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Merline Johnson

Through the late ’30s, one Chicago-based blues woman cut more documents than either Memphis Minnie or Georgia White, and also edged in on Blue Lu Barker with a good cover of her most well-known hit, “NOT Make Me High.” The aunt of R&B vocalist LaVern Baker, Merline Johnson was generally …

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