LIVE at the Duplex In NYC on October 8 2016
Rev. Mary and Granny's Blue-Mers!
THE MEAT SHOW

Granny's Blue-Mers. Where's The MEAT?

Over The Rainbow

Sung by Rev. Mary Elizabeth Micari
Piano Dan Furman 

Over The Rainbow

My journey using music which got me through a rough heartbreak. 

Track 6 You Lost Me

Track 1 I'm A Fool To Want You

Track 3 Over the Rainbow

Track 2 Love Me Like a Man

Track 7 You've Got A Friend

Track 4 A Guy What Takes His Time

Track 5 Knocks Me Off My Feet

Tracks Created by Mary Elizabeth Micari for a Production of Hamlet July 2016 

19. Hamlet Theme Part 4.  by Mary Elizabeth Micari

Great old Rock Tune. Rev. Mary with Granny's Blue-Mers

My Daddy Rocks Me Rev. Mary and Granny's Blue-Mers

Great old song with Liz Rabson on Uke and Vocals and Granny's Blue-Mers

Stavin Chain - Liz Rabson

Press My Button Ring My Bell

Great old Dirty Blues song featuring Rev. Mary with Granny's Blue-Mers

My Kitchen Man

Filthy song with great lyrics made well by Liz Rabson with Granny's Blue-Mers

Give me my Cherry Back

Made famous by Bessie Smith.  Rev. Mary sings Sugar in my Bowl with Granny's Blue-Mers

Sugar in my Bowl

Stavin’ Chain was a 19th-century rail worker of legendary strength and stamina. According to Lil Johnson’s 1937 recording of “Stavin’ Chain,” he was the chief engineer on a train, and a big, strong man who could make love all night:

"Stavin’ Chain was a man of might
He’d save up his money just to ride all night".

Granny's Bluemers Down In the Alley

Stavin Chain-Liz Rabson with Rev. Mary and Granny's Blue-Mers

LIL JOHNSON

How do you want me to love you, when you keep on holding yours back?
Why, you must think your mama, have got rubber in her back
Now you started to kissin', I asked you to stop, but I could not resist 'cause those kisses was hot
When it comes to lovin', you all right with me, 'cause you got everything that a good man needs
Yes, I twirled and I twirled, baby, I twirled from right to left
Now if you want any more lovin', baby, you'll have to twirl yourself

You Stole My Cherry-Liz Rabson with Rev. Mary and Granny's Blue-Mers

Trixie Smith:

Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Smith came from a middle-class background.[1] Various years are given for her birth including 1885,[1] 1888, and 1895. She attended Selma University, in Alabama, before moving to New York City at the age of twenty around 1915. Soon after, she began working in a number of different cafés and theaters in Harlem and Philadelphia.

She began her career as a vaudeville and minstrel entertainer who performed as a comedian, dancer, actress, and singer in traveling shows. Between 1916 and the early 1920s, she worked in minstrel shows and toured as a featured singer. She performed on Broadway using the name Bessie Lee and recorded for Silvertone. She also worked on the Theater Owners Bookers Association vaudeville circuit before making her first recordings for Black Swan Records in 1922, among which was "My Man Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll)" (1922), written by J. Berni Barbour, of historical interest as the first secular recording to use the phrase rock and roll. Her record inspired various lyrical elaborations, such as "Rock That Thing" by Lil Johnson and "Rock Me Mama" by Ikey Robinson.

Also in 1922, billed as the "southern nightingale," Smith won first place and a silver cup in a blues singing contest in which she sang her own composition, "Trixie's Blues", competing against Alice Leslie Carter, Daisy Martin and Lucille Hegamin, at the Inter-Manhattan Casino in New York, sponsored by the dancer Irene Castle. She is best remembered for "Railroad Blues" (1925), which features one of her most inspired vocal performances on record, and "The World Is Jazz Crazy and So Am I" (1925). Louis Armstrong played the cornet on both songs.

Smith was a polished performer, and her records include several outstanding examples of the blues, on which she is accompanied by artists such as James P. Johnson, and Freddie Keppard. She recorded with Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra for Paramount Records in 1924 and 1925. By the late 1930s her formerly girlish voice became more full-bodied, and her performance style more direct and sexual. Later rhythm-and-blues and soul singers would adopt this approach.

As her career as a blues singer waned, she sustained herself mostly by performing in cabaret revues and starring in musical revues such as New York Revue (1928) and Next Door Neighbors (1928) at the Lincoln Theater in Harlem. She also appeared in Mae West's short-lived 1931 Broadway show, The Constant Sinner. Two years later, Smith was elevated to the stage of the Theatre Guild for its production of Louisiana.

She appeared in five movies: Birthright (1938), God's Step Children (1938), Swing! (1938), Drums o' Voodoo (1934), and The Black King (1932). Two of these films were directed by Oscar Micheaux. She appeared at the concert From Spirituals to Swing, produced by John H. Hammond, in 1938. She recorded seven titles in 1938 and 1939. Most of her later recordings were with Sidney Bechet for Decca Records in 1938. In 1939 she cut "No Good Man" with a band including Red Allen and Barney Bigard.

Known in later life as Trixie Muse, she died in New York in 1943, after a brief illness, at the age of 48.

My Daddy  Rocks Me - Rev. Mary and Granny's Blue-Mers

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