Alice Stuart

Alice Stuart: Can't Find No Heaven

by Robert Jarovi
February 2, 2003

Why is it that very few – and I mean very few – female blues guitarists get the respect they deserve in the recording industry today? Women have always been a powerful and (I believe) equal force in the genre known as the “blues”. Where would blues fans be without singers Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Sippie Wallace, Alberta Hunter, or Etta James? But if you had to come up with a few singer-instrumentalists during an argument or a ...