Seriously fantastic lady. Although her music doesn't feature on either the American Anthology of Folk Music or the People Take Warning box sets. I guess this is because she doesn't fit in either, being the first lady of blues. "Prove it on me" is probably her coolest song. It's a coded ode to being gay. Perhaps one of the first on record ever. But the phrase makes an interesting pun when you put it next to that other phrase - "Put it on you", which is also the name of a song (but from the 1990s).
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