Biography: Baby Tate, Bertha "Chippie" Hill, Bertha Idaho, Bertha Lee, Baby Washington, Beryl Bryden, Bessemer Sunset Four, Bessie Banks, Bessie Brown, Bessie Brown,

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In the course of his nearly 50-year career, guitarist Baby Tate recorded only a handful of sessions The bulk of his life was spent as a sideman, playing with musicians like Blind Boy Fuller, Pink Anderson, and Peg Leg Sam

Bertha "Chippie" Hill Biography, Photos, Pictures

One of the better classic blues singers of the 1920’s (and much less vaudeville-oriented than many of her contemporaries), Chippie Hill was one of the few singers of her generation to make a full-fledged comeback in the 1940’s

Bertha Idaho Biography, Photos, Pictures

The recording career of classic blues singer Bertha Idaho could not possibly be compared to the ample potato crop of her namesake state Indeed, she cut only four songs in 1928 and 1929 with song titles that, if arranged correctly, tell a story right out of a film noir

Bertha Lee recorded very little, which is a shame because she has one powerful blues voice When she was young, Lee’s family moved to Lula, Mississippi, where she would eventually meet Charley Patton

Baby Washington Biography, Photos, Pictures

Her sultry delivery earned Justine “Baby” Washington R&B chart bows in four different decades, most notably on the delectable uptown soul classic “That’s How Heartaches Are Made” for Sue Records in 1963

Beryl Bryden Biography, Photos, Pictures

Dubbed “Britain’s queen of the blues” by no less than Ella Fitzgerald, jazz vocalist Beryl Bryden was born in Norwich, England on May 11, 1920 While working as a shorthand typist, she began her performing career backed by the amateur group the Cambridge Jazz Club, with her robust voice quickly earning a strong local following

Bessemer Sunset Four Biography, Photos, Pictures

The Bessemer Sunset Four (they were sometimes billed as the Bessemer Quartet) was formed in 1925 out of the ashes of the unrecorded Rolling Mill Four Based out of Jefferson County, AL, the group consisted of lead singer Dave Brown, tenor Sam Riley, baritone Wash Ivey, and bass singer Pat Gaines

Bessie Banks Biography, Photos, Pictures

Bessie Banks is primarily remembered by rock history buffs for her 1964 recording of “Go Now,” but her career extended well into the 1970s and beyond She was born Bessie White in North Carolina, and later raised in Brooklyn, NY

Bessie Brown Biography, Photos, Pictures

”The Original” Bessie Brown is believed to have been born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1895 Unlike her nemesis, the Bessie Brown who recorded Blues duets with George Williams, “The Original” Bessie Brown was a solo act and worked for a time as a male impersonator

The woman who threatened to “Put a spider in her dumplin’, make her crawl all over the floor,” was actually a pretty nice lady, but the consensus on her talent is divided