Old Haunts 1966 and the darkness

and the darkness

courtesy of Gearbox Records

” Sharp reaches beyond his indoor voice

Those sequences ultimately became the four long tracks that appear on

LIFE's second album

Old Haunts 1966 and the darknessIt's ironic that female blues singers were first to establish successful recording careers, with Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and others in the early 1920s. They preceded their male counterparts like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton and later Robert Johnson. However, from around 1930 on it's difficult to note more than a handful of female blues singers who became prominent. The good news is that there's a lady from Auckland, New Zealand, who is