Ginni Clemmens

Chicago folk and blues singer Ginni Clemmens was created in the city’s Evergreen Recreation area area and raised in the southern suburbs. The kid of the big music group musician, she sang in her college choir and discovered acoustic guitar but pursued a phoning in nursing rather than music, doing work for five years inside a California service for psychologically handicapped children. With time, Clemmens dusted off her acoustic guitar and began carrying out as a way of interesting her young individuals, eventually time for Chicago to release a specialist music profession; by day time, she tenured at a medical home, but during the night, she was a fixture at night clubs including Mom Blues, the Earl of Aged City, Poor Richard’s, as well as the Gate of Horn. Through the past due ’50s, Clemmens used the banjo, later on teaching acoustic guitar and banjo lessons at Chicago’s Aged Town College of Folk Music; she frequently performed with aspiring folk performers John Prine and Steve Goodman, as soon as opened up for Bob Dylan at Mom Blues. Clemmens was also an early on and vocal supporter from the feminist motion, and was a normal presence over the nascent women’s music celebration circuit; among her signatures was a rendition of Ida Cox’s “Crazy Women DO NOT GET the Blues,” and she also taught the melody to pop vocalist Mama Cass Elliot, who documented her own edition of the melody. Clemmens’ albums consist of Sing a Rainbow and Various other Children’s Music, I’m Lookin’ for a few Longtime Close friends, and Lopin’ Along Thru the Cosmos; in 1988, she relocated to Hawaii, and tropical lifestyle formed the foundation for her last LP, the self-released Underneath Hawaiian Skies. In 2000, she was the receiver of the Jeannine Ray Award on her behalf efforts to women’s music. Clemmens passed away Feb 15, 2003, from accidents suffered in an automobile crash in Maui; she was 66 years of age.