Arizona Dranes was a blind Texan pianist and singer who brought the ecstatic, rhythmically loose sound of Holiness church music onto commercial records starting in 1926, blending ragtime and barrelhouse piano technique with a nasal, riveting vocal delivery. She recorded only a handful of sides for Okeh before slipping into relative obscurity, but those records carried a rhythmic urgency that would echo through gospel and rock and roll pianists for decades. She died in 1963, largely uncelebrated in her own lifetime.

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1926

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