Visit the Spots Where America's Soundtrack Was Created

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Before Billie Holiday became known as “Lady Day” and a legendary jazz vocalist, she spent her childhood in the Fells Point neighborhood of Baltimore. Though her life was short (she died at age 44) and her formative years not idyllic (her jazz musician father was absent, and her mother struggled to support her), Holiday channeled her often painful life experience Visit the spots where America’s into her work. The soulful and heart-wrenching timbre soundtrack was created she brought to songs like BY HANNAH HAYES | TYPOGRAPHY BY LUKE LUCAS “Summertime” and “Strange Fruit” separated her from other female jazz singers of the time period. A beautiful statue of Holiday, which was KENTUCKY With her seven siblings, up in her lyrics for songs created by African-American including sister and singer such as “You’re Lookin’ at sculptor James Earl Reid, Loretta Lynn’s Crystal Gayle, Lynn grew up Country,” “Blue Kentucky stands as a memorial to in a cabin nestled among Girl,” and “Van Lear Rose,” the legendary singer at the Home Place in the hills of the Van Lear which she cowrote with corner of West Lafayette Butcher Holler mining community, where Jack White in 2004. and Pennsylvania avenues. VAN LEAR her father worked. (The SEE IT: Tours are offered SEE IT: Throughout the Fells tourpikecounty.com singer came by her “Coal daily (weather permitting) Point area, there are murals The tiny town of Butcher Miner’s Daughter” moniker to visitors who are willing to depicting iconic images Holler, Kentucky, had a honestly.) Throughout her venture down the one-lane of Holiday. massive impact on the iconic career, imagery of road from Van Lear. Be sure PLAYLIST PICK: “Lady Sings music of Loretta Lynn. Lynn’s childhood has shown to look for Webb’s Grocery, the Blues” by Billie Holiday

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