Under Burleson's guidance, Glinn became successful in vaudeville and by 1927 was signed to a recording contract with Columbia.
[4] Her specialty was slow blues ballads using her rich and heavy contralto voice.
[1] Her songs concentrated on the harsher side of life and sometimes included sexual innuendo.
[5] The musicologist David Evans noted that "it is quite likely that many of Lillian Glinn's blues without any listed composer were her own material.
[6] Following this period of activity, Glinn retreated to a church-based life and moved to California, where she married the Rev.