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Viola Davis, in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

BEA BOOZE

“See See Rider Blues” was Bea’s only hit song. It’s a cover of Ma Rainey’s 1925 track (one that she would often use as an encore during live performances). The song is a lonesome, vengeful number about a woman scorned.

I’m gonna buy me a pistol
Just as long as I am tall
Lawd, lawd, lawd
Kill my man and
Catch the Cannonball
If he don’t have me
He won’t have no gal at all

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Ma Rainey

Bit late in sharing it here but a couple of days ago we released our first episode of 2021, on the Mother of the Blues, Ma Rainey. We’ll be talking about the blues and Black identity in the Great Migration, the new Netflix film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and a possible lesbian orgy.

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[Image: black-and-white photo of Ma Rainey, an African-American woman, smiling, wearing a headband, pearls, beaded earrings, and a beaded dress; source]