(blues vocal) was born in Arkansas on 27 March 1927: per Social Security Death Index, account number 546-40-0347. She appears to be Neomie Dixson, aged 3 in 1930, who was at Sulphur Township, Miller County, Arkansas, a daughter of Joshuia Dixson and his wife Haggar: per 1930 census, 14 April 1930. She reportedly moved to Atoka, Oklahoma. She was also based at Detroit, Michigan, where she reportedly recorded for Fortune. Dottie moved to the San Francisco Bay area of California. At some point she was known as Mitchell. She recorded I’LL COME THROUGH (Gedinson’s #6133) as DOTTIE IVORY with JIMMY McCRACKLIN in about 1960. Dottie met Charles Brown at San Francisco in 1967. Brown recorded together with Dottie for BluesWay LP #BLS 6039 at Los Angeles on 16 September 1969, including ALL IS FORGIVEN and remakes of DRIFTING BLUES, MERRY CHRISTMAS BABY (as NEW MERRY CHRISTMAS BABY), BLACK NIGHT and I WANT TO GO HOME. She was working at Los Angeles in 1971 with Charles Brown. She returned to San Francisco by 1974, when she was operating the Stardust Lounge, at Hayes and Laguna, San Francisco. Jim Pugh, organist, played with her. She was known as “San Francisco’s First Lady of The Blues”. One of her features was Dinah Washington’s WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES. She had also managed a hotel, and a cab company, and had a large family. She was known as Naomia Jackson and was residing at Ventura, Oxnard County, California 93030 when she died at Ventura, Oxnard County, California on 22 August 1988. Her father’s surname was Dixson and her mother’s surname was Johnson: per California Death Index, 1940-1997.
Compare DOTTIE JOHNSON, who recorded IT’S A SHAME and THANK YOU DADDY (both Gee #5, released by 8 May 1954).
BU 79/28; LB 16/ ; LB 87/36