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Lucille Bogan (April 1, 1897 August 10, 1948) was an American blues singer, among the first to be recorded. She also recorded under the pseudonym Bessie Jackson. Bogan sang straight-talking blues about drinking ("Sloppy Drunk Blues"), prostitution ("Tricks Ain't Walking No More"), gambling, lesbianism and other facets of what her generation called 'the life'. The jazz critic and sexologist Ernest Borneman grouped her with Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith in the "the big three of the blues". She was born Lucille Anderson in Amory, Mississippi in 1897, and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1916 she married Nazareth Lee Bogan, a railwayman, and gave birth to a son. She first recorded vaudeville songs for Okeh Records in New York in 1923, with pianist Henry Callens. Later that year she recorded "Pawn Shop Blues" in Atlanta, Georgia, which was the first time a black blues singer had been recorded outside New York or Chicago. In 1927 she began recording for Paramount Records in Chicago, where she waxed her first big success, "Sweet Petunia", which was later covered by Blind Blake. She also recorded for Brunswick Records, backed by Tampa Red and Cow Cow Davenport. By 1930 her recordings had begun to concentrate on drinking and sex, with songs such as "Sloppy Drunk Blues" - covered by Leroy Carr and others - and "Tricks Ain't Walkin' No More" - later recorded by Memphis Minnie. She also recorded the original version of "Black Angel Blues", which (as "Sweet Little Angel") was coverered by..

Que sepais que este BLUESAZO ( El Blues de la Casa de Empeños ) se gravó en Atlanta , Ga. , en los primeros días de Junio de 1923 . Y que en esta ocasión , no fué Walter Roland , sino Eddie Heiwood quien le acompañó al piano.