Billie Holiday: Heroin Hounds, 'Whorehouse Music', and the Queen of Jazz
- Podcast Episode
- 2022
- 36m
Billie Holiday ascended from the rough and tumble streets of Baltimore and Harlem, through reform school, brothels, and Welfare Island, right to the top of the music game. Her childhood fasc... Read allBillie Holiday ascended from the rough and tumble streets of Baltimore and Harlem, through reform school, brothels, and Welfare Island, right to the top of the music game. Her childhood fascination with "whorehouse music" filled a void in her lost innocence, but she soon found a ... Read allBillie Holiday ascended from the rough and tumble streets of Baltimore and Harlem, through reform school, brothels, and Welfare Island, right to the top of the music game. Her childhood fascination with "whorehouse music" filled a void in her lost innocence, but she soon found a second stabilizer: Heroin. Just when her sensational "Strange Fruit" brought her to Columb... Read all