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who accompanied her for performances of blues material. Her recording career began a few years later, in 1966, when she and singer-songwriter Rick
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Polland's first solo career prompted a change of direction, and – in the mid-seventies – she resumed activities under the name Melba Rounds. The fictional Melba Rounds was a bawdy and lubricious blues and jazz madam whose repertoire spanned the 1920s to the 1940s. Polland's "Melba
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