Sippie Wallace was another of the early
female blues singers who started her recording career in the Twenties on the
heels of Mamie Smith’s 1920 recording of “Crazy Blues,” the first-ever blues
recording. Wallace was born Beulah Thomas in Houston, Texas, in 1898.
Wallace made her first recordings for the
Okeh label in 1924 with “Leaving Me Daddy is Hard to Do.” She enjoyed a number
of hits with Okeh during the Twenties with the songs, “I’m a Mighty Tight
Woman,” “Jack O Diamonds Blues,” “Dead Drunk Blues,” and “Lazy Man Blues.” Wallace,
like Alberta Hunter and Ida Cox, would enjoy a lengthy career and continue to
perform well into old age. Wallace died in Detroit in 1986.
Her music is best heard via the
compilations, “Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1 (1923-1925)” (1995) and “Complete
Recorded Works, Vol.2 (1925-1945)”
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