Date: 25/04/2026 23:23:42
From: Bubblecar
ID: 2384647
Subject: re: What music are you listening to ?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Barbara Dane.No link, because I am listening to one of those old-fashioned CD things.
But here is what TATE has to say:
Jazz critic Leonard Feather described Dane as “Bessie Smith in stereo” in the late 1950s. Time wrote of Dane: “The voice is pure, rich … rare as a 20-carat diamond” and quoted Louis Armstrong’s exclamation upon hearing her at the Pasadena jazz festival: “Did you get that chick? She’s a gasser!” On the occasion of her 85th birthday, The Boston Globe music critic James Reed called her “one of the true unsung heroes of American music.”
Powerful singer, She died two years ago aged 97.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oywYLSOm8PA&list=RDEM6Z2zJ17lGB-GPiZSTCAwfg&start_radio=1