Lavern Baker

La Vern

Rumble

Her 1956 Atlantic debut, key to the splitting of jazz singing into rhythm and blues and soul. Lavern was Memphis Minnie’s niece. Her stage-name in her teens was ‘Miss Sharecropper’.

• Lots And Lots Of Love
• Of Course I Do
• You'll Be Crying
• Miracles
• I'm In A Crying Mood
• Mine All Mine
• Harbor Lights
• I'll Never Be Free
• Romance In The Dark
• Everybody's Somebody's Fool
• How Long Will It Be
• Fool That I Am