The Infamous Cherry Sisters

by Darryl W. Bullock

Raised in poverty on an Iowa farm, the Cherry Sisters had little education and no training. But they possessed a burning desire to take to the stage and show the world what they could do--and what they could do was awful. Their unique act was "so bad it was good." When the sisters took the stage, they were met with rotten fruit and vegetables, festering meat, dead cats... Riots often broke out after (and sometimes during) their concerts, but they carried on, changing attitudes--and laws--along the way. This book follows the five women through their forty-year career in vaudeville theaters across the U.S. Proud, fearless and fiercely independent in a time when women were treated as second-class citizens, the Cherry Sisters insisted that their voices be heard.

214 pages, Paperback

Published January 7, 2019

About the author

Described as ‘a veritable Bard of the bent, broken and Baroque’ by Andy Partridge (XTC), Darryl W. Bullock is a writer, publisher and editor, specialising in music and the arts.

He has written for publications including The Bath Chronicle, Venue, Folio, The Spark, The Bath Magazine, Essentially Catering, My Wiltshire, We Are Family magazine, Good Bristol, B-24/7, 3Sixty, The Pink Paper and The Western Daily Press. He has been profiled in The Guardian, The Sunday Times and GT and has featured on BBC One (The Big Questions), C4 (Come Dine With Me) and on numerous local and national radio and TV programmes. He is also the publisher of The Green Guide to Bristol and Bath, the annual guide to ethical living for the West Country.

Darryl is the author of The World’s Worst Records (Volumes 1 and 2) and Florence Foster Jenkins: the Life of the World’s Worst Opera Singer (Duckworth-Overlook, 2016), singled out as ‘delightfully cheering' by bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith in the Guardian. His latest work, David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music, will be issued in September 2017. He posts weekly on his popular blog, The World’s Worst Records (www.worldsworstrecords.co.uk).

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Reviews

[Curtis K. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read the first two chapters of this book, which was a library edition, I set it aside at that point intending to finish it later and it was weeded by the library before I could obtain it a second time.