Wally 39;s Blues Free Download
Jai Weil
There they listened to blues singers and became acquainted with their style and sound. On one such visit to a tent show, Wallace was asked to fill an opening in the chorus line. That very night, a star was born.
When the tent shows moved from Houston to Dallas, Wallace went right along with them. So by the mid-1910s, she had become a versatile tent-show performer, acting in plays, dancing in the chorus line, doing comedy routines, singing solo blues ballads and even serving as a snake charmer's assistant.
In New Orleans, after marrying and divorcing Frank Seals, she married Matt Wallace in 1917 and took his last name. In 1923, she and Hersal moved to Chicago, where George Jr. helped them meet Ralph Peer, the general manager of OKeh Records. Three months after signing with OKeh Records, billed as the 'Texas Nightingale," Sippie Wallace became a blues star.
Finally, in 1936, George Jr. and Matt Wallace both died. This spate of tragedies prompted Wallace to move to Detroit and embrace her gospel music roots. All wasn't over for this blues giant, though. In 1966, fellow jazz alum Victoria Spivey convinced Wallace to make a record with her.
Chicago honors its legacy as a city of 12-bar melodies and wailing guitar solos by hosting this annual blues music festival, bringing living legends and local players to Millennium Park for four days of electrifying performances. This year's lineup includes headlining sets from rockers Los Lobos, gospel group The Blind Boys of Alabama with Bobby Rush, and singer Mud Morganfield. Plus, new this year is a a blues-inspired smokehouse, dubbed Wally's BBQ Pit, where guests can feast on delicious barbecue in between acts.
After the Temperance Seven, Cooper freelanced as a musician and lecturer, deputising in the Alex Welsh and Freddy Randall bands, and also appeared regularly with the Anglo-American Alliance alongside his old Temps bandmate John RT Davies (obituary, May 29 2004) and sundry Americans then resident in London, notably cornettist/journalist Dick Sudhalter. This informal outfit were the ideal backing band for the veteran blues singer Eva Taylor and former Paul Whiteman trombonist Bill Rank when they performed and recorded in London in the 1960s.
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