Blues Queen. The Definitive Collection
Bessie Smith
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Downhearted Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:27 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Tain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do | Bessie Smith | 3:26 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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3 |
My Sweetie Went Away | Bessie Smith | 3:10 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Weeping Willow Blues (feat. Fletcher Henderson) | Bessie Smith | 3:10 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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St. Louis Blues (feat. Louis Armstrong) | Bessie Smith | 3:12 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Reckless Blues (feat. Louis Armstrong) | Bessie Smith | 3:05 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Sobbin’ Hearted Blues (feat. Louis Armstrong) | Bessie Smith | 3:00 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Cold in Hand Blues (feat. Louis Armstrong) | Bessie Smith | 3:15 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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You’d Been a Good Ole Wagon (feat. Louis Armstrong) | Bessie Smith | 3:30 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Cake Walkin’ Babies (From Home) [feat. Coleman Hawkins & Fletcher Henderson] | Bessie Smith | 3:11 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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The Yellow Dog Blues (feat. Coleman Hawkins & Fletcher Henderson) | Bessie Smith | 3:03 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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12 |
Nashville Women’s Blues (feat. Louis Armstrong) | Bessie Smith | 3:45 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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13 |
Careless Love Blues (feat. Louis Armstrong) | Bessie Smith | 3:27 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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J.C. Holmes Blues (feat. Louis Armstrong) | Bessie Smith | 3:05 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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I Ain’t Goin’ to Play No Second Fiddle (feat. Louis Armstrong) | Bessie Smith | 3:21 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Young Woman’s Blues (feat. Fletcher Henderson) | Bessie Smith | 3:07 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan) [feat. Fletcher Henderson] | Bessie Smith | 3:08 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Mean Old Bedbug Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:11 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Empty Bed Blues (Part 1) | Bessie Smith | 3:02 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Empty Bed Blues (Part 2) | Bessie Smith | 3:22 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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21 |
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out | Bessie Smith | 2:57 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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22 |
Black Mountain Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:08 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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23 |
Do Your Duty (feat. Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden & Chu Berry) | Bessie Smith | 3:26 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Gimme a Pigfoot (feat. Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden & Chu Berry) | Bessie Smith | 3:28 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 24 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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