Latest Release
- 15 AUG 2023
- 2 Songs
- Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings · 1953
- 100 Blues Classics & Greatest Blues Hits - The Very Best Classic Blues Collection · 1990
- In Europe · 1965
- Hound Dog (Digitally Remastered) - Single · 2008
- Ball n' Chain · 1968
- Sassy Mama! · 1975
- 1950-1953 · 1990
- Ball n' Chain · 1968
- Big Mama Thornton With the Muddy Waters Blues Band - 1966 · 1966
- Big Mama Thornton With the Muddy Waters Blues Band - 1966 · 1966
Essential Albums
Artist Playlists
- An unsung icon with a fierce growl and gospel-inspired delivery.
Live Albums
- 2019
About Big Mama Thornton
Big Mama Thornton was a vibrant rhythm & blues shouter whose trademark growl was a major influence on generations of R&B and rock artists. While she never crossed over to the pop charts, two of her signature songs would become well known to rock fans -- she recorded "Hound Dog" four years before Elvis Presley had a hit with the tune, and she wrote "Ball & Chain," which Janis Joplin performed on Big Brother & the Holding Company's 1968 album Cheap Thrills. Thornton recorded well into the '70s and performed into the '80s, delivering her impassioned version of the blues -- gritty but swinging, and perfect for a rowdy Saturday night -- into the last years of her life. Her superb early singles are collected on the 1992 set Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings, and 1966's In Europe is drawn from recordings of the American Folk Blues Festival tour of 1965.
- HOMETOWN
- Ariton, AL, United States
- BORN
- 11 December 1926
- GENRE
- Blues