Ann Rabson (born in New York City on 12 April 1945; died 30 January 2013) was an American blues vocalist, pianist and guitar player. She was a solo recording artist signed to Alligator Records and a member of three-woman blues ensemble Saffire, The Uppity Blues Women. During her career, she was nominated eight times for a Blues Music Award (formerly W.C. Handy Award) as Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year. Her debut solo album, Music Makin' Mama (released in 1997), was nominated as Alb...
Ann Rabson (born in New York City on 12 April 1945; died 30 January 2013) was an American blues vocalist, pianist and guitar player. She was a solo recording artist signed to Alligator Records and a member of three-woman blues ensemble Saffire, The Uppity Blues Women. During her career, she was nominated eight times for a Blues Music Award (formerly W.C. Handy Award) as Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year.
Her debut solo album, Music Makin' Mama (released in 1997), was nominated as Album of the Year in both the Traditional Blues and Acoustic Blues categories, and her composition "Elevator Man" was nominated as Song of the Year.
Rabson's second solo album, Struttin' My Stuff, was released by M.C. Records in September 2000. The album she recorded as Ann Rabson With Bob Margolin, Not Alone, won a Blues Music Award in 2013 in the 'Acoustic Album' category.
Rabson began singing the Blues professionally in 1962 when she got her first guitar at the age of 17. During the 80's, Rabson as a part-time musician and full-time computer programmer, began to also study the piano. In '84, Rabson and one of her guitar students, started a band called Saffire, The Uppity Blues Women. In 1989 the band signed with Alligator Records as the first all-acoustic band to sign with them. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
