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Today's topic Katie Webster. Katie Webster
has a single from her nineteen eighty nine

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album Katie Webster Two Fisted Mama.
The single is entitled stood Up Again.

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The lyrics tell the story of someone
who has been let down and disappointed in

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relationship. Katie gets stood up,
but in the end her man gets stood

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up, she repays him. Katie
Webster was a boogie woogie pianist. Her

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genres are boogie woogie, soul and
swamp blues. She played piano with Otis

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Redding in the nineteen sixties, but
after his his death, went into semi

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retirement. In the nineteen eighties,
she was repeatedly booked for European tours and

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recorded albums for the German record label
Ornament Records with Gary Wiggins and Chris Rannenberg,

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the international blues duo. She cut
you Know That's Right with the band

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Hotlink, and the album that established
her in the US, The Swamp Boogie

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Queen, with guest spots Bonnie Reett
and Robert Craye. Two Fisted Mama,

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was released in nineteen eighty nine.
Webster promoted the album with a North American

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tour. The album was nominated for
a Bammy Award in the Blues album category.

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Katie Webster passed away in nineteen ninety
nine at age sixty three. You

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can check out Katie Webster's music on
Spotify. Thank you for listening to Podcasting

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Blues. I'm your host, Gale
Nobles,