Mae Glover

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Born September 9, 1906 in Columbia, Tennessee, Lillie Mae Glover ran away from home in 1920 when she was only 13 to join the Tom Simpson Traveling Medicine Show. Her father was a preacher and she wanted to sing the blues, so that was that. She worked in several road shows before landing in Memphis, Tennessee in the late '20s, becoming a regular performer on the city's famed Beale Street, where she was known as "the Mother of Beale Street." She recorded and performed under several different names, including Lillian Mae Glover, Mae Muff, Mae Glover, and Big Memphis Ma Rainey, the name under which she tracked a few sides for Sun Records in 1953. She died in 1985 at Tishomingo County Hospital in Iuka, Mississippi at the age of 78. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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Mae Glover 1927-1931

Mississippi Moaners 1927-1942

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I Can't Be Satisfied: Early American Blues Singers Vol. 1 - Country

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Big Ten Inch 2

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The Country Girls 1927-1935

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Prison Blues

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The Great Women Blues Singers CD1

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The Country Girls! 1927-1935

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The Great Women Blues Singers [Disc 1]

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Rough Guide to Blues Women

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The Great Women Blues Singers

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Rude Blues

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