Lucille Bogan Shave em Dry 1935 AKA Bessie Jackson

Banner Records Song Recorded 351935 In Chicago, Illinois. Flashbacks 1920 s 1940 s Geil Sexy Copulation Songs. Lucille Bogan (April 1, 1897 August 10, 1948) was an American blues singer, among the first to be recorded. She also recorded under the pseudonym Bessie Jackson. The sexologist and music critic, Ernest Borneman, stated that Bogan along with Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, was in the big three of the blues. By 1930 her recordings had begun to concentrate on drinking and sex, with songs such as Sloppy Drunk Blues (covered by Leroy Carr and others) and Tricks Ain t Walkin No More (later recorded by Memphis Minnie). She also recorded the original version of Black Angel Blues, which (as Sweet Little Angel ) was covered by B. B. King and many others. Trained in the rowdier juke joints of the 1920s, many of Bogan s songs, most of which she wrote herself, have thinlyveiled humorous sexual references. The th