Jack shares what he has learned about the life and music of Lottie Kimbrough and how her music exemplifies the genrefying of music along the lines of race in the 1920s. Songs Featured: Daddy Lessons (live at the 2016 CMAs) - Beyoncé and the Dixie Chicks Honey Blues - Lottie Beaman and the Pruitt Twins Moonshine Blues - Ma Rainey Nobody Knows You when You’re Down and Out - Bessie Smith My Sporting Man - Mamie Smith Wheel in a Wheel - Wheat Street Female Quartet Mule Skinner Blues - Dolly Parton Blue Yodel #8 - Jimmie Rodgers Labor Blues - Tom Dickson Regular Man Blues - Lottie Beaman Sugar Daddy Blues - Lottie Beaman Cabbage Head Blues - Sylvester and Lena Kimbrough City of the Dead - Lena Kimbrough The Soul’s Physician - Rev. B.L Wightman Lost Lover Blues - Lottie Kimbrough and Winston Holmes If I Could Only Learn to Yodel - Patsy Montana Arizona Yodeler - The DeZurik Sisters Nola Yodel - Carolina Cotton Mama Can’t Lose - Lottie Beaman Wayward Girl Blues - Lottie Kimbrough and Winston Holmes Don’t Speak to Me - Lottie Kimbrough and Winston Holmes Rolling Log Blues - Lottie Beaman References: Carlin, B. (2004). String Bands in the North Carolina Piedmont. McFarland. Driggs, F., & Haddix, C. (2005). Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop--A History. Oxford University Press. Harrison, D. D. (1990). Black pearls: Blues queens of the 1920s. Rutgers University Press. Mazor, B. (2014). Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music. Chicago Review Press. Peterson, R. A. (2013). Creating country music: Fabricating authenticity. University of Chicago Press. Malone, B. C. (2003). Singing cowboys and musical mountaineers: Southern culture and the roots of country music (Vol. 34). University of Georgia Press. Nunn, E. (2015). Sounding the Color Line: Music and Race in the Southern Imagination. University of Georgia Press. Pecknold, D. (Ed.). (2020). Hidden in the mix: the African American presence in country music. Duke University Press. Rumble, J., Kingsbury, P., & Gill, V. (2012). The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Oxford University Press, USA. Lottie Kimbrough Discography: https://www.wirz.de/music/beaman.htm Swinton, P. (2016). Winston Holmes and his Meritt record label. IAJRC Journal, 49(3), 74-84. Tinsley, O. N. (2018). Beyoncé in formation: Remixing Black feminism. University of Texas Press. Ward, B., & Huber, P. (2018). A&R Pioneers: Architects of American Roots Music on Record. Vanderbilt University Press. Support Women in Music: Country Soul Songbook Connect: wildwoodflowerpod@gmail.com Instagram @wildwoodflowerpod Deadlines for submitting cover songs: Roba Stanley - June 16 Moonshine Kate - June 23 Sara Carter - June 30 Maybelle Carter - July 7