Why Willie Mae Thornton matters

Mothering the blues

The Black South matters

Sisters of the dirty blues

The making of genre and white boy magic

Grown little girls, tomboy women, and Black radio

Don't ask me no more about Elvis

California love/California dreamin' : the Willie Mae West Coast

Willie Mae inna England

Your blues ain't like mine

Mixtapes, white biographers, and Black blues people

Saved by the Amazing grace of Mahalia Jackson

A jailed Sassy mama

The '80s Blackness of Willie Mae's blues

Epilogue : maternal lineages and DJ scholarship as ancestral work.