Alberta Hunter
One of the earliest recorded blues acts, Hunter sang with a clarity of diction and tone that made her music accessible to white audiences. At the height of her popularity, she recorded with nearly all her great jazz contemporaries, among them Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, and Fletcher Henderson. In the '30s Hunter branched out to Broadway. She ended her career in the '80s as a star of the New York cabaret scene.
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Albums
- (2006) Chicago: The Living Legends
- (2006) Songs We Taught Your Mother
- (1980) Amtrak Blues
Top Tracks
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Always
- My Handy Man Ain't Handy No More
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
Related Artists
- Bessie Smith
- Nina Simone
- Sippie Wallace
- Victoria Spivey
- Ma Rainey
- Billie Holiday
- Ethel Waters
- Etta James
- Dinah Washington
- Jelly Roll Morton
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Louis Armstrong
- Mamie Smith
- Big Mama Thornton
- Maria Muldaur
- Ruth Brown
- Lucinda Williams
- Ida Cox
- Debbie Davies, Hubert Sumlin, Henry Gray, Calvin J
- Christine Ohlman, Eddie Shaw, Hubert Sumlin, Henry
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