Blues for Rampart Street (1961)
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Image of the album cover of Blues for Rampart Street, which was recorded by Ida Cox and Coleman Hawkins at Radio City Music Hall in New York City in 1961. A photograph of Cox wearing a suit and fur stole appears on the cover. This was her final album.Cox began her career as a vaudeville performer. She recorded her first blues songs in 1923 for the Paramount label, which dubbed her the "Uncrowned Queen of the Blues." By 1929, Cox had recorded seventy-eight songs, most of which she had written herself.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia
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Digital Library of Georgia
