WHY WILLIE MAE THORNTON MATTERS California 002-inch thick but can support

002-inch thick but can support 25 times their own weight

carefree feelings of summer and spring with you wherever you go

" a nickname bestowed upon her by a white man

(pun intended)

WHY WILLIE MAE THORNTON MATTERS California 002-inch thick but can supportA queer, Black biography in essays about the performer who gave us Hound Dog, Ball and Chain, and other songs that changed the course of American music. Born in Alabama in 1926, raised in the church, appropriated by white performers, buried in an indigents graveWillie Mae Big Mama Thornton's life events epitomize the bluesbut Lynne Denise pushes past the stereotypes to read Thorntons life through a Black, queer, feminist lens and reveal an artist who