I would expect most of you to have never heard the voice or guitar of the great Memphis Minnie. Listen on that You Tube link.

Her music  gets to me crazy with the joy and love of life.  Thank you for letting me show it to you for the first time if I am so fortunate.

(If you cut and paste the address of the two photos I have here you can see some still shots of her.)

These two photos say very different things to me and I am sure that both of the messages I get from them are yet 100% accurate.  She was both of these images.

Also, listen to this for a charge....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH8_WH5aRqo

And if you want more listen to this.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiRoNuw5x4M

Here are a few nice paragraphs of biography on her:

http://bit.ly/fM9l7a

I found this good bit on her on the internet...

She spent her twilight years in a nursing home, where she died of a stroke in 1973 in Memphis, Tennessee.[6] She is buried at the New Hope Baptist Church Cemetery in Walls, DeSoto County, Mississippi. A headstone paid for by Bonnie Raitt was erected by the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund on 13 October 1996 with 35 family members in attendance including her sister, numerous nieces and nephews. The ceremony was taped for broadcast by the BBC. Laverne Baker was one of those nieces. Her headstone is marked:

Lizzie "Kid" Douglas Lawlers
aka Memphis Minnie
The inscription on the back of her gravestone reads:
"The hundreds of sides Minnie recorded are the perfect material to teach us about the blues. For the blues are at once general, and particular, speaking for millions, but in a highly singular, individual voice. Listening to Minnie's songs we hear her fantasies, her dreams, her desires, but we will hear them as if they were our own."[7]
http://www.hobemianrecords.com/dgraphics/minnie.jpg

http://www.nps.gov/history/delta/blues/images/people/memphis_minnie.jpg