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Lizzie Miles was the stage name taken by Elizabeth Mary Landreaux (31 March 1895 – 17 March 1963), an African American blues singer.
Miles was born in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, in a dark skinned Francophone Creole ("Creole of Color") family. She traveled widely with minstrel and circus shows in the 1910s, and made her first phonograph recordings in New York of blues songs in 1922 – although Miles did not like to be referred to as a 'blues singer', since she sang a wide repertory of music.
In the mid 1920s she spent time performing in Paris before returning to the United States. She suffered a serious illness and retired from the music industry in the 1930s. In the 1940s she returned to New Orleans, where Joe Mares encouraged her to sing again—which she did, but always from in front of, or beside the stage, since she said she had vowed in a prayer not to go on stage again if she recovered from her illness. Miles was based in San Francisco, California in the early 1950s, then again returned to New Orleans where she recorded with several Dixieland and traditional jazz bands and made regular radio broadcasts, often performing with Bob Scobey or George Lewis.
In 1958 Miles appeared at the Monterey Jazz Festival. In 1959 she quit singing, except for gospel music. She died in New Orleans, from a heart attack, in March 1963.
Volume 1
01. Muscle Shoals Blues
02. She Walked Right Up And Took My Man Away
03. Virginia Blues
04. State Street Blues
05. Wicked Blues
06. He May Be Your Man, But He Comes To See Me Sometimes
07. Lonesome Monday Morning Blues
08. Please Don't Tickle Me, Babe
09. Hot Lips
10. Take It, 'Cause It's All Yours
11. The Yellow Dog Blues
12. The Black Bottom Blues
13. He Used To Be Your Man But He's My Man Now
14. Sweet Smellin' Mama (Poro Blues)
15. The Trixie Blues
16. Four O'Clock Blues
17. Aggravatin' Papa -tk2
18. Tell Me Gypsy -tk1
19. You've Gotta Come And See Mama Every Night -tk1
20. Your Time Now
21. Haitian Blues
22. Sweet Smellin' Mama (Poro Blues)
Volume 2
01. Haitian Blues (A Wild Weepin' Moan)
02. You're Always Messin' Round With My Man
03. Family Trouble Blues
04. Triflin' Man
05. My Pillow And Me -10858
06. Black Man (Be On Yo' Way)
07. Keep Yourself Together Sweet Papa (Mama's Got Her Eyes On You)
08. Cotton Belt Blues
09. Slow Up Papa
10. Grievin' Mama Blues
11. Mean Old Bedbug Blues
12. You Can't Have It Unless I Give It To You -tK2
13. When You Get Tired Of Your New Sweetie
15. Don't Let Your Love Come Down
16. Shootin' Star Blues
17. Lonesome Ghost Blues
18. If You Can't Control Your Man
19. Nobody Shows What My Baby Shows
20. Second Hand Daddy -tk2
21. A Good Man Is Hard To Find -tk2
22. A Good Man Is Hard To Find -tk3
Volume 3
01. Shake It Down
02. Banjo Papa (Stop Pickin' On Me)
03. Your Worries Ain't Like Mine -tk3
04. You're Such A Cruel Papa To Me -tk6
05. My Dif'rent Kind O' Man
06. Georgia Gigolo
07. It Feels So Good
08. I Hate A Man Like You
09. Don't Tell Me Nothin' 'Bout My Man
10. My Man O' War
11. Electrician Blues
12. Good Time Papa
13. The Man I Got Ain't The Man I Want
14. Yellow Dog Gal Blues
15. Mellow Rhythm
16. He's My Man
17. That's All Right Daddy
18. Hold Me, Parson
19. Keep Knockin' No. 2 (But You Can't Come In)
20. Stranger Blues
21. Twenty Grand Blues
22. He's Red Hot To Me
