She also recorded under the pseudonym Bessie Jackson. Many of her songs were sexually explicit, and she is generally considered to have been a " dirty blues " musician. In , she was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. She later divorced Bogan and married James Spencer.
She also recorded for Brunswick Records , backed by Tampa Red. By , her songs tended to concern drinking and sex, such as "Sloppy Drunk Blues" written and first recorded by Bogan but released first by Leroy Carr in then by Bogan the following year, later recorded by others and "Tricks Ain't Walkin' No More" later recorded by Memphis Minnie. King and many others. With her experience in some of the rowdier juke joints of the s, many of Bogan's songs, most of which she wrote herself, have thinly veiled humorous sexual references.
The theme of prostitution, in particular, featured prominently in several of her recordings. She was usually accompanied on piano by Walter Roland , with whom she recorded over songs between and , including some of her biggest commercial successes, "Seaboard Blues", "Troubled Mind", and "Superstitious Blues". The unexpurgated alternate take is notorious for its explicit sexual references, a unique record of the lyrics sung in after-hours adult clubs. Briggs notes that Bogan seems to be unfamiliar with the lyrics, reading them as she sings them, potentially surprised by them herself.
Woman's Blues", takes the position of a " bull dyke " "B. She appears not to have recorded after She managed her son's jazz group, Bogan's Birmingham Busters, for a time, before moving to Los Angeles shortly before her death from coronary sclerosis in In , she was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Contents move to sidebar hide.
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