A local blues legend Mary Lane is receiving her flowers in a new documentary exploring her life. Lane shares how the Arkansas native has used the blues to make Chicago her home for the last 40 years.
A local blues legend is receiving her flowers in a new documentary exploring her life.
“I lived on a farm and they picked cotton, and everybody be singing, it’s all they sung was the blues,” she said. “And I just got attached to it. But I was really brought up in church.” “I sang with different people, but I really sang with Wolf. My fondest memories of singing the blues in the club in Chicago was that there was so many people singing the blues from down South, all from Mississippi and Arkansas,” she said, “Like with Jimmy Reed and Elmore James, they made you want to sing the blues.”
Regardless of her limited record output, her impact within the genre has been present throughout her entire music career.But she has been inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, awarded the Koko Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award and was even granted her own day by the city of Chicago last June.
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