Sue Keller plays St Louis Blues by WC Handy

Sunday, March 16, 2008 at the Scott Joplin House in St. Louis, Missouri. This was recorded as part of the Sue Keller seminar presentation on "Women and the Blues". The piece is a composition by WC Handy titled, St Louis Blues. The presentation covered the following early blues women: Mamie Smith, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Lucille Hegamin, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter and their influences on Ella May Morse, Billie Holiday, Etta James, Patsy Cline, Marcia Ball, and Aretha Franklin. Thanks to Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock, who won two 1999 Grammy's for their their version of this song, it was able to reclaim the title of The Most Recorded Song in History. The piano is a 7-foot Boston Grand model 218.

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• Blues
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• Handy
• Stevie
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• Herbie
• Hancock
• Boston
• Piano

[Sparta2310]

I was gonna move on to another video when she took so long to start the song, boy am I glad I did'nt!! Absolutely different class girl.

[mambagr]

What a woman:)

[frumpyspoon]

She totally rocks !

[chanlongching666]

she took so long before she start the song but the song is just perfect

^-^ yeah

[TRINITYBLACKOVA]

It's just amazing

I admire Sue

[CooCurrent]

@thestarsprism Yeah, it's alright the first few times, but you soon get tired of it, unlike the music!! I've listened to this over and over, awesome performance!

[spykeong]

@houstonchar

You have the piece?  What's exactly the name of this song is?

I just cant find it... :(

[spykeong]

Who can provide me with this piece?

like it SO MUCH! Thanks!!!

[AxPianist]

I hadn't seen Sue jam out quite like that before :) I love it

[WormyLeWorm]

God damn I love Sue keller. Excellent performances, excellent spirit. She's definitely one of my heroes, or heroines, in this case.

[ldustin55]

....I luuuv this woman's musical spirit ....

[randy2o1o]

From here on if people ask me who wrote St Louis Blues I'll just up and say "Sue Keller wrote it", coz the way she played it sure as hell she owns it.