Post by AlanB on May 31, 2008 5:22:51 GMT -5
I was looking through a file of music magazine clippings from mid-late 60s and came across the following contained in Max Jones's weekly Melody Maker blues column of 23 August 1969 (page 10). Ironically it also relates to my first post here.
VICTORIA SPIVEY, indelibly associated with songs "T.B. Blues" and "Black Snake Blues," which she composed in the Twenties, is a Texas singer, pianist and uke player who refuses to stay out of the news for long.
Earlier this year she recorded an album with Spann, Johnny Young and others for release by Blue Horizon early in 1970. And she's back in action with her own Spivey label, which has been dormant just lately.
It is appropriate that I should be writing about "Queen" Victoria this week. Leadbelly, reviewed alongside, sings his variant of the "T.B Blues" on one of the LPs and Lonnie Johnson is an old time partner of Spivey's who came to Europe with her in the autumn of '63.
Victoria sends me several photographs of herself in the company of Otis Spann, Taj Mahal, Danny Barker and other musicians, one of which graces this page. Singer saxophonist Vi Redd, seen with her is herself no mean blues belter.
And she sends information about her latest reissue LP, her "Recorded Legacy Of The Blues " (LP2001), which holds "14 historic collector item performances including unissued material and new discographical information."
The record itself hasn't arrived yet, but it contains such things from her vintage years as a 1936 "Detroit Man" and "T.B.'s Got Me;" a '28 "New Black Snake Blues" with Lonnie Johnson; and a '29 "Telephoning The Blues " with Luis Russell's merry men. Among the accompanists she lists are Louis Armstrong, Red Allen, Lee Collins, King Oliver, Clarence ;Williams,. Jimmy Strong, Zutty, Eddie Lang and Mancy Cara. It sounds a real right legacy!
VICTORIA SPIVEY, indelibly associated with songs "T.B. Blues" and "Black Snake Blues," which she composed in the Twenties, is a Texas singer, pianist and uke player who refuses to stay out of the news for long.
Earlier this year she recorded an album with Spann, Johnny Young and others for release by Blue Horizon early in 1970. And she's back in action with her own Spivey label, which has been dormant just lately.
It is appropriate that I should be writing about "Queen" Victoria this week. Leadbelly, reviewed alongside, sings his variant of the "T.B Blues" on one of the LPs and Lonnie Johnson is an old time partner of Spivey's who came to Europe with her in the autumn of '63.
Victoria sends me several photographs of herself in the company of Otis Spann, Taj Mahal, Danny Barker and other musicians, one of which graces this page. Singer saxophonist Vi Redd, seen with her is herself no mean blues belter.
And she sends information about her latest reissue LP, her "Recorded Legacy Of The Blues " (LP2001), which holds "14 historic collector item performances including unissued material and new discographical information."
The record itself hasn't arrived yet, but it contains such things from her vintage years as a 1936 "Detroit Man" and "T.B.'s Got Me;" a '28 "New Black Snake Blues" with Lonnie Johnson; and a '29 "Telephoning The Blues " with Luis Russell's merry men. Among the accompanists she lists are Louis Armstrong, Red Allen, Lee Collins, King Oliver, Clarence ;Williams,. Jimmy Strong, Zutty, Eddie Lang and Mancy Cara. It sounds a real right legacy!