Lucille Bogan
Lucille Bogan
Top Songs
| 1 | Till the Cows Come Home | ||
| 2 | Shave 'Em Dry II [Album Version] | ||
| 3 | Drinking Blues [Album Version] | ||
| 4 | Barbecue Bess [Album Version] | ||
| 5 | I'm Gonna Shave You Dry [Album Version] |
Albums
Jul 2021 • 2 songs
Mar 2015 • 43 songs
Oct 2013 • 14 songs
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Biography
Bessie Jackson was a pseudonym of Lucille Bogan, a classic female blues artist from the '20s and '30s. Her outspoken lyrics deal with sexuality in a manner that manages to raise eyebrows even within a genre that is about as nasty as recorded music ever got prior to the emergence of artists such as 2 Live Crew or Ludacris. The name change seems to be quite different in her case than the usual pattern among blues artists who recorded under other names simply to make an end run around pre-existing recording contracts. Jackson/Bogan seemed to be looking for something more substant...