Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, like too many 20th-century jazz divas, from Bessie Smith to Billie Holiday, led a hard-luck life. She was born in Montgomery, Ala., in 1926, daughter of a ...

Howlin’ Blues & Dirty Dogs. Deborah Klugman August 7, 2008. The spirit of the blues pulsates resoundingly throughout this stirring musical based on the life of Big Mama Thornton.

Every Sunday for the next month, the Long Beach Playhouse Mainstage will host “Howlin’ Blues and Dirty Dogs,” a musical rendition of the life of blues singer Big Mama Thornton. Pr… ...

Blues and jazz vocalist Barbara Morrison returns to the stage in the play Howlin Blues and Dirty Dogs, about the life and times of legendary blues singer Big Mama Thornton.Enjoying a sold-out five ...

Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton grew up a preacher's daughter in Alabama, where she was born in 1926 and learned to sing in her church choir. But she sure didn't stay on the holy side of things ...

For 30 years, Anthony has collected flyers, album covers, and handbills about Big Mama Thornton. Anthony and Big Mama’s long-distant cousin, Benjamin Key, have worked together on the museum. "We ...

One of the greatest blues singers of all time, Alabama-born Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton was inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame in October 2024.

The spirit of the blues pulsates resoundingly throughout this stirring musical based on the life of Big Mama Thornton. Class-act vocalist Barbara Morrison, About; Contact; E-Edition. 2025; 2024; 2023; ...

Howlin’ Blues and Dirty Dogs. ... But what a lot of people don’t know is that Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton, not Elvis, was the first to sing about the famous dog.