EDITH NORTH JOHNSON

    EDITH NORTH JOHNSON, También conocida con el pseudónimo de HATTIE NORTH , fué una de las pìoneras , además de cantante era pianista y adquirió cierta popularidad en su momento, hasta el punto de hacerse acompañar por COUNT BASIE,  ( audio al final ... ) y Charlie Patton , como podéis ver en la carátula de esta grabación con el nombre de HONEY DRIPPER, que posteriormente serviría al pianista ROOSEVELT SYKES para usarlo como nickname

                   

                  

                                 

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For further viewing, please see my video of "Loving That Man Blues" by Hattie North w / Count Basie

Edith North Johnson: Vocales

"Baby" Jay James: Cornet

Probably Roosevelt Sykes: Piano

Recorded in Richmond, IN. Saturday, September 7, 1929

Originally issued on the 1929 single (Paramount 12864) (78 RPM)

This recording taken from the 1998 3-CD Box Set "Ladies Of Blues"

Edith North Johnson (January 2, 1903 - February 28, 1988) was an American classic female blues singer, pianist and songwriter. Her mosto noted tracks were "Honey Dripper Blues", "Can not Make Another Day" and "Eight Hour Woman". She wrote another of her songs, "Nickel s Worth of Liver Blues".

Born Edith North, in 1928 she married St. Louis recuerdo producer, Jesse Johnson. She Originally worked at her husband 's Deluxe Music Store as salas person. Although not profesional singer, between 1928 and 1929 Johnson recorded Eighteen sides. She started donde QRS Records in 1928, later switching to Paramount. Her output tally included those from a recording session in Grafton, Wisconsin, for the Paramount label with Charley Patton. Oddly, it is now reckoned that Patton did not play donde año of her recordings.

During World War II, Johnson managed a taxicab operation in St. Louis, as well as later running Johnson 's Deluxe café after her husband' s death in 1946 By 1961, she had returned to recording when Samuel Charters Tracked her down. She was accompanied by Henry Brown donde Charters 'set entitled, The Blues en St. Louis. It was released by Folkways.

Using pseudonyms such as Hattie North (donde Vocalion) and Maybelle Allen, Johnson also Earlier waxed additional tracks for other small labels. Under the Hattie North name, she recorded "Lovin 'That Man Blues" with Count Basie.

Her recording of "Honey Dripper Blues" was the inspiration for the nickname used by Roosevelt Sykes. In her later life, Johnson Spent time Undertaking social work in her hometown.

Johnson died in St. Louis in February 1988, at the age of 85.

Four of her songs appeared as part of the boxed set, Screamin 'and Höllerer' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton (2001)

                                       




Hattie North was a pseudonym for Edith North Johnson

Hattie North:Vocals

William "Count" Basie:Piano

Recorded at the KMBC studio, 12th and Wyandotte Streets, Kansas City, MO. c. November, 1929

Originally issued on the 1929 single (Vocalion 1433) (78 RPM)

This recording taken from the 1990 CD "Kansas City Hot Jazz" (Australia)