Blue Lu Barker

{{Short description|American jazz and blues singer}}

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| name = Blue Lu Barker

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| birth_name = Louisa Dupont

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1913|11|13}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1998|5|7|1913|11|13}}

| birth_place = New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

| death_place = New Orleans, Louisiana

| instrument = Vocals

| genre = Jazz, blues

| occupation = Singer

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| past_member_of = Danny Barker

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Louisa "Blue Lu" Barker (née Louise Dupont) (November 13, 1913{{cite web|author=Eugene Chadbourne |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/blue-lu-barker-mn0000058315/biography |title=Blue Lu Barker | Biography & History |website=AllMusic |date=November 13, 1913 |access-date=November 4, 2016}} – May 7, 1998){{cite web|author=Doc Rock |url=http://thedeadrockstarsclub.com/1998.html |title=The Dead Rock Stars Club 1998 – 1999 |website=Thedeadrockstarsclub.com |access-date=November 4, 2016}} was an American jazz and blues singer. Her better-known recordings include "Don't You Feel My Leg" (1938), which she wrote with her husband; "Georgia Grind"; and "Look What Baby's Got for You".

She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and often sang and performed with her husband, guitarist Danny Barker, a regular of the New Orleans music scene.{{cite book| last = Levin| first = Floyd| author-link = Floyd Levin| title = Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians | publisher = University of California Press| year = 2002| page = 191| isbn = 0-520-23463-4}}

Barker's recording of "A Little Bird Told Me" was released by Capitol Records as catalogue number 15308 in 1948. It first reached the Billboard chart on December 18, 1948, and lasted 14 weeks on the chart, peaking at number 4.

Barker was inducted into the Louisiana Blues Hall of Fame in 1997, one year before she died in New Orleans, at the age of 84.