Born Lizzie Douglas on June 3, 1897, in Algiers, Louisiana, Minnie was the eldest of 13 kids. She grew up near Memphis and began playing the guitar at 10. She hated her name and insisted she be called ...

New York Guitar Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2019, and for this year’s edition it’s paying tribute to pioneering blues guitarist Memphis Minnie. More about her: A supremely influential ...

Why has this musician who recorded over two hundred sides and was well-loved by the Black blues audiences of the '30s and '40s been comparatively ignored by later audiences? Perhaps it's because ...

Candice Ivory is more than a little ambitious to conceive and execute an album comprised wholly of material by blues icon Memphis Minnie. But to her credit, she has been quite resourceful in enlisting ...

Although billed equally with the other contributors on the album cover, Maria Muldaur is really the driving force behind this "loving tribute" to Memphis Minnie. She produced the set and sings on ...