Ma Rainey died today – 68 years ago

U.S. singer Ma Rainey was born as Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett on April 26, 1886 in Columbus, Georgia. She said, “They hear it [the blues] come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.” [Yep!]... Ms. Rainey died in 1939 in Columbus, Georgia.