About Mama Yancey
Estelle "Mama" Yancey (January 1, 1896 – April 19, 1986) was an American blues singer. Mama Yancey, born Estella Harris in Cairo, Illinois, grew up in Chicago, where she sang in church choirs and learned how to play the guitar. In 1917, when she was 21, she married Jimmy Yancey, who had traveled the U.S. and Europe as a vaudeville dancer. She often sang with him at informal get-togethers and house parties in the 1930s and 1940s and performed with him at Carnegie Hall, New York in 1948.
Top Tracks
How Long Blues
Make Me A Pallet On The Floor
Four O'clock Blues
Santa Fe Blues
Mama Yancey's Blues
Hurry Sundown
The Santa Fe Blues
Weekly Blues
Monkey Woman Blues
Make Me A Pallet On The Floor (1943)
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