Memphis Minnie has been played on NTS in shows including Holliday Show w/ Skinny Girl Diet, featured first on 5 April 2015. Songs played include Bumble Bee Blues, Ma Rainey and Evil Devil Woman Blues.

Memphis Minnie (born Lizzie Douglas in Algiers, Louisiana, June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973) was an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter from the late 1920s to the 1950s, one of the most influential country blues musicians to have ever recorded.

Lizzie Douglas was born on June 3, 1897 in Algiers, Louisiana. She was the eldest from her 13 other siblings. Her parents Abe and Gertrude Douglas nicknamed her the…