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Lucile Turner calls her type of singing "makin' glory." Thumping out her own accompaniments at the piano, she sings about love, Jesus, "pleasurin' my man," cotton fields, the thousand and one details and incidents of the Southern Negro's life. Sometimes she intones a prayer or a sermon in graphic Negro imagery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lucile Turner's Blues | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

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