Queens of the Blues with Gina Coleman: Recent Episodes
Gina Coleman
Queens of the Blues with Gina Coleman from the band, Misty Blues, will explore the fertile landscape of female artists who were at the foundation of early recorded blues and celebrate music created by female blues artists up to present times. The show will also give space for Gina’s friends, from varied creative backgrounds, to share the works of their most admired female blues artists and how they’ve influenced their artistry.
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Sad And Blue” is entirely about Ivy Smith.
ivysmith**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Wayward Girl Blues” is entirely about Lottie Kimbrough.
lottiekimbrough #lottiebeaman**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Cowgirl Blues” is entirely about Jessie Mae Hemphill.
jessiemaehemphill**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This 100th episode, “Hold On,” is entirely about Misty Blues.
mistyblues #mistybluesband #ginacoleman**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Feelin’ Blues” is entirely about Daisy Martin.
daisymartin**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “It's Red Hot” is entirely about Madlyn Davis.
madlyndavis**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Hula Blues” is entirely about Lena Wilson.
lenawilson**
The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “One Hour Mama” is entirely about the hokum style of blues.
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “I Can't Get Enough” is entirely about Leola B. Wilson ... better known as Coot Grant.
leolabwilson #cootgrant**
The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Hello Little Boy” is entirely about jump blues.
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Beale Street Mama” is entirely about Esther Bigeou.
estherbigeou**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “You'll Want My Love” is entirely about Lucille Hegamin.
lucillehegamin**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “When A Woman” is entirely about female fronted power couples.
memphisminnie #Lefever #annikachambers #susantedeschi #jillburnham #erinharpe**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Lonesome Woman Blues” is entirely about Alice Moore.
alicemoore #littlealice**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Whiskey Selling Woman” is entirely about Lucille Bogan.
lucillebogan**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Long Tall Mama” is entirely about Bernice Edwards.
berniceedwards**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “My Time Will Come” is entirely about LaVern Baker.
lavernbaker**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “One Dime Blues” is entirely about Etta Baker.
etta baker**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Snap Your Fingers” is entirely about Algia Mae Hinton.
algiamaehinton**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Trombone Cholly” is entirely about the Godmother of British Blues, Anna Ottilie Patterson.
ottiliepatterson**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Don't Let The Devil Ride” is entirely about Precious Bryant.
preciousbryant**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Too Bad,” is curated by special guest Dawn Lepere of LeFever.
dawnlepere #lefever**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Aggravatin' Papa” is entirely about Joyce Cobb.
Joyce Cobb**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Dream Daddy Blues” is entirely about Mary Johnson.
maryjohnson**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Sugar Baby Swing” is entirely about Beverly "Guitar" Watkins.
beverlyguitarwatkins**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “All Around Me Shine” is entirely about Flora Molton.
floramolton**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “North Memphis Blues” is entirely about city inspired songs.
memphisminnie #mistyblues #ettajames #shemekiacopeland #janisjoplin #bonnieraitt #tracychapman #bethhart**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Bluer Than Blue” is entirely about the Queen of Beale Street ... Ruby Wilson.
rubywilson #queenofbealestreet**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Bad Whiskey” is entirely about Merline Johnson.
merlinejohnson #yasyasgirl**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Ruler Of My Heart” is entirely about the Soul Queen of New Orleans ... Irma Thomas.
irmathomas**
The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Been A Long Time Coming” celebrates the New Year with blues releases in 2023.
#chantellmcculloch #diegomongueband #mistyblues #ruthiefoster #joannaconnor #bettyelavette #ghaliavolt #
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Boogie Woogie Santa Claus” is entirely about celebrating the holidays.
ruthbrown #sisterrosetta #saffiretheuppityblueswomen #gayeadegbolola #mabelscott #victoriaspivey #ettajames**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Honey Dripper Blues” is entirely about Edith North Johnson.
edithjohnson #edithnorthjohnson #hattienorth**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Meet Me In The Middle” is curated by New England blues artist, Erin Harpe.
erinharpe**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Evil Minded Blues” is entirely about Virginia Liston.
virginialiston**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Hungry Woman’s Blues,” is entirely composed of songs that make me think of my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving.
memphisminnie #saffiretheuppityblueswoman #annemironchik #shemekiacopeland #dawntylerwatson #bridgetkellyband**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Cry Baby Blues” is entirely about Alice Leslie Carter.
alicelesliecarter**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “West End Blues” is entirely about Eva Taylor.
evataylor #irenegibbins**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Reach Out For Me” is curated by New England based blues artist, Diane Blue.
dianeblue**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Good Time Papa” is entirely about Lizzie Miles.
lizziemiles**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Rock Me Daddy” is entirely about Mabel Hillery.
mabelhillery**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Ebony Rhapsody” is entirely about Rosetta Howard.
rosettahoward**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “My Man And I” is entirely about Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
sisterrosettatharpe #sisterrosetta**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “No More Crying Blues” is entirely about Mabel Scott.
mabelscott**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “He May Be Your Man” is entirely about Trixie Smith.
trixiesmith**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “I'm The Bluest Gal In Town” is entirely about Marie Adams.
marieadams**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues” is entirely about Eleanora Fagan; better known as Billie Holiday.
billieholiday #ladyday**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “A Basket Of Blues” is entirely about Hannah Sylvester.
hannahsylvester**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Today I Sing The Blues” is entirely about Aretha Franklin.
arethafranklin #aretha**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Why Don't You Do Right” is entirely about Lillie Mae Johnson; better known as Lil Green.
lilgreen**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Million Dollar Secret” is entirely about Helen Humes.
helenhumes**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Where Your Blues Come From” is curated by my special guest Justin Adkins.
justinadkins #wildsoulriver**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Blues For Mama” is entirely about Eunice Waymon; more widely known as, Nina Simone.
ninasimone**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Lord, I Wonder” is entirely about Katie Webster.
katiewebster**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Don't Know Don't Care Blues” is entirely about Ethel Finnie.
ethelfinnie**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Phenomenal Woman” is entirely about Ruthie Foster.
ruthiefoster**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Where I Belong” is entirely about Kat Pearson.
katpearson**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Everlastin' Tears” is entirely about Deborah Coleman.
deborahcoleman**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Life, Love And The Blues” is entirely about Jamesetta Hawkins; better known as Etta James.
ettajames**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Hot Papa” is entirely about Clara Smith.
clarasmith**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Rock Me Baby” is entirely about Anna Mae Bullock; better known as Tina Turner.
tinaturner**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Cabbage Patch” is entirely about Estelle Yancey; better known as Mama Yancey.
mamayancey #estellemamayancey**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Wise Woman Blues” is entirely about Ruth Lee Jones; better known as Dinah Washington.
dinahwashington**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Crazy Blues” is entirely about Mamie Smith.
mamiesmith**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Gabbin' Blues” is entirely about Mabel Louise Smith ... Big Maybelle.
bigmaybelle #mabelsmith**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “How Much can I Stand” is entirely about Gladys Bentley.
gladysbentley**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Gimme A Pigfoot” is entirely about food inspired songs.
lucillebogan #liljohnson #bessiesmith #bigmamathronton #elizaneals #mistyblues**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “All You Men” is entirely about Victoria Spivey.
victoriaspivey**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Salty Papa Blues” is entirely about women who not only sing, but can also blow a horn.
tinydavis #viredd #valaidasnow #vanessacollier #mindiabair #annamaewinburn**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “In My Girlish Days,” is entirely about Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women
saffiretheuppityblueswomen**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Little Red Rooster,” is entirely about Margie Day.
margieday**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Hard Time Blues,” is entirely about Bertha "Chippie" Hill.
berthahill #chippiehill**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Double Crossing Blues,” is entirely about Esther Phillips.
estherphillips**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Snap Your Fingers" is all about the unsung women of blues guitar.
GeeshieWiley #FloraMolton #EttaBaker #AlgiaMaeHinton #PreciousBryant #BeverlyGuitarWatson #ValerieTurner**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Alabama Bound,” is entirely about Odetta.
odetta #odettaholmes**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Wild Women Don’t Have The Blues,” is entirely about Ida Cox.
idacox**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “I'll Keep Sitting On It,” is entirely about Georgia White.
georgiawhite**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “My Handy Man,” is entirely about Ethel Waters.
ethelwaters**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Remember My Name” is entirely about Alberta Hunter.
albertahunter**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Kissing In The Dark” is entirely about Lizzie Douglas/The Queen of Country Blues, better known as the guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Memphis Minnie.
memphisminnie**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Bow Legged Daddy” is entirely about Louise Dupont, better known as, Blue Lu Barker.
bluelubarker**
**The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Blues For Mama” is curated by my dear friend and fellow blues artist, Susan Angeletti.
https://www.susanangeletti.net/
susanangeletti #rubyjohnson #kokotaylor #ettajames #ninasimone #arethafranklin**
The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Only Time Will Tell” is entirely about the Queen of Chicago Blues, Koko Taylor.
**This podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show entitled “These Holiday Blues” is entirely comprised of holiday songs.
ettajames #shemekiacopeland #susantedeschi #debbiedavies #kokotaylor #mistyblues**
**This podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show entitled “Shout The Boogie” is entirely dedicated to a blues style of music called boogie woogie, which was made popular in the late 20’s but developed in African-American communities in the late 1800s.
katiewebster #marciaball #memphisminnie #mabelscott #mistyblues**
**This podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show entitled “My Turn Baby” is entirely dedicated to empowerment themed songs.
kokotaylor #ettajames #shemekiacopeland #dawntylerwatson #roryblock #mistyblues**
**This podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show entitled “Prove It On Me” is curated by my special guest, Charlie Apicella. Charlie is a musician and music historian with a special affinity for the Mother of the Blues, so this episode will be all about Ma Rainey.
https://www.ironcity.nyc/
charlieapicella #bluesalive #marainey**
**This podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show entitled “Women Be Wise” is curated by the talented artist from western Massachusetts, Ed Moran.
edmoran #riversidebrothers #moondance #sippiewallace #catherinerussell #ettajames #ninasimone #bigmamathronton #mistyblues #katriggins #justinjohnson**
This podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show entitled “I Always Get My Man” is currated by Washington, DC based blues artist Carly Harvey.https://www.carlyharvey.com/https://instagram.com/carlyhmusic?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
https://www.facebook.com/carlyharveymusic?mibextid=LQQJ4d #carlyharvey #daniellenicole #susantedeschi #ellafitzgerald #shemekiacopeland #arethafranklin
**This podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show entitled “Hey Bartender” is entirely about elixir inspired songs.
jenniepope #marylynscott #kokotaylor #bigmamathronton #mistyblues**
**This podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show entitled “The Party’s Still Going On” is entirely about festive gatherings.
ettajames #helenhumes #marciaball #kokotaylor #mistyblues #queensoftheblues**
This podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show entitled “Freight Train” is entirely about train and train inspired songs.
**This podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show entitled “Ain’t Nobody’s Business” is curated by my special guest, Peggy Kern. Peggy is the author of the 2015 American Library Association nominated book for Best Fiction For Young Adults, Little Peach, and an author of the wildly popular young adult book collection, the Bluford series.
https://www.harpercollins.com/blogs/authors/peggy-kern-201531716297
https://www.fantasticfiction.com/k/peggy-kern/
https://www.bluford.org/**
This podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show entitled “Nobody's Fault But Mine" is a brief tribute to gospel blues featuring artists: Gaye Adegbalola, Susan Tedeschi, Katie Webster, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Mavis Staples.
This podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show entitled “It's Love Baby" highlights the female blues artist of Massachusetts ... Gracie Curran, Toni Lynn Washington, Diane Blues and Erin Harpe.
This podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show entitled “Everything Gonna Be Alright" is curated by Misty Blues' guitarist, Seth Fleischmann.
This podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show entitled “That's How I Roll" is currated by Canadian blues artist Sunday Wilde.
This podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show entitled “You Can Have My Husband” is curated by my husband and artist of all 11 of Misty Blues' album covers … Michael Mongue.
The Queens of the Blues podcast with Gina Coleman from the band Misty Blues. This podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show entitled “As Long As I’m Moving” is all about Ruth Brown.
This podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show entitled “I’d Rather Go Blind” is curated by the visionary leader of the bands Gross-Mongue, Space Pocket and Born IV Blues … Diego Mongue. Diego is my oldest child, and at the ripe old age of 19, he’s also the youngest member of the Misty Blues extended family and performs, records and co-composes pieces with the band.
The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show is entitled “They Call Me Big Mama” as it is all about the great Willie Mae Thronton ... aka, Big Mama Thornton.
This episode is all about the Empress of the Blues, Bessie Smith. Gina shares some of her favorite Bessie Smith songs and concludes with a "then and now" of a saucy classic.
Host, Gina Coleman, share songs she performed from the early years of her band Misty Blues. The songs are from the two disc collection entitled "Men Are Like Streetcars". The collection consist of blues songs performed by female artists from 1928 - 1969. She relays stories about the artists lives and celebrates the wonders of their music.