Lillian Glinn
b. c.1902, near Dallas, Texas, USA. Glinn's career as a blues-singing recording artist, and vaudeville performer was brief but successful. She was the protege of Hattie Burleson, a Texas blues singer who first heard Glinn sing in a Dallas church. Although religious, Glinn allowed herself to pursue the worldly course that led to R.T. Ashford securing her a recording contract with Columbia in 1927. During the following two years she recorded 22 titles for that label. Her blues were notable for their apposite lyrics sung in a warm mature manner. She was still young when she gave up her career to return to the ‘other world’ of the church and when interviewed by Paul Oliver in 1970 she was reluctant to recall her long-gone temporal fame.