Review: (Ottawa) Big Mama! by The Charlebois Post

Jackie Richardson (photo by Tim Matheson)Some people have the right to sing the bluesThe blues heal the soul, like snake venom heals a snake bite.by Nanette Cormier[Please note: This review is based on a preview performance]Willie Mae Thornton left Montgomery, Alabama, when she was 15, about a year after her mother died, to join Sammy Green's Georgia-based Hot Harlem Revue.  It was 1941. She had a chaperone who …

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