Alberta Adams

Sometimes referred to as "the Grand Dame of Detroit Blues," singer Alberta Adams is convincing and forceful on her Cannonball Records releases, 1999's Born With the Blues and 2000's Say Baby Say: Life's Trials and Tribulations According to Miss Alberta Adams. Both albums were well received by blues critics and blues DJs, and they helped relaunch her touring career, as she frequented festivals around the U.S. and Canada in the late '90s and in 2000. She began performing in the late '30s. Born in the early '20s in Indianapolis as Roberta Louise Osborne, she was raised by an au...