Biography

Like contemporaries Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Victoria Spivey, Sippie Wallace sang gutbucket blues in a jazz-band setting. Enormously influential on subsequent generations of female blues singers, Wallace served as a musical mentor to Bonnie Raitt, who has recorded a number of the blues pioneer's songs. She scored her first hit single in 1923, reemerged in the 1960s blues scene, and won a Grammy in 1982 for her final album SIPPIE. She died in 1986.

Top Tracks

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• Caldonia Blues

• Devil Dance Blues

• I'm A Mighty Tight Woman

• I'm So Glad I'm A Brownskin

• Leavin' Me Daddy Is Hard To Do

• Murder's Gonna Be My Crime

• Suitcase Blues

• The Flood Blues

• Up The Country Blues

• Wicked Monday Mornin' Blues

• Women Be Wise

Discography

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• Sippie

  Collectables

  1982

• Sings the Blues

  Storyville

  1966

• Women Be Wise

  Storyville

  1966