‘The biggest, baddest, saltiest chick you would ever see’: why no one sang the blues like Big Mama Thornton

W illie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton exuded uncompromising intensity. Her voice conveyed struggle and defiance, fury and hurt, like few others. Standing at 6ft 2in, with an imposing physique and a razor-scarred face, she was a Black, gay multi-instrumentalist who refused to let a racist society or a rapa...

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