MusicMakerRelief · Pat “Mother Blues” Cohen – Grinnin’ In Your Face (A Capella) Pat “Mother Blues” Cohen takes this powerful Son House tune head on. Pat sheds her electric blues skin and brings it back to her roots on this one. A North Carolina native, Pat has lived a hard life and has always used […]

The Blues was born in the South and dispersed wherever people would congregate. Shot houses, railroad depots, local bars, VFW halls and other community gathering places served as the melting pots in which our greatest cultural export was forged. These regular gigs provided daily bread for the artists who played them and are a critical […]

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“Little Red Rooster told little Brown Hen I ain’t had no loving since I don’t know when, I wanna boogie! yeah! The hen chews tobacco, the rooster dips snuff, the little rooster tried but he wasn’t big enough, he wants to boogie! yeah! Boo –gie! I want to Boogie woogie, boogie woogie all night long!” […]

  Filmed at their old homeplace in Panola County, Mississippi, the Como Mamas’ Angelia Taylor leads this powerful number. Her voice carries the familial trio through this powerful song backed by a rock steady rhythm section. The beat provides the perfect framework for Angelia to build the song up until it explodes at the end.