This week’s show dedicates two hours to the incredible blues women of the past century. We’ll be going deep, featuring tracks from the great early century trailblazers:  Mamie Smith, Trixie Smith, Ma Rainey, Sippie Wallace, and others. Plus, we’ll hear from Ruthie Foster, Big Mama Thornton, Dinah Washington, and Varetta Dillard; all of this being the background to to last Saturday evening’s Blues is a Woman performance at the Raven Theater in downtown Healdsburg. Our special guest on the show will be Pamela Rose, performer, author, and vocalist, who has toured nationally with her critically acclaimed show Wild Women of Song: Great Gal Composers of the Jazz Era. Pamela is part of the San Francisco ensemble Blues is a Woman along with Pat Wilder, Ruth Davies, Kristen Strom, Shani Johnson, Jennifer Jolly, and music director/pianist/vocalist Tammy Hall. Dave Stroud will be talking the ‘pearls’ of the blues with Pamela in a prerecorded interview. Join us.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Ma Rainey	Ma" Rainey's Black Bottom	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
3	Ma Rainey with Tampa Red & Georgia Tom	Black Eye Blues	Southern Country Blues: Down In Boogie Alley [Disc 2]
4	Ruthie Foster	Death Came A'Knockin'	Oxford American Southern Music Texas
5	Big Mama Thornton/Muddy Waters Blues Band	Looking the World Over	With the Muddy Waters Blues Band 1966
6	Memphis Minnie	Looking The World Over [Album Version]	Queen Of The Blues
7	Ida Cox with Coleman Hawkins Quintet	Wild Women Don't Have the Blues	Oxford American Music Issue – Visions of the Blues
8	Ida Cox	One Hour Mama	I Can't Quit My Man
9	Bonnie Raitt	Love Me Like A Man	Bonnie Raitt: Opus Collection
10	Aretha Franklin	Evil Gal Blues	Aretha Sings The Blues
11	Albinia Jones	Evil Gal Blues	Vocal Blues & Jazz Vol. 4 (1938)
12	Sippie Wallace	Up the Country Blues	Sippie Wallace Vol. 1 (1923-1925)
13	Victoria Spivey	Murder In The First Degree	Black Snake Blues – The Best Of
14	Alberta Hunter	Remember My Name	Remember My Name (Original Soundtrack Recording)
15	Big Mama Thornton	Ball And Chain	Living The Blues – 1965 – 1969 Blues Classics
16	Varetta Dillard	See See Rider Blues	Got You On My Mind
17	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Didn't It Rain	Gospel Blues – the Very Best Of
18	Trixie Smith	Freight Train Blues	Blues Was Her Business
19	Clementine Smith	Nobody Knows What A Red Head Mama Can Do	Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 14
20	Mamie Smith	Crazy Blues	Folk Blues & Gospel: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
21	Bessie Smith	Lock And Key	Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey [Disc 1]
22	Pamela Rose	Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning (feat. Daria Johnson)	Blues Is a Woman (Original Cast Recording)
23	Etta James	Let's Burn Down The Cornfield	The Essential Etta James [Disc 2]
24	Ruth Brown	(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean	The Great American Soul Book Chapter 1: Any Way You Wanta!
25	Dinah Washington	Blow Top Blues	Blues Was Her Business