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Katie Webster-Stood Up Again 7:11:24 8.47 PM

Jul 12, 20242 min
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Intro by: Gail Nobles
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Katie Webster has a single from her 1989 album Katie Webster Two-Fisted Mama. The single is entitled Stood Up Again. The lyrics tell the story of someone who has been let down and disappointed in relationship. Katie gets stood up, but in the end her man gets stood up. She repays him.

Katie Webster was a boogie-woogie pianist. Her genres are Boogie-woogie,, soul, and swamp blues. She played piano with Otis Redding in the 1960s, but after his death went into semi-retirement.

In the 1980s she was repeatedly booked for European tours and recorded albums for the German record label, Ornament Records, with Gary Wiggins and Chris Rannenberg (The International Blues Duo). She cut You Know That's Right with the band 'Hot Links', and the album that established her in the United States: The Swamp Boogie Queen with guest spots by Bonnie Raitt and Robert Cray. Two-Fisted Mama! was released in 1989. Webster promoted the album with a North American tour. The album was nominated for a Bammy Award, in the "Blues Album" category. 

 Katie Webster passed away in 1999 at age 63. You can check out Katie Webster's music on Spotify. Thank you for listening to Podcast and Blues. I am your host Gail Nobles.


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Today's topic Katie Webster. Katie Webster has a single from her nineteen eighty nine album Katie Webster Two Fisted Mama. The single is entitled stood Up Again. The lyrics tell the story of someone who has been let down and disappointed in relationship. Katie gets stood up, but in the end her man gets stood up, she repays him. Katie Webster was a boogie woogie pianist. Her

genres are boogie woogie, soul and swamp blues. She played piano with Otis Redding in the nineteen sixties, but after his his death, went into semi retirement. In the nineteen eighties, she was repeatedly booked for European tours and recorded albums for the German record label Ornament Records with Gary Wiggins and Chris Rannenberg, the international blues duo. She cut you Know That's Right with the band Hotlink, and the album that established her in the US, The Swamp Boogie

Queen, with guest spots Bonnie Reett and Robert Craye. Two Fisted Mama, was released in nineteen eighty nine. Webster promoted the album with a North American tour. The album was nominated for a Bammy Award in the Blues album category. Katie Webster passed away in nineteen ninety nine at age sixty three. You can check out Katie Webster's music on Spotify. Thank you for listening to Podcasting Blues. I'm your host, Gale Nobles,

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