Butterbeans & Susie

Butterbeans & Susie
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Styles: Vaudeville Blues, Prewar Blues, Dirty Blues, Country Blues
Group Members: Susie Hawthorne, Jodie "Butterbean...
Biography: Jodie "Butterbeans" Edwards and Susie Hawthorne were never household names -- at least not in many white households -- but from the early '20s through the '50s, they were one of the top comedic music acts on the black vaudeville circuit, from New York to Chicago to Detroit. Working as Butterbeans & Susie, ...Read full biography
Butterbeans & Susie Vol. 1 (1924-1925)
Released: 1997
Label: Document Records
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Butterbeans (Jodie Edwards, 1898-1967) and Susie (Sue Hawthorne, 1899-1963) were the archetypal Ma and Pa comedy team in the world of African-American vaudeville during the 1920s. Married on-stage while ...Read full review
Butterbeans & Susie Vol. 2 (1926-1927)
Released: 1997
Label: Document Records
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In 1997 the Viennese Document label reissued the first 48 Okeh recordings made during the 1920s by the archetypal "Ma and Pa Vaudeville" blues duo Butterbeans & Susie. Since this came out at a time when ...Read full review
More Butterbeans & Susie albums: Compilations (4)
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