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WorksheetsMemphis Minnie 🎸
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 27mins
Where was Memphis Minnie born?
Memphis
Algiers
Clarksdale
Helena
Where was her main hangout in blue ways?
Chicago
Austin
Detroit
Indianola
What was Memphis Minnie’s real name?
Rachel Mathers
Minnie Sykes
Lizzie Douglas
Myrtle Smith
When she was 13 she ran away. Where did she go?
She married
She moved to Detroit to play
She joined The Ringling Brothers
She started playing on the west coast
What is the title of this song?
Dirty Mother For You
Don’t You Wear My Jeans?
Doo Wap Wap
Dancing Nights
How many songs did she write?
30
200
3
567
For decades in Chicago she beat major players via Blue Monday jams. Who was not included
Howlin’ Wolf
Leroy Carr
Big Bill Broonzy
Tampa Red
Who wrote a definitive biography of Memphis Minnie?
Elijah Wald
Paul Oliver
Paul & Beth Garon
Alan Lomax
What was one of the first song Memphis Minnie did in 1929?
Key To The Highway
Nothing In Rambling
When The Levee Breaks
Love In Vain
