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Victoria Spivey

President sent for me, Prince of Wales on my trail

About Me

with Muddy Waters & Otis Spann


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Member Since: 1/2/2008
Sounds Like: Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Lonnie Johnson, Billie Holiday

TB Blues (1963)
“I think one of the best records that I’ve ever been a part of was the record I made with Big Joe Williams and Victoria Spivey. Now that’s a record that I hear from time to time and I don’t mind listening to it. It amazes me that I was there and had done that.”
Bob Dylan in Rolling Stone 2001

played with Louis Armstrong & King Oliver in the 1930s
played Missy Rose in 1929 film
with Lonnie Johnson

with Sonny Boy Williamson II

Record Label: Public Domain
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Spivey Records

Spivey Records Photo Album has a dozen or so LP covers for you to look at!& Bob Dylan, Len Kunstadt, Big Joe WilliamsIn the mid 1950's, Len Kunstadt and Victoria Spivey became companionsan unorthodox...
Posted by Victoria Spivey on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:14:00 PST

Rude Blues : My Bawdy Lyrics

Toothache Blues   (1927)  & Lonnie JohnsonVS: Ahhh, hahhh &[spoken words (s.w.)]LJ: What's the matter, darlin'?[s. w.]VS: Ahhh, hahhh &[s. w.]VS: I'm havin' so much trouble with those toothache blues...
Posted by Victoria Spivey on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:28:00 PST

Internet article about me

A while ago, it must have been the mid-1970s, I watched the elderly blues singer Victoria Spivey being interviewed by a dreary BBC journalist. He inquired: Miss Spivey, you were one of the foremost C...
Posted by Victoria Spivey on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:46:00 PST