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The Blues Foundation Podcast - Season 1: Blues Hall of Fame
There aren't too many stories in the blues lexicon like Memphis Minnie's.
At age 13 she ran away from home to fend for herself on Memphis' Beale Street. Fortunately for, she had prodigious musical talents far beyond her years and quickly adjusted to life as a street performer. Memphis Minnie was soon called upon to spread the blues far and wide as a performer in the Ringling Bros. "Greatest Show on Earth."
She returned home in 1920 to a booming Beale Street and a thriving music industry built around blues music. She naturally became one of its brightest stars.
Memphis Minnie inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980.
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