A Bad Woman Feeling Good

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Bad Woman Feeling Good tells the story of the women who broke the rules, creating their own legacy of how to live, love, and sing truth to power through the blues. The men's side of this tradition is well known, but this is the blues- women's story, from the earliest days of the music to the way the blues sounds today.

Author Buzzy Jackson combines biography, an appreciation of music, and a sweeping view of American history to illuminate the pivotal role of blueswomen in a powerful musical tradition. Blueswomen such as Ma Rainey and her protegee Bessie Smith, to their sucessors Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Janis Joplin, Etta James, and Billie Holliday. They all injected a dose of reality into the often trivial world of popular song, bringing their message of higher expectations and broader horizons to their audiences.