Josie Miles

Josie Miles

Josie Miles

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Top Songs

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How I've Got Dem Twilight Blues
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If You Want to Keep Your Daddy Home
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Love Me in Your Old Time Way
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Four O'clock Blues
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When I Dream of Old Tennesse Blues

Albums

  • Mad Mama's Blues

    May 2015 • 30 songs

  • Josie Miles Vol. 1 (1922-1924)

    Jul 2005 • 22 songs

  • Josie Miles Vol. 2 (1924-1925)

    Jul 2005 • 22 songs

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Josie Miles

Biography

Like Mamie Smith, Lena Wilson, Viola McCoy, Etta Mooney, Helen Baxter, Edna Hicks, Esther Bigeou, Lucille Hegamin and the young Ethel Waters, Josie Miles was a vaudeville blues entertainer whose records are intriguing relics of a bygone era. During the early 1920s, with the recording industry in its infancy, Josie Miles and her contemporaries performed catchy pop and blues-inflected melodies within a limited stylistic range, sometimes backed by musicians who were destined to play important roles in the rapid evolution of jazz and popular music. Relatively few of the women who ...
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