. Shot Of Rhythm And Blues - Suzy Quatro
11. Wade In The Water - Eva Cassidy
12. Peavine Blues - Rory Block                         play
13. Shame On You I Feel It - Jessie Mae Hemphill
14. Just Want Your Love - Big Maybelle Smith
15. 29 Dollari (E Una Borsetta Di Coccodrillo) - Laura Fedele
16. Can't Get Along - Blues Queen Sylvia
17. House Of The Rising Sun - Nina Simone              play
18. Hard Times Killing Floor Blues - Lucinda Williams
19. Itching Heel - Irene Scruggs & Blind Blake

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01. Give It Up Or Let Me Go - Bonnie Raitt
02. If You're Weak Enough - Shirely Brown
03. Nothing In Rambling - Gaye Adegbalola with Roddy Barnes       play
04. Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean - Daughter Mean
05. Ice Cream Man - Claudia Bettinaglio
06. 70's Blues - Betty Davis
07. Crawling Up The Hill - Katie Melua
08. Greed - Erja Lyytinen
09. I Idolize You - Marcia Ball, Lou Ann Barton & Angela Strehli
10. Little Sparrow - Bettye LaVette
11. Please Send Me Someone To Love (Live) - Thornetta Davis
12. I'm Feeling Good - Deitra Farr
13. Rehab - Amy Winehouse
14. Walkin' Home - Sue Foley                                      play
15. Simple Twist Of Fate - Concrete Blonde
16. It Be's That Way Sometimes - Denise LaSalle
17. Go Ahead And Take Him - Zora Young


CD2
01. Good Rockin' Daddy - Marcia Ball, Lou Ann Barton & Angela Strehli
02. (The Fall) Kurt's Blues - Cher
03. Serves Him Right - Bettye LaVette
04. Underground - Astrid Seriese
05. Even Me - Yolanda Adams
06. I Pity The Fool - Louise Hoffsten
07. Help Me - Tracy Conover & Arlo West
08. Summertime - Scarlett Johansson                              play
09. You Don't Have To Go (Live) - Sue Foley
10. Pay Roll Blues - Lucille Bogan
11. Screamin' The Blues - MAggie Jones & Louis Armstrong
12. One Good Man - Lou Ann Barton
13. Need All The Help I Can Get - Ana Popovic
14. Right Now - Emmylou Harris & Mark Knopfler
15. My Aphrodisiac Is You - Ketie Melua
16. Last Kind Words Blues - Elvie Thomas & Geechie Wiley
17. Romance In The Dark - Dinah Washington
18. Lonely Lonely Nights - Eve Monsees
19. Come On In My Kitchen (Live) - Duane Almman, Bonnie Bramlett & Delany Bramlett     play
20. Don't Wait Too Long - Madeleine Peyroux
21. Money - Debbie Davies & Kenny Neal

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01. Piece of Man - Koko Taylor
02. Pleasantly Blue - Linda Perry & 4 Non Blondes
03. Say It - Roxanne Potvin
04. Recall the Days - Ana Popovic
05. Night Time Is The Right Time - Tina Turner
06. You Make Me Feel So Good - Beverly 'Guitar' Watkins
07. What You Will Blues - Doris Troy
08. I Gotta Get Drunk - Norah Jones & The Little Willies
09. It's a Mean Old Man's World - Dinah Washington              play
10. My Daddy Rocks Me - Trixie Smith                            play
11. There Must Be a Better World Somewhere - Gloria Estefan & B.B. King
12. Push a Little - April Lawton & Ramatam
13. Yesterday is Here - Astrid Seriese
14. Please Call Me, Baby - Sally Norvell
15. I Got the Blues - Della Reese
16. Gulf Coast Blues - Mildred Bailey
17. Better Days - Susan Tedeschi
18. Problems - Katie Webster
19. Joshua Fit the Battle of Jerico (live) - Mahalia Jackson
20. The Low Down Lonely Blues - Sweet Georgia Brown


CD2
01. One Good Man - Janis Joplin
02. Never Felt No Blues - B.J. Sharp
03. Deja Blue - Angela Strehli
04. $29 - Claudia Bettinaglio
05. Le Pull Peruvien (live) - Zouka Dzaza & X-Ray Pop
06. My Baby's Gone - Algia Mae Hinton
07. You Gonna Mess Around and Get Bit - Barbara Carr
08. Walkin' Blues (live) - Bonnie Raitt
09. Mean Old Boogie - Carmen Maki & Blues Creation
10. Hey, Hey Baby (Bettye's Blues) - Bettye Lavette
11. Bad Blues Player (live) - Anais
12. Exactly Like You - Doris Troy
13. I Love to Georgia Brown So Slow - Sammy Price
14. While I Wait For You - Roxanne Potvin
15. Ramblin' Blues - Big Maybelle                     play
16. Do Your Best For Rock 'N Roll - Linda Thompson
17. Why Don't You Do Right - Lil Green                play
18. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues - Sarah Vaughan

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CD1
01. Hochie Coochie Woman - Big Time Sarah
02. See See Rider - Cher
03. Long Lean Baby - Dana Gillespie
04. So Far - Sue Foley, Deborah Coleman & Roxanne Potvin
05. New York Blues (live) - Joan Baez
06. Red Light - Ivian Greene
07. Don't Get Around Much Anymore - Adrienne Morgan Hammond
08. I'm Not Ashamed to Sing the Blues - Dianne Schuur
09. One More Time - Carly Simon
10. Sufferin' with the Blues - Irma Thomas              play
11. Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad - Nancy Sinatra
12. Torn In Two - Deborah Coleman
13. Graffiti Limbo - Michelle Shocked
14. Good Times - Deanna Bogart
15. Limousine Blues - Jan James
16. Backlash Blues (live) - Wendy Saddington
17. A Good Man Is Hard to Find - Maria Muldaur
18. Slow Down Woman - Cassandra Wilson                  play
19. My Man Stands Out - Julia Lee
20. Give Me One Reason - Tracy Chapman


CD2
01. This Land Is Your Land - Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
02. Need Your Love So Bad - Bonnie Tyler
03. Trouble in Mind (live) - Lea Gilmore
04. Cry - Thornetta Davis
05. A Love Reputation - Denise Lasalle
06. I'll Be Missing You - Deanna Bogart
07. Sittin' & Cryin' - Debbie Davies
08. Big Girl Blues - Joanna Connor
09. Hello Hopeville - Michelle Shocked
10. Special People - Betty Davis
11. Your Love Keeps Working On Me - Roxanne Potvin
12. Lost and Lookin' - Janiva Magness
13. Back Water Blues - Jo Anne Kelly
14. Never Let Your Deal Go Down - Etta Baker
15. Blues in the Night - Julie London                     play
16. How'd You Learn to Shake It Like That - Ana Popovic
17. Love Alive (live) - Heart
18. Danger Zone - Maggie Bell & Stone The Crows
19. Walkin' After Midnight - Tierney Sutton               play
20. King Size Papa - Julia Lee
21. Mr. Thrill - Mildred Jones

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01. Skinny Girl - Erja Lyytinen
02. I Need Your Love So Bad - Irma Thomas
03. T'Ain't Nobody's Business - Safhire                   play
04. You Can Have My Husband - Lou Ann Barton & Stevie Ray Vaughan
05. Things - Heart
06. Summertime - Rebecca Hancock Snow & Wayne Hancock
07. I Can Laugh About It Now - Bonnie Bramlett
08. Get Happy (version 1) - The Tierney Sutton Band
09. The Lord Was a Woman - Candye Kane
10. Blues in A (live) - Wendy Saddington
11. Below the Belt - Dana Gillespie
12. Feels Right Take Me - Maria Aurigema & Jeff Heale
13. Hold On I'm Coming - Erma Franklin
14. Judgement Day Blues - Carolyn Wonderland
15. Walking the Street - Georgia White                    play
16. When Did You Leave Heaven - Dianne Schuur
17. You Ain't Worth a Good Woman - Koko Taylor
18. Hold Him Close - Angela Brown & Katie Webster
19. Soul Kitchen - Patti Smith


CD2
01. Hootchie Coochie Girl - Isabel Tavares & Black Coffee Band
02. Rowdy Blues - ,
03. You Got to Know How - Bonnie Raitt
04. Sermonette - Della Reese
05. The Day It Comes - Deborah Coleman
06. U-Haul - Renee Austin
07. Pick Your Battles - Karin Rudefelt & Doctor Blues
08. Homelessness In Austin - Carolyn Wonderland
09. Bo Hawg Grind - Barbara Carr
10. Blues in the Night - Katie Melua                        play
11. Baby's Insane - Diamanda Galбs
12. Baby (you've got what it takes) - Linda Gail & Jerry Lee Lewis
13. Anywhere But Here - Deitra Farr
14. Steppin' In - Melvina Allen
15. Sweets - Dana Gillespie
16. Some Days You Gotta Dance (live) - Dixie Chicks
17. Good Cabbage - Victoria Spivey                          play
18. If Love Was a Train - Michelle Shocked
19. Don't You Feel My Leg - Maria Muldaur
20. Get Happy (version 2) - The Tierney Sutton Band
21. Love Is Like - Maria Aurigema & Jeff Healey

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01. Cut You Loose - Angela Strehli
02. You Give Me Joy Joy - Doris Troy
03. Maybelle's Blues - Big Maybelle                      play
04. Loved Another Woman - Marsha Raven & Bernie Marsden
05. Every Night of the Week - Lou Ann Barton
06. Dr. Feelgood - Melvina Allen
07. It Ain't Easy - Bettye Lavette
08. Sweet Little Angel - Big Mama Thornton
09. St. Louis Blues (live) - Jula de Palma
10. Monkery's the Blues - Carmen McRae
11. Fish In the Dish - Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
12. Ball and Chain - Janis Joplin
13. Juke Box Blues - Reese Witherspoon
14. Love with a Feeling - Merline Johnson
15. One Man - Renee Austin
16. Learnin' the Blues - Katie Melua
17. New Orleans - Lara Martelli
18. School Days - Ann Rabson
19. Blues for Rampart Street - Ida Cox & Coleman Hawkins Quintet        play
20. Why You Been Gone So Long - Jessi Colter
21. Lord, I Wonder - Katie Webster
22. Gotcha - Bonnie Bramlett


CD2
01. Lovin' Cup - Debbie Davies
02. A Change Is Gonna Come - Bonnie Bramlett
03. Killing Time - Joss Stone
04. Mockingbird Song - Katie Melua                           play
05. You Talk Dirty - Erja Lyytinen
06. Stormy Blues - Billie Holiday & BB King
07. Stormy Monday (live) - Eva Cassidy
08. Pitiful - Big Maybelle
09. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (live) - Wendy Saddington
10. Blue Spirit Blues (live) - Diamanda Galas
11. Baby I Love You - Aretha Franklin
12. Downhome Blues - Marsha Raven & Bernie Marsden           play
13. Let Me Go Home, Whiskey - Ann Rabson
14. My Babbe - Precious Bryant
15. It Won't Be Long - Candye Kane
16. Hitting On Nothing - Sue Foley, Deborah Coleman & Roxanne Potvin
17. Black Cat Bone - Sweet Georgia Brown
18. All Blues - Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity
19. Keep Young and Beautiful - Annie Lennox

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01. On The Run - Katie Webster
02. Wanta Be An Angel (live) - Tracy Conover
03. Happy Woman Blues - Lucinda Williams
04. Call Your Wife - Deitra Farr
05. Step Into the Light - Mavis Staples
06. At Last - Renee Olstead
07. Dope Head Blues - Victoria Spivey             play
08. Blues Cabea - Aline Fajardo                   play
09. I'm a Women (live) - Ellen McIlwaine
10. Down - Miranda Lambert
11. Homesick for the Road - Tab Benoit, Debbie Davies & Kenny Neal
12. You Don't Have to Go - Barbara Lynn
13. Hummingbird - Dionne Warwick & BB King
14. Tell It Like It Is - Carla Thomas & Otis Redding
15. May The Best Man Win - Lynn White
16. Is There Any Way - Jessi Colter
17. A Touch of the Blues - Rosemary Clooney
18. Dom Zachodzacego Slonca - Martyna Jakubowicz
19. Dirty Man - Joss Stone
20. Vinte Anos Blues - Elis Regina


CD2
1. I Want Watcha Got - Ellen Mcilwaine
02. Everything's Moving Too Fast - Peggy Lee
03. In The Dark - Marian McPartland & Norah Jones             play
04. The Son of a Preacher Man - Diana Ross & The Supremes     play
05. Getting Out - Eva Cassidy
06. Addiction (live) - Tracy Conover
07. If It's Not Asking Too Much - Carla Thomas
08. Strangers On a Train - Renee Austin
09. Negro Gato (live) - Marisa Monte
10. Learnin' the Blues - Rosemary Clooney
11. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby - Renee Olstead
12. In and Out - Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity
13. Kerosene - Miranda Lambert
14. Simple Life - Carolyn Dawn Johnson
15. Sugar Coated Love - Barbara Lynn
16. Little Billie - Michelle Shocked
17. Don't Save It Too Long - Julia Lee
18. Come Be with Me - Amy Grant & Keb' Mo
19. I've Gotta Sing Away These Blues - Doris Day
20. Your Time To Cry - Lynn White
21. Crawlin' Kingsnake - Fear Itself
22. What Happened to the Real Me - Mavis Staples

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CD1
01. Hallelujah I Love Him So - Rita Coolidge
02. Lady - Regina Spektor
03. Don Diablo - Emilia Almazбn
04. Sweet Baby Blues - Flora Purim
05. Blues do Velcro - Clбudia Lino & Velhas Virgens
06. Tak Dej se k Ruman a Projdem Suet - Marta Kubisovб
07. I Need to Love You - Sandra Hall
08. LSD Blues - Annie Lyon
09. Why Don't You Do Right - Sinйad O'Connor
10. Cantei um Blues - Rosa Maria
11. Miss Celie's Blues - Denise Reis
12. Unwanted Child - Clara McDaniel
13. Blues on the Westside - Aguaturbia
14. Basin Street Blues - Rita Reys                                 play
15. White Lightnin' - Lita Ford
16. Brickyard Blues - Maria Muldaur
17. Ain't Nobody's Bizness (live) - Petra & Nobody's Bizness      play
18. That's What I Like - Julia Lee
19. Regarde les Riches - Patricia Kaas
20. Ready for Saturday Night - Joanna Dean
21. Sky of My Blues - Vвnia Bastos


CD2
01. I Got the Will - Sandra Hall
02. I Want to Be Loved by You - Sinйad O'Connor
03. Blues Indolent - Helena Noguerra
04. Me & The Devil Blues - Cowboy Junkies
05. For What It's Worth - Wanda Sб with Sйrgio Mendes & Brasil 66
06. Rosa in Blues - Rosa Maria]
07. Blues en Sol - Bonet
08. My Pink Guitar (La mia chitarra dentellare) - Marcella Gravina
09. Je Danse Donc Je Suis - Brigitte Bardot
10. I Didn't Like It the First Time - Julia Lee
11. Call It Stormy Monday - Rita Coolidge                          play     
12. Spider Monkeys - Lita Ford
13. My Funny Valentine - Nico
14. Broken Hearted Blues - Etta Baker & Cora Phillips
15. Red, White & Blues - Dona Oxford
16. Mi Ultimo Blues - Celeste Carballo
17. Not Just Anyone - Christine Tobin
18. Mademoiselle Chante le Blues (live) - Patricia Kaas
19. Let the Good Times Roll - Marva Wright                         play            
20. Crazy Blues - Mamie Smith
21. Blues para Seguir - Marilina Ross

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