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Fannie May Goosby
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Fannie May Goosby (born 1902, died after 1934) also known as Fannie Mae Goosby was an American classic female blues singer, pianist and songwriter. Ten of her recordings were released between 1923 and 1928, one of which, "Grievous Blues", she recorded twice. Goosby was one of the first female blues musicians to record her own material. She also was one of the first two blues singers to be recorded in the Deep South, the other being the dirty blues singer Lucille Bogan. Details of her life outside the recording studio are minimal. According to the blues researchers Bob Eagle and Eric S. LeBlanc, Goosby may have been born in Pinehurst, Georgia. In early June 1923, Polk C. Brockman, an Atlanta-based furniture store owner, who had been instrumental in the distribution of disks for Okeh Records, went to New York to work out a new business deal with Okeh. He was asked if he knew of any artist in Atlanta that could justify a recording trip to Georgia. Brockman promised to return with an answer. At his next meeting with the Okeh Records board, he persuaded Ralph Peer to record Fiddlin' John Carson. At the same recording sessions, probably on June 14, 1923, Peer also recorded "The Pawn Shop Blues", sung by Lucille Bogan, and Goosby singing her own composition "Grievous Blues", for which she accompanied herself on the piano, with a trumpet part played by Henry Mason. It is notable as the first rural blues to be recorded. Goosby wrote most of her own songs, which was then a rarity am
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Grievous Blues
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Female Blues Singers Vol. 7 G/H (1922-1929)
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The Roots Of Billie Holiday - Ladies Sing The Blues Of The 1920s
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Divas of the 1920's
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I've Got a Do Right Daddy Now
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Spring Into Easter - 1920s Hits
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Speakeasy Sounds! No. 1 1920's Collection
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Female Blues Singers Vol 7 G-H (1922-1929)
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1996 - Vol 7: G/H (1922-1929) DOCD-5511
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100 Greatest Big Hits of the 1920's (Inspired By the Hit TV Series "Downton Abbey"), Vol. 1
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DOCD 5511
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Female Blues Singers - Complete Recorded Works 1996 - Vol 7: G/H (1922-1929) DOCD-5511