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Houston's Fifth Ward has produced some of the best blues in the world. Gloria Edwards lived in Fifth ward hood with neighbors like the Crusaders, Joe Sample, Calvin Owens and Trudy Lynn.  Growing up all around music, Gloria got her start singing gospel at New Pleasant Grove Baptist Church and listening to her mother sing the blues with Big Walter Price downstairs from her grandmother's house at the Red Rooster Club, it was fate that Miss Firecracker would be playing in bands with Clifton Chenier, Johnny Clyde Copeland, & Joe Hughes. Soon afterwards, she started recording under her own name for King Records and Crazy Cajun, where Huey Meaux produced her. Now, with more than forty years of singing she is currently recording and performing with Calvin Owens and with The New Jack Hippies.

The lady of the blues is from Natchitoches La. After moving to Beaumont TX, Miss Candy started playing with George Daughtery and the blues and zydico Rollers. Her first recording was with Roscoe Chenier. She has always been self-taught in singing and in the music business. After producing couple of own cds, she is now playing and recording with Tom" The Blues Man" Hunter and the Hurricane.

From Austin Texas, Glenda started singing at the age of 3 in her uncle, Rev. Mac Robinson's Church in Georgetown TX. Her dad, Matthew Robinson, Sr. came from a big family of Ministers and sang with the Royal Light Humphries. Glenda's step-dad sang and played bass with the Bells of Joy. Her mother sang in programs in and around Texas and wrote the song "There is a Bright Side Some Where" and gave it to the Mighty Clouds of Joy to record on their album. Glenda started singing in gospel bands, but when she saw her brother play on stage singing the blues, she knew what she wanted to do with her future. She is now been gigging for man y years and playing with her brother Matthew Robinson and has recorded with him on his last cd.

Miss Soul Situation is the singer of singers. Miss Lavelle White born in Louisiana moved to Houston TX at an early age and immediately started recording for Duke Records 1958 ­ 1964. Writing her own songs and for other artists like Bobby Bland (Lead Me On). Her first band was with Sweets and Clarence Hollimon. She played later in a bands with Albert Collins and Guitar Slim.  Lately, she has recordings with Antone's Records. Lavelle has shared the stage with such artist as the Isley Brother, Aretha Franklin, Sam Cook and James Brown.

 
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Lavelle White's "Bad Song" RealAudio 240K
Gloria Edward's "I'm Your Hoochie Mama" RealAudio 180K
Glenda Hargis' "Keep Your Hands Off of Him" RealAudio 240K
Miss Candy's "That's Why I Love You" RealAudio 240K

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