Bogan's Birmingham
Busters
It is distinctly sad that we're unable to feature Lucille Bogan
in an entirety simply because of the obscene, and worse content of many of her
recordings. Although there are inconsistencies regarding her life, she remains:
as one of the greatest blues women of all time. Lucille, big-voiced, loud and
provocative. Many of her songs were indeed so sexually explicit; she is
generally considered and described as a dirty blues musician.
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After 1935 when she stopped performing, Lucille may have returned to
Birmingham where she managed her son's (Nazareth) jazz group, ‘Bogan's Birmingham
Busters’ for a time, before moving to Los Angeles shortly before her
death. Sources differ on the facts of her 1948 death. One says she was killed
by an automobile, another that she died at home of coronary sclerosis; in any
event, she is buried at Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery, in Los
Angeles.
