Lil Green - BiographyLillian Green, after she had been orphaned at age ten in Clarksdale, Mississippi, had moved in 1929 to Chicago, where she dropped out of high school. R. H. Harris, the gifted lead singer of the gospel group the Soul Stirrers, reported that she had killed a man in a brawl and been sent to prison for her crime. He remembered visiting the prison so that he could hear her sing in the Sunday services. Her professional career was launched around 1940, when the manager of a Chicago club hired her on the spot after a group of her friends had arranged for a bandleader to call her up from the audience to sing. By May 1940 Green had come to the attention of Lester Melrose, who brought her into the studio to record on the Bluebird label. He assigned a trio of musicians to back her, including Bill Broonzy on guitar, Simeon Henry on piano, and New Orleans veteran Ransom Knowling on bass. That session produced her first hit, "Romance in the Dark," for which writing credit was split between Lil and Bill. Adapted from Jeff Harris' Sundayblues.org For a detailed Lil Green discography see wirz.de « Back to Discography Edit This Biography : Biography Credits
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