Amoeba Music

BY J Poet

Lucille Bogan, who also recorded as Bessie Jackson, was an early blues pioneer, a singer and songwriter best known for her sexually explicit lyrics. Her most infamous song, “Shave ‘em Dry,” includes the lines: “I got nipples on my titties as big as my thumbs and I got somethin’ ‘tween my legs that’ll make a dead man come…” She also sang openly about being a lesbian on the song “B. D. Woman’s Blues,” BD being slang for bulldyke or bulldagger. Her songs about pimping, prostitution, lesbianism, drugs, drinking, and sex made her infamous, but jazz critics say her singing was on a par with Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. In the late 30s, as Bessie Jackson, she recorded about 100... Read More

City Of Origin:

Amory, Mississippi, United States

Genre:

Blues

Birthdate:

04/01/1897

Death date:

08/10/1948