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Born Lizzie Douglas in Algiers, Louisiana, as performer "Memphis Minnie" she was one of the most influential and pioneering female blues musicians and guitarists of all time. She recorded for forty years, virtually unheard of for any woman in show business at the time, and possibly unique among female blues artists. She married three times to musicians Joe McCoy (aka Kansas Joe), Casey Bill Weldon and Ernest Lawlers (aka Little Son Joe). Algiers is a community in Louisiana, part of the city of New Orleans. ... Blues is a vocal and instrumental musical form which evolved from African American spirituals, shouts, work songs and chants and has its earliest stylistic roots in West Africa. ... Steve Howe playing lead guitar for Yes in 1977 A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. ... Joe McCoy (born May 11, 1905 – died January 28, 1950) was an African American blues musician. ...

After learning to play guitar and banjo as a child, at the age of 13 she ran away from home to Memphis. Soon after she joined the circus. She combined her Louisiana-country roots with Memphis-blues to produce her unique country-blues sound. Her recording debut came with Kansas Joe, and Columbia Records, in 1929, and their song "Bumble Bee" was a hit. In the 1930's she moved to Chicago with Joe. She and McCoy broke up in 1935 and by 1939 she was with Little Son Joe. In the 1940's she formed a touring "Vaudeville" company. From the 1950s on, poor health forced her to spend the rest of her life in nursing homes in Memphis where she passed away in 1973. City nickname: The River City or The Bluff City Location in the state of Tennessee County Shelby County, Tennessee Area  - Total  - Water 763. ... Columbia Records is the oldest continually used brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... Vaudeville is a style of theater, also known as variety, which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. ... City nickname: The River City or The Bluff City Location in the state of Tennessee County Shelby County, Tennessee Area  - Total  - Water 763. ...

In 1980, Memphis Minnie was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame.

Songs:

"When The Levee Breaks", a 1929 Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe song, was later covered by Led Zeppelin and released in 1971 on Zeppelin's "untitled" fourth (aka ZOSO, or four symbols) album. When the Levee Breaks is a blues song by Memphis Minnie, famously covered by Led Zeppelin as the last song on their fourth album. ... Led Zeppelin (clockwise from left: Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones) Led Zeppelin was a British band noted for their innovative, influential approach to heavy blues-rock and as one of the most popular and influential bands of all time. ... The fourth album released by the British blues/rock band Led Zeppelin is variously referred to as Four Symbols, Runes, Sticks, Zoso (after the approximate shape of the symbols used as a title), IV, or even untitled. ...

Other songs: "Bumble Bee", "Hoodoo Lady" and "I Want Something For You"

External Link:

• Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame (http://www.blues.org/halloffame/)