Margaret Lewis

In the late '50s Margaret Lewis recorded some obscure rockabilly and bluesy swamp pop singles for the small Shreveport, LA, label Ram. Her sides attract interest by simple virtue of the fact that there weren't many woman rockabilly or swamp pop singers at all, and there weren't even a whole lot of performers, male or female, concentrating on rockabilly by the beginning of the 1960s. Her material sometimes crossed rockabilly with down-home blues, gospel, and country-soul, and she worked with some big names, doing backup vocals with Dale Hawkins in the late '50s (on-stage and in...