Monday, April 22, 1996

Virginia Liston

Virginia Liston
Louisiana, United States
Classic female blues, jazz

Virginia Liston (c. 1890 – June 1932) was an American classic female blues and jazz singer. She spent most of her career in black vaudeville. Liston recorded "You Can Dip Your Bread in My Gravy, but You Can't Have None of My Chops" and "Just Take One Long Last Lingering Look." She performed with her then-husband, Samuel H. Gray, billed as Liston and Liston. She also performed with Clarence Williams, singing with the Clarence Williams Blue Five on "You've Got the Right Key, but the Wrong Keyhole" and "Early in the Morning" and the Clarence Williams Washboard Band on "Cushion Foot Stomp," and "P.D.Q. Blues."


Complete Recorded Works, Vol.1 (1996) 1923-1924
Complete Recorded Works, Vol.2 (1996) 1924-1926, split with Lavinia Turner