Stars of Vaudeville #360: Lovey Austin
Lovey Austin (born this day in 1887) was a college-trained blues piano player and band leader who worked in black vaudeville, night clubs, movie theatres and record albums. Her salad days were the 1920s when she and her Blues Serenaders recorded and played with the likes of Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Ma Rainey, Ethel Waters, [...]