Bessie's Best
Bessie Smith
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Alexander's Ragtime Band | Bessie Smith | 3:02 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer | Bessie Smith | 3:30 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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3 |
Do Your Duty | Bessie Smith | 3:27 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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4 |
Cold In Hand Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:12 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find | Bessie Smith | 3:01 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Squeeze Me | Bessie Smith | 2:56 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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St. Louis Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:06 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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8 |
Take Me for a Buggy Ride | Bessie Smith | 2:39 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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9 |
One and Two Blues | Bessie Smith | 2:55 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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New Orleans Hop Scop Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:00 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Nobody's Blues But Mine | Bessie Smith | 2:54 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Send Me to the Lectric Chair | Bessie Smith | 3:24 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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13 |
Careless Love Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:27 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Downhearted Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:24 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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15 |
Empty Bed Blues | Bessie Smith | 6:21 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Yellow Dog Blues | Bessie Smith | 2:59 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out | Bessie Smith | 2:57 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Them's Graveyard Words | Bessie Smith | 3:00 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 18 Songs |
Biography
Born: April 15, 1894 in Chattanooga, TN
Genre: Blues
Years Active: '20s, '30s
The first major blues and jazz singer on record and one of the most powerful of all time, Bessie Smith rightly earned the title of "The Empress of the Blues." Even on her first records in 1923, her passionate voice overcame the primitive recording quality of the day and still communicates easily to today's listeners (which is not true of any other singer from that early period). At a time when the blues...
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