Eva Taylor
Eva Taylor, born Irene Joy Gibbons on January 22, 1895 in St. Louis, Missouri,
was an American blues singer and stage actress who began performing at age
three. She toured extensively before settling in New York City by 1920. In 1922,
Taylor made her first record for Black Swan Records, billed as "The Dixie
Nightingale." Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, she recorded dozens of blues,
jazz, and popular sides for Okeh and Columbia Records, collaborating with
Clarence Williams, her husband and producer. Taylor also appeared on Broadway in
Bottomland (1927) and had her own radio show o...
