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Article: 'WILD WOMEN' A PROFILE OF BLUES SINGERS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 24, 1989
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Memo to Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, Anita Baker et al.: Women,
you sure can do up a song. But you don't get the blues -- not like
Ida Goodson does, anyhow.
Goodson, at 80 still sassy as a spitfire, gets down and funky
as one of the stars of Monday night's musical special, "Wild Women
Don't Have the Blues" (Channel 2, 11 p.m.). Produced and directed
by Cambridge-based filmmakers Christine Dall and Carol Doyle Van
Valkenburgh, this one-hour documentary makes an excellent companion
piece to "That Rhythm, Those Blues," a recent look at the black R&B
pioneers of the 1940s and '50s who changed the course of American
music.
If you dug "Rhythm," or are merely skeptical that a sweet
little ...