All right boys--you done seen the rest, now I'm gonna show you the best. In this episode of Otis Brown Podcast, I comment on the new Netflix film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, staring Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman and situate it, August Wilson's play of the same name and the HBO film Bessie in a conversation about female classic blues singers of the period between 1925 and 1930. 

Keywords:
Bessie Smith
Ma Rainey
Louis Armstrong
Thomas "Fatz" Waller
"Honeysuckle Rose"
August Wilson
Viola Davis
Chadwick Bosman
Queen Latifah 
Mo'nique 
LaWanda Page
Shemika Copeland
Brittany Howard