The golden Age of the Blues started in the early 1920s just after the end of World War I especially after Mamie Smith (1883-1946) recorded her epoch-making ?Crazy Blues? in 1920. The blues craze also coincided with the decade known as the ?Roaring Twenties? when alcohol consumption was officially banned giving rise to ?speakeasies? where illegal booze flowed along with raunchy music and even dirtier dancing.