Wild and sassy sounds from the archives of 40s and 50s rhythm & blues featuring some of the female dynamos of the genre coming your way on a Friday morning here on Deeper Roots. We’ll be featuring some great performances from the catalog of Jubilee Records (those Jubilee Jezebels) and a host of peers including some early scorchers from Little Sylvia (Robinson), Big Maybelle, Viola Watkins, Fay Simmons, and Ruth Brown. For the first three or four decades of the recorded blues and jazz, women played a major part in black music’s popularity and there was a resurgent ‘boom’ post-war that played a bigger part than we imagined in that tidal wave of wild rhythm beat that would become rock and soul. These are some classic tracks that don’t always get the attention they deserve…but they will here on Deeper Roots on a Friday morning on KOWS.

No.	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
1	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Strange Things Happen Every Day	Good News (Vol 3) Get Away Jordan
2	Miss Rhapsody (Viola Wells)	Sweet Man	Blues Women
3	Mabel Scott	Catch Em Young Treat Em Rough Tell Em Nothing	Blues Women
4	The Enchanters	Boogie Woogie Daddy	Jubilee Jezebels
5	Enchanters	Housewife Blues	Money Honey – Rise of the Black Vocal Group 51-53
6	Jeanne Gayle	Bim Bam Baby	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
7	Little Sylvia	Drive Daddy Drive	Jubilee Jezebels
8	Little Sylvia	Everything I Need But You	Jubilee Jezebels
9	Little Sylvia	Ain't Gonna Do It	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
10	Viola Watkins	It Must Be Love	Jubilee Jezebels
11	Viola Watkins	Boogie Woogie On A Saturday Night	Boogie Woogie Gals – 1939-57
12	Viola Watkins	Really Real	Jubilee Jezebels
13	Varetta Dillard	Mercy, Mr Percy	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
14	Mabel Scott	Mr Fine	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
15	LaVern Baker	Voodoo Voodoo	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
16	Edna McGriff	Oh Little Daddy	Stompin' 34
17	Edna McGriff	I'll Surrender Anytime	Jubilee Jezebels
18	Edna McGriff & The Tomcats	Mambo Baby	Rumba Gone Mambo
19	Big Maybelle	One Monkey Don't Stop No Show	The Complete OKeh Sessions 1952-'55
20	Big Maybelle	Ring Dang Dilly	The Very Best Of Big Maybelle
21	Big Maybelle	Hair Dressin' Women	ABC Of The Blues Vol 29
22	Ruth Brown	Smooth Operator	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
23	Fay Simmons	You Hit Me Baby Like An Atomic Bomb	Atomic Platters
24	Fay Simmons	Ella Weaver	Dapper Dan
25	Fay Simmons	Hangin' Around	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
26	Patti Jerome	No Mama, No Papa	Stompin' 22 – Crazed Rhythm 'N' Blues Pounders!
27	Linda Hopkins	Rock And Roll Blues	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
28	Carol Fran	Knock Knock	Rhythm 'n' Bluesin' By The Bayou – Mad Dogs, Sweet Daddies & Pretty Babies
29	Carol Fran	I'm Gonna Try	Cat Scratchin'
30	Carole Fran	You Can't Stop Me	Jubilee Jezebels
31	Marie Knight	Grasshopper Baby	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
32	Dolly Cooper	Ay La Bah	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
33	Dolly Cooper	Tell Me, Tell Me	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
34	Ella Mae Morse	How Can You Leave A Man Like This?	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
35	Annisteen Allen	Fujiyama Mama	From The Ghetto