“I just like to sing my soul,” Willie Mae Thornton, better known as Big Mama Thornton, is heard to say in a new documentary ...

Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton outperformed ... it was applied to the music, displacing the phrase "R&B." She is a key blues influence to early rock and roll. And her sound, you listen to her ...

(WTVY) - A new museum that pays tribute to blues music ... about Big Mama Thornton, a blues musician who was raised just minutes from that bus station. Thornton was known for her hit single ...