Vera Hall | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Adell Hall Ward |
Born | Paynesville, Sumter County, Alabama, United States[1] | April 6, 1902
Died | January 29, 1964 Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States | (aged 61)
Genres | Folk, Piedmont blues,[2] country blues[2] |
Adell Hall Ward, better known as Vera Hall (April 6, 1902 – January 29, 1964),[1] was an American folk singer, born in Livingston, Alabama.[2] Best known for her 1937 song "Trouble So Hard", she was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 2005.[3]