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Big Mama Thornton - The Life and Music (Paperback)
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Big Mama Thornton - The Life and Music (Paperback)
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You ain't nothing but a ""Hound Dog"" ... with these words shouted
into the microphone she will always be remembered: Big Mama
Thornton. Who is this woman who sang the megahit ""Hound Dog""
before Elvis Presley and who wrote ""Ball & Chain"", the song
that catapulted Janis Joplin to sudden fame? The story begins with
her first musical attempts in the Hot Harlem Revue as a girl of 14.
Then the book follows her journey into the Mecca of Texas Blues,
Houston, where Big Mama Thornton met Johnny Otis, with whom she
recorded her greatest success-""Hound Dog"". With the slowdown of
the blues in the early sixties this book follows Big Mama
Thornton's way to California, discusses her struggle to survive and
celebrates her grandiose musical comeback in the course of the
blues revival and the hippie movement. With the end of the sixties,
facing the declining interest in the old school blues, the book
shows how Big Mama Thornton found her niche in clubs and festivals
in the U.S. and Europe. The book then follows Big Mama Thornton
through the seventies and eighties until her untimely death.
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