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Ida May Mack
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Ida May Mack or Ida Mae Mack was an American classic female blues, country blues, and Texas blues singer and songwriter. She recorded eight songs in 1928, four of which she recorded twice. Six of these tracks were released at the time. Little is known of her life outside the music industry. Little is known about Mack's origins and early life. It is known that she traveled by train to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1928, alongside Bessie Tucker and Charlie Kyle, with the intention of recording for Victor. Memphis was the location of the recording studio nearest to her home, which is generally agreed to have been in Texas. The pianist K. D. Johnson, born in Dallas, Texas, accompanied both Mack and Tucker on their recordings, which took place on 29 and 30 August 1928. Johnson was remembered by another piano player, Whistlin' Alex Moore, as "49"; Mack referred to Johnson as "Mr. 49" during his piano solos, and she composed and recorded the song "Mr. Forty-Nine Blues." In calling Johnson "Mr. 49", she used a slang name often denoting tent show performers. In Mack's version of "Elm Street Blues", she utilised the street name as "a metaphor for unrequited love". Mack made twelve recordings, of which six were issued at the time. She recorded alternate takes of four songs: "Wrong Doin' Daddy", "Elm Street Blues", "Mr. Forty-Nine Blues", and "Good-Bye Rider". In 1960, the Dallas-based Whistlin' Alex Moore told an interviewer that Mack and Tucker were both "tough cookies ... don't mess wit
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Country and Urban Blues
CD1 - Women In Blues 1920-1943
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Barrelhouse Mamas
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the ladies in blues
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Better Boot That Thing: Great Women Blues Singers of the 1920's
Texas Girls (1926-1929)
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Too Late, Too Late Vol. 4 1892-1937
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Barrelhouse Mamas: Born In The Alley, Raised Up In The Slum
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Too Late, Too Late, Volume 4: 1892-1937
Better Boot That Thing: Great Women Blues Singers of the 1920's
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Better Boot That Thing (Great Women Blues Singers of the 1920's)
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The Piano Blues Volume 19