Lucille Bogan has been played on NTS in shows including Questing w/ Zakia, featured first on 17 November 2018. Songs played include I Hate That Train Called The M. And O., Watcha Gonna Do? and Alley Boogie.

Lucille Bogan (April 1, 1897 - August 10, 1948) was an American blues singer, among the first to be recorded. She also recorded under the pseudonym Bessie Jackson. Bogan sang straight-talking blues about drinking ("Sloppy Drunk Blues"), prostitution ("Tricks Ain't Walking No More"), gambling, lesbianism and other facets of what her generation called 'the life'. The jazz critic and sexologist Ernest Borneman grouped her with Ma Rainey and…