“Prove It on Me Blues” by Ma Rainey is about a woman who flaunts and indulges in her attraction for women and cross dressing. It is about the blues, about a century-old sound demanding: “Prove it on me.” Madison E. Johnson ’18 is a History and Literature concentrator in Pforzheimer House. Nicknamed the “Mother of the Blues,” she recorded more than 100 singles, including the hits “Prove it on Me Blues,” “See See Rider Blues,” and “Don’t Fish in My Sea.” By Mike O’Cull. The lyrics also express, however, the secretive nature of queer relationships in society when the female character in the song exclaims, “’Cause they say I do it, ain’t nobody caught me.” The speaker writes that at his young age, it is hard to know what is true for "you or me." He believes that the truth is what he hears, feels and sees in Harlem – "hear you, hear me – we two – you, me, talk on this page." Born Gertrude Pridgett, Ma Rainey (April 26, 1886 - December 22, 1939) was one of the first blues singers to record music. 2 “Her playing is perfect, her singing otherworldly as she wrestles with ghosts, shadows and legends." The most famous example, "Prove It on Me Blues" (1928) was recorded near the end of her contract with Paramount, and contains the lyrics: Where she went, I … This content is imported from YouTube. Unlike her last seven albums, Prove It on Me isn’t bound to any one musician—among others, the songs here come from Memphis Minnie, Ma Rainey, Elvie Thomas, and Block herself, providing a freedom that lets her roam from barrelhouse to country blues, hokum, jazz, gospel, and singer-songwriter confessional. He likes to eat, drink, sleep, be in love, work, read, learn, and "understand life." Rainey's "Prove It On Me Blues" is an acknowledgement and a challenge; Rainey both declares her interest in women and dares the listener to recognize it, with more than a bit of a takes-one-to-know-one taunt. Rory Block, Prove It On Me: Power Women of the Blues, Vol. Since she was a teenager in the early ‘60s in New York… In the song "Prove it On Me Blues," Rainey sings, "I went out last night with a crowd of my friends / It must've been women, 'cause I don't like no men" and "It's true I wear a collar and a tie." In “Prove It on Me Blues,” accompanied by a jug band, she sings defiantly: Went out last night with a crowd of my friends. The songs on Rory Block's Prove It on Me express the strength of female artists despite their circumstances as second class citizens in both the musical world and larger American society. Six-time Blues Music Award-winner and supremely talented acoustic guitarist Rory Block takes us all to school once again on her new album Prove It On Me.The set comes out March 27th, 2020 on Stony Plain Records and is the second installment of Block’s “Power Women of the Blues” series, which spotlights the music of female performers from the blues’ formative years. He hears New York. They must’ve been women, ‘cause I don’t like no men. New York Times Rory Block is one of the world’s greatest living acoustic blues artists.
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