Big Time Sarah

A rousing vocalist and dynamic entertainer, "Big Time" Sarah Streeter was among the more enterprising contemporary blues performers. She moved to Chicago from Coldwater, Mississippi, as a child, and sang in South Side gospel choirs before debuting as a blues vocalist on-stage at Morgan's Lounge at 14. She later worked with <a href="spotify:artist:2gCsNOpiBaMNh20jQ5prf0">Buddy Guy</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:78CBFzwo7wwNaaTYVP5btK">Junior Wells</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:5IrMTnoQ7OgoLpFfsisXX2">Sunnyland Slim</a>. A single on <a href="spotify:artist:5IrMTnoQ7OgoLpFfsisXX2">Slim</a>'s <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Airway%22">Airway</a> label helped launch her solo career. Big Time Sarah was a featured performer at many North Side clubs beginning in the late '70s, and appeared at several blues festivals. She formed the Big Time Express in 1989, and made her <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Delmark%22">Delmark</a> label debut, Lay It on 'Em Girls, in 1993. Blues in the Year One-D-One arrived in 1996, followed by A Million of You in 2001. Big Time Sarah died of heart complications at a nursing home in the Chicago area in 2015; she was 62 years old. ~ Ron Wynn, Rovi