Various Artists - I'm A Bad, Bad Girl (2004)

When it came to belting out R&B and Jump Blues, the men didn’t always have it their own way. As I’M A BAD, BAD GIRL proves, there were any number of raucous chanteuses ready, willing & able to make their presence felt. These women were strong, independent and sassy, and knew precisely what they wanted. Most of the time it was for their man to be either under their thumb, or atop their bed – and they made no bones about it! This is predominantly rootin’, tootin’, bootin’ stuff, with the brass sounding, the horns wailing, and the guitarist getting just the occasional look-in. But to add shade to this comprehensive 3-CD set, there are cooler sides from singers like Betty Hall Jones, Ella Mae Morse and Myra Taylor, and Gospel, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Faye Adams. Every important Lady singer of the era is included, ranging from the well-known - e.g. Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Ruth Brown, ‘Little’ Esther Phillips, LaVern Baker, Big Maybelle - to names familiar, perhaps, primarily to specialist collectors - e.g. Little Sylvia, Fluffy Hunter, Pearl Traylor, Tiny Davis, Zilla

CD 1
1. Little Sylvia - Drive Daddy, Drive
2. Mabel Smith - Too Tight Mama
3. Myra Taylor - I'm In My Sins This Morning
4. Fluffy Hunter - Fluffy's Debut
5. Billie Holiday - I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
6. Lula Reed - Waiting To Be Loved By You
7. Wini Brown - He's My Daddy
8. Rosetta Perry - Worry, Worry, Worry
9. Cathy Cooper - Pay Day Blues
10. Ruth Brown - I Would If I Could
11. Lil Green - Every Time
12. Erline Harris - Jump And Shout
13. Christine Kittrell - Sittin' Here Drinking
14. Marylin Scott - Beer Bottle Boogie
15. Gladys Palmer - Palmer's Boogie
16. Pearl Traylor - Come On Daddy (Let's Go Play Tonight)
17. Tiny Davis - Race Horse
18. Mildred Jones - It's Been A Long Time
19. Flo Garvin - Let Me Keep You Warm
20. Laurie Tate - Rock Me Daddy
21. Helen Andrews - Black Man's Blues
22. Little Miss Cornshucks (Aka Mildred Cummings) - Papa Tree Top Blues
23. Lil Greenwood - With The Four Jacks Monday Morning Blues
24. Helen Foster - Oop-De-Doo
25. Mitzi Mars - Roll 'Em
26. Big Mama Thornton - They Call Me Big Mama
27. Linda Hayes - Yes! I Know
28. Nora Lee King - Cannon Ball





CD 2
1. Annie Laurie - Stop Talkin' And Start Walkin'
2. Annisteen Allen - Baby, I'm Doing It
3. Joyce Jackson - Body Rocking Daddy
4. Bea Baker - I Want A Lavender Cadillac
5. Mabel Scott - Just Give Me A Man
6. Jewel King - 3 X 7 = 21
7. Dorothy Ellis - He's Gone
8. Betty Hall Jones - This Joint's Too Hip For Me
9. Marie Adams - I'm Gonna Play The Honky Tonks
10. Alma Mondy - Streetwalkin' Daddy
11. Edna Mcgriff - Edna's Blues
12. Marion Abernathy - Goin' For The Okey-Doke
13. Nellie Lutcher - Come On And Get It, Honey
14. Willie Lee Patton - Allotment Blues (Dear John)
15. Violet Hall - Six Foot Papa (Whole Lotta Woman)
16. Sister Rock-A-Way - Young Women's Advice
17. Alberta Adams - Messin' Around With The Blues
18. Dinah Washington - Please Send Me Someone To Love
19. Martha Davis - I Ain't Getting' Any Younger
20. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Rock Daniel
21. Margie Day - Little Red Rooster
22. Ella Johnson - Til My Baby Comes Back
23. Thelma Cooper - I Need A Man
24. Ella Mae Morse - House Of Blue Lights
25. Sarah \221Fatwoman' Dean - I Got Your Boogie
26. Hadda Brooks - Brooks' Boogie
27. Kitty Stevenson - Good Man
28. Honey Brown - Rockin' And Jumpin'





CD 3
1. Little Esther Phillips - I'm A Bad, Bad Girl
2. Helen Humes - I Ain't In The Mood
3. Baby Davis - Happy Home Blues
4. Etta Jones - You Ain't Nothin' Daddy
5. Varetta Dillard - A Letter In Blues
6. Julia Lee - King Size Papa
7. Sippie Wallace - Bedroom Blues
8. Zilla Mays - Nightshift Blues
9. Miss Rhapsody (Aka Viola Wells) - He May Be Your Man
10. Chubby Newsome - Where's The Money, Honey
11. Faye Adams - Shake A Hand
12. Lillie Mae Kirkman - Lovin' Man Blues
13. Little Miss Sharecropper (Aka Lavern Baker) - Easy Baby
14. Connie Allen - Hard Working Woman
15. Iona Wade - Why Don't You Tell Me So
16. Big Maybelle - Just Want Your Love
17. Beverley Wright - Kissin' Boogie
18. Blue Lu Barker - Don't You Feel My Leg
19. Numa Lee Davis - Around The Clock (Part 1)
20. Vivian Verson - I Want To Know
21. Camille Howard - Money Blues
22. Eleanor Franklin - The Three Men In My Life (Part 1)
23. Paula Watson - Pretty Papa Blues
24. Rosetta Howard - You Made Me Love You
25. Gladys Hill - Please Don't Touch My Bowl
26. Albinia Jones - Hey Little Boy
27. Bettye Jean Washington - Bettye Jean's Blues
28. Vivian Greene - Bowlegged Boogie