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Today I Sing the Blues

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Artist: Helen Humes
Label: Acrobat [Cit570]
Category: Music

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Sales Rank: 117700

Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

UPC: 824046533625
EAN: 0824046533625
ASIN: B0017SBMPQ

Release Date: June 17, 2008
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Tracks:

•	Garlic Blues
•	Nappy Headed Woman
•	If Papa Has Outside Lovin'
•	Blues with Helen
•	Sub-Deb Blues
•	My Wandering Man
•	Unlucky Woman
•	Gonna Buy Me a Telephone
•	I Would If I Could
•	Suspicious Blues
•	Fortune Tellin' Man
•	Be Baba Leba
•	Blue Prelude
•	He May Be Your Man
•	Central Avenue Boogie
•	He Don't Love Me Anymore
•	Pleasing Man Blues
•	It's Better to Give Than to Receive
•	Jet Propelled Papa
•	They Raided the Joint
•	Flippity Flop Flop
•	Today I Sing the Blues

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Album Description
2008 CD that represents highlights from the first 20 years of this great Blues singer's recording career. She made her first recordings at the age of 14, singing to the guitar accompaniment of the legendary Sylvester Weaver. These 1927 recordings in the classic female Blues style of the period brought her to the attention of the American music business. Although she worked and recorded with Harry James, she next appears on our CD recorded in 1938 as vocalist for The Count Basie Orchestra, a role she inherited from Billie Holiday. She managed to become as equally adept at small group R&B as she was at fronting Big Bands and worked in both genres throughout her career. Our compilation ends with a Buck Clayton All Stars session from 1947. 22 tracks. Acrobat.