Madlyn Davis

Blues vocalist Madlyn Davis was a robust modern of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Alice Moore, Clara Smith, Mozelle Alderson, Victoria Spivey, Sippie Wallace, and Bertha Chippie Hill. So far as anyone can inform, she made just ten recordings, all for the Paramount label in Chicago. What recognized her from a lot of her peers was a willingness to use from the “sluggish pull” formula and rip it up a little. Unfortunately, a couple of her information document this inclination. Her first program occurred in June 1927. On “Concerned Down using the Blues” and “Climbing Hill Blues,” she was associated with her Crimson Warm Shakers, a quartet thought to possess included pianist Cassino Simpson. In Sept, 1927 she documented “Be quick Sundown Blues” and “Landlady’s Footsteps” with an identical group, this time around spiked using the noises of kazoo and slip whistle. In November, 1927 she slice two game titles with her Warm Photos, a trio that included Richard M. Jones. “Kokola Blues” runs on the formula that could later recognition as “Nice House Chicago.” The flipside, “Winter season Blues”, begins sounding just like a Bessie Smith record and erupts right into a full-fledged stomp during its last chorus, with Davis egging on her behalf musicians in a fashion that echoed Louis Armstrong’s joviality and would quickly be commonly connected with Fat Waller & His Tempo. Remember that although this record was manufactured in 1927, she obviously uses the term “golf swing” as she stimulates the music group to slice loose. This singer’s last recording date occurred in Oct, 1928 with pianist Georgia Tom Dorsey and guitarist Tampa Crimson outlined as her Warm Photos. The threesome tossed off “Platinum Tooth Mama Blues,” “Loss of life Bell Blues,” “It’s Crimson Warm,” and “As well Black Poor,” a track that shares exactly the same name using a different blues by Blind Lemon Jefferson. On “It’s Crimson Hot,” she actually is billed as Crimson Scorching Shakin’ Davis, and noises nearly the same as Bertha Chippie Hill on Scrapper Blackwell’s “Non Skid Tread.” From the crying pity that Madlyn Davis didn’t continue producing information through the ’30s and ‘40s. She’d have discovered herself a distinct segment in the golf swing and tempo & blues marketplaces, and perhaps today we’d learn about who she was and the type of a lifestyle she led.