Biography
Born on November 23, 1935, in Clarendon, Arkansas, singer Mary Lane long served as a fixture on Chicago's West Side blues scene. She refined her craft performing in neighborhood juke joints alongside Howlin' Wolf, Robert Nighthawk, Little Junior Parker, and James Cotton before moving to Chicago in 1957. With Morris Pejoe providing support, she promptly issued her first single, "You Don't Want My Lovin' No More," on the Friendly Five imprint. Though fellow musicians admired her dulcet tones, decades passed without further recordings, leaving her largely unnoticed beyond the city's dedicated blues audience. A few tracks cut for the Wolf label in the early 1990s eventually yielded the full-length Appointment with the Blues in 1997.
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