Virginia Liston would most likely be barely remembered today if she had not sung on a Clarence Williams Blue Five record that featured both Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong. The record was Early In The Morning and You've Got The Right Key, But The Wrong Keyhole and Virginia shows that she was a pretty good blues singer. Little is known about Liston's early life. She reportedly was singing in vaudeville as early as 1912. In the early 1920s she was living in Washington D.C. with her husband Sam Gray and touring the T.O.B.A. vaudeville circuit with him in an act called "Liston and Liston". The couple recorded one record together in January of 1924. They were divorced sometime around 1925. Virginia's last recording session was in 1927 with the Clarence Williams Washboard Band, where she sang Cushion Foot Stomp and P.D.Q. Blues. Liston retired from show business in 1929 re-married and settled in St. Louis, Missouri where she reportedly died in 1932.